Mysterious

*"Distracting himself and using pity as an excuse, that's all he's really capable of."* - **The Old One** describing Mysterious

### Significance

Mysterious was a driving factor in setting the universe on fire, his desire for war and strife was done for his basic reasoning of a distraction. Though later revealed more in depth as being a demonstration of the beauty and fragility of life, he loved to watch history be made in a vain effort to experience all that could be offered in his short life.

Mysterious was responsible for the formation of many organizations and discovery of many universal properties as a polymath. He gathered immortals and created historical giants in the second most active period in the timelines history.

### Appearance

Mysterious wears the **Aegis Mysterium**, a blue plated suit of armor that appears a flashy chrome in areas of damage due to its many thin layers of oxidation, with a very dark purple under suit offset by its slight magenta hexagonal texture. His offset spherical helmet bears an even cross that would later bear an icon of a **Scar**. He stands tall at six feet four inches and can be seen with a large coat or suit in place of his plates on special occasion.

### Canonical Progression

#### Involvement in the Soul Project

Mysterious was born as an odd looking **Counci** who was adopted by his brothers to start universes and implement new discoveries into newer universes once the older ones collapse, All except for the main timeline which was too stable to collapse even if intention was the result. When life finally sparked, they had an odd consequence to them, even the most basic forms of cellular structure was too complicated to predict on an individual level, even when compared to the great scale of the universe they inhabited. Junesmoon took great interest in the way they could flee, chase, and work in directionless effort. In the time to come they started to develop past beings that only worked to survive another day, he observed them construct tools, create primitive forms of art. However the activity he enjoyed observing the most was the intricacies of their war, people had to pick sides, cooperate, and work in a setting of stress irreplicable.

Requesting to join the living for observation his brothers could easily see through his scientific reasons and into his wish to be just like them. The other counci quietly admitted to themselves of their uncomplicated lives and allowed him to join, though he lost his memories upon becoming human.

Born in Japan he really only cared to explore the caves and mountains while walking around train tracks, spelunking in a cave he stumbled upon a soft glow coming from the bottom. He met an **Aken** named **Tao** in her village which resided in **Mount Navy Hollow**. Due to the fact that he had to return home he found himself constantly battling against **Foundation Null:** to access the the cave entrance as he cut through fences, and built a thermal lance to cut through steel plate.

In an effort to preserve their relationship, He eventually begged to join the village in exchange for joining the foundation. The **Site Director** felt pity for him and allowed him to stay if he worked. The young boy's death was faked and he worked in the facility while spending time with Tao. Finding a gem stuck in the stone he unearthed it and created to necklaces of iron, one with a purple gem and one with red gem. He proposed to her with the purple gem because then he could "Appreciate the color more if it was on someone I can look at easier."

He died as a human with three children in the village soon after Tao passed.

#### Murder of the Counci and Total Corruption Event

Waking up to a bright light, Junesmoon woke up as a counci paraded by his brothers into an observatory and saw his kids were soon after contained by the other counci. His first thoughts however was on the location of his wife. He assaulted on of his brothers to escape the observatory into the area reserved for mortals, upon finding Tao she was furious with his abandoning of the kids and the secret he kept of being a counci. Seperating from Tao Junesmoon felt a splitting sensation in his abdomen but joined once again to observe universes until his new council consisted of **Arma**, **Endar**, **Teko**, and **Drenot**, some of the best known counci.

Junesmoon thought first that he shouldn't be paired with such big names, though such was to his benefit as they had schemed to build a weapon that would **shatter all matter into dust** Junesmoon picked up a stalagmite and killed the other four counci. fearing that he would be hunted, but even more the madness that began to consume him, he fell onto another earth as a human to save his mind.

#### **Earth (Mysterious) (Home of the Clones)**

Mysterious was awoken to possess a nobody, he cut off all connections with his family before doing mercenary work in India. Returning to the United States years later he assembled a lab in the suburbs of Nevada.

Authorities found a large amount of radioactive emissions from his residence and after he was found to be 'uncooperative' they began a raid led by **David Silths**, every agent except for their leader died, David confronted James wearing a special tethered helmet before they both shot each other, James being hit in the head.

After the incident, a nuclear reaction plagued the western continent with radioactive fallout while James opened his eyes in his **HUSK**, his body was warped to space before he fell back to earth, landing in India. It was in India where he liberated a village by terrorizing a cartel and having the government take control. He had hoped to return to **Ganna Inasi** so he could slow his life down, and become a business owner in the west. However she was contacted by a western company so that they could utilize her skills in europe, her plans would only be changed in the sense that JUNESMOON,wouldn't be included.

JUNESMOON tried to take a plane to America before the fallout was totally realized so that he could finish his original plan to taking the HUSK to a space station. However his plane crashed and in Egypt he was beckoned by a recently unearthed pyramid, he broke into the pyramid and completing its challenges was presented by a standing, blue suit. Touching Mysterium the suit captured his body so fast that he at first believed it to have been an illusion until looking at his own hands, realizing that they were the suits gloves.

The suit was familiar to him, so much so that its learning curve was unnecessary, Earth had nothing of value left to him. He warped to his old home and flew out on his rocket, the bomb was originally supposed to protect him, though it seemed that since the United States declared war on another nation for his crime, the air force didn't have the resources to stop him.

#### Akkenshan Era

Mysterious, though finally away from anything with a sense of authority, was still under great stress at his own mental degradation now that he has his memories back. He wished he could have simply slept for eternity yet he was restless, so to keep his mind sharp he continued his project and worked with DNA to prepare for his destination

After a great number of years he landed on an island planet with only two continents, it was here that he lifted the base of Akkensha and opened his capsules to reveal his Akkenshans, who swiftly constructed a shell for his nation and the tower of which he would use to observe his city grow.

While his people mined under the city his people reported a temporary sickness coming from the mines, they knew of is odd abilities and thought it would be safest to send him down. He punched holes through the mines, a waste of resource, walking through these tunnels a hand punched through a thin wall and pulled him inside of a recess somehow illuminated by a soft white light. He fought a magenta **Corrupted Counci** with a living portal spreading from its chest. Mysterious had to jump into the slimey portal, there he pulled a **Digital Sword** from its black heart before slaying the corrupted counci.

Mysterious, with another counci's soul relic in hand, wondered if a soul relic could be used to its full potential when not used by the one it was soulbound to. Despite its quality, the weapon was still only steel, its natural regenerative properties wouldn't hold up in long battles. So for the time being he stowed it away to work on it later.

He had a record of irresponsibility and lacking in commitment, as often he would 'govern behind curtains'. In times as such, a highly sophisticated computer would run the nation (often better than he would). This 'dark age' would see Mysterious in a hidden hallway to work on his research and tempering his crumbling mind, it would be here where he created another soulbound relic, the **Cube** consisted of parallel three dimensions.

