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Mar. 13th, 2018 05:13 pmName: The Beast
Aliases: The Death of Hope, The Voice of the Night, The Beast of Eternal Darkness, The Beast of Darkness (Possibly more)
Goals: Keep Lantern Lit
Home: The Unknown, his forest
Age: Unknown
Powers: Ability to turn people lost in his woods intro edlewood trees, immortal as long as his soul lantern is lit, can control shadows and light and possibly sound as well. (He can make the lantern sound like a girl laughing)
Body: Edlewood
The Dark Lantern: The lantern contains the Beast's soul and must be constantly kept lit with the oil from Edelwood trees.
Edelwood Trees: Those who lose heart and hope in the Unknown will find themselves starting to turn to Edelwood trees. The Beast does this and then makes oil from them to burn in his lantern
Hobbies: Singing, lying, making deals
Personality:
The beast is a manipulative creature who will say just about anything to get people to do what he wants or believe what he wants. He has one singular goal in his life and that is to prolong it by keeping his lantern lit. Everything he does revolves around this. Aside from possibly singing, he seems to just like doing that.
He mostly lies to the people lost in the unknown. Pretending to be their friend and getting them lost or keeping their spirits low. Or if they try to make a deal with him, then simply twisting the deal to suit his needs. He told a little boy he'd let him and his brother go home if the boy did three tasks. The tasks themselves were meaningless, the boy had too much hope and so the Beast was waiting for him to freeze and give in to the woods that way.
So he cheats as well. He cheats and lies. If you have his lantern and you think he took your daughter, he'll tell you your daughters soul is in there and make it look like it is, sound like it is. And so the only way to keep her alive is to keep the lantern lit. Which you want don't you? Of course you do. It's a deal.
Sometimes he just follows people from afar and waits for the the woods and themselves to do the work for him. As long as they turn into trees in the end, that's what matters. People can still hear him singing though. Because who doesn't like creepy forest ambient music that is actually about their deaths without them realizing it?
He also seems to have made at least one deal with a witch, as Adelaide claims to serve him. Though the terms of her servitude are unknown.
If there's one thing the beast is not good at, it's changing plans in the middle of a complex one in motion. When the Woodsman finds out that it's not his daughters soul in the lantern but the Beasts. The Beast chooses to keep going with the lie rather then change it up and come up with something more convincing. Instead doubling down and ending up getting his lantern blown out because of this.
He's very single minded which is where that flaw might come from. After all he does have one goal in life so he's good at latching on to one thing. Like tracking down two kids, waiting for them to give up on hope. He's also very patient, as long as he gets what he wants and has enough time that it doesn't risk the lantern going out, he will sit and wait for the sun to go down with a small boy, while really waiting for the child to freeze to the point where the forest will take him.
Dispute living just to...well live, he does seem to get some enjoyment out of it, if the singing is anything to go by. After all if you're making up cheerful songs about how people should give up and embrace their death....that's fun. He also laughs when the Woodsman tries to fight him near the end. People are amusing when they try to go against him.
So fighting. The beast doesn't really fight. He mostly manipulates so he doesn't have to, or vanishes into the woods which are like a part of him, or well are a part of him. When attacked he dances around, avoiding the axe very well and doesn't seem to have any trouble. The fight is mostly off screen, but we see the Woodsman fall to the ground at the end of it, clearly having lost.. Either from exhaustion, or the Beast hitting back. Most likely the first one.
Powers:
He also shows that he can draw in all the light in an area leaving nothing but darkness. Considering how he uses the lantern to make people believe that their loved one is inside it, it's possible that he can control the flame inside to some degree, or at least in that it is light. And possibly sound.as well, as multiple times you will hear what sounds like a girls laughter coming from it.
He seems to be able to tell when people are giving up on hope and despair or at least his forest does as it will start to move in and grow on the person when they stop moving.
Symbolism!!!:
The Beast can be seen as essentially suicide and depression. Or depression leading to suicide. His light and darkness represent both. The darkness is the dark hopelessness of depression. And the light that powers him and is his core, is the the light of people finally giving up and choosing death. His entire thing after all is to get people to give up on life and just lay down and let the forest overtake them. It's why people can't lose hope or become depressed in his forest, they will become trees.
