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Player nickname: Fel/that British Derpfais
Player LJ: manga_ghost
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Email: fantasygirl@blueyonder.co.uk
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Current Characters: The Tenth Doctor, Pearl Fey, Arthur Kirkland [England], Lyle Dylandy, Junpei Iori, Roxas
Character: Sam Linnfer (Lucifer)
Fandom: Waywalkers
Character Notes:
History: God mods I apologise for how long this history is but there is nowhere on the internet you can look this stuff up to cross-reference, so it is necessary sob. @.@
OKAY SO. The first thing you need to know to understand Sam goes back to way before he was even conceived. Heaven, Hell and Earth are not quite how we’ve been taught they are, and every myth and legend is grounded in fact. In the beginning, there was Cronus, a Greater Power that kept the universe as one constant, unchanging, lifeless singularity. Then Time, another Greater Power, came long and sealed Cronus away after an immense battle, and so time started flowing and our universe started to exist. Time set up his kingdom in the plane of Heaven, settled down and ruled there along with his Queens - Night, Day, Wisdom, Belief, Order, Chaos, Love, War, and Light - and sired many children, immortals who could Waywalk between the planes of Heaven, Earth and Hell, and were considered Gods among the mortal inhabitants of Earth.
But Time was afraid - afraid of the possibility of Cronus escaping from his prison outside of the universe. So Time tried to destroy him completely - and when this proved impossible, he created a weapon, the ultimate weapon, called the Light, and placed it inside his most beloved child, Balder, a Son of Time and Light. But Loki, a Son of Time and Night, grew resentful of Time’s policy of non-interference in the suffering of mortals, and in order to overthrow Time, he sold his soul to Cronus. But Cronus was afraid of the Light, and so used Loki to slay Balder, destroying the original Light forever. Time was heartbroken, as it was said that Balder was the only child he had ever truly loved. Light herself fled Heaven forever into Eden - the plane above Heaven, the paradise that made Heaven, with all its wonders, look like a pale imitation in comparison, and Cronus-tainted Loki was imprisoned deep below the halls of Valhalla.
And so it was that Time saw that it was necessary to create a weapon more ruthless to use against Cronus, and a child ruthless and reviled enough to use it. And so Time conceived a child with Magic, and placed the second Light inside him. But the Light inside this child was different from that of Balder in that it tormented the one who wielded it as well as those it targeted, and made the universe sing of all the darkest things in it. The child, Lucifer, was raised by his mother, and never told of the other side of his heritage.
And so Lucifer, blissfully oblivious to his real nature as Time’s necessary, illegitimate child, was eventually taken into the service of Jehovah, a Son of Time and Belief, as one of his Archangels. And it was while working for Jehovah that he discovered the nature of his parentage, during a Waywalk to Earth. For only the Children of Time can Waywalk; everyone else loses their way, and the ways between the worlds are dark and soundless for them. But Lucifer, during the Waywalk, could see the shapes and mists that existed in the ways.
Determined to discover the true nature of his father, Lucifer snuck into the Room of Clocks on his return to Heaven, and discovered in the room a dagger, sword and crown - the marks of a Prince of Heaven and a legitimate Child of Time. And so, Time crowned him as a Prince of Heaven, despite his illegitimacy. From that moment on, Lucifer was reviled by the majority of his brothers and sisters (Jehovah, in particular, cut off all contact with him), although some, like Seth and Buddha, still made overtures of friendship. And this lasted until the uncovering of the Eden Initiative.
When Light had fled to Eden, she had warded the ways so that no one could follow her through, sealing it off to all others. But some of the Children of Time were hungry to return to Eden, and proposed a plan by which they would summon the Incarnate of Darkness to breach Light’s wards and enter Eden. Lucifer was at first to be a tool in this plan, to summon Darkness using the Light, but he refused, afraid of the destruction Darkness would bring to Heaven. Instead, to protect his own brothers and sisters from their folly, and out of his own fear, he sealed the Way of Eden for good, making it completely impassable by using the Light to write wards in Shadow.
This did not come without repercussions, however, and for his efforts Lucifer was cast out of Heaven as an exile and banished to the lower worlds of Earth and Hell. His siblings coined many stories about him as a result that permeated mortal minds - he was evil, he was the Devil Incarnate, it was him that dealt in the souls of men and had barred the way to paradise for everyone else. Lucifer, meanwhile, spent his years as an exile learning as many languages and as much as he could about survival on Earth, and in Hell, created his own order and society among the frost demon population, building the city of Gehenna in the frozen wasteland. Over the years he adopted many names: Satan - one that he never used himself as it was one that his siblings has coined for him - Luc Satise, Sebastian Teufel, and Sam Linnfer.
And so it continued for thousands of years, until war broke out in Heaven. The Sons and Daughters of Time waged war with each other over which House, be it Nirvana or Valhalla or Olympus or any other of the numerous collections of children, would take the throne of Heaven and rule there. And as with all things, the war there had repercussions on Earth. And when the war in Heaven was at its height, it had the worst repercussions.
You might know it as the Second World War.
During this war, along with a French human called Annette and two spirit contacts by the names of Whisperer and Adam, Sam set up the Moondance network, a network of both humans and spirits, with him as its head. And with this network he helped the French resistance, the British efforts, anywhere that might be needed, with supernatural means. It was a way, in part, to alleviate the suffering that his family was causing. But when the tide turned and the Allies started winning, Sam switched sides and began to dig the losing Germans out of the rubble instead. He claimed it was because he couldn’t break the habit of fighting for the losing side.
