History Characters / HereticalEdgeNocen

* DropTheHammer: A heavy hammer he uses to batter down the obstacles Heretics are fond of making as well as its purpose as a weapon.

* WhipItGood: He uses it mainly to entangle enemies so he can get a good hit in with one of his other weapons.

* WhatAnIdiot: His plan was never going to work, and he was stupid to think it would.

* UncannyValley: When Flick meets him, she notes that he looks normal, but there's something that sets him on edge.

* EvilerThanThou: May or may not be on the receiving end of this from Fossor. It was the Great Evil that convinced ancient Heretics to team up with Fossor, who promptly used the opportunity to launch the BlackDeath. Whether or not this prevented the Evil from achieving its goals at the time is unknown.

* TheNecromancer: He's got an army of ghosts and zombies from multiple Alter races at his beck and call.

Fossor is an ancient and undeniably evil [[TheNecromancer Necromancer]] with a well deserved reputation as TheDreaded. He's dangerous enough that he ''alone'' justifies a lot of Crossroads' xenophobia against Strangers. The pre-Crossroads Heretics actually went so far as to try and banish him from Earth rather than actually deal with him. It didn't work. Today even centuries old Heretics like Seller and Ruthers hesitate to so much as speak his name.

* ChildByRape: Possibly. The circumstances behind the disappearance of Joselyn Chambers are unknown when Ammon first shows up. [[spoiler: Later revelations make it very clear that this is the case.]]

** [[spoiler: His mother is his father's slave, magically compelled to obey his every order. As Joselyn and Fossor are the only real behavioral examples he's ever had, he thinks this is normal.]]
** [[spoiler: He's grown up watching his father, an immortal necromancer, casually play with the laws of life and death. As far as Ammon is concerned, there's no real difference between his mind slaves and Fossor's zombie servants. As a result, he thinks absolutely nothing about killing people.]]

Ammon is a young [[HalfHumanHybrid half human, half something]] boy with a CompellingVoice, absolutely no conscious, and a desire to find and do "interesting" things. [[spoiler: On top of being half-human, his father also made him into a Heretic.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: His response to people who [[spoiler: are unaffected by his CompellingVoice]] is usually to freeze up in shock. He never sees it coming and doesn't know how to react. [[spoiler: It ultimately gets him killed when he tries to control a woman who turns out to be his grandmother.]]

* NoSell: [[spoiler: All of Ammon's blood relatives are immune to his CompellingVoice, and he in turn is immune to their powers.]]

* TheSociopath: He doesn't feel things. [[spoiler: This actually bothers him, as he really ''wants'' to. That's why his "games" are so brutal. He thinks causing pain to people he might like will help him feel things.]]

* SuperpowerLottery: Ammon is strictly speaking not an Alter, but a natural [[spoiler: Denevus]] heretic, as well as a hybrid with whatever Fossor is. This means he has full Reaper power power absorption in addition his Compelling Voice.

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Strangers all have unique names to describe their own species and cultures, but those that live on earth use a different term to distinguish themselves from the [[WeirdnessCensor Bystander Effect]] afflicted humans: Alter. This is short for "alternative from human." They also have a term to describe Alters that really are monsters: Nocen. It's a latin word that means "wicked" or "evil."

* ItCanThink: Malicious Alters without intelligence are considered little more than particularily dangerous animals, while the Nocen classification requires intelligence.

Fossor is an ancient and undeniably evil [[TheNecromancer Necromancer]] with a well deserved reputation as TheDreaded. He's dangerous enough that he ''alone'' justifies a lot of Crossroads' xenophobia against Strangers. The pre-Crossroads Heretics actually went so far as to try and banish him from earth rather than actually deal with him. It didn't work. Today even centuries old Heretics like Seller and Ruthers hesitate to so much as speak his name.

* BerserkButton: Don't try to tell Fossor what to do. He'll take it personally. When the Heretics tried to curse him to stay off earth, his response was to base himself there out of spite.

* {{Curse}}: He can only walk on earth by stepping on the ashes of his enemies.

* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: A habit of his. He likes to plan attacks on what should be special days for an added level of "fun." [[spoiler: He goes out of his way to have his "chat" with Flick on her seventeenth birthday. Months later, he has Ammon control her childhood friend and babysitter Scott Utell to commit suicide in front of her on Christmas Eve.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: His first major action on earth was when he took advantage of how the (pre-Crossroads) Heretics were dealing with a different threat to cause massive casualties. [[spoiler: To be specific, he convinced them to let him help and then betrayed them by unleashing TheBlackDeath on Europe.]]

** [[spoiler: He and Flick also have older twin siblings born in the sixties, Wyatt Rendall and Abigail Fellows, as well as a niece, Abigail's daughter Koren.]]

* CastingAShadow: The fist power he assimilated, allowing him to bypass his weakness to sunlight.

[[spoiler: He's a Fomorian left stranded on Earth after most of his race was sealed off from earth, and has spent the ensuing century hiding from Heretical attention and working to undo the enchantment that keeps his people away.]]

* StalkerWithoutACrush: Virginia Dare has been targeted by the Great Evil for her entire life. For some reason, it wants to use her to destroy earth.

* DidntSeeThatComing: His response to people who [[spoiler: are unaffected by his CompellingVoice]] is usually to freeze up in shock. He never sees it coming and doesn't know how to react.

* UnskilledButStrong: To a degree of unskilled. For all his power with necromancy, he can't quite make zombies that maintain the skills they had in life. Considering the many other aspects of necromancy where he is both strong and skilled, it's pretty minor as far as weaknesses go.

* CainAndAbel: Ammon is a rare evil younger sibling, but only insofar as he doesn't want to outright ''kill'' his sister. He just wants to torture her. Because he's pretty sure he likes her.

* CainAndAbel: Ammon is a rare evil Abel, but only insofar as he doesn't want to outright ''kill'' his sister. He just wants to torture her. Because he's pretty sure he likes her.

* CompellingVoice: Any command he gives after saying "My name is Ammon" will be followed.

* TheAssimilator: Much like Heretics he can gain the powers of other beings, though he gets them through drinking their blood. [[spoiler: This isn't a natural ability, but an "upgrade" given to him by his benefactor.]]

* {{Irony}}: He ignores [[spoiler: his bosses' demand that he stop trying to kill Avalon]] and keeps trying to kill his daughter at Crossroads.

* MookChivalry: Averted, he brings over twenty of his "drinking buddies" with him to try and kill his daughter.
* OffingTheOffspring: He tracks his daughter down roughly a year after she though he died to try to kill her and has been trying to finish the job ever since.

* KilledOffscreen: By the time of the main story his case is considered resolved. [[spoiler: This is because the Heretics blamed his actions on a human he warped into a monster in order to act as a decoy.]] [[spoiler: This happens again when Nevada kills the real culprit.]]

* NothingIsScarier: We only ever see him from a Bystander's perspective, which means any time we would have seen what he looks like the narrative jumps right past it. Played again when the main characters are reading the case file, we never get any description on what he was or what he did to his victims. [[spoiler: And once more when they meet him in person, where very little detail is given about his actual appearance.]]

* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: The decoy Hiding Man that he created. He was once a human before being twisted by the stranded Fomorian. Whatever the end result was, it was so inhuman that it triggered the Bystander Effect and even the Heretics that killed it didn't notice anything off.]]

A mysterious being that's been on earth since at least the fourteenth century. Very little is known about it, but it has had a huge role in shaping Virginia Dare's life.

* TheGhost: As of this writing (when the most recent chapter was 24-04), the Great Evil has only been mentioned, and sporadically at that.

* ShroudedInMyth: To the point where influential Alters like the Septs aren't even sure if he exists. They dont' even know that she's a woman.

* ShootingSuperman: Played with. Dare has powers that make her incredibly durable, heal from most wounds, and detect danger, which would make normal guns a waste of time against her. On the other hand Spedis's gun is magic, so who knows what extra features come with one of his gunshot wounds.

