Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-26545936-20171118020208

Family/Type: ???/???

Habitat: Asylums, hospitals, mindscapes

Disposition: In-flux, crazed, capricious, various

Diet: Men's spirit energy, breaking minds

A dangerous and rare lunatic slime-like mamono, they appear to frequently prey on those on the verge of suffering a fatal mental breakdown.

No-one exactly knows where the Deliriums came from, despite their abilities and general 'personality' they aren't affiliated to Wonderland or the Queen of Hearts, though they have been sighted in the plane. Origins forever a mystery and the slime-like mamonos never have a answer themselves, mostly it being they refuse to answer, or aren't coherent to do anything that would resemble a response.

As stated above, slime-like in body but not actually categorized as a slime themselves, Delirium's body is goopy and unstable even for a slime, the slime color itself is always a complete and utter white and they always possess these yellow piercing pupils surrounded in pits of darkness, mostly opened wide and rarely closed. The pupils themselves don't seem to express anything else other then shrinking to pinpricks in some form of extreme emotion like rage, terror, or ecstasy. Generally, Delirium's are formulated to that of an average human's height but other variations are common as well and isn't a generally good denominator to base that height on all of the other kinds of Delirium. When Delirium's start to get heavily damaged, instead of their 'slime' slogging off and not coming back together, instead, a shade of dark red starts to overlay the Delirium's usual unnaturally white slime that forms their body. On a interesting note, whenever a Delirium opens their mouth... or mouths, two to three strings of slime always remain as if connecting their mouths together more directly, this sometimes happens with their eyes as well.

Either screaming, crying, or in some form of rage or another, Deliriums appear to exist only in a state of gibbering lunacy these rare mamono wander aimlessly uncaring if they stumble upon a campsite or in the middle of a city guards barracks unless of course their mood changes and they start attacking or staring intently at one of the camper's fingernails... or something like that. A Delirium's mind is a broken place, or rather breaking, any attempts to read one's mind always results in visions of rageful screams and cries, moans of pleasure or pain, and never something that can be gained from such an exchange, as any visions that are seen rarely if ever placate themselves on memory or the kimono's feelings at the moment. Such as it is, it is almost impossible to tell if a Delirium likes, dislikes, or just in between for anything whether it be a object or person as it appears that such likes and dislikes switch randomly, their personality shifts and it appears as if they are a different person... but nothing ever coherent, just a sense that they are someone new, not that it can be telled at the moment as they might just change it the next.

I don't think they even know what their mind is anymore…

Whatever the case, wherever they appear something goes down, harbingers of a sort, these slime-like mamono bring change when coming in alone and unusual humor when with a husband. Never connected, just that always something big happens or changes whenever sighted by two or more people, Deliriums give no response to this other then giggled mumblings, but do refer to 'cheese' more than once when asked about it. Attempts to push a Delirium away so that a grandiose change never occurs is futile, as they've more than enough madness to push you right back out.

Extremely powerful, Deliriums have seemingly no knowledge to use it in most cases, only when dramatically threatened do they respond as anything less and they are content to ignore for their own little world if attacked and that proves insufficient in one way or another. Regular weapons don't appear to even scratch a Delirium, and most low to mid-tier magics prove completely ineffective to harm them other than wasting spirit energy, it is best to just wait for the Delirium to leave and hope they don't turn to you in sudden unexplainable rage or attraction. When threatened enough, Deliriums prone to action attack fast when their slime-like bodies but after all that build-up it might seem to most that they are pathetically weak and easy to dodge, this is a mistake most make... as after a while, Deliriums are able to teleport, shoot powerful magical projectiles, highly durable... annnd locally change the landscape around them randomly. Well, not completely random.

You see, when a Delirium sights someone that just so happens make them attracted, they form a sort of unwitting mental bond with their obess- attraction, this mental bond makes the attracted feel like they're being watched and or hallucinating and the Delirium looks through the memories of their fancy, this not being a conscious effort or even realized by the Delirium herself and begin to produce an aura that sprouts when threatened. That, being able to change the location to one that is held in some regard or another to the one the mamono fancies. But perhaps one of the most powerful ability that a Delirium has, is that she can become anything that the holder of the memories finds in some important regard in one way or another.

When she takes on this form, very rarely it being something she wants to do, she changes only to their shape and base details, it still looks as if the being or perhaps even object, are covered in a white slime and their pupils are always that unerring deep yellow.

Deliriums gain all of the abilities that this form possesses, whether or not they should be actually able to and generally can take on the form of something much more stronger than their own, and even retain their own ability to teleport, change the local area, and shoot out their own brand of magical projectiles. However, due to their unstable form they can only be like someone else for only a couple seconds before they either turn back to their original form or they shape into another one of those from his memories.

