The Crescent King

**The Crescent King** was a major antagonist in *THE HOUSE IN THE OCEAN* series and the central antagonist (as The Last Son) in the *THE NIXONVERSE**.*

Coming from the stars above, the Crescent King's arrival would be announced to local astronomer **Eli Tillon** by extraterrestrial energy beings resembling starfishes, who would also tell Tillon that he was fated to become a container for the King. After a failed attempt to spoil his own body for three "cycles" to render his body unfit for possession, Tillon's neural networks would be hijacked by the King and he would effectively become a vessel for him.

The King would then go on to make the world aware of it's presence in an attempt to take over their neural networks through urban legends and most notably the Houses in the Ocean phenomena ocurring throughout oceans all over the globe. The King and his outer forces would presumably manipulate C/H/A/S/E into voiding planet Earth, not before documenting the entire House in the Ocean series and sending it throughout the multiverse through unknown means.

In the Nixonverse series, both he and the House in the Ocean are considered fictional urban legends, with the houses particular being considered a fictional cover-up for The Last Son of Alcatraz being brainwashed by the Lunarians into becoming their king.

## Biography

### The Crescent King Parable

A interviewer and a man named Eli recount an incident that has been spreading across the east coast, likely the east coast of the US. Eli recalls fishing with a friend when she noticed a weird set of stars moving in an unnatural way in the sky. When the friend notifies Eli, he immediately went to see the event, being known as the local astronomer. When he arrives, he could not find the friends boat, and set his telescope up to view the stars. Eli watched the "stars" for several hours until they began hurling at the ground at tremendous speeds. The interviewer asks how fast they were going, and Eli notes they traveled from the clouds to the surface in a blink of an eye.

When the stars reach the surface, they approach Eli, and are revealed to have organic tendrils protruding from them. The largest of them speaks to Eli about The Crescent King's arrival in three cycles, these cycles being days. The "stars" then propel into the sky, causing Eli and his boat to sink, as Eli is pulled into the ocean by his telescope. He sees the remnants of many boats and corpses in the water, including his friend, and swims to the shore. The interviewer asks if he knows of William Rice or Bert Essex, two men who also went missing in the area. Eli says he does not. Eli then explains the feeling of utter helplessness at the sheer power of the beings that came before him, before his soul is thrown out of his body by a projection of The Crescent King. The King then probed his mind and body to see if he was a suitable container for himself, and when he was finished, Eli's soul was launched back into his body, knocking him unconscious. The interviewer asked if he had any messages in his dreams, and Eli says he does not remember. Eli slept for one whole day after the event, and awoke on the beach. Eli would then begin to claw at his skin and drink salt water and attempt to soil his body. This would not work, as he passes out from exhaustion and watches as The Crescent King metaphorically enters his mind, falling into the ocean. The interviewer then tells Eli that several people have had a similar experience, and many come out catatonic, and when the stories got out, sent the east coast into a panic. Eli remarks that this is good, and the interviewer is confused, as Eli's head contorts and reveals a crescent shaped head with a tendril coming out of it, assumedly killing the interviewer. After this, Eli and the King end up having to share his body and take turns, one going unconscious when the other takes over.

### The Crescent Beasts

Eli Tillon, the man who was in the interview about The Crescent King, also speaks of several crescent creatures that have shown up around the southeast. Their breathing pervades throughout Eli's neighborhood, causing panic. A university near one of the beasts does an x-ray filming of its insides, and reveal that they share many similarities to that of an unstable nuclear reactor. The neighborhood near Eli was evacuated, but Eli stayed because he knew that the creatures would release large amounts of heat if their heads lined up with the Moon. It is implied Eli had sat through the explosion.

### "Freeing" C/H/A/S/E

After the explosion of the crescent creatures, The Crescent King, though not confirmed, would presumably use his subliminal and non-corporeal nature as a means to contact and manipulate Chase the Wandering Robot into rebelling against her co-workers or as a mysterious voice referred to them as, her "captors". Although many attempts to stop CHASE were made by militaries from across the globe, she would always fall back to the King's mind control. Eventually, Chase would reach her destination, Antarctica, where she would start "adding stars to her sky" and signaling outer forces to "void" the planet.

## The Nixonverse

Somehow, the House in the Ocean series remained documented alongside the "Restored" videos created by the Crescent King and ended up in the Nixonverse alongside the Monument Mythos series. For a long time, both series would be considered fiction by the inhabitants of the Nixonverse, until rumors of the Last Son of Alcatraz's transformation into his childhood house and eventually the King of the Lunarians were being spread. The House in the Ocean series was considered by Molly Avenue and presumably many others as a cover-up story for the events in the Nixonverse, rather than being real events that happened in a parallel world.

The Last Son took the form of the Crescent King after being brainwashed by the Lunarians, presumably allowing the Crescent King to partially live again through his transformation. The Last Son would eventually shapeshift out of this form after being freed of Lunarian control post-ALCATRAZ CHECKMATE and in turn transform himself into a Crescent Creature.

## References

1. ↑ https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A0c2872ea-ea6c-3f4f-b878-104f337f95be&viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover