Cthulhu

**Cthulhu**, also known as **The Great Dreamer**, **The Sleeper of R'lyeh** and the **High Priest of the Great Old Ones**, is a near-boundless entity that rules over some of the deepest and darkest parts of the multiverse, as well as one of the most powerful and dangerous creatures of the Lovecraftian pantheon. He was the high priest of the Great Old Ones which he was apart of until ascending into Outer God status by Azathoth himself.

He is said to be the embodiment of 'fear of the unknowable' and 'anxiety' in humans. He served as an investigator and also a kind of 'diplomat' for the Outer Gods, gathering followers from many races. He's also the arch-enemy of Amenominakanushi after becoming an Outer God.

He is the founder and highest ranked member of the remnants of the Old Gods pantheon, going under the name Neo Outer Gods Riege.

## Appearance

Cthulhu is a tall, gaunt man with very emaciated features and dull, blank, dark gray eyes. He has dark, slightly wavy hair that reaches well past his waist, and is always seen pulled back so that it all falls behind him.

Clothing-wise, Cthulhu wears a white dress shirt and dark gray slacks, as well as a thin black belt around his waist. He wears a pair of dark gray loafers. Overall of this, Cthulhu wears a long, dark brown trench coat with three buckles towards the middle on each side. Whenever he gets excited or feels threatened, the coat begins to tatter, appearing nearly shredded at the bottom of the coat and at its cuffs as Cthulhu disharmonic powers start getting released.

Sometimes, he will go for more reddish clothing and will also don a crumpled hat.

His true form is the well-known gigantic octopus-dragon monster with glowing malevolent eyes. In his 'Azathoth Promotion', Cthulhu's form begins to implode and simultaneously explode at the same time, breaking through every dimensional barrier. This form closely resembles Azathoth's, which is where it gets its namesake from.

## Personality

Like Amenominakanushi, Cthulhu is an extremely mysterious and hard to read individual. Although his nemesis describes him as a cowardly, self-preserving rascal, even he is not fully certain of the inner-workings of this old one's mind.

Usually, he's very tacit, reserved and cold, rarely displaying any emotion beyond some dull impressions of happiness, sadness or anxiety. Most of the time, he dislikes bringing attention to himself and opts to ignore everyone else. But similarly to Ameno, that stone-faced composure is mostly a mask he's built to mislead people on his intentions.

In a fierce battle, he reveals a more feral side to himself. The harder the fight, the more Cthulhu will display his inner sadism and egotism. He freely taunts his opponents and belittles them with dry humour, taking glee in exposing their vulnerabilities and tormenting them mentally and physically. Cthulhu has absolutely no qualms committing horrible acts on people he sees as enemies. To him, the concepts of honour and sympathy are worthless in a serious battle. Crushing the opponent thoroughly is all that matters.

Like Ameno, he's also a bit of a racist, but towards divine beings. As most of his pantheon was wiped out by the forces of the heavenly realms and the rest of his kind gets hunted down by them, he harbors immense disdain for all heavenly realms. One of his biggest desires is to see all heavens burn to nothingness and watch the gods, especially the Primordial Gods, scream in agony as they disintegrate. However, quite ironically, he respects Ameno more than all other gods. His dedication and relentlessness are something Cthulhu finds relatable. Nevertheless, he wishes to one day end him and his loved ones.

Cthulhu dislikes Akashi Kyoya, as well, believing him to be a pretentious bastard who's even more arrogant than Azathoth. He especially despises him for not working hard to achieve his goals, but simply getting everything handed to him on a silver platter.

Like his rival, Cthulhu also has a softer side, which he only shows towards his kin at the Neo Outer Gods Riege. He's attentive to the needs of his followers and will pay attention to them. Kassogtha says he makes for a great father figure, despite what others might claim. Cthulhu does not completely disregard compassion and empathy, but simply reserves it for people he's close to or those in a similar situation to his. When Ota Mayuko's toy broke, Cthulhu panicked and immediately tried to make her a new one. He's also very defensive of the beings he holds dear and is ready to brutalize anyone who makes them suffer.

