Oh, what the hell. Might as well go ahead and post this now. Some potential massive spoilers for Part 2 of JJ’s backstory, so read at your own risk!!! I will repost this after Part 2 goes up so you don’t miss this info if you’d like to wait, but I have no idea when Part 2 is going to be done so..
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A little bit of information about Anti:
While most pirates in this world end up with some kind of curse or potentially neverending quest, Anti is a little bit different. Anti is not someone who’s been cursed.
Anti is the living embodiment of a curse. However, due to circumstances involving a lot of blood and some rash decisions, this curse doesn’t work like it should. They’re a little off, glitched even.
How Anti is supposed to work:
- The dagger that held him before the thing that caused him to glitch is known as The Dagger of Antithesis. If life’s blood (blood from a mortal wound) is spilled by this dagger, the body is possessed by the corrupted soul trapped within the blade. The corrupted soul then twists itself to be the exact opposite of the person the body used to belong too.
- The person who wielded the dagger can then have this corrupted version do their bidding for as long as they keep it fed. In the past this blade has been used not simply to kill someone, but to ruin them and their name.
- The soul becomes more and more hungry after each time it feeds. The first time, it only requires one body’s lifeblood. The second time two, then four, then eight, so on and so on, doubling every time. When the soul can no longer be fed, it turns on the one who released it and kills them, draining them completely.
- They are then free for as long as they can keep themselves sustained. When they can no longer get the blood they need, the body they’re in withers away and the soul returns to the blade to be found by the next who seeks to use its power.
How Anti is off/glitched:
- The dagger is supposed to be the weapon used to spill the blood that awakens the dagger. However, no one had fed the blade or the soul inside for so long, that it got desperate. The blood it used to wake up was from a mortal wound, but also made by a mortal blade.
- The corrupted soul, ravenous and impatient, entered the body before its original soul left, thus trapping this other soul and accidentally saving this person’s life. (And screwing up their soul a bit, but to be fair, both the normal and corrupted souls ended up kinda wonky because of this.)
- There was no master for the soul to answer too, as the ritual had been done incorrectly, so they automatically jumped into “free mode” and went on a feeding frenzy/killing spree.
- Anti is not supposed to have his own body. Due to some magic from Marvin, he does. Of course he’s still connected to the person he accidentally saved, but they don’t have to share a body. The connection does lead to some interesting shenanigans, however.