Mystery

* Mystery (2016)
* Mystery (2017)
* Teenager
* Jeremy

Mystery Burns is the main antagonist of RE-NIGHTMARE.

## Appearance

### Currently

Mystery is a purple cat with magenta stripes on ears, arms, legs and tail. He has X marks on both sides of both hands. He has a white fluffy face, white stomach, and white fluffy inner ear (depending on what ref you use). He wears a lab coat with a red, fluffy/torn tie, along with black pants and shoes, gray shirt, black belt, and a single golden tooth. He has long hair that goes past his waist it's the same purple-pink as him but has the dark magenta tips fading in. He wears square glasses and has heterochromia, one eye is blue and the other is green with an X, and he always has eye-bags. His blood and insides are black. His ribs are often poking out when visible.

#### Young adult

In his 20s-30s Mystery has shorter hair, broken glasses, and a band-aid on his cheek and a patch on the other. He has a white shirt with rolled up sleeves and an untorn tie.

### Teenager

He looks like his regular self, he just is missing a tooth(that is later replaced with a gold tooth), his hair is longer, and he is seen wearing emo clothing, such as a black shirt with a white X, a black beanie, and black pants and shoes. He has an ear piercing, and can be seen smoking in art.

#### pre teen

Mystery is covered in wounds and often beaten. His nose and mouth bleeding, leading to his missing tooth in his teen years. wearing nothing but a white tank top and shaggy pants.

### Jeremy

Jeremy has a ponytail. He wears a black and white striped sweater, with black pants and shoes. He has a bandaid on his face on the right cheek. He has blue eyes and braces.

## Personality

### Currently

Mystery's personality is quite bold like other characters. He is like your typical mary-sue, being overpowered, etc. He is narcissistic and thinks highly of himself, known for always smiling in public. But inside he's very insecure, desperate for Alfred's friendship, he is quick to become violent, and can (and will) go as far as possessing Alfred, killing his son, and hurting Kao for not being his friend.

He doesn't care too much for personal space and will get as close as possible to make others (mainly Alfred) uncomfortable, he's very often promiscuous. He is very interested in murder, and will have no problem taking people's things to piss them off. He tortures and often guts Alfred for fun, as well as eating him. He is a cannibal and ate his ears, eye, tail, (arm, and leg in the future). He likes squeezing Alfred with demon goo arm until he pukes blood. He "needs to make him suffer".

Mystery is often puking up black goo (blood most the time), his body is weak and he has multiple demon forms, he pukes the most when in these forms.

### Jeremy

Jeremy seems innocent and doesn't exactly put too much thought into his actions, he can have the best of intentions but, not the best decisions. He can be very emotional depending on the situation. Jeremy usually seems very joyful most of the time when around Alfred or going to visit him. At home or with his father, Arthur, Jeremy is full of fear and usually has to hide from his father.

## History

Not much was known about Mystery during his childhood except for his father's abuse and the incident. Jeremy was living in an abusive household living with his father, his mother was either dead or left Arthur(not explained in the webcomic). Jeremy and Alfred were best friends during the majority of their childhood, they were very close it seems and knew a lot about each other.

There was a point in time where Arthur was abusing Jeremy in some way(not shown how but, can be assumed it has something to do with Arthur's fire powers, as well as claws and possible knife due to the eye wound and slash on the stomach), so he called up Alfred for help. Alfred was stopped by his parents because they wanted him to finish his homework, so Jeremy wasn't "saved." Mystery called Alfred again, the two talked and said they hated Al's parents (Al not meaning it) but this led to Jeremy having a "plan". He kills Alfred's parents while Alfred isn't home and when Alfred gets home, Jeremy is there waiting for him, telling him they can be together. Alfred screams at him, Jeremy telling him he can fix it all. Alfred manages to knock out Jeremy and run away with his uncle Mike, not before leaving a goodbye note.

Jeremy is devastated by the note as it's the end of their friendship and has a breakdown over it for who knows how long. When Jeremy goes home his father rips his eye out and burns him to death and he's sent somewhere, assumed to be the place where his soul is taken, and he meets a reaper. They talk for a few pages before Jeremy manages to get his scythe and slice one of his eyes out. Conveniently, that is the green eye with the X that Jeremy is somehow able to put in his eye socket. Jeremy is magically alive once more and is determined to find Alfred and that's what he ends up doing for 20 years.

