V the Vessel

V as a child.

### Relatives

Every vessel is their sibling, and they were born to the Pale King and the White Lady, though they do not care for either. They see the Stag, Scarlett, and Duplo as their adoptive parents, though they haven't seen the Stag in several years now.

### Affiliation

Accepted as one of the Mosskin, though they’re too much of the Void to join their telepathic community.

# WIP— this page isn’t finished yet!

## Description

V is a genderless, child vessel with ten horns: five on each side of their head. They wear a pretty rock they once found that they tied with a red ribbon to their head. They have a cozy scarf and a cute soft dress with lace on the bottom edges. They’re younger than most vessels, but still around the same age, only smaller because their mind has not matured enough yet to be considered an adolescent. This poor baby has sadly been traumatized on every occasion ;^;. They are played by u/LegallyBread, the most evil mean RPer ever for traumatizing this poor, small innocent child.

## Origin

### The Abyss

V, like all other vessels, was born from an egg infused with void, a child of the Pale King and the White Lady. They hatched a little later than most vessels, but like the others, they started their mindless climb to the top of the Abyss.

They failed, falling back down.

Unlike the others, however, they didn’t break. They remained there, among their siblings, mindless and scared, until they realized the siblings were trying to help them.

They could answer to their absent wills, and hear their voiceless cries. They guided V up the Abyss with their stories. “Jump here, spikes here, critters here.”

Near the end, after hearing the last of their siblings’ stories, they were forced to get up the last few platforms on their own. They escaped the Abyss to find a world ruined by infection, only a few days after Lego founded the Refuge.

### Ancient Basin and Fog Canyon

*(Sorry if this reads more like a story than a wiki article, I accidentally went into author mode. Because of this, there will also be an out-of-place shift from past to present tense. I apologize for that as well.)*

V ran through the Ancient Basin, dodging Shadow Creepers, searching for a safe place. They ended up running into the Stag Station near the Kingsmould, and they, out of curiosity, rang the bell. A stag thundered toward them, and they shrieked, running and trying to find somewhere to hide. The stag looked around, then saw them and took pity on them, scooping up their shivering form and putting them on his back.

“Don’t worry little one. I know of a good place where you can live in safety.”

V continues to shake, but slowly calms down as the stag, quickly but gently, carries them through the tunnels to Queen’s station.

The stag stops and puts them down.

“Go up through those tunnels over there.”

The stag points vaguely above him.

“There’s an empty home if you go up far enough— just make sure not to touch anything orange, and you should be fine.”

V tilts their head at him in confusion, unable to speak the language he does.

“Understand what I’m saying?”

V just continues to stare, wondering what those sounds coming out of the big hole in the nice bug’s mouth mean.

The stag sighs, then takes out something orange.

“Look.”

V turns their head from the stag’s mouth to the orange thing.

“This? You do not want to touch it.”

The stag points at the orange thing and shakes his head, making a guttural sound that somehow conveys that the thing he was holding was BAD.

“Stay faaar away from it.”

The stag puts it down, then backs away from it, feigning caution and conveying that it must be avoided.

V makes a squeak of confirmation, conveying that they understand.

“Good.”

The stag pretends to approach it cautiously, then discards it.

“Look at this.”

He holds up a very small plank of wood.

V stares at it curiously.

“Now this? You need to find something made of it.”

The stag finds a bunch of wood planks, then stacks them into a little house.

“You need to find something that looks like this.”

He moves away from the tiny house, and pretends to search for it. V giggles and points at it, making a squeak that sounds vaguely like “there!”, though V doesn’t know the word.

The stag pretends to spot it for the first time, and feigns excitement, moving quickly up to it.

V giggles again, enjoying the spectacle.

“You see? You must search for it. It is up,” the stag points above them, emphasizing the word “up” by saying it in a higher pitch.

V looks above them, and seems to understand. They point at the house, then above them with excited, but questioning squeaks. The stag nods.

“Yes, up there, except BIGGER.”

The stag emphasizes this by pulling his arms up and in opposite lateral directions from each other, miming an explosion of growth, indicating that THIS house is VERY big. Possibly the biggest house in the world! Bigger even, than the one the stag made for V just now!

V makes some more excited squeaking.

The stag smiles at them and strokes their head. V absolutely loves this and bounces ecstatically.

“Now, you must look for it.”

The stag gives V the tiny house.

“I’ll come to the house later to see you!”

V makes a happy squeak, then sets off to look for it. The stag waves them goodbye, then yells to them.

“Remember!!! Don’t touch the orange things!!!”

V gives a squeak of affirmation and scrambles off. The stag watches them go, then gets back to work; transporting people between stations.

V wanders Fog Canyon, moving upward and avoiding anything orange, as the stag told them to. In the distance, they see a house.

