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[methodofmadness]

CW: Child death, mild mention of genocide/systemic violence


User Name/Nick: Ian
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E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact: bbitsaboi at plurk and Disco
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Hanna Falk Cross, Dr. Clement Varker and Abel(Ethan Lamaire)

Character Name: Christopher Chaos
Series: The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos
Age: 16
From When?: volume 3, ph 104. Canon divergence where Christopher takes too long to come to the conclusion that his heart has the answer and not his head. He is killed by Dr. Henry Jekyll and his Hydes.

Inmate Justification: Christopher is a child made of pure Aether, the primordial energy of chaos and madness that is believed to have added the spark of life when the universe began. His Aether, Chaos he can see and interpret, gives him the ability to create things that are far beyond any present technology, but paired with his incredibly naive and young mind? He is a bomb waiting to go off.

Driven by the need to release his madness, he never asks the question of whether he should, only if he can which brings him to make things like: a device intended to neutralize his emotions but instead neutralizes Aether(monster death ray), turns a magic church and its power source into a weapon that kills hundreds of Helwing clerics and destroys the sanctuary Adam built with zero remorse or a robot stand-in just so he can deceive his mother.

Christopher struggles to find the balance between the pursuit of knowledge, trusting his heart and when to listen to his brain in a way that leads him to treat his friends like objects when it benefits him, dismiss the idea of looking for his crush Jordi when he goes missing because he is mad at himself for having feelings, and welcoming in the highly suspicious Henry Jekyll to monster club because he said he had more information than Adam about what he is.

Meanwhile, his negative emotions and wild mood swings tend to find undeserving targets like his big divorce with Adam for wanting him to have a safe childhood and threatening to scrap Robot Chris for asking for Adam afterward. He tends to be incredibly hypocritical and reductive of things he views as failures or even his own ideals if he feels they dont currently serve his argument, standing by his destruction of what Adam built because it failed and was worthless to him and pushing himself to swear even though he doesn't like to because his heart is just a stupid muscle and doesn't matter.

Kid needs a lot of patience and a mountain of personal growth before he can be tagged back into the real world.

Arrival: Christopher was delighted to be invited onto the barge and asked the Admiral if he could maybe kill all his friends and bring them on board too so they wouldn’t have to inevitably die forever, thanks!

Abilities/Powers:
Mad scientist: Capable of interpreting the forbidden knowledge of the universe, Christopher can build insane and wildly varying gadgets, machines and weapons out of basically nothing. Oddly enough even without tools things just come together for him (Proposed nerf is that in canon, if he isn't meant to yet, Christopher experiences blocks that prevent him from finishing projects. Any weapons or machines that could be used to easily cause harm are left unfinished/inert and the ranges/size/sentience of teleporters, aoe and other gadgets are limited.)

Logical precognition: Christopher, while incredibly naive, can sometimes predict what's happening before it happens with a very tight range of seconds to minutes at most. This does not and never will include predicting betrayals or obvious villain reveals.

Universe reads for filth: Mostly for comedic effect, Christopher can look at someone and learn their insecurities.

Aether/forbidden knowledge sight: Christopher cannot control when he does or doesn't see the knowledge of the universe, or the amount of Aether/power that is within a person. It comes and goes but is always present during bouts of madness.

Sleep building: When stressed Chris sleep walks and sleep builds. During these episodes he is completely unaware of what he is doing and is prone to self harm to further his knowledge.

Aether bomb: when extremely stressed or upset, Christopher's Aether builds tension like an overheating engine, capable of releasing this as explosive energy and vaporizing his clothes in the process. It makes him exhausted and disoriented afterward.(I would like to keep this as it is not often used and not something he is capable of controlling. Proposed nerf would be degrading the resulting explosion to being just as dramatic, stressful/scary and clothes vaporizing but having the concussive force of a fart. Let the chaos baby have a tantrum once in a while.)

