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nosentimentalist) wrote2013-04-07 12:49 am
nosentimentalist) wrote2013-04-07 12:49 am
KEATS' CANON HISTORY
I TRIED TO FIND A GOOD CANON SOURCE I DID but some of the ones I've found have got their facts wrong, so I'll just write one up here and hope that it's understandable.
It's the year 2007, and Keats, a reporter for a third-rung occult magazine called Unknown Realms, suddenly gets a call while typing up a story in his apartment. He picks it up, only to hear a woman cry out for help, saying that the Faerys are at the Cliff of Sidhe in the Irish village of Doolin, rumored to be one of the only places in the world where the living and the dead can meet. She then promptly hangs up, and Keats, while dubious as to the mention of Faerys, has his curiosity peaked enough to make the trip to Doolin to see what it could all mean.
Upon arriving there, he finds a young woman calling out to a seated figure on the Cliff of Sidhe, and when he questions her, finds that she is not the one who phoned him. However, as he turns to address the seated figure, he suddenly notices that the person is no longer alive, and the two watch in shock as the body falls off the cliff. As the young woman from before, Ellen, runs to go get help, Keats just shakes his head, not believing the circumstances he's inadvertently gotten himself into.
"A murder in the village of the dead? Somebody tell me this is a joke..."
So, there's a murder mystery to be solved now, and after discovering and helping an unconscious Ellen with the help of a fellow villager named Suzette, Keats find a place to stay the night to rethink what just occurred. But as he begins to drift off to sleep, Keats hears a voice calling him to the village pub. Unsure what it could be, he makes his way there...and meets a few very strange ghost-like creatures that call themselves Half-Lives. One of them, a well-dressed invisible man named Belgae, tells him that there is a way to get the answers to this mystery he has found- he can talk to the dead. Keats scoffs it all off at first, but decides to play along, following Belgae to the large Henge on the outskirts of Doolin.
The day is Samhain, the only day in the year which the living can reportedly enter the Netherworld, the land of the dead. Therefore the Henge is open, revealing a secret underground sanctuary. Keats sees Ellen, the girl from before, don what seems to be a magical cloak, and Belgae tells him that the cloak has chosen her to be a Messenger, a person who can move freely between the Netherworld and the real world. And when the Messenger is chosen, a Guardian will be chosen too, a person that will protect her from the dangers that she will face in the land of the dead.
And Keats is that Guardian.
So, before he can even protest or say a word against what will happen to him, he is forced into the position, gaining incredible powers that allow him, like Ellen, to walk freely in the Netherworld and fight whatever creatures he finds there. And so, Keats, thinking he has probably started to go insane down the line, goes into the Netherworld and starts to slowly uncover the dark mystery that has been hidden in the village for the last seventeen years.
DON'T READ FURTHER UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SPOILED FOR FOLKLORE FOREVER
For seventeen years ago, Doolin was more or less a happy place. A couple moved into the village, bringing with them their young son, Herve. Herve got acquainted with a young girl who lived in the village, called Cecelia, and the two quickly became fast friends, hanging out together and discussing their numerous interests, like Cecelia's love of painting and Herve's wish to become a writer like his father when he grew up.
However, things could not be happy for very long. Herve and Cecelia accidentally discovered the medical records of the village doctor, Dr. Lester, who used the local church as a clinic. In the medical records, they found out that Herve was in fact very, very sick, and probably only had a year to live before he would succumb to his condition. The two friends were shocked, and Cecelia, in a desperate attempt to find any way to save her friend, started to ask around the village to find anything she could do to save him. A woman named Harriet, who had immersed herself into the occult after suffering an accident at a young age that had confined her to a wheelchair, told Cecelia that there was a way to save her friend- if she prayed at the Henge for seven days in a row, a Faery would grant her wish to save Herve.
