Ozma in The Enternal Crown

## Ozma

In the context of *The Enteral Crown*, **Ozma** is tortured by Salem and killed at some point after his mind is broken. After an indeterminate amount of time and torment, he is released to inhabit other bodies, but likely has no subsequent influence. By the start of *The Enteral Crown*, he is inhabiting the mind of Jaune Arc, who has to deal with an insane Ozma in his head.

## The Eternal Crown from Ozma's Perspective

### One Thousand Years Ago

Ozma was likely first born in the 1000s BB, though the specific birth date is unknown. At some point, the Brother Gods gave eternal life to Ozma and Salem, who had to deal with the worrying implications of immortality. Salem alledges that the Brother Gods tasked Ozma with stopping her with nearly unlimited attempts as long as humanity remains on Remnant. According to Salem, Ozma had interferred with her plans for at least five to fifteen encounters, though it is unknown how long Ozma inhabited the previous bodies. Eventually, Salem has the idea of disabling Ozma using torture to break his mind and render him unable to do anything useful. According to Ozma, Salem engaged in various forms of sadism, ranging from flagellation, broken bones, sensory deprivation. By the prologue of the story, Ozma already had a difficult time recollecting the past due to his long life and inflected trauma. Salem managed to induce substantial trauma onto Ozma, rendering him mentally incapacitated for at least 1000 years.

According to Nicholas Arc, he stated that representatives of Salem would arrive to villages and find "troubled" people that stand out. It is possible that as Ozma continued permeating individuals, his damaged soul drove people mad until he wholly possessed their being.

### Inhabiting Jaune

Ozma spent the next millenia bouncing around minds, likely as a soul repeating the last phrases he head in the heads of those he inhabited until possessing Jaune Arc in 17 BB. As implied by Juniper Arc, Ozma inhabited Jaune around the time he was a baby, which induced night terrors derived from Ozma's torturous experiences that the Arc family could not quell. When Jaune was able to speak coherent sentences, likely around 14 BB, he described the experiences to his family, who found it concerning that a child that young could understand the concepts. Ozma continued permeating Jaune's mind as he became a teenager, which led most of the Ansel community to view him with wary or as a "madman."

## References

1. ↑ "Well. If you insist. Remember, if you want to blame anyone for this then blame the brothers. They did this to you. To us."
2. ↑ "The Brothers tasked you with stopping me."
3. ↑ "How many times has it been now? Five? Ten? Fifteen? I've lost count. No matter how many times I deal with you, you keep coming back. A different face, a different life, but still you. As inevitable as the setting of the sun."
4. ↑ A faint stream of light cut through a small hole in the stone wall, shining down ahead of him and on a wooden door. Never within reach and never to touch him, its warm caress was a distant memory.
5. ↑ Nevertheless, in the silence he endured for days at a time, they were so loud his ears rang.
6. ↑ Her crimson eyes watched him as a hawk, her footsteps echoing as she moved to the nearest table and considered her implements. Considered which sharp spikes, barbed whips or crushing devices would bring him the most agony today.
7. ↑ The dreams had been the same as before. Always him being tortured, be it through whips or spikes or his personal terror, the mallet and chisel that would break bones out of place.
8. ↑ Memories were hard to grasp nowadays.
9. ↑ For a thousand years Remnant has lived under the rule of the Eternal Queen, shaped to her whims.
10. ↑ "I'm not saying you are, but you need to do this for me. These people. They pay particular attention to those that stand out. Those that are… troubled. No one knows why, but they do. I don't want them knowing you exist, let alone talking to you. Am I understood?"
11. ↑ "You cried so much as a baby. All children cry, but you did it more than any and always at night. You would wake the whole house up and no amount of cuddling would help you. We thought it a phase. Teething or something else."
12. ↑ "It only got harder when you could speak and tell us what you saw. Every night. The same dreams without fail. It was so frightening. How can a child understand or know of those things?"