Krossnox

## Kust/Krossnox

### Kust OOC

On the server Kust is known as Kross, Kust or Kustov. Goes by she/them. One of the staff team that usually silently watches over people, interfering only when necessary. Mostly 'do or die' moderator. Usually warns people that she's a harsh and blunt person from nature. People usually assume her for being there from wave 1 season 1 of OCSMP, which is wrong. She is extremely selective in choosing friends, limiting herself to small groups of people who are quite close to her.

## Child of The Abyss

### Aliases

Kust, Krossnox, Morrie(canonical name), Child of The Abyss

### Relatives

'Mother'. status: ???Unnamed father. status: dead

## Appearances

#### Name meaning

Morrie/Morry

The name is a fusion between two different words: the russian word "море”, meaning sea, and the english "mort", meaning death.

#### Age

Morrie refers to herself as a Child of the Abyss, even if by human measures she probably outlived a lot of them. Do not be fooled, because it's her title rather than actual age. Morrie’s current age is close to one hundred years.

In the backstory 'child' was used quite a lot, but it's all in the meaning of a title, or at least that's how Morrie's Mother was calling her.

#### Appearance

Most of it shown on the reference in character infobox, but there a little more explanations.

Her tied up ‘hair’ is not hair at all. It’s head tentacles wrapped into some strange ponytail with coral. It does not hurt her at all, because octopuses are really flexible and agile creatures(that means if she wants he could fold enough to hide in a bucket).

About her eyes. Usually they’re big and round. They’re getting into normal octopus ones when this child is being naughty and mischievous.

Morrie has a lot of tentacles, but usually they’re tucked up safely under her poncho until she needs them.

#### Personality

Morrie can be described as a really curious and childish creature with selective mutism. Living down in the darkness led to this little thing knowing absolutely nothing about the world outside the abyss.

And a child… still a child. A chaotic, little thing with huge curiosity to everything new he sees. Mischievous and happy.

Morrie does have a dark side, but she usually suppresses it since she doesn't like to show the true side of his own being. She wants to keep secrets of his home as much as she can.

She is also a little thief. Morrie does not understand what’s right and what’s wrong as normal people do. If she likes something, usually random stuff - she’ll steal it. And most likely you’ll find your stuff buried in the sand as it’s the only safest way she can keep things. Also if she’ll see buckets of axolotls and fish she’ll most likely try to free them. This merling doesn't like the way people tend to catch things from the ocean.

Morrie really wants to learn how to write so it’s not surprising to find a lot of books in her house just written with strange symbols instead of normal letters. It’s hard to write with wobbly hands.

#### Relationships

'Mother':

Since Morrie is not living in The Abyss anymore, no one actually knows her true relatives. But sometimes black merling tend to talk about someone she calls ‘Mother’.

That said ‘Mother’ is still somewhere down there in the abyss. No one really knows what she/it looks like, and even Morrie is not willing to tell.

Aiden:

A strange sailor that Morrie met back in the past while attempting to steal stuff from his boat. The attempt mostly failed. But they're met again at Blobbin Keep. Aiden is not the only one of little thief's victims, but the most often one.

Sp:

The one who found Morrie and successfully caught her with a bucket. Child is thankful that Sp taught her a lot of things about surface world and even became best buddy. And also they're both made a thief team for steal stuff.

Zack:

A friend.

Tertathy:

A friend.

Raptor:

A fish and a friend. But what with that uneasy feeling?

Raven:

A friend and parthner of victim of Morrie's thefts.

Erty:

A friend.

Dan:

A friend.

Clewn:

A friend.

Amudo:

A fish and a friend.

Triangle52:

Not a fish, but a friend. That one who sticking his nose too far into secrets.

#### Backstory

##### The Abyss childhood:

Not to say that Morrie had a terrible childhood. No. This child spent most of her time exploring the world around. She trained to become stronger under the strict supervision of her Mother and The Abyss. And she was happy every day. But ... despite all this, year after year she became more lonely and sad.

It was rare for anything new to appear down there, so rare that it was a holiday for the dark octopus if she found something that she had not seen before.

But this torture could not continue for the child's mind for too long. And so one day, after weighing all the pros and cons, ignoring her duties, the child of the abyss simply ran away.

