Mormo Marduk

* Act 1
* Act 2

> " You think... I wanted to be royalty...?!.. YOU THINK THAT MAKES ME BETTER THAN ANY OF YOU?!.. "
>
> --Mormo, accidently snapping at Amon during their dispute in S6, Ep 8.

## Description

Mormo Marduk is one of the main protagonists of Hells Casino ACT 1, and serves as a CF67 officer. In ACT 2 he acts as a side character, with the new role of a Goetian King.

## Personality

In ACT 1, Mormo comes off as a dull, blunt person, He's not the smartest, and tends to be awkward if anything in most social situations. While he does have a lighthearted side; making jokes and comments about things at times, he tends to stay quiet. He shows a good amount of kindness towards those around him; especially his friends, but when faced with a lot of pressure, he sometimes snaps.

In ACT 2, Mormo takes the role of a Goetian King, and acts in a much more solemn and jaded way. After the events of Act 1, he shows little excitement in things, and most of the time stays quiet when he can. Though in some rare situations, a small part of his old self comes through, in more of an emotional way rather than lighthearted.

## Appearance

Mormo Marduk is a Slime Demon, meaning that his entire body is made up for a thick layer of Slime. His body is also made up of layers of rubber, water, and membrane. He has only two organs that float in his body, those being his heart and his brain. His heart was cut in half from his battle with Amon, and his brain was slightly broken into pieces from The Warden in Season 3. He has two black eyes poking out of his head, and presents no mouth.

In ACT 2, His body has a slightly teal-tint to it, similar to his fathers. A skeletal structure is also present in his body, along with his fully regenerated skull. He wears the green scarf that Willow gifted him wherever he goes, accompanied by his black skull cap. A translucent, green, flaming crown hovers over his cap/forehead at all times as well, likely a cosmetic blessing received from Leviathan upon becoming a Goetia.

## Powers and Abilities

### Biological Abilities

* **Slime Body:** Mormo has a body made up of rubber slime, allowing him to stretch his limbs at great distances. He mostly uses this ability to stretch his arms backwards and release them like a slingshot, making his punches deal more damage and travel faster. Physical attacks such as punches, kicks, and falling from great distances are reduced against him as well due to the rubbery/elastic properties of his body. He can also change his limbs and body into slime weapons, as seen in S1 Episode 11, and S3 Episode 6.
* **Hydrokinetic Regeneration**: Mormo is able to use water to regenerate his body. Because of his Envy Demon origins, the slime that makes up his body is naturally healed by water. This does have strange effects with different kinds of water, like sparkling water as seen in S5 Episode 9.
* **Regenerative Healing:** In ACT 2, Mormo is able to regenerate his body at extreme speeds do to now being a King, without the need for water. Angelic weapons do take much longer to regenrate though, and it takes a bit of energy from him.

### Demonic Magic

* **Gel Flame:** By channeling the demonic energy in his soul, Mormo can ignite his body (but mostly fists) in a special kind of fire called Gel Flames. The flames resemble bright green fire, and deal a lot more damage to enemies than his normal attacks would. They also make his punches travel way faster. Mormo unlocked this ability while on Satania Express, against the Boilforge outlaw gang.

## Techs

Because of his biological form, he can perform a number of special transformations to give him the upper hand in battle. He calls these Techs.

**Tech 2, Surge:** Mormo is able to rapidly heat up the water in his own body until it reaches the boiling point, then corses it through his body by using his legs/arms like pumps. The heat produces steam that rises off of his body. It increases his heart rate, and gives him a rush of adrenaline. This greatly increases his speed, reflexives, and strength. Mormo first learned this ability in S3, Episode 4, when battling The Ringmaster.

**Tech 3, Jelly Dragon Blitz:** This tech allows Mormo to manifest a large dragon made out of his magic flames. The dragon has many uses, but Mormo first used it in S4, Episode 8, when the dragon spiraled around Mormo’s inflated fist, and delivered massive damage to Okami. The fire that makes up the dragons form are a mix of Gel-Flame, and Ecto-flames.

**Tech 4, Skeletal Guise:** Unlocked in the Season 4 Finale against XS-01 Artemis, Mormo obtained the ability to manifest a skeletal system in his slime body similar to his fathers. This greatly increased his durability to the point of completely negating a direct kick from XS-01 Artemis.

**Tech 5: King's Awakening:** In Season 5, Episode 24 while fighting Apollamon, Mormo was temporarily beheaded and killed, leading him to the spirit realm for a brief period of time. After a quick exchange with his mother, Mormo agreed to awaken his Goetian Abilities. This led to Mormo's appearance changing drastically, including his skin turning completely golden and his eyes being replaced with large shining stars. His speed, attack power, and durability all skyrockets in this form, he also gains the ability to regenerate at extreme speed like other Kings.

