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Hey! So I'm wondering how would be willing to update the joining and kingdom rp thread. Since I'm not on much lol I'm going to need a bit of help.

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I have decided to not actually finish the blog I was talking about that would've explained the Hermit's past. I'll give a brief and simple summary as to what it detailed, and an explanation as to why.

I'll start with the explanation: It was a foolish and gross thing to write and read.
The history of the Hermit was not at all meant to be glamorous, or cool, or heroic, or at all admirable. The Hermit is not meant to be admired. I put myself into a state of mind of pure vulgarity and rage for the sake of this blog, and it was messing up the way I viewed the world. I wanted spectacle, and claimed I was trying to give a philosophical criticism of extremism and vigilantes as a whole. Ironically, much like the message I was so desperately trying to preach, the means overshadowed the ends. I filled his history with sexual abuse, rage, murder, despair, and whatever else I might be forgetting. I was trying so desperately to make a pitiful and disgusting character that was an allegory that I forgot the actual fiber to such things. Good characters don't just have bad pasts; they're strong enough to overcome them. The Hermit succumbed to his, and that is not a character worth seeing. In the role-play, I tried to depict him as pitiful but accidentally made him a heroic character. This was not my initial goal, and to set up his origin the way I was going to would've been a terrible mistake.

Now, the actual history of the Hermit:
I am going to try to be brief, as most of the contents would've been anecdotes and hijinks that only highlighted either his misguided virtue or his total corruption. I may not succeed in this, but I will try my best.

• The Hermit only remembers the name "Ganam," which he gained from a close comrade of his. He was drafted into a war at the age of eight, and went on to murder his general in his twenties, alongside his squad (though he was the ringleader of the murder). He murdered his general because of a rule regarding women and children from the enemy's side ("do not enslave or hurt bystanders or children; they are not involved in this war"), which the general defied. In doing so, the general encouraged the rest of the army to violate and abuse the women and children which had been captured. Burning with rage, Ganam organized a coup to murder the general and set the rest of the army's camp on fire. Among his comrades whom helped in the massacre, a pale and fat man they called "Plutyr" watched as the Hermit plunged a nail through the general's head. The coup disbanded and ran to wherever they might be safe.
• Now a traitor, Ganam ran into the desert as a nomad, committing more murder to perceived wrong-doers as his conscience deteriorated. He was good to those he dubbed innocent (slaves, children, ordinary citizens), but was horrifically violent and gruesome to perceived sinners (slave-drivers, liars, scammers, abusers, etc.). ((This period of his life was full of hijinks and horrific depictions that I've mentioned before)).
• When he was a very old man, by pure coincidence, Ganam encountered his squad all gathered around a broken object in the desert. The group saw that the item was golden, and started fighting for its possession. As they each drew blades tokill one another, they all blacked out. They all heard a voice saying "Be ye so committed to violence, ye shall sow it for eternity. Till all but one are dead, ye shall wander this cursed earth forever. The one whom remains shall choose how much longer he shall endure this earth." Ganam awoke in the middle of a field, far from the desert he originally was, holding a strange dagger and with a sudden awareness of what had happened: him and each of his comrades were made immortal by the object (as to how remained a mystery), only able to die by the kind of blade he held in his hand, and that each were given the same one. The last one of them left would choose how much longer they lived; the one who lived could live forever, without fail. With this inexplicable knowledge, he ran into the wilderness for fear that they would try to kill him.
• Eventually, he found the Kingdom, and decided to live in the woods nearby. He continued his descent into isolation and madness as he murdered the traffickers and criminals that resided in the Kingdom's underbelly, only being sane around dogs (as I'm sure everyone is around such precious creatures).
• At some point, he saw his old comrade Plutyr enter the Kingdom for the sake of the Ball. Ganam was afraid, for he knew Plutyr as a sadistic and violent man, killing with laughter and indiscriminately. For fear of his life, he went to the ball with the Knife he awoke with, plotting to kill Plutyr on sight. However, the fat man found him first and decided to have a drink with him instead, explaining that he had already killed all of the other soldiers and was just wanting to talk with Ganam (before killing him, that is). This was the man's downfall, as he did not realize the rage and hatred that Ganam had harbored for him. In a moment of laughter at the possibility of being killed, Ganam slit Plutyr's throat. Shocked at this, Plutyr's pulled out his own knife and stabbed Ganam's hands, pinning him to the table. However, the cuts in his throat were too deep, and Plutyr died within seconds.
• Having torn apart his own hands to escape, Ganam escaped and wandered the woods aimlessly, eventually finding cloudkitty. There, he admitted his guilt before passing out from exhaustion. He somehow knew that, unless he was killed, he would live for seven more years. However, CloudKitty's character brought him to court, where he was sentenced for execution within three days after confessing to murdering a large number of the criminal population of the Kingdom. Hoping to prevent a case like himself from ever occurring again, he spent his three days living by writing everything that had ever happened to him in his memory. On the third day, he was decapitated and died.

I can't post content for some reason on this group. :(

I have been writing a draft for a blog explaining the entirety of the Hermit's past in the hopes of giving context to his actions and behavior, as well as being simply an entertaining story. However, it has only now occurred to me that some of the themes and actions within the blog might not follow PMC's rules, so I just want to double check to make sure. If you guys are not comfortable with the following or they are indeed against PMC's rules, I will gladly halt my project. I have often had trouble reading the room or understanding what's okay and what's not given the context, which is why I'm asking you all before I do anything rash.
The following may be up to question within my blog:

• Gratuitous Violence
• Mild Suggestive Harassment
• (Attempted) Realism to Warfare
• Freaky Depictions of the Unnatural
• Discussions of Slavery and Violation
• Mentions of Children in Danger

If there any of these are actually against the Code of Conduct, I will gladly avoid these in the Blog or tear it down entirely. Please tell me if, even if they aren't against the rules, you are uncomfortable with any of these topics being in a Lore Blog. I mean it.

we just hit 100K views on arrow crosshairs texture pack, and i can't thank everyone enough.

I am going to do this for no good reason. I really want to do some
Roleplay and well this.
I have posted it hours ago hoping that someone will roleplay with me, and no one has responded to it. (Hehehehe lol)

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