@Carantathraiel, to answer your question earlier, he and his cohort are Romanian artists I have worked with before.
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The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself.
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The Harbinger of Ferocity
Agent of the Wild, Aspect of the Ferine
Nature, red in tooth and claw.
"There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage."
- Carl Van Vechten
I am, at my core, a personification and manifestation of those things whose blood and hearts run red with the ferocity of the animal world. It is this which convicts and controls my works, my writing, my being; the force and guidance in which I gain wisdom from. It is what inspires me as a creator and weaver of words, the very thing I admire as an author.
My leanings, savage as they are, are of the feline sort as there exists no greater lineage of beasts whom can be drawn from. No others captivate and motivate my talent and skill as the greatest of cats do.
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It was one thing to suggest the unnatural, another to outright say it as though there was no easy way around it. What made it all worse was that, for all intents and purposes, at the moment it appeared that was the most "reasonable" conclusion. That notion did not sit well with Carver, even visibly so. The man switched his arms and the manner in which they were crossed as he let Chris do his job, giving the rest of his assessment; he wasn't one to interrupt, especially a volatile cocktail of emotional issues like that man radiated. Either way, the entire ambience of the evidence room seemed to change, as though everyone was equally shy and or ashamed of having thought or even said it aloud. It was absurd, plain and simple.
Carver gave another nod when Chris finished, but it was Piper who upped the ante. She seemed a bit off about the whole thing and her forced laugh made it more uncomfortable of a subject matter to focus on.
"What, like fucking vampires?"
"Regularly I would say you're out of your mind, talking about vampires, and trust me when I say I still think that's the craziest answer possible... but the issue I take more with it has to be the fact that it does appear that way." Carver spoke as plainly as ever, adjusting his darkly tinted glasses.
He kept a straight face through it all, the unsettling kind that lent some imagination that he thought this would be the outcome or worse. It could almost be more surprising he was so serious about this as well - as though he too might legitimately believe that's the answer. But he wasn't done yet, for as he finished with the sunglasses, he removed a small flipbook of notes from the buttoned pocket of his pants' thigh. Briefly he thumbed through it, not adding anything else, but came to a stop; there were pages worth of tiny scrawled notes. The handwriting was barely legible, but the point got across.
"Has anything like this ever happened before that either of you know of?" The man looked up from his notes, drawing a clipped pen from his forward pocket.
@Kidd@RedXCross
Carver gave another nod when Chris finished, but it was Piper who upped the ante. She seemed a bit off about the whole thing and her forced laugh made it more uncomfortable of a subject matter to focus on.
"What, like fucking vampires?"
"Regularly I would say you're out of your mind, talking about vampires, and trust me when I say I still think that's the craziest answer possible... but the issue I take more with it has to be the fact that it does appear that way." Carver spoke as plainly as ever, adjusting his darkly tinted glasses.
He kept a straight face through it all, the unsettling kind that lent some imagination that he thought this would be the outcome or worse. It could almost be more surprising he was so serious about this as well - as though he too might legitimately believe that's the answer. But he wasn't done yet, for as he finished with the sunglasses, he removed a small flipbook of notes from the buttoned pocket of his pants' thigh. Briefly he thumbed through it, not adding anything else, but came to a stop; there were pages worth of tiny scrawled notes. The handwriting was barely legible, but the point got across.
"Has anything like this ever happened before that either of you know of?" The man looked up from his notes, drawing a clipped pen from his forward pocket.
@Kidd@RedXCross
No need to worry, @Kidd, @RedXCross. I will post tonight myself then and we will keep this story moving.
And here is the finished, stylized product, @Carantathraiel.
... a member of Smilodon populator specifically, but I am certain you get the idea. It's a big cat with big teeth.
... a member of Smilodon populator specifically, but I am certain you get the idea. It's a big cat with big teeth.
That works out much better, @RedXCross. I have no issue providing misinformation or clouding obvious answers until you all go digging for them, I just do not want to cement you into a certain path when your characters would know that's not the right one. All I can give you, is that the attacker appears to be human, but it's off - well off - beyond that.
Given both your characters are familiar enough to know some of the strange, @RedXCross, @Kidd, I will concede that this is not lycanthropic in nature. I was intentionally a bit vague about it at first, but I do not want to lead you down the overtly wrong path.
Piper's stunned remark did not go unnoticed by Carver, but the man's worked hands kept at their business until it was completed. With the last photograph placed, the man attentively brushed his hands clean against the fabric of his pants. It was a subconscious behavior, the sort of thing where one just felt unclean looking at these pictures.
"No, wolves don't."
