James Costello

*"We both got something in common, Lee. There is no point in any of this, yet we still do it." - James to Lee*

**Joseph Andrey Costello, The Head of the Snake** is a New God that currently resides in Universe Prime's United States of America and serves as the president of the country.

## History

Joseph Costello, born Andrey Zbyszko, was born in a village in Poland. He grew up unlike all the other kids, he was constantly curious and seeking answers about things he didn't understand. He was also much stronger than all of the other kids; for example, in his teens, he was able to best adults that were twice his height. He was looked at as an outcast, but also was respected. His mother was a very quiet woman, who never spoke much, and never really paid much attention to Costello and never really seemed proud or happy for him. He had no father that he knew of, though he would eventually figure out just who his father was. They were a relatively poor family, but still had basic luxuries, such as a home, food, and water. A little bit of time goes on and Andrey decides to join the military, but unfortunately during training, he suffers a horrific accident, that leaves him dead, but this wasn't the end. Costello woke up day in small medical building. He could hear people talking, saying that they just found him lying in the woods and that they didn't know what to do with him. Costello walking out of the room and approached the people. They told him that what they were discussing and Costello was confused, but not by what they said, but rather that he could have sworn he remembered himself dying. He left the village a few days later and went to him home village, which had become noticeably bigger. He went towards the graveyard and sure enough, he found his own grave, but it was empty. A million questions ran through his head, all that he wanted answers to, so he went out to go search for them, but never could find them. He eventually died again from an illness he had caught on his travels, but he woke up once more, this time in a different area. How was this happening? He has died twice now, yet he is still clearly alive. He decided that the only explanation to this was that he was immortal, but he had no idea of knowing how this had happen, he then came to the realization that perhaps his parents in his first life were immortal, but he had no definitive way of confirming this. So he continued, living lives, and dying and repeating the same cycle, eventually developing his relations with Lee, who had murdered him in a previous life and friends of his. He swore that that day that he would seek out Lee to kill him, only to figure out that Lee was like him in the sense that he was immortal. The hatred between these two men became great and the war between them never seemed like it would end. The closest it came to ending was when during one lifetime. Costello had met a women during his younger years and they eventually fell deeply in love with one another. Costello had children with the women and for once in his existence, he truly felt happy and content with himself and Costello realized that he maybe all he ever wanted was to be appreciated and loved, as he was never really loved by anybody before. He was so happy with his wife and children that he had forgotten completely about his immortality, and when he died old age a couple of weeks after his wife had died, he woke up again. Costello had finally been pushed over the edge after this, and when Lee ended up finding him, it had renewed his hatred, except it was much more fiery than before. So the two men continued, there war in time against each other, and it all came to end eventually in the present day, after the Gold Soul had convinced them both to give it up, and that there was a light at the end of the tunnel for them. To this day, Costello still thinks about that one life he had with his love and yearns to experience that type of joy again. Sadly, it is possible that he may never find something like that again.