Craving the experiences of the living, Mysterious would often infiltrated the ranks of his soldiers to fight alongside them. He had gone unnoticed in the chaos of every battle. However during one special battle a grenade had been tossed, presumably by **The Old One**, into his trench, the explosion had caused the then James to take two fragments to the face. The damage was surface level and at first he thought nothing of the damage until years later when **GioGen** went white at the fact that Mysterious had 'carved' the symbol for mortality on his helmet as Counci are terrified of such a thought.

With so much time on his hands he also created the 'Observer Program' where he captured 42 soldiers from the **Combined Military Bureau** and to his debt, would collect memories from others semi-against their will. **Obsevos** would grow quite close to Mysterious, joining his inner circle of 'Advisors' since he found the word "friend" to be difficult to mutter.

When Mysterious wasn't doing research or torturing **Traum** in his laboratory, he would visit his newly constructed **Interdimensional Bar**, where he would drink either in his office or with the many others who would inhabit the small space.

Mysterious was very impulsive, it wasn't uncommon for him to execute his own teammates or even dear friends, though such was not the case in the **League of Assassins** when he hunted each one for their responsibility regarding the death of **Iskara** whom he intended to keep around for her information on a connected information line.

Soon he would see the formation of **C.H.A.F.U.**, from a small PMC group on the Urban Planet of **Eiyro**,***(space nevada)*** A paramilitary organization on discreetly exterminating undesirables from territories specifically left out of Akkenshan borders to muddy jurisdiction, most commonly **Ferz** groups. Such can be attributed to his observations in his time on Earth, the official excused prepared was based on Japan's own homogeny, however the true reason of his disgust of their more free culture as such clashed with his culture based much more on discipline.

He did however acknowledge his evil and subtly shows evidence of regret. He closes himself off any relationships, to the detriment of Akkenshan relations, as well as hesitates when partaking of the genocides himself. He likes to say that he Tao wouldn't love him anymore for his actions, at first it was simply an excuse to stop chasing her anymore, but he would then remember the many instances of her chastising him for keeping secrets or prioritizing her over others. He never grew angry over the moments but a wincing regretful.

During moments of remorse he would often become manic and warp to a plane that contained a planet which had a rectangular wall incorrectly labeled **"The Obelisk"**, where he would strike the structure until he froze over with exhaustion. his degrading mental state would even cause him to go manic at the uncommon delegations.

Just before the apex of his instability, in a last ditch effort to preserve his mind he shattered his soul in an unknown process that is eventually revealed. The consequence is existence of two separate instances of **himself**, an error in the process left the wrong portion of the soul in the suit, This Mysterious is now completely without peace and its effects sudden and detrimental.

#### The Fall of Akkensha

Mysterious could have easily gone over a thousand more years leading Akkensha, however he could only put up with a private qualm regarding Tao pursuing him when she realized Mysterious was James. At the interdimensional bar he caused her to faint by donating his memories to her, to finally break her he carried her in his arms as he warped to a hospital to leave her alone once more. He began to lock up, almost failing to warp back to his office, where he would have to wrestle his splitting mind as the previous holders of the armor would wrestle for control of his body in the form of exaggerated personality traits (A magician, River Monk, Gladiator, nature overtaken Mysterious surrounded by a brick wall, and Atlas bound in chains holding crates and miscellaneous items stacking to the void).

When he finally came to, he noticed panic in his people as the wells shut off from his absence. he had been catatonic for 40 days and on his wrist he set a 42 day timer and notified his adopted son, **Primus** to begin the **Paradig** protocol

In his forseen final days he would spend much of his time with **Bearhood**, continuing on smaller missions before his death. Just hours before he expected to die he contemplated using his **Destiny Revolver** on himself out of acceptance for his future, as he picked up the revolver he received a call from Bearhood to take a vacation with his team. Mysterious used what little strength he had to warp to his planet. In the middle of the flight, Bearhood was boarded by **PULSE Assassins** equipped with **Counterstone** ammunition, in a final act of redemption he sent Bearhood and his team to an escape pod after spinning the ship. At the pod doors he deflected bullets until his soul started to leak from the cracks in his armor, right when he seemed dead he twitched and fired into the floor, receiving a familiar bullet through the top of his visor. The bullet struck the ships reactor, compacting the fuel in such a time frame as to create an explosive reaction, engulfing the entire ship and leaving only a floating, hollow, suit of armor.

#### Time Spent Trapped in the **Purgatorial Arena**

Mysterious awoke with Mysterium still on his body, though his body was cratered and visor cracked. After having his left arm torn off by the sentient **Burrower** he would emerge from his battles with entire portions of his plates missing when a portal presented itself. Touching it he fell to his original, nuclear devastated, Earth into a pond of water which had the peculiar effect of causing the sensation of purity. The pool he fell into was the precursor to the **Soul Unknown Binding/Enhancing Liquid**. It was here where he took on the title of the Rebar King, making rubble golems fight to feed his thirst for war. In this period he was more tired than anguished therefore he was content with staying like so until the end of time

Mysterious came aware of a war brewing. without conflict, or desire to play, he took advantage of his senses and stared into the chalk colored, oily walls and anticipated their arrival. An unfathomable number of souls damned themselves to receive another chance to take revenge on Mysterious, in response he lifted a great gothic tower. It was demonstrated with the pinch of his visor of his power as miles of rock around him shattered, reducing the ground to gravel and sand with little more than the will of his soul. A flood of warriors ranging from veteran soldiers to inexperienced militiamen clashed with the golems of Mysterious. From behind, Obsevos scaled the tower to confront Mysterious. He had allowed him through due to his reasonable nature, Claiming that he wasn't part of the army Obsevos argued that submitting to those above would be the best option. Despite his friends requests and reasons Mysterious chose to stay in the mortal realm because there was more than just a loathing nature in being alone, he felt without expectation, or pain caused by a universe living without him for the universe was dead. Mysterious stood himself up with his sword before standing on the ledge of his tower. Asking if he would slaughter everyone invading, Obsevos looked for any reason to save his friend, but Mysterious only projected the horrors of his experiences to everyone just so he could turn back to Obsevos. He then said that he was considering throwing himself to the crowd to satiate them, after all he did cause all those people so much pain, but the observers words reminded him that it would only leave most of the men out there more lost than at peace in the long run. He said that he wanted to help people, so he came with Obsevos to the heavens where his armor buried itself in his soul as his counci body felt warm light once more. Though right at the entrance, Mysterious spent an undocumented amount of time in the **Abyssal Realm** where he would provide council to those left distressed until they could move on with their lives