Lightening rod: Takes to being shocked extremely well, even if it does cause his body some stress. It would take a huge amount of electrical energy to cause death by electrocution, trust him, he's got the data to prove it.

He's like Oobleck?: Christopher is very resilient despite his many bandages on his knees. He is pretty capable of taking most kinds of damage much like punching oobleck but again, like oobleck is weak to piercing and slashing damage.

Inmate Information: From a young age Christopher had an incredible mind, creating things that were impossible just because he could or felt like he should. Though nothing he created was entirely stable, notably causing a house fire that may or may not have killed one of his friends in elementary school. His mother, worried that Chris would get hurt or in trouble, urged her son to be normal. When he started sleep building, she took him to therapy so that he could maybe have a normal life and for a short time he did try, even if the madness seemed to leak out in bursts like pressure trapped in a jar.

Following his crush Hayden into the woods, he witnesses him transform into a werewolf and immediately get murdered by the Helwing clerics. Feeling like he couldn’t tell anyone what he saw for fear they wouldn’t believe him, he confides in a Rock dove he named Peggy and hit a breaking point when she was struck by a truck and killed following his confession. Unable to cope with both deaths, Christopher brings her corpse into his shed and builds the REANIMATOR, bringing Peggy back to life and swearing that he would do the same for Hayden. Because he believes he can, he makes promises to both Hayden’s best friend Jordi, and his girlfriend Viveka that he can revive him, obsessively gathering roadkill to try and reanimate their corpses instead of allowing himself to grieve but the REANIMATOR never works again.

After Adam’s rescue of the trio at school, he urges Chris to hide his madness in the dark to protect himself. He goes home, shuts down the reanimator and is confronted by his mom who is very upset when she hears that he got into a fight(that he did not start), skipped detention(because he was being attacked by monster hunters) and destroyed school property(again, monster hunters). When he tries to explain, he stops himself and his mother, who really does love him, pushes that she can’t protect him from the world if he can’t make an effort to be normal. This makes him mad, given what he’s seen and knows, and instead of explaining what’s going on, he yells at her that she never really understood him and that he will never be normal. They both leave the conversation hurt and confused.

Unable to leave well enough alone, the kids return to Adam and are forced to hide underground when the Helwing corps and the police find the church. During the fight, Chris is once again ordered to stand down, but fix the church while his friends go to fight. As he works, he starts to question the plan, what it means to repeat history without even expecting different results, and instead changes the plan just as he succeeds in fixing Adam’s church. When Jordi and Adam return, Christopher admits that he scrapped the plan just before connecting the church and underground together and creating a bomb of Aether that destroys the underground city and necropolis Adam built, burying it all to make their memorial into a tomb of their enemies as well. While Adam thanks him for reminding him that it is possible to fight back, Christopher never apologizes for destroying the city he built. He doesn’t question what it cost to lose, only considering what they gained.

During the six months between the first and second volume, Chris and his friends form the monster club, an alliance club for monsters and human allies that meets in Viveka’s house after school on Fridays. During this time, Chris explores the city, looking for and finding a secret entrance to the collapsed monster underground even though he promised Adam he would never try to go down there again. He also starts sleep building again because he is stressed about what he is and what he is capable of when Adam refuses to give him any more answers because they are laying low.

Christopher starts asking questions like ‘what am I’, ‘am I evil’, and falling into obsessive trains of thought in which he dismisses and ignores other people when they are talking to him about important things. He tells his mom who is concerned that he has started sleep building again that her entire point is a distraction and walks away from her without letting her finish. He does the same thing when Viveka stops talking to him about himself and expresses her concerns, and when he confronts Adam about not being able to find the answers he seeks, he yells at him that his emotions and fear of failure is a distraction from the pursuit of knowledge. Lastly, he finishes his machine he’d been building in his sleep and starts shocking himself to try and push his body to the limits to understand what he is. It’s clearly harming him, after repeated sustained shocks have his nose bleeding, but before he can get enough data, his mother breaks into the shed with an axe and saves him from potentially killing himself in the pursuit of knowledge.

