"Artemisia has a special place in me, and I in her. As a result, she has a special kind of persistence. It's been a while since I entombed my original self in her. In spite of my assurances of having extracted what I can of the original soul, she had lingering doubts. We... had doubts that I was still myself. In an effort to assuage both our doubts, she's convinced me to re-integrate that body I consigned to her with my still scarred, but undoubtedly healed original, seed soul. At first I feared some nightmare being birthed by such a reunion, but those times she's engaged me in my own mindscape, she's done what I thought impossible. I was ready to write off all traces of the original, yet she held onto it more than I ever could. After all, why should I if I had many more bodies, many more, replacements I can give her? We resolved to try and build a better me, and to my surprise, we managed with the revival of the original, the zeroeth iteration of me."

"Isolated biomass, reunited with the soul once torn from it, entombed in its prison, the stone that calcified the Retryvyst gave rise to a cocoon. I emerge soon enough as a privileged queen. A double function unit, both a conduit and a node of my own will. I can keep calling it the original, but as I stewed and reintegrated within that cocoon, I was dreaming up of new nicknames to call the body that started it all. So borne from "Iteration Zero" was "Zero", or "Io". The throughput through my new form was expectedly too strong, so I cast it off deep into the void, as with other nodes of my command. At least now, we have closure, and at least now I can move on. Funnily enough I found myself attempting to morph a facsimile of that form around Artemisia, but somehow I can't bring myself to complete it, as brining up the form brings about all the sins I've done, more so as my original soul tries to conjure it. Most often, the so-called "Zero Queen" sits dormant on her throne, while its soul just as before stays close to Artemisia as I intend. Seems the catgirl form is the one she'll be with, but then, this was what she wanted the whole time. A return to normalcy as she continues to mend my soul."

"Io comes equipped with what a Daemon Queen comes with, power and ability wise. Much like a node however, at least two Daemon Queens need to be its conduits and guards. Just like the Daemon Queens, Io can be summoned on a whim. Given how tied the form is to my seed soul, it's very possible for me to manifest it at moments of extreme distress. Thankfully those same moments of distress are incredibly seldom, more so with what surrounds the seed soul." - Terlynn

Been itching to get this out. A mix of Warframe and Crymachina brought this new Terry form about.