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Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« on: December 20, 2020, 02:26:16 AM »




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Re: Aldous Hargreaves : : Reincarnation
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2020, 08:55:09 PM »



☠ Awaken ☠
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Re: Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2021, 03:01:19 AM »
My name is Aldous Hargreaves, but that is incorrect.

My name does not belong to me, it was given as pitiful charity.

In fact, nothing I possess truly belongs to me. My clothes, my jewels, my coin, all borrowed from those who pay my wage.

My reputation, stolen from those who need my word to bolster there own, easily discarded when it has no more weight.

Even my flesh, borrowed nourishment from food I did not grow, food I did not pay for.

There is nothing that is truly mine, so who am I.


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Re: Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2021, 10:04:34 PM »
Every aspect of myself is a lie.

I do not remember the last time I spoke in my own voice. The last time I truly spoke to another.

I have traded away my voice for one that will give me what I want. Sold it to the beast.

Even in my mind now I put on a lilt of upper class, a derisive stranger who speaks inside my head.

Sometimes I wake up at night, I cannot remember my name, or where I am, and I panic until it returns and I must align the thousand lies in my head.

I try to speak in my true voice and all that escapes is a beastial howl.

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Re: Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2021, 01:56:48 AM »
All I wish to do, is remove my mask

But today is not the day



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Re: Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2021, 12:12:43 AM »
I claimed one

I told myself it would only be one, solely to satisfy the desires of my employers.

This was another lie, it filled a hunger inside I never knew I had. Now I wait, the hunger gnawing inside.

I do my best to ignore it, but it is ignoring water in a drought, food in a famine.

Needs must.

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Re: Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2021, 11:28:51 PM »
I claimed another

It was simply work, simply for the cause, at least that is what I told them.

How hard it was to pretend not to starve for the kill, pretend like it mattered little to me.

So strange how little it filled my desire, the first left me satiated, content.

This was not so, even in death they provided little use.

But at least I shall keep something this time.


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Re: Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2021, 08:26:11 PM »
They buried me.

My name, my body, my uniform.

An unwise choice, the dead may sleep but they never forget.

Blood, Respect, Honor, these things transcend the grave.

One more for the pile.


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Re: Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2021, 03:41:50 AM »

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Re: Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2021, 07:05:48 AM »
Freedom

They opened the cage, I stepped out a beast.

Stepping in was originally a mistake, a misstep that hinged on a faulty belief of what rules were held true, held sacred.

But it proved to be a chrysalis with which to refine what I am.

To accept what I am not any more.

A person.

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Re: Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2021, 08:59:42 PM »
I rake the razor across my face.

No longer did it catch on the wrinkles.

No more did the skin sag. The muscles loose their vitality. The bones snap with the weakening of decades.

I look into the reflection and I see myself.

I see the past. I see the future.

But I am so, very hungry.


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« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2021, 10:12:42 PM »
Death

A chrysalis for the soul.

I awaken to a clarity of vision that is as painful as seeing the sun for the first time.

Everything was taken, and I will take everything before I am done.

No matter what it takes.

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Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2021, 02:24:34 AM »
"Are you not tired of serving master, after master, after master?" Her words had bounced around in his head. "You're lacking in sight, Monsieur Hargreaves."

He was tired, tired of masters who did not recognize his greatness, tired of being disposed of at the mildest inconvenience, tired of killing those same masters - watching the light going out in their eyes, only recognizing his worth in their final moments.

His identity had been stricken, his purpose once more undone. Deep and terrible thoughts were unfortunately interrupted when the blast came, ripping through the air with shrapnel and fire. She had been taken from him in the force disappearing into concrete, fire, blood and death that piled high in the street, those not pinned beneath had been torn apart by flying debris. - Some nobles far enough from the blast looked on in shock.

As he pulled himself up, he stood alone before the debris, eye devastated by shrapnel, back seared deep with the flames. He began to tug at the debris, digging with bloody hands. The Valcourt on the other side calling out with panicked words. Blind digging, till the boots of the Gendarme finally came.



Later, when the Halans dug the last of his ruined eye from its socket, tossing away the mangled jelly.

"If you had come straight away, instead of digging in that rubble we maybe could have saved this eye." The white clad hands touched at the raw socket. "You'll be lacking in sight, Monsieur Hargreaves."
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Re: Aldous Hargreaves - Spectre
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2022, 09:48:29 AM »
I am so sorry.

I am trying so hard to come home.