When damaged enough, as described before, their bodies gain this overlay of red and the Delirium will appear to become more frenzied, unable to be in one place for even a second, they haphazardly teleport around the area appearing and spitting out an attack and then vanishing before the attack even gets a chance to get a quarter of the way there to their target. This same holds true for their shape changing, changing from one form to the next, attacking with abandon with one magical explosion and then the next with a powerful acidic axe.

When defeated they, most of the time, scream in agony and fluctuate between the one they fancy's memories before shriveling up into their first form, albeit looking devoid of most of their unruly mass. They generally start to hysterically cry to themselves, covering up into a ball and mumble apologizes to you, themselves, others, or any other form of mad grievance.

They don't attempt to stop you if you go for a killing blow…

At this point, a Delirium is at her sanest and therefore... her weakest and most likely able to listen to reason. If the Delirium isn't attracted to you and therefore has formed a mental bond, the safest bet would be to take her to her husband, the attack they caused being more than likely, separated. If she has formed a mental bond with the man that attacked her, she will not leave his side, but won't attack him again. Seemingly going into a more quiet set of madness than normal. Shaking their head at odd times or flinching at nothing, their power even appears to weaken almost permanently and that at once, somehow allows a Delirium to open up a much more civil conversation, or the skeleton of it at the very least. While they are in this more 'sane' state they aren't able to touch upon the mental bond that was formed when first met and thusly have to rely on their magical projectiles, extreme durability, and teleportation, when confronted with a sufficient enough threat however, they might 'lose' themselves again and unconsciously start making use of their bonds again to shapechange into the memories like before, though they do take 'note' of new beings or locations present in their hubby's mind and may use more recently added locales or peoples rather than the others from before. Though more often than not, they return to their more 'saner' self and things are back to being normalish.

Of course, this all only happens if the man manages to beat the Delirium in the first place, which very rarely does actually happen, more than likely the Delirium's slime-like body saddles over the broken soon-to-be-hubby and ravishes him thoroughly. Their body, like as if in a battle. Rapidly shifts to the man's subconscious desires, but never in a form too long, before they change once again with an altogether different feeling, generally creating a feeling that makes the man feel as that their mind is waning or something along those lines. Following in his footsteps, whether it be screaming, crying, or moan, the feelings and noises generated by a Delirium when 'proactively dating' are to be seen of genuine pleasure, lust, and love, among other swelling and conflicting emotions, those three being the most prominent. If the man has defeated the Delirium and she in a state of 'sanity' they gleefully lose themselves again in preparation of intercourse and all in-between.

The above circumstances given are actually the more rare occurrences, as unlike other mamono who are more attracted to if the man in question has a high amount of spirit energy, Deliriums are more interested if the person's mind is either teetering closer and closer to a mental breakdown of some sort or are beginning to fall completely... they however are not interested in those that are utterly broken in every way, ignoring such 'minds' as if they didn't exist.

Like a moth to a flame, when sensing the presence of this breaking mind, they will ignore whatever they were doing and head to this person's location, it does not matter if the person is male or female, they will still seek out the source of this aura and somehow, slip into the mind of this person. Drawing this target into the recesses of their own mind, they will be at the centerpiece of their mind, acting like a beacon to this possibly dazed or confused human. They will move through broken memories, fabricated hallucinations, and the meldings of the Delirium's own mind. Bending and twisting roads and doorways to end up ever closer to the mad slime-like mamono.

Very rarely does a mind close to completely breaking have any form of will to resist the pull to come closer to the Delirium, the illusion only breaking when they finally come into sight of the mamono, where in which for the women, well... it's never been disclosed what exactly happens to them within their mind, but another Delirium is always a result of such events. For men, it appears as if their closing insanity will fade. Any serious mental illnesses wrought onto their minds dim and fade away. What most other scholars say is that the Delirium ingests or otherwise absorbs the illnesses into their body, or at the very least... the serious ones that lead to a person not being able to live essentially without constant help or the like.

The person will still have memories of these events, but it will be viewed only as an intellectual standpoint rather than having any emotion connecting to it, and that's great and all there's just one problem.

The Delirium still exists in the man's mind and she will go onto 'proactively date' them as they are inevitably drawn themselves into lust and infatuation, comparatively, they are a bit more gentler than when they would do the man they fancy in 'reality' but this is only a marginal difference in the grand scheme of things and afterwards, everything proceeds as if the man in question has successfully beaten the mad slime-like mamono in combat, though with its few outwardly glaring differences, nothing has changed in that regard. Of course, the Delirium will exit the man's mind at this point and have gained the ability to go into the mindscape of their hubby if they so desired for much more private fun.

It might not have to be stated, but unless the Delirium is unqiue and holds a special talent, they are rather terrible at being some form of a housewife and another, they do hold onto the definition and focus of 'trying' to be one if requested... just don't expect much, no matter how powerful they are. 