First Prompt
Title: “The Living Weapon”
Prompt/Number: Weapon/0003.
Rating: 14-A (Just to be safe.)
Character/Fandom: Connor/Angel: The Series
Word Count: 364
Being raised the way he was by Holtz in that horrible place of Quortoth; Connor was quite literally a living, breathing weapon of destruction from the time he was a small child. He was taught how to make and use weaponry properly; owning his own dagger by the time he was 6. He would wonder the planes of the hell dimension with an very-religious-ex-vampire hunter as his only guide, until he grew into a man and Holtz was no longer as capable of doing certain tasks such as hunting and gathering. He would be feared by all creatures living in existence there by the time he was 12, earning the title of “The Destroyer” in the process.
He was raised in a place where about one must fight to survive; day-in-day-out for everything. Simple things such as food, water and shelter; to which many people today take for granted. The training techniques Holtz would use on Connor, mostly when he was young and more defenseless, were often cruel and unusual. Holtz was a firm believer that somewhere inside Connor there was a beast much like the one inside both Angelus and Darla. He thought that because the child was the ‘spawn’ of two demons (even though he appeared human) he had to be at least partially demon too, and if Holtz could help it; he wasn’t going to let Connor be ‘lured in to doing the beast’s bidding’. He would use prayer, fasting and penance as ways of punishment for the child.
If he failed a tracking exercise, left the shelter to explore the surrounding grounds past nightfall, or did anything else against Holtz’s wishes or failed to meet his expectations of him; there was a price to pay. Some punishments worst then others of course, but they were all still brutally painful in their own rights. Very painful at times in fact. Holtz also believed that if pain (both the emotional and the physical) weren’t involved, the punishment was not being received properly. The punishments were usually measured by the severity of the ‘sin’, though sometimes it would also depend on his mood when he would find out that Connor did something wrong.
Prompt/Number: Weapon/0003.
Rating: 14-A (Just to be safe.)
Character/Fandom: Connor/Angel: The Series
Word Count: 364
Being raised the way he was by Holtz in that horrible place of Quortoth; Connor was quite literally a living, breathing weapon of destruction from the time he was a small child. He was taught how to make and use weaponry properly; owning his own dagger by the time he was 6. He would wonder the planes of the hell dimension with an very-religious-ex-vampire hunter as his only guide, until he grew into a man and Holtz was no longer as capable of doing certain tasks such as hunting and gathering. He would be feared by all creatures living in existence there by the time he was 12, earning the title of “The Destroyer” in the process.
He was raised in a place where about one must fight to survive; day-in-day-out for everything. Simple things such as food, water and shelter; to which many people today take for granted. The training techniques Holtz would use on Connor, mostly when he was young and more defenseless, were often cruel and unusual. Holtz was a firm believer that somewhere inside Connor there was a beast much like the one inside both Angelus and Darla. He thought that because the child was the ‘spawn’ of two demons (even though he appeared human) he had to be at least partially demon too, and if Holtz could help it; he wasn’t going to let Connor be ‘lured in to doing the beast’s bidding’. He would use prayer, fasting and penance as ways of punishment for the child.
If he failed a tracking exercise, left the shelter to explore the surrounding grounds past nightfall, or did anything else against Holtz’s wishes or failed to meet his expectations of him; there was a price to pay. Some punishments worst then others of course, but they were all still brutally painful in their own rights. Very painful at times in fact. Holtz also believed that if pain (both the emotional and the physical) weren’t involved, the punishment was not being received properly. The punishments were usually measured by the severity of the ‘sin’, though sometimes it would also depend on his mood when he would find out that Connor did something wrong.