So Cecelia did so, and on the seventh day, the day of Samhain, the sanctuary beneath the Henge opened, and Cecelia wandered inside, meeting a being named Livane. Livane told Cecelia that if she used her spear to cut herself and offer her own blood to her, she would help her in any way possible. Cecelia agreed, but accidentally cut herself too much, losing a lot of blood and eventually passing out. Dr. Lester and Herve discovered her and immediately took her back to the clinic, but they needed to act fast. Without finding a way to give her blood, she would die.
It was then that Herve made his decision. Despite the dangers of his condition, he would offer his own blood to save Cecelia. Dr. Lester refused at first, but Herve was adamant, saying that he was doing this because he wanted nothing more than everyone he loved in the village, especially Cecelia, to be safe. Finally, with a heavy heart, Dr. Lester went through with the operation, saving Cecelia...but Herve didn't survive.
The lighthouse keeper of the village, Ryan, saw the doctor standing over the now dead Herve and a bloody Cecelia through the church window and took a picture of it, bringing it back to Harriet. Misinterpreting the situation, Harriet believed that Cecelia had killed Herve, and Ryan went to tell Herve's parents about it. His parents were shocked to hear that Cecelia had killed their little boy (remember, this was a village where magic was somewhat believed in, so it was assumed that Cecelia had abilities that would allow her to do so), and Herve's father went to go confront her, attempting to kill her in his distress. However, what he didn't realize is that the girl had a very powerful ally on her side- her mother, Ingrid. Seeing her little daughter in danger, Cecilia's mother killed Herve's father to protect her. She also killed Ryan when he tried to confront Cecelia as well.
Now a murderess, Cecilia's mother "left for a job overseas", but in actuality, retreated into the Sidhe sanctuary for seventeen years to hide the truth from the traumatized Cecilia, who was sent to an orphanage and given a new name...Ellen. Herve's mother left the village, but consumed with a furious want for revenge, returned to the village and discovered where Ellen is, sending her a letter as if it was her own mother writing her. It is for that very reason that Ellen goes to Doolin at the beginning of the story, and discovers the dead body of Herve's mother, as Ingrid had resurfaced again to protect her daughter.
But where, exactly, does Keats fit into all of this? Well, let's first explain a bit as to the two kinds of "ghosts" that exist in the Netherworld. First, the dead don't exactly "live" in the Netherworld- a dead person stays dead. However, there are certain creatures called Mnemosynes that feed on the memories of the dead, and by talking to these creatures, one can converse to a dead person as if they were real people. But they're nothing more than just shades of a living person. The other type of "ghost" is called a Half-Life. A Half-Life is created when a person has a desire or wish so powerful, that they manifest outside of themselves as their own being. For example, a little girl in the village wished for nothing else but for her parents to stop fighting with each other, and that wish was born into a robot-looking Half-Life with two heads that constantly bickered with each other. Half-Lives are basically glorified imaginary friends, as they are created to serve a purpose and help out with that purpose as much as they can, and once they finish whatever they need to do, they disappear.
So, now that we know that, let's get back to the deal with Keats.
You see, back when Herve and Cecelia were friends, Herve often spoke of his want to be a writer. He was also interested in an occult magazine called Unknown Realms, which he read constantly. Cecelia really liked the idea of Herve being a reporter, and even drew a picture of what he would look like when he grew up. Herve died, never being able to realize his dreams...or did he?
For, you see, his wish before he died, that deep desire to be able to save and protect Cecelia, manifested in a Half-Life. A Half-Life that would be the man he would never be, who would be able to do what Herve could not after death.
A Half-Life named Keats.
But Keats never knew for what he was created for, as Herve had died, and lived in the Netherworld in a realm that looked, for all intents and purposes, to be a normal apartment in the city. In this way, he completely fooled himself into believing he was a normal human being and only started on his true purpose in life when he was summoned inadvertently by Ellen being in danger seventeen years later after Herve's death.
