Skull

Music/Instrument - Metal/Rock & multimedia/Guitar

growing up in the Metal Rock and as a reaper, skull is very musically skilled in rock and metal genres. screaming loud for many to hear and piercing notes into his victims. but after entering the guardianship and meeting blessing, he has expanded his genres to other medias of music to experiment and try something new from his usual rock n metal.

used to wield an axe guitar but now has a blue mobile electric guitar shaped as a blue note. a electric guitar that defaults to the guitar sound, but can be changed to any instrument sound that he chooses. glowing strings, buttons for tuning, and a screen for control and options.

with him originating in the Metal rock tribe, skull's music magic is highly advance in offense. Once he start practicing other genres, he has gained defense, support, and healing magic in his music. with enough training and practicing, skull has rounded his music magic to fulfill any role needed for a team. can fire notes, create entities with his music, shields and barriers, and healing and boosting teammates. the musical creations are now unlimited for him.

Description

a guitarist who was part of the Metal Rock music tribe as their reaper, a musician who plays battles to the death of death row tribe members. After recruitment and banished from his tribe, he wants to explore new music and break from his tribe’s harsh traditions. He hangs with Blessing and the two play gigs everywhere and anywhere they can get. His past still haunts him from his tribe and his recruitment mission for Soul. for now he switches from being a chill guitarist and a raged filled metal-headed Rockstar.

he landed in Home X0 for all the loud rock music and behavior issues from the culture shock he had faced from entering a peaceful environment. blessing helped calm him down and keeps and eye on him with writing his music.

Backstory

tribe betrayal

In a realm, there are the four music tribes; metal rock, techno funk, orchestral jazz, and indie rogue. Skull resided in the The Metal Rock Tribe with his sub clan, The Skull Reapers. The clan specializes in being punishers for the leader when someone disobeys tradition or enemies that try to invade. The clan wields instruments that resembled scythes, attire with giant skulls, and a special red eye that can see souls. This red eye was casted by the first members of the clan and soon became a biological inheritance of anyone of The Skull Reapers. Training at a young age, each member is a born and raised reaper who’s built to kill if needed. 

Cut to a stage filled with a crowd ready to rock; red lights, speakers pounding, skulls decorate the stage’s rim. A few teens are revealed on stage with the frontman landing on stage from above. A flaming blue head flips his cap off and screams to the crowd.

Skull: ARE YOU READY TO ROCK AND ROLL FELLOW PUNK!

The crowd screams in unison of agreement.

Skull: Well my BoneHeads, let’s rock this house up.~

Skull strums his red scythe of a guitar. Red lights flash off the guitar firing off spiky notes that filled the air. Skull plays aggressively and shreds through his guitar at high speeds without slicing a finger. The sounds of rifts and scratches of the strings blasts everyone’s ears at extreme high volumes. Skull sings in rasps and screams that roar out for the whole crowd to hear for miles. The crowd just jammed away with heads bouncing and rock hand signs waving around. After the show, Skull is the last to leave with everyone gone. 

Once there was no one around, Skull started to play more softly and sing a smaller and smoother tone. 

Skull: 

don’t you feel incomplete, like everything is the same.

Like the clear blue sky~, as if it’s just stuck in one lane.

Doesn’t everything seem so mundane, rerunning in your brain.

Over and over like you can just break.

(strums guitar)

Oh~ can somebody just let me free!

I’m tired of all this traditional stuff.

Oh~! Can someone hear my plea!

I just don’t want it rough and Tough!

OH CAN YOU SEE~ AY~

I just wanna be free to be me.~

After playing, Skull could hear someone clapping. Shocked and scared for disobeying tradition, Skull looked around and saw a girl with metal arms and a red blindfold on. The little girl and clapping and cheering in glee

Blessing: that was amazing! Not only you could do metal rock but soft rock as well! You’re Amazing. 

Skull: (still stunned and confused on what to do) uh hey? Can you see me?

Blessing: I guess with this blindfold on, its hard for me to see anything… but I can hear your music and I think its amazing. Super duper awesome! Can you play another song please?

Skull: hey uh?... Where are your parents or possibly your tribe? 