But it was here in Berlin that he met up with Freya. Freya was a Daughter of Love and Time, of the House of Valhalla, and Sam hadn’t seen her in thousands of years. But in Berlin, he helped her fight off some Firedancers, and after the war in Earth finally ended and the war in Heaven was brought to a truce by the Wives of Time, they stayed together. And indeed, fell in love. But then, everyone loved Freya; that was her gift as a Daughter of Love.
However, it wasn’t to last. Valhalla was falling, and out of duty, Freya had to leave and return to Heaven, leaving Sam behind on Earth. And life went on; as the end of the 20th century approached, Sam settled down in a flat in Camden and managed to wind up working as a part-time librarian in a university.
And then one night in the early years of the 21st century, this all changed. Sam came home to find two police officers that told him that Freya had been murdered. There had also been a letter, addressed to him from Freya, asking him to meet with her before it was too late.
Sam knew that it had to have been one of his fellow Waywalkers that killed Freya - there was only a small amount of weapons that could kill a Child of Time, after all. So, he packed up all his things and went to her Devon house to investigate. While there, he discovered that Freya had been playing a dangerous game - a friend of hers was in Tibet, doing some research for her. Hot on the trail of whatever Freya had been looking into, Sam Waywalked there, to the monastery where Freya’s friend, Andrew, had been. There, the abbot of the monastery told Sam that Andrew and Freya had been looking into the matter of the Pandora Keys.
The Pandora Keys were a set of four keys to the prisons of four very dangerous Powers, locked away by Time long ago. The first three, Hate, Suspicion and Greed, were spirits that would have threatened Time’s rule in Heaven, and caused untold chaos elsewhere. The fourth was Cronus.
Freya and Andrew had discovered that three of Sam’s brothers - Seth, the suave Son of Night, Odin, the Head of Valhalla and Son of War, and Jehovah, the Son of Belief - had conspired to find the Pandora Keys and release the spirits to overthrow Time. But the three of them had discovered that Freya and Andrew were onto them, and so Freya had been murdered and Andrew had now gone on the run.
In an attempt to find Andrew, Sam called on the Moondance network once more, using Whisperer’s help, and that of a Jinn called Peter, to track Andrew down to Moscow, Russia. But when he discovered Andrew, he found that the man had been poisoned by Firedancers. Desperately, he sent Peter, Whisperer and Andrew away in a car, relying on the Moondance network to get them to safety, and used a train to get to their rendezvous point.
However, the plan failed. All four of them were captured by one of Jehovah’s Archangels and one of Sam’s former friends, Michael. In an attempt to slow Sam’s efforts to stop Jehovah, Seth and Odin down, Michael took Sam’s weapons and shot him in the back with a lead bullet - hardly enough to kill him, but enough to put him in a regenerative trance for a week.
Following the trance, Sam returned to Hell and Gehenna, the only safe place left for him, currently ruled by Prince Asmodeus and Sam’s oldest demon friend, Beelzebub, affectionately nicknamed Bubble. But things there were also turning against him - Asmodeus, who had always resented Sam, had joined forces with Seth as a way to further his own campaign against Belial, who ruled the other principality of Hell. Realising that Hell was no longer safe for him either, Sam told Bubble to get out before he left himself, leaving for London in order to retrieve his weapons from where Michael had hidden them.
From there, he returned to Russia, to the spirit that had betrayed them, and forced her to lead him to where Whisperer, Peter and Andrew were being kept. Sam was able to rescue Peter and Whisperer, but Andrew was being held elsewhere and questioned, making rescuing him impossible.
From there, Sam arranged a meeting with his brother Seth on neutral ground, and discovered that not only did Seth intend to free the Pandora Spirits to gain control over Heaven, he also intended to free Cronus, kill Time, and end the universe as we know it. And now that Sam knew Seth’s true intentions, he was even more determined to stop it from happening. To this end, he sought out the “Gail” that both Andrew and Freya had mentioned as working with them, aka the Archangel Gabriel, turned traitor against her master in order to prevent the spirits from being freed. He finally found Gabriel in Mexico - but by then, it was too late. The first three keys had been found, and the three conspirators unleashed the spirits of Hate, Greed and Suspicion on the world - starting with the safehouse that Sam, Gabriel and her helpers were in.
The group scattered, but not fast enough - Adam, Sam’s old spirit friend who had been working with Gabriel, was caught by the song of Greed, making him try to kill Sam for the dagger he held. In the ensuing fight, Sam mortally wounded Adam, but was able to save his life, by lending him his regenerative gift for a while. However, this had the side-effect of making all of his injuries from the past month reopen while his gift recovered - and it was in this state that he met Seth and battled with him. Sam managed to make Seth retreat, although they were both in bad shape by the end of their battle, and with Seth gone, Sam unleashed the Light on the Pandora spirits - not enough to kill them, just enough to damage them and make them retreat for a while. Exhausted by his efforts, Sam passed out into a regenerative trance, during which he was brought back to Adam’s flat to recover.
It was only a brief recovery, though. Adam’s flat was soon targeted again by both Firedancers and the Pandora spirits thanks to Sam being there, and Sam was forced to flee and scry for his allies. While scrying, though, he was again attacked by Firedancers, and would have been overpowered were it not for the timely intervention of a mysterious man wielding two crossbows. Since the man didn’t give his name, Sam dubbed him Tinkerbell, much to the man’s bemusement.
