Knot Guilty

**Debut** | TBA

**Knot Guilty** is the Simplicitrix/Stabilized Simplicitrix's DNA sample of a Kviðdómurinnhefur Komistaðniðurstöðu from the planet Hékkúr Gálga.

## Appearance

Knot Guilty is a partial humanoid alien that takes the form of a disembodied lower-body, covered with mottled dark brown skin smeared with splotches of red and large vein-like tendrils that resemble bloodied tree roots, with his left foot featuring a pair of nostrils on its front side and vestigial empty eye-sockets on the sides of his ankle, and his right foot featuring a small mouth of yellowed teeth on its front side. Knot Guilty's upper-body consists of a mass of tangled rope his actual body puppeteers from below, forming the partial shape of a torso with nooses for arms, all contained with a tattered orange outfit resembling a modern prisoner jumpsuit.

Knot Guilty has the Simplicitrix symbol floating above where his neck would be, with its hourglass symbol instead a diamond shape with a teardrop-shaped iris on both sides, serving as his eye.

## Powers

* Knot Guilty can induce, manipulate, and perceive guilt, whether making people feel guilty towards any past mistakes or even things they had not actually caused, or instead removing their guilt and making them not feel responsible for any errors on their behalf, through binding opponents with his prehensile ropes he can precisely control through telekinetic means and produce endless amounts of them from his severed abdomen.
	+ Knot Guilty can typically manipulate guilt through binding his opponents with his noose-shaped arms, but can also gradually detach his rope and create improvised fences out of them that can encapsulate and surround whatever that it surrounds with a field of guilt so powerful in nature that it can cause anyone inside of them to completely shut down from the crushing weight of guilt.
	+ Knot Guilty can attach his ropes around the necks of others that can slowly crush their throats and eventually asphyxiate them the more guilt that they feel about a certain mistake, typically only doing so as a last-resort method in order to break down the spirits of heartless people who believe they are not directly responsible for causing tragic accidents, and only allowing them to live once they finally give into their guilt, which in turn will loosen the noose around their neck and forever leave them with their residual guilt.
	+ Knot Guilty can use his malleable ropes in different ways outside of his guilt manipulation, such as transmuting whatever he comes in contact with into throwable nets that can trap opponents from underneath them, using his noose-like arms as improvised lassos that he can extend and throw with great precision, and also partially dismantling and unraveling his upper-body in order to try and slip through cramped spaces.
* Knot Guilty can transfer moisture throughout his ropes and into his actual body in order to sustain himself.
* Knot Guilty has enhanced strength, agility, reflexes, flexibility, and mobility.
* Knot Guilty has space survivability.

## Weaknesses

* Knot Guilty has little to no actual dexterity due to his lack of any extremities and the limited flexibility of ropes not being able to create any proper substitutes for them, limited towards only wrapping them around objects.
* Knot Guilty's ropes are highly vulnerable against extreme heat and combustible materials due to their naturally flammable preporties, and sharp instruments as they can be frayed and eventually snapped apart, which can be exploited as Knot Guilty cannot naturally regenerate ropes and instead must create new ones instead, which can cause him to overexert himself should too many of them be severed at once.
* Knot Guilty's asphyxiation through his noose-like arms or detachable ropes have no effect on other species that lack proper necks, and thus cannot be strangled in the conventional sense.

## Etymology

* Knot Guilty is a play on "knot" and "not guilty."
* Knot Guilty's species name is the Icelandic translation of "the jury has reached a verdict."
* Knot Guilty's planet name is the Icelandic translation of "hung from the gallows."

## Trivia

* Knot Guilty was drawn and suggested by Shark.
* Knot Guilty is the fifth alien whose Simplicitrix, by default, appears differently than usual, following Erangelical, Dumpster Fire, Inkantation, and Negasus, and the second one to instead have the diamond shape of Select Mode instead of the normal hourglass after Negasus.