The Bad Omen
Child of
Parent of
Damnation as Repentance
A brother losing the only thing that mattered to him in the empty space.
“I’m alive because karmic retribution is not enough to evaluate me.”
Wields Load Applications of death suspension, karmic debt recovery, and passive attraction of negative causality
Through causality, they attract negative circumstances.
Diffusing outward enables death suspension, disabling physical death.
Additionally enables accruement of 'karmic debt', a virtual resource which is proportionally generated by the amount of damage they’ve caused.
Karmic debt is passively automatically spent to allow miraculously recover from any injuries.
On their true deathbed, The Bad Omen experiences all the physical and emotional sensations they've experienced and inflicted throughout their life.
Overview
After a bombing raid, two siblings wander the ruins of their town scavenging for food, with the older nursing the other. The other survivors that huddle together see the little one as an extra mouth to feed, a waste of medicine, and ultimately useless, forcibly taking them away never be seen again. After processing their loss and carefully judging their group, they take a rifle and kill them in their sleep. They curse themselves to eternal damnation as atonement, joining the military as punishment and a desperate act of causing as much damage to the thing that has led to what they have become.
Eventual transformation into a Loaded Heirloom, furthering reinforcing their philosophy and truly making their damnation eternal.
Overall Complexity
- Justified in killing the group. Despite that, he rejects it, believing he deserves damnation.
- Complete rejection of systems of justice because he believes it cannot properly evaluate him. There is no forgiveness or redemption. Infinite guilt requires infinite suffering.
- Love as guilt and destruction instead of commemoration and protecting others. A justification for why others should suffer.
- Believes to live fully is to suffer fully and refuses to spare themselves or anyone else from it.
- Doubles down on their self-damnation by causing as much harm as possible. War becomes both sin and atonement, forming a self-sustaining cycle
- War gives them endless violence to enact vengeance, endless suffering to repay their sin, and endless justification to continue.
- Karmic debt recovery is distinct from regeneration, having to slowly heal accumulated wounds. Acts as physical confirmation of their damnation.