D'̦̱ṉ̗̞͇͔͕̣i̘̞̤e̳̘̫̜̺̘̜l̯̘͉̰̖̮ ̗G͈̟'͎̙̳̳̝̺̲e̹͕̻s̪̼̖͕̯͓͙l̞̙̲i͍͎̯͔͉̞nͅg̲͕

D A N

Now playing: "The Last Remnant - Dark Secrets"

Age:	N/A
Power Level:	XX
Location:	Unknown
Other information
Blood Type:	N/A
Likes:	Winning Big Brother, Kanye West, Mind Slavery
Dislikes:	Not knowing where to drop in Fortnite/PUBG

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You might be looking for Mort Prime or Smart Mort. This article is a TBA for now.

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D A N, D'̦̱ṉ̗̞͇͔͕̣i̘̞̤e̳̘̫̜̺̘̜l̯̘͉̰̖̮ ̗G͈̟'͎̙̳̳̝̺̲e̹͕̻s̪̼̖͕̯͓͙l̞̙̲i͍͎̯͔͉̞nͅg̲͕, also known as Morticus Khan is the cosmic form that ordinary human Dan Gheesling derived from. He is the shadow counterpart version of Mort from a universe dubbed the Mortiverse after Mort activated his Vermillion gene for the first time. He would become both a separate entity and exist within Mort, but after the events of the Lemurian Time War a piece of Mort would be sealed off and the entity who caused the war would enter Mort and seek to reactivate the gene from within. Before he was sealed away for unknown reasons he imbued his essence in a large number of artifacts derived from the Numogram. Not every artifact contains his influence, but a good portion of key artifacts carry his will. He operates as a “catalytic influence field” and "decision origin illusion engine", not a strategist. Within his influence field those who are under his control are unaware of his control, does not set goals, assign missions, coordinate people, and does not know the outcomes. Instead other beings encounter his influence and generate plans that feel self-authored. D A N does not present himself as controlling events; his influence is indirect and often not recognized by those affected. Individuals influenced by D A N often perceive their ideas as self-generated, even when their reasoning has been subtly shaped. He wins by not appearing to control anything as he uses social bonding, reading emotions, building trust, subtle persuasion, letting other people think ideas are theirs, all while avoiding looking powerful or controlling. He never forces decisions, makes people want to act a certain way, and plans outcomes that feel self-chosen to others. Within his the final encounter in his realm where he controls his vast army of "demon" lemurs, it becomes clear that he has convinced the other Mort instances to disregard their free will after seeing the illusion of choice. All of these individuals are lemurs who choose to become instances of himself for safety often believing that a higher will can guide them to victory. His influence produces multiple independent instances across universes; those instances interact with structured social systems and may succeed or fail locally, generating recurring patterns of strategic behavior. He was at one point one of the most feared enemies, but others who worked with Mort such as Bean Khan eventually kicked his ass in what became the Bean Battles.

While his main form won both Big Brother X and Big Brother XIV, he has created clusters of high-probability victory timelines within every game. Dan Gheesling variants in different universes are fully operational individuals that can succeed or fail. Using this logic, D A N does not guarantee outcomes, but he consistently generates high-probability victory configurations within competitive social systems like Big Brother across many parallel instances, both through direct participation and indirect influence. Other Big Brothers that seemed to be won by other human versions of Dan Gheesling s were not. Observers may interpret outcomes differently depending on their perspective, and some will naturally attribute patterns of success or failure to D A N’s influence, even when no direct control can be confirmed. Decision-making within D A N’s influence field remains functionally free, but the formation of preferences and perceived optimal choices becomes statistically biased toward certain outcomes. Across large-scale systems, D A N’s influence can produce the appearance that choices are fully self-generated, even though underlying probability pathways are subtly shaped toward coherent outcome clusters. D A N has influenced a vast number of decision systems across many contexts, though his effectiveness fluctuates depending on environmental structure, resistance, and competing influences. He has influenced large numbers of participants across systems like Big Brother, producing repeated successes in some instances, though outcomes are not guaranteed.

He did this while being an ancient divine spark within the Pleroma learning trillions of years reading others using extreme social engineering techniques he learnt while planning the existence of one of his other selfs that worked during his time as a Nazi Psychologist working under Hitler to help him enthrall the German population. After Hitler's death, D A N socially engineered his way out of the Nuremberg Trials being granted amnesty worldwide and then participating in and winning both Big Brothers before getting contained again to be replaced with another more normie Dan Gheesling who was simply a human plant by F.E.E.T. to cover up the D A N instances. Dan Mandal had been unaware of him while he was plotting to take over the Freaky Society for himself using his large number of pawns who never met him. There are a wide variety of key pawns in his own game of Big Brother that he created for Mort.

The battlefield within the Mortiverse where he operated wasn’t a place so much as a collapsing overlap of realities, half playground logic, half fractured probability space. D A N who was also Morticus Khan’s presence wasn’t visible at first, it was felt as a quiet pressure, like every decision already had a slightly preferred answer before Mort even thought it. Morticus Khan didn’t attack in the traditional sense. Instead, thoughts began to form inside Mort’s awareness that felt suspiciously like his own: “go left,” “trust that path,” “this version of events is safer.” Entire branches of reality bent toward those conclusions, as if the universe was gently persuading Mort to cooperate. In other timelines, Mort would have followed those impulses without question. But here, something didn’t stick. Mort paused in the middle of a shifting corridor of outcomes, blinking at the feeling that none of the options were actually his, and simply refused to choose any of them. That refusal caused a small but noticeable instability like a rhythm breaking in a song that relied on repetition. Morticus Khan acted as Mort's darker shadow, the manifestation of himself that saught to conquer ruthlessly and destroy free will for the greater good.