Post by Roderick/Madeline on Jul 19, 2009 16:49:21 GMT -6
Name: Roderick/Madeline
Aliases/Nicknames: Rod/Mad; Roddy/Maddy
Age/Apparent Age: Both appear to be in their early 20’s
Gender: Male/Female
Type: Aberrant
Height: 5’9”/5’4”
Weight: 130/100 lbs
Build: Both are built skinny, unhealthily so. Roderick has the built of a strung out junkie; long, gangly limbs and a narrow trunk, his chest sunken and ribs clearly visible. Madeline is even worse, her body constantly appearing to be devastatingly malnourished, like an unfortunate victim of an internment camp.
Facial Features: Roderick has a mean face, with a rat-like pinched quality to his features. Stitches run in random patterns across his face. Madeline’s face is remarkably plain, though dollish. It has absolutely no imperfection which makes it incredibly eerie to behold, not to mention the zipper over her mouth.
Eyes: Roderick’s eyes are heavy and his gaze seems distant, as if he were on some powerful narcotic. They are a watery blue. Madeline’s eyes are bright silvery lavender, the eyes terribly wide. Rather than give her an innocent, youthful look, they make her look soulless and inhuman.
Hair: Roderick’s stringy black hair is a rat’s nest filled with pieces of glass, broken syringes, and rusted razorblades. Madeline’s hair, on the other hand, is blue as well as sinuous. The texture is more akin to succulents than to hair.
Deformity: Roderick’s entire body is stitched together with bloody black thread, his teeth seemingly made of jagged glass shards and the tips of shears. Madeline, on the other hand, had a zipper over her lips and one running from her throat down her body, up her spine to the back of her skull. Her skin is a pale blue, as are her lips. Madeline has no teeth or tongue, just a void behind her lips.
Personality Description: Roderick is a complete and utter misogynist, becoming almost immediately infuriated at the female form. He finds women to be vulgar and offensive, though he will control himself in cases where acting upon his murderous impulses would not be beneficial to his survival. He has learned to control his violent impetuousness through the use of copious amounts of narcotics; in fact, he must OD on downers in order to even speak to a woman. In Sanctuary he is constantly in a state of severe inebriation by order of Mr. Gerl. Still, even when high he is hateful, greedy, and deceitful, sometimes lying just to lie. He is known to sell his drugs for favors and cash. One would think that Madeline would be dreamy and disconnected, as her appearance suggests. However, Madeline is predatorily lucid and extremely sharp. She analyzes the words being spoken to her, attempting to find a contradiction or fallacy in any argument. She is extremely aggressive in her interaction, to the point of being off-putting. Her love of bloodshed is well known and precipitates the only time she acts more like how she looks. When she sees blood flowing, she is calm and pleasant, like a well-behaved, polite child. She also sells her brother’s drugs, which royally pisses off Mr. Gerl. However, she is also an information broker, as well as a fixer for the right price. She does not charge set prices, rather she can ask for anything from cash to a secret to a seemingly useless item. Both Roderick and Madeline will become violently incensed if their respective sibling is brought up or even hinted at, as they vehemently hate each other.
History: Roderick and Madeline were to be born twins, but there was a complication in the womb. Eventually, Madeline absorbed her unborn brother in order to survive. Madeline was born to an upper-middle class family in Northern Oregon. She had several siblings, including an older brother and sister and two younger brothers. Her father was a helicopter technician with the US Navy, while her mother was a prominent figure in the local real estate market. Madeline never grew up wanting. However, unlike her other siblings, there was something odd about Madeline. She was quiet and preferred to play by herself, although when she did play with the others the games were quite odd. She played “hunting” often, in variant on hide and go seek. One day, she got in quite a bit of trouble when she played hunting with a pair of scissors and cut her brothers arm. They punished her, but believed it was an accident from overzealous play. This is how life would continue for Madeline through childhood. When she went to school, she was never picked on; not because she was liked, but because there was quiet menace to her that the others could sense. When her schoolmates began to commit suicide, Madeline’s parents grew worried. They decided to home school her to keep an eye on her. She was remarkably intelligent, though they noticed her moral attitude was a bit…off. Even her parents began to sense something was wrong with her, but did not act in time. One day, they came home to find their two youngest children cut to ribbons and placed artfully around the playroom, young Madeline watching raptly as the blood ran down her forearm. Horrified, they immediately put Madeline in an asylum for the criminally deranged. Madeline did not like being cooped up where she couldn’t “interact” with others. So she played a game she remembered from childhood: pretend. She became the picture of normalcy, affected her own “rehabilitation”. The doctors kept her on observation, but relaxed her security a bit. Within two weeks, she had killed again, this time into double digits.
