Background: I am the Avatar of Redemption. I was
to seek out sinners, show them the true path, and purify their souls. I
was to give of my body, and to give of my blood. He came down to me, one
day while I was praying at my bed, and He told me these things. He told me
I was to find those who wrong others, and teach them the error of their
ways. Centuries ago, there were witch trials, where dozens of people were
killed for their knowledge of and control over arcane forces. Today, there
are no trials, and there are many whom do control power that does not
belong to them. He told me that I am to teach them, too. He wants me to go
out, and save them all. He loves them, He loves each and every one of
them, but they make it so hard sometimes. So He put me here to make it
easier for Him, by teaching all of those He loves about what is right. The
witch trials of old were sloppy, they couldn’t learn what I can learn now.
No innocents will fall. But there are no innocents nowadays. Even newborns
are harsh in their purity. So, if I must, I will show them too. I will
show the men, the women, the children, the aged, the haggard, the
beautiful, the hateful, the angry, the mad, the insane, the greedy, I will
show them all the love that He gives. The love that I give. If it takes me
months, then I will do it. If it takes me years, I will do it. I will save
the weak and the timid from the ones who torture them, I will save the
poor and tired from the ones who rob them, I will save the suffering and
the desolate from the ones who take their souls away and break them like a
child’s toy. I shall give of myself to purify their souls. My methods you
may question, but I will continue to use them. And I refuse to let anyone
get in my way while I do the work God has assigned to me. What He tells me
to do is right, and what I do for Him is right. No honest person can tell
me otherwise.
Character Personality From the Desk of K.P.D. Sgt. Del Corzucan, Precinct 21:
Jessye Christopher. This is perhaps the strangest and darkest child I have
ever encountered within my entire career, and probably in my entire life.
That day in the Church, she was just kneeling and praying by herself. She
appeared to be a normal child at first glance. By God, was I ever wrong.
She’s the daughter of two atheistic parents, Gregory Philips Christopher
and Lynn Hammond Christopher, but is perhaps the most intense Christian
I’ve ever met. In spite of having found her God, the acts she has
committed, which I will detail later, will end up landing her in either an
adult penitentiary or a maximum-security asylum upon her capture. She has
stated directly to her victims that they are ‘sinners with souls that need
to be purified,’ and her method of purification is most certainly one of
the more twisted methods of giving penance that I’ve seen. I took the
liberty of interrogating several of her classmates after encountering her,
and they told me she had been a quiet and reserved girl whom no one had
the courage to talk to. She would do likewise, and never speak unless
spoken to. Her teachers informed me that she had never raised her hand in
class, never volunteered to do anything, and had a non-existent class
participation grade. Despite being the idlest person in school, she would
quickly stand up for any of her peers that were unlucky enough to get
picked on by a larger child. I have seen for myself that she’s deceptively
strong; she has a grip that can crush the hand of any child her age. This
must’ve been the reason every single student of the school she attended
was terrified of her. She calls herself the ‘Avatar of Redemption,’ adding
to the growing mound of evidence pointing towards her being a deluded,
mentally unstable child. Profilers have outlined her as a delusional
psychotic. How a 15-year-old could become as twisted as her I will never
know. I will at least try to get some direct answers from her, but only
after I track her down, capture her, and stop her from terrorizing
Khazan’s general populace...
Powers and Abilities
Penance
- Power: Slicing
Attack
- Level: Superior
- Kit Power Link: Senshi
- Advantage: Seeker Ranged attack hunts target.
- Advantage: Ranged and Melee Attack! Attack is equally
effective at range and up close.
Upon
investigating of the first several crime scenes and reading the
examination reports of the first several victims, it became evident to me
that Jessye must’ve had a weapon. I’m guessing it was a butcher knife made
for fine cutting, as all of the victims who had enough sense to try and
fight her off had deep lacerations. She must’ve studied anatomy, as she
only cut areas that were simply debilitating, and usually nonfatal. There
are no weapons dealers around that would sell to children, and she, being
a reserved child who wouldn’t know where to find illegal arms dealers (as
I was told by our resident profilers), I went to the only place I could
think of where she could get a knife in such short notice...