Depressed and grounded, Chris opens his door to find the Volkov twins at his door who show him they are werewolves. Wanting to get out of being grounded, he builds Robot Chris to be his stand-in for his mother. While he does it, he questions if he should, knows that he is still ill from his experiments and that his mother would cry if she knew, but expresses that this secret feels too good to want to actually stop, and so he goes through with it and leaves Robot Chris in his bed.Without asking his friends permission, he invites the Volkov’s to monster club which pisses off Viveka because they were obviously bullying their group. Chris does say that if the other two don’t want them there, he’ll listen, but Jordi switches vote and they overrule Viveka.

Predictably, Sasha is so much of a bitch that everyone starts fighting while Chris is trying to say something. He uses his anti-grav ray to stop everyone in motion, allowing them nothing but breathing and referring to them as objects so he can get them to stop and explain himself. And then, as initiation, he takes them to the monster underground despite them all promising Adam they would never go there again. When they tell the Volkov twins who Adam is, Christopher questions why he doesn’t stick up for him, since he considers him a friend, but before he decides maybe he should, he gets distracted again and keeps his mouth shut.

After watching Adam attempt to stop a fight and confusing it with him helping Helwing from afar, Chris exits the underground without waiting for Viveka to get out and abandons his friends to wait for Adam in a park because he has to think about what he saw himself instead of discussing it with them. When Adam finally gives him what he wants, Christopher questions why anyone would mistrust experimentation and furthering their knowledge, even if it was at the hands of humans. He cannot comprehend how furthering knowledge could be bad despite having literally almost killed himself for the pursuit of knowledge while he was sleep building. Chris is then told that what he is, is a being made up of pure chaos energy, and that because there are forces who seek to use him as a weapon, Adam was tasked to watch out for him and keep him safe. Christopher rejects the idea that he needs to be kept safe, and accuses Adam of being a coward who is afraid of failing and has lost hope for creating a world Chris believes he is the key to creating. He leaves Adam, convinced that he wants nothing to do with a man who stifles him in his pursuit of knowledge and a world where monsters can be free of fear.

Following his divorce with Adam, Christopher finds himself incredibly angry and full of questions, telling himself that emotions are worthless and the key to past failure. He is failing his classes, hiding more things from his mother and continues to sleep build without her knowledge because of his emotional unrest and claims it is because he needs to answer his questions. Notably, even his friends are concerned about the fact that he refuses to talk to Adam. He tells himself that he needs to question everything, even himself and to be suspicious of the world, even if he does not actually take this to heart when trying to prove his own points. One being that he doesn’t need Adam when he has his new mentor, Dr. Henry Jekyll who is SUSPICIOUS AS FUCK. He also is convinced that emotions and matters of the heart are what has historically led every potential success to ruin and states that he cannot trust even his own decisions because he hasn’t finished his latest invention, which he claims will remove his emotions forever and calls it the PATHETIC NULLIFIER.

Just after explaining that he thinks Robot Chris is a more perfect version of him, because it cannot feel, it screams for Adam and he shuts it down, debating on whether it has outlived its purpose and should be turned to scrap. Immediately after this Dr. Jekyll shows up and Chris adjusts his Aether tracker, stating that it’s an incredibly dangerous item in the hands of the wrong people and then HANDS IT BACK TO THE VERY SUSPICIOUS MAN. To hide his new friend from his mom, Chris shoves him down the hidden entrance, swears and then lies to his mom, which she finds very suspicious, but because she believes her son, she doesn’t question him too much. He continues to feel guilt over this but has decided it’s for her own good and writes off his heart again. But, because he can’t keep Henry at his house, he brings him to Viveka’s despite her concern.

