Psychoramus thoracica 🫁 Thoughtcage Bloom
🔬 Scientific Name: Psychoramus thoracica
🫁 Common Name: The Mindrake, or Thoughtcage Bloom
🌿 Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Necrosemiotales
Family: Thamnocostales
Genus: Psychoramus
Species: thoracica
🧬 Morphology:
An upright, spiraled stalk of pale osteo-filament terminates in a fully articulated ribcage bloom, resembling a hollowed human thorax — slightly oversized, stylized, and asymmetrically blooming. Each rib is adorned with fine glyph-bark, etched with mnemonic residue in sigilic clusters. At the heart of the cage pulses a soft, translucent marrow-vault: a sac containing low-density neural matter harvested from departed hosts via mnemonic inversion. Thin cords of vascular glyph-root link the cage to its base.
🧴 Osteofusion:
Anchors to limestone or cryptbone, rarely fusing to living hosts. However, those who touch the ribcage bloom report intrusive memories, partial thought-loops, or the voice of someone they once wronged. In rare cases, the plant permanently adopts fragments of nearby cognition, encoding them into rib-striation glyphs.
🧠 Traits:
- Each rib carries a different psyche-fragment, recovered from marrow glyph decay
- Emits low vocal murmurs when nearby individuals experience guilt or loss
- The marrow-vault at center softly pulses in time with ambient emotional tension
- Glyphs slowly reorganize into new names over decades
📍 Habitat:
Planted deliberately in ossogardens designated for cognitive storage. Grows best atop sealed catatonic internment pits or at the head of forgotten philosopher crypts. Often protected by osteoglyph barriers to prevent unauthorized resonance.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
G7-P — Psychic entanglement hazard. Subjects with unresolved mnemonic trauma may experience recursive echoing or glyphic imprint scars.
📝 Notes:
- “The ribcage was breathing. But not for itself.”
- “I saw my childhood guilt coiled on the third rib from the left. It blinked at me.”
- “We no longer archive books. We archive bone that remembers the page.”