Swordofknowledge
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Since: Aug, 2012
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I was wondering whether people here had any ideas on how to portray interactions between different...well, versions of the same character. The "original character" is a modern-day holy knight/champion type hero for one of the settings gods, while the others are villainous iterations of the same young man. I just wondered how would they interact with one another, especially since they are all evil to quite a large degree, while their "original" is a hero?
If it helps, here's a little about each of them:
Version 1—-their team leader—went insane after the death of his teacher at the hands of the heroes, and took his job as a holy warrior/paladin too far and slowly devolved into a Sauron type tyrant with a dash of holy light. He went on a killing spree to cleanse the world of what he saw as corruption until he had murdered literally everyone and everything except for his equally fanatical followers.
Version 2 had his homeland invaded by one of the nonhuman races that exist in the setting and it was in danger of being overrun. He became a vampire-like creature to gain the power to save everyone, but even this failed. He was forced to watch everyone he loved die and his entire world consumed, leaving him as a purposeless monster. He wants to kill all of the race that invaded his land, regardless of the fact that these atrocities only happened in his version of reality.
Version 3 had his brain and spinal cord placed into a robotic body after his original body was destroyed in a climactic battle against a villain. This change caused his friends to drift away slowly and also cost him the ability to use the holy weapon he had wielded for years. He went mad and began killing all potential inheritors of this weapon in order to "earn" it back for himself. He leads an army of robots similar to himself, all programmed to cheer him on in the voices of his friends.
Version 4 had his personality twisted into a psychopathic parody of his former self after a witch tried to possess him and steal his body. He ejected her soul but her persona clung to his, slowly making him into a person who had his memories and mind, but her mannerisms and ways of looking at the world. Weakest member of the team but the most twisted and gleefully cruel.
Edited by Swordofknowledge on Feb 16th 2019 at 6:09:58 AM
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Walllace