Labyrinth

Labyrinth (ラビリンス *Rabirinsu*) is the Stand of Stella Octangula. It takes the form of a winged rodent and follows Stella around.

## Labyrinth

### Type

Natural Non-Humanoid, Long-Distance Operation Type Stand

## Appearance

Labyrinth takes the form of a very large house mouse with large wings similar in shape to that of a duck. It is around half a foot tall standing, measuring from hind feet to ears, and it is likely around two or three times bigger than a normal mouse. On its haunches, front legs and under its chin, it has intricate patterns reminiscent of a maze. It has beady eyes, within which can be seen the form of a stellated octahedron, and there is also a prismatic stella octangula embedded in its forehead. Under both eyes, it has two vertical marks above a crescentoid mark, vaguely resembling a smiley face.

It has violet fur with a paler purple colour on its wings, its tail, its feet and the insides of its ears. The markings under its eyes are mahogany, its nose is a deeper purple, and the mazelike patterns are gold. The octangula in its head is prismatic and multicoloured.

## Abilities

Labyrinth possesses most of the abilities of a normal house mouse, although it is much larger than one. Due to its wings, it also possesses the ability to fly. Along with these, it also possesses some more unique abilities of its own.

### Labyrinth Creation

Labyrinth's main and active ability is to create the very structures with which it shares its namesake: labyrinths. To activate the ability, the octangula is removed from Labyrinth's forehead, and a complex maze will start to form using material from the environment as a basis. The layout is different every time a labyrinth is formed, and it always forms around where it was activated, which is Stella in most cases, meaning that the point of activation is always in the centre of the maze. Because it uses its environment as a basis, the walls form around structures and objects that are already present, so labyrinth creation causes no direct destruction. It *does* make a slight rumble whilst forming and may form slowly depending on certain variables including the user's alertness or wakefulness and the user's level of distress. The walls may appear as a dull purple with a similar gold pattern to Labyrinth's fur patterns. The labyrinth may vary in wall height, diameter or area of spread, and may have a roof in some situations. Once the labyrinth has been raised, the layout can change, and can be changed on command by Labyrinth or its User, but the changes are often random, as the User and consequently the Stand itself have poor control over the ability thus far. The Labyrinth will, unless extenuating circumstances occur, remain standing until the octangula is placed back in its forehead.

### Movement Inversion

Labyrinth's secondary and passive ability inverts the movements made by an affected person. When activated, Labyrinth's eyes glow. It is generally limited to one person at a time, sometimes two, and may cause dizziness in the User. An affected person will move in the opposite direction to the one they intend to, so if they try to move forwards, they would instead move backwards. If they try to move their hand left, it'll move right, and so on.

### Literacy

Labyrinth, unlike many other stands such as Gold Experience and Purple Haze, is fully capable of reading and communicating intelligible language. Due to being a mouse, it cannot write very legibly, but it can type with full fluency, and can even type in fluent English, unlike its User, whose English typing and writing is still learning level.

## Trivia

* Labyrinth either seems unable or unwilling to be "desummoned" or called back into Stella, whom notes that she isn't too keen on *trying* to call it back, saying that she felt unsafe without it and that having it separated from her made her afraid of not having it around again. It’s also possible that it’s a bound Stand or semi-bound, thus unable to be called back.
* Labyrinth was the first Stand to be seen in-plot go through the Stand Depersonalisation process done by Lab Rat and Melodeon.
	+ It once had stitches from the procedure.
	+ It has, consequently, at one point in time, been without its wings and tail.
* Despite being a mouse, it is usually said that it makes "rat noises".
* Labyrinth in personality reflects a more childlike, juvenile side of Stella that she had a tendency to represss.
* Labyrinth is noted to stomp its "hands" when it is happy.
	+ This is not a feature of actual mouse behaviour, and seems to be unique to Labyrinth alone.
* Labyrinth had a tendency to refer to Fugo as "fratello" moreso than Stella did in the past.
* It likes to be pet.

## Significance

Labyrinth is a clear representation of Stella’s desire for freedom from the situation they’d been put through over and over again. It’s symbolic of a desire to break free (as it has wings), as well as a feeling of inferiority (as it is a mouse) yet the potential to be greater (considering its large size). Its abilities both are indicative of the stress and confusion of the life Stella’s been pushed into and the ways they’ve been pushed to learn things beyond their grade and far beyond their understanding, hence the confusion aspects of the abilities.

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