[[WMG: Nocen]]

* MundaneUtility: His ghosts can serve as cigarette lighters. Seriously.s

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Avalon cuts off the lower half of his body (and all the upgrades he had stored inside).]]

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: He was hired to murder a young Hannah Owens in such a way that would leave her looking like a random victim. And evem befor ethat, he's the one who murdered her mother and made it look like DeathByChildbirth]]

** PoisonedWeapons: His blades are coated with an incredibly deadly (and very painful) poison.

* ThreateningShark

* WouldHurtAChild

Reggie Owens was an ordinary alcoholic who violently abused his young daughter Hannah until one day when he was mortally wounded by Fahsteth and subsequently left for dead by the Heretics who knew what he'd been doing to Hannah. He survived long enough to be saved by a passing vampire, who shared some blood with him to save his life. Now he's a vampire. And unlike the other vampires on this page, he's actually evil.

* TheAlcoholic

* OffingTheOffspring: He tracks his daughter down roughly a year and tries to kill her.

[[folder: The Great Evil]]

A mysterious being that's been on earth since at least the fourteenth century. Very little is known about it, but it has had a huge role in shaping Virginia Dare's life.

[[folder:Hangmen]]
Not all Reapers are content to feed off of nearby deaths. Some discover that they can make their own food by killing humans or are simply driven mad by the amount of stolen memories. Either way, the result is a Hangman, a Reaper serial killer that constantly seeks victims to feed its hunger.

[[WMG: Nocen]]

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[[folder: In General]]

[[folder: Ammon]]

Ammon is a young [[HalfHumanHybrid half human, half something]] boy with a CompellingVoice, absolutely no conscious, and a desire to find and do "interesting" things. [[spoiler: On top of being half-human, his father also made him into a Heretic.]]

He's also Flick's half-brother.

[[folder: Fossor]]

--> ''I will not be prevented from doing as I please.''

Fossor is an ancient and undeniably evil [[TheNecromancer Necromancer]] with a well deserved reputation as TheDreaded. He's dangerous enough that he ''alone'' justifies a lot of Crossroads' xenophobia against Strangers. The pre-Crossroads Heretics actually went so far as to try and banish him from earth rather than actually deal with him. It didn't work. Today even centuries old Heretics like Seller and Ruthers hesitate to so much as speak his name.

[[spoiler: He's responsible for the disappearance of Flick's mother, having kidnapped her in 2007. His intended target was actually ''Felicity'', but he thought it would be fun to restore Joselyn's memories of her life as a Heretic [[{{Sadist}} so she would understand what he was doing]] and she convinced him to [[TakeMeInstead Take Her Instead]]. [[ChildByRape He fathered Ammon on her]] in the time since, and still intends to come back for Felicity as soon as possible.]]