Aliases: The Death of Hope, The Voice of the Night, The Beast of Eternal Darkness, The Beast of Darkness (Possibly more)
Goals: Keep Lantern Lit
Home: The Unknown, his forest
Age: Unknown
Powers: Ability to turn people lost in his woods intro edlewood trees, immortal as long as his soul lantern is lit, can control shadows and light and possibly sound as well. (He can make the lantern sound like a girl laughing)
Body: Edlewood
The Dark Lantern: The lantern contains the Beast's soul and must be constantly kept lit with the oil from Edelwood trees.
Edelwood Trees: Those who lose heart and hope in the Unknown will find themselves starting to turn to Edelwood trees. The Beast does this and then makes oil from them to burn in his lantern
Hobbies: Singing, lying, making deals
Personality:
The beast is a manipulative creature who will say just about anything to get people to do what he wants or believe what he wants. He has one singular goal in his life and that is to prolong it by keeping his lantern lit. Everything he does revolves around this. Aside from possibly singing, he seems to just like doing that.
He mostly lies to the people lost in the unknown. Pretending to be their friend and getting them lost or keeping their spirits low. Or if they try to make a deal with him, then simply twisting the deal to suit his needs. He told a little boy he'd let him and his brother go home if the boy did three tasks. The tasks themselves were meaningless, the boy had too much hope and so the Beast was waiting for him to freeze and give in to the woods that way.
So he cheats as well. He cheats and lies. If you have his lantern and you think he took your daughter, he'll tell you your daughters soul is in there and make it look like it is, sound like it is. And so the only way to keep her alive is to keep the lantern lit. Which you want don't you? Of course you do. It's a deal.
Sometimes he just follows people from afar and waits for the the woods and themselves to do the work for him. As long as they turn into trees in the end, that's what matters. People can still hear him singing though. Because who doesn't like creepy forest ambient music that is actually about their deaths without them realizing it?
He also seems to have made at least one deal with a witch, as Adelaide claims to serve him. Though the terms of her servitude are unknown.
If there's one thing the beast is not good at, it's changing plans in the middle of a complex one in motion. When the Woodsman finds out that it's not his daughters soul in the lantern but the Beasts. The Beast chooses to keep going with the lie rather then change it up and come up with something more convincing. Instead doubling down and ending up getting his lantern blown out because of this.
He's very single minded which is where that flaw might come from. After all he does have one goal in life so he's good at latching on to one thing. Like tracking down two kids, waiting for them to give up on hope. He's also very patient, as long as he gets what he wants and has enough time that it doesn't risk the lantern going out, he will sit and wait for the sun to go down with a small boy, while really waiting for the child to freeze to the point where the forest will take him.
Dispute living just to...well live, he does seem to get some enjoyment out of it, if the singing is anything to go by. After all if you're making up cheerful songs about how people should give up and embrace their death....that's fun. He also laughs when the Woodsman tries to fight him near the end. People are amusing when they try to go against him.
So fighting. The beast doesn't really fight. He mostly manipulates so he doesn't have to, or vanishes into the woods which are like a part of him, or well are a part of him. When attacked he dances around, avoiding the axe very well and doesn't seem to have any trouble. The fight is mostly off screen, but we see the Woodsman fall to the ground at the end of it, clearly having lost.. Either from exhaustion, or the Beast hitting back. Most likely the first one.
Powers:
He also shows that he can draw in all the light in an area leaving nothing but darkness. Considering how he uses the lantern to make people believe that their loved one is inside it, it's possible that he can control the flame inside to some degree, or at least in that it is light. And possibly sound.as well, as multiple times you will hear what sounds like a girls laughter coming from it.
He seems to be able to tell when people are giving up on hope and despair or at least his forest does as it will start to move in and grow on the person when they stop moving.
Symbolism!!!:
The Beast can be seen as essentially suicide and depression. Or depression leading to suicide. His light and darkness represent both. The darkness is the dark hopelessness of depression. And the light that powers him and is his core, is the the light of people finally giving up and choosing death. His entire thing after all is to get people to give up on life and just lay down and let the forest overtake them. It's why people can't lose hope or become depressed in his forest, they will become trees.
