Figure

"Call me as you wish, consider me as you please. No matter the way you visualize me, I'll always be in your mind. As long as your hatred, your bigotry and your spite persist, so will I."
- Figure making a condescending speech to Jack.
The entity known as The Figure stems from a faceless being: a basal force that serves as a counterbalance to states of happiness and contentment. It lurks within the vulnerable, taking the shape of their insecurity and loathing. It amplifies the mocking voice that criticizes your body and mind. It goads the thought that tells you to jump. It congeals the dread you feel worrying you disappoint everyone you know. You can tuck it away and bottle it up but it is a patient creature. If - or when - it consumes you, you will be pushed to do terrible things.
The Figure and his adjacent names - Spite, JCA-000 - are a result of personification of this force by Jack Shadowfire who - fueled by intrusive thoughts - inadvertently molded the malevolent force into forms of his own interpretation. As such, the character of Figure is largely concerned with Jack and his creations. It is in a very real sense, his own personal monster.
== Appearance ==
The Figure is many things to many people. At its heart it is an abstract concept existing within all people, likely lacking a cohesive sense of self, let alone a body. In PT, it manifests through Jack in the form of a more coherent entity, able to react to its environment, speak to others, and even possess things Jack is close to (such as Memory). Since it is derived from Jack, its many appearances are based on his thoughts. The most common form The Figure takes is a victorian man in a top hat and tattered coat, with sickly greenish skin that sloughs from its body. Usually this entity is cloaked in shadow, exposing only the piercing greenish hue of its eyes. This form of the figure seems to draw from the dread and horror of a black plague-ridden 1800’s Europe, though Jack claims it was based of a horror story told during a bus ride when he was 11. Regardless of this most common form or its reasons for existing, The Figure has demonstrated an ability to alter itself in whatever way seems best for the situation at hand. In many of its forms, green eyes and silhouetted men with hats seem to be reoccurring aesthetics traits. 
Despite Figure being a monster of Jack’s own creation, the wider overarching entity dates back much further. References to "Yemtsi'ia'ti" and "the black worm" in artifacts unearthed from expedition 48 lend credence to the idea that something like figure had a presence in the proto-temple. On the other hand, it is impossible to verify this claim, given the entity's inherent malleability and the amount of other hostile forces these references could be attributed to. 
== Gallery ==
1800’s figure.jpeg|An illustration of the Figure dating back to 1832.
BB83C3E4-7244-4C10-BAE2-ED096F11A9A4.png|The Figure being a prick.
Figure and Jack.png|The Figure tormenting Jack.
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