PSYCHIC INBOX
Jul. 27th, 2023 01:26 pm
Nate Hawthorne, 22*
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The young Nate uses magic to heal a classmate’s broken arm. His mother punishes him for it, wipes the memories of everyone involved and re-breaks the arm in front of Nate. This moment solidifies his rejection of his mother, and motivates his first rebellions against her will.BECOMING FAMOUS
Nate leaves home and reveals his magic to the world, becoming a famous sorcerer. He moves to London with Anna, an empathic witch he’d befriended. He’s disowned by his family, but he finally has the freedom to indulge in the life he wants. His obsession with magic grows; he thinks this is the highest point in his life, the best version of himself that he could be, and he sees no danger in giving himself over to it.GOING TO HELL
When investigating a demonic disturbance picked up by Anna, Nate is pulled into hell, and the realm of the high demon Ineroth, the Prince of Gluttony. Nate is missing from Earth for five years, but for Nate, he’s in hell for much longer. He spends the first few years being tortured by Ineroth, who wants to strip his will away and consume his life force and magic. This happens when Nate is at the height of his hubris, and it crashes him down to the reality of the danger represented by Ineroth and his kind.LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Having escaped from Ineroth, Nate travels through hundreds of bubble dimensions in an attempt to find a way home. He encounters many trapped souls, whose energy Ineroth is draining until nothing remains. He frees as many of them as he can, but none are alive, until he meets Thorn, who has consciousness and personality. Nate thinks that he’s finally saved a soul before it’s gone. Thorn is his light in the darkness. He restores Nate's hope, saving him from despair and keeping him from going mad in isolation.RETURN TO EARTH
Ineroth absorbs Thorn and Nate is returned to Earth. He’s desperate to save Thorn, and is willing to go to any extreme to do so. This event sets him on the path to eventually reconciling with his family, albeit now led by his sister. It is also the beginning of Nate’s determination to stay by Thorn’s side and not lose him again, which is his biggest motivator in the present day.
Nate's monster form is characterised by insatiable hunger, in every sense of the word. As the monster takes hold, it will display vampiric and eventually cannibalistic tendencies. This plays into Nate's fear of the demon Ineroth, who is associated with gluttony. The monster will have the following traits:
- Long, pointed teeth, including excessively long canines, and too many teeth for its mouth
- Large, bulging eyes which are extremely sensitive to light, but see perfectly in the dark. Its eyes glow in the dark
- Hairless, with cold, white skin sagging away from long bones
- It is easily wounded, bleeds profusely, and is prone to developing large, rotting sores which feeding on the flesh of others helps to heal
- It's in a state of constant sexual arousal
The first signs of transformation include a heightened desire for food and sex. Nate has a charmed tattoo that usually reduces his appetite for food; that magic will stop working, and he’ll increasingly have a hunger that no amount of food seems to fill. He'll also start getting sensitive to light, and will have headaches and eye pain when he’s not in the shade. Physical changes will come next; he'll start to look pale, his fingers will elongate, his mouth will feel uncomfortable as his teeth lengthen and sharpen. Then, if he continues to abstain from sex, his hair will start to fall out, and he'll get taller. Then his skin will start to sag, and his teeth will grow too large for his mouth to close around them. He'll no longer be able to tolerate sunlight at all, and will start to avoid even minimal sources of light. His control over his appetites will gradually decrease as he changes, until eventually he won't be able to control them at all; he'll consume whatever food he sees (including the flesh and blood of sexual partners), and he'll act on every sexual impulse without pause. The monster will have no concept of stopping. It will take what it wants.