This is the one page I wanted to keep up to date more than all the others, and the one I failed the most miserably at doing so with. I may never completly manage to tell the stories of what I've done behind his persona, but at least I had fun while it's lasted. Perhaps one day I'll finish this page assuming I ever stop role playing with the character... meanwhile you should see Nny's MySpace blog which has actualy gotten me a number of letters from people thinking I'm Jhonnen. Flattery? Always! But I'd never claim to be him. I have my own demons to contend with without his too...
Original MUCK description - Johnny_C
 Standing before you is a very strange skinny man. His clothing is mostly black, from his long sleaved shirt to his knee high boots. On his hands he wears two long black gloves as if to keep as little flesh showing as possible. If you can see the hilt of either of his daggers he tries to hide beneath his long shirt, you'd best keep as far away as possible, for his temper is the only thing short in his attire... |
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JtHM
Johnny, or NNY as he likes to be called, has a rather unexpectedly complicated past. Originating from the stories under the name Johnny the Homacidal Maniac, NNY was mocked and humiliated his whole life and one day snapped and declared it his life's mission to go forth and teach his peers the value of life. Unfortunitly this always ended in the subject dying horribly, but this was just an added bonus for the resident maniac.
At some point he began to assign the voices in his mind to objects so he could have some thing to talk to. Eventualy, as his madness developed, he began to loose the ability to realise the diffrence between what was a product of his own mind, and what what put there by another. Gradualy he began to loose what was left of his grip on reality. It was around this time that two of these voices began to move and speak on their own. Mr Eff and Psycho D-Boy, two painted up display stand doughboys, began to manipulate him and mock him in an attempt at tricking him into obeying their master's orders.
NNY began to breakdown as a result of the Doughboys influence. Suicide attempts became a part of his regular routine. His own mental voice of reason, dubbed Nailbunny, began to oppose the Doughboys, but this only added to NNY's own unstable mindset.
By the time Johnny managed to come to grips with his situation, it was already too late. The Doughboy's master was being freed and NNY's own lack of better judgement had already set into motion his final suicide attempt. Taking a bullet to the head from a gun he'd modified with a motion censor, he discovered that his life long suspicions about the world where right and the entire world was being destroyed because of him. Or, so it would seem.
Crossing over into the after life Johnny found one disapointment after another as he learned he didn't even belong with the dead. After getting kicked out of Heaven for abusing his heavenly gifts (actualy, just one... Head-Expoldy!) he was dumped in Hell where the devil took great enjoyment in explaining things.
It was learned that Johnny was infact a waste lock - an object assigned to collect and store the negative waste that humanity casts off. Being mentaly unstable to begin with, this had pushed him over the edge allowing him to use that negativity that he was designed to lock away. Eventualy a creature that was sealed inside this sludge began to gain power from NNY's actions thus allowing itself to be freed. However, Johnny was also a type of flusher in that when he passed away it undid creation allowing the beast to be trapped in the void while a "backup" reality was "re-installed".
Returning to the real world Johnny at first sought to distance himself from all aspects of reality. Shunning his own emotions he tried isolation, but this only brought out a new voice - Reverend Meat - who represented the desire for contact and self preservation. Striving to free himself from being a slave to anything, let alone his own desires, he took an extended vacation and volunteered at the local psychiatric ward, dubbed the Deffective Head Meat Institute, for Dr. L. England's sleep study while he waited for his thoughts to clear. Much to the dismay of the good doctor, NNY left with his head full of plans for the future...
It is at this point that the story branches off. We know that NNY was looking forwards to the future and that he wasn't happy with his life up to that point. It is from here that our muck character began his new life...
Neo Tokyo
Wanting to distance himself from the troubles of his life he boarded a plane at random and left. Johnny had no way of knowing that somehow he'd passed through a "gate" and entered another world. For him, this was just the start of a new life. After spending some time watching the city of Neo Tokyo from afar, he began to notice that people in this new city where diffrent. They weren't as rude and obnoxious to each other as the ones he was used to. Assuming this to simply be culture shock he decided to procede with an experiment and entered into a local establishement called the Usual Resaurant.