##### New world:

The surface met Morrie with agony. Accustomed to living in the darkness of great depth, she could not quickly adapt to the changed conditions of existence around her. In the consciousness fading from excess oxygen, there was no hint of regret for her act. But the child did not die. Month after month, drifting among the ocean waves, hunting only fish that swim too close, Morrie slowly adapted to the new, aggressive environment for her.

And the existence in a vegetative state paid off. The creation of The Abyss spent such a long time outside of their home for the first time. But it was worth it. After all, a whole new world has opened up before the dark octopus, in order to satisfy the curiosity of the child.

But, there was another problem. Morrie hardly understood what others were saying to her, and she herself could not speak. In addition, her appearance had not changed in any way, she was still one of the monsters that had climbed out of The Abyss, and therefore scared away everyone with whom she tried to come into contact. But it didn't become a problem for her for a long time. Watching the other inhabitants of the ocean, Morrie herself did not notice how she began to imitate their behavior and appearance. She mimicked, hiding most of her true essence behind the mask of a cute little octopus. But these changes affected only her appearance, she still could not speak other languages, only understand some fragments of phrases.

But when has a language barrier stopped someone from exploring something new? That's right, never.

##### Little thief:

Morrie had never understood the meaning of many morals of human beings, whom she occasionally found floating on the very surface of the water in boats. And she always wondered: 'how do they live there, without water?’ But she never received an answer, because she either scared people with her appearance or was afraid to approach, because she could not breathe in there.

However, one day, under the cover of night, she still plucked up the courage and swam to one of the boats, while the owner of that boat was sleeping peacefully. She even managed to get in. And the first thing that child did was climb into chests and barrels. Taking out some of the things that seemed most interesting. Until she accidentally dropped a few things into the water and into the boat itself, unwittingly waking the owner of the boat and being so scared on her own that she already hid in her own tentacles.

Just imagine, you wake up, and you have something black, writhing and glowing yellow in your boat, looking at you with the same yellow eyes and trying to say something in an unknown language, and even stole your things. A very unexpected and unpleasant meeting.

Morrie ran away from that meeting with a loud splash as soon as she crossed eyes with a strange man, swimming away to the possible depth. Trully, the excitement only played out after that, and therefore, even at a distance, but the child followed the boat of that strange sailor.

But not for long, because soon she got lost after a few days of following.

##### A friend:

But not for too long, Morrie swam lost among the ocean waters, soon she swam to one beach, where she saw another person from that she saw in a boat. The second in her long life. Although she could not call the other one a human, because according to her Mother's stories, people did not have wings. But it didn't seem important then, because she saw it in the sand... bucket. Alas, the octopus did not know what it was at all, and therefore, out of curiosity, carefully stole this bucket. But by some strange coincidence, she found herself inside an iron container.

That's how her future close friend SP found her.

Basically, like any curious child, Morrie tried to ask a lot of questions, but could not figure out how to pronounce words in human language. It took her a long time to learn not only to understand people well, but also to speak out loud. At the same time, she tried to learn how to write, but because of the structure of her own hands, she could hardly write anything normally.

##### Cave Temple:

It was in one moment of her life when Morrie found a place near Blobbin Keep Kingdom Island, which looks like depths of the world got ripped and turned inside out into ocean floor. There is a cave, an old one, that even nature started it's merciless long way of growing inside. And in that cave octopus found a temple. Which she now made her home.

### The Abyss

#### Main explanation

In one of the oceans between the talons of the sea a watery pit of darkness opens it’s maw. The Abyss.

It goes down down down to the very end of the world. There’s no light, no friendly lifeforms. Just the void and coldness of deep water. Lack of oxygen and food. But even there a few can live.

Abyss has its own guardian but no one knows where they are or what they are. Only one thing is known: The Abyss will keep its secrets till the very end.

#### Curse of the Abyss

Darkness that always surrounds this place is alive by its own meaning. Haunting those who dared to get too close as a slow never disappearing poison, a disease targetting you from within and protecting it's own habitants from outside world even if they're away from their rightful home.

Another important thing is that part of the Abyss’s darkness always follows Morrie. It appears as a dark tentacle-like thing in the house of little merling protecting the new home from crumbling under the water.

### Music playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6mEXehc32DeJcByAR5aEIB?si=56977f12ef05462d