Template:Lazarus/History

"Humans, insignificant specks, on top an insignificant sphere, amidst a vast insignificant universe. They scurry and scamper and try desperately to eke out a life that makes them happy and comfortable. Few humans and demigods will ever know true immortality, but there is an immortality anyone can obtain with enough effort. To create such a name for themselves while they are alive that it will never be forgotten, no matter how many hundreds of years pass, we all hear of names such as Genghis Khan, Nero, Vlad the Impaler and many more. They have been immortalised, their names stand the test of time. The first time around I made the mistake of keeping to the shadows, hiding under a name that was never my own, my deeds never given proper credit. I shall not make that mistake this time around, this time around I shall make sure my name is immortalised, so that long after I'm dead, everyone will know the name Lazarus Caius Gein."
 * ~Lazarus Gein

 Real History :

Before Death/First Life:

Mary grew up in the poor areas of London in the mid-1800s. She was orphaned at 11, and struggled for the next few years in orphanages until she ran away and ended up barely surviving on the streets, which led to a life as a prostitute. It was while working as a prostitute that she ended up meeting Limos. She often liked to walk the poor areas of London; they were so filled with starvation and hunger. After visiting Mary a few times posing as another prostitute, she was drawn to Mary, but Mary made it quite clear she was straight and only did men, but Limos was filled with an insatiable hunger for Mary, and paid Hermaphroditus a visit. She needed a favour, she knew she could change her appearance to look like a man, but she wanted more than that, she wanted to leave Mary with a child as well and knew that Hermaphroditus could make her more than just look like a guy. Hermaphroditus agreed with the promise that one day when he/she needed a favour, Limos would deliver, but that it would only last for 24 hours. She found Mary, disguised as a client, and paid for a full day with her, in the end Limos left before the 24 hours was up, and Mary ended up pregnant. Limos left a note when she found out, explaining things, along with a special switch-blade to give his child when he turned 12.

It was a rough pregnancy, and she "worked" for as long as she could, against all odds (especially for the times) Mary delivered a healthy baby boy. She decided to keep the child, convinced she would be able to love it. She managed to convince one of her wealthier clients that the child was his and that if he didn't provide money she would go to his family with the truth. She got enough money from him that she managed to provide for her and her son, but she still had to be a prostitute.

For the next few years, well, his whole childhood really, this was the life he would have to witness day in and day out. Sometimes when his mother was busy with clients she would have some of her other prostitute friends watch him, other times she would leave him in another room to have to listen, sometimes even having him in the same room having to watch. It was through watching this that his deep hatred of prostitutes came from. He felt his mother was weak for what she did, disgusting, filth.

Starting around the age of 7 she would send him out in dirty clothes to beg for money or food. Between the ages of 7 and 12 he got pretty good at convincing people to give him money. He also realised he couldn't stand being dirty. He would steal clean clothes from wherever he could find them and find places to wash up. When he looked clean, the richer people were more likely to let him get close enough to them so he could steal their wallets without them noticing. Unfortunately it was also during these years, some of his mother's clients found they had a taste for more than just women, and for extra money sometimes she would let them have their way with her son.

At 12 he overheard his mother arguing with a street vendor, she was trying to sell a switch-blade, but the guy said it was worthless. When the vendor wouldn't buy it she took it and her son back home disgusted and tossed it back into a box. In it contained a note that Limos had written, explaining everything. Lazarus found it but wasn't sure what to make of it, it sounded insane, but he started to fantasise. If his father really were a Greek god, that made him special, maybe even important, and that he liked.

From then on he carried the switch-blade with him everywhere. At the age of 13 he experienced his first attack, presumably the "stench" of all the prostitutes and men that visited each night had kept them at bay perhaps longer than normal. An old woman was disguised as someone selling fresh flowers. When she suddenly through the basket and lunged at him, he saw her for what she really was, some disgusting monster thing (an empousai). A couple of other teen boys were in the dark alleyway at the time and went to help, pulling swords out. They killed the empousai, and helped Lazarus up. They took Lazarus to meet a few others, a small gang of kids along with a satyr that lived in the slums of London.

Over the next few years, he worked his way up and became a leader of the gang. He enjoyed feeling important, and spent more time with them than with his mother. Though his hatred for his mother only grew. One muggy night, on 31 August 1888, at the age of 17, he'd finally had enough. He found out his whore of a mother was pregnant again, and attacked her sometime after midnight walking back to their home. He followed her, and while she was on Buck's Row, he went up behind her and sliced two deep gashes in her throat, then proceeded to mutilate her abdomen.

