Centralia - The Misanthropist
âItâs not fair!â
Unique Iterated Trait - Spontaneous Combustion
Centralia in all his pyromaniacal glory has recently developed the ability to cause small objects around him to burst into flames. Pairing that with a temperamental gradeschooler and you have a recipe for disaster. While he does have this power, he canât quite control it yet, leading to unintentional destruction.
Backstory
The youngest Habit out of both the skull council and the wider Habit collective, heâs no slacker when it comes to causing havoc. In his iteration, he was stuck with an abusive mother, then later cared for by The Doctor; he wasnât exactly raised in a loving home. Pair that with being a Habit? He wasnât loved by the village, so he burnt it down to feel the warmth. However, replace âvillageâ with his namesake, Centralia. It wasnât intentional, of course, a 7 year old wouldnât know that when he gets mad, fires start around him, and he also wouldnât know that with this power, throwing a temper tantrum in a town built over a coal mine was⌠Bad. But what else is a kid gonna do when his caretaker decides to abandon him?
By the time he realized the entire town had lit up, it was far too late to try and stop it, leaving Centralia completely and utterly alone. Leaving the remnants behind, Centralia decided to take his loss out on everyone, going from town to town and leaving only ashes behind.
Eventually, he got unlucky⌠Or for a lonely kid, very lucky, when Loathesome showed up in his iteration and devoured him. While yes, he was eaten alive, he found himself somewhere he couldnât destroy and with a Habit who seemed to understand him. He got attached to Loathesome immediately, doing whatever he could to win him over. When that didnât work, he eventually latched onto Showbit and started working for him in exchange for the closest thing Showbit could manage as âparental loveâ.