Anomaly Acquisitions: The Case Files - Bishop (Patreon)

Name: Ian Bishop

Anomaly Designation: Lycanthrope (Shade Werewolf)

Anomalous Properties: Humanoid with Latent Lycanthropy. Genetic suppression used to keep original bestial form in check. Originally from the Shade. Emanates trace amounts of Shade energy (similar issue to Fae energy and physical interactions with our reality, although less technological issues). Immense strength and considerably heightened senses over that of a standard human. Nearly impossibly accuracy with conventional firearms and exceeds in most every physical test presented.

AA Status: Deceased. Former Director of Field Teams and Acquisitions

Interview:

[Recording Begins]

Interviewer: This is Field Team Mandatory Therapy X15 session 31. Please state your name for the record.

-Bishop: Ian Bishop.

-Interviewer: Thank you. Last session we basically sat here and stared at each other. In fact, Ian, that's been most of our sessions together. I'm starting to worry that maybe you're not taking this therapy seriously. 

-Bishop: I don't need therapy. You do. You humans do. I don't.

-Interviewer: Right. It's clear you view your Anomalous background as a leg up in your psychological health. 

-Bishop: Because it is. Coming from an eternal night world, where everything, even the plants, can kill you, you get used to living on the edge. You don't get bothered by things like your kind does. You've checked my cortisol levels. You know I'm right.

-Interviewer: I've seen little to determine that therapy wouldn't be beneficial. You're crass. You're prone to violence. And you're selfish.

-Bishop: It's almost like you're not listening to me.

-Interviewer: Then talk. I'm here for at least 30 minutes.

-Bishop: You don't know what it's like to be on the fringes there. Waking up hearing the screams of some poor thing lost to another raid of Ululoths. Not knowing if the next stream I'll find for miles is water or acid. Not knowing if that fungus I just brushed against will infest my flesh and need to be cut out before it splits off into a carnivorous spore beast ready to consume the rest of me. You come from my corner of the world... of my world... you don't have luxuries like feelings or people to talk to about them. You just ARE. Until you aren't. 

-Interviewer: And how do you think that lack of emotional depth has stunted your ability to work with your team? I get reports regularly of your... "issues" during field missions. Reports from the infirmary being not exactly uncommon. 

-Bishop: Maybe the "Director" should stop sending me out there. 

-Interviewer: Maybe it's best you are. What better environment for your transition? 

-Bishop: ...what do you mean?

-Interviewer: You're a wild beast. A vicious animal. A monster. At least, that's how you paint yourself. Out there in the field, where the work is. Where the danger is. Where our people go every day to live or die trying to make this world and its inhabitants safer... maybe that's where you belong. A threat greater than the ones they face out there. Something scary that they know has their back against all the weird shit they're going to see every damn day. Yes. Yes humans do need therapy. We're not used to the same shit you are. But you... if you're going to live here... you need a gateway into our world. To being the man inside the monster that we know you can be. That you clearly want to be. 

-Bishop: ...I did once. But that was another time, another place. 

-Interviewer: Speaking of another time. Perhaps it's best we call it here and pick up next week. I think we just made a great step. 

Interview End