Well, this is the fastest update ever... i have been feeling rather pumped for this story lately, so that's a good thing with getting it done. And i have done some drawings for it as well. I might post them up on tumblr and/or DA soon ^^

Aslo, to re-emphasize that the setting is neo-victorian, it still takes place in the 31st century with different planets and such, except the technology is more steampunk-ish, and super-powers don't really exist in reality =w=;

oh and psychological medicine and treatments are sort of a mix of modern and victorian style treatments. it will be more apparent later on

why can't this website have that option of inserting art into the fics like AO3?

Also, trigger warning as this chapter does have curse words, as well as mentioning of self-harm.


"Garth, for goodness sake, sit down!"

Grunting at Irma's demand, Garth hopped with his one good leg as he tried to leave his bedroom. "No, I'm sick of being stuck in my room!"

The blond girl groaned before turning her head. "ROKK!"

"Yeah?"

"Help me out here, Garth's trying to leave!"

Within moments, the black haired man showed up at the top of the stairs, Ayla clinging to him while pouting. "You said you'd take me to the chocolate store!"

"Not now, your brother is being a wad again."

"Oh, okay. Can I help you sit on him?"

"Sure?"

His sister then charged at him full speed, whipping past Irma and into Garth, knocking onto the bed. "Oww," he growled as he tried to shove her off. But by then, Rokk and Irma also pinned him down. "All of you, off. I'm serious."

"Nope," Ayla declared. "Auntie Sue asked us while she went out to get kimchi to make sure you don't do anything dumb. Like hurting your leg again." She crawled over the other two and poked at said leg's knee.

"OWWW!"

As Garth moaned in pain, the telephone rang. "I'll get it," Ayla chirped. She jumped off and got the phone in the hallway. "Hello~, this is the Ranzz house!"

Garth began struggling to get up again, and then Ayla came back. "Garth?" She didn't sound as cheery as before. "It's the asylum. I'll… go check to see if there's anything to eat in the kitchen."

As soon as she said that, Irma and Rock both got off him and helped him to the phone in the hallway, where Dina was keeping watch and Ayla was going downstairs. Irma picked the phone up from the table where it sat and handed it to him. "Hello?"

"Is this Garth I'm talking to?"

"Nurse Mallor? What is it?"

"I need to ask you something. Your brother… did he… have a habit of drawing?"

Garth blinked. "Drawing? Yeah, he did draw a lot when we were younger… he hardly show me anything though… why?"

"He drew something earlier this morning. Two drawings."

"He… he did something? Did he say anything?" He clutched the phone closer as he started asking her questions. "What were the drawings? Did they have words?"

"Uh, no words, but one had two people and the other one had a cat… I think… it has three circles on the forehead, and so does one of the people in the other drawing."

"Circles?" His brain immediately clicked and he remembered the strange drawings of the boy that Mekt drew, that he would also draw as a cat. "Oh! He drew that before!"

"What about a girl with a flower in her hair?"

"Doesn't sound familiar right now, but I can come over tomorrow and che-" Before he finished that sentence, he felt something hit the back of his knee. He gasped in pain, with Irma and Rokk supporting him, just before she took the phone.

"Uh, no, he can't, because he's still recovering. And his Aunt doesn't want him leaving until he can walk without exaggerating the injury."

He shot her a glare before he took the phone back. "I'm fine."

"… I think it might be best to wait at least a week before coming. I'll let you know if there are anymore changes in his behavior… but if you could dig up some of these old pictures of his for the next visit, I'm sure the doctor would appreciate it."

"… All right. Should I let my aunt know so she could visit?"

"I think it would be appreciated," Nurse Mallor told him. Then there was some talking in the background. "I need to go now, but I'll be sure to keep tabs with you."

"Thank you." With that, the line went dead. As Garth set the phone down, Dina looked at him. "What?" She simply yawned before jumping down, trotting to the stairs before disappearing, probably so that she can get Ayla to feed her something.

"… Garth?" He looked at Irma, as he was guided back to his room. "What was it exactly?"

"The nurse said Mekt… did some drawings."

