Crowley-Aleister, Amber's nemesis
Colours, grey and white
Symbol, A mask with one half in thought, one in agony
Given that people are just shadows and reflections of these guys, is it surprising to find that one of the scariest people in the whole family is called Crowley, the name of the nastiest Satanist to plague Earth this century? Not at all.
The old, trusted theory on him: Crowley, or Aleister, if you will, is two separate people in one body. They hate each other, fear each other, and are the exact opposites of each other. They can't escape. So the nastier one, which is usually in control, takes it out on the world, by controlling others. The nice one is too mad to help out much, prefering to try and tear off the back of his skull. Aleister is the bad half, Crowley the utterly insane part.
They existed in the Abyss for a while, until Brand and Dierdre fell down there, when Aleister was able to eat their souls and force their bodies to do his bidding.
When Crowley got control recently, things got hectic. Large parts of the Courts of Chaos were dragged into the Abyss, William was thrown out of it, with the people he went down there to rescue, and nobody knows what happened to the people and demons who were still in there. Probably they died.
The latest theory, however, is born out by his own admission - Crowley is all one guy who was playing an implacable waiting game in his terrible hatred for his nephew Benedict. The pretended madness was merely a front to give William the confidence to escape the Abyss, opening an escape route for Crowley. This man played for keeps.
He is known to have caused the deaths of Dare and Aurora, the children of Jessica. He has tortured and raped both Hazard and Jessica, including giving Jessica one of his own children. He was responsible for the kidnap and blinding of Benedict, and was determined to keep alive "that bastard boy," as he refers to Benedict, until the entire family has been killed around them. He seemed, to a point, to be succeeding.
When finally the family caught up with him, he gave a curse to each of them, before slitting his own wrists. As he was bleeding to death, Benedict decapitated him, just to make sure.
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