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The Khatar Bloodline

...at least so far. Anyway, before I talk about them under the cut, this idea was stolen by SamRose’s & Carousel Unique’s display of the siren’s children on ariasarchives. Check it out, it’s pretty neat. And, a few triggerwarnings for the segments, if you plan to read: “The Frightening“: mutilation, death Selena: sexual harrassment, death Atticus: death Seth: death

“The Frightening”

A figure striking fear with it’s sheer presence, that is what most people knew “The Frightening” as, and hence named them after it. Made as the first Master of Bones, “The Frightening” had no childhood, but wandered as a vagabond through the villages, in which they were feared for their power, which they were not afraid to display if they needed or wanted to. Their eyes were slashed out by a bitter man, whose friend challenged “The Frightening” to a duel to death, ignoring their warning that he would die. Ultimately, “The Frightening” was last seen in a village near today’s area of Ninjago City, and was never sighted again. The cause was unknown, but it is assumed that they were banished to Exile or another realm. But it is known that their bloodline lives on.

Selena Khatar

As an infant, Selena was dropped off by her parents at the mansion of a rich landlord, where she was taken care of by the lord’s staff, and raised to be one of his jesters. She was unaware of her Elemental Power until the age of fourteen, when three men attempted to sexually harrass her, and she bursted all three of their skulls open. 

She continued to secretly practice her, relatively weak, powers until the age of 18, where she left the mansion, and continued to work as a dancer of similar fashion as the job before. She seduced men, and killed them when they attempted to do things with her against her will. She took their money and belongings, since as a dancer, she was barely paid enough. 

At the age of 20, she got pregnant from a customer with whom she wanted no child. The man found out after she gave birth to the child, and tried to force Selena into becoming his wife, she barely escaped from the man by breaking his arm, as she couldn’t kill him with his entire entourage of armed men accompanying him. By hiding her son in the carriage of farmers from a town far away, she secured him before the men found her a few months after and killed her. The jesters who raised Selena witnessed the murder and alarmed their landlord, who despite Selena’s disobedience toward himself, killed the men for quote “doing something as honorless as killing a defenseless dancer”. It was an occurance whose word didn’t spread outside the land he owned. Nobody dared to challenge him.

Atticus Khatar

Having only a necklace with his a drawing of his mother as a jester in it as the indicator of his heritage, Atticus grew up with the farmers who found him in their carriage and didn’t have the heart to send this weak child back. In his early life, he aspired to be part of the military force of Ninjago’s monarch, even though Madgalena, his surrogate mother, tried to tell him that growing up in a village like this, it would never happen. He met his childhood friend and future lover Saria during this time too, and Atticus lived a relatively tame life, helping his parents harvesting the farms having accepted that he wouldn’t join the military, until he turned 18.

A group of raiders were invading the village, and Atticus was ordered to hide as his father and the other men attempted to stop the raiders. Atticus stayed hidden until he noticed the raiders attacking his father. He ran out, and used his powers for the first time, as during his attack, he lifted up the raider in question and broke several of his bones until he died. The other raiders quickly fled. As the village began to notice what he did, a few of the oldest panicked, telling the others about a terrifying Bonemaster who once visited this village and killed people with their powers. They believed that Atticus was either that someone, or an incarnation of them, and he was hunted down by a village mob. Saria followed him to the next village.

From years to years, paranoid that the villagers will come find them, Atticus and Saria travelled as far away as they could, always stopping for a bit of time at one place before leaving again. It became their new way of life, until Atticus, at the age of 34, became a father and settled down, thinking he was finally safe. Being new in this village, people’s attention had been drawn to this family. Eventually, after Atticus was provoked to use his powers again, and a few people noticed, spreading the word like wildfire, the story repeated itself, and Saria was captured and presumably killed for having a child with the descendant of “The Frightening”. He fled once again with the nine-year-old Seth, staying in an abandoned, well-enough hidden treehouse, being to exhausted to move further. With documentations stored in the house, Atticus began to teach Seth his powers on animals, before the villagers eventually found the house. Using the advantage of always having Seth hidden fro mthe eyes of others, Atticus hid him away and faced the mob. While fighting his way through, the people eventually took over and won, stabbing Atticus to death.

Seth Khatar

Due to his faulty memory, everything before his lessons with his father only seems like vague thoughts, like the redhaired woman staring down at him with a smile, or the screams of faceless people, saying “murder” or something similar. Hours after his father told him to stay hidden until he’d get him, and after all the noise outside got quiet, he got out of his hiding spot, but couldn’t find his father anywhere. From then on, Seth began to hunt for himself, using his powers whenever he saw fit, like when killing animals to eat, or protecting the house from intruders. The years he spends alonein the treehouse chip away at his sanity, and his social behavor is long gone, but he remains a well-meaning soul to anyone he considers a friend. His future remains unknown, for now.