here's a little run down on how i write Caleb here. i’ll be jumping a little all over with my thought process for him:
In LIFE -- Caleb was neither good nor evil - he was made to survive in a gruesome frontier. His anger festered over time, directed at the world and its cruelties. He was never an outwardly violent individual in his youth. After his father passed he took his anger and dark thoughts out by building, crafting - intricate pieces of machinery that he could use to enact his wrath on those who wronged him or his family. The ones who bullied himself and his sister. Even when their actions turned violent? Caleb controlled himself. For his family and their well being. But without a proper outlet? The anger roiled until it was a black festering wound in him and unleashed upon the one person who ruined everything he worked tirelessly for. When Bayshore took advantage of him -- his control snapped and the ugly monster lurking under the surface lashed out. And there it stayed for years to follow, just below the surface.
When Caleb speaks to the average individual, he’s actually very polite and even tempered. Though he comes off as stand offish and intimidating with his towering height, he never once set his cruelty on those who don’t deserve it. When he speaks to the law? It’s very brisk and factual - stone cold and unnerving. . . It’s when he speaks to Outlaws, the ones he hunts? The nasty cruelty resurfaces. Manic and blood hungry and setting years of repressed anger onto the poor bastards he was set loose on. He enjoys every second of their torture, make no mistake about that. Thrived on it. It's what made him so good at his job.
In DEATH -- the Entity feeds off that anger. It torments him consistently with the voices of the souls who truly took advantage and betrayed his trust. It lies to him over and over again with voices from his past and makes him believe the survivors before him are Outlaws -- waiting to be judged and caught by the terrifying fury that is The Deathslinger. Those are the “games” he’s truly relentless, where no one will escape and blood will drench the ground of their chosen hunting ground. However. . . Sometimes the Entity’s influence is fleeting or focused on another killer, and Caleb’s mind quiets. That’s when he remembers himself, not the blood thirsty creature he was turned into, but the quieter, intellectually driven individual his father had strived to raise him as. The one who adores music and sunsets. If you’re lucky enough to catch him on those days as a survivor? He may actually converse with you like a civilized individual, or wave you off so he can think to himself. Consequences from the Entity be damned.
kaledo-art
romaincrisis
vaporwave
jacobvanloon
turnnoffyourmind
germansingergirl
