Bridge

" Lost something essential? Like a hollow shell without the filling, or you lose a bit of soul and something else takes its place and plugs into the stuff the soul would."

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Bridge is a parasitical body snatcher a living false accusation.

Personality

Wounded and obstinate.<ref>“We’ve got Bridge too, still. He’s stubborn. I think a lot of these Others are immortal, really changes things up,” Lucy said.

“Don’t have to worry about how long you sit in a jail cell if you live for thousands of years?” Avery asked.

Lucy shrugged. - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.7</ref>

Description

Whilst not possessing someone he looks like a broad flat bug with a metalic spine, the rest of his body is translucent.<ref>Without the sight it looked like a broad, flat bug with a wide metallic spine, the rest of it about as clear as a plastic bag got, while dragging a small deflated jellyfish. - Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.5</ref>

Anyone taken over by Bridge wears a watch, has tattooes on their chest, cuts on their hands and a deviated septum.<ref>Deviated septum or broken nose, counterfeit watch, tattoo over the heart, cut up hands - Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.7</ref>

Abilities

He has some knowledge about the Practice.<ref>Knows about your types, with your circles and magic bullcrap - Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.7</ref>

Can be stopped by a simple chalk line.<ref>It encircled her wrist- almost completely, before she pulled her hand across the chalk line. The hand moved freely through the barrier, while the parasite stopped at the line once again. - Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.5</ref>

Chronology

Before

He was falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit, everything about him match the description Excerpt for his hands so the cops broke them. Over time his appearance changed to match the description of the suspect. Ended up getting killed but the scars, watch and tattoos lived on when the rest of him died.<ref>“He goes by Bridge. Prefers male bodies. I don’t care one way or the other. Deviated septum or broken nose, counterfeit watch, tattoo over the heart, cut up hands. Some behavioral stuff. When he takes over a body they all gain those things, but it’s him at the helm. He’s the smartest of us three. Knows about your types, with your circles and magic bullcrap.”

“What behavioral stuff?” Verona asked. “C’mon, dude, you were talkative last night.”

“Nervous tapping, picky about food, always gets up at the crack of dawn. He’d rather watch out a window for trouble than take it easy and put a TV show on. He says he was some young guy, got picked up purely because he had an old record and a tattoo that sounded like it matched the one a real scumbag had. It got him picked up for a crime, watch and the nose thing kind of lined up too. None of it exactly right, but it was close enough and they wanted the arrest. Only thing was the hands. That’s specific, the victim was insistent about them, and it didn’t fit.”

“And?” Lucy asked.

“Cop smashed his hand, asked if that would scar. And from there, the scars spread out like herpes, he says. The more they pushed it and the more he protested, the more the scars appeared. One after another, until they covered his hands, like little nicks from a knife. He thought the cops were doing all of it while he slept, but then he got to watch one appear out of nowhere. Tattoo moved, nose did that deviated septum thing, couldn’t breathe through it. He lost it, went after them, while he was being moved to a conversation with his lawyer, got his hands on a weapon, and got a bullet for his trouble.”

“And the scars survived him?” Lucy asked.

“Guess so. Got buried with the watch on, but the watch disappeared, scars on the hands went away, tattoo moved. Someone wrote an article about it. Bridge showed me. Now he gets by, crawls along, borrows bodies for a few days or weeks at a time, rigs videos so the people have footage of themselves getting blackout drunk or taking mystery pills, moves on. Trouble tends to follow him, allegations, but certain bodies will make those allegations stick less.”

“Where is he now?” Lucy asked.

“No idea. He has to know you’d be able to question me. He’ll be looking for new bodies. It’s harder here, he says. Harder to exist without a body, harder to stay in a body.”

The barrier. - Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.7</ref>

After the fall of the barrier

Came to Kennet with McKay and the Composite kid, where they meet Bathos.

The Kennet trio eventually bound him<ref>“We’ll try to be fair,” she told it. “Even if you hurt and scared a lot of people, I don’t want to copy the system that made you.”

“Here,” Avery said. She drew a giant ‘c’ in the walkway in the middle of the park. “Step inside. Like Lucy said, we’ll try to be fair.”

The parasite hesitated, then went into the circle. Avery closed it.- Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.12</ref> and he is currently being held prisoner by Crooked Rook.<ref>One of the birdcages had Bridge in it, the door closed. Lucy glanced at it, then felt like she wasn’t supposed to comment, and looked away.- Excerpt from Dash to Pieces 11.7</ref>

He agreed a deal with Rook to be released in exchange for taking over Basil Winter and ruining his Lordship claim.<ref>Rook had left things for the next challenger, but she’d set the table nicely. She’d asked the goblins to deliver the wound to one specific spot. Then she’d appeared. The next step had been a challenger that had come in secret. Before Basil could react, the next challenger had slipped beneath the cloth with the herbal pack. Hidden in the wrapping over the wound, a watch. Under blood on hands were little scars. And the Dog Meat had provided cover for the broken nose, thrashing him enough that a broken nose wouldn’t be amiss.- Excerpt from Fall Out 14.z</ref>

In coordination with Rook he released all of Basil Winters Bugge and Fancies and used them to trap a large group of practitioners working for Abraham Musser, then he switch bodies to Milly Legendre.<ref>- Left in the Dust 16.z</ref>

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