The Pale Child

As painted by Nadina Valenti

## Personal

### Unique Traits

Uncanny Appearance, Pale Skin, Pale Long Hair, Hard Skin, Red Lips, White Pupils, Perfectly Symmetrical, Long Eyelashes

### Nicknames

The Uncanny Child, The Starling, The Rebis, The Odious Fish, The Changeling

## In the Dream

### Symbol

The Will of Wholeness, the Choice of Memory

### Last Appearance

on the Shores of Melancholia

Other Names:

* Mithras/Orion/Kyrié

* The Odious Scion
* The Bestial Rebis
* The Eternal Doll of God
* The Starling
* The Rebis
* The Demonic Angel
* The Odious Fish
* The Fog of the World
* The Western Changeling

## Dream

The Third Perfection - Perfection of the Mind

Born from the Tension of Dualism:

* One End v Other End - Perfect Middle - Inverted Middle = One End

* God v Human - Paragon - Alien
* Beast v Human - Cambion - Alien
* Paragon v Cambion - Alien - Human

* Man v Woman - Rebis -
* Flesh v Soul - Mind - Spirit
* Dark v Light - Grey - Black
* Life v Death - Rebirth - Immortality
* Love v Hate - Attachment - Detachment
* Thinking v Feeling - Intuition - Sensation
* Individuality v Conformity -
* Forgiveness v Revenge -
* Pain v Pleasure -
* Passion v Apathy -
* Perception v Actuality - Verisimilitude -
* Sin v Virtue - Action - Inaction

## Function

The source of unconscious limit experiences, the grey between light and dark:

* Absence is found in Presence, as Presence is found in Absence
* God is found in Man, as Man is found in God
* Beast is found in Man, as Man is found in Beast
* Alien is found in Man, as Man is found in Alien
* Other is found in Self, as Self is found in Other
* Death is found in Birth, as Birth is found in Death
* Subservience is found in Dominance, as Dominance is found in Subservience
* Poverty is found in Wealth, as Wealth is found in Poverty
* Slave is found in Master, as Master is found in Slave

* Pain is found in Pleasure, as Pleasure is found in Pain
* Sin is found in Virtue, as Virtue is found in Sin
* Sight is found in Ignorance, as Ignorance is found in Sight

* Fire is found in Water as Water is found in Fire
* Air is found in Earth as Earth is found in Air

## Symbolism

Symbolises the process of Deconstruction and the leading choice towards Oblivion or Remembrance. Limit Experiences.

## Overview

Escaped, union is defiled, leading to become the Shell of God/The Doll of God

## Appearance

They have an uncanny appearance: their skin, as pale as freshly fallen snow, is smooth and flawless, like delicate porcelain and yet, hard as stone. Despite their past, blessed by series of abuse, trauma, illed luck and the whims of humanity, there are no marks on their skin that would indicate such cursedness.

Cascading in graceful curls, their long hair radiates a luminous whiteness, contrasting the vague darkness that lurks hidden in the material world of Asylon, and at the same time, each strand is sharp enough to pierce flesh unfelt.

Like twin orbs of alabaster, their eyes draw attention with pure white irises, reflecting back one's repressions. Every blink hypnotises the gazer, pulling them deeper into their realised projections with their strikingly long white eyelashes. As time passes, however, their eyes are infected with a darkness the breathes an original red unlike any red seen in Asylon, a true red. A red, born from grey, drawing in more than ones attention but will from one's spirit like blood from one's heart.

Their face, perfectly symmetrical from any angle, cause an unease unknown, an impossibility made possible. Violently angular beneath their soft curvatures, embodying vulgarity and grace at the same time. Their lips possessed a natural dead blood hue, while their eyelids gracefully carried a subtle shadow of the same vibrant red. Even the tip of their nose bore a haunting tinge of this captivating colour.

Eyes with empty depth, skin without age, expressions without wrinkles.

When one looks upon The Pale Child, one finds thier Self in perfect perfection, reflected back adorned with bright pressure, like diamond in coal.

## Personality

As a young child, they were wilful and disobedient, often frolicking across the wild fields until days end, each day, closer and closer to the Dark Forest. After the incident with the wolf, the pale child grew docile and silent. They continue in this manner until their second coming through the manufactured heaven of man.

Beneath their perplexing exterior lies a perplexing mind of introspection. With no real flesh to guide them, no soul to divide reality, no spirit to fill them with hope, the pale child remains swept by the current of beasts.