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CONSCIENCE

General Nicknames: Benedict tends to call him “Pest”, as well as other insults. Age: Looks about nineteen. Real age unknown. Date of Birth: He was created on October 12th. Gender: Male Species: Incarnation of Benedict’s conscience. Dimension: The Lethal Mind of Benedict Scott Appearance Link ((Ironically enough, Conscience’s picture is actually scarier than Benedict’s. )) ((Also it’s cell-shaded cause I got lazy XD)) In general, Conscience appears to be a less threatening version of Benedict. His hair is a little longer and much softer-looking, and his clothes are far simpler than his counterpart’s, consisting of a plain white button-down shirt, light grey pants and dark dress shoes. He is also missing the marks that Benedict has around his eyes, and his hands are bare and fully fleshed. There are however, other differences that make him appear more frightening in certain regards. First, since he is more of a spirit than a being, his skin is incredibly pale, almost looking white or very light grey. As a result of Benedict starving him before he died, he is very thin, with angular, bony joints, visible rib cage, spine and hip bones. His torso is almost skeletal-looking, his fingers appear to be long and thin, almost pointed, and his teeth are sharp. Even his voice can come off as creepy. It is as light and weightless as he is, almost high-pitched, and with a sort of echo-y sound. He also tends to speak in quiet, frequently monotonous tones, and while this is meant to be soothing, it has a tendency to scare certain people. His most obvious feature is his eyes. His left is still how it was created; almost human, but with an iris consisting of red, pink and blue stripes underneath two black rings, and glowing. His right eye, however, is missing altogether, leaving behind an empty, gaping black socket from which a steady stream of his own blood constantly leaks, staining his face, neck, and shirt front, as well as his fingertips and his sleeves as he compulsively rubs and picks at it. He is also always carrying Benedict’s right eye. This, and his own missing eye are meant to make Benedict feel guilt for what he did to him. Personality Conscience, as his very name suggests, is good-natured, calm and compassionate with a strong sense of right and wrong. He is the polar opposite of Benedict and often tries to track down the innocent people who wander into the manor before Benedict finds them, and tries to help them find a way out, or at least protect them long enough for Benedict to get bored and allow them to leave. However, he is also the incarnation of Benedict’s fear, and, where the murderer feels almost none, Conscience is almost constantly plagued by it. He is terrified of Benedict, both for what he did to him when he was alive, and for the torment and emotional abuse he suffers at his hands now. If he is forced into a confrontation with Benedict, though, his personality changes somewhat. When they are together, he is constantly overcome with the urge to point out Benedict’s misdeeds, and the corresponding moral high roads he could take, as he was in life. However, although while he was alive, he was physically incapable of saying anything else in Benedict’s presence, he is now able to think for himself more, and could even defend himself from the constant verbal assaults, if he were brave enough to try. He isn’t always in control of it, though, especially when he’s outside the mirror, and has a couple phrases he spurts at random whenever Benedict is around, like“Why are you doing this?”, “Are you proud of yourself?”, “This is wrong”, and “We didn’t deserve this.” ‘We’ being Benedict’s victims, himself included. Likes His mirror room Being able to help Benedict’s would-be victims successfully escape The idea of being able to change Benedict’s mind on anything When people aren’t afraid of him right off the bat Getting people to trust him Flying Reading Dislikes Benedict His lack of a physical presence Witnessing Benedict killing someone or doing something immoral His empty eye socket Strengths Due to his ties to Benedict, he shares his powers, but to a much lesser extent. He can sense Benedict’s presence, as Benedict can sense his, and so can know roughly where he is in the manor, and can feel it when someone wanders in. This aspect of his power is the only one that is much stronger than Benedict’s, and he’ll usually be able to find someone before Benedict can, probably due in large part to his excessive empathy and humanity. He also has very minor control over physics, but these abilities are nowhere close to Benedict’s. As a general rule, he can be considered a traditional ghost. He can do things like make lights flicker remotely, cause minor malfunctions in machinery, and he has minor telekinesis; being able to move things around without touching them. But there is a limit; the largest thing he’s ever picked up was a dining chair, and anything bigger or heavier is usually too much for him. Although he has very little control over the manor, he does have one power that Benedict does not. He can summon twisted black hands that form from shadows. Although he himself has no physical presence, these hands do, and he can use them to interact with the tangible world; such as unlocking doors for someone he might be leading to safety, and moving things that he normally couldn’t. Additionally, when he is inside the mirror, he can use these hands to pull things inside it with him. Since he is tangible as long as he’s actually in the mirror, he often uses this to bring things inside to keep himself entertained. Most noticeably, he has stolen a collection of books from Benedict, and has made a habit of nicking anything that sounds interesting anytime he discovers a library. He has just as much control over his area within the mirror as Benedict does over the mansion. On top of this, his mirror room is the only room in the actual manor that he can control, but Benedict can’t. Also, Benedict can’t enter his mirror area, and so it is sort of a safe-haven for him. His ability to pull things into the mirror using his shadow-hands means he can also pull other people into it, usually those he is trying to protect from Benedict. He can sort of ‘possess’ living beings for a short time, and take over their consciousness. However, he finds this uncomfortable and he always feels guilty afterwards, so he usually refrains unless it’s completely necessary. He is also unable to possess Benedict. He has no physical presence