Looking further into the mysterious Tinkerbell’s affairs revealed to Sam that the man had been keeping tabs on him for some reason, and also that he was serving a mysterious master and mistress. Hot on the trail of Tinkerbell’s mysterious organization, Sam was led to Berlin, to a nightclub called Der Engelpalast. There, he found that the manager to whom Tinkerbell had addressed a letter was one of a secret order called the Ashen’ia - those who had done deals with the Greater Powers and sold their souls so that they could gain mastery over the universe and so that the Pandora spirits could not touch them. Sam also discovered that for their own ends, the Ashen’ia were both protecting and watching him, so that they could use the Light to hold the universe to hostage. He also discovered, to his shock, that Gabriel was part of this organization.
Hot on Gabriel’s trail in an attempt to find answers, Sam and Gabriel were attacked by Thor, who, it was discovered, had sold out to Cronus. Sam managed to briefly overpower Cronus-Thor, but as the Waywalker retreated, Tinkerbell and some other Ashen’ia showed up, and Sam was taken prisoner. However, while a prisoner of the Ashen’ia, an eavesdropped conversation revealed that the master of the order was none other than Jehovah, one of the conspirators. Immediately, Sam sprang into action and escaped from the house he was being held in, thinking that he’d been sold out. But as he escaped, he was again attacked by the Pandora spirits and forced again to use the Light. Left weakened by the release, Sam was once again captured by Jehovah, and brought to Hell where he was once again made a prisoner.
By this point, the Light was beginning to affect Sam’s mind to the point where not even the magic could hold him up anymore. Because with each mind the Light touched, the further Sam’s own mind was stretched, and the more voices filled his mind until he could barely tell which one was his own anymore. And the more he used the Light, the worse this would get - which was why he was so eager to stop Cronus being freed. For while Sam could use the Light to defeat Cronus, he would have to tap every mind in the universe to do it - which would either kill him, or make him lose his mind forever.
This was of little consequence to Jehovah, though, who it turned out had sold his soul to Time and was in fact working as a double agent for Time’s cause against Cronus. But it seemed that for this cause, Time actually wanted Cronus to be freed - so that Sam could use the Light against him and destroy him forever. Naturally, Sam refused - which was when the biggest mindscrew of all happened - because it turned out that Freya was not actually dead. Her death had been faked, she had also sold her soul to Time, and her part in Time’s plans had been to make Sam love her so that he would be drawn to fight against Cronus. Time himself threatened to kill Freya unless Sam complied with his wishes.
Sam knew he had to protect Freya, and so he outwardly agreed to Time’s ultimatum so that he could get freedom of movement. And then with Tinkerbell in tow, he Waywalked to Asgard, the cavernous prison below Valhalla, to find an Eden portal. Because when he’d sealed Eden so long ago, Light had promised protection in Eden whenever he asked for it, and Sam now needed it - not for himself, but for Freya. Light granted him this protection, and Freya was made safe in Eden. While in Asgard searching for the Portal, Sam also came across Loki, who had been made old, feeble and mad by his long years of imprisonment. It was also here that he discovered that Loki was in fact Tinkerbell’s grandfather, and that Tinkerbell also wanted Sam to destroy Cronus so that Loki could be freed.
Sam managed to ditch Tinkerbell - quite literally - in the Thames River back on Earth, before he Waywalked back to Hell in a desperate attempt to get a message to Seth about how Time was using him to free Cronus. But he was intercepted by Jehovah, Tinkerbell, and the rest of the Ashen’ia, recaptured, and poisoned so that he would remain in a regenerative trance until he was needed to fight Cronus. But while in the trance, he was still dimly aware. Aware enough to communicate with Time and trick his father into selling Sam his soul. It was a gamble, but one that Sam, desperate to survive, was willing to take.
When the attack on Tartarus, the Hellish city where both Cronus’s prison and the key to that prison were located, began, Sam tried one last-ditch attempt to prevent Cronus’s prison being opened. And although he managed to kill Seth in battle, he was unable to accomplish this, because when Sam had fought Thor earlier, he had failed to kill him. And Thor, possessed by Cronus and still torn with grief over thinking Freya had died, opened the door to Cronus’s prison.
And so Sam was forced to use the Light. The Light tapped every mind in the universe, Hell, Earth, Heaven, and even Eden, a release on a scale that no one had ever seen before, and the mass of life that the Light gathered destroyed Cronus for good.
And Sam? His mind drifted, a tiny little speck within the Many that the Light encompassed, until Jehovah found him where he lay. And it was then that Sam’s reason for writing himself onto Time’s soul became clear - because when Time possessed Jehovah, Sam was able to use Time’s soul to find his way back to himself. And with Time’s nemesis defeated and a whole life ahead of him that no one had expected him to have…
Well. As Sam himself thought, maybe it had been worth it after all.
Personality: The first thing one tends to notice about Sam when the universe isn't imploding around his ears (and even when it is, sometimes) is that he’s a very chipper, cheerful kind of guy, with a trademark boyish smile. He’s got a disregard for authority and a very casual, yet polite, way of speaking that either endears him to people immediately, or does the exact opposite. Hand-in-hand with this cheerful disposition goes his eternal flippancy and sarcasm - even when faced with life-and-death situations, Sam will have a glib comment or retort that will inevitably make its way out of his mouth. A lot of the time, this flippancy is Sam’s own peculiar way of dealing with his own panic.
