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the-family-fortune · 3 years

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The Revised History of the Galochios, the Aquatos, and the Curse.

Generations ago, the Galochios and Aquatos performed in the same circus - fortune tellers and acrobats. The Aquatos, with their unique water-acrobatic skills, had been the kings of the circus world for as long as anyone can remember. The number two family in the circus was the fortune-telling and mystical Galochios. The Galochios hated the Aquatos because they were jealous of the way the Aquatos always stole the spotlight with their high action, splashy tricks. The Galochios’ skills were of the thoughtful, quiet sort. Most of the action took place inside their minds, so they were no match for the Aquatos when it came to stealing the spotlight.

The Aquatos did not like the Galochios because they felt their powers were unnatural, and possibly from dark sources. It was an unfair prejudice, but it was about to become more true. There was much bad blood between the two performing families. So of course, when Lazarus fell in love with the young, beautiful Marona Galochio the two families did everything they could to keep them apart.

But Marona and Lazarus kept meeting in secret. Marona got pregnant, and was ostracized by her family. After the Aquatos took her in, however, the Galochios wanted her back. She refused. They began a long-distance mental torture of Marona, to try to manipulate her into returning to her family. The psychic pressure was unbearable, but she refused to leave Lazarus. It made her weaker and weaker, and in a ditch effort, the Aquatos moved their act to a different circus and hid themselves from the Galochios with the cornicello, obscuring them from the Galochios’ third eye. Marona stopped using her powers, to protect her family, and urged Augustus to do the same.

Lucrecia, much like her sister, defected years earlier from the family upon marriage to Gelsin Mux, and after his death left Grulovia to be free of the Galochios and to pursue a nobler career with the Psychonauts, where she took part in psychic experimentation that weakened her natural defenses; but upon returning to Grulovia - to protect her family during the war - had her mind changed via mental connection.

Zalto, a renowed psychic performer in Grulovia at the time, was contracted by the Royal house to “change the mind” of an military official in the war who wasn’t up to snuff. The Gzar wanted her to take heavier military action with her hydrokinesis in order to win the Grulovian war, but his Minister of War didn’t want to unleash a deluge.

When Zalto arrived at the palace and found it was his daughter Lucrecia in the role of Minister of War, he tried to convince her to give in to Theodore’s demands. When she refused, he used mental connection on her to make her comply and preserve the Galochio name. He figured that if he could convince Lucrecia to do this, the war would be over and she could return home - to the Galochios - too ashamed of her deeds in Grulovia to return to the Psychonauts. Despite his status, he was out of his depth and accidentally broke Lucrecia, creating Maligula in the process.

As the Grulovian wars raged on, now spearheaded by Maligula, Marona and Lazarus started taking in children who had lost their parents to the riots and violence that plagued the streets. All of these children were brought under the Aquato family’s wing, and Augustus was raised among them as if he were just another child, but he knew he was different. He knew he had inherited some of the mental powers from his mother, but the Galochios were such villains in the Aquato family, he saw these powers as shameful, dark secrets. He trained instead to be an acrobat like his father Lazarus, and all of his adopted brothers and sisters.

Lazarus and his children became world famous from their extravagant and dangerous aquatic acrobatic stunts. His oldest daughter, Camidalia Aquato, would perform synchronized swimming with alligators. His son Raffio would high dive into a large bucket of water. But then one by one, the Aquato family died mysteriously.

It all started when Lazarus was performing a large, outdoor cannon stunt. The trick was to blast him self out of a cannon, and fly over a large tank filled with deadly sharks, piranhas and poison jellyfish. This was a routine trick for Lazarus. As he prepared for his flight, he was being watched by the bitter and twisted fortune teller, Zalto Galochio, Marona’s father and patriarch of the Galochio family. Though it had been his own fault, he blamed the Aquatos for the “loss” of two of his three his daughters - the final being Ornella, who remained dutifully with the family.