To great cheering, Mysterious finally in the heavens once more. However he appears shaken, Explaining that a being, not mortal, was inhabiting the Abyssal Realm. Obsevos gathered a force to aid him in scouting what force could have instill fear in even him, **TerraVorin**, The **Felshin Wax**, and **T!NKR** were chosen. The capability of his contacts brought Mysterious enough confidence to explore the Abyssal Realm once more. At the heart of the corruption Mysterious found the sickening force to be all of the corrupted counci and enhanced souls from his time in Akkensha the fear melted from him as instantly he dashed toward the **Tree of Armageddon** with the flash of his sword before he was intercepted by a corrupted **Endar**. Obsevos commanded that the others had to focus on the other corrupted Counci, in the encounter Mysterious pleaded with the seemingly uncorrupted Endar, however upon feeling the state of their soul he came to the realization that he was in fact corrupt and through his research in an effort to cure the corruption, realized that allowing them time to rest would aid in rapidly restoring them. The only way he could imagine giving his brothers a pause was to 'kill' them. So in a moment of advantage, when Endar was falling to the ground, Mysterious bisected his brother multiple times, though Endar's strength allowed for them to hold together until less than an eighth remained, they ended up dazed until their matter came back to them. Endar was reduced to only a torso when Mysterious held them and pointed to the others, reasoning that though he had betrayed them, their other brothers had not. He wished to make amends but the ones who didn't deserve this punishment were going to be stuck there until someone could help them by force. Endar, still bitter toward their brother, took their sword back from Mysterious and its golden glow easily punished even the mighty **Dreadnought**. Upon documenting the strength of the counci, the **Necro Heart** assessed the battlefield and once more brought together the corrupted counci in flesh to create a writhing monster. The complex process to defeat the bound-together corrupted counci started with Terravorin shattering its tough flesh after T!NKR brittled its matter. The resultant chunks were without a commanding soul and immobile, Wax caught the entities as the spiking entities were quelled by the digital sword's light. Putting the pieces back together, all the corrupt counci had a chance to recover, though until extra care was taken their minds would be volatile.

Back above, Endar examined their brother to find out why Mysterious and so few counci avoided corruption, Though Mysterious had questions of his own. It was explained to him that after he had left and killed the council the other counci found out the soul project was to make the perfect soul, such outraged the counci as they feared that they were to be replaced. Without a purpose their ingrained specialties gave way to their less desirable traits taking over, the sickness would soon cause physiological deterioration as the formerly elegant counci were reduced to their most animalistic traits. Endar found out the suit Mysterious wielded would ensure his mental security as long as he had it bound to him, though he couldn't devolve into a monster his madness still progressed and amplified every single one of his traits, good and bad.

While left alone, Mysterious was secretly manipulated by **Meomentos** to come down once more to the Abyssal Realm, before he did he donated his armor to **Ghastion**. Mysterious disappeared for years, Ghastion, who hated Mysterious, and therefore was too anxious to notify anyone of his missing.

Tao had been spotted at the edge of the gate by Ghastion, Though in Mysterious' armor she had confused him for Mysterious. Ghastion told her the story of how he obtained the armor, however he hadn't known where he had gone. Tao explained that she had found a trail leading to him once again through a list dropped by soldiers and leaked in a library. Ghastion, wondering why she came all this way, wondered what she saw in him because of his actions. Tao admitted that this wasn't the first time she tried, but this time it was more of a vendetta, she said while revealing submachine gun in her coat pocket. Ghastion joined Tao and the two descended into the black plane.

In the Abyssal Realm, Tao checked her magazine to see if it still contained its counterstone ammuntion as some planes nullified certain materials which **Uranium** was infamous for. Expecting only one person, both were shocked to see a castle of flesh with canid-like flesh monsters pursuing them. Ghastion offered to take the two out of the plane but she planted her feet and demonstrated her fist fighting style very similar to the person she was hunting.

The two soon found themselves overwhelmed until **Trailblazer** came crashing down on a flaming helicopter, firing into the crowd as it came down. **Primus** jumped down from the flaming transport and ran into the castle, swiftly followed by the original duo. While inside they were constantly called by a static voice. Eventually Primus deduced that he had to push through all the soft tissue to get to the heart chamber, so he activated his modified Akkenshan Right Arm and cut through the flesh to find that his father was suspended in a bubble of sebum and fat, surrounded by a thin layer of tallow. As more and more of the dogs came through Mysterious popped from his bubble in a never before seen wave of rage in his eyes. He attempted to kill his rescuers though his arm had been stuck by the chains piercing his flesh, he turned to them and continued to push until his left arm sheared along with other portions of his carapace where he got a hold of Ghastion. When he realized exactly why he was so easily freed he struck the party with enough force to phase through the Abyssal Realm to great rage from his captor.

Deciding that he could prolong his own suffering he left the Abyssal Realm and hunted for life among the chunks of iron floating through the universe. Many from the purgatorial arenas would attempt to subdue him but despite his crippled nature he could still swing with enough strength to shear even the torso in half. The damned souls, now seeing their chance, once again invaded but the sheer strength of his soul and physical might ensured Mysterious would prevail against the mightiest armies, he inadvertently learned how to focus his soul as resources were pulled on ensuring his humanity to brutality with the more pain he endured. he equipped himself with multidimensional chains that would convey through his flesh, the more they yanked his flesh the stronger his physical attributes became at the cost of lifespan and intelligence.

In his eternal war, **Magnus Bov** would injure him to the point of disability rather than strength before being smited by Mysterious' barrage of spikes coming from the ground. After this encounter, Ghastion hunted down Mysterious and with luck alone, caught mysterious at the end of his chains which caused him to become attached to the ground. In the moment, Ghastioned utilized a new aspect of his armor and struck him with the energy around causing Mysterious to break through the ground of iron.

Once again, Mysterious went missing. He ended up landing in the pool once again and the water 'spoke' to him as he felt its rush, it reminded him of his time in the caves. Waking up he wept after finding out that the heat from his crash had caused all the rejuvenating water to vaporize. He had transformed from a counci to a human with a fleshy, scaly wound on his left arm that never healed and in its place was a red grid outline that fitted over his every injury, similar to the beasts face that would highlight itself when Mysterious went manic.

For years he would live on this desert Earth in a tent while hunting for calcium deposits he could turn into food. Mysterious would meet a stranger on this old Earth while boiling water to drink, He wasn't afraid of this person as many damned souls such as himself were easy to dispatch, The soul introduced itself as **Rainer**, the two exchanged stories about their worlds. Rainer was accepting of his past because, like Mysterious "Monsters are made out of a lacking of acceptance, acceptance of doing terrible things or just being terrible people." Rainer used to be a scavenger who in their greed, left an isolated city without a means of fresh water. They found out later that many babies had fallen fatally ill and laughed. Mysterious was scared because he had never seen anyone laugh about such an instance and asked, "May I laugh alongside you?" Rainer laughed harder, remarking on Mysterious' fear, that he could be himself along them because there was nothing worth caring about anymore, that they would have to build something worth caring about. Mysterious thought for a moment and going back to his tent the stranger continued on their search for calcium deposits while Mysterious began making a map.