However, there’s more to Sam than this. When the proverbial shite starts to hit the fan, he displays a ruthlessness, cunning, and authority that can catch people by surprise, and though he rarely gets truly angry, when people try his patience or his good will for too long, he can let loose enough of an angry threat to make people sit up and take notice. But despite the ruthlessness that he’s more than capable of and, when necessary, more than willing to use, Sam can also display a fair and surprising amount of compassion. Where possible, he will try to keep innocents out of his affairs, and incapacitate rather than kill. Bear in mind as well that he’s also the man who tried to lessen some of the pain the war in Heaven was causing on Earth; Sam finds it difficult to ignore suffering when it’s in front of him, and though it goes against his principle of survival, he feels bound to help.
Sam also harbours within him a fair amount of pride and resentment. Resentment towards his siblings (and especially Jehovah) for casting him out of Heaven, and enough pride to make him refuse to act like the person his brothers have said that he is and want him to be purely on principle. This pride and resentment also extends to Time, his father, for making him his “necessary child” - Sam defies his father whenever possible, because he doesn’t want to die for Time’s schemes, no thank you sir.
Sam is also driven, first and foremost, by a principle of survival; more than anything else, he wants to live, preferably in peace, and will try anything he can to avoid his own death. Yet, paradoxically, he will often put himself in danger for the sake of his friends and comrades. On top of this, Sam is, put simply, a man who loves life itself, for its own sake; so although he fights mostly for his own survival for as long as he can, when it really does come down to him or the universe, he’ll use the Light to defend the universe regardless of the effect it will have on him. He’s a good man as well as being the Devil, and that’s a dangerous combination.
Other: Sam can speak a hella lot of languages from being on Earth for so long. In addition he’s an extremely competent fighter, especially with a sword and a dagger, and an incredibly skilled sorcerer, as you’d expect from a Son of Magic. Also, he is to all intents and purposes immortal - only silver, dragon bone or the weapons of another Child of Time can kill him, and any other injuries will just send him into a regenerative trance.
Also a small note about the Light; to use it, Sam has to tap into other people’s minds and draw out certain emotions or feelings, which he then uses as a weapon that can very literally fry minds if it wanted to. He can also use it to read minds, since it allows him to hear people’s thoughts. However, his control over it is very limited at best, and every time he uses it it not only causes him great pain, but also drives him further into losing his own mind. So he doesn’t use it often if he can help it. :’D
Oh yeah, I’ll also be playing him pre-canon for a while, since once Freya dies, things kind of explode. :|b
Additional Links: if there had been any additional links I would not have subjected you to that massive history up there sobbbb \;A;/
First Person (entry type): Well, what have we got here? At first I thought that this was just a glitch on one of the computers, but it looks like it’s on every one in the library. It’s all a bit of a puzzle, especially when the technicians can’t figure it out either. I’m pretty sure one of them thinks that I’m responsible, which is charming, really. Not to mention completely untrue, since I don’t know anything about computers, and I can see the rest of you chatting away like this is perfectly normal.
So, at the risk of sounding a little stupid, could one of you point me in the direction I’d need to go to get rid of this website? As fond as I am of ducks, I do happen to be in the middle of helping to research a paper, here, and I doubt the Master of the college would be happy to hear that all of the library’s computers have malfunctioned on my watch either.
Third Person: It was another war; wasn’t it always?
This time it was in France. Maybe he should have stayed out of it; he didn’t know. What he did know was that he couldn’t not help to alleviate the suffering, if only slightly. A fire put out here, an arrow deflected there, an improbable (impossible) invisible shield thrown up around a strategic point. It was the least he could do. Was he not a child of Magic, and could he not make miracles?
Really, though, it had become more a matter of pride than anything else when he discovered that Jehovah was involved. Of course, he wasn’t involved directly; that would never have been his brother’s style, thought Sam bitterly with a snort. He was a lot like their father in that way, preferring to work through other people. In this case, his archangels.
He found Michael not far from the small village; but then, Sam had known he would. Archangels weren’t especially good at shielding, so it was easy to pick up Michael’s signal.
“Michael, old friend,” he said lightly. “What are you doing here on Earth?” Michael turned, a little startled, as if not sure if he should fight Sam or not. Sam couldn’t resist an inner, sardonic chuckle; really, what would he possibly gain from fighting Michael here?
“I’ve been sent,” Michael said finally, falling back on the stock answer of any dutiful Archangel.
“Of course you have,” Sam sighed, as if he were disappointed with Michael’s lack of originality. “I sensed you talking to that girl from a mile off. What’s Jehovah up to this time?”
For a long time, Michael didn’t answer, just stared at Sam with a small frown on his face. Ah, but he can’t tell me, can he? Sam thought to himself, somewhat amused. I’m the enemy, after all.
“Helping to end this war sooner, actually,” Michael said eventually.
“Really. How thoughtful of him.” The lightness left Sam’s voice along with the half-smile on his face as he gazed at the village. “That girl will die if she gets involved, won’t she?” he said softly. Really, the question was rhetorical. Get visions involved, get the girl involved in warfare, and sooner or later people were going to start spreading rumours and asking questions. Rumours that would probably involve him, he thought bitterly. And then that poor girl would die, just for being given the last push to defend her country by an Archangel.
“More good will come out of this than you know, Lucifer,” said Michael steadfastly - and hell, he really believed what he was saying, didn't he?
“Maybe,” Sam replied, a touch of regret tingeing his voice.
But it’s still One dying for the Many, and as someone who certain people expect to be the One in that sort of scenario, I can’t help disliking it on principle.
