[UA] Thoughts on the Freak and Dirk Allen

[Matthew Rolnick]

Perhaps he needed a major charge to save himself at the Fountain of Youth
debacle.  You can't ascend (or atleast not as easily) if you're dead.

Message: 9
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:29:43 -0600
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From: Rich Ranallo <zincoxide at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [UA] Thoughts on the Freak and Dirk Allen
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A friend and I were discussing The Freak this weekend, trying to come up
with a good story to explain why exactly it wants Dirk Allen dead.  Based
on the little bits of information in the book, here's what we came out with
(all in theory, of course):

Gaining the ability to switch genders at will requires a major charge for
an Epideromancer.  Thus, The Freak must have some disfigurement that can
never be covered up with its Epideromancy.  Since it's never described as
having a missing limb or extremity, it probably got that charge by drinking
acid, which explains its weak, raspy voice.

The price The Freak would require in order to forgive Dirk Allen is
"immortality."  To an avatar, this is likely to be synonymous with
"ascension."  So, whatever it is that Dirk Allen did, it prevented The
Freak from ascending.  Assuming that a candidate for ascension as the
Mystic Hermaphrodite has to be an actual, physical hermaphrodite at the
very least (and thus, must possess both male and female anatomies), this
might mean that Allen forced The Freak into a position where it had to
generate a major charge by castrating itself.  Like drinking acid,
castration is a permanent disfigurement that allows it to look whole, at
least while it's clothed.  So, maintaining outward appearances is (or, at
least was) important to The Freak.  Obviously, the circumstances must have
been dire in order to force The Freak to eliminate its own shot at
ascension, so I can only assume that it would die otherwise.



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