Mysterious traveled and set up camp at a decayed warp gate, the extrasensory waves produced by all this activity attracted the attention of a great space golem, they completely crushed the warp gate to the enragement of Mysterious who proceded to utilize the volitile cells in the destroyed warp gate to blast a hole into the chest of the space golem before prying its technological heart out, collapsing its possessed components. Mysterious found it much simpler to enslave the golem and construct a space suit to leave the planet.

Mysterious utilized the iron around and heat of the nearby decaying astral bodies to create a large magnet, with the spacesuit he used the space to create specialized holding containers for when he flew to an asteroid of pure counterstone. with the electromagnets on full power he contained the entire sample and took refuge at a nearby moon. Without the need for a ship anymore, Mysterious released the golem heart by loading it into a rail gun pointed to a black holes future location. Digging into the moon unearthed an old temple with his sigil as he, overcome with joy, sprinted into the chambers, A golem awoke from its slumber but a chunk of counterstone ripped through the earth and right through its head. Claiming his trophy, Mysterious opened the door and claimed body augmentations that increased his survivability just enough until his next trial. His skin was entirely replaced by a switch of areogel and diamond plates along with artificial bones plates and a convex light suit.

with his newfound equipment, Mysterious eventually became a nomad and worked with colonies of damned souls in the effort to attain the strength to break into the temple of his own creation, though its golem was magnetized to reduce the effectiveness of the ammunition he wielded. His efforts caught the attention of the counci of planes who was the magenta monster from before. With her, he arranged a meeting with Ghastion who admitted that the armors strength made him feel even more isolated than he used to be, that it felt just like the curse that was put on him during his time at C.H.A.F.U.. Ghastion had Mysterious take off the armor and upon donning it once more he grew even larger than before. a towering 9'1" minus his 'crowning horns' which added an extra five inches.

In his time away he found himself just two miles from the temple he wished to destroy. Quaking in the ground shocked him however class 1 Akkenshans broke through the sands in stone grey armor and pink-off white crystals. He was moved to subtle tears at the loyalty of his soldiers, though they were not so surprised, he never once compromised on his morals which they had agreed with. Mysterious changed their weapons and equipped them with a team based structure. With multiple explosive payloads blasting all but the holding chamber the golem awoke to see its old friend. The golem called to Mysterious in confusion regarding his actions, but he knew that the golem would not let anyone pass under any circumstance, the two silently agreed to the fight. Several heat guns focused on the golem began to release steam from the water vapor in the air as multiple Akkenshans fired. Mysterious launched a chain toward the golem but the attack only bounced off its nigh impenetrable body, its body was also mass focused and without a heart so ammunition could only do so much. Mysterious pulled on a stalagmite and the club took on a green tone just like that of the golem's body, he clubbed the guardian and summoned another chain. The golem came wrapped and was brought down to the ground before it broke the chains before Mysterious and pulled him in, swinging at the man and sending him flying to the chambers. His soldiers ceased fire and worked to divert the golem once they noticed him playing with the seal on the door, right as the golem understood their plan he tried to rush to the door before he could finish. Its efforts were in vain however as the seal was completed and the chamber blasted its own walls, sending fragments out everywhere. Mysterious walked to the container before his shields shorted from the counterstone ammunition almost striking him. There, Tao stood, with many of Mysterious' old companions. The third party believed that Mysterious was collecting another shattering weapon, and Mysterious admitted that he was infact doing just that before contorting in the blink of an eye to funnel a wave of plasma in their direction, leaving a what looked to be a riverbed in its wake. From a cliffside more Akkenshans began to fire down upon the party who was shielded by Obsevos. The firing stopped when the Golem continued its rampage and turned to Obsevos, nodding over to Mysterious. Tao watched him stumble over the quaking earth creating towers so that she could be isolated with him once more to ask for a reason behind his actions. He raised a brow and looked around in utter disbelief, she assured him that all of this was over an explanation. He said bluntly that he thought she wouldn't want him anymore over his actions since her moral compass was rare in that it was reasonable, and he deduced that if she was normal then she would have done 'normal' things that he considered debaucherous. Simply put he didn't trust her anymore, such was a defining moment in Tao's character as well as she blames him for her derailed life, once more pointing his lacking of authority to work with her. Mysterious decided that he had enough with her blaming and claimed that although he didn't feel joy in his life, he felt fulfillment in knowing he had a reason to lash out at the world, that it was easier to commit to his actions if he believed the one who he trusted the most would push him away. With that said he neglected to allow her a say as he pushed her off the tower, with a stomp he shattered fragments in place as he fell down with the structure. Mysterious finally opened the container in the chaos and its green glow instilled a panicked reaction from his own Akkenshans, famously exclaiming "Destroying souls, are you fucking insane?!" Now it seemed everyone was against Mysterious as the soldiers worked to shred their commander. Mysterious, taking cover behind the anti-well felt a slight tinge of bliss now as he flipped into the well himself, the soul being shredded caused the incinerator to 'gag' as it spat his crowned helmet to everyone's frozen horror. No one understood such was his intention all along and from the shadows a black stream snaked its way over to the helmet. the ever lurking Meomentos laughed with glee as he placed the helmet upon himself to gain the abilities of the relic. He however turned around desperate agony as he watched the cube get spit out by the antiwell far into space. Everyone watched in anticipation of his next actions, however in that moment a wave of humanity overcame him, he explained that although he wanted his other half to die so that he could take the armor for himself and lead a great a war for his entertainment. He was left saddened by the conflict as it all yielded no lasting security for him, that such could only be achieved by a resource that doesn't deplete, but people tire of fighting and there were only so much people to reproduce. In his stunned state he hadn't realized that the **Giganvol** was released as it grabbed his foot and began to consume his soul. Tao grabbed the helmet and ran out before the Giganvol could spread to everyone else, the golem followed as it was now without purpose but the Akkenshans denied and assured them of their saftey as long as they lay dormant.

#### Given a Second Chance

By the grace of God, Mysterious awoke in the cube without knowing how much time had past or how his soul was even left still intact. He left his pod only to notice a massive pile of bodies, his bodies. It wasn't alarming that clones of himself were stacked in front of him but rather the person who had wasted so much of his resources or even how they got in. Either way the pocket storage was damaged and needed its backup power turned on so he walked into his collectors room and donned a coat before walking out to find a snowy, stony, flat landscape before himself. He walked out until the snow stopped falling and began to quarry bricks to constuct a home. Soon he made the first flesh golem, a human without a soul, to keep him company while he built his world. the first of these citizens had never been told how they were made and were killed off once they had children so that the questions could never arise. The children grew up believing their parents had sacrificed themselves to the snow to fight off evil spirits for the saftey of the colony. Eventually the children grew up and aided Mysterious, who now went by simply James, build his kingdom. James became a dictator of this rising platform and in his experimentation, created a plague that was never fully eradicated and quickly propagating in the sewers.