Family Heirloom
I questioned
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher last week, and asked if they had been missing any
kitchen knives from their silverware. They told me that they hadn’t been
missing any, but instead told me that, upon Jessye’ disappearance, an
heirloom from Mrs. Lynn Christopher’s side of the family had gone missing
from their basement. I was given a picture of the knife for later
reference. It was a beautifully-crafted weapon, and it looked oddly
familiar. I checked with a few local knife aficionados, and learned that
it was a special blade that had, ironically enough, been called Penance.
It’s a weapon, which, in its two centuries of existence, had never gone
dull. It’s also said that it’s had its share of odd abilities. Legends
held that, once thrown, Penance would fly at its target, drive itself
until only the hilt stuck out of the said target, then pull itself out and
return to its owner. Though it contradicts the fact that all of Jessye’
victims have only slice wounds, this does explain some things, as a few
crime scenes had things like holes smashed in fences and brick walls.
Usually, we would find her victims hiding behind the damaged fence, or
wall, or whatever they decided to cower behind...
Of Her Body
She has never
directly killed anyone with Penance. What she does to her victims after
she debilitates them is what does them in, and it is one of the most
disturbing acts I have ever heard of. Even as a passing tale, it frightens
me to no end. What she does is that she soaks something, usually a small
paper towel or piece of cloth, with her own blood. Once her victim is
disabled, she takes this blood-soaked piece of paper, cloth, whatever, and
shoves it down her opponent’s throat. She clamps their jaw shut with her
hands, and proclaims, ‘This is my body, this is my blood; consume it and
know that it purifies your soul, and is your salvation from Hell.’ She
waits until they swallow, then she prays for them, and leaves them to
their own devices. We know it’s hers, we’ve run tests every time, and
there’s no way it can’t be her blood. We don’t know how she gets it
either. When I saw her in Church, I remember asking her about the fresh
scars on the palms of her hands. Why does it only occur to me now that
they were in the same pattern as stigmata...? It’s very unsettling, to say
the least, and the effects it has are just as troubling. Some victims
tried to induce vomiting. Some sobbed and shivered intensely. Some
aimlessly wandered about, looking like lost children in a shopping mall.
Some curled up in the fetal position and bawled at some unseen being,
telling them to go away. Some screamed like lunatics who belong in the
nearest asylum... And that’s where nearly every victim ends up going,
eventually. I had never known that it could be easy to make someone start
hating themselves.
Of Her Blood
We’ve felt
the need to commit almost each and every single person she’s ‘purified.’
Upon being found, her victims were almost always inconsolable, on the
verge of nervous breakdown. Some just sat quietly, some cried endlessly,
some shouted and raged for hours, and some muttered dark philosophical
musings that make me sick to my stomach even thinking about. A few hours
after being brought in, they would very quietly, very slowly die. We
wondered if there was something in her blood, some kind of poison or
quick-acting virus that was doing this. Upon the first several autopsies,
our medical department discovered that several kinds of toxins would start
gradually breaking down every single vital structure in their bodies. All
kinds of toxins had been found in their blood, and every single toxin was
produced naturally, no matter what species they were. I can only compare
it to a snake turning around and biting itself after losing immunity to
its own venom. Only one or two have actually lived through this dark
purification, and they described it as feeling violated, feeling like some
new disease of the soul had begun breaking them from the inside out. I
brought along several psychologists to aide our profilers, and they all
came to the same conclusion; the victims’ quickly-developed self-loathing
would destroy their minds, then spread and start destroying their bodies
afterward...