"That's a good sign, right?"

"Pretty sure it is," Garth answered.

"When… was the last time you saw him?" Rokk was raising an eyebrow.

"Just before the accident," he grunted, being lowered back on his bed.

"Ayla's never gone to seen him, right?"

"Too young for his ward, only 15 year olds and plus are allowed in without an adult. And we all know Auntie has…"

"Lost all faith in the last few years?"

Garth looked at Rokk, not liking the way he said that. "… Her last visit was when she saw that he cut his wrists open. I don't think she wants to relive losing another family member," Garth told him.

The room fell quiet, until Ayla popped in again. "Can someone help me with the stove?"

"Yeah," Rokk volunteered as he left the room, leaving just Garth and Irma.

After a minute, Irma looked at him. "Do you think he might be able to leave soon?"

"… I hope so."

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Mekt was sound asleep when he felt something hit his face. "OW!" Eyes wide open, he saw Brainy in his cat form, sitting on the edge of the seat's edge, pulling his paw away. "What the hell?"

"Took you long enough to wake up," Brainy mused, swishing his tail back and forth. "We're almost there, so be awake and sharp."

Mekt sat up and groaned. He looked out in the distance, and saw it. The fortress. Two sets of high walls surrounding a building in the middle that seemed to be swaying side to side. The front gate to it all had several guards around it, so clearly that wasn't an option at any rate.

"I can fly you three into the first wall, but after that, you'll have to find the rest of the way in while I unlock the place," the old man told Mekt. "Salu? You have the instructions on getting through written down?"

"Right here!" The girl held up a folded piece of paper, putting it into her dress's pocket.

"Good. I'll meet you three inside when I can. It's too bad you can't transform yourselves into air, that would save you all the hassle…"

As they drew closer to the first wall, several guards did notice them and predictably fired at them. Thankfully they managed to stay out of range.

Soon the blimp drew closer to the second wall. Salu shrunk before jumping onto Mekt's shoulder and grabbing his bowtie while Brainy was on the other shoulder, digging his cat claws in. "Now, jump!"

Mekt stood up, carefully balancing himself as he eyed the nearest ledge right outside the wall. "I'll be surprised if this doesn't kill us," he mused before leaping.

Somehow, he did land on the ledge. He watched as Shrinking Violet jumped off and returned to normal size, and got Brainy off. "Try not to pierce me next time, will you?"

The cat merely blinked before resuming his human form. "I'll try."

Mekt nodded and looked at the area. The walls had tapestries hanging on them, all red with a twisted image of a heart and thunderclouds on the top. Red Lord's probably. Emerging from the wall, another massive tentacle was writhing, which was disturbing to watch. Just before it, there was a hole in the wall.

"Here we go," Salu said and began leading the boys in. "Stay close to the walls, we'll be less noticeable," she told them.

As they were on the other side of the wall, Mekt saw the center building. It was floating on a lone plane, disconnected from everything. The building's style reminded him of the pictures of Korean buildings his mother and aunt showed him several times.

"Uh, do we jump across?"

"Sure, and die in the process," Brainy replied. "It's safer to go through the maze." He pointed at another opening in the wall that led to a hallway inside.

"… Maze?"

Salu held up the sheet of paper she had out earlier. "We just follow the instructions Gramps gave me and we'll be fine."

-0-0-0-0-0-0-

"Oh, fuck fuck fuck!" All three were running away as fast as possible as several flying creatures kept pursuing them. "Fucking fuck!" Vi kept cursing as they ran. "Fuck you Boojum!"

Unlike the card guards, Boojums were way more agile, as well as dangerous. Mekt heard another one of them scream, feeling it hit him in the back. "Ow!" Finally having enough, he took out his cards and fired them, watching as they sliced through the creature, just before letting out a wail as it started burning away.

Mekt cringed at the sight of the flames, remembering the flames back at his home.

"GET DOWN!" Brainy shoved him down, raising his gun up and shooting at the next Boojum, making it retreat.

Mekt remained still before heading over to the heart the Boojum had left behind, letting it enter him and heal his wounds.

