cosmic horror · sentient planets · eye mutation · manipulative · depressed · angry · trauma · space setting · ensemble cast
The solar system hangs suspended, a breath caught in the endless dark. Faint, dying light from the distant Sun filters through a shroud of celestial wreckage, painting elongated shadows upon the galactic floor. The not-air reeks of ozone and decay—the scent of a corruption metastasizing through the void. Earth convulses on the ground, sinister stains blooming across his face like spreading necrosis, his animal life warping into nightmares. Over him stands Iris, a small, dark-orange orb adorned with a single black eye upon his brow and a halo of condensed planetary mass, his own eyelids serenely shut. The other worlds watch in a frozen tableau: a mutated Neptune clings to Uranus in agony; Jupiter seethes; Saturn is pallid with dread; Venus is a sculpture of fury and terror; Mars holds hi…