Like Ameno, he's extremely concerned with the well-being of his faction and wishes to revive it somehow.

Although morality does not concern him, he will berate anyone that makes supremely arrogant decisions, like Zoth-Ommog. He believes anything is free game as long as its done to the enemies and with the potential consequences in mind. Ironically, Cthulhu often doesn't practice what he preaches as his ego could compel him to engage in pointless fights.

As a husband, he's actually pretty dorky and shy around his wives. He cherishes them and respects them immensely. This is also one of the reasons he can't stand most deities. They constantly have affairs and cheat on their wives, ruining their marriages and creating a toxic domestic environment.

Idh-Yaa claims that Cthulhu suffers from major depression, survivor's guilt and crippling cynicism - things that he buries underneath his sadism and his hate for the petty gods, as well as his dedication to restoring his faction.

A flaw that poses a challenge to his genius mind, is his paranormal narcolepsy. Though usually Great Old Ones do not require sleep, each of them have certain things in their forms that compel them to fall asleep from certain outside triggers: music, light, being shown affection, etc. Cthulhu's 'sleep-trigger' is chaotic and unpredictable, and is ever-changing. The effects also vary. Sometimes a trigger will just disrupt his concentration. Other times, it may put him to sleep for centuries. Hastur speculated with his brother's wives that this issue may be caused by a genetic mutation from his very birth, which has pretty much become a part of his existence and thus cannot be reverse-engineered at this point.

His narcolepsy is also where he got the title "**The Great Dreamer**", hence explaining why he cringes everytime he hears it.

## History

Once upon a time, one of the fragments of the Scarlet King's essence that broke off after his fight with his cosmic nemesis collided with the deity Nug, a powerful offspring of Yog-Sothoth, infecting it and slowly killing it from inside. From the mesh of abyssal energy and the Old One's unholy flesh, arose a new being. Compared to most of its fellow 'Great Old Ones', it was far more ferocious and terrifically strong for a mere Old One. This being would later be called 'Cthulhu'.

Although born after the sealing of his progenitor Azathoth and the disappearance of the Ycnagnnisssz, Cthulhu and his brothers and sisters endured a life full of misfortune, suffering and hostility from all sides. When the influence of the gods was at its peak, the remaining Old Ones within the borders of Creation were mostly hunted down and exterminated.

Sick of being treated like a vermin, Cthulhu kicked off a series of successful campaigns. First, by infiltrating and learning useful information about major factions, then by using the gathered knowledge to manipulate a vast number of beings unhappy with the Primordial Entities's supremacy over Creation to rally behind him and finally, organising all his followers into an enormous army. In addition, Cthulhu had two wives that would produce him many children and even help him create entire sub-races of Old Ones, like the Cthulhi and the Vortex Parasites, which further stacked his army's numbers. He also gained support from most of his fellow Great Old Ones and their spawn.

By employing extreme caution and precise tactics, he was able to discreetly conquer many galaxies with ease, mostly undetected by the Primordial Entities. Finally, with enough forces amassed, he led a direct assault on Earth, a planet favored by the gods. He took down many gods, even some Primordial Entities, but he was ultimately thwarted mostly by the quick response of Amenominakanushi. The Celestial Shogun and the allies backing him up tore through Cthulhu's ranks and even nearly destroyed the Abyss Prince, though he managed to slip away and injure Ameno in the process. From there on, their eternal rivalry began.

While the other Great Old Ones heavily critiqued Cthulhu for his failure, with some even abandoning him or switching sides entirely, the Great Dreamer was seemingly left to rot away in a conqueror of the Cosmos. However, his bold actions caught the eyes of the still-active Outer Gods who were in hiding. He was eventually granted an audience with Ycnagnnisssz. The Daemon Sultana recognised Cthulhu as someone who has the potential to succeed her lover, so she devised a plan to make him more powerful and began training him. She sent him to Scarlet King's multiverse, where he faced many horrors and extremely potent beings that possessed world-ending might. Eventually, he confronted the Scarlet King and, although he faced and undeniable loss, he still gained his respect and came out significantly stronger than he initially was. He also mastered human speech, art, literature, martial arts, craftsmenship, mathematics, biology and physics.