Carver said nothing else, looking to Chris who followed up with as much as one could expect from him. Right to business, but at least in this environment that had a purpose. The man was unhinged, enough to threaten sheriff's deputies and threaten women who worked on his car, but whatever, his work ethic was what counted. Jennings didn't have that sort of expertise damn near anywhere else - other doctors and veterinarians were too uninitiated to it all.
“There’s two ways we can do this: I can tell you what didn’t kill the victim we see in front of us, or I can give you some theories on what it might have been. One will leave room for your own guessing, and the other may throw my authenticity as a professional into the question.”
"It's us here," Carver motioned among the small, quiet and mostly cramped old storage room, "Even if we did try to bring up to anyone questions of your ability, there's not a single person here credible enough to make that stick."
The other man kept right to the point, stepping around the table with a sigh and proving to scratch his neck. Stepping out the way, Carver's boots and placement came to a stop in the corner, folding his arms again and looking to the woman. Her expression still was a mixture of bizarre fascination and gruesome exposure. For her, there existed a subtle nagging, something uncannily familiar to all of this. It led to dark places, darker memories yet, but the entire ordeal just didn't sit right and the more she examined the photographs, the more that dug into her person.
"Either way, I don’t think anyone is going to like where this is going.” Chris said, receiving a nod out of Carver.
"Before Cutter finds his way here with whatever new conspiracy theory he's dug up out of his cave, give us your real opinion. We're all in agreement it's not wolves. It isn't rabid, bloodthirsty, mountain chimps either. I'm no expert on this, but I can tell you this isn't as much a mess as it should be."
His finger reaching out, he tapped one of the pictures in which one of the victims was found to have been bitten repeatedly, bathed in saliva and almost licked clean in messy, bloody streaks. The sort of imagery that suggested some sort of perverse fascination with the crime and its violence, like it was a rush. Two virtually identical killings offered up a pattern, too. An identity the killer had and a certain set of interests.
@RedXCross@Kidd
"No, wolves don't."
Carver said nothing else, looking to Chris who followed up with as much as one could expect from him. Right to business, but at least in this environment that had a purpose. The man was unhinged, enough to threaten sheriff's deputies and threaten women who worked on his car, but whatever, his work ethic was what counted. Jennings didn't have that sort of expertise damn near anywhere else - other doctors and veterinarians were too uninitiated to it all.
“There’s two ways we can do this: I can tell you what didn’t kill the victim we see in front of us, or I can give you some theories on what it might have been. One will leave room for your own guessing, and the other may throw my authenticity as a professional into the question.”
"It's us here," Carver motioned among the small, quiet and mostly cramped old storage room, "Even if we did try to bring up to anyone questions of your ability, there's not a single person here credible enough to make that stick."
The other man kept right to the point, stepping around the table with a sigh and proving to scratch his neck. Stepping out the way, Carver's boots and placement came to a stop in the corner, folding his arms again and looking to the woman. Her expression still was a mixture of bizarre fascination and gruesome exposure. For her, there existed a subtle nagging, something uncannily familiar to all of this. It led to dark places, darker memories yet, but the entire ordeal just didn't sit right and the more she examined the photographs, the more that dug into her person.
"Either way, I don’t think anyone is going to like where this is going.” Chris said, receiving a nod out of Carver.
"Before Cutter finds his way here with whatever new conspiracy theory he's dug up out of his cave, give us your real opinion. We're all in agreement it's not wolves. It isn't rabid, bloodthirsty, mountain chimps either. I'm no expert on this, but I can tell you this isn't as much a mess as it should be."
His finger reaching out, he tapped one of the pictures in which one of the victims was found to have been bitten repeatedly, bathed in saliva and almost licked clean in messy, bloody streaks. The sort of imagery that suggested some sort of perverse fascination with the crime and its violence, like it was a rush. Two virtually identical killings offered up a pattern, too. An identity the killer had and a certain set of interests.
@RedXCross@Kidd
As if I am anything but civil and mature, @Carantathraiel. I do admit the usual fare here tends to monitor itself by and large.
If you are curious, the largest reason you are seeing so much "violent crime" propagated among the media is because that an officer only needs to meet three conditions to use deadly force making it a more common occurrence in the United States. They, as well as much of the uninitiated public and the greater nations outside the country itself, are fond of viewing these situations with hindsight that those involved do not have, entirely different laws and customs, and with the luxury of not being in life and death circumstances. Many claims of racial bias are focusing upon specific incidents instead of broad net categorization and recording as done by many agencies, but even countless of those potentially suspicious incidents fall back upon the officer's perception.
For reference, the increased amount of firearms in the United States does not directly correlate with increased violent crime; see Palestine and or China knifing sprees for examples of how mass attacks (other than explicit terrorism) are carried out without firearms. There's other factors for crime that are often ignored.