This single event is what would change things for him. It was here that he'd learned that he was no longer in his own world, but in another. Here the fictional stories he'd entertained himself with where real, both good and bad. His routine began to include daily visists to the UR to study these new creatures. However, power has it's consequinces. Unknowingly the beast within his wastelock had begun to feed on the new paranormal energies that ran rampant in Neo Tokyo, and soon his inner voices resurfaced. Complete with the return of the Doughboys.
Under their influence he began to break down again until a chance encounter with another lost traveler, the fighter Terry Bogard. Terry used skills the likes of which Johnny had never seen before. Facinated with the display he forgot about his blood lust and gave up trying to kill the man. This would bring about the next change in his life. The two would spend long nights talking over past experiences and after quite some time Terry learned of the powers that Johnny sought to bury inside him. Terry made an aggrement with Johnny, that he would help him however he could if Johnny would promise to end his murderous ways. Reluctantly the troubled maniac aggreed to these terms and declared that given his own desires to distance himself from the man he was, this should logicly have been his next step anyways.
Another chance encounter drove the Doughboys into hiding thanks to a young girl named Emi. Johnny had gone into the UR absentminedly twirling one of his daggers when the Emi took the weapon from him and using magic, removed it from the building. Outraged, the now former homacidal maniac began to scream and panic - threatening to tear the place apart until he got it back. It was at this time that Mr Eff arrived and cheared on the aspect of such distruction. Little did they know that Emi was not as she appeared...
Teleporting them to an isolated area of the city Emi engaged the doughboy revealing herself to be the long lost goddess of balance in disguise. Mr Eff became outraged and tapped into the stored energies in NNY's wastelock to deminstrate the dark powers that the Doughboys's master had bestowed upon them. In an amasing show of energy the two came to a stalemate. Until the goddess announced how easily she could send Johnny to the fathest plains of existance - thus thwarting the plans of the Doughboys and their master reguardless of the cost to Johnny. Fearing the worst, Mr Eff vanished and Johnny's voices went silent. Little did he know they where only waiting for the chance to return.
Afterwords Johnny came to his sences, when Mr Eff tapped into the waste lock, it had caused such a strain on the boy that he had blacked out. Unfortunitly he never did learn that the woman who helped him was the same little girl from before. But from that night on, his attitude towards her changed and he was always left with a feeling of familiarity with her, like a long lost realtive or friend...
Normal MUCK description - Johnny_C
 Standing before you is the man who once proudly went by the name Johnny the Homacidal Maniac. He's a tall skinny man wearing all black. His skin is pale and his hair takes on a blue tint in the right light. On his feet are two knee high leather boots with several metal buckles going up the length of them. At his sides are two well polished daggers with round hilts bearing the image of his creation - Happy Noodle Boy, and accross his back he wears a long handmade "hooksickle" which has recently been modified to include a leather grip. Many other weapons lay hidden beneath his long sleaves and in his canvis backpack. You have to ask yourself, for someone who claims to have given up killing, why does he keep himself so well armed?
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Time passes and things change. For the most part Johnny adjusted to all the new changes in his life quite well. That is, until the distruction of Neo Tokyo. Driven by powers beyond anyone's control, the gates that brought most of the denizens of the city from their own worlds opened up and hordes of creatures spilled out. The fabric of the world's existance becoming unraveled, the world began to break apart as chaos ensued. In a valient effort on behalf of the more powerful magic users of the city, a gate was deliberatly opened and the majority of the city's popluation made a run for their lives.
Metropolis
It took nearly a month before the disorinted Johnny realised that he was no longer in Neo Tokyo. Buying a nearly condemend room to live in he spent most of his time trying to clear his head and get a new grip on reality. Convinced that the destruction of the last world was nothing more than a illusion of his own mind, he set out to find proof of his theory. When he sumbled into the Usual Restaurant in the midsts of this new city, he was convinced he was right. It was here that he met a young mercenary named Samantha. Much to his own surprise he discovered that not only was he in yet another world, but the woman that he'd met was the daughter of the man he'd befriended. From her he learned that Terry had vanished, apparently going back to his home world while trying to save his daughter from the danger that had threatened her.
