Moon Children

Moon Children

## *"Mij språg, hæld di, sam vor østrå ejler, hæld di sam jå faldær tår aj"*

### "My Children, for those who my sisters favour, for those whom I spare a tear"

Moon children, are expectedly, connected to the moon. They are lesser astral beings, souls whipping through the abyss, occasionally being caught by a moon, of which they are kin to, and sent to the adjacent world.

Moon children do not age, they are "born" adult, or rather they land with their minds fully developed, with few exceptions.

Moon children are also created, from regular souls forming a connection with the moon, and then their soul being ripped from their body, through ritual, void or other means. Their moon will imbue them with its lunar essence, transforming them into astral souls, and giving them a new body, which can change depending on many variables, although some maintain a resemblance to their original form.

Moon children are often very skilled in various professions due to their previous lifetimes, although they do not have access to this knowledge at all times, only during the moon's gibbous and full state. During these times, they may meditate during the night to revisit their past lives, gaining back some of their skill from the desired lifetime.

## Physical features

Their skin is pitch black, almost see through in a sense, as if staring through an end portal, at least in their face, where star-like "freckles" might be seen across their face.

Some features on them might be tied to their past, such as a red eye, tied to something like a history with the nether, flowers grown across them, tied to a life involved with flowers or nature, metal plating could be tied to things like a reinforced body in a previous life, and gold veins could be tied to something as cruel as ending a life in a vat of molten gold, or something like a life of greed.

**These attributes are ones bestowed upon them by the moon gods, hints to their past lives to aid them in their future ones.**

These physical attributes can take many forms, as they are as unique as a life may be.

A rare but significant feature is the "Strøj" or the "Sister's eye/Moon eye". The moon eye is, as suggested, when one of the person's iris' takes the shape and appearance of the moon. This feature is almost like a medal, showing complete lucidity of the person's current and past life, meaning that in their current life, they have meditated on all of their previous lifetimes, and are completely one with the past and present self. This takes many years however, at absolute minimum 50 years worth of meditation.

## Biology

Moon children have a strange biological presence.

As they are astral souls, then given physical form by a moon, a form which has to be able to withstand months, years, millennia of floating through the vacuum of space, their bodies start out as rather resistant, and once they have pierced the atmosphere and landed, they gain their Moonchild form, this form is incredibly light. They are still able to keep to the ground due to their size, although they still often weigh only about 40-60~ kg depending on a few factors, such as height, width and accessories (flowers, metal plating, gold veins ,etc).

During injuries, instead of blood, black smoke will begin to expel out and dissipate. As more and more of this black smoke spews out, their bodies will become more frail, until they reach a certain thresh hold where they will take twice as much damage from attacks, due to the lack of structural integrity in their bodies.

### Psychology & Liminal phase

Moon children spend a majority of their time in the void, what some might call "space" or "the astral plane" or "the abyss". It has many names, many distinctions, many layers, regardless, this is where Moon children spend most of their time, dreaming while their souls aimlessly travel in search of a moon that can bring them to a habitable world.

During this time, if they are caught by a moon, they will enter lucidity, where they are fully aware, and are left to spend however long it may take, to arrive at the world. During this time, they are left completely to themselves, and to their minds, going through whatever their minds might interpret nothingness as, which can end up being either traumatic or just terribly dull, dreary. Due to this, depending on the person and experience, Moon children might still be recovering from what they went through.

On first impressions they might seem distant, dismissive, standoffish, although in most cases this probably isn't the case, and is just how they might appear on the outside.

## Moonchild realization.

The path to becoming a fully realized Moonchild is one of meditation, note taking, and waiting. Generally, it can be broken up into 4 levels of realization.

#### Stage 1: Newmoon

Newly landed, between 1-14 days old typically, depending on the phase of the moon once landed.

Typically, moon children in this phase faintly remember their past lives in the same way that you might remember the concept of a person that you once were told about 10 years ago. It is faint, and it might be a little scary, being a fully adult mind and body, in a new world, with near to no memories of oneself.

Some inherit the ability to speak, while some might be mute or unable to speak any languages until the next full moon.

Their motor skills might even be a little off, in some severe cases, leaving them rather vulnerable unless taken care of.

#### Stage 2: Crescent

This stage is typically after their first full moon meditation/dream. In this stage they will most likely regain the ability to speak, they will gain some basic skills from their past and their motor skills will have returned. During this phase, they may start to become a little more somber, as they fully realize how much they have to relive in their minds, and how long it will take.

Some may take to rambling in this phase during the night, about the people in their past lives, some may even start to confuse their past lives for their current one, mixing up people and locations.

This is very common in this phase, and within Moon children circles is known as "Crescent madness". It's a phase where the person is, in some ways, even more vulnerable than in the first phase.

Some of the ways that have been found to help deal with this, is having a dream journal, a journal where they write down the memories they get from their past lives, and can ponder and express their anxieties within that book.

#### Stage 3: Gibbous Moon

This stage can take several months to achieve, if not years. This stage is typically reached when they've fully remembered their previous life.

They start to see the context in their existence, and begin to accept it, becoming less erratic as their psyche starts to find sense and can return to a more neutral state. They will be in this stage for the majority of their life, unless they dedicate themselves to finding out their past lives.

### Stage 4: Strøj/Full moon eye

This stage can take decades to reach, depending on a few factors. It is the final phase, where they have fully realized themselves. They have gained all the skills from their past lives, and have become one with their past personalities.