DREAM: a younger brother who never got to grow up lives in a dream, kicked garbage and got blown up – one of several recurring dreams that ends with Nick waking to the sound of his mother’s voice screaming hoarse in his mind.
[[Nick is a patient of the would-be psychiatrist X. Mercurio]]
Nick is a patient of the would-be psychiatrist X. Mercurio, whose Doctorate dissertation is a theory that schizophrenia = reality, albeit a different one, and that 99.9% of our brains that we do not use is the storehouse for the universe’s secrets (Akasha) stored in the nearly infinite format of the mitochondrial DNA, our brains are an organic storage system, and Nick’s mind is the key to unlocking both Xander’s career and untold secrets for humankind. Xander must challenge traditional psychological understanding by looking at Nick’s parapsychology and following him into his “unreal” world.
[[the day I found out my father died was a turning point]]
Nick: the Avatar, an information gatherer, a spy, master of infiltration, able to isolate key factors remotely and sabotage; a catalyst. Disguise is a morphing personality that has a bearing on appearance.
Hermes: the assassin
Sophia: the handler, spymaster, androgenous
KILLING: whistling a tune triggers a programmed mind – the living dead, easier than Necromancy.
[[The earth is a theatre of flux]]
The earth is a theatre of flux, a fast-paced short-term opportunity. It is a proving ground for eternal spirits to improve their station or for dark spirits to redeem themselves. It is a marketplace casino where souls are captured from the unwitting by greedy spirits interested only in self-empowerment at any cost.
[[One look at Nick in his habitat]]
One look at Nick in his habitat and it is immediately obvious that you are not dealing with a creature who spends much time in this world. His flagrant disregard for the material world is evident by the squalid disrepair of his home “office.”
[[Anus]]
(The Washer that holds Everything together)
God is Love
Merciful, omniscient
The universe is chaos
Controlled
What we see is the blink
Of an eye
There are powers beyond
Anything
We can imagine
And beyond that
Lies greater still
Precariously we rest
Mere feathers’ floating
Spores
So, we have ourselves
A short time
Not a long time
Just enough
To make up our minds
[[Arcane/dichotomy/scenes/Nick and Drugs|Nick and Drugs]]
A son named Halal
The deception
Of perception
Pining for
An imaginary
Love
Neurotic transference
Of desire
Projected to one
Other than the true
[[Arcane/Character Development/characters/Khan|Khan]]
The god’s last huff
His candle flickers
Just light and life enough
Death nearing, snickers
Enjoying the growths, the full-bodied season
Fulfilling of oaths and the results of reason
Death’s icy-cold claws
Caress the wind first …
[[Arcane/dichotomy/scenes/REMOVE THE BLOCKAGES THAT WE PLACE ON OURSELVES|REMOVE THE BLOCKAGES THAT WE PLACE ON OURSELVES]]
Interesting molecules.
Sentences not often formed,
Or commonly uttered.
Funerals I didn’t attend,
Ceremonies intentionally missed.
A compendium of things found, lost
By an esoteric orientalist.
Encephalomalacia –
A softening of the brain,
An idée-fixe.
I want to be a student, but I can’t
I want to be a cop, but I won’t
I want to be a priest, but I couldn’t
I want to be a mystic, and I am.
[[Placebo]]