Editing The Family Man (section)

==Abilities==
Supernaturally fecund.<ref name=":0">Family Man:<br>Knotting made this guy super fertile. Was a weird but normal guy until something went off. His kids are growing up fast too. Don’t like him, but we haven’t been able to remove him. - [[Keeping Tabs, Kennet]]</ref>

Has the potential to become a demigod, he is able to feel this potential to an extent and uses it to guide his actions.<ref name=":4a">“Sometimes that’s how rituals look.  Awakenings, this.”<br><br>“There’s a part of me that has a feeling for this.  That shuddered, tremored, and yearned for things as I brought Kennet together, coordinated, and made declarations.  Most of the wives and daughters of Kennet were to give birth together, the men and boys were to be butchered, the butcher’s cuts served before us all.  There was a seed of meaning there and I would have been its flower.”<br><br>''Might’ve been a god''.<br><br>“That part of me doesn’t tremor or react at all to what you’re saying.  It reacts to all of this… but not those words.”<br>[...]<br>“They won’t be dark,” the Family Man said.  “This side of Kennet is a reflection of our base wants, our impulses, the things the people above would keep hidden and unsaid, or second guess.  To truly claim this place as your own, you have to face that darkness.  That makes sense to me.  That stirs the tremoring.”<br>[...]<br>“I’ve told you what this side of Kennet is.  It’s ''pure.  ''It’s dark in that purity.  Brutish, violent, ''free''.  Am I your last enemy here?”<br><br>“Yeah, pretty sure.”<br><br>“Then I’ll be your obstacle.  Fight me, child, and fight me on the terms of this side of Kennet, dark, pure, base and violent.  If you’re going to take this place when I don’t want you to, you need to be more representative of this side of Kennet than even I am.”<br>[...]<br>He’d stumbled his way into the right answer, and wormed his way into the fabric of this whole challenge in a way that made him stronger.  Arguing any part of the terms he’d outlined would weaken her claim more than it helped her. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.9]]</ref>


Is immortal for all senses and purposes; easily able to heal and rearrange his body as needed.<ref>- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/04 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.11]]</ref>

===Weaknesses===
Had several simple curses placed on him by [[lucy]] backed up by power taken from a seized [[Thea's Battery|power battery]].<ref>“I, the first witch of Kennet, will lay a curse on you, Family Man.  To strangle your seed, to make your flesh soft when desire runs hard.  It’s a pretty basic curse that gets a lot of use, as I’m sure you can imagine.  Can’t have you hurting anyone else. Seems like it’d hit you where it hurts, given your whole thing.”<br><br>“I think my flesh is stronger than your curse.”<br><br>“I will lay a second curse on you tonight.  To weaken your will to fight and see your ritual through.  The bloodless faint heart.  Let the idea of blood make you shaky.  Let the sight of it make you faint.  You send your men to do your dirty work?  That’s ''cowardly''.”<br><br>“These curses seem lesser, don’t they?” he asked.<br><br>“And finally, a curse of Lorn Address.  Let your words struggle to find purchase.  The more you speak, the less will be heard.”<br>[...]<br>Verona pulled her bag around, and handed Lucy the power source.<br><br>“Don’t use too much,” Verona told Lucy.  “We can use it for other things.”<br><br>“Five percent?” Lucy asked.<br><br>Verona nodded.<br><br>With the battery of power liberated from the realm collector Thea in Thunder Bay, Lucy powered each curse as she laid it.  Simple curses, but she didn’t mind.  With enough power, even if the diagram work and words could be eaten or wiped away, the curse would linger, set in deep. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.9]]</ref> This gave him a revulsion to the sight of [[Blood]], unable to have more children due to impotency, and having his charisma stifled as he was unable to get people to listen to him.

To deal with this he largely blinded himself, restricting his vision so he could see light and shadows, 

Later the [[Thorn in the flesh]] was placed in him, this severely weakened him amoung other things damaging his divine senses and regenerative ability.<ref name=":4b">That kernel of nascent, possible divinity in him.<br>[...]<br>It was really easy to imagine that something like the Family Man could have a limit to its healing.  That if someone hurt them long enough, you could deplete some supply of power, and the healing would slow.<br><br>That wasn’t always the case, though, and with that trace of divinity in the Family Man, it was possible he was existing on another level.  By different rules.  Maybe he just couldn’t ''die''.  Maybe he would always heal until he was some paragon of physicality.  To change him from that could be like pushing water out of a human-shaped bowl.  If that water didn’t have anywhere to go, it could end up back in the bowl.<br>[...]<br>He tore the chunk of frozen flesh away.  Then he looked down.<br><br>The healing was slower.<br><br>The Thorn in the Flesh poisoned practices, slowing and weakening them.  It also applied to effects like the Family Man’s healing.  And his divine instincts.<br><br>She’d put it darn close to the heart.<br>[...]<br>“And what have you been doing?  Hiding away, feeling sorry for yourself?  If we want to talk about claim and who belongs in the undercity, what the hell kind of excuse do you have to be here?  I challenge all that you are.  The knotting that gives you power, the divinity from a faith in you that has died.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.9]]</ref>