Name: Jack 'Jekyll' Mason<br/><br/>Location: Booth<br/><br/>Tagging: Shizuru.<br/><br/>__________________<br/><br/><br/>Jack nodded lightly, draining the Sake and leaving the cup on the table, making no indication of a refill. It wasn't having an effect on him, but his story weaving was in it's trance. "So yes, My contract changed from Cadavers into live subjects. The feeling of a single, unaltered human facing down a Centaur Khan, or a Minotaur Chief...It's an astounding feeling. A mix of weakness and flaw and privilege. I knew that any one of the creatures I was dealing with could kill me in an instant. I don't imagine you know what that's like, do you? Having a feeling of pure helplessness in front of something so much more than you." Jack paused, giving Shizuru a chance to answer or simply ignore him, before he continued. "I had a good decorum with the people I worked with..." The choice of words was, in itself interesting. He wasn't 'working on subjects'. He was 'working with people.'<br/><br/>"...Anyway, the research I did had varied. Never anything permanently damaging, but I ended up testing all sorts of things. Things like how a Male Minotaur can regrow a horn if you fully dislodge it, but if you leave just a sliver of it naturally lodged in place, it'll never regrow. Jacob appreciated that tip." a smile spread on his face at the memory, an obvious piece of truth, in the tale, even if the rest might have been made up. "Eventually though, I came across a different test subject. Her name was Sophia." Jack stopped for a second, his hands reaching for his temple again, masaging the pained frontal lobe through his head. His head was aflame with the raging mental battle of Jekyll and Hyde. Hyde was protesting fiercely at the revaluations that Jack made.<br/><br/>"As fate would have it, Sophia was a werewolf: She came to the Dawn's people, hoping for a cure after she killed her father. My mission was to find a cure for the lycanthropy, it was a brilliant challenge. Imagine if I had managed to achieve the task ? I tried all the forms of medicine available at the time: But as you can guess, I failed. Hell, even modern technology and science can't find a cure for Lycanthropy. My attempts were 200 years in the past." Jack paused, looking to the left as if trying to recall something.<br/><br/>"In the end though, my little operation was sabotaged. The Brother's Fallen found where I was doing business, and they decided that they wanted me or my research. Preferably both. It seems that the Light was trying to use my research to find weaknesses and flaws in other races. When I look back now, every race that I researched and found such flaws in have either been subjugated or blackmailed by the Light of Dawn and it's leaders. The Brother's Fallen would have taken it a step further. They would have weaponised my information and wiped out every one of the other races. I couldn't allow that to happen."<br/><br/>Jack sighed: a heavy, heart wrenching sigh. "The Brother's broke in, started waving around Swords and crossbows, saying that I either went with them or died. I was in the main document room, and had set a pretty significant blaze. I was a paranoid human, so I made sure all my areas were...flamable. In the end, I would have died if Sophia didn't burst through the wall, killing several of the demons. Sadly, she had transformed and didn't recognise me. She bit me, and was shot down. I transformed and tore my way through the facility. The end."<br/><br/>Jack cleared his throat at the end of his story. Every time he faked his past, small details changed. But as of yet, in his two centuries of knowing people, he had never shared his story. Of every person that existed in the world, Four people knew the full truth about Jack Mason. About his human work, about how he was transformed, and how 'Hyde' came into existence. Jack Mason happened to be two of those people. he didn't know how obvious his lie was. He'd faked his past on multiple instances before. It was 'based' on truth, but so many details were faked or changed.<br/><br/>"So that is one of the more important tidbits of my life. People normally ask me about that or my arrest. So I thought I'd start with that one. We can share more stories another time." He was grinning, but his face told her he was done with the subject. Talking about the past, even in it's false form, had given him a rather painful headache. Hyde was calmed though, appeased that Jack hadn't revealed any of the truths that he wanted hidden. Jack took the Sake bottle and topped up Shuzuru's drink.<br/><br/>"What an interesting pair we are. A demoness associated so heavily with fire that she is mistaken for the Goddess of the sun in the past, and a Werewolf scientist."