Amoris ossovellea 💍 : The Vowblush
🔬 Scientific Name: Amoris ossovellea
💍 Common Name: The Vowblush, or Marrowlace Bloom
🌿 Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Florimortales
Family: Cordiolacrimaceae
Genus: Amoris
Species: ossovellea
🧬 Morphology:
A delicate, fan-shaped ossobloom with translucent petal-flanges layered like lace-cut cartilage. Each bloom contains fine capillary filaments of marrow-gel that pulse when two subjects speak their names aloud to each other. The stem is fibrous white bone, braided with twin-thread vascular lines — one for each speaker. Petals range from flushed coral to ivory ash, with radiating glyphs visible only in shared memory.
🧴 Osteofusion:
Does not fuse aggressively. Instead, it bonds mutually to the palmar phalanges of two hosts who press their hands together while touching the bloom. Once affixed, it slowly roots to both skeletons through voluntary breath alignment. The fusion forms a soft lattice between them — not restrictive, but unbreakable without spoken renunciation.
🧠 Traits:
- Blooms only in mutual recognition
- Petals glow faintly when names are whispered together
- Carries no scent — only memory projection
- When one bearer dies, the bloom turns bone-white and emits a single tone only the other can hear
📍 Habitat:
Grown within ossogardens set aside for marrow vows. Frequently displayed in mausoleum chambers, between ossuary benches where lovers once met to share glyph-breath and marrowtouch. Also used in commemorative placements for mutual interment.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
G3-E — Emotionally persistent fusion; psychic rupture possible if one bearer attempts mnemonic severance post-bloom.
📝 Notes:
- “When she touched it, the petals opened in her color. When I did, it opened in mine.”
- “We didn’t say ‘yes’. We exhaled together — and it rooted.”
- “Even now, it pulses. Even though she’s gone.”