The Memetuo

### Cause of Death

Burned alive after getting stabbed in the heart by Mary Jane Fitzgerald with a burning stake

## Character Information

### Nickname

The Monster
The Dark Creature
The Curse of Willow's Bell
Man with no Face
Black Serpent
Black Goo
The Venom that poisoned the Firefly Summer Camp
Hunter of Past Memories
Boogeyman
The Dark Messiah's Creation

## Relationships

### Friends/ Allies

Donovan Callis
Randy Cavanaugh
Edward Sexton Church (brainwashed while under the influence of Jupiter Meadows Asylum/ formerly)
Valerie Fish (brainwashed)
Leonard Simmons (brainwashed)
Natasha Lind (brainwashed)
Gustavo Read (brainwashed)

### Enemies

Mary Jane Fitzgerald
Casey Lombardi
Jay Ambrose
Edward Sexton Church
Magdalena Kraenen
Alan Fitzgerald
Janet Fitzgerald
Anastasia Wynter

## Portrayal

### Story

Don't Let the Darkness Consume You
In Your Dark Eyes

### Last Appearance

"*They say your thoughts can manipulate your reality*".- Donovan Callis regarding The Memetuo

**The Memetuo** is a dark and frightful manifestation able to corrupt and destroy the minds of traumatized individuals. He is a character in The Hawk and The Crow, being one of the two main antagonists in Tome I: A Legacy Beyond Comprehension.

The Memetuo's arrival took place in the Firefly Summer Camp when he corrupted Randy Cavanaugh, who was already mentally unstable at the time and started to get corrupted by dark and frightening thoughts. Using Randy as his vessel, The Memetuo destroyed all happiness and positivity in Willow's Bell, where he caused many of the terrible events in the Firefly Summer Camp.

## Background

In the late 1890's, the leader of The Callisaints cult and self-proclaimed "messiah" Donovan Callis secretly wanted to harvest the energy of his victims' spirits, and therefore sovereignity in The Otherworld. According to him, Callis wanted to remove or reduce the human variable and turn it into a collective god. For years, the Callisaints built their community on positive thoughts and words, but it wasn't long before dark thoughts began plaguing their community. Callis used this an excuse for the various people who ended up vanishing but they were actually being murdered by him.

On June 7th, 1897, a journalist snuck onto the valley and tried to warn the people about Callis, but he murdered her on the docks and told his poeple that she had come to corrupt their minds with fear. After the journalist's sacrifice, the community broke down into murderous madness. After the members had all killed each other, the Memetuo appeared and feasted on the corpses and negative emotions of everyone present with the exception of Callis, who watched on with cruel and uncaring eyes as the Memetuo consumed his community and returned to the shadows it hailed from.

## Appearance

The Memetuo's true form is revealed to be a disfigured creature that has a serpentine body with black and gray markings. Most of its back, head, and neck are black, while the underbelly and the tip of its tail are gray. Its eyes are yellow-coloured, similar to an insect with compound eyes, and there is a thin, white line down the center of its face. Its insides are made up of shadows. Across the back of its neck is a large, dread-looking frill. There are two limbs with shadowy claws and are sharp enough to cut through wood.

## Personality

The Memetuo is a manifestation motivated by a nihilistic and misanthropic philosophy. Through its own admission, The Memetuo has learned to hate human civilization, with little to no sign of remorse. As a consequence, it doesn't have mercy or empathy for other humans, and finds himself gratified by killing, torturing and tormenting people with its powers. It seems like the Memetuo is a seemingly natural-born creature that was fully aware of its actions.

However, despite being an entity that spreads fear, the Memetuo's main weakness was its extreme photophobia. Direct sunlight, fire, or even brief sparks would make it recoil in fear at best and try to flee at worst. Continued exposure to light appeared to disorient the Memetuo and send it into a panic.

## Powers and Abilities

The Memetuo is a powerful creature that appears to have a variety of dark abilities. However, these abilities can only be manifested while using a vessel, otherwise it will become much vulnerable.

* Septic Touch - The Memetuo's main ability is his Septic Touch, which allows him to induce many of the abilities he has.
* Telepathy - The Memetuo is able to see into the minds of others and search their memories as a means to obtain personal and private information that he might later use to terrorize his victims.
* Emotion Vampirism - The Memetuo can feed off and sustain his powers by feeding off the emotions or emotional energies of others that were infected by his Septic Touch.
* Illusion Manipulation - The ability to create, shape and manipulate illusions, causing others to see, hear, touch, smell and/or taste things which do not actually exist or cause them to perceive things differently from what they truly are.
	+ Fear Inducement - The Memetuo can evoke and increase fear and horror in others, causing them to see their environment as ominous and the user as dark and foreboding, or even as a monster.
	+ Anxiety Inducement - The Memetuo can cause the victim to feel anxiety, an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and apprehension, often accompanied by nervous behavior.
* Pain Inducement - The Memetuo is able to inflict minor forms of physical injuries on his victims such as nosebleeds and severe headaches.
* Night Vision - The Memetuo can see in low light conditions or even total darkness while preying on innocent people.
* Technopathy - To some extent and with varying results, The Memetuo can transmit the voices of people and other sounds in other locations over electronic speakers.
* Camouflage - The Memetuo's most impressive feat was its ability to become virtually invisible in poor light conditions, such as nighttime or a dense forest. This enabled it to confuse its prey and perform ambush attacks.

## Weaknesses

Despite the abilities The Memetuo has, it does have limitations.

* Fire - The Memetuo is very afraid of fire because it is a source of light, and can be greatly harmed by fire.
* Willpower - Beings with a stronger force of will can overpower the Memetuo's abilities.

## Trivia

* The Memetuo is mainly inspired on The Beast from the Poltegeist franchise and The Dredge from Dead by Daylight: Roots of Dredge (2022).
* The Memetuo is the first creature of The Hawk and The Crow that was created by the thoughts of certain people.
* The name "Memetuo" is a portmanteaum word of the Latin words "*memento*" (remember) and "*metuo*" (fear), which basically means "*remember fear*".