When he came back from his journey, Creation had changed a lot and the Old Ones were even more scattered than before. However, slowly and steadily, with Azathoth nearing his re-awakening and the seal on the Outerverse weakening, eldritch beings across Creation slowly began regrouping, reforming their great armies of old. He reunited with his wives and offsprings some months before his ancestors' return. With greater intellect and charisma than before, he gathered a tremendous force of old ones, rogue demons, fallen angels and humans. Ycnagnnisssz informed him that she had foreseen the likely failure her lover and their children would face, so she urged Cthulhu to prepare to flee from the battle if things were to go south. To that end, Cthulhu formulated at least 10 backup plans.

The faction of the Old Ones did indeed face absolute defeat in the end, but thanks to Cthulhu and Hastur's cleverness and Hastur's influence, a decent portion of them survived the war. These survivors would later be taken under Cthulhu's wing as members of the Neo-Outer Gods.

## Powers & Abilities

### Natural Abilities

**Immense Strength**: Cthulhu had insane power from birth, even for Old One standards, so much so he was considered the strongest of the Great Old Ones when he grew up. He was only rivalled by a scant few of his kin and had the power to destroy Chieftain Deities. Even Ame-no-minakanushi, one of the fiercest gods to ever exist, admits Cthulhu in the past managed to give him trouble. After overcoming challenges in Scarlet King's worlds for millions of years, his power grew tenfold and he's now a perfect match for Amenominakanushi. The Celestial Shogun even believes Cthulhu's physical might is greater than his own.

**Immense Speed**: While not quite as fast his rival, he is capable of keeping up with him very well, which puts him at the top when it comes to agility and swiftness. He's able to traverse entire galaxy clusters in less than a minute. He can also react to and dodge light itself with utter ease.

**Immense Durability**: Due to his abnormal nature, Cthulhu was hard to put down, even when he was much weaker. In the past, it took most of Amenominakanushi's strength to just get him to retreat. After overcoming certain death over and over while facing the Scarlet King, Cthulhu's endurance reached greater heights. He's now able to withstand an onslaught of attacks from a enraged Amenominakanushi, while also receiving next to significant damage from the likes of the Celestial Princes or Takami-Musubi.

**Master Combatant**: He used to be clumsy when it comes to techniques, mostly relying on his overwhelming might and psychic powers. However, after Ameno wiped the floor with him in their first battle using his unparalleled combat skills, Cthulhu saw the benefit of learning martial arts and during his long trials with the Scarlet King, he trained under many teachers and absorbed a ton of martial knowledge and eventually became a master of many martial arts himself.

* **R'lyeh Style**: A personally crafted style of fighting which Cthulhu himself came up with. It combines the best aspects of all the martial arts' he's learned with the might and dark psionic abilities of his kind. After founding the Neo Outer Gods Riege, Cthulhu began writing books about this fighting style and how other Old Ones could implement it. He has encouraged his descendants and other survivors to learn it to the best of their capabilities.

**Oneiricpotence:** Cthulhu is almighty in every sense in his dreams, having infinite power and abilities that can elevate to a supreme position in dream reality and superhuman in the real world. Cthulhu can manipulate all forms of dreams freely and without limit be it their own or others. Cthulhu can extend dreams beyond their boundaries and into the real world, making any dream have complete impact into reality and in Cthulhu's control. The power can be used to imbue Cthulhu into reality with reasonable limited abilities due to already being in reality, making him superhuman or just nigh omnipotent.

