Rickley

## General

Rickley was the name of a rock that was possessed by a dream spirit of a lunatic.

## Origin

The unnamed bug that would be known as "Rickley" and will be called Rickley hereinafter was an eccentric who truly believed he was a Higher Being - more specifically a Wyrm. Born to a poor family in Armattia's Naluva, he was abandoned and developed an obsession with Higher Beings. He made himself horns using trash from the sewerways and created shrines to various Wyrms and himself. Eventually getting caught by the Armattian military and put in a mental asylum, Rickley spent a good majority of his life in bars, only feeding his lunacy. Eventually - due to unknown circumstances - Rickley somehow escaped and lived off in Gran-Nest's Wastelands - building thrones and various other tributes to himself. He was an excellent storyteller and placed rocks around the Wastelands, all carved with stories depicting a new Wyrm trying to find a country.

Eventually Rickley came across a remorseful Vengan. Rickley trained Vengan and fooled him into thinking that he was actually a Wyrm. Years passed, Rickley was becoming saner by the day and Vengan seemed to feel better. However, one day Rickley found out that Vengan was the last of a species. Rickley, wanting to make good geo out of exploiting Vengan's biology, dissected him conscious and drew many of his organs on rocks; making Vengan believe that this was a Wyrm's will. Eventually coming to realise Rickley was a lunatic asylum escapee, Vengan killed Rickley using the same tools he had used to dissect him. Rickley's blood was splattered on a rock.

## Storyline

Rickley's dream spirit would inhabit the rock. Years would pass. Eventually, through various events a rock can endure, the rock ended up in Hallownest, where it would be found by Molten. Molten drew a face on the rock and named it "Rickley". It was made as a new member of the then small Molten Legion to increase the number of members and so that Honeycomb would "get a sidekick". Vengan, a part of the Molten Legion, would somehow eventually fall in love with Rickley - the rock. He was unaware that Rickley housed a spirit or that the spirit was of the lunatic that practically raised him, but even if he was, he wouldn't remember him due to his memory loss. Vengan married Rickley, much to the spirit's dismay. Eventually, the lunatic would take control over Rickley and somehow attach a knife to itself to kill Vengan. This would backfire however and he would only get to threaten Code and someone else before getting locked in a basement. Vengan, seeing this as a sign of hatred and learning that there was a spirit inside it, broke up with Rickley. Rickley would become a running gag within the Molten Legion and Vengan would throw him at people he didn't like. Eventually Rickley was burnt with ember when Vengan threw it at Scarlet. He was rebuilt, however, with a more rotund shape with more spikes (he also may have had some ai tracking device at some point but im not sure). Rickley would be killed when Vengan was trapped within a Sangui Moth Prison and the Moths viewed Rickley as a distraction. They sucked the lunatic's essence out of it, effectively destroying Rickley for good.

## Trivia

I, Vengan, did the most gigachad move ever of incorporating the one-off gag that Rickley was into the backstory of my character.