Black Hole Instead of a Heart

I saw a giant humanoid character with no face and slightly dark skin (similar to a common artist’s poseable wooden figure, but buffer physique) that was biologically part-mountain; it had grass, soil and ecosystems around its body like armor around a human, cliffsides at the edges of its shoulder-blades, etc. the soil/eco-elements were somewhat fused with the body. It had a glowing cyan-blue symbol on the back of its head, I can’t remember what the symbol was so you should make up whatever you want.

Lastly, the most important part, was it had a black hole on its chest where its human heart would be. Tt’s visible from the back and front sides (going through the body) and there’s a thin but noticeable layer of air/empty space around the spherical black hole, making it appear to almost float in the body.

The setting is a planet exactly like earth but just different shaped continents, different than earth but same atmosphere etc.

a little more psychedelic fantasy elements with more colorful tribal races of humanoids and animals.

The human race is primitive but civilization has just started to storngly take hold. Hunters and gatherers collect resources for large base-camps to protect breeders. Societies get ambushed by animals, most real kinds of animals but some mystical (take whatever liberties you want there). There’s an old, true legend of one tribe whose defensive warriors caked themselves with soil, hard patched of ground and rocks to protect themselves when fending off threats.

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It became a popular story, spreading slowly to different continents, and more tribes start actually doing it, finding out it works okay compared to their usual cow-hide but not preferable.

There are rumors/rumblings of corpses of giants being spotted in deserted/uncharted landscapes by scavengers, but none confirmed or considered seriously.

one tribe’s old-wise woman on her deathbed re-tells the legend of the earth-wearers; people thought it was cute until she said one final part none of them had heard, about a mage (you can make up the mage’s name/identity my language has given this individual the name Urriiyah tan Nemanti (mountain-life given to many men)) who gave them a mark on their heads before they went to battle/scavenge/defend. no humans have ever heard of a person harnessing magic, they thought only animals could have it (in small amounts anyways, a phenomenon named in the First Tongue as rourjirak (beast-force)).

the tribesmen looked for and found the mage in a different tribe [You can change this part; it could be a rebirth/revival story and be coller. all you need is for a the group of tribesmen who knew the dying woman to meet the mage]. they plead the mage to tell them about the symbol but the mage (s/he/they) says they’ve tried to keep it a secret b/c they don’t know if magic is safe. the tribesmen say they will vow to help protect and ally with the mage’s tribe if the mage tells them. the mage accepts.

the mage tells them that s/he saw a pattern glowing on the backs of a certain boar species (you can change the animal if you want) that grew significantly when they ate, eating mostly stuff on the forest floor. not getting fat but actually growing. s/he tested it with other animals and accidentally found that it only worked if you used the blood of that animal to paint it. s/he offered to paint it on the humans with small amounts of their own blood from their fingers if they chose. they accepted. and that’s how the earth-wearers started. the earth-wearers’ bodies actually grew physically when they added soil and other stuff to their bodies, it merged with their bodies only slightly but more-so with the bigger they got. the earth-wearers grew fastest after defeating prey and feeding but only actually grew stronger when adding soil/plants/etc to their bodies.

the mage showed them a rock s/he keeps with them at all times with the symbol etched on it. s/he warns them that s/he hasn’t seen any of the original wearers since (speculating that they’re dead, which explains the dead giants in wastelands rumor from earlier).

the tribesmen are eager to try it out despite the mage’s warning and it works. the word about the symbol and its effects spreads like wildfire; agile scavengers and messengers are paid with food to go rush scraps of tree-bark that have the symbol scratched on them.

Earth-wearers are now a known part of global human society. about 3% of all humans, including some women, dare to take this lifestyle that is irreversible.

Earthwearers only survive if they protect humans and living things from other malicious beings. major predators are rightfully vilified and most harmless animals + humans are kept safe. the earthwearers that do their duty until the end of their natural human life-spans will have become way more earth than man, making them into mountans. This means that all mountains in this world are earth-wearers that are rewarded for their duties by living forever peacefully as mountains]].

on the other hand, the earthwearers that get mad with power and personally put their power over the well-being of others die. their nature-side’s ‘life-force’ is drawn from the wellbeing of humans and kind creatures, so if they stray from tribes, into the wastelands, in search of only defeating things and growing stronger, they die and turn into soil with no consciousness. pretty much a human’s death. (btw in this story there’s no explanation of any human afterlife, the mystery of that is eternal.

Character’s Story: There’s a person (sex/name/identity is all up to you) who is mystified and intrigued by the lives of earth-wearing titans, so they decide to dedicate their life to it after reaching adulthood. They do it and start slowly growing, following their duties. The rush of power is alluring, and they start thinking more and more of taking some time off to gain strength.

along their travels/time spent protecting people, our character finds the world’s second mage (later dubbed Kanyahdjit tan Mantikora, “death-pit given to one man’s heart,” or in other more worshipful texts as Shaht’sediyi tan Nemanti, “dark-sky-eye (star) given to many men”), practicing in secret. this mage is not responsible like the first one from long, long ago. it lives in seclusion as a scavenger, taking shelter in caves. the second mage has all different kinds of animal symbols painted on him/her but they’re frustrated that nothing works. one day they find a new symbol that does work. the symbol places a black hole that exists in the body of the organism, which allows the body to still work together as one but physically separate multiple parts of the body, making the user more adept at using those two/multiple things individually at the same time, multi-tasking. the second mage (who is still human but with a golem-esque vibe) used the symbol on themself and the black hole landed between their eyes, staying there permanently, separating the two eyes so he can look in two directions easily/see behind himself, etc. mage 2 = floating eyes w/ black hole 3rd eye, is a freakshow and can’t re-assimilate with society without prosecution/being feared etc.

our character meets mage 2 and the mage, deliriously fascinated with their discovery, convinces our character that also using this second symbol in conjunction with the first will make him invincible; his earth and human sides will be separated and he can grow his strength and size without fearing death (nature side being unfulfilled and hum side being subjected to death) or having to stop at the end of his lifespan by turning into a mountain.

our character was reluctant to be the first ever human with both symbols but ended up taking it because s/he liked the idea of immortality.

HOW DID IT TURN OUT? The deal was too good to be true; it promised immortality which ain’t real, fuck immortality.

our character grew huge. every time they grey, the black hole would grow a little bigger relative to their body, taking somewhat of a tax of the body mass. the character resumes questing and also begins going into the world alone to achieve ultimate size and strength. other people and earth-titans see him/her and are curious about the black hole but fear its effects. they understand what he says about its promised immortality but they see it consuming him and choose not to mix it with the earthwearing symbol.

our character lives about 1.5x the average lifespan of a regular earth titan, and grows so big they’re visible from space, but by the end of their life the black hole is so big it’s barely contained within our character’s chest.

the character saves one last tribe and hits their limit. their black hole now is so big (relative to them, despite them already being 1.5x the size of a normal earth titan) that it separates the top and bottom half of our character’s body, killing them. The separated remnants of the character’s body gets entirely sucked in the black hole as the character feels their consciousness fade and dies. the black hole just rises slowly into outer space, always existing but never to be seen again.