At the risk of telling all...

[evillurks]

I've given my characters a healthy dose of Veritaserum and now they have to tell the truth. None of them are likely to be terribly happy about this, at all. They all guard their secrets closely. What does this mean for you? Ask my characters questions about anything and everything and they will truthfully answer it. So, go ahead and ask what you want. They can't beat around the bush with half-truths.

This applies to any and all of my characters:
evillurks
name_of_thorn
janitor_thorn
a_crumrin
Any others you can think of that are no longer active, as well... Replies will be slow.

Comments

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

So, uh...what does The Shadow think of Metody?

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

Metody truly does, in a number of ways, remind The Shadow of Harry Vincent. It's the sheer undeniably likeable quality, and the way he's friendly to utterly everyone. The Shadow can't quite understand how someone can maintain that sort of personality, but he respects and values it as something he's incapable of himself.
The inhuman aspect of Metody is something that interests him, but at the same time it's somewhat confusing and he senses it would be tactless to ask too much about it directly. He hopes to better comprehend it over time, watching and waiting and gathering clues from seeing how Metody does his bonework.
He also finds what he can do terribly useful, on a purely practical level, and he's not above exploiting that.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Part of the friendliness is natural personality, and part of it is lingering brain damage - but he's slowly recovering from that.

As for being useful, Metody would wheedle his way into replacing the skeleton of everyone around him if he could get away with it. It's such a relief to actually use his powers.

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

Brain damage? I had no idea... what's the story there?

That was a terrible experience, but The Shadow's grateful for it. He's happy to put Metody's powers to use, but I don't think Harry Vincent could stand that kind of full skeletal replacement, at least not in one go. What Metody's doing now will probably drive his blood pressure sky-high for a few days.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

When he was seventeen, he was in a car crash that crushed the front of his skull. It effectively lobotomized him and destroyed his human mind - but he's not really human, and so he's been growing a mind out of his bones ever since. It's left him pretty child like in some regards, though he's starting to get over that. A little.

Fortunatly for him, in his world, adopted kids get a major boost to healing, which is what his recovery has been ascribed to. He's actually been written up in a few medical journals as a superlative example of adopted healing, since several of his bones have healed so very well you wouldn't know they'd ever been broken to look at the X-rays.

And poor Harry! Metody had no idea it'd be so painful for him!

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

Ahhh... I truly had no idea, but that's interesting. I can see where that would further the divide between him and his humanity, if he's grown something else in its place.
You have such fascinating ideas...

Ah well, he'll survive. He just doesn't have the pain threshold or meditative focus of The Shadow, and you'd implied it's extremely painful for ordinary people.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Metody is under the impression that his mind has come back as part of really good adoptive healing - he hasn't quite made the connection between being inhuman and healing up in an inhuman sort of way. He also has no idea of what he is, since things like him are stunningly uncommon and usually assumed to be witchkin.

He'll figure out he's not a witchkin eventually. In about ten or twenty years, when he hasn't gone crazy and killed everything around him.

And...yeah. Everything I've heard of involving bones and healing has said it's astonishingly painful. Bones are pretty sensitive, in their own way.

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

Now you're going to have to explain witchkin, I'm afraid, but I'm beginning to get a bit of a sense from context. He's anticipating that he's a walking time bomb, I take it?

it's been a very long time since I broke anything, but yes. I had fully intended for The Shadow's coping with the process to be an exceptional feat, but I can see that Metody may only just now be realizing that.

[metody-green.livejournal.com]

Ack, this is the problem with making things up yourself.

A witchkin is a monster born from humans. It starts off like any other person, but slowly develop monstrous abilities and traits. Generally, they construct things - little animated rag dolls, creatures made of twine and wood, balls of drifting light, things like that. They might start off relatively harmless, maybe even helpful, but they become more and more dangerous as they go along and their powers become stronger and stronger. Eventually, they start altering animals and then people around them, always in very strange, grotesque ways that don't always kill. They're kind of like serial killers, except magical and much more likely to fill your chest cavity with moths and glass.

They always, always go insane, without exception. Those that aren't put down right away become stranger and stranger. Some fade away, some become local monsters. The only good thing about them becoming monsters is that you can construct wards against monsters, but not humans.

So...you can see why Metody, with his horde of constructed bone creatures, is a little worried. He's got a lovely suicide plan worked out for when he finally does start to go crazy. It involves a PIN and the sun.

[evillurks.livejournal.com]

I think this is partly why I've left Thorn's world historically accurate, by and large. It's less details to worry over.

Poor boy, what a terrible way to live, waiting to go inevitably and incurably mad. The Shadow would certainly begin prodding at and analyzing Metody's situation if he were aware of that aspect. He's too useful to let go, and the experience with Khan has left him leery of the idea of becoming a monster, albeit in a less literal sense.