Blessing: I’m not sure about tribe but I no longer have parents. I’m here by myself. (stand proudly)

Skull, worried that she’ll get killed on sight, grabbed the girl and put his cap on her. He drags her to his clan’s territory and into his stone hut. Skull makes sure no one sees and asks the girl questions. 

Skull: ok… so you don’t have any family or tribe to go to?

Blessing: yes.

Skull: what’s your name?

Blessing: blessing.

Skull: can you sing or play anything?

Blessing: I can sing.

Skull: good. (puts spare jacket on blessing) keep that on and if anyone asks you about your music and what you do, say you sing rock ok?

Blessing gives a thumbs up. She looks around the room and sees metal and rock posters with speakers in the corners of the room. A messy bed with skull themed clothing scattered it and a notebook labeled diary. Blessing goes to pick it up. Skull snatched the book out of her hands and hid it in his shirt. 

Skull:(death glares) we never speak of the book ever again. 

Blessing: but why? It said diary? Is it?

Skull: YES! And… it’s best that no one reads it ok… unless you want to get both of us in trouble. 

Blessing: I see you have some awesome posters. (notice a photo of Skull with someone). Who’s this?

Skull: That's Johnathan. A friend of mine. We’ve been close for a long while now. 

Blessing: Can I meet him? 

Skull: no… and I doubt he would like strangers… I think.

Blessing: but he looks like he’d like something new… don’t you know him?..

Skull: (pause) Listening, I’m gonna take you to the edge of the territory and you better run as fast as you can for the Indie Rogues. They will take care of you and accept you even if you’re bad at music. 

Blessing: are you coming along?

Skull: I can’t… this is my tribe and I must stay as a reaper.

Blessing: a reaper? Does that mean you take people’s souls and kill them?

Skull: yes… but that’s just who I am and my duties… a Skull Reaper must give punishment to those who disobey tradition or try to attack the tribe… and if the punishment is killing then so be it.

Blessing: is that really who you are?

Skull was so stunned into silence by the remark, didn't notice his hunt’s door opening. Kari opens the door to request Skull’s help as a reaper.

Kari: HEY SKULL I GOT SOMEONE FOR YOU TO REAP THE SOUL OF!!! (notices Skull has a girl with him) since when did you get a girlfriend or a secret love child.

Skull: NONE OF THE ABOVE!!! Anyways you said you needed me to fight someone to death. 

Kari: yes… and it's someone who wants to use a triangle instead of an actual rock instrument.

Skull: a triangle… A TRIANGLE FOR ROCK!!? Are they stupid or…

Kari: don’t know man, it's Johnathan who’s doing this.

Skull: … its Johnathan… are you sure…

Kari: yeah sorry dude… but you know the rules… see you later…

Kari leaves, closing the door. Skull stands there in silence for a minute until the silence is broken by Blessing speaking.

Blessing: are you really gonna kill him?

Skull: (pause)... it's what I must do… I’m a reaper and there are those I must punish for my leader. 

Blessing: isn’t he your friend?

Skull: (silence)... He USED to be… these are the rules or else I’ll get punished instead…

Skull grabs a Skull hat and guitar as he walks off to fill his role. Skull arrives close to the battle grounds with the whole tribe waiting for a reaper to punish a Johnathan chained by the ankles and sentenced to his death. Johnathan tries using his triangle to free himself but it's not enough to break free. The leader, Kara, looks at Johnathan with eyes that pierced his soul with coldness and disappointment. Skull walks into the arena with Johnathan wide-eyed and preparing to fight. 

Skull: before I end you, tell me? WHY A STINKIN TRIANGLE JOHN?!! Of all things to change to and breaking the rules, why a triangle? 

Johnathan: because I’m done with all this loud music. Tired of almost losing my hearing, tired of the pounding in my head, tired of this harsh music. I just wanted to hear something simple, something that rings in ease, something that isn’t harsh on the ears. Haven’t you ever wanted to hear something that isn’t the same thing? Come on Skull… we’ve had history right?.. we’re friends right?..

