seth tempo . d7 . fin

His life is a dark and corrupt one with demons to fight and demons to embrace.

The first set of demons he fought were his parents. The God of Chaos told him that they were standing in his way, dragging him down, and thus he wanted to be rid of them. He did everything in his power to make them disown him, from selling and using drugs to getting involved in unnecessary violence at school and on the streets. On the day where he landed another boy in the hospital, his parents finally did what he wanted and kicked him out at sixteen to live on the streets.

The second set of demons he fought were the authorities. They were insistent on putting him in the care of an orphanage since he was legally too young to be out on his own, but he fought them tooth and nail. At first, he lost, and ended up being placed in a District Seven orphanage for six months before he caused so much chaos and disorder that him sneaking out one night meant relief for the people there, and no one wanted to come looking for him or report him missing. Now, he truly was on his own, out on the streets, avoiding the authorities at all costs.

Eventually, Seth learned to embrace some of his demons, rather than fighting each and every one of them, but perhaps didn't know which ones should be fought and which ones shouldn't be. He embraced his inner demons. He embraced the ones that were telling him that drugs, violence and being an inherent law-breaker were the way to live life. He'd let his rage be fed when it needed to be, mugging and stealing from innocent people on the streets just to get some satisfaction. He'd let himself indulge in drugs when he craved them, and sell them to unwary folks who didn't know how much their lives would be impacted by them, convincing them that it was the way to get rid of all of their problems.

Seth's violent tendencies have started to come out even more in recent years. Living on the streets of Seven, he certainly has times where he needs to defend himself, but more often than not, others need to protect themselves from him. He carries a knife at his waist that he'll use to threaten people to get what he wants. People will beg him not to hurt them, and only sometimes will he listen, even if he gets what he wants out of it all.

Often times, Seth imagines what he'd have been like if he lived in a career district. Would he have had training to make himself all that much stronger? Would it have given him even better street smarts than he already has? Or would it simply mean that those he went after would be smarter and more capable as well? He supposed he wouldn't have to worry about it. Unless he ended up in the Hunger Games, it was very unlikely he'd ever even meet someone who was a trained career.

Seth tries to excuse his actions by saying that the Chaos God ordered him to do these things. He's doing what he has to so that the Chaos God doesn't come down and destroy everything they know. That's what he thinks, at least. He truly believes he hears the voice of a deity, and he runs his life around it. Producing a little bit of chaos prevents even worse chaos, in his mind.

Chaos is a poor man's poison. If you can't afford the real poison, be the toxic thing yourself. When he doesn't want someone in his life, he tries to drive them away with threats and toxicity. He tries to become unbearable to be around. Whatever it is he needs to do, he'll do it to get his way. Seth does what's necessary to form his life around himself.

To Seth, the world is meant to revolve around him, it's just not doing it yet. So, he'll fix that in whatever way he can. He'll make sure everything goes his way if he can force it too. He just has to do whatever he can to take that power away from others. Seth needs the power to feed his God's desite for chaos, and his own greedy craving for the earth to bend to his will.

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