James was quickly notified by the entrance of Tao, Obsevos, Zjen, Primus, and Endar into his domain using **Tori**'s innovative **Soul Strength Reader** which actually fried due to Tao's soul being amplified by Mysterium. James had Tori fired where she began to live in the slums where the invading party would soon be saved by her.

James found the intruders at his hall and noticing his cane he diverted their aggression by inviting them all to dinner, he understood the revolutionaries movement but still elected to dine with them. However in the middle of the banquet the windows shattered as elite revolutionaries attempted to take over the manor. In response, James fired upon the revolutionaries and facing many casualties, captured the party alive who were all sent to prison which was also his scarily large basement. In trying to have a conversation with Tao she broke his nose and took his key, escaping the prison with her team, only sustaining non-fatal gunshot wounds for Tori.

James intended for this to happen and while his swat's assaulted a slum's club he ran in with smokes and flashbangs and killed over half of the force before scrunching up mid fight while the party dealt with the rest. While the smoke cleared they tried to look for the person who saved them but found nothing until Zjen opened up the roof access to see them puking. Zjen then realized it was James bent the steel door pinning him to it, asking why he stopped his own force. James reasoned that the official reason was that *not* hunting the revolutionaries would arouse suspicion in his ranks, but the real reason was because he couldn't stop killing. Such a response gave Zjen a flashback to how he lost his girlfriend because Mysterious brought him back as a deformed mutant. About to kill him, Zjen was only stopped by Primus wishing to help his father to Zjens response that "he can't be helped". They kept him hostage in the club, not worried about any authorities due to the convoluted nature of the police teams, breaches were normal and one missing team was surprisingly common. Primus is kept away from his father over suspicion that he could manipulate him but he couldn't get over the fact that James seemed physically ill, his skin was 'yellower' than normal.

When Tori inquired about the 'zombies' that flooded the streets at night James refused to give any information once he looked at his son, stating only that some things were better left unchecked, her suspicions dropped after James pointed out that he wasn't hiding the conspiracy, he was the conspiracy. Though everyone knew that he had more to offer hidden behind closed doors.

Taking shelter in a rundown building with other revolutionaries Tao finally came face first with Tao, she needed information on the area and whether or not it contains anything that could threaten the rebirth of the main plane. James pointed out that he believes a Giganvol is growing in another solar system to his worry, Tao then asked how he survived his suicide at the antiwell as well as what it was. James shrugged on the topic of his suicide, he simply did not know why one of his bodies managed to keep every single one of his present memories, such was one of the few unexplained events in the timeline. Though the antiwell was his ultimate defeat, following in the steps of his counci brothers just in a different coat of paint. In his depression over missing experiences he created a weapon that would rival the counci tool which would wipe out all life, by utilizing the 'soul locker' as he calls it, he can't wipe out souls but he can hit a theoretical 'shuffle' button on their attributes, essentially killing them in every sense of the word. Fearful of the well getting out, he had locked it out and disguised it as a trash can on a long dead planet. Such received Endar attention, he remembers that the project he called Giganvol was stolen from the observatory a very long time ago to which James confirmed to his brother that such was in fact the same project. Fail safes were developed but were lost at the fall of Akkensha

He was finally allowed to roam free since he was deemed too weak to be any kind of threat, and he was extra docile around Tao, much to her disgust. James spent his time cooking for his enemies mostly, they liked having a properly seasoned meal for once, though he wondered what would have happened to his kingdom since he led it so well. Sure, there was slums everywhere but with so much focus on providing souls to his golems, there simply wasn't enough time or resource to watch over them, they should have taken the lessons he offered on self sufficiency. He shrugged to himself before continuing, he didn't tell anyone since he assumed that immortality would only be used on the rich or riots would happen over periods of slow progress. James paused as he served the soldiers who easily grew fond of the man who was responsible for many of their good friends deaths, he seemed to timid to hate and many wondered how he even arose to such strength or could have been so heartless. The soldiers like to hear his stories, both real and written in his book, he liked stories of isolationists finding purpose in their lives with such a big universe seemingly against him, such as the lizard man who collected anything shiny or the forest dweller who brought a military nation to its knees through sabotage. Tori commented on his ability to bring people together when he listened to their proposed stories and asked of their characters, he seemed to genuinely enjoy hearing about those with otherworldly aspirations, so why did he want to kill men like this is what she asked Primus. Primus would comment on how he believed wars would continue to bring more stories people were unwilling to tell, James soon went upstairs to the cots and when Tao noticed that every soldier had gone downstairs she panicked. It was too late when they found an open window and no further trail.

James had taken stairs down to a basement and fell into an episode of sickness, yet he claimed that he felt better than he did before, that now he had a timer that felt so visible he could enjoy the fact that the story just might end. He looked down a hole in the basement as it seemed the person who lived in the building was tunneling, he felt a hand over his throat right as banging rang from the door, the party finally tracked him to the basement and Tao had murder in her eyes. Tao felt she no longer needed James as leverage and that he was more trouble than he was worth. She shouted that he had faked his weakness once again to manipulate others, pointing to his dark and healthy skin and shot at him twice, making sure to avoid his hostage who ran away. James had easily survived the ammunition as overpenetration left the exit wound as anticlimactic as its entrance. 'James' had fired a hook into Endar and dragged them into a glowing blue vortex at the bottom of the pit and Endar wondered as to why their energy manipulation stopped funcioning, 'James' dangled and dropped a vial onto their face, Obsevos recognized it as the same kind that **League** used embolden his soul enough to prevent Mysterious from using his abilities to their most extreme, here it was used to increase his sphere of influence so that Endar had no matter to manipulate. The party now had to choose whether to save Endar or kill 'James', Tao made a choice and one round ripped through 'James" brain as he fell into the vortex, taking Endar with him. Before they could pursue the vortex closed and bellowed a bloody gurgle.

James escaped from Meomentos' grasp, though he now worried about his research falling into the hands of the public, as soon as the party walked out of the basement he detonated a series of explosives around the higher class areas. From there James would take a car out to the snowy wasteland, the golems did their part in the research, now he had finish the job before his organs gave out.

In the snow bunker, James had to figure out how to discover a fuel source that didn't come from the island, as even if all of the matter on the island spontaneously turned into energy it still wouldn't power it to a quarter of its minimum. So his answer would come in the form of a quake in the earth, the earth that had no tectonic movement, and was literally a platform in space. James took a seventy pound canister on his back and applied it to an exoskeleton that aided in the simple act of walking.

