First appearance: S4E10 — Rivals — Nonamatt v Decima · watch it on YouTube
Decima was a tall, swaggering minotaur champion who entered the Void to fight their twin, Nonamatt, in S4E10 — Rivals — Nonamatt v Decima. Grief over the death of their older brother Morta drove them. They meant to stop Nonamatt from killing the God of Fate so that they could take that throne themself and undo Morta’s death. Along the way they became the first champion ever to consume The Box of Chaos. Their story ended with an act of surrender that left the Grandmaster in tears.
Story
Decima strode through the Grandmaster’s portal into The Dread Fortress on Taco Tuesday, which happened to be a Sunday, with their shoulders back, their chest out and a greataxe slung over one shoulder. The axe’s filigree mirrored the patterns on their twin’s staff. While the nervous Nonamatt asked whether they were in the right place, Decima had only a smirk for the room: “Are you ready to die?” They kept their eyes locked on their twin and offered one last chance to walk away. They also won over The Acolytes early. After wolfing down two vegan tacos squashed together in one hand, they shoved a whole tray into the stands, and the crowd chanted “Decima for president! Give the people what they want!” On the walk to the arena, having watched the Grandmaster and The Shadow King squabble, Decima leaned in and whispered to Nonamatt: “I thought we had family drama.”
The fight took place in a glowing lavender-and-teal forest of fluffy trees. Decima moved first and laid out their purpose: “I can’t let you kill the God of Fate, okay? I need to be the God of Fate myself.” Their signature trick was cruel and intimate. Instead of summoning an echo of themself, they called up a ghostly echo of their dead brother Morta. The echo reached out to take Nonamatt’s hand, and Nonamatt took it and felt warmth, until Decima sent a withering curse through Morta’s fingers. Nonamatt blasted the echo apart and filled the ground with ball bearings. Decima charged straight through them, slipped, and landed sprawled beside the Box of Chaos, their axe catching a handle and prying the lid further open. When shadowy fingers crept out and asked if this was for them, Decima told the Box they had something better in mind: “I would like to shove Nonna in the box.” What followed was a brutal stretch of being pummelled by animated ball bearings, each blow accompanied by Nonamatt apologizing. Then a mind whip struck Decima, carrying the memory of Morta as he truly was in life. Its sting reached them in a way the bearings never had.
With the Acolytes’ favor behind them, Decima made their bid for godhood. “I am going to fix the mistake. Morta wasn’t supposed to die,” they declared, and they took a running leap into the Box of Chaos, pulling the lid shut with their axe. Inside, a legion of yellow-eyed souls asked what they wanted. “I am your god now. Fight for me. Kill my twin in my name.” The souls swirled into a yellow tornado and poured into Decima’s mouth and eyes, and the Box went dormant. Decima emerged healed, armored in shadow, eyes burning solid yellow. The soul of Lady Magdala, the Acolyte the Shadow King had picked up by the head and swung around like a chicken until her neck broke before throwing her body into the Box earlier that night, circled their head like a circlet. They spun the shadows into threads “like the threads of fate itself,” raged “for Morta,” and later hooked their axe around the horns of Nonamatt’s shadowy echo and flung it, along with his spectral hand, at their twin’s feet. Then they ran up the giant spectral hand and leapt at their twin. The hand caught them and held them. A second mind whip, made of every memory of Morta smiling at them and scolding them for fighting, stripped the stolen souls from Decima one lash at a time.
Cornered and losing their power, Decima stopped fighting. They held out the greataxe and challenged Nonamatt: if no one should control fate, wasn’t killing them deciding someone’s fate? Then they threw the axe at their twin’s feet. “Then kill me. Prove to me that you want this, that you’re right… Be brave for once.” When Nonamatt struck them down, Decima did not resist. They fell to their knees with their mossy green hair across their face, looked up with a genuine smile, and spoke their last words:
“Don’t be sorry. Morta would be proud.”
The shadows fell away, leaving just Decima. Nonamatt cradled their head and sang a childhood song Morta used to sing to them. After the Grandmaster saved Nonamatt from being eaten in a giant tortilla, Nonamatt carried Decima’s body home through her portal for a proper burial.
Personality and Abilities
Decima looked much like their twin: a tall minotaur with a humanoid face, large bull horns, bull ears, a septum piercing and mossy green hair worn half up, half down. They carried themself with brash confidence, smirked often, and had a playful streak. They bit into a taco before throwing it at the Shadow King, and claimed they would have eaten the cursed hot potato and let it explode inside them rather than disrespect the Grandmaster. Under the bravado was raw grief. Decima said they were “done talking when Morta died.” When they finally dropped the act, they admitted that the real problem was that Morta was gone.
In battle Decima was a raging axe-fighter who moved fast and hit hard. They could summon a ghostly echo that fought alongside them, and in this fight it always wore Morta’s face and later carried a phantom copy of their axe. They could also send a withering curse through a touch. After consuming the Box of Chaos they briefly commanded its souls, wearing them as a shield, wreathing their weapon in them and sending them against their twin. In their final thoughts after the match, Decima’s creed came through clearly: if you believe in something strongly enough, you should go all the way with it. “No half-assing your beliefs or your values.”
Relationships
- Nonamatt: Decima’s twin, whom they loved and fought on opposite sides of an argument about fate. Decima pushed Nonamatt to finally act, and Nonamatt killed them.
- Morta: Decima’s late older brother. His death drove Decima’s quest, and they summoned his image to fight for them.
- The Box of Chaos: Decima consumed it and its souls, leaving it dormant, then lost those souls under Nonamatt’s memories.
- The Acolytes: won their cheers with a tray of tacos, and later took the souls of their sacrificed kin as a shield.
- The Shadow King: caught a greasy taco in the chest from Decima mid-fight, and answered with a yellow-eyed glare that sent a chill down their spine.
- Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer: asked the twins to show the crowd what sibling rivalry really looked like, and wept at its end.
Memorable Quotes
- “Are you ready to die?” (S4E10)
- “I’m done talking. I was done talking when Morta died.” (S4E10)
- “I am your god now. Fight for me. Kill my twin in my name.” (S4E10)
- “Sibling, I decide your fate from now on, so get used to it.” (S4E10)
- “You’ve always believed in the good of everything, in the good of people. But you’ve always been afraid of acting on it. Consider this your final test then. Act on it.” (S4E10)
- “Don’t be sorry. Morta would be proud.” (S4E10)