Skull: (pause and clears any hair from his face) we used to be friends…

Skull strums his guitar and creates spiked notes and loud sound waves that blow up Johnanthan’s ear drums as the notes stab his body. Johnathan can’t hear anything any more but he can feel his face stretching from his mouth widening trying to scream as the vibration of the ground tells Johnathan of how loud the surroundings are. Skull walks up to Johnathan and prepares to finish him off, but Johnathan grabs his triangle and strikes as hard as he could to create a shockwave that destroys the grounds. Skull used his notes to save himself by flying on them, he saw that Johnathan was crawling through the rubble and made it out of the territory's lines. Kara plays her guitar with the tribe’s pick and fixes the grounds. 

Kara: Is he dead?

Skull: he has left the territory lines… there’s nothing I can do…

Kara: What!? Go after him, he needs to be punished for betraying the tribe!

Skull: I SAID HE LEFT AND THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT!

Kara: SKULL I’M YOUR LEADER GO AND I ORDER YOU TO GO KILL THAT TRAITOR!

Skull: HE’S OUT OF THE BORDER! I CAN’T GO AND-

Kara slaps Skull’s face. Skull doesn’t show face with Kara giving a death glare to indicate what she wants.

Kara: as the leader of The Metal Rock Tribe, I command you to go after him and kill that traitor. 

Skull didn’t flinch but looked back at Kara with his blue and red eyes that sent chills down everyone including the leader’s spines when staring at it. Kara kept calm and didn’t back down. Gunner and Kari stepped in to protect Kara.

Gunner: Skull… I recommend that you don’t disobey our leader… no matter who it is… your loyalty is with the tribe… not Johnathan… or anyone else… 

Skull turns his head down, gritting teeth, and strums his guitar to launch himself out of the area towards the border. Landing close to the border, Skull finds a river to rest at as he collapses from the pressure of events that have happened. He punches the stone below himself with black tears falling down from his heterochromia eyes. Grabbing a branch and biting down on it, Skull screams, gritting the branch as he just trashes the surroundings from his rage. Before he could slam down his guitar, Blessing appears in front of him which causes Skull to halt.

Blessing: what are you doing? Why are you biting a branch?

Skull: to soften my screams of rage, can’t let anyone know I’m here both outsiders and insiders.

Blessing: why are you so mad?

Skull: because my Leader just slapped me and making me kill a friend of mine. He’s left the land, why do I have to go after him?

Blessing: then why listen to your leader?

Skull doesn’t answer…

Blessing: why kill your friend? Isn’t he important to you? Why listen to someone who obviously doesn’t care about both of you?

Skull snapped. Skull pushes the girl and pins her to a tree. Growling through his breath, he shouts with all his anger at the small thing.

Skull: BECAUSE I GOT NO CHOICE! I GOT TO KILL HIM BECAUSE I’M A REAPER AND THE REAPERS ARE LOYAL TO THE TRIBE AND LEADER NO MATTER WHAT! DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND, IF I DARE TO DISOBEY, I’LL BE NEXT ON THE BLOCK TO DIE! (sobs) Not to mention that I’ll be losing everyone by being me. 

Skull collapses to the ground releasing Blessing. Kneeling at the small being, Skull continues to cry as Blessing hugs the troubled teen. 

Skull: I can’t betray the tribe… otherwise…

Blessing: … you got nowhere to go… then how about you come with me…

Skull: (looks up, face to face with blessing) Huh? I thought you didn’t have a tribe or parents?

Blessing: I don’t have anyone but a found family who would love to help you and will accept you in. (wipes Skull’s face of tears) then I can hear more of your other music. 

Skull: it's not that good… just something I’m trying to write. 

Skull pulls out his diary from shirt. He flips it open to show the songs he’s been writing with scribbles and rewriting of lyrics. He flips to a page that contains the lyrics from earlier, back when the two were alone and Skull was singing.  He sits down by the river looking at the page with bashfulness and anxiety.

Skull: it's not much but I don't think it would be accepted in rock or metal. Lyrics of the tribe must be ready to fight so words like attack or die are common. 

Blessing: those are music genres, they don’t dictate what words should be used. It’s your decision of which ones to sing. Like this.

Blessing starts to sing the song Skull’s been working on.

