The-man-who-once-was looks upon the demon-who-is-now and the monster-he-is-becoming with sadness and weeps for them, for they are what he feared to be and what he decided to be upon a vow of protection. He weeps for the humanity he gave up freely and willingly to protect those who would die without his intervention. He weeps for those who followed him until they fell in their shared mission.
The demon-who-is-now screams. He screams in rage and he screams in pain. In grief and joy and a thousand other, fleeting emotions. He screams a challenge to the monsters that feast upon flesh and haunt minds and he screams reassurance to those that he protects. That so long as he stands they will live.
The monster-he-is-becoming laughs. Laughs in joy and in pain. He laughs in mountains of broken bodies and rivers of blood. He laughs and laughs to hide the weeping and screaming he once did. He laughs to distract from the pain of abandoning all that he once was and could have been. He laughs to inspire fear in the fearless, and to inspire hope in the hopeless.
For he was the man to first to fight back and weep for those he couldn't save. For he is demon screams his defiance for all to hear. For he becoming the monster who laughs at yet another tragedy. For he is Brimstone and Hellfire, for that is where he made his home.