Feeling obligated towards his lost friend and his sacrifice, he began to watch over the girl and made more than one attempt at protecting her. Eventualy this put him in several unusal conflicts due to the actions of his new friend. One in particular involved the reappearance of the dark angel, Datenshi. After a struggle between Datenshi and a man named Alex, powerful energies where released that destroyed not only most of the city block, but also resulted in the second death of Johnny C.
Deceased MUCK description - Johnny_C
 The entity known as Johnny C. is dead at this moment. Thanks to a rather confusing situation involving a big explosion, Datenshi, and the UR (You can fill in the rest) our resident maniac is currently not in this world. Since the world still exists it's safe to say he's not gonna be gone too long. He doesn't belong in Heaven or Hell and their always so quick to point that out to him, so until he returns, please leave a message after the tone!
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As before, our anti-hero crossed over into the afterlife. This time, being processed from a diffrent plain of existance, a special enquiry went underway to determine his place in this world. Again Johnny was told he didn't belong. However this time due to the pact he had made with Terry Bogard, a trial was arranged. Should he prove that he is indeed trying to better himself and not kill without just cause, he would be allowed to live again. Vowing to keep this promise he went back to the land of the living...
Revived MUCK description - Johnny_C
 The most beloved massive headwound recipient in existence has returned from the land of the dead! ...again. After a visit to this world's afterlife he's been cast down to earth again for judgement. Along with being a waste-lock and having all the voices in his head to deal with, can the former homacidal maniac finaly make a change for the better? Johnny stands at 5'9" and mostly wears all black making him seem even pailer than he naturaly is. His hair has suffered the effects of his return - leaving him bald except for two long bangs. Old habbits dying hard, he still wears his two trusty daggers at his sides and carries not only a canvis backpack full of assorted weapons but also a long "hooksickle" that he keeps over his shoulder with a leather strap.
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First on his agenda was to confront Samantha about something he had overheard her say while he was dead. This involved taking the life of someone based soley on the circumstances of their creation. Johnny, being from a not-to-perfect background immediatly tried to point out what he felt was the error in her ways. This pushed the already on edge girl to tears. Screaming at the gods and goddesses for allowing him to make such an ass of himself he snapped and decided that Samantha was so miserable, he had to help her but releaving her of such misery. Charging at her with his daggers drawn, he stabed the girl in the back and nearly killed her.
Standing over her body, the girl begged him to finish her off. She told him that if she was such a miserable person that everyone had turned their backs on her, then she diserved to die. Johnny stared blankly. Then he realised the situation and began to laugh. This was the trial he was sent back to take. He was sent back to judge, not to be judged. Still laughing he lay down in the street beside her and explained to her why she was not a monster, and how much he hated irony. Later, after helping her home he announced that he understood what it was he was sent back for. It was past time he got his life back in order, especialy now that things had finaly seemed to be getting under control.
But, things in Johnny's life never go so easily...
Among the phsyical changes of coming back from the dead, Johnny began to notice that the more his rage built the more he could 'tap' into his waste lock. At times when he was prepared to take someone's life his skin would turn black and his speed and agility would increase. Taking advantage of that, the Doughboys made their return and did their best to push the boy over the edge.
Trying to keep his calm, Johnny began to hunt down people to fight to extinguish the rage. The constant ranting fromt the Doughboys began to become too much for him, and sparing was all he could do to keep his sanity. Eventualy his rage overwhelmed him and he fell into a deep trance, the Doughboys had won.
It was at this time that Samantha became visited by a goddess named Cassandra. Cassandra needed a body to enter this world in order to stop a demon named Benedict from taking control. It was with Cassandra's help that the entranced Johnny was finaly brought down. After a surprise attack in the city park this new shadow Johnny began to exhibit paranormal powers as a result of his troubled mind. This led to the freeing of the beast that lurked deep inside his waste lock. Nearly destroying the city Samantha gave herself over to Cassandra who imprisoned the beast once more and restored existance in much the same way as the twice dead maniac - by resetting it. This brought back the bewildered Johnny who was informed that he'd mearly slept and drempt the whole thing. This however couldn't explain the missing Doughboys...