Player LJ: manga_ghost
Way to contact you:
Email: fantasygirl@blueyonder.co.uk
AIM: anyneedtrinty (rarely used)
Other: Plurk: Tenfel
Are you at least 15?: YYYY
Current Characters: The Tenth Doctor, Pearl Fey, Arthur Kirkland [England], Lyle Dylandy, Junpei Iori, Roxas
Character: Sam Linnfer (Lucifer)
Fandom: Waywalkers
Character Notes:
History: God mods I apologise for how long this history is but there is nowhere on the internet you can look this stuff up to cross-reference, so it is necessary sob. @.@
OKAY SO. The first thing you need to know to understand Sam goes back to way before he was even conceived. Heaven, Hell and Earth are not quite how we’ve been taught they are, and every myth and legend is grounded in fact. In the beginning, there was Cronus, a Greater Power that kept the universe as one constant, unchanging, lifeless singularity. Then Time, another Greater Power, came long and sealed Cronus away after an immense battle, and so time started flowing and our universe started to exist. Time set up his kingdom in the plane of Heaven, settled down and ruled there along with his Queens - Night, Day, Wisdom, Belief, Order, Chaos, Love, War, and Light - and sired many children, immortals who could Waywalk between the planes of Heaven, Earth and Hell, and were considered Gods among the mortal inhabitants of Earth.
But Time was afraid - afraid of the possibility of Cronus escaping from his prison outside of the universe. So Time tried to destroy him completely - and when this proved impossible, he created a weapon, the ultimate weapon, called the Light, and placed it inside his most beloved child, Balder, a Son of Time and Light. But Loki, a Son of Time and Night, grew resentful of Time’s policy of non-interference in the suffering of mortals, and in order to overthrow Time, he sold his soul to Cronus. But Cronus was afraid of the Light, and so used Loki to slay Balder, destroying the original Light forever. Time was heartbroken, as it was said that Balder was the only child he had ever truly loved. Light herself fled Heaven forever into Eden - the plane above Heaven, the paradise that made Heaven, with all its wonders, look like a pale imitation in comparison, and Cronus-tainted Loki was imprisoned deep below the halls of Valhalla.
And so it was that Time saw that it was necessary to create a weapon more ruthless to use against Cronus, and a child ruthless and reviled enough to use it. And so Time conceived a child with Magic, and placed the second Light inside him. But the Light inside this child was different from that of Balder in that it tormented the one who wielded it as well as those it targeted, and made the universe sing of all the darkest things in it. The child, Lucifer, was raised by his mother, and never told of the other side of his heritage.
And so Lucifer, blissfully oblivious to his real nature as Time’s necessary, illegitimate child, was eventually taken into the service of Jehovah, a Son of Time and Belief, as one of his Archangels. And it was while working for Jehovah that he discovered the nature of his parentage, during a Waywalk to Earth. For only the Children of Time can Waywalk; everyone else loses their way, and the ways between the worlds are dark and soundless for them. But Lucifer, during the Waywalk, could see the shapes and mists that existed in the ways.
Determined to discover the true nature of his father, Lucifer snuck into the Room of Clocks on his return to Heaven, and discovered in the room a dagger, sword and crown - the marks of a Prince of Heaven and a legitimate Child of Time. And so, Time crowned him as a Prince of Heaven, despite his illegitimacy. From that moment on, Lucifer was reviled by the majority of his brothers and sisters (Jehovah, in particular, cut off all contact with him), although some, like Seth and Buddha, still made overtures of friendship. And this lasted until the uncovering of the Eden Initiative.
When Light had fled to Eden, she had warded the ways so that no one could follow her through, sealing it off to all others. But some of the Children of Time were hungry to return to Eden, and proposed a plan by which they would summon the Incarnate of Darkness to breach Light’s wards and enter Eden. Lucifer was at first to be a tool in this plan, to summon Darkness using the Light, but he refused, afraid of the destruction Darkness would bring to Heaven. Instead, to protect his own brothers and sisters from their folly, and out of his own fear, he sealed the Way of Eden for good, making it completely impassable by using the Light to write wards in Shadow.
This did not come without repercussions, however, and for his efforts Lucifer was cast out of Heaven as an exile and banished to the lower worlds of Earth and Hell. His siblings coined many stories about him as a result that permeated mortal minds - he was evil, he was the Devil Incarnate, it was him that dealt in the souls of men and had barred the way to paradise for everyone else. Lucifer, meanwhile, spent his years as an exile learning as many languages and as much as he could about survival on Earth, and in Hell, created his own order and society among the frost demon population, building the city of Gehenna in the frozen wasteland. Over the years he adopted many names: Satan - one that he never used himself as it was one that his siblings has coined for him - Luc Satise, Sebastian Teufel, and Sam Linnfer.
And so it continued for thousands of years, until war broke out in Heaven. The Sons and Daughters of Time waged war with each other over which House, be it Nirvana or Valhalla or Olympus or any other of the numerous collections of children, would take the throne of Heaven and rule there. And as with all things, the war there had repercussions on Earth. And when the war in Heaven was at its height, it had the worst repercussions.
You might know it as the Second World War.
During this war, along with a French human called Annette and two spirit contacts by the names of Whisperer and Adam, Sam set up the Moondance network, a network of both humans and spirits, with him as its head. And with this network he helped the French resistance, the British efforts, anywhere that might be needed, with supernatural means. It was a way, in part, to alleviate the suffering that his family was causing. But when the tide turned and the Allies started winning, Sam switched sides and began to dig the losing Germans out of the rubble instead. He claimed it was because he couldn’t break the habit of fighting for the losing side.
