Editing Savage Reflections 03 (section)

==Background==

The world has problems, most of them too deeply ingrained for any simple solution to work. People don’t like that, and in times of desperation they turn to extreme solutions. Baek Min-ji’s parents were one of such people, and they joined a cult that promised to make everything right.

What was needed, according to the leaders, was for a great triumph of good over evil, for a great hero to defeat the very essence of wickedness. But first, they needed to find this essence. Or, as the leaders proclaimed, create it.

Min-ji was chosen as the vessel, and through her childhood the cult’s elders would whisper their horrible secrets to her in the darkness and make her repeat them over and over until she couldn’t tell the difference between her crimes and those she’d been taught. After a time, she was sent out to commit various crimes on behalf of the elders, in the process lining their pockets.

It was a slow decline into thinking of herself as less deserving, as less human, but there came a breaking point. While hiding from the cops after committing a robbery, she hid in the shadows and made herself truly invisible, unseen by the world around her. But then Min-ji realised there was something else watching her, and she’s never been able to forget it since.