Duke of Hands
SupportingAn insidiously beautiful man with alabaster skin, slender legs, and a lithe build moves with graceful predation, his soft face dominated by eighty-thousand-credit designer cheekbones, plucked eyebrows, and twinkling rose-quartz eyes that hint at selfish cunning. Feathery pink hair stands straight up like a lazy candle flame atop his head, and he dresses in flamboyant dark finery such as a midnight-black overcoat with calf-length tails, jet-black asp skin jacket, high-collared silk shirt fastened with an onyx clasp, tailored pants, and shark leather boots, often adding violet lipstick for dramatic flair. A ghostly Byzantine tattoo crown with a black hand at its center activates on his forehead in ink that writhes like octopus tentacles sprouting thorns when he utters 'Ave Regina,' fading back to leave his pale porcelain skin unmarred.
The Duke of Hands debuts in Iron Gold as an insidiously beautiful and flamboyant antagonist, his lithe form and feathery pink hair paired with a writhing Byzantine tattoo crown that activates via the phrase 'Ave Regina,' revealing layers of selfish cunning beneath his graceful predation. Clad in extravagant dark finery and violet lipstick, he embodies the saga's decadent underbelly of power and intrigue. In Dark Age, this vain figure is captured and subjected to a psychoSpike during interrogation, his mind wiped to a tabula rasa that erases all personality and memories, reducing him from cunning operative to blank slate before he fades into oblivion.
Physical Description
An insidiously beautiful man with alabaster skin, slender legs, and a lithe build moves with graceful predation, his soft face dominated by eighty-thousand-credit designer cheekbones, plucked eyebrows, and twinkling rose-quartz eyes that hint at selfish cunning. Feathery pink hair stands straight up like a lazy candle flame atop his head, and he dresses in flamboyant dark finery such as a midnight-black overcoat with calf-length tails, jet-black asp skin jacket, high-collared silk shirt fastened with an onyx clasp, tailored pants, and shark leather boots, often adding violet lipstick for dramatic flair. A ghostly Byzantine tattoo crown with a black hand at its center activates on his forehead in ink that writhes like octopus tentacles sprouting thorns when he utters 'Ave Regina,' fading back to leave his pale porcelain skin unmarred. Slender man with physically attractive supple flesh and sharp angular bones. Lank pink hair frames a face marred by a massive bruise swallowing his left eye. Dressed in eccentric pink feather loafers amid interrogation cube sterility. Mythic vanity lingers in his poised, bruised features. Presence evokes fallen elegance twisted by captivity.
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Book 4: Iron Gold
Evolution
Iron Gold
An insidiously beautiful man with alabaster skin, slender legs, and a lithe build moves with graceful predation, his soft face dominated by eighty-thousand-credit designer cheekbones, plucked eyebrows, and twinkling rose-quartz eyes that hint at selfish cunning. Feathery pink hair stands straight up like a lazy candle flame atop his head, and he dresses in flamboyant dark finery such as a midnight-black overcoat with calf-length tails, jet-black asp skin jacket, high-collared silk shirt fastened with an onyx clasp, tailored pants, and shark leather boots, often adding violet lipstick for dramatic flair. A ghostly Byzantine tattoo crown with a black hand at its center activates on his forehead in ink that writhes like octopus tentacles sprouting thorns when he utters 'Ave Regina,' fading back to leave his pale porcelain skin unmarred.
- Appears as an insidiously beautiful man with alabaster skin, feathery pink hair, and rose-quartz eyes hinting at cunning.
- Moves with graceful predation while dressed in flamboyant dark finery including a midnight-black overcoat and shark leather boots.
- Adds violet lipstick for dramatic flair and activates his ghostly Byzantine tattoo crown with a black hand by uttering 'Ave Regina'.
- Reveals the tattoo's ink writhing like thorny octopus tentacles before it fades, leaving his porcelain skin unmarred.
Dark Age
The Duke of Hands appears as a vain, attractive figure in an interrogation cube, his pink hair and feathered loafers clashing with the bruise on his face. Subjected to a psychoSpike at his skull base, his mind is erased to a tabula rasa, stripping away personality and memories. From antagonist to blank slate, he fades into oblivion.
- Appears as a vain, attractive figure in an interrogation cube, his pink hair and feathered loafers clashing with facial bruises.
- Is subjected to a psychoSpike inserted at the base of his skull.
- Has his mind erased to a tabula rasa, stripping away all personality and memories.
- Transitions from antagonist to blank slate and ultimately fades into oblivion.
Book Appearances
Iron Gold
First appears Ch 18
Dark Age
First appears Ch 27