With an excited squeak, they break for it, opening the door and stepping inside, then waiting for the stag to arrive as he said he would. They play with their toy house for a while, then wander into the kitchen to see a big bowl of steaming tikka masala, emitting the most delicious aroma they’ve ever smelled in their life. They are suddenly aware of a sensation they never noticed before: hunger.

They run up to the table, which is easily taller than them, and climb up to the top, where they start crawling toward the bowl emitting the delectable aroma. They dip their face in and start eating ravenously, like an animal. Their hunger is extreme, which is to be expected from a being who spent years with no available food. They finish the whole bowl, but are still unsatisfied. They look through kitchen cupboards, pantries, and refrigerators (powered by crystal), eating everything edible they can find. Finally satisfied, they settle down and walk into the living room, playing with the toy house again.

When the stag finally arrives at the house, he finds all his food gone.

He turns to V, who is playing in the floor with their toy house.

“I didn’t know any child could eat that much…”

V squeaks adorably in response.

The stag mutters to himself:

“How long has it been since they last ate???”

The stag resolves to take better care of V than whoever was before him. Every day he came to V’s house to give them more toys and more food. Every time, they ate every last crumb. The stag gave V English lessons, and they were a surprisingly quick learner.

### The Stars Attack

Near the beginning, V was unaffected by the invasion of the stars. The stag returned home much later sometimes, but it didn’t bother V too much.

Then one day, V’s shade was sucked out of their vessel to join Umbra, the Shade Lord.

They panicked, fear filling their tiny body as they struggled to stay in their vessel.

They failed, torn away to become one with their siblings.

Then they stopped feeling emotion.

They couldn’t speak, they couldn’t think. They had no will. They were just another part of Umbra, and the Shade Lord was ANGRY.

V and their vessel siblings punished the person in front of them. One of their brothers, Krest, was tormented by the stars for several days by this person. V didn’t know them, but the Shade Lord did, and V didn’t really matter; just another shade inside of them.

Then it ended, and V was sent back to their vessel.

They gasped for breath, laying on the floor, panting from exhaustion.

Then their entire body went cold, remembering what they and their siblings had done.

They had hurt someone.

They fell over and cried, hating themself for what had happened, not understanding why they had done it.

The stag came home to a distraught V that couldn’t speak properly. He comforted them as best he could.

Then, the next day, V was taken back into Umbra. They pushed back the Realmbreaker, banishing them. When V came back to their vessel, they collapsed, laying on the floor and sobbing again for a long time.

They wipe their tears.

And turn to find someone directly behind them.

### The Smiler

The intruder grins widely and reaches for V, his eyes filled with malevolent evil.

V screams and runs, and the intruder laughs maniacally and gives chase.

The intruder, the Smiler, is faster than V, and slowly gains on them.

V hides in a cupboard under the kitchen sink, shaking and sobbing soundlessly. The Smiler stalks the kitchen, knowing V is here, and enjoying the feel of the hunt.

He drags a nail on the ground, purposefully making scraping sounds, intent on terrifying V.

It works. V shakes even more, doing their best not to make any sound.

The Smiler opens a cupboard, still searching for them. He opens another, and another, and another, slowly inching closer to the one V was hiding in.

V hears the cupboards slowly open with petrifying inevitability. They sob quietly, helpless as they hide.

The Smiler opens another cupboard. He gets closer, and closer.

“I know you’re in heeere~!”

V squeezes their eyes shut, tears leaking from the corners. The Smiler opens another cupboard.

“Come out, come out, wherever you aaaare~!”

He opens another cabinet, and another.

V gasps quietly, not loud enough for the Smiler to hear. Or so they think.

The Smiler’s head immediately swings in their direction.

V freezes.

The Smiler stares in that direction for a long, extended moment. He slowly reaches for it with his arms. More tears leak out of V’s eyes. They cover their face with their hands, trying not to make any noise.

His hands stop right before they reach the door of the cupboard. The Smiler pauses, then smiles wider.

“Found you~!”

He throws open the door to the cabinet V is hiding in.

V screams.

The Smiler grabs them.

A mark is left where the Smiler touched them, an hourglass on a dreamcatcher.

V sobs loudly, now with no reason to be quiet.

The Smiler trains his head on V, grinning wider than he was before.

“You’re mine now~!”

Tears leak out of V’s eyes.

Then their face contorts into a horrific smile.

V panics, grabbing at their face, which starts to hurt with how wide the smile is.

The monster watches V panic, enjoying their fear.

V tries to scream, but their mouth won’t open.

Tears stream down their cheeks.

The Smiler puts his finger on V’s chin and lifts their shaking head up to face him.

“You will be very helpful in accomplishing my goals. You will serve me, and carry out my will, for the rest of your days~”

The Smiler turns and walks away, leaving the house.

V’s body stands and follows, against their will.

On the outside, they’re smiling.

But on the inside, they’re screaming.

