Popular Post Piweh Posted February 14, 2023 Popular Post Posted February 14, 2023 Cheldon Ch'Doro: Orphan, Criminal, Mystic. Photo-collage, with artistic modification. Inspired by medieval tripartite religious shrines. Category: Digital This is the story (both 118 canon, and post canon parts) of one man's ascent from abject poverty, to absurd luxury and back, From victim-hood, to villain-hood to enlightenment. Born in a failed Federation colony, abandoned by a family that couldn't afford to keep him. (Panel 1) Cheldon was raised by a cruel order of nuns, he learned to scrap for every scrap of food he could. Food he needed with his giagantism. Running away in his teens, he lived, and excelled in the life of a street kid. The huge Andorian eventually found his way into the underground fighting scene, winning his first bout, a knife fight to incapacitation. After saving his winnings over time to conform to the dress code, he went to the most upscale casino in town. The owner, called him up and familiar with his skills, offered him a job as a bodyguard. Living the high-life of a gangster,, things were going great until his boss was killed by an angry higher-up. After they killed the offender, someone torched the business out of revenge. The ensuing gang war (panel 3) ended up in a prison sentence. More than a decade into his sentence, a fortuitous riot allowed him to escape. Crash landing his stolen space shuttle on a strange desert planet, he was rescued and healed by a strange religious order. Joining them as enforcer of the leader's will, and chemist (due to his experience with the manufacture of illicit substances in his organized crime days), he stayed with the The Brotherhood of Thet until the ruse of their alleged god was revealed and foiled. With his newfound spiritual curiosity unabated, he's since wandered the quadrants including his ancestral home planet (panel 2) seeking spiritual knowledge from every tradition he comes across., and living the life of an ascetic (and wanted man) 10
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