"Don't Bring Sketchbooks Around Pretty Women" (Chapter)

### Theme

Bullying and Name-Calling, Dating, Superficiality Workplace Bullying and Harassment

### Antagonists

* Downright Unfriendly and Antagonistic People
* The Diseased

### Weapons

Rage Sword,Arranged Marriago Rounds, Oak 5B Sticks, Eyestalkers, Kyumatsu, LightBringer

### Writer/Artist

Khaliq Trevor X

"***Don't Bring Sketchbooks Around Pretty Women***" is a chapter and short story appearing in *The Rage Knights: Red God* universe created and written by Khaliq Trevor X. It precedes the chapter, *"People Hate What's Different".*

## Story

The Story follows a teenaged Damon Bradley and Midlore West-Stein battling the demonic entities known as *The Diseased*. They are seemingly overwhelmed as an ominous and anonymous entity calculates time, days, seconds and increments of time. Fast forward years later, Damon, now known as Nomad awakens from a daydream brought on by nostalgia from fifty-something odd years ago. A young woman he often tried to forget continues to haunt his mind, doomed by it and struggling to smile and tell jokes as he's known, Nomad leaves the Neo-Deserters for an extended time and flies to his Seaside Home where he tries to distract himself with new armors and weapons. Suddenly his television flickers on and a confusing single worded note relays to him, "Ha". Writing it off as a joke, Nomad builds an armor that would allow him to dismiss superficial people and those whom are just considered downright unfriendly, narcissistic and antagonistic. In doing this, he'd attract kinder souls and those whom appreciated him and his humor. Around him, he sees an old decrepit sketchbook riddled with old designs of the Mysterious Stranger's Enigma-Mark. Nomad goes over the design but then sees the sentence, "Weird" scribed over the pages and a vague drawing of a woman he had never seen before. Haunted by the strange picture, Nomad goes to study the picture's origins by running sequences and carbon dating via the Personify. When he discovers the drawing originated from a home in Queens Mane, he immediately travels back there to pinpoint the origins. The house itself is strangely built and looks more like a prison or containment than an actual house. That's when Nomad realizes –– the house is *not* a house but a giant container for those *hated by superficial societies that disregard, bully, harass, disenfranchise and look down on those considered less than"*. Over a societal monologue speaking on the evils and ugliness of human behavior, Nomad is then attacked by a figure. Which appears to resemble the strange drawing of the woman. Nomad, refusing to hurt the figure due to his moral code doesn't attack. He is overwhelmed. Across the world, Midlore tries to speak peace negotiations with a less nomadic *Spencer Holifeld* whom is trying to get used to the modern world again. The two friends speak of an uprising against the Neo-Deserters and alien life due to their physical appearances. Spencer himself refuses and tries not to speak of their past within the Rage Knights, it isn't until Spencer's animals are attacked that the two are forced to act fast and join an alliance once more to triumph over The Diseased. A battle-worn Midlore struggles but manages to massacre the group of demons. After their defeat over the forces of evil and wickedness, Midlore hears, "MIDLORE!!!!". Going back to their old days, Midlore remembers the times he came to defend his best friend from the ugliness of human hearts and their cruel words and actions. He pockets his drumsticks, grabs Spencer's hand and the two immediately fly to Nomad's aide where they discover that Nomad had won –– he triumphed over thousands and thousands of cruel, wicked yet attractive faces. Diseased, or human... The likes of superficial people whom bring others down, kneeling at his heel. The sun gleams in his blade as a whimpering woman, the figure from the sketchbook, begs him to spare her. Nomad pats her head, smiles and leaves the world in pursuit of kindness (*see: Travel To Positivity*). The woman laughs at Midlore for them not having the guts to at least end her and that they won until Midlore tells her that as long as there are people whom thrive on hurting others and not caring, there's always gonna be sketchbooks around pretty women" referring to the decrepit sketchbook which lies at their feet. The pages scatter, revealing Midlore and Nomad themselves desperately telling everyone including the woman herself, "Dude, Just Be Nice". Later, Nomad awakens from meditation whilst deep within Omnipresent Form and holds the LightBringer close to himself as he prays.

## Trivia/Notes and Disclaimer

**Disclaimer***: To whom this may concern, the characters in their entirety, while they borrow inspiration from events, ideas, themes and other sources from the original author's life, are incredibly different and fictional entities inside the Rage Knights Red God and under no circumstance are they expressing a real person's actual views, ideologies, names and likeness to cause harm or defame them. Any names bearing similarities to any person(s) is unintentional unless stated otherwise and under special permission. The Rage Knights Red God is a work of fiction and for solely entertainment and educational purposes. Please note, the series does not represent events that have happened, nor events to come.*