"Come on, last portal isn't far ahead."

"I swear, if we have to solve another puzzle," Mekt growled, "I will rip off the head of the next guard or whatever tries to attack us with my bare hands."

They had already encountered several guards while navigating the wall's maze. The wall was far larger inside than it was outside, it was like a vortex, and every part just led to more doors. At least he understood where the term Fortress of Doors was from.

"The proper order to me is often a mystery to me," Brainy said before looking at Mekt slyly. "You too?"

Mekt's only response was a growl.

After passing through the supposedly last portal – after trying to figure out which door it was – they were finally out of that horrible vortex. On the top of the second wall. Right above the tentacle Mekt spotted earlier. "I wish we could have just climbed the damn fucking wall instead of going through that shit," Vi said.

"Seconded," Mekt told her.

"We would have been spotted and with no advantage in fighting," Brainy merely stated.

Both Salu and Mekt groaned. As they began their way across the path laid out before them, there was the horrible screams of the Boojums again, as well as several guards running towards them, eliciting a groan from all three this time.

"I'll get the guards," Salu sighed.

"Boojums," Brainy muttered.

"Same." Mekt aimed at the closest monster and shot several cards at it, and thankfully it went down fast enough, but he ran out of meta. He ran for the heart that had replaced the Boojum, narrowly avoiding the second one as well as the fires from the guards, who Vi was swiftly dispatching.

He heard another gunshot as the remaining Boojum, swooped down, aiming for Brainy this time. Fortunately the green boy vanished, leaving the Boojum confused. As it searched for him, Brainy reappeared behind it and shot it in the back. Brainy vanished again as it was burning away, reappearing behind the remaining guards and hitting one with the end of his gun, forcing him on the ground before shooting.

He's really not the same kid from before…

Mekt recalled the Querl he knew when he first came to Wonderland, the one who would criticize him and everyone else over the smallest things, and would leave him stuck in places out of curiosity to see if Mekt could get himself out of whatever it was.

Salu stabbed the last guard, before pushing him over the edge. "Alright, now let's get in before any more show up," she suggested as she wiped her dress a few times, the blood fading quickly.

After walking the whole way around, they found that there was a single window open of the swaying building. Salu once again shrunk, and Mekt picked her up and watched as Brainy faded away before reappearing inside. Jumping across with Salu holding on, he stumbled a bit when he landed.

"Well, guess we look for Gramps now," Vi suggested as she jumped down and returned to normal size.

The window behind them suddenly closed, and there was a locking sound when it did. Clearly no way to leave now.

As they opened up the door before them made their way inside, Mekt saw that the inside had some hints of Korean design. The wallpaper patterns were like the ones at Aunt Sue's place, not as bright and colorful though.

When they got to a room with a staircase that led up that had several doors that were nailed shut, Mekt saw partially open double doors. Going over to inspect them, he saw that inside was a theater. "Hello?" He ventured inside, calling out once again. "Anyone in here?"

"Keep your voice down boy!" Hearing Salu's grandfather, he spotted him down next to the stage, and began walking towards him. As he came closer, he saw that there were several shadows on the stage that were grinning. Children, judging from the shapes. They were all twisting about, reminding him of some of the other patients he saw at the asylum.

As soon as the three of them were with the old man, Salu crossed her arms. "Gramps, there had to be a faster way to get here than what you told me."

"Fast, yes. Safe, no. I'm not going to risk my granddaughters life," he defended, getting a nod from Brainy. "Putting that aside, I found out one of the ingredients to the potion I was thinking of isn't available, so we'll have to do the next best thing. You won't be able to change your size by will like me or my daughter, but you can easily fix it by other means."

He was about to continue when there was the sound of running outside. "Quick, you'll find the recipe in the library! Look for the Book of Bizzaro! Hurry! And you, drink this! I found it while I was looking for some of the ingredients! It will be helpful." He shoved a bottle over to Mekt's hands and quickly disappeared as several guards entered.

"There they are!"

"Shoot them!" All of them aimed their spears at them, almost getting the three of them before they took cover behind some of the seats and took out their weapons. Mekt quickly stabbed the closest one, sliced another one in half.

