The Goatman

The **Goatman** is a member of the Blasphemous Seven. He's one of Inferno's commanders, sometimes a minor tactician among the group, as well as the overseer of the **Port of Wrath**.

Much later in the story, he's actually revealed to be the infernal reincarnation of none other than the late **Jackson Godfrey** himself, one of the most infamous murderers in the late story of Oakleaf.

His Sin is Ira (Wrath).

## Appearance

The Goatman appears as a large humanoid figure with presumably third-degree burns through all of his skin, and wearing heavily burned and discolored tatters of what was once a 70's party suit.

Despite his popular name, he isn't precisely a goat, with his head having multiple canine-like teeth, antelope horns, and a skull shape overall resembling that of a donkey's. He also has strange pointed ears and a few remaining strands of hair.

Along with his noticeably burned skin, he also has multiple bleeding injuries produced by blackthorns coming from his own flesh through all of his body. He also has thorns such as those as all of his fingernails.

Ultimately, many of his physical traits turn out to have been hinting towards his real identity, Jackson Godfrey.

## Personality

Fitting with his Sin of Wrath (aswell as clear mental issues he already had as a human), the Goatman is a pretty unstable member among the team, although in a different way than Clown or Vanity, who are clearly pretty mentally unbalanced all around but are rather sadistic in comparison to his furious kind of unstability.

Normally the Goatman has and tries to keep a sort of somewhat reasonable, calm yet cold attitude, where he never really speaks a lot among the team. This seems to be clear traces of his already messed up nature back as a human. Surprisingly he's also shown to be quite intelligent, although he's not all that useful when planning with the group since he mostly just has a vast knowledge regarding human anatomy, from what it's components are by name, to how it works in terms of functions and how to even restore them, seemingly having a sort of disturbing obsession with the entire topic in general. Somewhat like the Scream he has some generally decent knowledge regarding Earth still though, despite it not being as much as the latter's. He's also pretty impulsive, since while he can be effective in his purposes he doesn't exactly really think things through some of the time, and instantly goes at the first options he sees as possibly more convenient or useful.

This same impulsive attitude is what can easily lead to his more well known behavior, his rage. He's prone to entering in a nigh unstoppable rage if provoked (which isn't all that hard to do) by just assuming the wrong thing and can snap quickly, shouting threats towards whoever did it and destroying most things in his path even if they hadn't really done anything to him for it. He also seems to have certain moments where he genuinely seems to think on how he slightly regrets the way his human life ended and is visibly frustrated at the fact he never managed to show the "refutal to science" he put so much effort from all sides on, at the cost of his very own morality.

## Prior to Oakleaf

### Human Life

For yet-unspecified reasons, a man known as Jackson Godfried fervently wanted to prove science wrong by showing legitimate proof that people could be apparently brought back to life. He initially tried to do this through a fairly traditional idea, which was digging up a corpse from a graveyard at midnight hours, so that he would have a real organic body to perform his experiments with freely, but without causing any suspicion among the near areas.

After having failed nigh-countless times with his attempts of using one corpse, he thought it was due to it being naturally decayed and long-dead by the time he tried doing such complicated experimenting on it. Thinking the mass of a single corpse was far too "weak and fragile", Jack decided he had to add multiple other amounts of similar mass to properly "back it all up together" into one larger body that could take his experimenting on it properly.

However, this plan was naturally far more difficult than his initial one, since he literally had to wait entire months to be able to dig up a single "new" corpse to add to the new large body, so that anormal disappearances of corpses in a certain graveyard wouldn't get far more suspicious. Despite his disturbingly incredible and extense efforts though, the entire large body he had been accumulating human corpses for was once again, a complete failure when finished.

### Descent into madness

After weeks of hard work spent into plans that he saw as ended in nothing other than worthless frustration and anger to him, Jack gave himself to his lowest instincts out of desperation and arrived to the conclusion that, in order to create a living body, he needed "fresh" mass. This lead to him coldly beginning to plan murders as well as who would be his unfortunate target. Due to being a long-time resident among the zones of Oakleaf, he had most of its map well-known and knew a zone where he would find essentially defenseless targets with ease, Downtown Oakleaf.

He began going after the area's homeless people, purposefully bringing them to the most remote corners of the zone, and forcefully kidnapping them when he had his chance. Inside his cabin, he murdered them and began using them as mere pieces for his abhorrent creation. Once he found a decent body, one organ would inevitably fail, which always led to him needing a replacement, but regardless of his efforts, said issue would repeat constantly. It was said the more this happened, the further his humanity left him.

It got to the point where he just kept adding on more parts as if they were pieces, until his large creation, with an overall vague humanoid body shape, became a mere mess of body parts that clearly needed to be covered up. Which ended up in him using an old, large clown suit he had stored, which was baggy enough to contain the girth of the horrid amalgamation of bloody mass he had created.

