Dr. Holmes
A quick item of interest that follows from the last entry. I thought I would sneak it in here.
This one is intriguing as it involves Omen.
As I mentioned earlier, I would chat for hours with Omen, prying him for those rare nuggets of History that any true historian would most likely give their right arm for.
Before Omen became the silent movie actress, he said he remembered another life. Or thought he did. That of one of the most infamous serial killers: H.H. Holmes.
Omen was fascinated with dead bodies. He also needed fresh blood to keep the bond between him and the body healthy. Otherwise, he would become sick, weakened, and incapacitated. Omen hated humans and looked upon them as mostly food, killing them was never an issue of conscience for him.
Fae Addiction
He also had a very unusual addiction to Fae energy. It literally made him high. (Fae being a generic term for nature spirits and fairies.) Omen would regularly manage to get his hands on some, eat them, and end up acting like he was drunk or high on drugs.
I actually made him a Fae substitute that gave him the same high (but not the same thrill of the chase) in an attempt to stop him from killing more of them. And yes, Fae are real.
Here is the chat I had with him while discussing the subject matter for my blog. The only thing I changed was the name of the actress to “the actress.” So, forgive me if it comes across as clumsy.
The Conversation
Omen: Oh, BTW [sic], did you ever notice that I have a memory gap directly before the actress? I try to overlook it, but I think I finally figured out where and when it was. I could never place the memory. I sometimes get timeframes mixed up, but this one is doubly confusing. Everyone used to call me Holmes, and all this time I was thinking to myself that Holmes is a fictional character. You know the detective dude in books. And I’m like this is all wrong, something must have fucked up in my mind. So, yesterday I Googled around and found it.
I owned a hotel that had a dungeon and worked on cadavers and all that medical stuff. Anyhow I Google Holmes and hotel and come up with this.
I was like: Oh, nothing will come up….
—–The memories are blurry because I was mostly drunk in every way and because I didn’t connect my name [Herman] to Holmes.
I thought they were just separate lifetimes, and the Holmes was just some fucked up fantasy I made because it’s so blurry.
…remind me not to google again.
Gary: How. You sure don’t do things by half. So, you don’t remember because you were drunk?
Omen: Well I remember the hotel, it’s my baby…
Gary: And so the actress was born the following year?
Omen: But I didn’t think it would all work out so well, it’s just the latter half is a bit blurry… And I left/attached partially to the actress 3 days before being hung. Made a contract because I knew it was going to happen, and I didn’t want to waste my time sitting in a cell. I hate cells… They just… Ehhh….
I don’t know when the actress was born in comparison, I don’t remember any birth-fails in between, but I know that’s the gap before the actress, mostly.
Anyhow, I thought it was a lot earlier, as well. I had it crosswired with the Spanish Inquisition because of the dungeon thing.
I suppose I can’t be expected to keep it linear, but I feel bad for even misplacing, and not remembering correctly, the entire escapade as the same lifetime.
…Remind me not to change my name in the middle of a lifetime.
Makes me wonder [about] all the rest I’ve misplaced because I’ve grouped memories via similarity to other events rather than timeframe.
Gary: So, the actress = 1893. Holmes = May 7 1896.
Omen: However, as the actress, I never found out my actual real birth time because mother refused to speak about it, and supposedly, father knew it. I asked father when I was 12, he was dying.
That’s what I based my birth date off of, specifically. We often had to fake like I was younger than I was to get into specific roles. So……just from that I’m thinking father could have been wrong. I don’t like to think it, but I really don’t remember taking a third Soul between that time.
I just don’t remember if I swapped hosts before they were born. I can do that if I have to (if I ask for it to be arranged, if I’ve been treating Triquerta nice…which I had been).
So, either I changed hosts prior to birth, or skipped through a few for some reason; and they all died…… Or mother was more of a whore than I would expect, and the father who walked out on us was not my father.
…It’s a bit late for me to be thinking of these things.
I think i should just put this down to I had a lot of Fae at my disposal and probably overdid it with the whole breaking unborn infants for a couple years
It’s happened before, it’s just….well I don’t remember those clearly either.
It’s Possible
Personally, my money is on Omen having been Holmes. It certainly fits, plus he remembers the hotel.