Divine Mercy
- Power: Detective
- Level: Superior
- Kit Power Link: Senshi
Well, it’s slowly been made
clear that Jessye Christopher’s victims are all, indeed, sinners in some
form or another. Some were adulterers who lived lives of fantasy behind
their spouses’ backs. Some were high-paid executives who enjoyed nothing
more than grinding down on their subordinates, sometimes firing them just
for the fun of playing with someone’s life. We even had one
ex-veterinarian who enjoyed needlessly amputating animals. Her victims
range from the extreme to the mild, from drug dealers, child
pornographers, and rape-fantasy writers, to petty thieves, wannabe
murderers, and even people who merely thought of sinning and breaking
rules but never had the backbone to ever live out their fantasies. We
don’t know how she finds out they’re ‘sinful people,’ but she does it. She
tracks them down, and forces them into a one-sided confession. And it’s
slowly been getting worse. Her victims were at first only the ones that
fell under the extreme category, only the people who made society worse
for others. Then she began to go after innocents more and more. Some of
them can’t even be considered real sinners. We had one girl in elementary
school whose only true sin is allegedly vowing that she hated boys, rather
wanting to hurt one than even considering kissing one. If that
eight-year-old survives through the upcoming bout of shame and misery,
she’s going to grow up to be a sad, pathetic woman. This is enough. That
righteous, God-serving child thought she was doing a service to humanity,
to her God? Not anymore. I believe the profilers when they tell me she’s a
psychotic now. She’s a menace that must be stopped before she attacks any
more innocent people. She brings them retribution for their wrongs, and
gives them a punishment much worse than they deserve. Screw
professionalism. I will personally lay my badge on the line to make sure
that Jessye Christopher gets put away into the deepest reaches of the
darkest penitentiary, with only the God that exists in her head to talk
to.
Thoughtless Hopes
From the
Desk of K.P.D. Investigator Derek Galloway, Precinct 12: Jessye
Christopher. Corzucan had an APB out on this kid a few weeks ago. I
haven’t known him for long, but if he of all people puts out an APB, then
I know enough about him to realize that he means business. All tips given
on her whereabouts were getting everyone nowhere. The only thing we could
get was that she remained mostly in Uptown. Thank God she hasn’t gone down
to Lowtown yet. She’d have a field day there... We were clueless, unable
to track her down at all. Then, I got a break. I found her sipping
chocolate milk at some coffee shop, and followed her after she made
another ‘purification,’ this time with no violence involved, on some
newborn. Don’t know why she did it, but that kid’ll probably never
realized what happened to him. I left the shop shortly after she did,
called Corzucan to tell him who I had just found, and then followed her.
She must’ve known I was somewhere behind her, because she headed into an
alley. Being someone bound to his duty, and being awful stupid, I kept
following her. We fought. I tried to subdue her, and I failed. Hey, she’s
awful strong for a kid. She tried to cut my legs out from under me, and
she succeeded. Goddamn knife. I think she might be telekinetic or
something... I tried to shoot her, and I failed. She could move. She was
able to evade, leap away, duck, run, and dodge every shot. I had one slug
left when she came to give me her ‘gift’. I gave her a scare to spare me
some time, and then the back-up arrived. I won’t know what happened.
‘cause I fell unconscious from the blood loss. I will only know what I was
told; she got three other KPD officers before the fourth and final was
able to ward her off. She’s an agile little psycho, I’ll give her that. I
later went to question Mr. and Mrs. Christopher myself. Turns out there
was a time when she was training herself for what they thought was ballet
or maybe even cheerleading. I hate to say it, but that was one of the best
laughs I’ve ever had in my life...
Unto Death
From my
hands comes the blood I purify with. It pains me to cut my palms open time
after time, but I find I’m minding less and less now. This is the Will of
God, and I am glad that He has asked me to use my own body to serve His
purposes. A man once asked me about them, why I had scars on my hands when
I offered him my peace. I would not tell him, for he would accuse me of
being a blasphemer, as all of the figures of legend have. Joan of Arc,
John the Baptist, even Christ Himself were persecuted for Their Ways, and
They were all punished by death. Burned at the stake, beheaded, and
crucified. He won’t let me end my mission in the ways He they ended
theirs. The people have resisted before, so they will try and stop me now.
But that will not happen. I will forego the pain. I refuse to stop now, I
refuse to fail, and I refuse to succumb to their wicked ways. Why must
they cling to sinful acts? Do they offer some kind of security, something
they are familiar with? Don’t they realize they’re slowly damning
themselves in their pleading and begging for me to stop making them
confront their evils? They must be purified, or they will burn for what
they’ve done. We don’t want things that way. I won’t let them burn, I will
be their salvation, no matter how long it takes. I will succeed, and no
man or woman alike can plead their way out of it.
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