# Full Story

## Parents

1988, In the Envy Ring, a small sea-side town named Crustansho had visitors one night. The town was far away from most other civilizations in Envy, and secluded via a massive forest, and huge ocean. The visitors included a large menacing Slime Demon by the name of Moloch Marduk, and besides him, a peculiar, gentle eel demon named Molly Marduk. To the confusion of the townsfolk, both of the newcomers settled in the town quickly, they would often tell stories of their travels, and exciting tales from their time in Hell. Through these stories, the townsfolk learned that Moloch Marduk used to be a member of the esteemed royal Goetian Family, and Molly was his wife. Molly was a kindhearted demon, an environmentalist who cared greatly for the ecosystems and nature of Envy, she's spent most of her life researching geological issues, and ways to solve them. On the other hand, Moloch was a hardened, and strict man who worked just as hard throughout his life, just not in the same way. Moloch entered the Goetian family due to his immense physical strength and use of demonic energy, he was a hard worker, and believed that the only way to thrive in Hell, was strength. Only 3 years later, in 1991, A slime demon child was born in the town, named Mormo Marduk.

## Early Life

Despite Moloch being kicked out of the Goetian family, he still expected Mormo to eventually take his place in the future, and be the heir to his royal throne. Mormo was his pride and honor, and his expectations were high for his son. Molly on the other hand, expected nothing of her son, and instead only wished for him to value himself, and explore everything the world had to offer. Molly would spend time with Mormo every day, on hikes, beach trips, and swimming in the lake. Moloch though, spent most of his time hanging with friends, or working at random jobs to pay for his family, whenever he would see his son, he would mostly ignore him, seeing as Mormo wasn't nearly old enough to gain Goetian abilities. Mormo would go to Kelpinburgh elementary school at the age of 8, where he would meet other demons like Shiva Shoehorn, Thoth Tako, and Yara Newlix; one of his future co-workers. Despite his under-average grades in school, Mormo eventually got through Middle school, and made it to High School.

## Teenage Years

Mormo went to Levitowne High when he was 14, a popular high school that he was extremely nervous towards. Puberty hit this slime like a truck, and Mormo was overcome by social anxiety and classic high school paranoia. His mother would enthusiastically choose his outfits almost every day, and pack his lunches with sea-food such as shrimp, Gorgon Bites, and sandwiches. One time during lunch, Mormo was made fun of for eating Gorgon bites, being compared to Queen Lilith and the revolting plethora of snakes covering her legs. Afterwards when he got home, he bitterly asked his mother not to pack him them anymore, to her confusion. Both Shiva and Thoth went to the same Highschool as him, and were his only friends during those times, as mean/rude as they could be sometimes. During this time, Moloch was starting to lose patience, this should've been the time where Mormo's "True Goetian Form" was revealed, yet the Slime Demon continued contently living his life, completely normal... basic even. His mother spent so much time taking care of him, softening him up. She was getting in the way wasn't she?... About 3 months into Highschool, on a stormy, dark Tuesday evening, Mormo was eating spicy chicken soup for dinner inside his house with his father, while his mother was taking a walk along the beach not too far from them. When suddenly a disturbing presence was felt from above in the sky. Moloch told Mormo to hide underneath the dinner table, which he did, while the ex-Goetian King walked outside towards the beach to investigate. Over at the beach which was around a couple minutes away, Descending from the sky was a small colony of rogue Virtue Division Exorcist angels, revolting against heaven and deploying in Hell as they please, completely ignoring the Purge Limitations. Molly stared upwards at them from the beach, confused, yet curious at the sight of an angel for the first time. As soon as Moloch arrived, he witnessed Molly Marduk, Mormo's mother, and his own wife, completely dismembered by the bloodlusted angels. Her body strewn across the beach in a puddle of glowing translucent Kraken Blood. In a fit of blind rage, Moloch slaughtered each demon with his bare fists that night, taking around 2 hours of enraged battering and pummeling in the rain, before returning to Mormo, standing in the doorway covered in harsh cuts and ichor stains. Afterwards Mormo never saw his mother again. Moloch simply told his son that she had to leave for a while, and will be back again another time.