Right before Lazarus’s cannon fired, Zalto focused all his telekinetic energy on the wheel of the cannon. He managed to pull it off, sending the cannon crashing to its side, where it fired Lazarus straight into the side of the tank. Lazarus got his head lodged in the tank wall. Inside the tank, just his head poked through like a tasty shark snack.

The Galochios were delighted and gathered around to watch Lazarus’ immanent decapitation. Lazarus twitched and flailed and struggled to free himself. Cracks began to appear in the glass around his neck. The Galochios stopped laughing when they realized the tank was going to rupture and spill its contents down on top of them. But it was too late. Lazarus popped his head out, shattering the tank wall. Glass, water, sharks, piranhas, poisonous jellyfish, and Lazarus Aquato flooded down upon them. Soon the water ran red with the blood of the psychic family. It was a terrible bloodbath, and most of the Galochios perished. Only a few survived, including Zalto, now missing one leg from the knee down. And, of course, Lazarus.

Zalto went insane with rage. He drew upon the mental connection he still held with his estranged daughter, Lucrecia, to tap into her hydrokinetic powers, and unleashed a powerful curse on the entire Aquato clan. They were all cursed to leave the big top forever, or die in their own water stunts just as his family had done.

The Aquatos were a proud family, and they also had no idea what else to do. The show must go on, and so they kept performing. Within a year, Lazarus’s children were all dead, all during their performances, and all in water, the final nail in the Aquato family coffin being Lazarus and Marona’s involvement in the Varlemo Dam disaster in Grulovia. Only Augustus survived.

Ford Cruller, having defeated Maligula shortly after Augustus’ placement in an orphanage, took Lucrecia and implanted memories of the Aquato family after sealing away the malignant entity that had made its home in Lucrecia’s mind after the botched Mental Connection. He gave both Lucrecia and Augustus new memories that convinced both that they were the sole survivors of the Aquato family. And thanks to Ford, Lucrecia - now believing herself to be Marona - shared this fear of water that plagued her family, not knowing that she herself is the cause of it.

#BY GOD IVE DONE IT #i think #might tweak this just a little but this is the gist of it #Psy2 spoilers

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the-family-fortune · 5 years

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Galochio Family History: Their Twisted Lie About the Aquatos.

The Aquatos, with their unique water-acrobatic skills, had been the kings of the circus world for as long as anyone can remember. The number two family in the circus was the fortune-telling and mystical Galochios. Their skills were thoughtful quiet: the skills of a psychic.

The Aquatos did not like the Galochios because they felt their powers were unnatural, and possibly from dark sources. They were deeply jealous of the Galochios, who they felt did not deserve the prestige of their name because of their unnatural abilities.

So of course, when Lazarus Aquato fell in love with the young, beautiful Marona Galochio the two families did everything they could to keep them apart. The Galochios knew that the prejudice and hatred of the Aquatos was only going to lead to tragedy for Marona.

But Marona and Lazarus kept meeting in secret. Marona got pregnant, and the Aquatos bombarded her with guilt and manipulated her into leaving her family, because it would be cruel of her to take the baby away from Lazarus by returning to the Galochios. When her family tried to bring her home, she refused.

They reasoned and pleaded with her, but the Aquatos had a vice grip on Marona. She refused to leave Lazarus, even though the Aquatos had done nothing but guilt her for getting pregnant, and convince her that staying with Lazarus was her only option.

The manipulation took a terrible emotional toll on her and the Galochios begged her to come home as she became more and more ill throughout her pregnancy. She still refused, and the abuse from the Aquatos made her weaker and weaker, and left her without the strength to survive childbirth. She died as her son, Augustus Aquato, was born, and the Galochio’s hatred of the Aquatos was cemented forever.

Years later, Lazarus married a nice, non-psychic woman and had seven more children. Augustus was raised among them as if he were just another child, his father hiding his psychic heritage from him in hopes of keeping him from becoming a psychic like his mother. Augustus knew he had inherited some of the mental powers from his mother, but the Aquatos were so prejudiced against the evil powers of psychics, that he saw these powers as shameful secrets. He trained instead to be an acrobat like his father Lazarus, and all of his half-brothers and sisters.

