Ned Kelly - Vengeful = Outlaw = Spirit

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Just 19 years after his execution, Ned Kelly was resurrected in 1899, the year of the first Maelstrom. Rising from his grave at the Old Melbourne Gaol, Kelly found his body desecrated. Skull stolen by grave workers or miscreants and delinquents, random bones stripped from his body. Angered at the disrespect of his body, lack of security for his grave, and the general state of the world, Kelly sought out the armor his death was fated in, kept at State Library Victoria. Looting it from the case, he's made his way to America via looting, robbery, and the same theft that led him to his untimely death once before.

Walking as a shoddily armor-clad corpse, Kelly wishes to summon the patron to punish those in power just as he did during his last life. Some will see him as a righteous robin-hood figure, others will see him as a murderer and terrorist, taking the least honorable, most reckless path just to prove a point. (Billy respects his dedication to punish those in power, Holliday views him as just a murderer and outlaw)

His appearance is as shambling corpse covered in his signature arm, made from plough moldboards. Underneath the armor he is a ruined corpse, missing bones, entire skull misplaced due to graverobbers. He seeks to preserve his image as a faceless revenant, walking as though he is in pain around the battlefield, dual wielding pistols as well as his Snider Enfield, the one he went down with in the siege

 

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I feel as though I should add, most of this is not historically accurate in it's entirety. Though we don't know what year Deadlock takes place in, I think it's safe to assume it would be after the point at which Ned Kelly's original grave was moved during a demolition of the original graveyard, where he was moved from the Old Melbourne Yard to another place. It was believed his skull was stolen by workers or spectators, as well as some of his other bones, but it was later disproven that the skull was not Kelly's.

Deadlock regularly has characters and stories deviate from reality in ways that are not entirely fictional, so I felt it would be cool to take some false real life stories and make them real here, even if that means several events that happened before or after one another end up not happening at all. Like how in this I've written it as though graverobbers and delinquent children robbed his grave, when it was presumably during a demolition job that never really happened in deadlock's world, since I've got no way of knowing the timeline

Additionally, I just thought it would be cool. Im not Australian so Ned Kelly is purely just a story I've heard before, but as a piece of folklore and history, he's honestly really cool. A bushranger who went down wearing a literal suit of armor during a siege. Even on the Wikipedia page you can see the people he ambushed in the armor feared he was a ghost, a revenant, or even Old Nick himself (a name referring to Satan)