Jeremy is an adult now and goes by Mystery. In the animated series Mystery finds him by bumping into his boss (Vincent). He follows him to the work building and kills him, stealing his clothes. He is now working with Alfred as his boss. He abuses both Kao and Alfred on the daily, but mainly Alfred. Usually it's for unexplained reasons. At some point in the story, Mystery manages to possess Alfred and takes him off to kill a character we just meet that's named "Jessy." Since Mystery is possessing Alfred, in this small section Mystery will be referring to possessed Alfred, Mystery ties up Jessy to some sort of metal desk and basically just opens her stomach. After that, Alfred's daughter Shai, walks in and basically just ends up hating her dad.

Most of the comic is random stuff that is not exactly important to the story, so not much needs to be said on the webcomic anymore.

### Adolescence

Jeremy doesn't have anywhere to go as he is now a teenager living in the streets of this random city. His teen self is introduced by sitting in a trashcan where he meets Rex. Rex says something that implies that the trashcan is currently his home. They talk and eventually become friends. This is when Jeremy now introduces himself as Mystery. Rex takes Mystery to the carnival for food and to cheer him up then goes home.

The Rex and Mystery ride didn't last long as Mystery had to leave to continue his search, he promised Rex he would come back and never did. Rex waited years and ended up hating Mystery and even calling him a bastard.

Mystery, in his childhood to teen to adulthood killed many people, people who wanted to "hurt" him.

### Adulthood

Mystery is seen in an alleyway waking up from a nightmare, this is where Mystery meets Vincent and kills him, stealing his clothes. This is where he gets his current and most well known outfit.

A whole argument between Alfred and Mystery breakout, and Mystery is jealous of Kao for being Alfred's new best friend. Mystery is stuck in his old ways and gets angry enough to where his eyes turn black and his arms grow huge and long, they turn black like his blood colour and he harms both Kao and Alfred in many ways. Then later, having a breakdown. Too bad for Mystery, that was all a dream and he wakes up in a jail cell(?). That's where we meet Nya, and threatens her. Then this is when Re-nightmare gets cancelled.

## Relationships

### Arthur Burns

#### Jeremy

Jeremy was very afraid of Arthur, he was constantly abused by him (mainly at the ages of 4-5). This led Jeremy to hate Arthur with a burning passion and run away after being resurrected Arthur killed him.

#### Mystery

Not much is known about them now, but going off the mini comics and images it can be said they're more tolerable of each other. Arthur is usually teasing Mystery in his own ways like marrying Alfred. He's also given Mystery a gift (a rotten eyeball). They act more like frenemies than father and son.

### Lilly Burns

The relationship between him and his mother is quite unknown. Mystery loved her and misses her at some point. His mother was overall kind, she has probably tried to stop Arthur from abusing Mystery.

### Alfred Brown

#### Jeremy

They were best friends and had a pretty good connection to each other. It was obvious they knew a lot about each other and hung out a lot. Not much is known about them as kids except for they were best friends. He had an undying crush on Alfred.

#### Mystery

Mystery has some sort of liking to Alfred. It's clear he still cares for Alfred in some way and wants to be friends again, he tracked him down for 20 years. He has some sort of belief that they can be best friends again or that he is Alfred's only best friend. He is very possessive over Alfred and tortures him daily for not accepting his friendship and kindness. Despite being an adult, he still has the immaturity of his younger self and can't get out of the past. Alfred has a huge hatred towards Mystery for what he did in the past and what he does now.

### Kao Ushi

There's not much to describe or say on this one. Kao and Mystery were never close or fond of each other, so it's safe to say Mystery hates Kao. Especially since Kao calls himself "Alfred's best friend." Mystery is jealouse of Kao and even tried to kill him just for being Alfred's best friend. They don't interact much outside of the comic.

### Rex Cryex

#### Teen

They were somewhat close even if they didn't know each other for long. Mystery did like Rex and had a good relationship with him. He enjoyed his time with him and had fun. He was upset and guilty when leaving Rex, but who knows how he feels now after years of not coming back after his promise.

#### Adult

This is unknown. We know Rex now hates Mystery, but we don't know how Mystery feels about Rex during his adulthood. The most information we know is that they get married at some point. It's also implied they live together, close enough to where Rex and Alfred have even hung out together.

## Trivia

* Mystery's demonic powers were a real thing Mystery could do in the webcomic, which was scrapped in the animated continuation.
* He used to have a VA - he deleted his VA blog in 2022, and his main blog hasn't been active in 8 months

## Gallery

Mystery possessing Alfred.Dr. Mystery swallowing Mystery.Mystery's return as Old Star E.