Ignoring the fact that Jordi isn’t showing up for Monster club for his excitement at Jekyll, he introduced him as someone who does not lie, conceal or betray as if he still isn’t a sketchy monsterfucker. Viveka, Luka and Sasha are increasingly suspicious, so much so that Viveka called Adam because she was concerned, who then shows up and immediately tells him to leave. Chris gets so upset that Adam isn’t listening to him his Aether builds up and explodes, surprising everyone and Jekyll swears he has therapy that will help Chris overcome his outbursts. Adam threatens Jekyll again, acknowledging that he broke Chris’s trust, but urging him to listen because Henry Jekyll is a dangerous man, but he is once again ignored by Chris who dismisses him. He then waves Luka off to go look for Jordi, who is still missing, and takes the girls to his lab where he attempts to check his decisions with Viveka. She encourages him by saying that she trusts his heart, which confuses him but he seems to try and think about it.

Coming back to Viveka’s, Jekyll urges Chris to stop working on the house improvements and work on the PATHETIC NULLIFIER, which he does without at all wondering where Jordi is because he’s too focused on his task. When he comes back in, finished, he realizes that Dr. Henry Jekyll wasn’t running from a hunter, he’s working with one, and it breaks Chris’s heart to be betrayed by someone he felt saw him for the first time. Running away, Chris accuses Jekyll of lying, and that he shouldn’t have trusted his heart to believe him because they were just distractions. Jekyll encourages Chris to use his brain to get rid of distractions like emotions, because that is what is haunting him, his monstrosity needs to be cured.

Chris says that he doesn’t want his monstrous nature to be nullified and it sends Jekyll into a rage, his Hyde’s coming out, begging for Christopher to kill them. He hesitates, unsure whether to use his brain or his heart to answer. Canon Divergence has him hesitate too long and Bloody Jack Hyde kills him before he realizes that he does need to trust his heart sometimes.

Path to Redemption: Christopher needs to grow up a lot, and be taught how to balance himself in a way that isn't destructive of self or others. The freedom of the Barge, taking away the threat of permanent death will help with some of that but also encourage some of his worst impulses in a way that will give him endless opportunities to learn. Whether that's productive or makes him worse depends on who is giving the lesson and how much he values their opinion.

His own anger at himself, having emotions that he can't justify as logical or productive needs gentle parenting in an environment where he isn't scared of honesty, which might take a while. He latches on to people quickly in an obsessive way but consistency as well as being respectful of his very real fears and emotions will do a lot of heavy lifting. Whoever wardens him, or attempts to, will essentially have to become saint babysitter, the being with a thousand options with the only right choice essentially being press 1 for kindness until they have managed to wiggle out of the divorce stage. Divorce stage being any minor thing you might say which Christopher deems wrong or stifling whether it be telling Christopher to not attempt to rewrite someones DNA because its too messy or you decided not to wear matching hats when he told you he didn’t want to match even though he actually did, how dare you not be able to read his mind you traitor.

Once that hill has been climbed, and they continue the fight to stay king of it, Christopher might actually be in the right place to examine his behavior, regulate his emotions and learn to live with madness instead of letting it control him in flights of obsessive fancy. Along with that hopefully boundaries and other crazy things like, believing that people have intentions other than ruining your life when you say no might also click for this chaos baby.

History: Volume 1+2 is here in the plot section.

In the third installment, Christopher and his friends have started regularly meeting with the Volkov twins despite learning that they are not who they say they are. Still, Chris is refusing to talk with Adam Frankenstein after he revealed that he did not want to tell Chris the whole of who he is even if he once called Christopher ‘the key to everything’. He goes home to his secret lab in the shed and while musing about his new invention that he’s trying to build, a ray that will cure him of having emotion, Dr. Henry Jekyll shows up, looking for Adam Frankenstein. Chris hides him from his mom and takes him with him to Monster Club later, introducing him to his friends as his new mentor.

