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Monster
Legacy Name: Monster


The Common Experiment #84
Owner: KRONOS

Age: 16 years, 6 months, 1 week

Born: September 16th, 2007

Adopted: 8 years, 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Adopted: November 7th, 2015

Statistics


  • Level: 13
     
  • Strength: 28
     
  • Defense: 27
     
  • Speed: 27
     
  • Health: 27
     
  • HP: 27/27
     
  • Intelligence: 10
     
  • Books Read: 0
  • Food Eaten: 0
  • Job: Unemployed




This is a story of a monster and a maiden.


--

A fairy tale reminiscent of Snow White.

There's an evil Queen whose lips are as red as the skin of an apple, whose hair is as black as tar and soot, and whose heart is darker than the mysterious woods that sprawl over the enchanted lands.

The Queen is a sorceress and a witch; she consumes the hearts of swans and does in order to retain her youth. There is a prophecy, however, whispered to her by her Seer (the Mirror on the Wall) - that if she consumes the heart of a maiden, she will become immortal. If she does not do so by the next full moon, her powers will disintegrate and her body will wither away, like sand blown to dust.

The maiden that the prophecy speaks of is called Evelyn.

Evelyn lives on the edge of the enchanted wood. Her father is a man dying of sickness; he grows delirious in his diseased stupor, and begins to murmur incoherent half-words of prophecies and death. But he is most coherent when he warns her not to venture too far into the woods, muttering on about a monster, a creature, lurking within the darkness that will take her heart.

Her father dies with the coming winter.

One winter night, a hunter (sent by the Queen) comes for Evelyn. She manages to lose him by running deep into the forest. And there, in the woods, she meets the monster, the creature, that her father spoke of: the one that he said would take her heart.

(But the monster does not take her heart in the literal, physical sense that you would expect a monster to. A monster would tear your heart from your chest with black, clawed hands. Would rip sinew from bone from flesh with a rictus grin.

This monster does not.)

Scared and lost, and still distraught over the death of her father, Evelyn weeps. And to her amazement, the monster listens. Consoles her. It can speak, but only just - deep, singular words, shaky and tentative from years of disuse.


--

Long ago, the Monster was a knight, and a former huntress of the Queen. She did terrible, terrible things in the name of her ruler, and it drove her to near insanity. When she refused the Queen's order to slaughter the children of other sorcerers (for the Queen feared that they would become greater magic-wielders than she), the Queen flew into a rage and cursed her into a creature - a demon - with no recollection of who she was or her past life.

With her humanity completely stripped, she became feral, and a monster in the truest sense of the word. She stalked the woods, killing swiftly and silently and terrorizing the unlucky few that she caught in her clutches. But as years turned to decades, and decades to centuries, memories of a different life began to surface in her mind. She started to regain a sense of self, of humanity. She began to question what she was, and who she really was.

When she was at her most vulnerable, when her soul ached and her heartbeat sang with a loneliness and a regret that she did not understand, she would attempt to guide lost travelers of the wood. But they all were terrified of her, as were the forest animals that she shared her home with. She was alone.

("I wish to be beautiful," she would often whisper to the trees, until her voice withered and died like a flower amidst the frost.)

And thus, the Monster wasn't really a monster anymore, but a benevolent demon, a being who lost her humanity but was holding on to the last remaining shards of what once defined her.


--

Evelyn begins to trust her. Their bond grows deeper and deeper as Evelyn opens her fears, her joys, her sorrows - but most of all, her very heart - to her.

(And so what her father said, about a monster taking her heart, came true.)


--

"What is your name?" she asks.

The monster pauses.

"I don't know."


--

Eventually, the hunter that the Queen sent finds Evelyn deep in the woods, and he catches her and takes her to the Queen. The Queen is about to tear open Evelyn's chest when the monster saves her.

She manages to kill the Queen, but not before the Queen recognizes her as the huntress that she cursed (which is how the monster finds out who she once was) and deals an equally fatal blow.

With the Queen dead, the curse breaks, and the monster becomes human. Her blood runs red and hot onto the marble.

She dies before she can tell Evelyn her name.

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