But it was here in Berlin that he met up with Freya. Freya was a Daughter of Love and Time, of the House of Valhalla, and Sam hadn’t seen her in thousands of years. But in Berlin, he helped her fight off some Firedancers, and after the war in Earth finally ended and the war in Heaven was brought to a truce by the Wives of Time, they stayed together. And indeed, fell in love. But then, everyone loved Freya; that was her gift as a Daughter of Love.
However, it wasn’t to last. Valhalla was falling, and out of duty, Freya had to leave and return to Heaven, leaving Sam behind on Earth. And life went on; as the end of the 20th century approached, Sam settled down in a flat in Camden and managed to wind up working as a part-time librarian in a university.
And then one night in the early years of the 21st century, this all changed. Sam came home to find two police officers that told him that Freya had been murdered. There had also been a letter, addressed to him from Freya, asking him to meet with her before it was too late.
Sam knew that it had to have been one of his fellow Waywalkers that killed Freya - there was only a small amount of weapons that could kill a Child of Time, after all. So, he packed up all his things and went to her Devon house to investigate. While there, he discovered that Freya had been playing a dangerous game - a friend of hers was in Tibet, doing some research for her. Hot on the trail of whatever Freya had been looking into, Sam Waywalked there, to the monastery where Freya’s friend, Andrew, had been. There, the abbot of the monastery told Sam that Andrew and Freya had been looking into the matter of the Pandora Keys.
The Pandora Keys were a set of four keys to the prisons of four very dangerous Powers, locked away by Time long ago. The first three, Hate, Suspicion and Greed, were spirits that would have threatened Time’s rule in Heaven, and caused untold chaos elsewhere. The fourth was Cronus.
Freya and Andrew had discovered that three of Sam’s brothers - Seth, the suave Son of Night, Odin, the Head of Valhalla and Son of War, and Jehovah, the Son of Belief - had conspired to find the Pandora Keys and release the spirits to overthrow Time. But the three of them had discovered that Freya and Andrew were onto them, and so Freya had been murdered and Andrew had now gone on the run.
In an attempt to find Andrew, Sam called on the Moondance network once more, using Whisperer’s help, and that of a Jinn called Peter, to track Andrew down to Moscow, Russia. But when he discovered Andrew, he found that the man had been poisoned by Firedancers. Desperately, he sent Peter, Whisperer and Andrew away in a car, relying on the Moondance network to get them to safety, and used a train to get to their rendezvous point.
However, the plan failed. All four of them were captured by one of Jehovah’s Archangels and one of Sam’s former friends, Michael. In an attempt to slow Sam’s efforts to stop Jehovah, Seth and Odin down, Michael took Sam’s weapons and shot him in the back with a lead bullet - hardly enough to kill him, but enough to put him in a regenerative trance for a week.
Following the trance, Sam returned to Hell and Gehenna, the only safe place left for him, currently ruled by Prince Asmodeus and Sam’s oldest demon friend, Beelzebub, affectionately nicknamed Bubble. But things there were also turning against him - Asmodeus, who had always resented Sam, had joined forces with Seth as a way to further his own campaign against Belial, who ruled the other principality of Hell. Realising that Hell was no longer safe for him either, Sam told Bubble to get out before he left himself, leaving for London in order to retrieve his weapons from where Michael had hidden them.
From there, he returned to Russia, to the spirit that had betrayed them, and forced her to lead him to where Whisperer, Peter and Andrew were being kept. Sam was able to rescue Peter and Whisperer, but Andrew was being held elsewhere and questioned, making rescuing him impossible.
From there, Sam arranged a meeting with his brother Seth on neutral ground, and discovered that not only did Seth intend to free the Pandora Spirits to gain control over Heaven, he also intended to free Cronus, kill Time, and end the universe as we know it. And now that Sam knew Seth’s true intentions, he was even more determined to stop it from happening. To this end, he sought out the “Gail” that both Andrew and Freya had mentioned as working with them, aka the Archangel Gabriel, turned traitor against her master in order to prevent the spirits from being freed. He finally found Gabriel in Mexico - but by then, it was too late. The first three keys had been found, and the three conspirators unleashed the spirits of Hate, Greed and Suspicion on the world - starting with the safehouse that Sam, Gabriel and her helpers were in.
The group scattered, but not fast enough - Adam, Sam’s old spirit friend who had been working with Gabriel, was caught by the song of Greed, making him try to kill Sam for the dagger he held. In the ensuing fight, Sam mortally wounded Adam, but was able to save his life, by lending him his regenerative gift for a while. However, this had the side-effect of making all of his injuries from the past month reopen while his gift recovered - and it was in this state that he met Seth and battled with him. Sam managed to make Seth retreat, although they were both in bad shape by the end of their battle, and with Seth gone, Sam unleashed the Light on the Pandora spirits - not enough to kill them, just enough to damage them and make them retreat for a while. Exhausted by his efforts, Sam passed out into a regenerative trance, during which he was brought back to Adam’s flat to recover.
It was only a brief recovery, though. Adam’s flat was soon targeted again by both Firedancers and the Pandora spirits thanks to Sam being there, and Sam was forced to flee and scry for his allies. While scrying, though, he was again attacked by Firedancers, and would have been overpowered were it not for the timely intervention of a mysterious man wielding two crossbows. Since the man didn’t give his name, Sam dubbed him Tinkerbell, much to the man’s bemusement.
