John DeFoe

Prompt

Because his mother, Belinda DeFoe, died while giving birth to him, and also because of his physical and mental deformities, John is hated and unwanted by his father, Sir Roderick DeFoe, who imprisoned him in the basement of DeFoe Manor shortly after his birth. Matthew eventually discovered John, who would communicate to his brother by hitting the wall, and started refers to him as "The boy behind the door". As read in the diary of Matthew in 5 Days A Stranger and more explicitly in the first flash back from Trilby's Notes, Matthew befriended John to the alternating wrath or vehement denial of Sir Roderick. On the night of July 28th, 1821, Sir Roderick snapped due a combination of feeling insulted by the man he brought over to appraise the African Idol, the day of his wife's death, Matthew having slid his painting under the door to share with John and simple drunkenness. This caused him to enter the basement late that night, dressed in a leather apron, and bringing along the African idol, which he used to beat John to the brink of death with. Matthew attempted to help him by bandaging him up, but this could not stop John from dying shortly afterwards. Cabadath, who's soul was bound to the idol, then used his powers to turn John into a wraith and bound his soul to the idol along side his own. Using his newfound powers, John managed to possess his dead body. Wearing the leather apron spotted with his own blood, an old welder's mask beloning to the gardener of DeFoe Manor, and wielding Sir Roderick's machete, John hunted down and killed Sir Roderick and Matthew. Due to a limitation of his powers, John lost control over his old body shorty afterwards, and all of his aspects became separated and slipped into the manor. His mind went into the walls of the manor and his body went into the floor, while his soul came to rest in the idol.