After Lego is trapped in the Dream Realm

The Smiler uses V as his nameless vessel to do his bidding while he removes Lego’s mind and chips away at his sanity. He uses them to deliver messages to both his friends and his enemies. V’s body is puppeteered from location to location, all so the Smiler could irritate his enemies with snarky comments and keep the upper hand.

It was a long time before the Smiler made V hurt someone.

A nameless bug. V was ordered to torture it for answers. They cried and resisted, but their body moved on its own.

After the job was done, the information collected and the bug’s head crushed by a falling stone block, (as it was no longer useful to the Smiler,) the Smiler appeared to V.

“You really HATE hurting people, don’t you?”

V’s crying says everything their inability to speak doesn’t.

“Well then why don’t we have a little fun~?”

V’s sobbing doesn’t cease.

“I think you should be my… investigator,” the Smiler says.

“The person who… collects information from unwilling bugs.”

The Smiler looks directly into V’s blurred, teary eyes.

“By any means necessary.”

V’s expression goes from shock to disbelief.

The Smiler grins at them as their crying increases tenfold.

“Oh, come on. You’ll learn to love it~

“It’s either that or be miserable for the rest of your very long vessel life.”

V becomes exactly what the Smiler says, sobbing and hating themself the entire time.

### Freedom

V still isn’t sure who freed them from the Smiler’s influence. They only know that one day, they woke up in one of the last green spots of Greypath to find their body their own. They lifted up their arms, staring at them in wonder to find them under their control. V touches their hands to their face, and finds no cracks there. No smiles, just smooth shell.

V gasps, staring at their body, crying, but this time with the tears of someone who was finally free.

They get up, and walk home to Fog Canyon for the first time in months.

Duplo walks away in the shadows, satisfied to have freed at least one of the Smiler’s victims with her newfound power.

*(Author mode: off.)*

### Wisteria and V’s Name

A few months after the tearful reunion between V and the stag, as well as a description of everything that happened, and V showing the stag the part of his shell where a now-deactivated mark sits, V wanders Greypath after hearing tales of a monster living in the last green areas still there. They bump into a butterfly named Wisteria, who was running from something. They talk for a bit, and Wisteria asks for V’s name. V replies that they don’t have one, and Wisteria gives them their current name. V replies they like it, and gives Wisteria the nickname “Wis”. They both continue to roam Greypath together, conversing.

### The Monster in the Woods

Suddenly, V freezes, then shushes Wisteria. They both fall silent, and the sound of a twig snapping can be heard. They see a silhouette of a beast crawling swiftly toward them, yet making no sound. They immediately start running to escape it, and hide in a cave.

Unfortunately for them, the monster stands at the entrance of the cave, waiting for them to come out. With no other exit, V and Wisteria discuss their options, when suddenly Duplo is there and says something from behind them, startling them both.

She tells them to each take one of her hands, and NOT LET GO, no matter what happens. She starts walking them toward the entrance of the cave, where the beast waits.

V constantly remarks about how bad of an idea this is, but Wisteria is curious what Duplo is going to do.

Duplo walks toward the beast, staying close to the walls. When they get close to the beast, they notice something odd happening.

Light warps around them, wherever they’re not looking. Shadows are unnaturally long, and branches move out of the corners of their eyes, but whenever they look directly at a place where the light distorts, it snaps back into place, as if it had never warped, and it’s so subtle it’s practically nonexistent, yet they pass by the beast with no trouble at all, somehow always in the shadows, or blocked by some object.

Because of this, however, no one is ever able to get a good look at it. Neither Wisteria nor V can figure out what this beast is, even staring directly at it.

They exit the cave, then Greypath, and Wisteria and V finally let go of Duplo’s hand.

V offers to take them back to their house in Fog Canyon, and both Duplo and Wisteria accept.

They chill at V’s house for a bit, Duplo making miso soup for them, then Duplo and Wisteria have to leave.

V mulls over this beast, and decides to go to someone about it.

### Beast Hunt

You can find the full RP here, if you want to know all the details.

Wisteria put out an announcement about the beast.

The next day, V, Vengan, Deilos, Paran, and Azov set out to find and capture this beast.

They chased it through tunnels below Greenpath previously unexplored, and eventually caught it, but the “beast” turned out to be Lego. His mind was removed by the Smiler, and he was reduced to an animal. Lego pounced on V, biting half of their arm off lengthwise, then running away.

Vengan and Paran tried to cauterize V’s wound with void. Paran took the still unconscious V to the foxes, Blue and Tiaxous. They remained there for several days before they regained consciousness again. During that time, Wisteria also joined the foxes, not knowing V was there as well. When V woke up, the two were reunited.

The foxes repeatedly tried to get V to join them, but they declined every time.

Several days later, while Paran and Wisteria were gone, a blue gas was released, and Tiax’s animal instincts overcame them. They attacked Blue and V, knocking both to the ground.

*WIP*