The bunker was subject to forced entry as James looked in the hall to see Primus hunting him down. Two rounds struck besides James' head as he forced lockdown, but the door before him jammed and Primus stuck a gun barrel in his mouth. Primus asked as to why he never told him that Tori had no soul, claiming that he betrays everyone who trusts him, that he was only alive because he was taught to give everyone a final say. James only looked to the jammed door and considering his options, James said that the canister in his back gives people a soul, to "just use it on Tori" Primus didn't believe him, otherwise he would have used it on himself. James now understood that delegation was out of the question so it is then revealed that he was playing with exposed wires enough have sparks shoot out and distract him. Still Primus pulled the trigger as James rolled under the door that finally closed. He stuck a thumb through the hole at the bottom of his mouth and giggled. Typing away he reversed ventilation and threw a gas canister in the vents before fixing a fireman's canister to himself. Primus only had a gas filter and choked from the lack of oxygen, James just sat him on a chair and patted his shoulder before stealing his snowmobile.

James looked up in horror to see a Lovecraftian monster hovering over his city. James then briefly remembers the vortex, and recognizes it as a foreign Giganvol, it would carry enough energy in itself to power the pocket storage, and it was inside or distributed within Meomentos. James knew that souls of such strength were extremely reactive as their bodies could be equated to replacing carbohydrates with gasoline. With enough electricity at once Meomentos' body could become a conductor and pop their entire body.

Running to the city he saw great scars on its body, Tao had tried striking it with energy before, but the volume and time frame were simply too little. James found a group of revolutionaries who actually seemed to miss him. He explained his return and they ignorantly brought him back to the party through the dangers of the streets. He came back to see Tori in a sort of depression, turns out Primus told her what happens after death. His attention was quickly diverted to Tao however as she grabbed him by the neck and slammed him against the wall, he promptly coughed blood in her face. she dropped him to wipe the stuff out of her eyes and James gave her a decision to make, he claimed that the canister might be her only way of obtaining a soul. Tori was flooded with questions, what of the others, her friends, why was this kept so secret? James now told the truth about mutants, they were the original parents of the children, and more down the line, they were experimented on to give golems souls but only ended up with characteristics with no conductor. She very well could turn into one of those things, but the process was rushed with James' own limited time, he was straining his body too much with all the fighting and Tori accepted before he could fall. She was mistrustful, but he did admit his uncertainty, she accepted her role as a guinea pig and everyone watched her eyes spark for a moment as James fell unable to move. He looked to Tao and told her to lure his rival to the powerplant, if she used Mysterium to conduct electricity into his body then he would literally pop, but she would have to do it in a certain position or else there would be no way for his storage to regain power. All Tao replied with is why would she bother to help him? James hadn't the time to argue, he fell asleep as they left with the invigorated Tori.

It is ambiguous, but one three things happened after Tao decided to give James a power a source. Trailblazer carried him to the pocket storage so he could leave, Primus had thanked him for saving Tori and dropped him drugs so he could carry himself to the pocket storage, or The Old One cursed him to get up and follow through. Either way, James found himself at the foot of the volcano it was housed in. As James entered a steaming cave he was shot in the back climbing a ladder, just barely missing his spine. James threw himself up to find a bloody Meomentos berating him, commenting on how he gave him the only love he had the ability to comprehend, that it was supposed to be him in that armor leading his people to prosperity, he blamed James for the fall of Akkensha and wished him dead. Meomentos began to fire at the bottom of the steel platform and the bullets passed right through James multiple times. James picked up a rock in some sense of desperation, his only thoughts were that he really liked its red-orange color, until his vision unwillingly focused on the stalactite on the cave ceiling. He hurled the rock and rolled into the door as the cave in began. He locked to door and was insulated from the screams, he dragged his bloodied body over to the computer for a restart and blacked out. he woke up to stitches and IV's, requesting that the machines take him up. He looked out with hope among the stars and ordered that another clone be made. He checked the emergency power services and found out that he was only left alive so Meomentos had another body to take control of, the cube recognized him because technically, he was him. It didn't matter much anymore however, as a deity he would be trapped in the space of a cold universe until it collapsed.

James sent a clone to the heavens when he expected people would go looking for him so that he could extend his time to pursue another project. He had entered his findings on a data stick for his computer to analyze so he was once again able to use his clone bodies, though he wondered why he did so anymore considering his 'soul locker' was taken by whoever it was the original Mysterious was randomized to. He didn't like moving on.

#### Hall of Legends

James used to visit these **Storied Halls** back in the times of Akkensha to every individuals tower grow as others admired the heros of their time. James stepped past a small podium, it was decorated with power tools hailing a gemstone. James never accepted himself as Mysterious, this was his podium. His somber moment was interrupted by unsettled dust as he ran to hide from the **DIVVERS**, a unique type of golem he usually tried to avoid even in his Mysterium.

His main objective was to ascend the **Colosseum Tower**, in order to reach its pool. his first step was to reach the entrance of the tower without aggravating the defenders. James noted on the threats that other posed in pursuit of the pool on top, he looked up to the sky and watched as an arrogant alien tried to cheat the trial, he paid dearly with as a bright flash from the DIVVER left a puff of ash in its path. James watched the more capable challengers, they were strong and much more capable in the direct sense, but often they carried heavy and a limited tool set. James spent most of his day scavenging weapons off of the dead to use in counter sniping, often he would behead others and use the heads as bait so he could safely navigate. He would look for scopes, glasses, or the odd bottle to crush up and place on a cloak. He returned to his brown coat and beige pants like in his time at the Assassins Guild. The **Restricted Body Armor** once more would show its useful nature as it shrugged off most shrapnel without a scratch since ammunition seldom evolved as consequence of cost.