## Shellfish Gang

Without his mother, Mormo was lost, his father took care of him to the best that he could, yet it would never be the same. When Mormo reached the Junior year of highschool, his friends Shiva, and Thoth decided to create a special name for their small friend group, titled the Shellfish Gang. They were all old enough to be somewhat independent in the world of Hell at their age, and would mostly skip classes and responsibilities to mess around with each other. They would pull pranks, steal shopping carts, all that kind of stuff. While the disappearance of his mother was taking a large toll on Mormo’s mental health, he was slowly able to distract himself with the help of his friends, who included him in all their antics. One day, sometime in October, a new member joined their group, a seemingly timid, yet rebellious jellyfish demon named Lusitania. Quote from Shiva, (self proclaimed leader of the gang) “After seeing her assemble a makeshift Russian 122 mm M1910 howitzer breechloader from nothing but the scrap bin of our robotics class… I knew she was perfect for the group!” Mormo didn’t talk to her very much at the start, seeing as he was nervous around new people. Despite the slime demon being in the group, he didn’t fit too well with both Thoth and Shiva, they would tend to be rude, obnoxious, and sometimes even bully other students. Yet he stuck by them, they were all he had after all. Lusitania was somewhat different though, while she would participate in their stupid pranks and games, she had a whole other chill side that Mormo would sort of enjoy being around. Unlike the others, who were 99% of the time loud, and wild. As time passed by, Shiva and Thoth always had to get back home around 9:00 PM due to school, and Mormo would leave with them, he didn’t have to, but he had nothing else to do after they left. Sooner or later, he would stop leaving at that time, and stay to chat with Lusitania, since she didn’t have to leave at that time either. Eventually, Every day after Thoth and Shiva left to go home, Mormo would stay with Lusitania to talk, mostly by the beach, as there were many around their area. His favorites were the crystal beaches around their school, the sand was made up of small jewels and gems, which sparkled in the moonlight/sunset. Him and his mother used to talk by the beach as well, it was almost a tradition for them. It was a nice break from the chaos that was life, just chatting 1 on 1 with a friend while looking off into the peaceful ocean. They would talk about school, friends, family, etc. These moments slowly helped Mormo recover from his mothers absence. It’s also suffice to say that Mormo had a bit of a crush.

## The Shellfish Gangs End

As Sheol approached, Levitowne High was preparing for the Hell equivalent of prom, decorations around the campus, and posters hung on every notice board possible. Students were all asking each other out to Sheol as usual, though the Shellfish Gang were busy planning for their next big prank. Shiva suggested the idea of a weather spell, one that would summon a large rainstorm over campus, and drench everyone’s fancy outfits in rain during Sheol. While Mormo was a bit hesitant, he eventually agreed, seeing as the prank was relatively harmless. To get a decently powerful spell like that though, they would need some kind of artifact, and Shiva knew exactly where to get one. One of the snobby rich kids at their school had a special collection of artifacts kept in their house, photos of it which were leaked to Shiva from another friend. Mormo hated the idea of blatant robbery, yet when Lusitania agreed with Thoth’s argument, stating that “The kid was so rich, he won’t even notice it’s gone.” Mormo reluctantly agreed, he was outvoted anyways. That night the group waited outside the rich kids house, and watched them leave with their parents. Shiva gave the signal to enter in, and with the swift strike of a crowbar, Lusitania shattered one of the back windows, and entered with the group. everything seemed to be going smoothly, until Shiva accidentally tripped on one of Lusitania’s tentacles, causing him to get shocked, and fall over in pain. A small sensor attached to the wall nearby detected unauthorized movement in the house, and triggered a violent alarm to ring out across the building. Little did the group know, the house had premium Belphe-Tech security features, how unlucky. Dread set into the group almost instantly, and they made a mad dash towards the back window that they came from. Before they could reach it though, an ear piercing gunshot rang out from behind, causing Lusitania and Mormo to quickly turn around in surprise. Thoth was there, silently frozen in place, with a terrified expression across his face, staring directly at Mormo. Kraken blood was messily spraying out of his chest from the point blank bullet shot out of an automated turret attached to the ceiling. Shiva on the other hand, didn’t look back at all, and managed to escape the building while fearing for his own life. Stunned by the sight of his friends body collapse to the ground, Mormo was only able to move once Lusitania began attempting to drag him away. Though once they got out of the building, they were greeted by a few officers of the former CF88, ready to apprehend them.

## Trivia

1. Mormo’s original design is from a guy named VeryOdd on Pinterest
2. Mormo’s “Techs” are largely inspired from Luffy’s “Gears” in One Piece, especially Tech 2, which works exactly like Gear 2
3. Mormo is canonically heterosexual, and has never gone on an official date before, (at least one that he’s enjoyed.)
4. Mormos favorite animal are worms
5. He used to regularly talk to his mother about his life, and then Lusitania, but now he just sits by Willows grave from time to time, talking to her instead.
6. His favorite food is Parmesan shrimp pasta
7. Mormo has around 12 separate tuppers
8. Mormo rarely ever cries in public, but when alone in bed, even as a king, he sometimes spends hours sobbing and berating himself.
9. He hates fireworks, and clowns
10. Ozzie once offered Mormo a large portion of his territory in the Lust Ring to put a maid outfit on again, he declined.