and so can pass through solid matter, disappear and float. Very strong moral compass If you can get past his missing eye and sharp teeth, he would make a great friend, and has become quite skilled at comforting people and calming them down, especially children. Very smart Since he’s dead, he can’t feel pain, and, despite what most seem to think, his empty eye socket doesn’t hurt or bother him, although he has a bad habit of touching it whenever he’s distracted. Due to their ties to each other, Benedict can’t remotely alter Conscience’s mirror room, or any room he happens to be in in a significant way. (i.e, he might be able to change the entrances to a room he’s in, or change where a corridor leads to, but he can’t alter the room physically, move it around, or cause it to disappear entirely as he would otherwise.) Weaknesses Since he only has one eye, he has very poor depth perception, and often falls over and walks through things without meaning to. This would be more of a problem if he could actually knock things over, but he finds it irritating enough that he generally prefers to float rather than walk. If Conscience has one major vice, it would be that he can actually be rather petty and spiteful towards Benedict. Not anywhere near the extent of the killer’s own pettiness, though. It usually manifests in the form of Conscience, ironically enough, using his shadow-hands and telekinesis to steal and hide small objects from him. And, since Benedict can’t follow him into the mirror, he hoards the things he’s stolen in there. Although living with Benedict has naturally made him about as desensitized to gore and gruesome images as one can possibly get, he is still easy to startle or frighten with threats, violence, or even as little as a sudden noise. He has a ghostly aura about him, and anyone he might pass through (probably by accident) would feel very cold. This, along with his creepy voice and appearance, can make comforting many people a challenge. Family Creator: Kind of Benedict, kind of the manor, kind of the mirror trap Other: Benedict, in a way History Ever since Benedict touched the mirror trap that brought Conscience to life, his existence had been a miserable one. At first, he knew nothing but morality, and would follow Benedict, trying to convince him to do good instead of evil. It never worked, obviously, and as time went on, this began to wear on Conscience and by the time Benedict snapped and began torturing him, he had become self-aware. The treatment he suffered at Benedict’s hands being one of the first things he ever experienced as a conscious being only made his existence all the more painful. His first truly vivid memory is Benedict forcefully ripping out his eye to replace his own, which he set-up to stare at Conscience indefinitely while he left him alone to starve. This is also how he developed a deep-seated fear of the killer, but since he had no control over anything he said, he was unable to convey this in any way, and Benedict mistook this for arrogance and a lack of fear, which caused him to get increasingly frustrated, which in turn caused him to dissect Conscience. He was actually reincarnated as a ghost immediately after his first death, though he was unnoticed by Benedict, and his spirit was still tied to his corpse. So, having at some point choked to death on his own blood, he was forced to witness his own insides being violently ripped from his body in a gruesome display that eventually culminated in watching Benedict eat his heart raw, laughing psychotically through the whole thing, before gathering the rest of his organs and carrying them off, having muttered something about roasting them. This left Conscience alone in a torture chamber that was now wall-to-wall covered in his own blood and empty except for his corpse. Not content to simply allow Benedict to have his victory in leaving his body to rot, he found he was able to take control of people and objects in his spirit form, and repossessed his own corpse. However, he also found that there are certain requirements to successfully possess a being. Since his body now lacked a brain and a heart, the possession was unsuccessful and he lost control. He was only able to watch helplessly from the inside as his body managed to free itself from its restraints, and went on the hunt after Benedict. Seeing the reanimated corpse of course cause Benedict to panic, and Conscience was forced to live through being killed a second time, as his body was decapitated, and then roasted to death. Still tied to it, however, he was once again forced to watch as Benedict proceeded to consume his cooked flesh and burn the leftovers in a furnace. After this, Conscience was now free to choose his own haunt, and easily decided on the mirror he was created from. In doing so, the mirror and the corresponding trap chamber became the only things in the manor that Benedict couldn’t mess with. He is even unable to break the mirror by any means. He’s tried a few times to abolish it, first by shattering the glass pane, although this only resulted in the mirror reassembling itself, then by dragging it to another trap room that would crush it, but he was physically unable to move it. At one point he actually managed to disassemble it altogether, and spent hours cutting down each piece individually into impossibly small fragments, but once again, the mirror was put back together by an unseen force. Defeated, Benedict has long since given up on destroying it. As a manifestation of the guilt Benedict should feel, Conscience’s spirit form originally appeared as he had left his corpse; bloodied and missing his right eye, lower jaw and organs. However, after his body was destroyed, he was reincarnated to appear closer to how he had in life, with a few, more subtle differences that are meant to Punish Benedict. He is impossibly thin, as he had been after Benedict had left him to starve. And while his eye is still missing, and constantly bleeds, he was fortunately reincarnated with his tongue, jaw, and teeth intact, though his teeth are not his own, and appear pointed and dangerous. He also found Benedict’s eye that he had ripped from his own socket, and found he was able to come into physical contact with it, and so figures he was meant to carry it around as another punishment. However, his crippling fear of Benedict leaves him frequently unable to actually confront him. He instead tends to hide from him. Though Benedict can’t physically hurt him anymore, constant verbal abuse had begun to wear on Conscience.