Exploring immortality with my ocs!

OK. one of my favorite things to explore in fiction is immortality and how it affects a person. In my main OC universe, I have 3 immortal ocs: Eon, Gatsby, and Bunny, all of them exploring a different way immortality can affect someone. Eon and Gatsby used to be mortal, and Bunny 'spawned' immortal. this is how their immortality works!

Eon and Gatsby's planet, Terias, was mostly covered in a toxic jungle (think Nausicaä of The Valley of The Wind type toxic jungle). In this jungle was a type of fungi a lot like Ophiocordyceps (the one that makes zombie ants and stuff) except instead of killing its host it forcefully keeps it alive to live in. It usually only did this to plants, thus why the jungle was so hard to get rid of. How do you get rid of something that refuses to die? (the answer is bombs, they needed to explode the fungi-plants so hard that they couldn't come back)

Some scientist called Dr. Tulpa wondered if she could use this fungus to create immortality. The way it kept the host alive was through automatically 'healing' any wounds or injuries the host sustained, and kept it at a specific life stage so it wouldn't die of old age (normally the stage it was in when it was introduced to the fungus). So Dr. Tulpa was doing some stuff and experimenting and she managed to isolate the part that keeps the host alive. She tested it on some ants and the ants did Not die when she squished them. 

She worked on it a little more until deciding it was ready for people, but it was kind of a secret government project during a world war so there weren't a lot of volunteers. She ended up getting some test subjects from the opposing side's rural small village that had recently been captured and a little burned down. One of the test subjects was Eon. 

Alongside immortality, Eon also got the power to open portals to anywhere in the universe. His power came from his greatest want at the time, which was to survive and escape. Eon didn't want to be immortal and he hated Dr. Tulpa and eventually the corporation that went on to use her research and try to recreate Dr. Tulpa's 'success'. He tries to move on and enjoy his existence anyway, because he doesn't really have a choice. he is chilling in space.

The corporation was called Project Sunrise and they wanted to create superheroes. One of the flaws of Dr. Tulpa's research was that she was kinda not recording everything that happened, so they actually didn't know how to recreate her experiments. They also didn't like the freedom of the portal thing that Eon (the 'prototype') had, and they needed to create a failsafe in case one of their superpowered possibly immortal creations ever turned against them. So they spent a lot more time 'taming' the fungi and testing it on volunteers that had graduated from their hero-academy-thing. They hadn't managed to create a fully immortal person. until Gatsby! 

Gatsby was Absolutely Thriving with his immortality. for like 120 years. and then he started to kind of lose it and Project Sunrise was like Ok get This Guy Out of here. so they sent him to space. He's busy being a jerk to people in space now. 

Eon and Gatsby eventually meet and Eon HATES this guy. rightfully. gatsby is a bitch. They might become friends later on but for now they are just repeatedly bullying each other. 

and that's how both Eon and Gatsby's immortality works! it's because mushrooms. i love fungi it is so cool.

Bunny is a whole different story. She is an extremely literal self-insert in that she is the creator of the universe with the mind of a 13 y/o. She randomly spawned into nothing and thought 'wow, this is boring.' and started making stuff up for fun. Her imagined world formed the reality around her. She basically built herself a playground, and the people she meets are just toys she found in the sandbox.  

Bunny's immortality is super interesting to me because she cannot imagine NOT being immortal. It's very difficult for her to understand her mortal creations because she has no way to empathize with them. While Eon and Gatsby are often held back by their immortality, she is free to do anything she wants. Obviously this ties into her godhood which Eon and Gatsby don't have, but in a way, they too don't really need to deal with consequences. If they wanted to, they could blow up a planet and just go somewhere else with 0 external consequence for them (Gatsby actually tried this but he didn't actually blow up the planet, it was mostly a stunt to scare Eon). 

Eon and Gatsby have and will live through everything forever until the universe ends, which causes them Mental Problems. Eon spent about 100 years in self-isolation out of fear that any friends he makes will just die and is also dealing with a lot of trauma from Being Experimented On As A Child (he's technically still a child he's stuck at age 16) and Gatsby copes with everything by having a continuous power trip and being condescending and rude to everyone because he refuses to accept he was just a lab rat who got lucky and he must be special and superior. 

Bunny is just playing the Sims and literally does not understand morality. It's all kind of just a game to her and she could trash her universe and remake it with barely a thought.

The main thing that separates Bunny from Eon and Gatsby is that Eon and Gatsby used to be mortal and they still experience things the way mortals do, while Bunny is Not and has a vastly different worldview from everyone else. I could talk about Bunny a whole lot more which I Might do right after this post.

also i have some cool art of Bunny I'm going to post right this