James soon watched a group of ambitious mercenaries organize close to the entrance of the tower, James thought to himself before heaving a large pipe onto the platform, he diverted away from the group and fired the wall. The explosion gathered the attention of the tens of mercenaries who believed an entrance was now formed, James stormed just parallel to them separated by a hall. He abandoned his camp to run inside the tower as the DIVVERs began to crush the invaders. Inside of the tower he found that just behind a wall of treasure hunters flooded in as they too recognized the distraction of the guard. James dropped his utilitiy belt as a flurry of grenades dropped, The room was wide and open, a firefight would follow no matter what happened next. Finally making a choice, James found himself stuck in a room where everyone was out for the blood of the most dangerous, he could only act like a cornered animal as he twisted a bolt and reloaded a cylinder. he expended all of his grenades to get away but more kept coming, The DIVVERS followed inside and with the ability to put his head up James swung a hook behind to climb up a single step in the grand staircase above. He felt a blunt pain in his back as he rolled over, the armor took a round directly in the plate, the worst it could possibly be was bruising. He peeked back to quickly dome the guy who shot him in the back and continued to climb at the corners of the steps, He soon grew tired of all the climbing and watched the others who survived agree to climb together. the golem stopped chasing after the first two steps so it could call others to repair the hole. James took potshots at those below with his waning ammunition, unlike his adversaries he soon grew tired and his armor off, placing sticky pads of fabric on his bruise. James snapped to awareness when he realized he was suffocating, he jerked his head with enough force to pull a neck tendon. He breaks the ice forming around his body and sits himself up, he crawls over the ledge to two treasure hunters sleeping together and he quickly fires two quick shots, dispatching the threat. Still he found himself too weak to continue climbing so he waited at the corner of his step for another mercenary to come up so he could steal their weapons. In his wait he tried to let a treasure hunter in power armor pass but they had caught wind of his ambush, prompting James to fire into the steel fruitlessly, the armor even began to spall back into James' face. He noticed bullets beginning to trail over to him an used the power armored soldier as cover before shoving them off the stop and firing up with his revolver. More rounds struct his torso before another hunter in power armor tackled him off the step as well, crushing him against a corner as he fell past another step into the steel of the treasure hunter, with his remaining two shots he fired under the power armored soldiers helmet and rolled to recover, the had stopped pursuing him after they most likely assumed him dead, which he near well felt. James once again felt the relaxing bliss of blood loss, taking it in he soon tensed as the chants of others tried to force him up. He was however, too weak to listen to his battle brothers and fell limp on the step in the hope of his human recovery.

It is shown here that he still would often dream about being in a small home with paper windows, though much more firearms would scatter themselves in odd places as well as bulky helmets and greaves. He said that he missed Tao but the person she had become was not the one standing before him, he argued that James himself was dead too and it caused an identity crisis within himself. That he held no value to anyone he could become other than the man that was impossible to attain. He wished for a solution and at the moment the Giganvol seemed like the only one. He joked about constantly being afraid that he would sleep with someone pretending to be his wife so they could kill him and as he did he pulled a gun from the nightstand and pulled the trigger to Tao, a flash of him wanted it to be a monster than would jump out and try to kill him but the only thing that fell in front of him was a bronze woman with blonde hair.

James woke up with the glare of the sun being slightly blocked, he looked ahead to see Tao standing over him in that matte blue armor. He was too bloodied to be surprised, she commented on how she knew the person who was sent to the heavens wasn't the real him. "Too inviting and without spite of the past. Also they died, you can't really die up there." she sighed and pulled James up, he was confused as to why she was so calm with him after everything he had done. she materialized a blood transfusion with him where we learn that his blood type is a foreign one he liked to call "AKK" she said she felt pity for him and he jumped away stubbornly, saying he didn't want help from her, that he hates the possibility of people helping him because he can't stop hurting himself, he views such as a form of blackmail. Tao explains to him that it wasn't the common pity he fears of getting used to, that it was more similar to the one where you see a stranger who needs an extra tire, Tao says she's got the jeep. James measures his options and sits down defeated, James wants to start a conversation but she quickly tells him to 'shut up' he pulls a revolver in the hopes to start another day but she slaps the gun out of his hand before he can paint his brains on the wall. She hoists him up and hovers over the steps, staying low as to not follow in the path of the bird boy and eat a laser.

The two heard the crushing of stone at the top of the staircase, rubble and bodies began to rain from the top, as people attempted to flee, a unique DIVVER locked onto Tao and leapt down. It pulsed a green wave and Tao was repelled into the wall, James was unaffected by the pulse but a fist came down upon him, His body was frail and once again pushing the limits just to survive. The DIVVER struck James with its welder and he arose with most of his face mutilated, Reminding Tao of their old meeting to which she struck the DIVVER off balance and jumped with James to the top of the tower and killing off the wounded who made it to the top. James was bandaging his wounds and recycled a metal plate on his jaw to clamp any blood vessels, he turned and hovered over the pool, dropping a peculiar mechanism inside that dissolved. Tao asked why he wouldn't jump in, James said he was thinking about it, he wanted to reflect for a moment since he could guarantee danger wouldn't follow anymore.

Looking into the pool of soft blue water he turned to Tao, and said he wished to ask something of her. She shrugged, believing that he should have known they were on neutral terms. He asked is she ever wondered if their lives would end up so complicated and large, surrounded by so much death and misery, but most was if she wanted to change it. Part of Tao wanted the quiet life she thought was promised at first, but then she would have never seen James' true colors. She asked what he desired most, James just twisted a hand to her and said that he wanted to be independent, be the best so he wouldn't fear the expansion and rule others. He said that if the counci told him they wanted to kill all life to prevent it from imposing their rules onto us, he would have let them. He was so afraid of how little the world seemed to care, so why should he care about it? He wanted to take as much as possible and make sure that same world that could have given to others, give nothing if he couldn't indulge as well. The only reason he went against this corrosive feeling was because he wanted his Akkenshans to prosper, they had kindness in their hearts, they left the isolated alone, even if many eventually caved in and joined Akkensha for their resources.

Tao took a breath and leaned over by the pool with him, "Did you want to lead this quiet life with somebody?" he shook his head, he said that since he lost value of his body he just wanted to freeze himself until he felt better, he started to doubt the purifying effects of the water. It made the mistakes of the past into a dream, everyone remembers but you didn't actually do it, it corrects the timeline and totally restructures the individual and nothing else. Tao pulled the armor off and James averted his eyes, she sat in the pool asked why nothing happened. One needed to drown in the water, 'killing' off ones old self, he turned around but was grabbed by the forearm at his first step. James shrugged her off, asking her if anyone was really deserving of forgetting their consequences, he felt like it was similar to lying in a relationship, but now with your very soul. He caved and joined her in the pool they shared a moment together but he left feeling taken advantage of. He left her in the pool as he took the armor and left, segregating his relics in temples at the corners of his home universe, planting stabilizers there to keep it from collapsing as long as the relics contained power, which oddly enough wasn't forever.

#### The Growth of Giganvol

The Giganvol from the well was left to fester and grow, At the size of tens of galaxies the green wall would continue to consume material out of nothing. The counci Junesmoon was in a great vessel and capturing the living in cramped pods to sleep for eternity. An **Unknown Alien** had awoken from their stasis and broken out from their pod, in their escape, robot guards fired upon him and damaged local controls. In the logic damage, Tao had awoken from her pod and, being familiar in situations of capture and escape, navigated halls and broke a weapon off of a guard. she continued through the halls before meeting Junesmoon who was quite calm despite the weapon pointed at his face, she was able to get a good look at everyone who had been captured and noticed a counter on a screen noting in scientific notation. she fired into his knees and used him to send the whole facility into a frenzy, in the chaos, a panicking pirate captain launched the ship right into the Giganvol, its gelatinous properties stuck the ship half inside its mass.