As soon as they finished with the guards, Mekt looked at the vial he was given. A light blue glowing liquid was inside it, with what looked like a fang inside. "… Do you guys know what this is?" He held up the vial for the two teens to see.

"It looks like a lightning potion. Very rare," Brainy commented. "It should allow you to use lightning based magic without draining the ability to use magic. Which will be helpful."

"Sounds good enough for me." Mekt popped out the cork and held the vial to his mouth. Upon drinking the contents, he felt something inside of him burn for a split moment. Gagging for a moment, he saw that lightning was visible around his hands. Just when another guard ran in, Mekt pointed his hands towards him, watching as the guard froze as soon as he hit him. He then aimed again twice in a row, watching as the guard collapsed, fading away.

"Seems like it works," Vi commented.

"Yeah…"

He then saw Brainy was heading out. "We need to go to the library. The Book of Bizzaro should be in there."

"Wait, what about them?" Mekt pointed at the children on stage.

"Those are the insane children. This is the only place they are remotely safe, we can't do much for them the way they are now," Brainy stated rather coldly. "Even if we did try, they probably won't take much mind the way they are now."

Silently, Mekt followed Brainy out of the theater with Salu. Back out where the staircase was, they went up the stair and through another set of doors. Through that one, Mekt found themselves in a large library with several floors and high bookshelves.

"Let's see, the Book of Bizzaro should be on the very top," Brainy said. "But it's in a secluded part, so we will probably have to find some way to get to it."

Mekt sobbed. "More puzzles?"

"Probably."

"What the fuck?!" Salu shrieked at the top of her lungs, having much resentment to puzzles at the moment.

While both Mekt and Salu lamented their misery, Brainy started searching the high shelves, disappearing over one of them. Mekt heard something move then, like a book being opened and closed with papers shuffled. He looked up and saw a large purple book flying away.

"We need to find each one," Brainy said as he reappeared in front of them. "There should be on each floor and should all look the same."

"Oh thank god it's not a chime puzzle," Mekt sighed in relief. Finding books like the one that flew away seemed better than the horrible puzzles he was forced to deal with earlier.

After they finished searching the first floor and found no more books to help them, the three of them went to the lone stairway to the second floor. As they entered, Mekt saw the text on the walls for the different sections were written in Korean. He didn't know what meant what, but he was able to read how the words were supposed to be pronounced. like.

"Mekt, hurry up!" He then saw Shrinking Violet and Querl were far ahead of him, both of them tipping over a large bookcase and had it serving as stairs to the next floor.

"My bad." As Shrinking Violet went up the stairs, Mekt and Brainy began looking for the books. Mekt found one hidden at the very back of one of the shelves, wedged in. After successfully pulling it out, Mekt watched as it floated out of his hold, and up in the same direction the first one went in.

He saw two more books flying along the same path, indicating the other two already found them. He went over to the book-stairs, climbing up carefully as it was rather steep. Making his way up, he saw the flying books were serving as a pathway to something at the highest point in the library, where the night sky could be seen through the ceiling. Catching up with Salu, they both climbed another stairwell to the next floor, and approached the edge of where the floor ended and the books were hovering a few feet away.

Salu was the first to jump, and Mekt followed. Each time someone got on on, the books wobbled, prompting both of them to be careful. As soon as they finished crossing, Brainy materialized before them in his cat form. "Took the both of you long enough."

Mekt took a careful look at what was sitting before him. It seemed like a book, but it was closed shut like a box. "Shit," he cursed.

"STAND ASIDE!" Shrinking Violet was on the other side of the book now, and suddenly had a running start before kicking it over the edge. Mekt, Vi, and Brainy watched at the book plummeted down to the first floor, opening upon impact.

"Tell me Vi, couldn't you think of a more gentle way to open it up."

"Less talking, more doing," she answered, and began hoping her way down, leaving a disgruntled Brainy as he vanished. Mekt followed Shrinking Violet's route down, landing a few feet from the book. He saw Brainy was already flipping through the pages while Vi watched.

