The Houses

## The House(s) in the Ocean

**The Houses** were the titular antagonists of *THE HOUSE IN THE OCEAN*, As their name implies they were a group of houses that appeared in oceans all around the globe for seemingly no reason as early as the early 30s, thus being described as "**Mirages**" by local authorities. Several countermeasures against the Houses have been attempted, ranging from the foundation of a "House Club" dedicated to shooting the Houses, and a barricade made out of specialized "killer wood chips" to avoid the public from coming into contact with them after the realization of the Houses being able to deflect the damage being done to them. Eventually, who lives inside the houses would render all countermeasures obsolete, as he would "restore" the video warnings of several government officials into gaslighting the public into shooting the Houses and eventually sending the wood chips back every three years.

## Biography

### Initial Delirium

The House exists as several entities off of ocean coasts that are described as mirages, hijacking peoples perception and memories to make them think they exist, and have done so as early as 1934, where a club was created to take turns shooting at a House, called The House Club. President Ronald Reagan would be part of this club, and would recollect approaching the house on a boat to shoot its windows, and mentioning that they would not break. They question what the windows, and moreover, what the House is made of. He would also mention that if they approached the house, it would move away from them by "taking one long stride backwards." He would also urge the American people in his recollection to stop shooting the house, as it cannot be damaged, and to instead use ranges in the US. Using a healthcare claim record, Reagan's condition after an incident with the House shows his face is completed covered in flesh. A "restored version" of the recollection urges Americans to keep shooting the house.

### Little Lanky

Walt Disney would project a *Mickey Mouse* cartoon to a House off the coast in South America, and it would project back a warped version of the cartoon, called Little Lanky. The Little Lanky cartoon is utilized by the Crescent King to rewire brains and input false memories of him inside of their heads, as well as for what remains of the Last Son to communicate his suffering. In the cartoon, Lanky is seen following a sign marked as "friends", attempting to find a companion. He meets several entities that cut off or break his limbs, or run him over using a train. He would eventually fall into a cave, where several spiky fish lead him to another "friends" sign, and when he follows it, he is lead into a room where The Crescent King sits. This is a parallel to The Last Son, and his use and abuse of his power through various groups, represented by Little Lanky's maiming. He would enter a cave with a face and teeth on it, representing The Last Son becoming the House, and would be seen being surrounded by fish, representing the ocean surrounding the House. Lanky approaching The Crescent King represents the fate that befell of The Last Son, and how he was forced to become said being, as it sat inside of the cave. In a second version of Little Lanky, we see Lanky converse with the King, and the King teleports his body and matches his crescent with the shape of the cosmological body in Little Lanky's sky, making the king become Little Lanky. This is an actual display of the conversion. The cartoon ends with an "it was all a dream" ending in the second version.

### The Bushes' Ambush

President George Bush would attempt to put anti-House measures in place, a blockade of "killer wood chips" that a House would blow away within three years. Obama, in the wake of these explosions, would return to the beach and explain that they have been struggling with the House, and that the wood chips were in fact killer, entering a victim's blood stream and cause them to become terminally ill. He urges all beachgoers to look away from the House. In the "restored" version, he tells beachgoers to continue looking at the House.
In 2011, certain booms were heard near Gainesville, Florida, that hurled debris toward houses around the area, sending many around the area in a panic. Officials would reveal in 2014 that it was a weapon systems test in the Gulf of Mexico held by both the US Navy and Air Force. A commenter on Facebook would post a video revealing the boom was caused by a House, which leads to the comment getting deleted and the account getting banned.

### Who Lives Inside The House

A man would then go to a House, but notes he has a huge lapse of memory, and can't remember where he was going and why, but does remember that a yellow flag on the beachside represented house sightings. This same man would figure out who "lives" inside of the House, which is revealed to be The Crescent King.

### The Bushes' Saving

The Bushes would return to the House to shoot it once more, only to step inside and be ambushed by the house, where Laura was launched by sudden changes in air pressure and lodged inside the window frame of the House, causing the House to be renamed in her honor. In the "restored" version of this documentation, they are described to be saved instead of ambushed. Bill Clinton would go on to say that "There is no House in the Ocean... there is only the House in your Head.". It is also revealed in the Bush Ambush documentation that the Laura Bush picture is AI generated, and recreated, similar to how the human mind recreates reality for the brain.

### The Meaning of "You are the Only House in the Ocean"

A set of statements are made to a non-specified party. "You thought it'd only end once?", "Your brain is suspended in fluid.", "You are the House in the Ocean." and "You are the only House in the Ocean." The first line speaks of a cosmological cycle in *THE MONUMENT MYTHOS* where Earth is destroyed multiple times by different means. The House in The Ocean is describing the human brain being the only thing one can prove to exist, a lone house existing in a vast ocean of reality, forcing others to perceive it through interaction, whether it be consented or forceful. This is also speaking about The Last Son, being the only true House in the Ocean, as it is his childhood home, erected as an apology to those he had hurt.