Friday, April 10, 2020

Respect Lewis, the 8 Year Old Lebanese Child


Hundreds of years ago, there was born in Lebanon a strange ageless person with the body and mind of an 8 year old child. Because of his strange immortality he would be drafted and forced to fight in wars across time and history. 

The plight and story of the 8-year old is amoung the most tragic. From the time of the crusades in 1147 to as late as 2018 the 8 Year Old Lebanese Child has been subjected to all of man's most horrific events. Most often he has been conscripted as a soldier, but he has also been forced into sex slavery/prostituion, tortured for information, had both his arms and his legs blown off by landmines, been held in concentration camps, been used for scientific experiments and seen almost everyone close to him die off. Most of the events of his life have been dark and bleak, and so is it any surprise that on at least one occassion he has considered drowning himself.

(This is all a metafictional joke based on a quote from Sips of the Yogscast talking about Lewis saying that on first meeting him he thought "I've never spoken...face to face with an 8 year old Lebanese Child before!" leading to a reddit where various pictures of Lewis are exaggerated as the suffering of an 8 Year Old Lebanese Child. This is just a joke.)

Abilities:
The 8 Year Old Lebanese Child has been fighting for centuries and was even conscripted to fight in the Galactic Empire in 1978. Despite being an 8 year old Child, he has shown great physical capacities at times, possibly from all the experience. In a rare video of the 8 Year Old Lebanese Child we see him learn what seems to be some basic martial arts skills. He was able to fight against the Lebanese Armed Forces a bit trying to save himself from being forced into th army. He was able to break enemy lines on his tank before plunging into a river to escape the rebels and performed a stealthy combat roll to rescure another Lebanese Child from the Nazis. He was able to survive being crushed under rubble and, during the Lebanese-Germanic War of 1947, Lewis was given via scientific experiments, enough power to wipe out half the continent. He also resurrects somehow after dying as he has died many times including from things like mortar strikes and being run over by a Soviet jeep.


Heartwarming Moments:
Though all the torment and hell, through the madness and pain, there are occassional moments that gives the 8 Year Old Lebanese Child a reason to live. The 8 Year Old Lebanese Child is a friend to kittens and has gotten to enjoy the simple pleasures of a burger in a post-war celebration and some chocolate in his rations. He was able to celebrate the end of the civil with his brothers in arms and celebrate being freed after 7 years of capture. In 1980 after returning home from war he learned he would finally able to be to marry his gay boyfriend and he was able to testify personally against Osama Ben Laden.

The 8 Year Old Lebanese child is defiant to the end and once attempted a suicidal supply run for his brothers in arms. His most heartwarming moment imo also doubles as a feat. The 8 Year Old Lebanese Child escaped a concentration camp though it destroyed his soul before moving to Bristol, England, however a few years later he would have a turn of heart and save his fellow British Orphans by single-handedly holding off an advancing German Army. 

Weaknesses:
The 8 Year Old Lebanese Child had both his arms and legs blown off by landmines. His new arms he doesn't have as much experience with and he doesn't have legs now causing him to waddle around. He is also still a child, prone to doing things like accepting candy from strangers in vans.

Personality:
The tragic life of the 8 Year Old Lebanese Child is almost archetypal in his nature, the tragic victim of warfare; he acts sometimes heroic, sometimes malevolent, but eternally victimized by the horrors of warfare. The 8 Year Old Lebanese Child is a stand in for those innocents caught up in man's conflicts without reason or just cause, eternally youthfully exploited and in pain. May peace someday come to this world, so the 8 Year Old Lebanese Child may finally rest. 

Summary: Lewis, the 8 Year Old Lebanese Child
+Above Average Human AP normally (can punch with enough force to knock back an Armed Forces), superhuman to wall level with weapons (has used swords and guns), his full power is at least country+ (could wipe out half the continent)
+Superhuman durability (survived being crushed under rubble)
+Below average human speed (waddles around)
+Skilled at fighting, stealth, various skills, and some supernatural form of Magic: the Gathering
+Intelligent
+Resurrection/Potential Agelessness?
-Isn't very experienced with his no arms
-No legs
-Naive
-Drowning?

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