My turn by TheSaladCram on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Dannus protecting smol boi Omegus

You can see many irises in his eyes;
This is because of an idea I had about Dannus.

Some victims of the virus, though few, manage to keep a part of their soul partially intact, even as their bodies are taken by the swamp and essentially absorbed. These pieces look for something to take hold of and communicate or think through- that something usually ending up to be Dannus because he is so... lost. He's sort of accepted the virus because he can't tell his own identity, but the virus is unable to completely absorb his body.

The result? An often overwhelming amount of head voices, thoughts, mixtures of feelings, all going on at the same time. This is why he will sometimes bash his head in- to try getting the voices to leave.

However, these soul pieces aren't evil... no. They are simply lost and broken, looking for something to hold onto, other than what little memory and connection they have.

This is shown in this picture, actually. Dannus may not have that good of a memory of Omegus as a friend in the past life, but there is still a loose connection. The broken souls relate to this- which is usually why their soul didn't fade into oblivion in the first place.

If someone hurt Omegus and Dannus saw... those souls remember a similar feeling, someone close getting hurt. They don't know who Omegus is, but they feel like a friend.

And they're not going to let anyone hurt a friend.

Not again.

(Sorry for the rant)