Hush now...
Dreamless sleep follows the Nowhere King...
When his kingdom comes, darkness is nigh...
Don't let the cutesy appearances fool you, Centaurworld is not a safe place to live... open/close all folders
General
- Any time the Nowhere King's song is sung. First when it's sung by the flowers of the Lost Forest in "What You Need", then the song's lyrics are ominously chanted by Johnny Teatime's cattaur followers in "Jonny Teatime's Be Best Competition: A Quest for the Sash", and finally its appearance in "The Rift, Part 1" when Rider and Horse finally meet the King in person. The final lyrics are especially terrifying:You will bring
Joy to the Nowhere King
When he sees the light
Leaving your eyes - For that matter, the Nowhere King himself. A mixture of what appears to be a deer of some kind and a wasp, mostly composed of sticky, black sludge except for his antlered skull. Aside from his appearance, there is obviously something just wrong with him, as when he first appears he vomits up more of the black goo, and it's implied that he wasn't always like this.
Season 1
- The Taurnado is creepy as hell. It's a sentient centaur-shaped tornado that, rather than being a mindless force of nature, actively pursues anyone nearby in an effort to make them a part of its Mind Hive. When Glendale is about to be sucked in, she goes from panicking and speaking in her normal croaky voice to spreading her arms and legs in acceptance as she's swept up, singing in a much more beautiful voice, completely under its spell.Now I am yours
I will live up in the sky
Forevermore - The flashback dream that Horse has, of Wammawink losing her home, herd and purpose when he was a foal. It shows the trees on fire, and every living thing dead.
- The Collector Beartaur. At first he seems to be a mindless beast yelling the centaurs out of his home. Then he captures Horse who pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to help the others run for their lives, and talks about how he can finally add her to his collection. The Beartaur has the appropriate sealant for the occasion...
- Johnny Teatime is pretty scary and when he lets Horse take the key he wants them about the Nowhere King. That isn't the scary part though, his subjects start singing ominously to the point it comes off like their under a spell and one stalks closer to Horse, his eyes seeming empty and lifeless before they vanish. What are these cats on?!
- The fact that Horse is so depressed and alone from her owner to the point she realizes she might've forgotten Rider's face and is driven to suicide and letting herself be eaten by a whale! The looks on her friends faces don't help take away the horror.
Season 2
- Ched's reaction upon seeing Maliandrew again shows how deeply he was traumatized by the Horsetaurs.Ched: Demon... Demon...
- The moment The Nowhere King devours a goon just for being the last person to exit...
- It's worse than that. He specifically stops that minion and orders them to stay. He either devoured them completely on a whim, or it's necessary for him to devour living creatures in order to keep himself alive.
- Becky Apples. "That is no one's horse", indeed. Her supposed owner keeps an (estimated) kill count on her saddle.
- The General revealing his true colors in the second season finale. First by attempting to drown the Elk when he threatens to expose their origin as a single entity to the Woman. It's supremely cold-blooded and only stops when the General begins choking up water as well, showing that whatever happens to one will happen to the other. So the General instead locks the Elk in a windowless, darkened cell too small for him to stand in. For ten years.
- The gradual transformation of the Elk into the Nowhere King. Being unable to fit in anywhere he decides to make his own "family" by fusing humans with animals to create the Minotaurs. We see as each fusion he triggers causes the radiation of the rift key he uses to corrupt him, emitting black ooze from his body, turning his eyes a glowing green, and eventually causing the flesh to fall from his skull.
- The General stabbing Rider through the back with his sword when she attempts to kill the Nowhere King, literally impaling her. Both the violence of the act itself and the emotional pain of Rider being betrayed by someone she viewed as a mentor, is disturbing. The only thing that softens the blow is that Rider survives.
- When the General is kicked from the cliff, the Nowhere King lets out a massive roar where he vomits black smoke into the sky before rushing down after him. It seems strange and random... until you realize the two are connected, and whatever happens to one happens to the other. Whatever that roar was meant to represent, it certainly wasn't something a human body was meant to survive.
