p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"emstrong style="font-weight: normal;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"Prologue/span/strong/strong/em/p
p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"emstrong style="font-weight: normal;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"A Surgeon Without Hands/span/strong/strong/em/strong/p
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p id="docs-internal-guid-da211e4e-7fff-ea66-12ef-5d0f685202bf" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"BRRMN/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"An ocean of nothingness crunches sharply again and again, wheezing and sobbing as it is ribbed by the elbows of one of its mightiest inhabitants. Time flinches, clumsily tripping past a moment like a drummer losing and regaining hold of his stick. It feels like the ever expanding universe is expanding a little bit faster than usual today./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"The source wall, like most any sheet of paper, has stood unconquered and proud, admired by all-well, most since the moment the world was built upon it. Acting as the only thing keeping the infinite from the null, it has seemed to be in no one's best interest to challenge it. It certainly wouldn't have made anyone happier./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"BRRMN/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"For badness sake, Darkseid, God of Evil, is tickling the source wall with his eyelashes, hoping to set it ablaze with little more than the fire in his eyes. Millimeter by millimeter, grain by grain, he is shearing through the foundation of the world, grinding away the perfectly repulsive grime on his fingertips. As the everything quakes, the air is so unstable that even fresh young screams can't find a foothold in the chaos./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"BRRMN/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"Like a surgeon without hands, the dark one incises the blank page that birthed him. Like a defanged cobra, he constricts the airways of the world. Like a man, he sets foot on the moon./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"KLTK KLTK KLTK/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"KLTK KLTK KLTK/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"KLTK KLTK KLTK/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"The world hisses and writhes as it drains into the opening like acid rain down a gutter. Darkseid feels the distance pull on him, like an anchor. His flesh burns, insides sizzle. All of the fluids in his body boil. For a brief moment, he can look past the noise of matter transcending space and becoming color, he sees a window and looks, but his breath cuts in front of him and fogs up the glass. The Dark One shatters it, insisting he enter, but his mass is so vast that the melting world can no longer drizzle past him. Like a child freezing his tongue to a pole in the winter, Darkseid becomes the newest part of the source wall./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"emstrong style="font-weight: normal;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"Got inspired by reading Nightlyy's P3 Fallen Messiah. The idea here was that I thought it was kinda interesting that the kids in Persona always have gods, religious and mythological figures as their personas. If I had a persona, it would probably be a superhero as opposed to a Loa. Dunno about you guys, but I don't really compare myself to a Hecatonchires too terribly often. The cultural/symbolic significance just isn't there for me. As I have it planned out, the kids personas are gonna be superheroes, mostly from DC, but also featuring some Marvel, Valiant and Image darlings./span/strong/em/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"emstrong style="font-weight: normal;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"I went through and did a study of the various tarot and what the implications are for characters assigned each arcana. This is gonna be structured largely like a Persona 3+ game with each chapter representing a different day. I have the first couple days mapped out pretty tightly with a decent length design document on my Google Drive. The main character is named Scott Tynion, after the creative team that worked on the titanic Batman series from 2011 - 16./span/strong/em/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"emstrong style="font-weight: normal;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"Pretty much all the significant characters that aren't canon are named after comic creators. Really hope that you guys enjoy the piece. I certainly have invested a bit of time into its design so far. Even though its starring OCs, I really put in work to make sure that it's compliant with the established lore. For example, there's a character you'll meet fairly early on with ties to the Persona 1 cast. Please do leave a review if you have any thoughts or questions. All are appreciated. Til next time./span/strong/em/p
p dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;"emstrong style="font-weight: normal;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"A Surgeon Without Hands/span/strong/strong/em/strong/p
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p id="docs-internal-guid-da211e4e-7fff-ea66-12ef-5d0f685202bf" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"BRRMN/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"An ocean of nothingness crunches sharply again and again, wheezing and sobbing as it is ribbed by the elbows of one of its mightiest inhabitants. Time flinches, clumsily tripping past a moment like a drummer losing and regaining hold of his stick. It feels like the ever expanding universe is expanding a little bit faster than usual today./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"The source wall, like most any sheet of paper, has stood unconquered and proud, admired by all-well, most since the moment the world was built upon it. Acting as the only thing keeping the infinite from the null, it has seemed to be in no one's best interest to challenge it. It certainly wouldn't have made anyone happier./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"BRRMN/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"For badness sake, Darkseid, God of Evil, is tickling the source wall with his eyelashes, hoping to set it ablaze with little more than the fire in his eyes. Millimeter by millimeter, grain by grain, he is shearing through the foundation of the world, grinding away the perfectly repulsive grime on his fingertips. As the everything quakes, the air is so unstable that even fresh young screams can't find a foothold in the chaos./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"BRRMN/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"Like a surgeon without hands, the dark one incises the blank page that birthed him. Like a defanged cobra, he constricts the airways of the world. Like a man, he sets foot on the moon./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"KLTK KLTK KLTK/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"KLTK KLTK KLTK/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"strongspan style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"KLTK KLTK KLTK/span/strong/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"The world hisses and writhes as it drains into the opening like acid rain down a gutter. Darkseid feels the distance pull on him, like an anchor. His flesh burns, insides sizzle. All of the fluids in his body boil. For a brief moment, he can look past the noise of matter transcending space and becoming color, he sees a window and looks, but his breath cuts in front of him and fogs up the glass. The Dark One shatters it, insisting he enter, but his mass is so vast that the melting world can no longer drizzle past him. Like a child freezing his tongue to a pole in the winter, Darkseid becomes the newest part of the source wall./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"emstrong style="font-weight: normal;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"Got inspired by reading Nightlyy's P3 Fallen Messiah. The idea here was that I thought it was kinda interesting that the kids in Persona always have gods, religious and mythological figures as their personas. If I had a persona, it would probably be a superhero as opposed to a Loa. Dunno about you guys, but I don't really compare myself to a Hecatonchires too terribly often. The cultural/symbolic significance just isn't there for me. As I have it planned out, the kids personas are gonna be superheroes, mostly from DC, but also featuring some Marvel, Valiant and Image darlings./span/strong/em/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"emstrong style="font-weight: normal;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"I went through and did a study of the various tarot and what the implications are for characters assigned each arcana. This is gonna be structured largely like a Persona 3+ game with each chapter representing a different day. I have the first couple days mapped out pretty tightly with a decent length design document on my Google Drive. The main character is named Scott Tynion, after the creative team that worked on the titanic Batman series from 2011 - 16./span/strong/em/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"emstrong style="font-weight: normal;"span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"Pretty much all the significant characters that aren't canon are named after comic creators. Really hope that you guys enjoy the piece. I certainly have invested a bit of time into its design so far. Even though its starring OCs, I really put in work to make sure that it's compliant with the established lore. For example, there's a character you'll meet fairly early on with ties to the Persona 1 cast. Please do leave a review if you have any thoughts or questions. All are appreciated. Til next time./span/strong/em/p