It's taken me a small minute to figure out an idea for one of Onix's past lives, but all I had to watch was John Wick. Great movies, love Keanu Reeves, and it really got me thinking - John Wick was a man of extreme anger and violence who became a man of (relative) peace, only to be forced headfirst back into hell. What if he never had that taste of peace, and had only continued to descend deeper into that darkness? Who would be the person left?
My answer to that came from a previous show I had watched, Marvel's Hit-Monkey on Hulu (fun, TW: gore and extreme animated violence, spoilers ahead). One of the villains in the show is Lady Bullseye (Bullseye was busy with Daredevil at the time). This woman is death. Before we even know her name, we watch her walk through life killing as if it was getting a drink of water. She never said a word, hardly opened her mouth during her entire introduction, yet every single person who caused that irritated pull in the corner of her lip was doomed. They could have been doing something as simple as their job - one woman was killed after a small, routine mix-up and after offering complementary drinks at a bar. It was completely and utterly psychotic, wrathful yet precise, flawless and terrible.
What if that sort of person were suddenly thrust into the mind (similar to Akalaks, always thought that was an interesting concept) of a kid who has not only never known violence, but is actively pacifist, as well as everyone else he knows? Suddenly privy to each other's thoughts and actions. Evalynn had an interesting idea - a two-way connection, rather than just one. I thought it was a great idea, and an interesting way to force Dra'Kel to have to be vulnerable to the judgement of his polar opposite, and the other way around. As Dra'Kel is the past life and simply an addition to Onix's story, I didn't want to give him too much of a spotlight or control over the narrative, and so I'm thinking I'll steal the dreams idea, and alter it a bit. I won't reveal how exactly it'll work, but I've got a great idea for it that I'll roll with.
My goal with this is to get Onix out of the pacifist mindset, but for a reason. I have a dual-arc in mind for him and Dra'Kel.