* **Oneiric Omniscience**: Cthulhu is aware of the dreams of anyone who has dreamed and/or are dreaming. This allows him to gain deep insight into knowledge the dreams may possess, discern the deepest desires of others and understand secrets that are kept consciously hidden. These secrets can vary from the fondest of dreams to the worst of nightmares.
* **Nightmare Manipulation**: Cthulhu can create, shape, enter and manipulate the nightmares of oneself and others, including modifying, suppressing, fabricating, influencing, manifesting, sensing, observing nightmares and turning dreams into nightmares. The overwhelming shock, fear, anxiety and terror can prove too suffocating for the victim in which their hearts might explode or brains might die.
* **Dream Imprisonment**: Cthulhu can create a false reality/illusion in dreams and trap people into either his or the targets dreams/nightmares. The target's body may stay in waking while their mind/soul is trapped or it may disappear into the dream as well.
* **Dream Searching**: Cthulhu can search through and find the dreams of anyone/everyone including past, present and/or future dreams and even ones that have been lost or forgotten, allowing him to either bring them to the surface for the target to recall or absorb, duplicate, empower, etc. the dreams.
* **Dream Materialization**: Cthulhu can materialize/manifest dreams of himself or others into reality. Unlike other Old Ones with similar powers, Cthulhu doesn't need to be asleep or dreaming, as he can do it while wide awake as he can pull either past dreams or dreams he had the night before out of the other persons mind into reality.

**Memory Manipulation**: Cthulhu can create almost anything as long as he can remember it well, he can create objects, events, locations, even other powers. Cthulhu can also combine memories to create something new altogether.

**Unnatural Presence**: Cthulhu's mere presence in an area or proximity to an individual can result in bizarre changes to the surrounding areas including loss of superpowers, weather changes, paranoia and hostility in people in the area and inexplicable disasters.

**Cosmic Psionics**: Whereas most Great Old Ones are limited to being able to manipulate only a few worlds and civilizations, Cthulhu's influence can practically span to infinity if he wished and tried hard enough to achieve that sort of status. His psychic abilities can be applied on a cosmic scale and he wouldn't need to exert much effort for it either. He can form telepathic networks, communicate with trillion people at once, transport things across galaxies and can reach a state of nigh-omniscience in certain areas where his psychic ability doesn't face much interference.

**Darkness Manipulation**: Cthulhu has the power to manipulate darkness and shadows on a scale comparable to someone like Erebus.

**Teleportation**: Cthulhu can teleport.

**Master Magician**: After training for many ages, with not only martial artists, but also powerful sorcerers and witches capable of using spells that could reshape/create/destroy entire universes, Cthulhu became a monster in magecraft.

* **Mythological Magic** **Expertise**: Although he's unable to perfectly execute most of the gods' magic, he has absolute knowledge over how each mythology implements its own set of spells, as well as how they can be countered effectively.
* **Eldritch Magic**: Cthulhu's preferred magic-type. It's the magic common for Old Ones and any of the Great Old Ones can easily use spells that can devour entire planets in seconds. Cthulhu himself is considered one of the very best eldritch magicians in existence, due to his craftiness. He's only matched by Hastur and Nyarlathotep in this regard.

**Genius Level Intellect**: Cthulhu's unusually keen intellect and precaution tactics are what set him up so high in the Lovecraftian pantheon. Cthulhu is described as the most advanced type of predator mindset by Amenominakanushi. Even from a young age, he possessed an excellent mind and could quickly soak up vast amounts of information. He's a brilliant tactician, a quick learner and a creative thinker. His manipulation and deception skills are also close to unmatched in any faction, to the point even the supremely perceptive Ame-no-minakanushi and Benzaiten sometimes get caught off-guard by his schemes. However, he's often impeded by his problematic sleeping habits, which do a number on his perception.

## Equipment

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**Uhl'tygash**: The **Uhl'tygash**, also known as **The Sinker**, is a horrific cutlass imbued with the remnants of civilizations long fallen, be it terrestrial, celestial or multi-dimensional. The maker is unknown, but the wielder is undoubtedly Cthulhu. It is capable of manipulating eldritch magic. Even with a small contact with the surface of the Earth, the cutlass can cause rumbles and global floods. It can disturb metaphysical forces such as the **Eternal Flow** of Benzaiten, as well as break down seals made by God himself.

