October Rewards Final

Daryl (Killer Vossler)

1. A new night security guard as she working her shift watch over a little Halloween exhibition with some rather interesting art pieces on display, She can feel the desire radiating from these almost life like artworks which to her great surprise, begin to roam at night, looking to do what they do best!

I couldn't not do this one. I've been wanting a reason to redraw The Blue Gentleman for a long time now and this was the perfect excuse. There's the original painting I id of him as well!

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Some art is so much more lively than other pieces. They just jump right out at you. The piece "Father's Home" By Zieros Geinn is one such piece as it depicts a strange blue gentleman with an arm for a nose, carrying a small umbrella and two small birds. The story goes that he was inspired to paint it based on a dream he had one evening that had scared him so badly it shook him to his core and caused him to be unable to forget the sight.

In his dream he was chased relentlessly down a dark and rainy street by this figure, which would skip silently after him while smiling. No matter how fast he ran, he could not escape this man who seemed to be trying to catch him for nefarious reasons. When he awoke he was on the floor of his room, drenched in sweat. He could not get the image of the man out of his head, and as such he painted the surreal looking figure. It has since become one of his most popular works.

After painting it, he fell on several hard times with his art studio burning down, one of his friends being trampled by a horse, and his house being repeatedly broken into but with nothing being stolen and no one able to find the perpetrator. His mother had contracted tuberculosis and claimed that she became sick because of the blue gentleman, and that he would step out of the painting at night and accost her with his birds. Assuming the sickness was getting to her, he pushed the idea from his mind and didn't take it seriously, until on the night of a bad storm, she went into terrible fits and the doctors could do nothing to calm her. After hours of screaming she became still and simply said "Father is home" and a knock came to the door. Upon checking several times, Zeiros claims that no one was there, but upon checking the third time, he saw the blue contorted figure with a lumpy conical body, wide yellow jaundiced eyes, and a tiny black hat. He held a tiny umbrella with a third arm that sat in place of his nose, and he had trickles of blood dripping from his wide eyes down into his enormous grin, and he wore a dapper black suit and bright red bowtie. He stood silently, yet the sound of someone attempting to hold back laughter seemed to come from the hideous man. Or perhaps they came from the small birds that sat atop his shoulders. It was the man in his dreams whom he had painted.

Zeiros did not answer the door, though it unlocked itself and he fought to keep the door shut all night. Once the storm broke, the man was gone, and his mother was as well. He thought perhaps it was a coincidence, until one of the doctors mentioned his "Empty Painting" in the hallway, which was indeed never supposed to be empty at all.

To the day of his death he claimed that the creature was real, and that it haunted his dreams, but even worse that visualizing him gave it power. He kept the painting in a room with several locks, and even several traps that would ring bells and awake him should anything leave that room as he was certain that the figure from the painting would get up and leave on occasion. He warned other artists to never depict the creature, as it can take control of it's form and live through it.

After his death in a house fire, the painting was one of the few not in galleries already to have survived, and is now being displayed in museums around the world. Some say that when you stare into his eyes, you feel him stare back, and that on occasion when you turn your back, he just might turn his as well....

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It is unknown what the Blue Gentleman is. Only that it brings with it misfortune. It is a strange entity, tall and blue, standing on thin legs that somehow hold up it's bloated egg like body. It's movements are silent, unless it wishes for you to hear it. And it's presence implies impending tragedy. corners of tables and desks and lit candles become executioner's axes near the gentleman, as stray cinders may ignite in a cradle, or the elderly may slip temple first into the corner of a desk, never to wake again. Nails and screws come loose, stairs unstable, construction sites lose balance and cohesion, gun safety turns off, and wet floors lead to stairs or into a small sparking electrical outlet. To take even a single misstep is to fall into misfortune, and even if you don't it's likely you may still die. A heart condition you weren't aware of may flare up, asthma will strike and your inhaler is missing, or maybe that cough you just had is a sign of something worse. 

Where the gentleman smiles, luck is defiled.

Some believe there to be some sort of connection between him and the plague doctors. The strange small birds that peck at his flesh and make him bleed are reminiscent of the doctors themselves, and they have been spotted with similar behavior in the lands of fog in the realm of madness, as well as the similarities in bringing disease and misfortune wherever they go. No true correlation has been found between them, however considering his origin remains unknown save for being seen in a dream that Zeiros had prior to painting him is the closest thing we have to an origin for this creature, though it's thought that he may be depicted in other works through the years in some way, there has been no proof. Creatures have claimed to see him wandering the dreamlands however, Watching them from a great distance with his wide eyes. It is sometimes called "Father" or simply "The Father" and has a connection to the White Mother and the Crimson Child of the cult of Kaar-Shud'dell, though why this alien entity seems to praise and worship the lord of the fog?

The Blue Gentleman can live within paintings and depictions of himself. Any illustration of itself, it can take control of. It can move, walk. It could look directly at you and step through the screen if it would like to do so. But yet he waits. He watches, and when you least expect it, your photo will be empty, and your heart racing. You can hear the sound of spit bubbles popping as he widens his dry smile, and the wet sound of his eyes slowly blinking, his teeth grinding ever so slightly together in a rhythm, but yet nothing seems to be behind you.

What does it do if it actually reaches you? It's misfortune that usually kills, what sort of actual violence may it have? It may strike you with it's umbrella, or the birds may lunge at you and bite and scratch your face. Window's may crack and explode into shards of glass, and parts of the ceiling may fall. Even worse there is the possibility that he may open his maw and bite down, cutting you in two.

What is the blue gentleman. Where did it come from? And is there any way to kill it? Perhaps time will tell... Or perhaps not even time can outlast the blue gentleman...