Duct Tape Alchemist :: Fictional Life :: November 2, 2008 at 17:37:42

Duct Tape Alchemist November 2, 2008 - 17:37:42

Okay...

After reiterating this several times I decided it was time to get it set down in type...

The Full ongoing story of the Duct Tape Alchemist Cal

Part 1: Power and Glory
            Fall 2006 - Spring 2007 - images

It was an innocent begining. A young man bored with the things around him. He would frequently find himself walking through the various parks around his home trying to free himself from the boredom, but to no avail until one day he met a strange person.

He claimed to be an alchemist and that he believed the boy to have the potential to be one too. All the boy had to do was bring some object back to act as his focus material. The boy named Cal ran home and grabbed several objects: a dirty sock, a bar of soap, a random book, a evangelion dvd, and a roll of duct tape. The man perused the items shacking his head, "You real should have tried harder..." then his eyes fell on the roll of duct tape he smiled as he picked it up and threw it back to Cal. The man continued to smile as he drew out a peice of twine. he gave it a slight flick of the wrist and it stiffened into a thin rod, "Now this will hurt like the dickens!" The twine alchemist began wielding that peice of twine as a combination sword and whip drawing the boys blood and etching a pattern with the dirt and the boys blood.

An eruption of light comes from the symbol engulfing the boy and the roll of duct tape. The twine alchemist turns and starts walking away, "Goodbye Duct Tape alchemist... welcome to the war..." The boys wounds quickly healed themselves but Cal continued to lay there until the sun was almost set. As he walked home he stared intently at the roll of duct tape which had some how gotten slipt around the wrist. The next morning he awoke to find the roll still there. he stared at it some more before hesitantly reached over and touched it... It felt alive to his touch and he drew back in revulsion. He reached over and gave it a tug, Tape wrapped itself clear up his arm in reaction and he drew back in terror, or at least as far back as one can from their own arm.

A few weeks pass and Cal got basic control over it and began to experiment to see just how much he could do. This lead him on several bizzare escapades. He made him self a trench coat out of duct tape and found time to visit NoBrandCon 6. He did several heroic acts leading him to become something of a hero in his local area. He felt he had arrived and that nothing could go wrong...

Part 2: Corruption and Redemption
            Summer 2007 - Spring 2008 - video 1 - video 2

Soon after his rise in power Cal Started extedning himself more and more pushing to see just what he could due if he pushed himself to the edge of breaking. It was this pushing that possibly lead to what happened next, He began to be aware of soem force that seemed to prod him towards doing things that fell otuside the realm of good. as he continued using his powers the prods became more pronounced and forceful. They were also accompanied by duct tape manifesting itself on his body in particular his left side, the arm he primarily wielded the power with.

Then came the day when he woke up to find he was no longer in control. He was playing host to some sort of manevolent spirit that had truely been the source of the power he drew on to do alchemy. His body was quickly consumed 90% by ducttape erasing many notable feature such as finger prints, nose, and most of his eyes. The Spirti went on a killing spree that caused Cal to snap. He fought back with ever ounce of his being. this lead to to him being able to temporarily regain control temporarily. Eventually everything leveled out to a 3 day cycle of 3 evil spirit in control and 3 of Cal in control. This meant he could enjoy most of Nobrandcon 7 without fear of anything going wrong.
Cal found that he could weaken the spirits activity by performing acts of heroism and good. He was still unable to fully remove the duct tape from his body but at least he had one eye fully and his mouth back.

Part 3: A Warrior emerges
            Summer 2008 to Present - images

Cal fought long and hard and managed to regain almost full control by this point. He awoke one morning to discover that the manevolent spirit had lost almost all his controll time meaning Cal was once again dominant. Saddly Cal got no time to rest. A war amongst the alchemist had eurpted, those who freely used thier dark spirit and had lost control and those who had fought to retain power. Cal Still not at full power due to his personal battle is now being forced to fight only they don't want him to die, they want him to let his dark spirit out...

- calvsie