Severus Snape
Proud Member
John Prince, a handsome man of four and fifty years, was a successful, revered artist and writer who was fated to marry the beautiful Robyn Elizabeth. The week before their marriage, however, Prince found she had been deceiving him with another, and did not truly love him the way he loved her. The news was so devastating to him that he attempted to take his own life by slitting his wrists with a silver dagger. Had it not been for his faithful servant, who found Prince on the floor, bleeding to death, and called for a medic, Prince would have surely passed on to the next world.
After his incident, John Prince was never quite the same. He took to adopting strange habits--such as sleeping all day and staying up whole nights, contemplating on one thing or another, muttering to himself on dark corners of his house by candlelight. This behaviour naturally was cause for concern, and after a second suicide attempt on his part, Mister Prince was taken to the asylum, on grounds of complete and utter lunacy. It was here that John Prince ultimately perished.
The days before his death, Prince had exhibited some very strange behaviour. He screamed entire nights, at no one in particular, and scratched his skin until it bled, convinced that there were insects crawling under it. These hallucinations were not the worst of his deviations--often, he attacked nurses, attempting to bite them, refused his meals, and showed a general lack of regard for his own life and the world at large.
It was during bath time that Prince was to make his final attempt to leave the asylum behind. He wrestled against his nurse, who had naught but the best intentions to do her job, but who was ultimately powerless against him. He drowned himself in the bathtub. It was a most violent death, but Prince had seen no other way to escape his strife. In a way, it was symbolic, he drowned in his sorrow, literally and figuratively. He was unable to forsake the woman he loved, after her most heinous betrayal, he would not--indeed, could not--let her go. Indirectly, he died by her hand, but directly by his own.
Alas, that is the sad and sorry tale of my beloved John Prince.
After his incident, John Prince was never quite the same. He took to adopting strange habits--such as sleeping all day and staying up whole nights, contemplating on one thing or another, muttering to himself on dark corners of his house by candlelight. This behaviour naturally was cause for concern, and after a second suicide attempt on his part, Mister Prince was taken to the asylum, on grounds of complete and utter lunacy. It was here that John Prince ultimately perished.
The days before his death, Prince had exhibited some very strange behaviour. He screamed entire nights, at no one in particular, and scratched his skin until it bled, convinced that there were insects crawling under it. These hallucinations were not the worst of his deviations--often, he attacked nurses, attempting to bite them, refused his meals, and showed a general lack of regard for his own life and the world at large.
It was during bath time that Prince was to make his final attempt to leave the asylum behind. He wrestled against his nurse, who had naught but the best intentions to do her job, but who was ultimately powerless against him. He drowned himself in the bathtub. It was a most violent death, but Prince had seen no other way to escape his strife. In a way, it was symbolic, he drowned in his sorrow, literally and figuratively. He was unable to forsake the woman he loved, after her most heinous betrayal, he would not--indeed, could not--let her go. Indirectly, he died by her hand, but directly by his own.
Alas, that is the sad and sorry tale of my beloved John Prince.