Looking further into the mysterious Tinkerbell’s affairs revealed to Sam that the man had been keeping tabs on him for some reason, and also that he was serving a mysterious master and mistress. Hot on the trail of Tinkerbell’s mysterious organization, Sam was led to Berlin, to a nightclub called Der Engelpalast. There, he found that the manager to whom Tinkerbell had addressed a letter was one of a secret order called the Ashen’ia - those who had done deals with the Greater Powers and sold their souls so that they could gain mastery over the universe and so that the Pandora spirits could not touch them. Sam also discovered that for their own ends, the Ashen’ia were both protecting and watching him, so that they could use the Light to hold the universe to hostage. He also discovered, to his shock, that Gabriel was part of this organization.
Hot on Gabriel’s trail in an attempt to find answers, Sam and Gabriel were attacked by Thor, who, it was discovered, had sold out to Cronus. Sam managed to briefly overpower Cronus-Thor, but as the Waywalker retreated, Tinkerbell and some other Ashen’ia showed up, and Sam was taken prisoner. However, while a prisoner of the Ashen’ia, an eavesdropped conversation revealed that the master of the order was none other than Jehovah, one of the conspirators. Immediately, Sam sprang into action and escaped from the house he was being held in, thinking that he’d been sold out. But as he escaped, he was again attacked by the Pandora spirits and forced again to use the Light. Left weakened by the release, Sam was once again captured by Jehovah, and brought to Hell where he was once again made a prisoner.
By this point, the Light was beginning to affect Sam’s mind to the point where not even the magic could hold him up anymore. Because with each mind the Light touched, the further Sam’s own mind was stretched, and the more voices filled his mind until he could barely tell which one was his own anymore. And the more he used the Light, the worse this would get - which was why he was so eager to stop Cronus being freed. For while Sam could use the Light to defeat Cronus, he would have to tap every mind in the universe to do it - which would either kill him, or make him lose his mind forever.
This was of little consequence to Jehovah, though, who it turned out had sold his soul to Time and was in fact working as a double agent for Time’s cause against Cronus. But it seemed that for this cause, Time actually wanted Cronus to be freed - so that Sam could use the Light against him and destroy him forever. Naturally, Sam refused - which was when the biggest mindscrew of all happened - because it turned out that Freya was not actually dead. Her death had been faked, she had also sold her soul to Time, and her part in Time’s plans had been to make Sam love her so that he would be drawn to fight against Cronus. Time himself threatened to kill Freya unless Sam complied with his wishes.
Sam knew he had to protect Freya, and so he outwardly agreed to Time’s ultimatum so that he could get freedom of movement. And then with Tinkerbell in tow, he Waywalked to Asgard, the cavernous prison below Valhalla, to find an Eden portal. Because when he’d sealed Eden so long ago, Light had promised protection in Eden whenever he asked for it, and Sam now needed it - not for himself, but for Freya. Light granted him this protection, and Freya was made safe in Eden. While in Asgard searching for the Portal, Sam also came across Loki, who had been made old, feeble and mad by his long years of imprisonment. It was also here that he discovered that Loki was in fact Tinkerbell’s grandfather, and that Tinkerbell also wanted Sam to destroy Cronus so that Loki could be freed.
Sam managed to ditch Tinkerbell - quite literally - in the Thames River back on Earth, before he Waywalked back to Hell in a desperate attempt to get a message to Seth about how Time was using him to free Cronus. But he was intercepted by Jehovah, Tinkerbell, and the rest of the Ashen’ia, recaptured, and poisoned so that he would remain in a regenerative trance until he was needed to fight Cronus. But while in the trance, he was still dimly aware. Aware enough to communicate with Time and trick his father into selling Sam his soul. It was a gamble, but one that Sam, desperate to survive, was willing to take.
When the attack on Tartarus, the Hellish city where both Cronus’s prison and the key to that prison were located, began, Sam tried one last-ditch attempt to prevent Cronus’s prison being opened. And although he managed to kill Seth in battle, he was unable to accomplish this, because when Sam had fought Thor earlier, he had failed to kill him. And Thor, possessed by Cronus and still torn with grief over thinking Freya had died, opened the door to Cronus’s prison.
And so Sam was forced to use the Light. The Light tapped every mind in the universe, Hell, Earth, Heaven, and even Eden, a release on a scale that no one had ever seen before, and the mass of life that the Light gathered destroyed Cronus for good.
And Sam? His mind drifted, a tiny little speck within the Many that the Light encompassed, until Jehovah found him where he lay. And it was then that Sam’s reason for writing himself onto Time’s soul became clear - because when Time possessed Jehovah, Sam was able to use Time’s soul to find his way back to himself. And with Time’s nemesis defeated and a whole life ahead of him that no one had expected him to have…
Well. As Sam himself thought, maybe it had been worth it after all.
Personality: The first thing one tends to notice about Sam when the universe isn't imploding around his ears (and even when it is, sometimes) is that he’s a very chipper, cheerful kind of guy, with a trademark boyish smile. He’s got a disregard for authority and a very casual, yet polite, way of speaking that either endears him to people immediately, or does the exact opposite. Hand-in-hand with this cheerful disposition goes his eternal flippancy and sarcasm - even when faced with life-and-death situations, Sam will have a glib comment or retort that will inevitably make its way out of his mouth. A lot of the time, this flippancy is Sam’s own peculiar way of dealing with his own panic.
