Manifest 803

Edward (1655–1698), known as Manifest 803 (Intoxicating Liqueur), was a German-born translator and archivist that worked for the Commission on Unusual Cargo. 
As a teenager, it was discovered that Edward's blood was intoxicating, and tasted like a sweet liqueur; this resulted in his enslavement to an Egyptian merchant, though he later managed to escape and eventually became a Manifest for the Commission. The Egyptian merchant was slain after attempting to recover Edward, and the boy later went on to live in Chennai, India under the protection and employment of the Commission until his death from an unidentified illness in 1698.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Edward was born in autumn of 1655, the bastard child of a German aristocrat. He was left in the streets of a Versailles, France, becoming a vagrant until he was hired by a bookbinder's shop to clean quills. Edward soon became an apprentice bookbinder.Manifest 803: Intoxicating Liqueur
===Discovery and enslavement===
In 1667, before his apprenticeship could be complete, Edward was involved in an altercation with his master, likely accidentally cutting himself on a piece of paper. Here, his anomaly was discovered, and the bookbinder sold Edward's apprenticeship to an Egyptian merchant whose name was lost to time, becoming his slave. Under the Egyptian, his blood was likely regularly consumed by the Egyptian and his men, who all formed a lasting addiction to the substance.
===Containment===
At some point during his enslavement, Edward was rescued by the normalcy agency known as the Commission on Unusual Cargo, where his abilities were properly documented and was classified as Cargo under the name of Manifest 803. He was kept in a container aboard a navire de commerce, where he was to be contained by the Commission for his own safety. Edward's Curator was Dr. Johan Walborough, though he succumbed to the allure of Edward's blood and left with Edward on his excursions to the deserted island, where Walborough likely consumed his blood.
Before 29 June 1672, Walborough was replaced as Curator by Dr. Charlotte Trenton, as it seemed that the addiction only applied to those of the male sex. Additionally, in a letter written by Trenton on 29 June, she suggested that the crew of the navire de commerce consist primarily of women.
Edward recounted his life to Trenton, who wrote about what she learned on 7 July. However, he refused to reveal what happened to him while he was enslaved, most likely due to trauma.
On 3 September, Trenton learned that Walborough had accompanied Edward to the island during his excursions, which she found "disgusting." Later that day, after Edward was dropped off at the island, a band of Egyptian mercenaries led by the merchant tracked the navire and captured Edward, drinking his blood. Though outnumbered, the Commission engaged the Egyptians and slaughtered them to a man, with minimal casualties. Edward returned to the ship, shaken but mostly uninjured, confirming that the merchant was among the dead.
===Later life and death===
Edward eventually was reassigned from the navire, taking residence in British India. There, he married a woman and became a translator and archivist for the Commission while under their protection. In 1698, he died at St. Mary's Church in Chennai, India, of a brief illness.
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===Appearances===
*Manifest 803: Intoxicating Liqueur - 11 Mar 2020
==References==
Category:1655 births
Category:1698 deaths
Category:Characters
Category:Germans
Category:Indians
Category:Anomalous beings
Category:COUC members
Category:COUC cargo
Category:Deceased