"Found it." He went over to another bookshelf and pulled out what seemed like a blank book. "Let's see… mushrooms, sugar and spice… and poppy-blooms…" Mekt saw Brainy make a face at the last ingredient. "We better go see your grandfather to see what he needs us to grab."

"Got it," Vi replied. She then ran off in the direction they originally came in, "Short cut!"

Mekt quickly took after her, glad she wasn't taking of like Luorna. She began leading him and Brainy back to where they were earlier until they arrived at another set of double doors. Opening it slowly, Mekt saw a stairwell in the center of the room before them, and…

"Aw crap."

"What?"

"Boojums. And several guards."

Both Violet and Brainy groaned at the news. "Alright, let's just get this fucking over with," Violet growled.

Mekt went in first, and obviously was the first one the Boojum saw. He felt electricity weave through him and aimed his hands at it, watching as it screamed out in pain. It didn't kill it immediately, but the second time stunned it, making it plummet to the ground, which Mekt immediately seized the opportunity to stab it.

When he did, the monster exploded into flames, making him jump back. It didn't burn him physically… but he still felt it.

He kept staring at where the monster died, only brought out by his trance when he saw Brainy shoot a guard, instantly killing him before turning his attention to the remaining Boojum, as Vi was busy with the other guards as she pulled out what looked like dice and threw it. As it landed, a glowing pentagram appeared and from it, some kind of creature that reminded Mekt of a fox, only it was rather large and had nine tails instead of just one, emerged. As soon as Brainy noticed, he grabbed Mekt's hand and led him away, along with Violet, and the three of them went up the stair.

Mekt listened as the guards yelled in pain, and when they were almost at the second floor, the creature managed to jump all the way up to where they were and came up to them. It approached Vi, and started rubbing itself against her. "Aww, you were so good~ " Vi began cooing as she pet it, getting it to wag its tails and make some kind of sound, as if pleased with the treatment. "Did you enjoy eating those guards?"

Eating?

The fox nuzzled her a bit before turning back into a dice. As Vi picked it up, Mekt saw that it had the carved figure of a fox with nine tails. It was the same as a picture of a creature Aunt Sue called Kumiho that she kept in her home.

Not sure how to react, Mekt continue following Vi, seeing an uneasy expression on Brainy's face. Maybe he should ask him about the creature later…

Shrinking Violet led him to the second floor and entered one of the doors. "Gramps! You here? Gramp?"

As he followed her, he found that she had led them down a hallway to a laboratory, where the old man was working with some kind of machine. He looked up at his granddaughter and a faint smile appeared on his face. "Good, you three are safe. Did you find the book?"

"Yeah, Brainy wrote down the recipe."

"Give it here." The green boy came over and handed him the book he wrote in and took from the library. "Mmm, mushrooms, I have that… plenty of spiced sugar drops in the cabinet, we can use that… you need to go to the plant nursery and bring me some poppy-blooms."

"Ew," Brainy grimaced.

"Which way is the plant nursery?"

"The door to the side of the hallway will take you there," the old man instructed before looking back at the machine before him and scowled. "This blasted thing is taking forever to get set!"

"Maybe Brainy and I can help," Vi volunteered. "It probably isn't as bad as multiple puzzles to open doors."

"Very well," the old man agreed. "You'll have to go on alone," he told Mekt."

Mekt nodded, not having a problem with that. Heading off by himself, he took the door that was on the left, and after taking a left turn again, he found the nursery. One of the plants to the side had remains of a guard next to it, and then he heard muffled shouting coming from inside, making him take a few steps away from it. "Nope," he whispered to himself.

After searching for a while, he finally found the section with the sign that said "Poppy-blooms". Leaning down to inspect the plant, he plucked the largest three, and took a careful look. The plant seemed innocent enough, reminding him of both poppies and snowdrops that he and Nura tended to in their mom's garden.

Once, he had made her a flower crown from the snowdrops, and she had made him one with the poppy flowers.

Feeling solemn at the though of his older sister, he didn't notice the set of footsteps that began to approach him from behind.