In the sprint for escape pods Tao noticed his body half consumed by the green wall, it seemed to her that he was trying to pull someone out, Tao escaped the ship and tried to continue her life, the last thing she remembered was locking the door in front of survivors banging on the glass.

This story is up to interpretation, whether it was a clone, non-canon, or Mysterious managed to survive is not confirmed.

#### Nimvir

In the events of the Mysterious Legacy sequels, Mysterious now goes by the title of Nimvir, a modestly rich man who reconnected with League and kept him as a personal body guard. He lives the city lifestyle in vacation homes isolated from said cities as not all of him completely deteriorated. One can assume this hedonistic lifestyle as consequence to 'bury' the filth of his past by abusing his body and covering it in filth that he could control. In his endeavors involving women and every substance one could think of Tao becomes suddenly possessive of him and works to hunt him down and keep him in chains. his company, **Dynam**, is responsible for selling a light blue sludge that can temporarily enhance the soul, leading him to Kenban. By now he has been informed of the **Project** and simply waits for **Akkens** to hunt for his clones.

Akkens eventually confronts him with his partner, **Ayka**, during their fight he stuns Ayka and flings Akkens into another room before stealing his uniform and putting his own clothes on a nearby servant. Ayka believes she connects with Akkens after seeing Nimvir's eye from the cracked gas mask, unaware that Akkens identity had been stolen by Nimvir. The two briefly live a life together as Nimvir truly considers a restarted life, though such is interrupted when he finds his astral map containing the locations of his relics is missing, he presumes Tao would go after the relics and asks Ayka for help in obtaining them under the guise that 'found treasure'.

In their pursuit for the relics he returns with Ayka to the Purgatorial arena by killing her and them himself. They manipulate the portal summon locations and travel through the arena to avoid Tao and Akkens who traveled nearby. After coming out from the portal they find themselves too late at one of the locations and opt to camp out at the locked temple. There, they are greeted by the loyal stone Akkenshans who had lay dormant for so long, with their ammunition infinite they continued to fight the **Agents** until Tao arrived. It was Bearhood who had arrived however along with Primus to secure the location, with Bearhoods star pound bow many were easily subdued and believing Nimvir to be Akkens, he imprisoned the two since Nimvir was fearful of losing Ayka. Bearhood was waiting for Tao as he too couldn't risk her obtaining Mysterium as well as the fact that Nimvir asked that he help keep her away.

When Tao arrived she used the digital sword with it at the maximum strength as ones morality being just decimals away from binary it would glow either a blinding gold or void sucking black with variable glow. She had cut the entire universe in half with a slice but Bearhood had frozen her shoulder, stalling for long enough for Nimvir to admit the truth so that Akkens could realize Tao was a "used up old broad" Akkens ran from her in a comedic scuttle and entered the door with a vision of **Yimaya**.

Ayka was dazed at the doorstep but Akkens had ditched her collect Mysterium, Nimvir was right at the pod when he very drastically lost the will to collect the armor. He turned back to Ayka, then Akkens who so very wanted to kill him. He told him that the creation of this trial was to see if one was willing to destroy themselves for power, the reason only an act of connection could get one in is because a sacrifice would occur to the other person. Akkens turned to Ayka and grabbed Nimvir by the collar and threw him to the door, but in Akkens hesitation to kill Ayka, Akkens opened the pod and threw her at the armor. As she made contact with the suit she took it on her visage and warped very suddenly. Akkens stared Nimvir in the eye through his oculars with a frightening indifference as the panels of the wall dropped to reveal a dormant Giganvol. Nimvir found himself face to face with the thing he believed he could never be, he asked for a moment of his time. Akkens sat back as the Giganvol started to grow, Nimvir told Akkens about his fear of waking up as a new person and leaving the one he believed himself to be behind, he noticed Akkens chill at the words. He said that he found a solution, he had to think for a while before he came up with the answer, he told Akkens to always work to what another expects of you. Nimvir waved Akkens off, claiming it was supposed to be off-putting so that only those with a functioning brain could understand that he meant a special someone, he told Akkens to be careful who to surround himself with and that's when the pieces began to click together, he noticed the sparkle in his eyes. Suddenly Akkens wanted to take Nimvir with him out of the room and Nimvir did believe such was possible, though he no longer wanted to run, he gave up long ago and never felt a reason to continue living the same day over and over again looking for that reason. He shrugged off Akkens asks, tapping his own head and saying that they shared his memories, and mind. Nimvir closed his eyes and allowed it to consume him once again.

Nimvir got off the ground and met a man in a broken mask, after speaking about their stories, Nimvir asked what the place was. The masked man said it was a place for a **conscience to die**, that people blow away in the wind once they sleep. Nimvir really like the man, but when he went to talk to them once more the masked man turned to him and seemed to phase out of existence, the realm was unstable and swinging dimensions can capture people in its infinite chaos.

Nimvir was soon once again met with Tao, she once again took advantage of him and the two blew away like sand structures in the desert.

### Trivia

-Mysterious, due to his long time lightweight, kept the leverage based fighting style for melee and unarmed combat. Easily isolating points like knees to weaponize his opponents, or own tools, immense weight. This characteristic was taught to him by Tao. This was inspired by *Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance*'s Sundowner

-Mysterious' human blood type is AKK, a mutated form of blood that carries a bit less oxygen and results in him often being tired and anemic

-What can only be described as Mysterious 'sleeping' is actually a state of altered perception for him. Due to his stresses, he simply freezes and blurs his vision which is eased by his special **Gel Pod**

-His time as the Rebar King was made to demonstrate his full capabilities in a scenario where it was impossible to ruin the story but rather to contribute to it.

-The environment of the "Rebar King" was originally inspired by *Madness Combat* but was expanded upon by *Realm* a fan series of the flash animation, the 'borders' of his world was inspired by the oily bubble look of *Gravity Falls* weirdmageddon

-Mysterious has the entire internet downloaded, segregated from his other data as "Home Internet" he usually only visits newgrounds to play flash games. since it reminded him of the times he snuck Tao into the facility

-Mysterious was the only character (Along with two unnamed Class 1 Akkenshans) to time travel, though many have manipulated the course of time from the present

-Mysterious has a very weak soul due to his large amount of soulbound relics, that being his **Pocket Storage**, **Aegis Mysterium**, **Destiny Revolvers**, and **Gem**.

-Mysterious' design was inspired by the spartans in *Halo*

-Mysterious' sword was inspired by the binary sword in *Madness Combat*

-Mysterious thought Tao's last name was Aken