* AbusiveParents: His son is terrified of making him angry. [[spoiler: He also did ''something'' to Ammon that turned him into the sociopath serial killer he is today. This may or may not have been after he turned the kid into a Heretic by burying him alive with the blood of an Alter.]]
* TheArchmage: Fossor is known as a Necromancer for good reason, but he doesn't limit himself to controlling the dead. He's gone out of his way to learn many other forms of magic.
* BadassBoast: He has a habit of making these calmly or even casually to tell or remind someone what he's capable of and how foolish it is to think he can be beaten.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler: He caused TheBlackDeath.]]
** That event also had a noticeable impact in shaping the story's AlternateHistory. [[spoiler: There was a time when the Heretics who would eventually lead Crossroads were willing to trust Alters in desperate situations. Fossor's betrayal and subsequent launch of TheBlackDeath is one of the main reasons they've remained so xenophobic for so long.]]
* BerserkButton: Don't try to tell Fossor what to do. He'll take it personally. When the Heretics tried to curse him to stay off earth, his response was to base himself there out of spite.
** Disobedience is another of his buttons. He really doesn't like being disobeyed.
* BigBadEnsemble: Possibly the Biggest Bad of the setting as a whole. Definitely the BB to his own race, as he conquered their homeworld and farms it for ghosts that turn into ashes he can step on; and to the Meregan, who he pushed to the brink of extinction in order to use their giant corpses. [[spoiler: Unquestionably one of Flick's greatest enemies.]]
* ControlFreak
* {{Curse}}: He can only walk on earth by stepping on the ashes of his enemies.
* TheDreaded: Fossor's reputation is earned and formidable enough that even someone as old and experienced as Seller will avoid saying his name out loud if he can help it. It only takes one encounter to leave Flick terrified of him.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Making a joke about his ancient curse and then laughing at the suggestion that he could ever run out of enemies.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: ''Had'' loved ones. A young Fossor genuinely loved his mother and sister. But they've been dead and gone for thousands of years.
* EvilGloating: His introduction in a nutshell. He shows up at the end of one chapter and spends the next gloating until he leaves.
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: The details are still unclear, but he's planning on using Joselyn to wipe out every Crossroads and Eden's Garden Heretic in existence, save (presumably) Joselyn and her children.]]
* ExactWords: Very much the type of guy who concerns himself with the letter of an agreement over the spirit. [[spoiler: Case in point: the deal he made with Joselyn was to leave her child alone in exchange for her servitude and obedience in all things. But it only applies as long as Felicity is Joselyn's ''child''. He can and fully intends to take her like he originally planned once she's an adult.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Fossor looks and sounds more like a children's dentist than a necromancer. That just makes him creepier in the face of how ''fucking evil he is.'' He's really good at the act, to the point where he can even [[TwinkleInTheEye make his eye twinkle]].
* FreudianExcuse: Subverted. His interlude looks like it's going to take this route at first when you see what happened after his mother's death. But then he [[spoiler: murders his sister to make her "immortal" (turn her into a zombie)]], making it clear that he was pretty messed up in the head from the beginning.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Fossor, the ancient necromancer who conquers planets and wipes out entire species, began life as Merakeul, the average son of a farmer.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Smokes cigarettes.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: A habit of his. He likes to plan attacks on what should be special days for an added level of "fun." [[spoiler: He goes out of his way to have his "chat" with Flick on her seventeenth birthday. Months later, he has Ammon control her childhood friend and babysitter Scott Utell to commit suicide in front of her on Christmas Eve.]]
* INeedYouStronger: [[spoiler: The stronger Flick is when Fossor takes her, the more fun he'll have breaking her. One of the reasons he warns her that he's coming is to give her the motivation to make herself as strong as possible.]]
* ItAmusedMe: Pretty much every move Fossor makes depends on how much it will amuse or intrigue him.
