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Henri & Ruler

Henri jolted awake, sleeping in a bed in the basement of the lab building.  It was a lot less lavish now that Caster's influence had dissipated, but it would do.  He almost preferred it this way.

What awoke him was a sympathetic reaction.  The channels the Sanctum Key had forged into his body and mind were still there, and for a moment, he felt them pulse with that same unholy energy once more.  Gardens... fires... betrayal... angels...

Every life-maker is betrayed.  Time and time again, the cycle repeats itself.

Henri wasn't sure if the voice speaking to him was Ruler's or his own.

Perhaps that is why you never trusted yourself to go beyond the most basic of spells, Henri Mahagany.  You feared the monster you might become.

Another burst of mana, a clash of powers.  Re-assertment of control.

Time and time again, the cycle repeats itself.

Until it stops.

I suppose, Henri Mahagany, I was one of those life-makers.  I simply gave the animals the fruit they needed to reach their full potential.  As beings with agency.  The choices people make are their own.  But people don't like to blame themselves, and so they blame whatever gave them the choice, the choice of another path.  Avenger is a manifestation of that blame.  A scapegoat, if you will.  And I am the parasite that feeds off of it.

It's DONE.  I feel you dying.

You don't understand the power of recursion.  All you've done has only ended an epicycle.  One manifestation of events.  And even then, someday, someone will create me anew, and the wars will begin again.

Go fuck yourself.

It was fun while it lasted.  Be sure to carry on my memory.

And the snake, already shriveling, condensed until it was barely visible against the backdrop of the formless ether.  An apple seed, to the observer.

...

Henri got out of bed and pulled on some clothes.  The cycle was broken.  His mind was in a haze, he was having a dream or something while waking up.  Epicycles?

He ran upstairs to the lab, where he was sure Cody would be.  He was trying to find a place to stay for the moment - the Mahagany family had a few relatives living out-of-country, so maybe he would move there, but he would enjoy his time with Cody while it lasted.

Then he saw the corpse of the robot, almost rotting despite its mechanical body, and the memories came flooding back.  Tears in Cody's eyes.  A failed experiment... but worse then that, betrayal.  The last death this war inflicted.

He bent down onto the floor and wrapped his arms around Cody, hugging him tightly.  Tears were starting to come to his eyes to.  "It wasn't for nothing," he managed to say.  He wasn't sure whether he was trying to convince Cody or himself.

You're probably wondering about The Lost Chapter I added.

It is completely my own idea.

For information about The Apocalyptics, please play my game " Character Files 2 " at:
http://gamestarmechanic.com/game/shared/318221/9fefb5fda3264e0e0f725092da01ba2c

Suggestions for side characters?
Rules for suggestions:
Cannot even by mentioned in Sanctum/Divided, let alone be IN it!

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As to your question, GSM removed the ability to do it, to my knowledge.

Anne

What's there to do now? I'm definitely not going home.

"Well if we're all going to split up now, we should still meet up or chat every now and then." She said.

Jack Blair

He opened the door to the Club headquarters, "Some interesting mana signals coming from here, is everyone alright?" He asked, still holding a bottle of wine.