Henry Fitzgarry

Henry Fitzgarry, often as The Author, is a strict and malevolent Catholic pope living in the US. With his wolfish, gun-wielding Fantoccinis and his favourite Glock (which he has affectionately named "Miranda") Henry has developed a sanctum known as the "Bloedestaad Estate", which he protects thoroughly.

He makes an appearance in Book 1.

## History

### Early Life (1617–1692)

Henry was born in 1617 to a priest and his wife in Culemborg, Netherlands - however he was later abducted within the same year by Annabelle to instead be raised by herself and her husband. He is now the elder brother of Maxwell, being one year his senior. Due to the rivalry summoned between his mother and the Afremov family, Henry was introduced into the first fraction of his life with the identity "Emanuel de Witte" in 1619. By 1626, Annabelle initiated her sons with Xisenoxis blood on Henry's ninth birthday, to officially assimilate them with Fantoccinism. Unfortunately, even with his name under wraps from the feud and with the upcoming pregnancy of his next sibling, his mother abandoned the family in 1627.

Within this time, Maxwell and Henry grew progressively closer with their father, Bonafacious, with Henry gaining an interest in wanting to learn how to read and write, alongside this conflicted fascination given towards the church - which he would begin to frequently and discreetly visit. The Fitzgarry brothers were raised under the bare minimum knowledge that Bonafacious could provide with his amateur definitions of their own religion, what they were to become and their given agenda to expand Fantoccinism culture, whilst simultaneously teaching them how to live their lives under both their biological and feigned identities.

While their father could not teach them as much as their mother could have, he was still able to show them how to craft potions that could disguise their appearances, which definitely began to benefit the brothers when they started developing distinctive, draconic features that were going to make it increasingly difficult to camouflage within humanity. Bonafacious also achieved in introducing his sons to Dorothy van Velden, his wife's adopted half-sister, who would be able to offer them with assistance should they need it.

Henry, who was starting to learn both about Protestant Reformation and Fantoccinism, found himself torn between the religions. He felt that he could never truly accept the values of Fantoccinism in comparison to the latter, which had earned him with a compassion towards painting. Unbeknownst to him, he had befriended his biological father and was unironically being raised by him; teaching him not only about literature, but also religion, geometry, and how to paint. In 1636, Henry joined the Guild of St Luke.

In 1638, Bonafacious was burnt alive and strangled to death by lawmakers under the suspicions that arose that he was wielding necromantic, dark magic after bringing a corpse to life during an autopsy. His death alarmed and devastated the Fitzgarry brothers, who made the decision that disguising themselves more adamantly with their human identities would protect them from similar fates.

Henry grew up to become a painter and travelled to Amsterdam, where he would wed Geerje Arents in 1651, with whom he started raising a daughter until she died in 1655.

## Trivia

* Henry was created in December 2018.
* His gun being named "Miranda" was inspired by a Death and the Maiden monologue, in the scene where Doctor Roberto Miranda is interrogated by Paulina for his past cruel antics.
* He was originally going to be modeled to have a duality problem - comparable to Jekyll and Hyde (which was the reason for his name being Henry in the first place.)
	+ This changed during his development process to be a more "emotional" contrast to his brother, Maxwell.
	+ The play on duality was instead transferred to Harold.