However, there’s more to Sam than this. When the proverbial shite starts to hit the fan, he displays a ruthlessness, cunning, and authority that can catch people by surprise, and though he rarely gets truly angry, when people try his patience or his good will for too long, he can let loose enough of an angry threat to make people sit up and take notice. But despite the ruthlessness that he’s more than capable of and, when necessary, more than willing to use, Sam can also display a fair and surprising amount of compassion. Where possible, he will try to keep innocents out of his affairs, and incapacitate rather than kill. Bear in mind as well that he’s also the man who tried to lessen some of the pain the war in Heaven was causing on Earth; Sam finds it difficult to ignore suffering when it’s in front of him, and though it goes against his principle of survival, he feels bound to help.
Sam also harbours within him a fair amount of pride and resentment. Resentment towards his siblings (and especially Jehovah) for casting him out of Heaven, and enough pride to make him refuse to act like the person his brothers have said that he is and want him to be purely on principle. This pride and resentment also extends to Time, his father, for making him his “necessary child” - Sam defies his father whenever possible, because he doesn’t want to die for Time’s schemes, no thank you sir.
Sam is also driven, first and foremost, by a principle of survival; more than anything else, he wants to live, preferably in peace, and will try anything he can to avoid his own death. Yet, paradoxically, he will often put himself in danger for the sake of his friends and comrades. On top of this, Sam is, put simply, a man who loves life itself, for its own sake; so although he fights mostly for his own survival for as long as he can, when it really does come down to him or the universe, he’ll use the Light to defend the universe regardless of the effect it will have on him. He’s a good man as well as being the Devil, and that’s a dangerous combination.
Other: Sam can speak a hella lot of languages from being on Earth for so long. In addition he’s an extremely competent fighter, especially with a sword and a dagger, and an incredibly skilled sorcerer, as you’d expect from a Son of Magic. Also, he is to all intents and purposes immortal - only silver, dragon bone or the weapons of another Child of Time can kill him, and any other injuries will just send him into a regenerative trance.
Also a small note about the Light; to use it, Sam has to tap into other people’s minds and draw out certain emotions or feelings, which he then uses as a weapon that can very literally fry minds if it wanted to. He can also use it to read minds, since it allows him to hear people’s thoughts. However, his control over it is very limited at best, and every time he uses it it not only causes him great pain, but also drives him further into losing his own mind. So he doesn’t use it often if he can help it. :’D
Oh yeah, I’ll also be playing him pre-canon for a while, since once Freya dies, things kind of explode. :|b
Additional Links: if there had been any additional links I would not have subjected you to that massive history up there sobbbb \;A;/
First Person (entry type): Well, what have we got here? At first I thought that this was just a glitch on one of the computers, but it looks like it’s on every one in the library. It’s all a bit of a puzzle, especially when the technicians can’t figure it out either. I’m pretty sure one of them thinks that I’m responsible, which is charming, really. Not to mention completely untrue, since I don’t know anything about computers, and I can see the rest of you chatting away like this is perfectly normal.
So, at the risk of sounding a little stupid, could one of you point me in the direction I’d need to go to get rid of this website? As fond as I am of ducks, I do happen to be in the middle of helping to research a paper, here, and I doubt the Master of the college would be happy to hear that all of the library’s computers have malfunctioned on my watch either.
Third Person: It was another war; wasn’t it always?
This time it was in France. Maybe he should have stayed out of it; he didn’t know. What he did know was that he couldn’t not help to alleviate the suffering, if only slightly. A fire put out here, an arrow deflected there, an improbable (impossible) invisible shield thrown up around a strategic point. It was the least he could do. Was he not a child of Magic, and could he not make miracles?
Really, though, it had become more a matter of pride than anything else when he discovered that Jehovah was involved. Of course, he wasn’t involved directly; that would never have been his brother’s style, thought Sam bitterly with a snort. He was a lot like their father in that way, preferring to work through other people. In this case, his archangels.
He found Michael not far from the small village; but then, Sam had known he would. Archangels weren’t especially good at shielding, so it was easy to pick up Michael’s signal.
“Michael, old friend,” he said lightly. “What are you doing here on Earth?” Michael turned, a little startled, as if not sure if he should fight Sam or not. Sam couldn’t resist an inner, sardonic chuckle; really, what would he possibly gain from fighting Michael here?
“I’ve been sent,” Michael said finally, falling back on the stock answer of any dutiful Archangel.
“Of course you have,” Sam sighed, as if he were disappointed with Michael’s lack of originality. “I sensed you talking to that girl from a mile off. What’s Jehovah up to this time?”
For a long time, Michael didn’t answer, just stared at Sam with a small frown on his face. Ah, but he can’t tell me, can he? Sam thought to himself, somewhat amused. I’m the enemy, after all.
“Helping to end this war sooner, actually,” Michael said eventually.
“Really. How thoughtful of him.” The lightness left Sam’s voice along with the half-smile on his face as he gazed at the village. “That girl will die if she gets involved, won’t she?” he said softly. Really, the question was rhetorical. Get visions involved, get the girl involved in warfare, and sooner or later people were going to start spreading rumours and asking questions. Rumours that would probably involve him, he thought bitterly. And then that poor girl would die, just for being given the last push to defend her country by an Archangel.
“More good will come out of this than you know, Lucifer,” said Michael steadfastly - and hell, he really believed what he was saying, didn't he?
“Maybe,” Sam replied, a touch of regret tingeing his voice.
But it’s still One dying for the Many, and as someone who certain people expect to be the One in that sort of scenario, I can’t help disliking it on principle.