Song - 

Blessing - It's the same thing again. The paths, the faces, my mind.

It's like its begging, for something new to find.

Skull- My folks keep telling me the rules to follow,

But all I feel is only something hollow.

(skull starts strumming his guitar)

Blessing - Oh~ why can’t they just see.

Skull- Thats. Just. not me…

Skull- don’t you feel incomplete, like everything is the same.

Like the clear blue sky~, as if it’s just stuck in one lane.

Doesn’t everything seem so mundane, rerunning in your brain.

Over and over like you can just break.

(strums guitar)

Oh~ can somebody just let me free!

I’m tired of all this traditional stuff.

Oh~! Can someone hear my plea!

I just don’t want it rough and Tough!

OH CAN YOU SEE~ AY~

I just wanna be free to be me.~

Blessing - It's like a copy and paste, everyone’s always afraid to try.

Skull- With all this pressure putting on, it's just making me cry.

On a stage, all eyes on me, but never seeing what’s there.

Blessing - Only a rock star, a monster, 

Skull- but not me, that's not fair.

Blessing - Oh~ why can’t they just see.

Skull- Thats. JUST. NOT ME!

Skull- don’t you feel incomplete, like everything is the same.

Like the green clean grass~, just so simple and plain.

Doesn’t everything seem so mundane, rerunning in your brain.

Over and over like you can just break.

(strums guitar)

Oh~ can somebody just let me free!

I’m tired of all this pressure of a mold.

Oh~! Can someone hear my plea!

I just don’t want to be ordered and told!

OH CAN YOU SEE~ AY~

I just wanna be free to be me.~

Skull- Why!~ no one hears my plea. 

Why!~ do i feel so empty

Oh WHy!~ do I lose those close to me

Oh WHY!~ should I have to listen to them!

(Skull jumps up from spot)

Skull- I’ll make them see… 

WHO’S THE REAL ME!

Skull/Blessing- I don’t want to feel incomplete, 

Skull- I’ll start to change.

Like my pounding heart~, full of passion, no longer pain.

Skull/Blessing- No longer the same old mundane, 

Skull- I’m no longer in restraints.

Skull/Blessing- Playing something new for a break.

(strums guitar)

Skull- Oh~ can somebody just let me free!

I’m done with all these silly harsh rules.

Oh~! Can someone hear my plea!

I’m no longer being played for a fool!

OH CAN YOU SEE~ AY~

I finally free… to be me.~

After playing the two looked at each other and began to smile until they heard another guitar playing. Out comes Penny from the Indie Rogues and leader of the tribe, singing in response.

Penny singing-

I hear your plea my fellow musician, Sorry for all the confusion.~

I was just walking by sight seeing, but I couldn’t help but be hearing~

Your sorrow sad song my skeleton friend, your at your wits end~

So let me help you~ to something new~!

Penny (talking) - phew! How was that for a reprise? Or would it be a continuation? Whatever, nice to meet you! (grabs Skull’s hand and starts shaking aggressively) I’m Penny, the leader of the Indie Rogues and if you need help and a home then I can help!

Skull: (vibrating voice) nice. To. meet. You. leader. Now. can. You. stop. Shaking. Me.

Penny: (lets go) oh sorry. It's just that I was so moved by your song that I wanted to help you.

Skull: I don’t think it was that good. It's only a demo for now and I doubt it's any good.

Penny: But you put your heart into it with raw emotions that had been sealed for so long. I can’t let Kara kill another great artist who can make wonderful music.

Penny is jumping in excitement with Skull, confused that the leader of a tribe is so nice and accepting him for just being himself. Skull saw hope with Blessing smiling on the side, but then a low loud rift of a guitar plays with the sound of a shotgun shift. Shivers and paralysis run through Skull, as he knows that sound all too well. Another rift plays even louder with bullet notes firing at Penny and Blessing. Skull grabs the two and jumps out of the way as the ground explodes from the bullets. Looking through the smoke, Skull spots Gunner holding his gun guitar straight at them. A glare of betrayal and disappointment comes from Gunner’s eyes.

Gunner: SKULL! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!

Skull: Gunner please I can explain.