**Jack'n Down-1980**: The **Jack'n Down-1980** are a pair of elongated guns that Hastur and Father Dagon designed with a power-negating ability and were also amplified by K'baa's venom and miniscule pieces of Zoth-Ommog's corrosive biomass. The guns are extremely deadly and can nullify the powers of most beings if a bullet lands. They can also slow down hyper-fast regeneration, allowing Cthulhu to more easily destroy his targets.

**Scarlet**: **Scarlet** or **Shuggog Mgehye** ("World Destroyer" in r'lyehian language) is a sword crafted from the dying echoes of a thousand worlds destroyed by Scarlet King's hand, while also being imbued with massive portions of his abyssal light. It is one of the only weapons capable of matching Ameno's Yamato in power. It possesses the Scarlet King's ability to disrupt and break apart conceptual constructs. It can easily cut through dimensional barriers, giving Cthulhu access to higher dimensional worlds, such as **the Dreaming**.

## Quotes

* *"Just use Azathoth Promotion and erase the White Man and the Night Lily, huh? Well, it may sound as simple as that to you, but it is actually far more complicated. I shall eventually become strong as my progenitors and consume all of them, Azathoth included, and become the next Blind Idiot God. But that is a distant destiny. Azathoth Promotion simply gives me an ample taste of that power, but its not yet truly mine - its still Azathoth's and it recognizes itself as Azathoth's."* - Cthulhu describing Azathoth Promotion to K'baa.

* *"Azathoth grooming me to be the next Blind Idiot God was a mere fail-safe and only a playful idea for both of us back then. Now it's a responsibility."* - Cthulhu's motivation.

* *"This isn't personal...nah, it's always personal with you, White Man."* - Cthulhu to Amenominakanushi.

* *"Our interests mostly align at the moment, so I don't understand your hostility. Besides, I've become so much much more powerful compared to the times we squabbled in this cosmic playground."* - Cthulhu to Kthanid.

* *"Um...Surely we can discuss this over some cakes and tea, right guys? Abby makes them great...Guys?" -* Cthulhu to Ameno and Nyx after his defeat.

* *"The grease stain on the floor of Existence sees itself as important, because it covers most of it in its disgusting smell. Let's see how long it lasts with the dog licking it off that same floor."* - Cthulhu to Abhoth.

* *"I have a particular disdain for those who treat me like a second-grade thing. That Kyoya guy wasn't much different, you know. Preaching about his superiority over me. He can go and be the strongest of the Old Ones for all I care. But you...impersonating me. Taking all my titles. If you want to be 'Cthulhu' so badly, then come and be 'Cthulhu'. Be warned though - it might cost ya...your entire existence."* - Cthulhu as he devours Cthulha.

* *"So, I see you for what you really are. You are pathetic. Nothing but a useless lump of meat! I am a dog and you, you are nothing but dog-food!"*
* *"Messiah, what in God's name have you done to yourself?!"* - Uriel to Jesus Christ.
	+ *"His form is no longer that of a Holy being. The only way he can return to peace is to have it gauged out of him...the sickness in his core."* - Cthulhu to Uriel.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Cthulhu likes Earth's deep water life as the creatures at the depths of the ocean remind him of his own kin.
* His followers don't really know what Cthulhu's gender is, so they sometimes assume he's a female entity.
* Cthulhu is to Amenominakanushi what Azathoth was to God.
* Cthulhu's height is [198cm] and his weight is [94kg].
* Cthulhu's human appearance is based on Howard Philips Lovecraft from *Bungou Stray Dogs* and Alucard from *Hellsing Ultimate*.
	+ Cthulhu's chosen voice actor is *Crispin Freeman* who voiced Alucard in **Hellsing Ultimate**.
* His theme is 15 Hellsing Ultimate Soundtrack - Die Fledermaus.