jeriendhal | Hecubah, Angel of Slasher Flicks (Reply)

Corporeal Forces: 4, Strength 7, Agilty 9

Ethereal Forces: 5, Intelligence 12, Precision 8

Celestial Forces: 3, Will 6, Perception 6

Skills: Dodge/3, Emote/1, Large Weapon (machete)/2, Psychology/4, Professional Skill (Physician)/3, Professional Skill (Scriptwriting)/4.

Songs: Healing (Corporeal)/3, Illusion (Corporeal)/3, Motion (Corporeal)/3.

Vessel: Human Male, mid-twenties/2, Role: Jason Kaplan/4.

Attunements: Elohite of Children, Friend of Children., Angel of Slasher Flicks*

*Angel of Slasher Flicks: Once per day, assuming Hecubah is Vessel-killed, he can maintain his connection to his Vessel rather than get shunted straight to his Heart. In CD minutes the Vessel and Hecubah will rise again (usually disconcerting his opponents severely). The Vessel will still have whatever damage was inflicted upon it, until it can be healed. If he’s killed a second time with 24-hours, he takes Trauma as normal.

Rites: Scare someone to the point of screaming with a scene he’s written.

Have a script be accepted by a studio.

Background: Hecubah is a pretty average Elohite of Children. He loves kids in a slightly distant fashion, thinks the world of his archangel, hopes Heaven can win the War without resorting to worldwide Armageddon, and writes scripts featuring handsome/nubile college students getting eviscerated by unstoppable killers.

You see, once upon a time Hecubah was a Habbalite of the Media, shooting for the Word of Promiscuity, and cheerfully convinced he was doing God’s Work by promoting the line about “Be fruitful and multiply” in every single Media project he was involved in, from daytime soaps to sly “adult” references in children’s cartoons. In other words, the more sex on the Tube the better, preferably in complete ignorance of the concepts of STD’s or disease prevention.

Until he figured out that, much like the old joke about gynecologists, after a certain point sex is less arousing than repulsive, especially after the 200th viewing that day. After a while he started getting bored. Then he started *thinking*. And then it was a matter of running to the nearest Tether he could get to, in this case the National Capitol Children’s Museum in Washington, DC (during a location shoot for “Interns in Trouble”).

Chris was happy to take him up and Redeem poor Hecubah, who was quite satisfied to spend the rest of his life as a happy Elohite, encouraging rationality in children of all ages and trying to make up for his past sins. He gained a minor reputation as a worrywart, constantly checking in with his case officer to make certain he was back-sliding into emotive behavior, but other than that he was considered quite normal.

Until he starting chatting up his fellow angels about the relative merits of the Slasher Film sub-genre that is.

By the time Christopher caught up with him to ask what he thought he was doing, Hecubah had already prepared his arguments. Slasher films, inventive deaths aside, have a structure as firm and unyielding as a Noh play. A group of young idiots are introduced, the Good Girl and Boy are identified, and then everyone around them starts dropping like flies at the hands of an unstoppable killer, usually before or immediately engaging in empty, Lustful sex. Sex = Death being a no-brainer Freudian concept, Hecubah though it would be a perfect fit for Christopher’s ongoing campaign against under-aged pregnancy.

Christopher thought a couple of other things initially, but Hecubah’s arguments were convincing, and he eventually sponsored him (with backing from Novalis and Yves) for the Word of Slasher Flicks. Much to Chris’ surprise, it was actually granted.

Nowadays Hecubah works the mean streets of Vancouver, Canada (aka Hollywood North), playing the Role of Jason Kaplan, up and coming horror film writer. He’s already got two films optioned, is working on his next script while the buzz around him builds. His scripts are scrupulously fair in their writing. Everyone who dies first demonstrate some suitably noxious personality trait (in other words, demonstrated they’d met their Fate). The killer is *not* supernatural, though perhaps he is strong and quick (no sense in giving demons any free publicity). Most notably, Hecubah is careful to avoid the killer seeming to teleport from area to area, just keeping ahead of his victims. If he sneaks up on them, it’ll be because they were suitably distracted, not because “it was in the script.” Oh, and the hero and heroine are Nice Kids, who win because they demonstrate bravery and intelligence, not just because they’re the designated heroes.

Now, all Hecubah has to do is convince the studios to allow *him* to do the re-writes.