SO YEAH basically, there's a bit more to the story (there's a fight between Livane and the Faerys of the Netherworld as to whether or not to cut off humans from the Netherworld entirely, as well as the murder mysteries in the village), but that is the general gist of Keats' story.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, DON'T HESITATE TO ASK ME ABOUT IT
It's the year 2007, and Keats, a reporter for a third-rung occult magazine called Unknown Realms, suddenly gets a call while typing up a story in his apartment. He picks it up, only to hear a woman cry out for help, saying that the Faerys are at the Cliff of Sidhe in the Irish village of Doolin, rumored to be one of the only places in the world where the living and the dead can meet. She then promptly hangs up, and Keats, while dubious as to the mention of Faerys, has his curiosity peaked enough to make the trip to Doolin to see what it could all mean.
Upon arriving there, he finds a young woman calling out to a seated figure on the Cliff of Sidhe, and when he questions her, finds that she is not the one who phoned him. However, as he turns to address the seated figure, he suddenly notices that the person is no longer alive, and the two watch in shock as the body falls off the cliff. As the young woman from before, Ellen, runs to go get help, Keats just shakes his head, not believing the circumstances he's inadvertently gotten himself into.
"A murder in the village of the dead? Somebody tell me this is a joke..."
So, there's a murder mystery to be solved now, and after discovering and helping an unconscious Ellen with the help of a fellow villager named Suzette, Keats find a place to stay the night to rethink what just occurred. But as he begins to drift off to sleep, Keats hears a voice calling him to the village pub. Unsure what it could be, he makes his way there...and meets a few very strange ghost-like creatures that call themselves Half-Lives. One of them, a well-dressed invisible man named Belgae, tells him that there is a way to get the answers to this mystery he has found- he can talk to the dead. Keats scoffs it all off at first, but decides to play along, following Belgae to the large Henge on the outskirts of Doolin.
The day is Samhain, the only day in the year which the living can reportedly enter the Netherworld, the land of the dead. Therefore the Henge is open, revealing a secret underground sanctuary. Keats sees Ellen, the girl from before, don what seems to be a magical cloak, and Belgae tells him that the cloak has chosen her to be a Messenger, a person who can move freely between the Netherworld and the real world. And when the Messenger is chosen, a Guardian will be chosen too, a person that will protect her from the dangers that she will face in the land of the dead.
And Keats is that Guardian.
So, before he can even protest or say a word against what will happen to him, he is forced into the position, gaining incredible powers that allow him, like Ellen, to walk freely in the Netherworld and fight whatever creatures he finds there. And so, Keats, thinking he has probably started to go insane down the line, goes into the Netherworld and starts to slowly uncover the dark mystery that has been hidden in the village for the last seventeen years.
DON'T READ FURTHER UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SPOILED FOR FOLKLORE FOREVER
For seventeen years ago, Doolin was more or less a happy place. A couple moved into the village, bringing with them their young son, Herve. Herve got acquainted with a young girl who lived in the village, called Cecelia, and the two quickly became fast friends, hanging out together and discussing their numerous interests, like Cecelia's love of painting and Herve's wish to become a writer like his father when he grew up.
However, things could not be happy for very long. Herve and Cecelia accidentally discovered the medical records of the village doctor, Dr. Lester, who used the local church as a clinic. In the medical records, they found out that Herve was in fact very, very sick, and probably only had a year to live before he would succumb to his condition. The two friends were shocked, and Cecelia, in a desperate attempt to find any way to save her friend, started to ask around the village to find anything she could do to save him. A woman named Harriet, who had immersed herself into the occult after suffering an accident at a young age that had confined her to a wheelchair, told Cecelia that there was a way to save her friend- if she prayed at the Henge for seven days in a row, a Faery would grant her wish to save Herve.
So Cecelia did so, and on the seventh day, the day of Samhain, the sanctuary beneath the Henge opened, and Cecelia wandered inside, meeting a being named Livane. Livane told Cecelia that if she used her spear to cut herself and offer her own blood to her, she would help her in any way possible. Cecelia agreed, but accidentally cut herself too much, losing a lot of blood and eventually passing out. Dr. Lester and Herve discovered her and immediately took her back to the clinic, but they needed to act fast. Without finding a way to give her blood, she would die.
