Character

About Zool

Zool has always been. As far as his encyclopedic memory goes, he has always been what he is, he has always done what he does, and if you were to ask whether there’ll ever be an end in sight, Zool would not deign answer.

And even when an end started to show itself on death’s horizon, still Zool denied possibility.

However, stubborn a man as Zool was, he was no fool. When the Necrolore began to gain in force, in depth, in followers, Zool veered from his self-imposed duty as Death to hunt all things Necrolore.

Tireless, Zool pursued the undying in between two severed souls, aware that leaving the dead to roam would only strengthen the whispering entity beyond. Time, little as he grasped its passing, began to weigh upon his labyrinthine mind, for it was time that he lacked to track all renegade souls down.

And it is exactly that time which gave the undying one at the heart of the souls’ world opportunity to grow, strengthen, and strike.

One day, as Zool stepped into the soul world to travel away as always he had, he never stepped back out.

His disappearance only gave the undying even more opportunity to grow, to strengthen, to overtake the planet one dead Rooted at a time.

With Death gone, the other Denumbra realized that even they were not eternal.

One of them set out on a quest to return Death to what it had always been: the best big brother ever.

Relationships

Ine [ she's sticky ]

Ine, the only Denumbra never to fear him. The only true Denumbra who, in a time long past, stood by his side. Though he'd rather have been rid of her recurrent appearances, he also never felt the urge to dispose of her. And he can't quite say why.

Notes

• Zool was created in the early 2000's for an online roleplay. Though I can't remember why I created him in the first place, I can tell you: creating him changed my life. In more than one way.
• Somehow, he took a life of his own very quickly. He was strong, of body and will, arrogant, straightforward, and loyal to a fault. His strength I claimed for myself, using it as a pillar to get myself out of a long depression. He ended up meaning the world to me.
• So when my rp partner killed off the single character of hers he was wholly attached to, my heart broke. It broke because my pillar of strength broke. The character's death had no reason to be; it was that partner's boredom of her caused did it. And I wondered, for so long, how could she have done that to us - to me, and Zool. So casually. Like it meant nothing. I'll admit, I'd stopped hating her for it, but that hatred's still here, buried :3;
• Zool had always refused that I rewrite his history in any way. But after this event... he allowed. And I was utterly shocked to feel - I can't call it care, nor compassion. He understood. And thus, he allowed alterations. Alterations that, ultimately, changed some of who he was, but never the core of him.
• He's still my pillar of strength. I still 'invoke' him, now and again, and feel his presence. Zool is. He always will be. And when I die, I will become part of him, like everyone else on Aeyuu.