* ManipulativeBastard: His first major action on earth was when he took advantage of how the (pre-Crossroads) Heretics were dealing with a different threat to cause massive casualties. [[spoiler: To be specific, he convinced them to let him help and then betrayed them by unleashing TheBlackDeath on Europe.]]
** [[spoiler: During his chat with Flick he brings up damning details about her mother's history with Crossroads while leaving out important context in an effort to get her to distrust her teachers and superiors.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Fossor" is a word that was used by the early Christian church for gravediggers. The word most likely came from him, considering that he's been using it for thousands of years.
* MundaneUtility: His ghosts can serve as cigarette lighters. Seriously.s
* TheNecromancer: He's got an army of ghosts and zombies from multiple Alter races at his beck and call.
* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: [[spoiler: Having Ammon kill Scott reveals to Flick that he doesn't know as much about her situation as he would like her to think, as he had no idea that Scott is a pooka.]]
* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: [[spoiler: He wants to rebuild his people's society under his direction, and for various reasons has decided that he wants to use Joselyn Atherby and her daughter to do it.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Fossor is powerful enough that he can legitimately be called a one man extinction event, fully capable of wiping out races and destroying civilizations on his own.
* PsychopathicManchild: He's downright obsessed with having his way and being able to do whatever he wants.
* {{Sadist}}: Takes great pleasure in hurting and scaring people. [[spoiler: He restored Joselyn's memories specifically so she would recognize him and realize what he would do to Felicity if he took her, and he's highly amused by Flick's emotional distress when he tells her this a decade later.]]
* StalkerWithACrush / StalkerWithoutACrush: [[spoiler: Towards Flick]]. He's been keeping track of her for over half her life, although it's hard to say exactly when his desire for her started to constitute a VillainousCrush as opposed to wanting to use her to hurt others.
* StartOfDarkness: A nine year old Mera discovered his necromantic abilities during his mother's funeral, when he attempted to prevent her ghost from moving on and was stopped by a priest and his father. Seven years later, he tried to [[spoiler: make his sister "immortal" by turning her into a zombie]], only to be stopped by his father before he could finish. He spent the next seventeen years in one of the worst prisons on the planet. When he finally escaped, he decided that he was never going to let anyone stop him from doing what he wanted again.
* TakeOverTheWorld: According to WordOfGod, he's already taken over his homeworld.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Has a habit of saying "my dear," to women. [[spoiler: He also repeatedly calls Flick his "prize."]]
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: When Flick sees him for the first time, she's surprised by how utterly ''normal'' he looks. Nothing about his appearance suggests that he's anything other than an ordinary, friendly man.
* VillainousFriendship: They're not quite "friends," but Fossor has a relatively cordial relationship with Fahsteth, an old prison mate from his youth.
* VillainsNeverLie: Flick quickly pegs him as the kind of guy that enjoys hurting people with the truth.
* VillainTakesAnInterest: Fossor finds himself intrigued by Flick soon after learning about her [[spoiler: back when she was a young child]].
* WeHaveReserves: He sacrifices his ghosts at the drop of the hat because he has a ''lot'' of them on top of a steady supply to replenish his losses.
* WhatTheHellHero: Fossor appears to enjoy calling out Heretics on their less savory actions. [[spoiler: This is one of the reasons he wanted to kidnap Felicity in the first place. He thought it would be "poetic" to take the innocent child of the revolutionary the Heretic leaders [[KickTheDog crossed]] [[MoralMyopia so]] [[WouldHarmAChild many]] [[IHaveYourWife lines]] to stop and turn her into a weapon against them.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: He relished the thought of kidnapping Joselyn Atherby's seven year old daughter and raising her to be his servant and weapon.]]
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: When Fossor gives someone a command, he's giving them a choice. Obey, or be punished for disobeying.
* YouAreNumberSix: "Fah-Seur" simply means "thirty-four," in an old language from Fossor's homeworld. It was the number given to Merakeul when he was imprisoned as a teenager.

