Mister Wednesday
From Changeling Venue
| Seeming | Ogre Cyclopean |
|---|---|
| Court | Summer Court •••• |
| Freehold | n/a |
| Player | Joshua Shessel |
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Overview
Age: Around 40.
Concept: Twisted Pleasures. Proprietor of Betty's Tea House, located in Toronto, Canada.
Physical description: Average hieght, with an athletic build. Thin cruel lips that never smile in an inviting way. A patch covers his left eye, and there are multiple piercings in his ears and in the septum of his nose.
When in public, Mister Wednesday is usually seen wearing leathers, a long soviet-era great coat, and tight tactical gloves. He's known to almost always be armed, although people have rarely seen him resort to any physical violence, as his presence seems to keep things peaceful around him.
Mister Wednesday has "hunting clothes" which involve a set of dark fatiuges, a military webbing harness, heavy boots and a snear.
Character Livejournal: TBA
Character Information
Cold, Sadistic and Menacing.
These words could be used to describe Mr. Wednesday, if they weren't just so inadequate to describe this unpleasant individual who shows contempt equally for all of his kith and kin.
It's no surprise, then, that this Cyclopedian is only seen regularly associating with the other, simmilarly unpleasant individual : Obediah Yule
Known History
What the average person knows:
Wednesday has been living in Toronto since 1987, working a series of jobs within various subcultures of Toronto; He was a DJ at the Lizard Lounge and the Boom Boom Room, and even ran a short lived bar at the corner of Queen and Bathurst. His street presence slowly faded through the 90s as he began working more and more private functions.
Those with a streetwise of 3 and higher will know that Wednesday aquired the property that became Betty's Tea House from squatters in that area, often fighting and maiming to retain ownership of the small block of buildings.
In the subculture of Changelings, Wednesday has always been an independant and almost invisible. The strife that occured in Toronto through the mid 90s didn't touch him directly, as he prefered to keep the company of people such as Obediah Yule and Frontpage.
The fact that Wednesday has begun becoming active in society within the past year is worrysome to some.
Current Activities:
Mister Wednesday has apparently taken a keen interest in one other Lost in Toronto, and has taken Larka as a student. He has been shown to be zelously protective of her, citing the responsibility as a member of the Court of Wrath to properly teach those who join the court.
He has also claimed his territory soverign within Toronto, making Cabbagetown his protectorate alone. If there are other Lost who live within this territory, apparently some sort of consession has been made with them, and he has included them within his protectorate.
The actual story behind Mister Wednesday:
This information is not known to any PC living at this time, and is here for the sake of tie-ins and Storyteller Information. Please use this knowledge sparingly and for dramatic effect
Douglas McCreedy was born in London England in 1940, in the middle of the blitz, surrounded by terror and the flames of a ruined city. His mother, too ill to be moved from the hospital when the bombing began, died as a result complications in his birth, and his father died on the beaches of Normandy, unaware of the existance of his son.
As war orphan he was moved to Canada, and Douglas moved from home to home, the foster care ranging from good to abusive. His striking looks, which slowly formed as he reached adolescence, ended up attracting the amorous attentions of one of his “fathers”, and forced the boy to flee the security of a home into the streets of Montreal where he panhandled, stole and sold his body to survive.
Douglas McCreedy was taken one night, at the age of 17, by a keeper looking to teach supplicants about the “true” pleasures of the flesh. The Mistress of Chains, a particularly vile Fae, dragged McCreedy into the Hedge and beyond by the barbed chains of her namesake and subjected him to all forms of pain.
He recalls little of his Arcadian experience save for the a solid wave of bone-racking pain, and coying mental torments involving the love of those around him. He has a sence of when he was truly broken, however, for it was when all sences twisted upon himself. He'd been given so much pain in such quantities that, when he was subjected to pleasure, the feeling was excruciating, and it was throught he subtle use of pleasure – and the inversion of that feeling, that his Mistress was able to control him.
The rest was a blur. Lanced skin, pierced by barbs, lit by a blood-red moon in a starless sky. The smell of the prey he was bade to fetch. A fear that, should the pain end, he might end as well. Pleasure was oblivion.
It all ended swiftly one night. One night he was beneath the blood moon, and the next he was released back onto the streets of Montreal, with partial memories, a taste for violence, and the secent of something he was sent to look for.
The year was 1985, and much had changed around him, although the taste for flesh remained. Gathering himself slowly, and living in hostels and half-way-houses, Douglas got his life back (such as it was). He'd completely lost the ability to truly enjoy pleasure, but he quickly found others who also had the same sensibilities as him.
Gathering some money, he moved to Toronto to start a new life, reinventing himself as Mr Wednesday-- a play on the nursery rhyme that stated “Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe”. He also enjoyed the symbology behind the Norse myth of Odin (who is the day's namesake), who gave his eye in the search for wisdom.
Motley
The Miserable C*nts.
Allies
- Obediah Yule is Mr Wednesday's sole friend, if such a word could be used to describe their relationship.
- Shocker and Turbo. Wednesday's constant handlinger companions. Apparent outcasts or deviants of their Clutch, these handlingers have grapsed onto Mister Wednesday and have become his chief manions.
- Ms. Tuesday is in essence Mister Wednesday's girl Friday.
- The deranged Spükshow has been seen to be under Mr. Wednesday's oversight and protection although no one really knows why.
Enemies
Mistress of Chains and her minions. One of the more prolific keepers, the Mistress used to be a small god of the Sea, to whom aincent peoples used to give offerings to return their loved ones from fishing excursions. Time has twisted this once benevolent creature, making her a covetous and pernicious being who is obsessed with the taking and keeping of mortal souls within the depths of her demense.
She is often seen as a beautiful woman dressed in flowing white, suspended in dark water, her hands reaching out towards her prey.
Character Inspirations
Bill the Butcher from Gangs of New York
Pinhead from Hellraiser.
Soundtrack
- Mister Wednesday will be hosting "Killing Time with Mister Wednesday" on Radio Free Fae, featuring aggressive electronica and a talk show for those of like mind as he.
Quotes
- "I am not a slave to rage. It is simply a tool to master."
- "I will never succumb to the yoke of another noble. Never again."
- "You're lucky I didn't beat you with my flogging arm."
Rumors
- Beneath the patch hides a glowing red orb.
- He uphors displays of joy, and when confronted will go out of his way to destroy them.
- Everywhere he goes, he caries 6 feet of cold-iron chain, barbed hooks affixed to the ends.
- As sadistic as he is, he is not dishonorable. If he gives his word, he'll die in the process of keeping it.
- Mister Wednesday eats kittens.
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