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Our Faces

Birds of a feather flock together and Hevel will need many kinds of feathers in order to achieve his goal of a perfect world.

Society is built on layers and layers of masks and sometimes, we lose ourselves in these personas, the mask fusing itself onto our true selves. Of course, this can also happen physically.

There is a curse in this world, the curse of binding. Such a spell causes the victim's skin to melt and bond with their clothes and armour, never to remove them again. It was a cruel spell, extremely painful for the target. Most of the time it was cast by tactical mages, in order to reduce morale and the number of the enemy, but sometimes, the world cursed an unlucky victim. This was the kind of world it was. Hevel himself never encountered such a curse, but he still had many masks amalgamated to his face.

For now, Hevel was able to build a reputation for himself within the underground criminal ring. He was known as the "Redhand" as he was always seen performing his crimes, but never captured. A glamorization of This was all part of his plan. His first face was to be the one of a criminal, a king of thieves. His next would be...

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"-A hero. What is a hero?"

"Well I would say that a hero is someone who generally influences and affects society and individuals in positive ways"

"Isn't that far too vague? Wouldn't that make too many people heroes?"

"Well, there's no such thing as too many heroes. Some people consider doctors, firefighters, soldiers, hell even some lawyers"

"No way"

"Yeah it's crazy, but I guess there are some good lawyers who saved some innocent butts"

"Heh, if real life was a JRPG game, firefighters and doctors might be good hero candidates, but lawyers would definitely be the villains"

"Haha, like demon generals?"

"Yeah, that's perfect. Now who would the demon lord be?"

"I don't know, global warming? Rich people? CEOs?"

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