Desolation Gerry

Appearance:

His hair is as black as charcoal, when using his powers it glows orange like dying embers.

His irises are grey and misty like smoke. His lips are red contrasting to his sickly pale skin, that’s permanently clammy. The tip of his nose is an ill pink, the whites of his eyes are bloodshot. He looks constantly sickly.

His extremities are always painfully cold and his chest and forehead are burning hot.

When he’s using his powers his legs and arms stretch out, his spine elongates, and he gets up to two feet taller. His frame sways like a candle flame.

Powers:

Gerry’s powers are similar to Grifters Bones’. He is the lead guitarist and vocalist of a Thrash Metal band named Burning Placenta. They play once a month, spending the weeks leading up to it planning. A lot of people can’t make it through a performance, they are either burned to a charred corpse or they flee with burning, blistering flesh piercing their limbs.

Gerry’s singing voice is similar to a dirge, a keening banshees wail that has become melodic and soft. It hypnotises people, enchanting them, and makes their bodies feel weaker and hotter. By the third song, or concert depending on the strength of the listeners mind, they become obsessed with the band. Their fans are similar to a cult, lead by the musicians themselves. The songs slowly send their brains over the edge.

What is happening whilst the music is playing is the following: the fluid in their spine and brain starts to grow hotter and hotter. Eventually it starts boiling and bubbling, and their organs begin to melt into clumps like plastic. This happens more and more with each song, until their bodies and mines are completely destroyed.

Their posters and album covers are hypnotising. Gerry and his band mates, agents of the Desolation, look different every time you look at them, despite it being a still image. The edges are constantly burning, the smell of charred paper filling your nostrils. Some posters show the band slowly aging, but not in the right order. For example, Gerard could be shown from him in the modern day as an eighteen year old, to him as an old man, to him as a thirty year old. They blurred into each other, making the transition seamless rather than jarring.

Origins:

Mary Keay always intended for Gerry to become an Avatar, that’s why he was the victim of her experiments, with sigils all over his body desperately hoping that one of the Entities would take to him. She wanted him to become apart of the Eye or the Web. For years Mary thought Gerry hadn’t started showing signs, until she discovered when he was fifteen he was hiding his connection to the Desolation from her.

Gerry has always been well acquainted with fire and cold, as a child he used to take a box of matches from the kitchen drawer. He’d sit in the park and light the leaves on fire until they became ash. The first time he could do it without the matches was when he was thirteen, he knew instantly his mother couldn’t know.

Gerry found that what he truly connected with was less heat and cold and more sheer emptiness. The destruction was what he craved, he would sneak out books from his mum’s bookshop, pile them up, and practice with his abilities. Sometimes he’d burn them to a crisp, occasionally he’d freeze them until they were white shards of ice.