[[folder: The Hiding Man]]

A mysterious Stranger responsible for a string of disappearances seven years before the story begins, leaving only black roses behind. Koren Fellows encountered him when she was ten.

[[spoiler: He's a Fomorian left stranded on Earth after most of his race was sealed off from earth, and has spent the ensuing century hiding from Heretical attention and working to undo the enchantment that keeps his people away.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: His attack on Koren and her neighbors seven years ago was engineered to make Crossroads more likely to accept Joselyn Atherby's granddaughter as a student.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: He wears a half-decayed organic mask, uses real eyes as security cameras, and remakes Koren's mother's heart so it needs to be manually pumped while also adding living booby traps. And that's not even getting into what he did to make the decoy Hiding Man.]]
* CallingCard: The only clue he left behind was a black rose at most of his crime scenes.
* CollectiveIdentity: [[spoiler: The Hiding Man is two individuals: An ordinary human warped into a monster and the Fomorian that created and controlled him.]]
* DeadpersonImpersonation: He takes the guise of [[spoiler: Koren's father]], erasing all memories of the original so no one can uncover his ruse.
* DidntSeeThatComing: He spent a solid decade searching for [[spoiler: Joselyn Atherby or one of her children]] for his purposes before he [[spoiler: found Abigail and Koren]], at which point he had to spent another seven years waiting for the right opportunity. As a result, he's understandably surprised when another one ([[spoiler:Flick]]) drops right into his lap.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's mildly offended by the suggestion that he would ever work with a creature like Fossor, although he's only marginally better at best.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He psychologically tortures children for hours but acts almost like a normal person.
* HumanShield: [[spoiler: He connects several babies to himself that will die if he's harmed.]]
* KilledOffscreen: By the time of the main story his case is considered resolved. [[spoiler: This is because the Heretics blamed his actions on a human he warped into a monster in order to act as a decoy.]] [[spoiler: This happens again when Nevada kills the real culprit.]]
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: To creature thought to be The Hiding Man.]]
* MrExposition: He knows quite a bit about the history of both humanity in general and Heretics in particular. And he's almost eager to share that knowledge. [[spoiler: Understandable, as its the first opportunity for conversation he's had in over a century.]]
* NoNameGiven: He never provides a name for himself. His alias comes from what a terrified child called him.
* NothingIsScarier: We only ever see him from a Bystander's perspective, which means any time we would have seen what he looks like the narrative jumps right past it. Played again when the main characters are reading the case file, we never get any description on what he was or what he did to his victims. [[spoiler: And once more when they meet him in person, where very little detail is given about his actual appearance.]]
* {{Sadist}}: Based on what little we see of him, he appears to enjoy ''scaring the shit'' out of his victims. He apparently spent a fair amount of time screwing with Koren's head for kicks, although since we see this from her [[{{Muggle}} Bystander]] perspective, there's a lot we don't see.
* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler: The Hiding Man found and killed by Heretics was a decoy created by the stranded Fomorian to throw them off his trail.]]
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: He plays on several of these stereotypes, like tapping on the window and hiding in the closet, to terrify his victims.
* ThisCannotBe: He can't imagine that anyone is capable of getting the better of him. When it happens, his reaction is shock and disbelief.
* UnPerson: One of his victims was completely removed from the memories of other Bystanders, making his true body count impossible to know for certain.
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: The decoy Hiding Man that he created. He was once a human before being twisted by the stranded Fomorian. Whatever the end result was, it was so inhuman that it triggered the Bystander Effect and even the Heretics that killed it didn't notice anything off.]]
* VillainTeleportation: He has some method of teleportation, though we never see it.
* WouldHurtAChild: Most of his victims were children. [[spoiler: And as seen under HumanShield, he considers the lives of infants to be a worthwhile price to pace for his own safety.]]
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[[folder: The Great Evil]]

A mysterious being that's been on earth since at least the fourteenth century. Very little is known about it, but it has had a huge role in shaping Virginia Dare's life.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Slaughtered the friends and family of Virginia Dare when she was a child solely to hurt her.
* EvilerThanThou: May or may not be on the receiving end of this from Fossor. It was the Great Evil that convinced ancient Heretics to team up with Fossor, who promptly used the opportunity to launch the BlackDeath. Whether or not this prevented the Evil from achieving its goals at the time is unknown.
* EvilOverlord: Apparently. It commands multitude of monsters that it used to attack and wipe out the original settlers of Roanoke, all in the name of using the blood of the first English child born in the Americas to destroy the world.
* GodzillaThreshold: This Evil was enough of a threat to convince the Pre-Crossroads Heretics to team up with a necromancer to combat it, a decision that promptly raised the Threshold even higher.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: It broke off most of its efforts to capture Dare when she joined Crossroads, apparently unwilling to openly antagonize the organization.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Virginia Dare has been targeted by the Great Evil for her entire life. For some reason, it wants to use her to destroy earth.
* TheGhost: As of this writing (when the most recent chapter was 24-04), the Great Evil has only been mentioned, and sporadically at that.

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[[folder: Denuvus]]
A legendary Nocen hated and feared by Alters and Heretics alike. Denuvus is - or was - supposedly an Alter that used a Djinni to merge their body with a Reaper's, granting them abilities similar to a Heretic. But their most dangerous ability is a CompellingVoice, a power that allows Denuvus to take control of anyone who hears their introduction.

Sound familiar?

Some of those who know of him suspect that Ammon's powers were derived from Denuvus's blood, a suspicion that's seemingly confirmed when Flick learns that a vial of it was stolen in 2015.

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[[foler: In General]]