*For the article regarding this creation in legitimate, full detail, see Patch.*

### Death

After being ultimately successful in creating his living "refutal to science" he nearly destroyed his own life and person for, he was left a heavily intelligent yet cold and unstable man, prone to heavy fits of anger out of the smallest situations. This led to his own creation literally living on its own without his knowledge, to the point it ended up wanting to escape of the hell life with Jack was, and accidentally burned his entire cabin, with him inside.

As he died in the fire, Jackson angrily said he would somehow have his own revenge on his creation, no matter what he had to go through.

### Arrival in Inferno and Blasphemous Seven

Damned to Inferno for the horrible atrocities he committed in life, Jack was specifically deemed a sinner of Wrath, due to being nigh-overcome with uncontrollable anger in his last days, aswell as straight up being fully overcome by it as he died. After long-time suffering within the circle of Anger, at an unspecified point a figure appeared to Jack. The figure introduced itself as the **Prison Master**, proposing him a deal.

The figure told him he'd pull his soul of the circle and free him from his constant physical punishment in it if he was willing to act as his new Blasphemous Seven's General of Wrath. Jack originally refused, but ended up agreeing with the group's goal of "cleaning" Earth, believing he could create many more experiments freely just to see how far he could go with all the possibilities that would give him out of it. He ended up joining the team as one of the latest members.

## Powers and Abilities

The Goatman has a simple yet fairly well recognizable ability, absorbing solar energy which he can turn into and manipulate as fire. However as expected, his powers can be annoyingly destructive and hard to control though, which causes him to rarely ever use them outside of Flight overall, and to be more of a last resort member among the team when acting in direct plans. Though it does make him pretty useful in their invasion plan, since he can be among the many sins ravaging Earth under the Scream's help commands.

**Sunlight Link Physiology**: As the name suggests, the Goatman's body seems to be naturally linked to sunlight aswell as possibly even some other types of radiation, although it's not confirmed since he mostly uses sunlight, and as mentioned above even that is rare. He has technically 2 layers in his body, his inner layer of unknown tissues which allows him to absorb Solar irradiance (basically the power per unit area received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation) and his outer skin, which can take the heat of his flames without getting burned. Those two allow him to generate the process of ionized matter (air, basically) through a mentally-triggered unknown biochemical process so that it is converted to flame and all his other abilities.

* **Heat Resistant Skin**: As mentioned above, this ability is natural and necessary for him. His skin is adapted to fire, preventing him from injuring himself with his own flames and obviously being practically immune to fire altogether. Though keep in mind that this skin isn't impenetrable or even too durable, it's just great against fire, and it even has a direct weakness of sorts. Everytime he gets more pissed or throws a tantrum, his skin begins getting cracks on it as a sort of punishment whenever he acts accordingly to his Sin, Wrath.

* **Heat Detection**: Probably due to his nature as a murderer back when he was still human, the Goatman can seemingly sense the presence of heat or fire nearby him, which allows him to both track beings aswell as find fire to control more easily. Not to be confused with Infrared vision though, it's his brain instead generating functions sensible to heat.

* **Flame Projection**: The Goatman can project the flames he creates as semi solid blasts of fire, aswell as focusing it into slight beams. Though the beams are pretty unstable and it's difficult for him to keep them on a decent direction when fired.

* **Heat Emanation**: He can generate hot temperatures that can reach about 450,000 degrees Fahrenheit at his full limit. He can also use this to more or less "overcharge" himself and do a large blast which he can somewhat control the range of, aswell as the intensity it's flames have. However, there's two limitations. First is how doing said blast obviously consumes nearly all of his absorbed energy and leaves him quite drained, unable to use his abilities for almost 6 hours.

* **Fire-Fueled Flight**: The Goatman can increase the pressure of Superheated currents of air around him (superheated means heated over the boiling temperature, or sometimes over the critical temperature. As these temperatures are well below 0° for both oxygen and nitrogen, air is always superheated at ambient.), so that they are able to push him through the air, allowing him to fly. Sometimes the pressure of this incredibly hot air causes a slight trail of flame to appear behind him as he flies.
* It's unknown how fast he is, but it's presumed he can reach speeds that go slightly beyond average at best. How solid and stable this ability is also depends on his anger at said moment. If he's in his rather calm and cold mood he can fly somewhat decently but only reaches average speeds. If he's too calmed he can't fly, and if he's really pissed then this ability is at it's peak, being both stable and semi fast.

## Gallery

A closer look at Jackson's face and detailsTodd's recollection of The Goatman's appearance. Like many of his sketches, they are slightly off modelTodd's initial encounter with Godfried in the CatacombsA summarized bio of The Goatman, including mental disordersThe Goatman's reference photo with notes