"If you could go back in time and avoid all that's happened to you and the others, would you?"
"If you could go back to the way things were before this whole mess started- you know, the good times, the carefree times- would you?"
Of course, the logical thing to do in response to these questions would be to do just that, and avoid all of the unnecessary pain and suffering if such an opportunity presented itself, right? Wouldn't it?
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Prologue:
Apparently, this all started when I was born, back in 1990, though I'm starting to have my doubts over such a simple matter as this, myself. What happened in the next 21 years of history is mostly unknown to me, as I- How should I put it? It's somewhat (read: entirely) complex; my story, that is.
Where to start, where to start? Due to some... extraordinary circumstances, my "brother" and I were separated at birth. As I've said before, the details are fuzzy, even so all these years later. We were taken from our seclusive village in the Rocky Mountains at just 6 months old. It seems that a terrible, merciless, and moral-less scientist by the name of- well, that isn't really relevant. In any case, Ian and I were subjected to, uh, unnatural scientific testing by the hands of this Doctor. Now, I wasn't awake for any of this, as I was put into stasis shortly after our arrival to his research lab. Ian was similarly incapacitated, but he was awakened long before I was for some "field testing."
In essence, the Doctor was experimenting with some 20 individuals under the age of 18 in an attempt to create some sort of super-soldiers and sell them off to the highest bidder. Ian, as I said, was in stasis until June of 2003, aged about 13 at the time, when he was awakened. The Doctor seemed satisfied with his results thus far, concluding that it was time for the world to witness his genius. To do so, Experiment 19, Ian, was sent out to murder, in cold blood, various public officials, as well as personal grudge-holders of the Doctor's. In 19's defense, he didn't know any better, he was just following orders by the only authority figure in his life at the time. This heartless killing got to him, somehow, as it gets to everyone (or so I'm told). As a sort of defense mechanism, his clinically-depressed mind (only later diagnosed) defaulted to the idea of a split-personality disorder. Due to 19's peculiar situation, however, things got... unnatural. Let's just say that his other self wasn't just limited to his mind alone. Physical manifestation appeared only shortly after the onset of his disorder, in the form of shadow itself.
"If you could go back to the way things were before this whole mess started- you know, the good times, the carefree times- would you?"
Of course, the logical thing to do in response to these questions would be to do just that, and avoid all of the unnecessary pain and suffering if such an opportunity presented itself, right? Wouldn't it?
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Prologue:
Apparently, this all started when I was born, back in 1990, though I'm starting to have my doubts over such a simple matter as this, myself. What happened in the next 21 years of history is mostly unknown to me, as I- How should I put it? It's somewhat (read: entirely) complex; my story, that is.
Where to start, where to start? Due to some... extraordinary circumstances, my "brother" and I were separated at birth. As I've said before, the details are fuzzy, even so all these years later. We were taken from our seclusive village in the Rocky Mountains at just 6 months old. It seems that a terrible, merciless, and moral-less scientist by the name of- well, that isn't really relevant. In any case, Ian and I were subjected to, uh, unnatural scientific testing by the hands of this Doctor. Now, I wasn't awake for any of this, as I was put into stasis shortly after our arrival to his research lab. Ian was similarly incapacitated, but he was awakened long before I was for some "field testing."
In essence, the Doctor was experimenting with some 20 individuals under the age of 18 in an attempt to create some sort of super-soldiers and sell them off to the highest bidder. Ian, as I said, was in stasis until June of 2003, aged about 13 at the time, when he was awakened. The Doctor seemed satisfied with his results thus far, concluding that it was time for the world to witness his genius. To do so, Experiment 19, Ian, was sent out to murder, in cold blood, various public officials, as well as personal grudge-holders of the Doctor's. In 19's defense, he didn't know any better, he was just following orders by the only authority figure in his life at the time. This heartless killing got to him, somehow, as it gets to everyone (or so I'm told). As a sort of defense mechanism, his clinically-depressed mind (only later diagnosed) defaulted to the idea of a split-personality disorder. Due to 19's peculiar situation, however, things got... unnatural. Let's just say that his other self wasn't just limited to his mind alone. Physical manifestation appeared only shortly after the onset of his disorder, in the form of shadow itself.