After that, when he clearly got away with it, it made him feel even more empowered. He continued in London for a while, doing what he wanted, taking his inner anger out on other prostitutes the same he did with his mother. He'd steal nice looking clothes and work towards honing his conning skills. After the end of November 1888 he left London and travelled around. Doing what he wanted, amassing money but hiding it away in places that he'd always remember, buried safes and such. His luck would run out in 1898 at the age of 27, when he was taken by surprise by the Chimera. When the Chimera jumped in down from where it had been stalking him, it immediately spit at him with its poisonous snake-like tail end, hitting him right in the eyes and blinding him. With no help nearby from any other demigods, he was unable to fight it long, and ended up dying.

Cont. below....

Life as a Ghost:

After dying, his spirit had much unfinished business and his ghost remained. For years he wandered around, and soon got really good at possessing humans, classifying him as what the gods and Greeks called the "possessing" Eidolones. He spent years and years, possessing mortal after mortal. Good men, bad men, women, men, didn't matter.

During his time he met other ghosts, heard lots of stories, sometimes even did small tasks for the gods. He didn't always enjoy doing tasks for the gods, but he knew they were powerful, and figured the more favours he did for them, the more they would owe him. One day, all his planning and favour doing finally paid off.

See below for more....

New Life/New Body:

Based on events with Selene/Anamika/Hunter and a deal he made with Hades, he ultimately chose Conor Fames as his new body to return to the land of the living, against Hades' warning that Conor had a bit of a bad reputation while he had been alive. Nonetheless, Lazarus chose this body, and Hades held up his side of the deal. Upon taking the new body, he also took on the last name Gein and refuses to ever speak of his real last name.

Immediately after making the deal, but before fulfilling his side of the agreement, he made sure to use Selene's body to go around and gather some of the old money he had hidden, as well as steal some more, so that he would have a nest egg upon getting a body of his own.

 Fake History He Tells Everyone: 

Lazarus was born in 1849 in Dublin, Ireland. He knows very little about his biological father, he couldn't have been too well off, and after his birth and being left on his father's door step, they immigrated to England in hopes for a better life. He didn't live long enough to tell him the story of how he met his mother, but after finding out his mother was Limos, and the fact he was conceived during the Great Famine he surmised that was why Limos had been hanging around Ireland at that time.

Lazarus' father toiled for a few years, trying to provide for him and his son, he managed to get a respectable job working as a butler and carriage driver for a well off family. The family loved his father and him dearly, and thought of them as family. When Lazarus was 7 typhoid fever struck the household. The family's youngest son died, as well as Lazarus' father. Before he died, the family swore to him that Lazarus would always be looked after and cared for.

He grew up like another sibling to their children, at the age of 12 a satyr found him in time to help him through his first hellhound attack. He was afraid it would be hard to explain to his adoptive mother the truth, but it turns out she had demigod ancestry and had been born clear sighted, so this helped his coming out as a demigod.

For a while he was sent to a camp for demigods, he went on to college, and despite numerous monster attacks he survived, and some he barely survived, his end was fated to be much different. On 1 April 1873, at the age of 23 while sailing from England to New York on the RMS Atlantic, he died when it went down off the coast of Halifax.

Opting not to pass in, he remained as a ghost, upon meeting some of the "possessing" Eidolones, he became good at possessing people. He was generally selective about those he possessed, an occasionally would do favours for various gods and goddesses. This eventually led him to taking on a favour for Hades, it wasn't the usual type of job he might do for a god, and it seemed petty and vindictive. He hesitated and Hades saw this, so he sweetened the deal, knowing that Lazarus still desired to walk the earth and missed his days being alive, so he offered a body, the only catch was that it couldn't be his own body. He agreed and possessed the boy of Selene.

He was unable to kill Hunter, though the rest of the deal he held up, but after choosing a body, when he woke up, he found it wasn't the body he had chosen but instead the body of Conor Fames. Lazarus had heard rumours about Conor, from some ghosts over the last few years, he didn't seem like a very nice guy and he was quite angry at Hades for tricking him, but upon waking up he could no longer gain access into the underworld, and Hades refused to hear him out. Though Persephone saw what trickery her husband did, and felt bad for Lazarus and made sure he had a healthy start with his new life with a nest egg that he could use to get things he needed, clothes, etc.

Truth Behind the Fake History:

The history is very real, another ghost he came across in his journeys, a child of Demeter named Darragh O'Donnell. It's been years and years since Lazarus last hung around Darragh, but the story always stuck with him. Probably because Lazarus was jealous that Darragh was lucky enough to be taken on by such a wealthy family.

He chose to lie about why he ended up with Conor's body, as some might find it strange he would choose a body with such a bad reputation, blaming Hades on it, who has a reputation for being a dick, seemed like an easier explanation.