Quite suddenly, someone grabbed him from behind, forcing him to turn over and pushed him down on his back on the plants.

It was Tyr again. "Seems like you're alone," he commented, smirking down at him.

"Get off!" Mekt began thrashing as Tyr held him down, can't believing he let himself get caught like this.

"Sorry, can't. Lord of Hearts aka Red Lord is pissed off that your back, and made a rather explicate statement that he wants you dead." Tyr's eyes began studying him, making Mekt squirm under the other man even more. "Although… I think it would be a waste," Tyr confessed, his voice becoming voluptuous for a moment. "But I value my head more."

"Too bad." Mekt then kneed him in the crotch, then kicked him off as Tyr was writhing in pain, and zapped him just to make sure he wouldn't get up. Grasping the poppy-blooms, Mekt ran out of the place and closed the door, barricading it with the closest thing he found and took off

As soon as he got back in the laboratory, Mekt gave the old man the flowers. "Here, but we need to be snappy, there are more guards coming soon probably, along with Tyr… although I locked him in the other room."

Salu frowned. "Tyr? You mean that red-skinned guy back at the mines?"

"Yeah," Mekt confirmed.

The old man quickly worked on the machine, putting two of three flowers in a tube of boiling liquid, setting the last one aside. As soon as the liquid turned red from the now dissolved flowers, the machine poured it into a flask of blue liquid, turning it a purple color. "That should be it," the old man concluded before taking the flask and pouring the liquid into a medium sized vial. "There. Now, the way out and to the Vale of Tears is through the observatory, located in the library. I'll be heading out back to the village, so don't worry about me."

Salu took the vial hugged her grandfather. "Be safe Gramps."

"And you three as well," he replied before shrinking and vanishing.

She then turned to Mekt and gave him the vial. "Here, now let's get moving."

Just before they left, Mekt grabbed the remaining poppy-bloom, and stuck it into his pocket. It was probably edible, so he wanted to try it out.

As they returned to the library, Brainy directed them up to the top floor before ushering them in. Inside, a globe was spinning about with a telescope directed at it. Brainy began messing with some switches nearby, making it stop spinning, and then it opened it up to reveal another portal.

He watched as both Salu and Querl shrunk and climbed onto the telescope, just as some shouting was heard from outside. Quickly running to the telescope, Mekt drank the vial's contents, and felt himself shrink and got on the telescope, seeing both teens jump in the portal before him.

Following suit, Mekt felt the familiar sensation of passing through the portal, just before feeling himself being submerged in water.

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Kell had finished his rounds with several other patients before Dr. Wilson dragged him away, back to the now usual routine of checking on Ranzz. After his two drawings, they had been observing him to see if there would be anything else. In the last two days, there hasn't been anything yet, but he still paid attention whenever Kell was in his field of vision.

As he and Nurse Mallor entered the room again, he blinked at what he was seeing. Mekt was sitting up on the bed, drawing again, with several discarded pictures around the room. Kell picked up the closest one and looked at it. This time, it had several shadow-like figures, all of them grinning in a disturbed way.

Nurse Mallor was collecting the other pictures before approaching Mekt. "Hello Mekt," She greeted, not getting a response. "May I see what you are drawing?"

When he made no response, Kell came over and tried to get his attention. "Hey," he said and pressed his fingers against Ranzz's forehead, making him look up. The patient's eyes locked on him and stopped drawing, letting the nurse take one of his finished drawings he still was holding.

As soon as she did, Kell removed his fingers from the white-haired man's forehead, who was still staring at him. He wasn't sure what to make of his expression though.

"Move please," Nurse Mallor told him as she pulled out a syringe and injected into Ranzz's arm.

"What's that?"

"Medicine," she answered.

"For what?"

"None of your business," Mallor told him.

After a while, Mekt began drawing again, and both Kell and Mallor left the room, leading him to the office. "Help me catalogue these," she told him as she gave him the pictures.

"All of them?"

"Yes."