Adam shows up, having been called by Viveka and demands that Jekyll leaves, making Chris angry and yelling at him to let him go. Adam refuses, yelling at Henry to tell the children the truth of what he is, but before he can force Jekyll to confess, Chris’s Aether builds like a bomb and explodes, exhausting Chris and causing everyone to have to take a second and make sure that he’s okay. Adam acknowledges that he hurt Chris but warns him that Dr. Jekyll is not to be trusted. Chris ignores him, promising to protect Jekyll from the bounty hunter that is chasing him and takes the girls with him to go find gadgets to boobytrap Viveka’s house with.

Jordi who is missing in action is attacked by the bounty hunter and left chained to a sign to burn in the sun. Chris questions whether he is doing the right thing and Viveka tells him that she trusts his heart, because it’s bigger than his big, dumb brain, and he is very confused by why she would trust his heart more than his brain. While they are gone, Jekyll and Adam have an argument over the Nullifier that Jekyll stole from Chris’s lab, and Jekyll calls for Bloody Jack, one of his hydes, and beats Adam to unconsciousness. When the kids return to Viveka’s, they start setting up the traps, but Jekyll encourages Chris to finish the nullifier.

While he’s focusing on that, Luka finds Jordi and saves him from burning in the sun, and they head to Viveka’s to try and catch the bounty hunter. Viveka and Sasha encounter him first, and Sasha dips out like a bitch, leaving Viveka who runs upstairs to hide in her room, the hunter telling her that she’s okay, because she’s not a monster, and goes downstairs to start asking Jekyll where Adam is. Chris, finished with the nullifier, comes in only to realize that Adam was right, and is hurt that Jekyll betrayed him. Jordi and Luka show up, attacking the bounty hunter while Jekyll chases Chris back to the gazebo where he tries to hide from him. Jekyll attempts to talk Chris into using the Aether nullifier on him but Chris is at a loss to whether he should when his monstrosities beg him to kill them. Canon divergence is here, where Chris then takes too long to decide and one of Jekyll’s Hydes, Bloody Jack then kills Chris in order to get the Nullifer to use on himself.

Sample Network Entry: [Chris is not the kind of 16 year old that uses a phone often. The video is currently pointed straight up his nose, and he doesn’t move it until he realizes that wow, you can really see up there- but no. That’s not the purpose of this experiment.

He clears his throat, attempting a serious voice, though his tone is soft, not the most outspoken boy ever.]

Hi! My name is Christopher Chaos, and I would like to welcome you to my new chapter of Monster Club! For those of you who don’t know, Monster Club is a place where monsters and human allies come together to work towards creating a world where we can live together in peace! Normally we would meet at my friend Viveka’s house, but for now, I propose we have Monster Club in the common room of deck eight! Near that super cool tree.

Now, rule one of Monster Club is that we don’t talk about Monster Club. I’m…not sure why? But Jordi picked that rule.

Rule two is also we don’t talk about Monster Club, which really didn’t seem like it was necessary to say it twice, but Luka suggested that rule, and he’s kind of dumb, so I wasn’t about to tell him no. At least he was participating?

Rule three is when a monster is in need, we help them. No if’s and’s or butts!

A-anyways. If anyone wants to join my club, I was going to see if maybe we could get some pizza and soda… I’m almost done building a karaoke machine, but it sounds a little weird. Might be a quirk rather than a bug, maybe I'll keep it. Anyways, see you guy’s there!

Sample RP: Here there be samples!

Special Notes: This is a canon that is still ongoing, so there is lots of back story that has not been revealed yet. Plans for any new canon will either be he can learn as he goes, but things like files will(frustratingly enough for Chris) only contain information from age 6 forward.

Any new powers that are revealed in canon will also be taken into account and nerfed as necessary. Chris’s powers tend to work as ‘rule of fun’ so I’m open for discussion on how his Aether and mad science abilities work in game if my proposed nerfs don’t satisfy inmate restrictions.