Kari: EXPLAIN WHAT! (jumps out of nowhere and lands next to Gunner) HOW YOU DON’T REALLY LIKE OUR TRIBES RULES!

Skull: (shaky voice) you heard…

Kara: heard it loud and clear.

Kara walks from behind Gunner and Kari, with her cold eyes that want vengeance for Skull’s existence. 

Kara: So you don’t like tradition huh?! Same thing every day? It's so Mundane?

Skull: tsk! I’m Sorry I-

Kara: IT’S TOO LATE TO APOLOGIZE! 

Kara grabs the tribe's pick from her cape and swings her guitar in place. Standing in a rockstar stance, Kara yells with all her voice.

Kara: FOR YOUR CRIMES OF LETTING A TRAITOR GO AND GOING AGAINST THE TRIBES TRADITIONS! I, KARA OF THE METAL ROCK TRIBE, SENTENCE YOU TO DEATH!

Kara blasts a shredded riff off her guitar. Thousands of magic notes fire off and spiral together in a hurricane formation. Kara conducts the notes to target the three with her hand rising for one more play. Before another stream can play, Blessing stands up quickly and grabs a pen from the jacket she snuck, and starts writing like lightning. Writing all around, Blessing uses her writing magic to create a barrier around themselves. Kara strums her guitar, sending all the notes spiking at the barrier of paragraphs. Each note is destroying one word at a time, slowly breaking the shield. Blessing is trying to keep up with the cracks until a note pierced straight through and hit her metallic arm. Hit by the shock wave, she shouldered the shock but almost dropped from the force of it all. As she patched, she still got snatched by those that came through with Skull still shell shocked and not knowing what to do. Skull watched as the little girl was being torn to shreds trying to save them, but he felt something put in his hand. Penny gave Skull her tribes’ pick.

Penny: if you want to be free then fight for your freedom…

Skull: But why give me this… you're the tribe leader, can’t you fight back?

Penny: I’m a support role mostly, my attack magic doesn’t compare to you Rocks and Metals attack powers… and this isn’t my fight… this is yours.

Penny looked at Skull with eyes of faith and empathy. Skull looks at the pick, wondering if he’s really worthy of using it. Then the shield broke as Blessing fell to her knees with dented metal limbs. Kara readies for another attack, storm clouds of notes form. Before she could strike again, Skull gets up; throwing his jacket onto Blessing, fixes his skull hat, and fixes the hair in his eyes as he readies for battle. He raises the tribe pick and shreds as loud as he can. Creating just as many notes as Kara, Skull shreds a different melody from his usual malice to kill. Skull is shredding for the care to protect, both start shredding hard and fast. 

Kara: (thinking: so he can use the power of the tribe's guitar pick) no matter. YOU’RE STILL A TRAITOR WHO’S GONNA GET PUNISHED!

The notes barrage each other, colliding and destroying. For any notes falling through, Skull created a barrier as well with just as much strength or more as Blessing’s shield. Penny gets up with her ukelele and starts playing along. Penny’s magic is still strong without her pick as it; supports Skull magic, Healings and fixes Blessing’s body, and fights off some of Kara’s notes. Gunner and Kari start playing and singing to help their leader but Skull’s creativity with his passion are conducting the notes in every way possible. Some notes become living skeletons that fight Kari, some notes become a cage around Gunner that reflect any of his shots back. For once a worthy opponent towards Kara has emerged as Skull plays and creates a skeleton army to protect the girls.

Kara: YOU WOULD STAND BY THEIR SIDE! WHAT ABOUT YOUR LOYAL TO YOUR CLAN, YOUR TRIBE! 

Skull: A TRIBE THAT ONLY CARES ABOUT YOU AND YOUR STUPID TRADITIONS! THAT ONLY CARES ABOUT THE SAME THING AND NOTHING ELSE! A TRIBE THAT DOESN’T CARE IF I DIE!-

Kara: YOU DIE FOR THE TRIBE!

Skull: I DIE FOR MYSELF!