They placed Madeline in solitary holding, completely removing any chance of her killing again. She was kept there for a number of years, her only contact the orderly who pushed her food through the slot. She talked with this man for a number of months, letting subtle innuendo pass as she tried to seduce him. Finally, the orderly made the last mistake of his life and opened the door for a midnight encounter with the young patient. After spending an hour and a half watching the blood of the orderly pool in her padded room, Madeline made for her escape. She escape her cell, her wing, and finally the asylum itself. Unfortunately, out in the woods surrounding the institution, she was attacked by something not quite beast, not quite human: a Nightbreed. It bit her, but before it could devour her unconscious form, it heard the Naturals coming for the escapee. Madeline was thrown back into solitary without the staff even checking her condition, hoping the monstrous young woman would die in her cell…and she did. Her wounds were too great and the bleeding was not staunched. Young Madeline died, alone in a cell as she watched her blood run from her wounds with rapt attention. They did not check on Madeline for some time, a few days without food to take the fight out of her. When they opened up the isolation room, they were surprised to find a deranged young man, naked and covered in bloody stitches. The nude man eviscerated an orderly, screaming that he was trapped by that “fucking cunt for twenty years” and that he’d never be held against his will again. Roderick, Madeline’s subsumed twin, stalked the surrounding townships and cities, taking his two decades of revenge out on any and all women he could find.
It was several years before he was discovered by a Nightbreed who could control his violent tendencies and teach him about who he was. This is when Roderick found out that Madeline was inside him, and vice versa. The mobius twins found kinship with the monsters of Midian, where they were eventually taken. They learned to live harmony with their fellow Nightbreed, though they still both harbored their need for violence. Such tendencies were slaked on the unfortunate Naturals that wandered into the monsters’ domain. But soon boredom set in, and the twins began to venture into towns nearby, causing all sorts of mayhem. They were routinely censured and punished, but found the pleasure to be worth the exacting price. But when Boone led to the downfall of Midian, the twins found all the adventure and violence they could want. With the scattering, they followed a Nightbreed who spoke of a world where humans were cattle and the Tribes of the Moon were their savage masters. So Roderick and Madeline followed Old Boy to Coquille. Once again, the twins were held down by the stifling rules of the conservative Baptized, Cassiel. When the great schism occurred, they sided with the like-minded Old Boy. They lost the civil war, of course, and were forced to leave the Sanctuary. They ran for a few weeks with Old Boy…and hated it. It was a dirty, feral way of living. They had to spend all night hunting for food and searching for a place to hide before the sun came up. There was no time for secrets, no time for drugs, no time for killing. Worst of all, Madeline began to speak to the others in Old Boy motley and learned to her horror that Old Boy wanted to make the Nightbreed known to the world. She was sure that the Naturals, who outnumbered the Nightbreed tremendously, would just wipe out the monsters. So, for the first time ever in their miserable, violent lives, Madeline and Roderick agreed on something. Writing to each other on the bark of a tree, they defected from Old Boy and returned to Sanctuary. When they arrived back at the camp, Mr. Gerl was ready to execute the traitors as saboteurs and spies. However, Cassiel held that all Nightbreed were welcome as long as they abided by the rules. So now Madeline and Roderick live back at Sanctuary, taking on the most menial of jobs and tasks by order of Mr. Gerl, mistrusted and hated by many of the loyal Nightbreed under Cassiel. But this is nothing they aren’t used to.
Afflictions
Reversible Body: Roderick is covered in stitches, which Madeline must cut in order to manifest. She turns her brother inside out and zips herself up to become herself. Roderick unzips his sister from the inside, reversing her flesh and sewing it up to become himself.
Warding: An invisible mental barrier can be produced in the blink of an eye by the twins, repelling physical attacks from the Nightbreed. The barrier only protects Roderick/Madeline, and cannot be used to ward others.
Secretions: Roderick and Madeline can produce a secretion that has a different effect depending on who secreted it. Roderick produces a paralyzing narcotic that creates intense sleepiness in the victim, while Madeline’s excretion is a hallucinogenic that produces violent and terrifying waking dreams.
Maw: A variant of Fangs, Roderick has a dangerous set of sharp objects in his mouth that makes his bite something to be feared. However, nothing is to be feared more than Madeline’s void filled mouth; objects that go in are lost forever.
Healing: Unknown to others, Roderick and Madeline can heal others wounds, sympathetically taking on the wounds themselves. To this date they have never used this ability.
Common Dress: Roderick wears whatever he can find laying around, usually a t-shirt and jeans. He wears a heavy trenchcoat with a fur-lined hood, as well as jewelry he has taken from his female victims in the past. Roderick wears an old army surplus gasmask that has been rigged up to give him a constant supply of anesthesia and other narcotics. He calls it his “English rig”. Madeline wears clothes that accentuate her painfully thin body, including sleek cocktail dresses, pencil skirts and button-up shirts, or sometimes nothing at all. A simple band keeps her writhing hair out of her face.
Personal Belongings: An old plaid-patterned suitcase carrying their clothes, supply of pills and other drugs, and way too many knives is the only personal belongings that the twins share.