NACKSHOT ANSWERS!
@spinblue said: if Nack were to find Shambala, what would he do afterwards? Is there any sense of emptiness upon finally achieving his family’s legacy? After all, he may have finally accomplished what the rest of his family members couldn't, but who is left to really understand how important this find is?
This is something I‘ve talked about with Team Sexy Bitches ( @dcsntmatter, @omniversentertwined, and @jackalhunt), and the sad thing is that Shambhala is simply not what Nack thinks it is.
Unbeknownst to him, the Marvelous family weren’t just a family of wild-hearted treasure hunters looking for the next biggest scoop. Instead, their intentions had been heavily corrupted along the way, twisting them into some of the greediest, most dangerous individuals around as they learned that Shambhala was, in fact, not some mythical kingdom of paradise and wonder. Instead, it was a kingdom that housed a terrible curse that, if released, could plague the entire world with destruction and ruin if let loose. The Marvelous family uncovered this truth, and it was their intention to find Shambhala so that they could try and master this curse as to strong-arm the world into total submission.
Nack, not alive during their downfall, was not raised with this in mind. He was told that a secret society slaughtered his family, but he was not aware of the context. To him, they were legendary rogues, unjustly slaughtered in their search for the world’s greatest treasure. Thus, he’s made it his entire life mission to live up to their legacy, thus transforming him into the ruthless, ambition-filled treasure hunter that he is now.
He doesn’t like to show it, but he does have a good deal of insecurity when it comes to his family. He worries that he’s not yet eclipsed them despite so many of his legendary exploits that have made him a legend. It doesn’t matter what he finds or where he goes -- none of it will matter until he, a Marvelous, finds Shambhala and lives in what is fabled to be an ancient city of paradise and wealth.
It’s been plotted out that Nack and his team will eventually find Shambhala. However, along the way, he’s going to get increasingly more and more in denial about the truth of his family, viciously hunting down the legends whilst fighting against the secret society that was trying to protect the world from his family’s twisted ambitions. He’s a terrible work of art himself, but Nack is not here to destroy the entire world to become its leader. He is merely here to be the world’s finest mercenary and treasure hunter, and he can’t fathom how his family -- the people he idolized ever since he was a young boy -- could lose their way so terribly.
