Casket Case  

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About  

Casket Case is a man who dislikes the straightforward, when things are simple and exactly as they appear he oft grows bored. This is his approach to himself, why should he make himself clear cut for the sake of others? and this is his approach to art. He often gets labelled as pretentious to others but he doesn't mind it as he is self assured in his ways and is a bit haughty about it, after all if nothing is interpretable where's the room for using your mind? Despite his dislike of straightfowardness his insults are certainly just that, straight to the point and blunt as can be in a way that feels formal, he's very forthwright with when he finds things dull and meaningless. Don't get it confused though, he doesn't dislike the mundane as even within the everyday there is room for complexity and depth.

People distance themselves from him, they find him unnerving and creepy, even among the obscura, in a way they can't quite put their finger on. Perhaps it's because of that God of his or, well, the dead don't just come back to life now do they? Casket Case doesn't mind it, he's always been asocial and out of place. In the past he'd seclude himself for days- weeks- months, preoccupying himself with his work, though now in death he's much more out and about, likely as a result of retiring his passion because of his strange views of himself.

Casket Case does not see himself as a person, merely a belonging to his God, even "Casket Case" is simply just something people came to refer to him as that stuck, as far as he's concerned he has no name. He sees his life before death as seperate from himself, a life that didn't matter and was merely transitory such that he could be who he is now. His true feelings may however reveal a more melacholic yet anger ridden view himself and his new found life, perhaps there are things he misses from his life, maybe he even misses his worst moments, maybe he misses something much more. If only he'd be more straightfoward with himself.

Background  

Casket Case was born Victor Ogle, from a young age he often preferred to be referred to by his middle name however, Lon. His relationship with his parents was rough to say the least, his father even once threatning him with a gun and leaving him with a bullet wound scar in his lower left torso as a young man. Still he loved them, one of his earliest memories was when they took him to an art museum and looking at the paintings gave him this sense of longing that burned in him for the rest of his life, and it's how he came to love art. He dedicated himself wholly to art, drawing and studying and painting and schooling, his parents didn't much approve and it became another source of tension between them along with his tattoos, his piercings, and his sexuality. One of the rings his dad wore left a horrible gash that scarred the bridge of his nose.

When he was 17 Lon entered a relationship with another artist, a photographer named Jonathan Rollins, a man in his 40s who'd be one of the few to call him Victor. Rollins was the first relationship he'd had and to say he was smitten would be an understatement, he lived with him and felt safe with him, he even taught Lon how to inject, he dedicated his body to him, a common subject of many of Rollins photographs, even his most prominent tattoo, For All Eternity, was for his love. He was 21 when they broke up and Rollins moved on to find a new art subject, leaving Lon alone in the apartment they had lived in with nothing but heartbreak, alcoholism, and addiction that he would struggle with for the rest of his short life.

As a painter he didn't subscribe to any one school of work, he tended towards geometric abstraction, though he'd have periods focused on expressionism and color field paintings. He never concerned himself with success and only ever gave away his paintings to make space for more, often he'd not even sign it though when he did all he'd write was Lon and that's all he was known for. To others and to himself his art was his whole, his every thought both waking and sleeping dedicated to his work, he'd oft be found staring at his own work looking as if he were about to burrow inside it. There were even rumors he painted with his own blood though this was false info based on one painting having traces of it. And when he died he truly became his art, no one who knew his art knew his name or what he looked like beyond speculation and no one who knew his name knew him.

His death is unknown and upon it, or perhaps even before it, whether knowingly or not, Casket Case became the sole acolyte of a long dead God, though death for a God isn't like death for us and even in death the spirit remains, haunting. This God's death happened long before anything and it was a death that crows picked at the meat of and fed to their young who grew up to pick at it and feed to their young to continue the cycle while the God was long forgotten, even as it's carrion and the crows melted together to become the world.

After death Casket Case cleaned himself up and made a name for himself, particularly in the land of the obscura which he could now enter freely and was quite interested in, a world unknown to humans but now his strange situationship allowed him to inhabit. At some time when looking for job offerings to keep himself preoccupied he happened upon a position to guard a noble couples child and when he applied they didn't reject him like many other offers did on account of his lack of life, and from there he met Mavy and now we've reached his current day.

Relationships  

Zachariah  

Zachariah is someone Casket Case finds moronic and simple. While he'll try his best to be polite to the man, he often winds up insulting him and if he especially annoys him, beating the shit out of him. It's not something that happens often, it rarely happens in fact, but the mention of it highlights how Casket Case feels no need to respect Zachariah in any regard, it's not like Zachariah can die the way a normal person can and it doesn't seem the man actually learns anything from it as he continues to bother Casket Case, so there's no problem with it.

Medora Adela Venus Yvet  

Casket Case was hired by Medora's family to guard her, more or less their way of making someone else deal with her, and as such he views her as his job, and he's pretty much always on the clock with rare time off. He finds the girl strange and at times annoying, especially the way in which she treats him like a servant though he's learned to tune her out sometimes. That isn't to say he doesn't have some fondness for her as he's been with her for some time. He saw how she lived before he met her and the way her family treats her and pitied her as at the time she reminded him of himself. Though now that she's much happier and has become herself he'd say they have nothing in common.

Salszefar  

Salszefar despises Casket Case and the feeling isn't wholly unrequited as Casket Case finds the creature quite annoying, though mostly in regards to the way in which it refuses to even pretend to be courteous with him. Despite their distaste for each other, many have noted similarities between the two, something both are displeased to hear, another similarity between them.

The Dead God  

The marriage between mutilated corpses, in his death, he was taken into it's arms and kissed into new life, and the two never truly part. Casket Case can always feel it's presence draped around him, a part of him. The two are alike, in the way that their flesh was torn, their organs were burned, in their graveness, death, and ultimately the way they were forgotten and yet remain. It's this melancholic connection that Casket Case worships the God through, and in turn the God venerates him, revering his body as it's temple, finding comfort in their intercourse. Casket Case belongs to his God and dedicates himself to it and yet there is this feeling in his core he can't explain.

Misc  

Design Notes  

Trivia  

• His name was inspired by bandnames particularly metal bands, I thought up many choices and in the end it became a choice between Casket Case and Killing Elysium and you can see which I ultimately chose.
• He is one of my four mascots and considered my primary mascot.
• He's since reclaimed his For All Eternity tattoo to be about his relationship with his God allowing himself to not hate it the way he did before
• Despite claiming to have no name his God still refers to him as
  Victor
• He got his first tattoo when he was 13
• His left inner arm tattoo that resembles a cross he got after he got sober, symbolizing the final death of his old self.

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