The Horror of Blood

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform.

I kinda freaked out in that last post, huh? Well, I'm fine now. Yep. Peachy-keen. Gonna list some stuff to calm down. You know the Dying Man? The Fear that possesses people and rots them alive, and has a bunch of different selves called shards? Well, here are the shards I can think of. Have fun. Maybe I'll add more when I think of them.

• Cham: This one tried possessing Proxiehunter, of Most Dangerous Game fame. That didn't go great. Not sure what he's doing now. Proxiehunter might be dead, I'm not sure. Even if Cham is loose, I doubt it'd take much to keep him in line. He was weak, from spreading himself so thin. It's strange; most shards seem to want to become whole again. Not sure why one would break itself even more.
• The Facet: Possessed a member of the Children of Nothing. Apparently, this one's currently allied with everyone's favorite serial killer, the Formerly-Faceless Bastard, in the form of someone he kidnapped. Wonderful. (Not sure what happened to the Facet after Faceless got sucked into the Game Master's tournament, because that's a thing, I guess.)
• Grey: A shard which, like many, acts as a depressive force, and which became incredibly powerful during the events of The Devil And God Are.
• Hart/Hind: A shard that wears a cloak and a deer skull. It goes by Hart while possessing a male host and Hind while possessing a female one. Speaking of the Dying Man and gender, some shards identify as male or female, some switch according to their hosts, some are genderless, and some are too... primal, really, to have any concept of gender at all.
• Judas: A shard which notably displayed a common trait at one point: absorbing other shards. Many shards want power, and many shards want to recreate the Dying Man. Absorption is an easy way of making progress towards both, so it's unsurprising that shards would want to absorb other shards.
• The Undying Man: Makes hosts immortal, at the cost of eternal torment, so he can stay in one body longer and absorb other shards more easily. He considers himself a god, as do some others.
• The Unforgivable: A shard found in At the End of the World with the ability to manipulate dreams and grow shadowy tendrils from her back.

Let me know if I should add any more.

Update:

• The Carcass: A shard able to possess dead bodies as well as living people.

- Poe

The Spectral Image

He had a gun and I had a knife. He was a Timberwolf and I was a Runner. He wanted me dead and it was just common sense but Jesus Christ I killed a man.

You know when you kill a bug but you do it wrong and it wriggles around and you don't know whether to put it out of its misery or not? That was practice.

Every time someone gets hurt it's my fault but for once it's actually true. I hate the world I live in where everybody wants you dead and you have to be ready to fight back.

It's been a bit since then. I'm still freaking out. I guess I always am. I'm just more subtle about it most of the time.

- Poe