He's my main Original Character right now...let me explain a bit more about how he came about hopefully without giving away any spoilers.

When I first got the idea for "Case of the Faceless Men" I knew I wanted a devious and twisted villain that would cause the good guys lots of problems and then some.

I didn't want the usual..."I'm mean just because I am" kinda bad guy, I wanted someone different...someone who the readers would like to see come to some mischief and get caught and thus punished BUT at the same time be eager to see what the hell he was gonna do next.

I've always had a passion for military history...and one of my favourite characters of all time is Harry Paget Flashman plus I've a soft spot for Colonel Sebastian Moran from the Sherlock Holmes canon...so my little old brain thought..why not create my own contemporary of theirs...which in turned fitted more and more as I developed the background to "CotFM"

Professor Moriarty had Moran....so this new threat to not only civilised London and Holmes/Watson needed his own right-hand man, someone who unbeknownst to the police had been carrying out various orders in secret for quite a few years...someone who was deliberate, cold, calculating, devious and quite possibly a serious threat on his own, but someone who doesn't mind being in the shadows following orders.

Thus, Sergeant-Major Reginald Blood was born.

Now what I didn't expect was that the more I worked on CotFM that the more I began wondering WHY...why was Reginald Blood the way he was and soon I found myself jotting down copious amounts of notes just centered on him alone and he wasn't even meant to be a central character, just someone who acts on behalf of this unknown force.

This in turn led to me starting to write "Memoirs of a Victorian Psycho" ...and I as I committed his tale to paper I found that in turn I was adding more subtle detail to CotFM, since the two are linked in a few ways that the readers are not yet aware of.  I am also painfully aware that some readers don't care for the nature of his tale..that his own story contains far too many adult if not taboo themes and I have been informed via note a few times (after I posted Chapter Four)  that I must be quite sick to even write such things. *shrugs*..I could have gone into lurid detail, but I didn't as I felt the events spoke for themselves.

He's slowly evolving too...I do believe I've managed to add more and more layers to this character than I thought I ever would...he's a very complex and down right compelling individual...a joy to write if I'm honest.  

Visually at least he's kinda stayed the same...when I first told about him, she went away and created the visual based on my meager physical description..but as I started to draw him myself, I found myself (dare I admit this) caring about this old war-horse more and more.


(the 2 images were a colab drawn by Ripper but coloured by me..the rest are all my own creations)

All this brings me rather nicely to this

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I am a member of and was kind enough to include "A Victorian Psycho" in their best of the groups 2011 listing (in the Mature Content category).

Even now, as I type this I'm smiling due to their glowing review...yep this may very well be highly conceited of me..but to have someone who isn't a personal friend speak so highly of my humble attempts at writing..well that one act does me more good mentally (heck, even emotionally) than anything a doctor could ever prescribe me.

The last few years have been rough...coming out to everyone last year as being transgendered was probably the hardest thing I have ever done and like always my writing (be it poetry or fiction) acted as my way of escaping for a little while from all that ails or bothers me.  The road ahead isn't gonna be easy nor is it a short journey to reaching my final goal, of finally being able to be the real me.  BUT.... my head, my heart and my soul have never been better or felt more whole...so you can all expect more frequent updates to the stories now I am on top of my life once more.

Again I would like to thank all those that have remained friends, those that have become friends and those that simply have enjoyed my offerings of poetry/fiction and art.

Also, once again I'd like to thank for showing this silly old thing..that I'm not that bad at what I do and that I should have more faith in my own ability.

A Victorian Psycho, can be found here: [link]
Case of the Faceless Men, can be found here: [link]

Take care folks

Isaac Mackenzie Phillips (aka Sad-and-Fallen-Angel)