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- Who made you like this?
Who encrypted your dark gospel in body language?
Synapses snap back in blissful anguish
Tell me you met me in past lives, past life
Past what might be eating me from the inside, darling
Half algorithm, half deity
Glitches in the code or gaps in a strange dream
Tell me you guessed my future and it mapped onto your fantasy
Turn me into your mannequin and I'll turn you into my puppet queen
Name: Vessel 4
Canon: Sleep Token
Vessel 4 is a former human, sentient, supernatural construct given powers by a selfish and malevolent deity called Sleep. He is inquisitive, and more human than not, internally, while still humanoid but (subjectively) frightening to behold, externally. Otherwise he is essentially a meat puppet for a dark, Old God.
He is the lead guitarist and a backup vocalist (but most recent edition) in the band that worships this deity, but he came in when their leader, Vessel 1, was breaking free of Sleep's toxic bonds of servitude, and ascending to something more of a deity himself. 4 has punk/anarchist vibes, and supports the idea that they can someday break free of Sleep, while using this time to inspire others and become Something Greater than what they are.
4 is philosophical in a way that often seems detached from his humanity, but emotionally more human still than Vessels 1-3 (which is not to say he has bigger feelings than Vessel 1, at all). They (1-4) were not "good people", but they aspire to be better than they were, while hoping they can have their cake and eat it too, re: ascending to greater power.
Yes, this is a Sleep Token OC take on the band's characters.