The feud between the two families came to a terrible conclusion when Lazarus was performing a large, outdoor cannon stunt. The trick was to blast him self out of a cannon, and fly over a large tank filled with deadly sharks, piranhas and poison jellyfish. This was a routine trick for Lazarus. As he prepared for his flight, he was being watched by Galochio family, including Zalto Galochio, Marona’s father and patriarch of the family. Despite the Aquatos’ hatred of psychics, the Galochio family tried desperately to watch over the young Augustus, knowing that his psychic abilities wouldn’t be suppressed no matter how hard Lazarus tried.

In a terrible accident, Lazarus’ canon misfired, the wheel buckling and sending the cannon crashing to its side, where it fired Lazarus straight into the side of the tank. Lazarus got his head lodged in the tank wall.

The Galochio’s watched in horror as Lazarus twitched and flailed and struggled to free himself. Cracks began to appear in the glass around his neck. They realized the tank was going to rupture and spill its contents down on top of them. But it was too late. Lazarus popped his head out, shattering the tank wall. Glass, water, sharks, piranhas, poisonous jellyfish, and Lazarus Aquato flooded down upon them. Soon the water ran red with the blood of the psychic family. It was a terrible bloodbath, and most of the Galochio’s perished. Only a few survived, including Zalto, now missing one leg from the knee down. And, of course, Lazarus.

The moment that Lazarus realized that the Galochios had been there, he blamed the psychic family and claimed that they had caused this tragedy, despite most of them having died in the accident.

Marona was dead, as were most of his children and brothers and sisters, so few survivors that the Galochio family had been all but slaughtered. Horrified and grieving, Zalto went insane with rage. He unleashed a powerful curse on the entire Aquato clan. They were all cursed to leave the big top forever, or die in the water just as his family had done.

The True History Below the Cut:

The Galochios hated the Aquatos because they were jealous of the way the Aquatos always stole the spotlight with their high action, splashy tricks. The Galochios’ skills were thoughtful quiet. Most of the action took place inside their minds, so they were no match for the Aquatos when it came to stealing the spotlight.

But Marona and Lazarus kept meeting in secret. Marona got pregnant, and they began a long-distance mental torture of Marona, to try to manipulate her into returning to her family. The psychic pressure was unbearable, but she refused to leave Lazarus. It made her weaker and weaker, and left her without the strength to survive childbirth. She died as her son, Augustus Aquato, was born. Lazarus’ hatred of the Galochios was cemented forever.

Years later, Lazarus and his 8 children (Augustus and 7 half- brothers and sisters) became world famous from their extravagant and dangerous aquatic acrobatic stunts.

It all started when Lazarus was performing a large, outdoor cannon stunt. As he prepared for his flight, he was being watched by the bitter and twisted fortune teller, Zalto Galochio, Marona’s father and patriarch of the Galochio family. Though it had been his own fault, he blamed the Aquatos for Marona’s death.

The Galochio’s were delighted and gathered around to watch Lazarus’ immanent decapitation. The Galochio’s stopped laughing when they realized the tank was going to rupture and spill its contents down on top of them. But it was too late. Lazarus popped his head out, shattering the tank wall. Only a few Galochios survived, including Zalto. And, of course, Lazarus.

Zalto went insane with rage. He unleashed a powerful curse on the entire Aquato clan. They were all cursed to leave the big top forever, or die in their own water stunts just as his family had done.

His oldest daughter, Camidalia Aquato, would perform synchronized swimming with alligators. His son Raffio would high dive into a large bucket of water. But then one by one, the Aquato family died mysteriously. All during performances, and all in water. Augustus Aquato watched his family die one by one, until he was the only one left. He escaped the circus and escaped the curse because of his Galochio blood, and went on to abandon the water acrobatics forever, protecting himself and his family.

#Below the cut is an abridged version of the above text with corrections for the actual story between the families #this is lifted from the reference document but none of this is guaranteed actual canon #just canon on THIS blog #Lore

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