Relieved to be free of his burden once more he set out to relax and spent a day wondering the city with a sketchbook, eager to reclaim his lost skills. Enconuntering Samantha once more she asked him if he'd like to go with her into the Badlands to look around some ruins she had found on an eairlier trip.
Following her out there the two where attacked by an army of lizard-like creatures led by a tall pale man named Seraph who weilded a strange weapon that emitted the same negative energies that Johnny absorbed, it seemed Seraph fed on them too. Trying to help Samantha, the boy allowed himself to absorb the energies and gain the powers to stand up against the man. It was then that Seraph used the weapon to try to cut Johnny in half. The act of such a weapon piercing the boy's heart drove him insane and all the goodeness that had begun to grow in his heart over the past few years was severed from his body.
Not knowing what to do against the two of them and the army of lizard creatures, Samantha called on Cassandra once more. The resulting battle revealed that Seraph was infact an agent of Benedict. Becoming striped of his powers violently during the aftermath, Johnny attacked Seraph and tried to 'over charge' him by forcing his wastelock in to the energy absorbing entity, an act that not only restored Johnny but left him completly helpless. The idea turned out to be a failure as seraph simply gave the energies to Benedict and left Johnny and Samantha to die in the Badlands.
Barely managing to make it back the two went into seperate seclusion until finaly Johnny couldn't stand his own weakness anymore and felt the darkness growing inside him demanding he kill again. Running out into the streets he barged into the Usual Restaurant and demanded someone fight him. Getting more than he bargened for the store owner, Dragonmaster Cale Charis, aggreed to fight the boy and promptly sealed him inside of a prison of magic until Cale could decide what to do with him.
To Johnny's dismay, the next morning he was brought out into the UR inside the bubble to the mocking crowd that had gathered inside as part of their daily rutine. On top of that but Samantha was there only now she was completly controlled by Cassandra. Cassandra spoke to Cale and informed him that the former killer needed to be sealed away perminantly to prevent him from ever being controlled by Benedict's evil. Enraged by hearing his the voice of his friend condeming him and the crowd laughing at him inside his magical imprisonment, Johnny gave into the darkness inside him shattering Cale's spell and attacking Cassandra assuming that Samantha had been possesed somehow by Benedict.
What happened next was a complex series of events almost too confusing to put into words. Samantha's friend Jack was trying to find a way to bring Samantha back from where ever her mind had receded to. Cale attacked Johnny, nearly severing his arm. The crowd forced Cale away from him assuming that he'd gone mad and was taking an innocent boy's life. Cale's friend Kawatta entered, having been driven insane by the recent events of his life. As the crowd tryed to help Johnny, the absorption of magic from Cale's spells plus the spells of a few of the crowd caused the shadow-like energies within him to wrap around him like a second skin to help him regain his strength. Jack restored Samantha and moved on to help Kawatta. Using the wrong spell, the inteligence within Cale's sword moved to stop Jack and ended up nearly killing him. The resulting chaos fed Johnny's waste lock to an unheard of scale as the sword abosrbed part of Jack's soul -and- Kawatta's madness causing the link between the sword and Cale to be severed which resulted in another explosion of energies. Abosrbing most of them, Johnny fled the scene now driven completly mad himself with the excessive amount of darkness inside him. Watching all this so soon after being revived, Samantha went into an even deeper seclusion and her body became completly comatose...
The next night Johnny used his new found skills to attack Samantha to enact his morbid vengence for the words he thought she had said, and also to try to kill the demon he thought was inside her. A wizard named Exculus was watching her and did his best to stop the raving loonatic which resulted in Johnny nearly being brought to the brink of death again. Johnny's soul was claimed by the energies of Benedict who transported him to another world where he was given the choice of enacting his vengence by killing Seraph. Taking advantage of the situation, Johnny jumped at the chance and was given the Daggers of Dread, the only weapon that could defeat the powerful man.
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