journal excerpt | Dr. M.S. Cossack
Hoping to bolster the planetary resistance against Dr. Wily, Dr. Cossack developed Skull Man, his deadliest creation to date. Acknowledging the existential danger he posed to not only their enemy but to the planet itself, Cossack wisely deactivated Skull Man, only for Dr. Wily to discover and reactivate him shortly thereafter. At Wily’s behest, Skull Man swept over Cossack’s homeland with terrible speed, laying waste to everything in sight before a moment of clarity finally stayed his assault. In a profound melancholy, Skull Man sought his creator, and begged him to deactivate him once and for all
“I did not hear the screams— and, in fact, mostly avoided the hideous scene,at first | And as you can imagine it was a struggle to stay | for every vantage bore utter decay | and yet I could not look away | Motive and mettle alike, (both) were laid bare on the steel of the spike, but how, I began… | in an instant he was there, standing motionless just ahead of me | casting a shadow of palpable dread | whatever was I to do now?
Lo, mine was the melody | his was the counterpoint, the reverie | and now his role is to be that of the parody?! | Someone had purged or perhaps corrupted his memory | And I? I, the approaching flame? I was the archetype, the shadow’s hame | And I, veiled in obscurity, I, the designer, should conduct his fate?
That inviolate wretch fractured my world with the flip of a switch. Thus, I return to dust to suffer whatever I must | adrift amidst the effortless whim of the winds | to fix my sight on the unchangeable light | so all might see that which I aspired to be”
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