Both strum and both notes create a creature on both sides. A blue Skeleton monster for Skull and a Purple falcon for Kara. The two creatures fight, music colliding as both musicians roar with their instruments. As the falcon flies up to strike through the skeleton, the skeleton summons a scythe from the notes and swings at the violent violet bird, slicing through and destroying the beast… and creating a shock wave that sent both sides flying; Kara, Gunner, and Kari are sent through the Metal Rock territory; and Skull, Blessing, and Penny fly away towards forests and got lost in the trees. Once Gunner, Kari, and Kara landed from rubble, Kara plays her guitar and gets straight up with Gunner slowly crawling up and Kari barely moving from the crash but still alive. Gunner looks at Kara, Kara looking off where the other three landed.

Gunner: do we go after them leader… Skull can now use a tribe pick and…

Kara: they’re too far gone and he’s got Penny on his side now… there’s nothing we can do against them now… all we can do is reinforce our offense and prepare for another battle if he ever comes back to our territory again. 

Meanwhile, with the three who crashed in a bush near a waterfall and a bunch of wildflowers, Skull tries to move but realizes he can’t. He had exhausted himself to his limits during the battle and now is paralyzed. 

Skull: (rasp tired voice) is everyone alright?

Penny: everything is spinning~.

Blessing: I’m fine… how do you feel?…

Skull looks up and around himself. No jagged rocks, birds singing sweet tunes, calm waters run down the waterfall. For once Skull feels like he doesn’t have to put a front of a killer anymore.

Skull: I… Feel… Great… (passes out)

Skull sleeps for a bit but slightly hears a harp play and slowly opens his eyes to see he’s in the Indie Rogues’ territory with everyone together. Penny is being scolded by George and Panny. Skull looks down to see he’s in bandages with some broth soup on the side. 

Blessing: you’ve been out for a week. How do you feel?

Lucky: (playing a harp) we were worried that you wouldn’t wake up.

Skull: why am I here?

???: That's because I’m here for you…

Skull looks over and sees Lifehacker playing an ocarina every few seconds in certain patterns. 

Lifehacker: I’ve requested Penny to locate you with Blessing here to help find you in your territory. It seems you’ve had quite the battle skeleton, child?

Skull: the name’s Skull… and yeah I did… (grips fist) I fought for my freedom…

Lifehacker: that's pretty “metal” of you kid… a true “Punk” I say so myself… (snickers)

Skull: even for a pun… I doubt it counts…

Lifehacker: kid… being a punk and doing something metal… it means that you know something’s wrong and you stuck it to the man and try to do the right thing to create change… sure maybe not in the most practical way… but Rock and Metal isn’t meant to be practical… it's meant to stand up against the corrupt and create a change for others to be free as well… and you did a good job and showed that to your ex leader… speaking of each… you no longer have a place anymore do you?

Skull: (gulps) no… not if I choose to die back there…

Penny: Then you can stay with us! We can protect you and you can experiment with different genres as much as you want.

George: AFTER WHAT YOU DID! You know that the tribe pick isn’t something to be given so lightly. What would have happened if you died back there.

Penny: AGH! I’M SORRY!!!

Skull: (chuckles) thanks… but if I remember… Blessing, you asked me first to join your family. 

Blessing: that’s right! 

Lifehacker: Well you’re looking at one!

Skull: Wait, You! 

Lifehacker: yeah me. Lets just say you caught my eyes and leaving you here to die isn’t in the cards. Especially not someone who called for help. So what do you say? Want to join a journey of discovery and experimentation.

Skull looked at Lifehacker and then Blessing. Blessing was holding his diary of songs with signs of bent pages from reading. After considering he can no longer exist in the world without his ex tribe running after him. Skull got up from the ground with a blank face turning into a pumped up smile.

Skull:... then let's rock together. (offers hand to a knee sitting Blessing)

Blessing: Let's rock! (grabs hand and gets lifted up)

Lifehacker: (smiles an excited, sharp toothy face) ALRIGHT! LETS ROCK AND ROLL OUT OF HERE!

Lifehacker opens a portal with Blessing holding Skulls hand, pulling him towards the portal.

Lifehacker: any goodbyes? Rockstar!~

Skull: just this… GOOD NIGHT MUSIC TRIBES AND ALL!