In the United States it is perfectly justified and legal for an officer who believes the perpetrator has the opportunity, capability and intent to injure or kill them (or others) to shoot. It does not matter why or how beyond that, even if it was a situation that ultimately, in hindsight, did not require shooting.
By standards, opportunity means the chance the attacker would have to utilize a weapon of any form - it need not explicitly even be a firearm, it can even be their person. Capability refers to that they have the means to employ that weapon. Lastly, intent is the apparent interest in doing harm. These might seem complicated but they are not. My best example is this hypothetical story below.
In this situation the officer actually has all the criteria to shoot, but most will hesitate because they want to confirm there is danger rather than assume. They meet the standard of reasonable objectiveness because A): The individual has the opportunity to cause injury or mortal harm by potentially using a weapon in their coat. B): The individual is physically capable of utilizing that weapon (be it a knife, a gun, their fist, etc) in that close of quarters. C): The individual has the intent because they are again defying an order as their previous arrest record mentioned confirms. Furthermore, the action they are undertaking is explicitly hostile. They only need appear to be armed or attempting to be.
The worst part about this example used is, is that it was a real scenario. You can see a fair number of these shootings on full, unedited cuts on various social media websites. Do not watch the pared down thing - watch these entire situations in their entirety. In nearly all of them you will see just how much the police will delay shooting unless there's a distinct threat, sometimes so much they themselves (or others) wind up injured or dead.
You might ask why the police might shoot as much as they do, why you see in some of them they fire upwards of five or more times or why multiple police officers might shoot. Unlike movies, to which I can confirm, when people are shot they usually do not go down in a single hit; even direct hits to the head can sometimes give a brief reaction before the hostile individual is eliminated. The other issue stems from the fact that while the United States' police are trained far more intensively than they have been prior, unless they're used to being shot at or threatened with a real weapon, adrenaline has the tendency to whiteout any thorough thought process. There's no time to think, just react, so all you have is training and instinct to fall back on.
This is a long response, but I hope it clarifies things a bit in the simplest of terms one can put them in from someone who has a few stakes in the matter and is from there.
For reference, the increased amount of firearms in the United States does not directly correlate with increased violent crime; see Palestine and or China knifing sprees for examples of how mass attacks (other than explicit terrorism) are carried out without firearms. There's other factors for crime that are often ignored.
In the United States it is perfectly justified and legal for an officer who believes the perpetrator has the opportunity, capability and intent to injure or kill them (or others) to shoot. It does not matter why or how beyond that, even if it was a situation that ultimately, in hindsight, did not require shooting.
By standards, opportunity means the chance the attacker would have to utilize a weapon of any form - it need not explicitly even be a firearm, it can even be their person. Capability refers to that they have the means to employ that weapon. Lastly, intent is the apparent interest in doing harm. These might seem complicated but they are not. My best example is this hypothetical story below.
A man is stopped by a patrol officer for having a tail light out on his truck. The officer checks the vehicle's information and is informed the individual has a previous criminal record. When contacting the individual, the officer notices the man is wearing a large overcoat. While talking, the man becomes increasingly disruptive and verbally non-compliant to the police officer. When directed out of his vehicle, the man instead puts his hands inside the coat rapidly and fumbles with something in it.
In this situation the officer actually has all the criteria to shoot, but most will hesitate because they want to confirm there is danger rather than assume. They meet the standard of reasonable objectiveness because A): The individual has the opportunity to cause injury or mortal harm by potentially using a weapon in their coat. B): The individual is physically capable of utilizing that weapon (be it a knife, a gun, their fist, etc) in that close of quarters. C): The individual has the intent because they are again defying an order as their previous arrest record mentioned confirms. Furthermore, the action they are undertaking is explicitly hostile. They only need appear to be armed or attempting to be.
The worst part about this example used is, is that it was a real scenario. You can see a fair number of these shootings on full, unedited cuts on various social media websites. Do not watch the pared down thing - watch these entire situations in their entirety. In nearly all of them you will see just how much the police will delay shooting unless there's a distinct threat, sometimes so much they themselves (or others) wind up injured or dead.
You might ask why the police might shoot as much as they do, why you see in some of them they fire upwards of five or more times or why multiple police officers might shoot. Unlike movies, to which I can confirm, when people are shot they usually do not go down in a single hit; even direct hits to the head can sometimes give a brief reaction before the hostile individual is eliminated. The other issue stems from the fact that while the United States' police are trained far more intensively than they have been prior, unless they're used to being shot at or threatened with a real weapon, adrenaline has the tendency to whiteout any thorough thought process. There's no time to think, just react, so all you have is training and instinct to fall back on.
This is a long response, but I hope it clarifies things a bit in the simplest of terms one can put them in from someone who has a few stakes in the matter and is from there.
Expect a post from me this evening.
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