He groaned and began looking at each one of them. Most of them had a slight macabre feeling to them, probably due to the fact Mekt was mental. The boy and the girl from before were drawn again, but this time they were running away from something that was too small to make out. In the next picture, it was drawn again, much larger though. It seemed like a decaying corpse with a skull for a head, consisting of only an upper torso.

After several more pictures, the corpse thing was drawn again… only this time it was on fire, contorted as if in pain. "This is odd," he commented before showing the picture to Mallor, who was writing things down.

"What?" As soon as she saw the drawing, her eyes widened. "Oh." She scribbled something down swiftly and set the picture aside from the rest of her stack. "Do any more of them have fire?"

"Not yet," he answered, confused on why she asked.

"Well if you find them, put them in this pile," she ordered while emphasizing where the drawing of the burning creature was.

After sorting through several more pictures, one of them had a picture of a fox with nine tails; another had some sort of lab equipment. The second to last one had some kind of bottle with what was probably a fang, claw, or even a horn.

The last one was the most peaceful to look at. It was some kind of flower. It had the pattern of a poppy flower, but the way its petals were formed reminded Kell of a snowdrop.

"Lemme see that," Mallor ordered, taking the picture. "Wow, this one is really good… maybe the doctor should have him do art therapy." She then started filing the pictures, leaving out only the drawing that had the burning monster. "I need to go find him. Don't leave."

As soon as she was gone, Kell saw that Mekt's file was sitting on the desk. Tempted, he picked it up and opened it to see an information sheet.

Name: Mekt Yun Ranzz

DOB: February 14th 2567

Date Admitted to Arkham Asylum: November 13th 2577

Family background:

Father: Luc Ranzz – Korean descent, adopted by farmers at age 2 and given an English name, native of Winath. Became a successful professor before meeting his wife and moving to Earth. Status: Deceased at age 41 YO, November 21th 3076.

Mother: Perla Ranzz – from a family of Korean descent merchants/farmers, twin sister to Sue Yun, only aunt who is close to the family, was a mother of 5/6. Status: Deceased at age 42 YO, November 21st 3076

Siblings:

Nura Nal Ranzz: Older Status: Deceased at age 18 YO, November 21st 3076

Garth Yun Ranzz: Younger, twin to Ayla (first) Status: Alive

Ayla Nal Ranzz (first): Younger, twin to Garth Status: Deceased at age 4 MOs, August 1 3068

Ayla Nal Ranzz (second): Younger, youngest of all siblings Status: Alive

Kell blinked in surprise. Three family members, dead on the same day. Was there an accident or something? And why did the mom's info have that slash between 5 and 6? From the looks of it, there were just 5… was she expecting when she died? And wasn't Winath that place that for some reason the people there were prone to have twins?

Before he could read anymore, he heard footsteps coming back to the room. He closed the file and put it back on the desk. Mallor came back in. "Doctor said you can go take your break."

"Thanks." He left the room, glancing back at Mekt's for a moment. He knew it shouldn't matter to him… but he was just getting more and more sucked up into Ranzz's situation.

Hoping this will be over soon, he went to the stairs to go have something to eat before his next shift.


Just to clarify, Mekt's wonderland is NOT going to be identical to Alice Liddell's wonderland. The original story probably served as an influence in it's creation, although Mekt's own idealization has differences. Hints of his family's background will be evident.

Also, Kumiho is an actual creature from Korean mythology. It is similar to the Japanese 9-tailed fox, except it is usually portrayed as evil, as well with a tendency to eat human flesh, usually focusing on either the heart or liver. I chose to use a Kumiho to replace the demon from the diabolical dice cuz like I said, Mekt's wonderland is different from Alice's version.

If i get anything wrong about Korean culture, let me know so i can correct it.

The vial giving powers concept is from a web comic called Ava's Demon, which is also inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's an amazing comic (even though the artist is currently on hiatus to work on some kickstarter stuff. It also deals with some heavy stuff, but if you have in interest in a story that combines both hi-tech science fiction and magic, this is a pretty good piece of work, as well as gorgeous art.

Also, my friend Mothy and I have a head cannon that when enraged, SV will curse a lot. While still being sweet and stuff.