It was then that Herve made his decision. Despite the dangers of his condition, he would offer his own blood to save Cecelia. Dr. Lester refused at first, but Herve was adamant, saying that he was doing this because he wanted nothing more than everyone he loved in the village, especially Cecelia, to be safe. Finally, with a heavy heart, Dr. Lester went through with the operation, saving Cecelia...but Herve didn't survive.
The lighthouse keeper of the village, Ryan, saw the doctor standing over the now dead Herve and a bloody Cecelia through the church window and took a picture of it, bringing it back to Harriet. Misinterpreting the situation, Harriet believed that Cecelia had killed Herve, and Ryan went to tell Herve's parents about it. His parents were shocked to hear that Cecelia had killed their little boy (remember, this was a village where magic was somewhat believed in, so it was assumed that Cecelia had abilities that would allow her to do so), and Herve's father went to go confront her, attempting to kill her in his distress. However, what he didn't realize is that the girl had a very powerful ally on her side- her mother, Ingrid. Seeing her little daughter in danger, Cecilia's mother killed Herve's father to protect her. She also killed Ryan when he tried to confront Cecelia as well.
Now a murderess, Cecilia's mother "left for a job overseas", but in actuality, retreated into the Sidhe sanctuary for seventeen years to hide the truth from the traumatized Cecilia, who was sent to an orphanage and given a new name...Ellen. Herve's mother left the village, but consumed with a furious want for revenge, returned to the village and discovered where Ellen is, sending her a letter as if it was her own mother writing her. It is for that very reason that Ellen goes to Doolin at the beginning of the story, and discovers the dead body of Herve's mother, as Ingrid had resurfaced again to protect her daughter.
But where, exactly, does Keats fit into all of this? Well, let's first explain a bit as to the two kinds of "ghosts" that exist in the Netherworld. First, the dead don't exactly "live" in the Netherworld- a dead person stays dead. However, there are certain creatures called Mnemosynes that feed on the memories of the dead, and by talking to these creatures, one can converse to a dead person as if they were real people. But they're nothing more than just shades of a living person. The other type of "ghost" is called a Half-Life. A Half-Life is created when a person has a desire or wish so powerful, that they manifest outside of themselves as their own being. For example, a little girl in the village wished for nothing else but for her parents to stop fighting with each other, and that wish was born into a robot-looking Half-Life with two heads that constantly bickered with each other. Half-Lives are basically glorified imaginary friends, as they are created to serve a purpose and help out with that purpose as much as they can, and once they finish whatever they need to do, they disappear.
So, now that we know that, let's get back to the deal with Keats.
You see, back when Herve and Cecelia were friends, Herve often spoke of his want to be a writer. He was also interested in an occult magazine called Unknown Realms, which he read constantly. Cecelia really liked the idea of Herve being a reporter, and even drew a picture of what he would look like when he grew up. Herve died, never being able to realize his dreams...or did he?
For, you see, his wish before he died, that deep desire to be able to save and protect Cecelia, manifested in a Half-Life. A Half-Life that would be the man he would never be, who would be able to do what Herve could not after death.
A Half-Life named Keats.
But Keats never knew for what he was created for, as Herve had died, and lived in the Netherworld in a realm that looked, for all intents and purposes, to be a normal apartment in the city. In this way, he completely fooled himself into believing he was a normal human being and only started on his true purpose in life when he was summoned inadvertently by Ellen being in danger seventeen years later after Herve's death.
SO YEAH basically, there's a bit more to the story (there's a fight between Livane and the Faerys of the Netherworld as to whether or not to cut off humans from the Netherworld entirely, as well as the murder mysteries in the village), but that is the general gist of Keats' story.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, DON'T HESITATE TO ASK ME ABOUT IT