Exo

I'm curious to what you would write about me TH.

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Trollheart

Done
See? A writer always finds a way. As Bob Dylan once wrote, "Death is not the end."
Challenge accepted.

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Name: DwnWthVwls (DWV)
Position: Rapper/Codebreaker
Age: 24
Status: Unknown
First Appearance: In the Blink of an Eye
Last Appearance: (thus far) Spellmaster

For years DWV tried to make it as a rapper but never quite had the “mad skills”. Then, one night as he pored over the lyrics to some of his favourite artists' music, he noticed something odd. That something odd turned out to be the driving force for season three, the Bitch Codex, a complicated formula inserted (with the knowledge of some and without the knowledge of others) into all major rap lyrics. When deciphered, this formula became one of the most powerful spells of summoning, which would in fact call forth Satan himself from Hell and place the Lord of Lies as ruler of the Earth. But the words had to be said together, in a particular sequence. DWV learned that a huge “Rapfest” was being organised under the aegis of the African American Musicians League, which turned out to be a front for the darker arm of the Corporation, a black ops outfit which was answerable to nobody and went under the umbrella (ella-ella! Stop that! Ed) name of D.A.R.K.

As the climax of the concert arrived, and thousands of fans at the live event as well as billions worldwide watching the broadcast were held in thrall, the spell was within moments of being completed when DWV sneaked around to the back of the stage, plugged his ipod into the sound system and began blasting Country music at full volume. As we've seen in South Park, hippies hate heavy metal and we now found out that rappers hate Country music. They began to falter in their tight lyric, upsetting the flow of the spell, and while DWV bravely endured the awful strains of Randy Travis and Garth Brooks, the crowd, uncertain what to think, began to realise that the ground beneath them was shaking. Cries from the stage of “YO! What's this mother****ing crap?” soon turned to insults among the rappers as the terrible Country music worked its own evil spell, and the rappers began fighting each other. Shots rang out and people scattered for the exits, the live broadcast was quickly pulled and DWV, exhausted from his heroic work, was one of the few people to see the arrival of the one who would later become known as The Batlord into our domain.

What happened to DWV after this feat of courage and self-sacrifice is unknown, or at least unconfirmed, but there were later sightings of him (or someone looking like him, but unaccountably much older) at the Pleasant Valley Sanitarium in Chicago, wearing a stetson and greeting everyone who came up to him as “pardner”.

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Chula Vista

Dude!

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

DwnWthVwls

lol.

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I don't got a god complex, you got a simple god...

The Batlord

All roads lead to The Batlord.

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Chula Vista

This is so not about you. Step away. Seriously. Don't post a comeback.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Trollheart

Name: Exo
Position: Shadow Man
Age: 44
Status: Alive
First Appearance: By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Last Appearance: Current character

If Manky is the enforcer for the Corporation (and he is), Exo is one of the powerful men driving it, the only one in fact we have so far seen or know of. Usually referred to just as The Brain, he is one of the most talented and influential film directors in the world, and uses his immense intelligence, allied to the matchless technology at the disposal of the Corporation as well as his own not inconsiderable fortune, to project subliminal messages into the audiences of his films. These can be anything from a simple request for a credit card number or address, social security details or incriminating/blackmail information, to actually setting up Manchurian Candidate-style assassins. Although he has long been suspected of being behind three major riots and the removal of two heads of state, as well as an extremely bloody coup in the Central African Congo, Exo has never had so much as a parking ticket stick to him, and has a completely clean record.

In season four's One Way or Another he selfishly uses his power to direct his young lover Steph, who is carrying his unwanted baby, to take her own life when she steps in front of a bus immediately after seeing his acclaimed Bronze Heart starring Clint Eastwood and George Clooney. Her husband, Xurtio, spends the remainder of season four and five trying to prove that her death was not suicide, but eventually is dealt with by the Corporation when he is sealed inside a room he is supposed to be painting, only to find the paint has been laced with Zyklon-B gas and there is no way out.

Editor's note: The use of this controversial gas was talked about, before (and certainly after) the show, especially in the light of the grandfather of the actor who played Xurtio having died in Dachau, but it was felt that the impact of using the same method of, basically, execution as the Nazis used in World War II was, to quote Trollheart, “too perfect to pass up”*. He may have regretted this later, when, after the episode aired, the studios were picketed by the American Anti-Semitic League, Amnesty and rather a lot of Jews on bikes. Trenchant to the last, the showrunner refused to apologise, saying that "to do so would have been to have tried to airbrush out of history the atrocities perpetrated during the Holocaust"**. Though some Jewish organisations later agreed this was a good point, the question has divided the Jewish community ever since, with many boycotting the show.

* (from interview with Pope Francis, A Quiet Chat, MSNBC, December 7 2019)

** (extract from the unauthorised biography, A Show in Turmoil by Lance Jacobsson, Sr. Bantam Press, 2017. ISBN 120078665)

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Trollheart

Actually, it kind of is. He has a major part to play, and the fame he gained through playing the wandering demon pretending to be Satan is now legendary, and has resulted in his becoming one of the richest men in history.

And the fattest.

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The Batlord

You had to beg to be put back in the show. I am being built up to.

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