- Doctor Faustus -

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"Faustus
The time has come for you
And here's your sentence
That is your fate and
It's no use repentance
You must pay with your soul, Faustus
You have come to your goal, Faustus
You wished the deepest
Knowledge of tomorrow
And power to clean off
Grievance and sorrow
We have made your wish true, Faustus
Now we are over you..."

-- Dark Moor "Faustus"

Now c'mon. You didn't think that when I decided to revive/redesign ye olde Mephistopheles that I would leave his lapdog Doctor Faustus behind, would you? Well, maybe you didn't given that I just posted My Darkest Dreaming last month, but meh.

Doctor Johann Faustus originally appeared halfway through my old travesty of a story "Unforgiven" as a man who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for power and was ultimately sent to Hell. In the story, he was Mephistopheles' lapdog, often taking the brunt of Mephi's drunken rampages. Faustus eventually took Mephi's place was one of Hell's generals (after Mephi became a traitor and joined the "Good Guys"), but truth be told I can't remember what happened to him afterwards. I think he may have died.

In Faustus' redesign, he gets a new outfit which is based on the Undead Baron/Undead Fencer designs from Castlevania: Curse Of Darkness with some teeny-tiny elements borrowed from Tira's 2P outfit in Soul Calibur III. Most of his backstory is still the same though.

Born sometime in the 15th Century, Doctor Faustus was a man who made a deal with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power as well as to have the demon lord Mephistopheles serve him for a period of twenty-four years. During this time he wasted his skills in drunkenness and buffoonery; on lies and lechery. And when his contract expired, he was dragged to Hell kicking and screaming. He tried repenting one month prior, but it didn't work.

In my roleplays with *screamin-jazzy, Faustus has somehow gotten out of Eternal Damnation (thanks to a loophole in his contract) and is working in Hell alongside Mephistopheles as his "business partner" (i.e. Lapdog) and starts out as a very weak character. He hardly speaks (save for when he has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth), has a tendency to borrow clothes from "Mephi", and all-around acts like a scared rabbit around most non-humans (even the cute ones like BEO). He also has a habit of pocketing Molotov Cocktails.

Now that Mephistopheles has recovered Faustus' ancient tome "Holle-Meister" ("Hell-Master". It was a Christmass present. Yes, my demons do celebrate Christmass, albeit all the commercial and Pagan aspects), the former Doctor Of Divinity is now becoming quite a necromantic force to be reckoned with, even to the point of giving other black magick users such as DQ and Absinthe a run for their money. I consider Faustus here the "Quan Chi" of my mythos.

He'll rip your leg off and bludgeon you with it!

Doctor Johann Faustus (My Version even though he's based on the Marlowe Version) Copyright © 1999-2010 Jennifer Hopkins/Hotaru Thodt (=hotaru-sama666--Me!)