William/History

Sweet William's History

• William was a 14th Century servant of a member of the Medici family of Florence in Italy on Earth, originally purchased in London, England, as a small child. He was sequestered in a Tuscan hill summer Villa and educated by a woman bought in from Rome. William was taught to read and write, play the lute, perform book keeping activities and generally acted as his Lord's Secretary. He appears to have been the man's plaything as well, but shows no distress at such. Apparently having a rich fantasy life, he possibly created Houm from his subconcious. William contracted the Black Plague and was thrown out of the Villa. He claims to have been eighteen at a time.

• At some point William must have ended up in Puzzlebox, and at some further point contracted Strangevirus and been a card carrying (literally) member of the Hemotopians. Messian databanks, as accessed by System and Kehari? have stated that he has either been present in StrangeWarp for three Wheels or over ten thousand standard StrangeWarpian years. During the entire time, as far as StrangeWarp's occluded and bloodthicked databanks provide, he served as the StrangeWarp Library's Secretary, an almost unthinkable continuity for a Viral Host.

• William himself seemed to go into complete hysterics when people disordered or rearranged the periodicals and texts, although they had no perceptible organisation to non-Hemotopians. The Library in turn appeared to defend William, occassionally viciously. A while ago after delivering a possibly prophetic text to Sosael (rumoured in reserve for more than a cycle), William claimed that his purpose was complete and that he was now a free agent. Shortly after this in a possibly related incident, William underwent something that appeared to be a cleansing of StrangeVirus. It is not certain why the Virus was cured, but it seems likely that it abandoned him rather than being destroyed.

• As far as anyone can tell, William is now an utterly lost Italian boy living in Elysium. He appears to have no memory of his oppressively long time as a Hemotopian, little grasp of anything, and seems to think himself in some Limbo outside his comprehension. He is painfully maladapted to Messian life, and seems to be going insane, although various people including Kehari? and System are making attempts to maintain an equilibrium. William's difficulties stem from simple appalling culture shock rather than anything more esoteric, while he seems able to survive the shift from 14th Century Earth to HyperTech Puzzlebox, he simply appeared to be culturally unable to cope and was openly investigating whether true suicide was possible - despite his own deeply held religious objections to such.

• Torque recently gave William an artifact that was requested by people a while ago. A set of glasses that hook into the datasphere and project illusions into his mind. Effectively, William sees Puzzleboxian inhabitants as though they were human from a comprehensible timeline, bearing understandable technologies. If someone interferes with the illusion such that it ceases to work, William simply fails to percieve people at all. He is reportedly far happier, and in addition has an eight string lute given to him by Lysette which he has proven to be excellent at playing. In short, William has chosen a dream world to exist in. He seems to commonly spend time around both Tiskel and Camilla, and people tend to be very nervous of Tiskel's interaction with him. Whether William is obsessed with Tiskel or the other way around is difficult to say, but there is definitely some form of connection there. He does seem to relax, however, in Camilla's presence. To a point.

• CatToy gave William a nanomolecular drug that temporarially turned him into a Toy. William certainly had absolutely no idea of what he was getting into, however he did become extremely happy, accepting of himself, and willing to serve others. A Toy, in other words, and quite plasticised at that. He certainly spent a large amount of time hugging, kissing, playing with, and occassionally being treated as a toy himself. This may, oddly, have helped him along his path - a while spent utterly trusting people and having fun, and William certainly hasn't died from it!