

My daddy showed me that corpses are precious, powerful things. Just like when I dumped that prepper’s body. First time I ever sensed a BT was when I held him, moments before he went necro. He was only trying to protect me from the evils of the outside world. But that’s love, isn’t it? His way of looking after an orphan child he raised as his own.

Tried to run a few times, but he’d just drag me back inside, kicking and screaming, where he’d put those heavy hands of his to work and remind me what’d happen if I disrespected his authority. “Better down in the hole than out there under their thumb.” Yeah, he was a real saint, my daddy. That’s why we took to living in a shelter. Said America never did nothing for nobody. They ask what’s it all for in a post-Stranding world, when today’s triumph is tomorrow’s crater.ĭaddy used to spout the same tired lines. He lead the separatist militia Homo Demens under Amelia's order and orchestrated voidouts and nuclear explosions, hoping to accelerate the end of mankind. That the old guard wants to put them in chains, make the individual subservient to the collective. Higgs Monaghan is a former porter who went mad and succumbed to his darker impulses after learning about the inevitable extinction of humanity for Amelie. Higgs Monaghan, also known as The Man in the Golden Mask, is the main antagonist of the 2019 sci-fi open world action adventure video game by Hideo Kojima, Death Stranding. Terrorists, separatists, isolationists- all these folks claim “America” is coming for their freedom. Word is Demens heard that Bridges was sending an expeditionary force out west to “facilitate the reconstruction of America”, or some such. They dumped a corpse nearby and let it go necro, dropping BTs right in people’s laps. Which, funnily enough, fits his character really, really well.Higgs’ Monaghan Journal #6 | Year - UNKNOWNĪ Bridges waystation out west just got taken out by terrorists. In a way, he kind of really did do it for the aesthetic. Today’s the last day anyone sees my face. Not a death mask, though, but one for living- for ruling. That’s why I’ve decided to give myself a mask. I tell you what, if we’ve learned anything from the Beach, it’s that the Egyptians had it all figured out. Like the golden death masks of the pharaohs, the ones decorated using magical adornments as an indication of the wearer’s prestige and power.
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Chock full of interesting tidbits about death and how to overcome it. I learned all this and more from an old book I found- the Wisdom of the Egyptians. That’s why people built coffins and sarcophagi- to preserve the body so the soul had a home it could return to. So long as your soul’s got a body to come back to, you can be reborn.

The two become separated, you die- in this world, at least. I don’t have the screenshot on hand, but I do have the transcript. Higgs Monaghan, also known as The Man in the Golden Mask, is the main antagonist of the 2019 sci-fi open world action adventure video game by Hideo Kojima. That said, though, he mentions his interest in Egypt in one of his journals that can be picked up via memory chip. DOOMs is measured in levels, and Higgs is the strongest DOOMs sufferer in the game by a long shot, and is said to be “off the charts” in terms of power.

He was raised and violently abused/traumatized by his uncle - someone he ended up murdering in self-defense. Like the Hanged Man before it, Death suggests. This is really important, because Higgs already had the groundwork for being disturbed. representing the power of Death, including a powerful necromancer, su as Higgs Monaghan in Death Stranding. People with DOOMS often experience extremely distressing nightmares of an impending apocalypse, which can cause or exacerbate mental illness. This is going to sound ridiculous on it’s own, so for some context: the abilities people have in this game (called DOOMs) aren’t like regular superpowers, or even nanomachine enhancements in Kojima’s Metal Gear games - both of which often have few to no real drawbacks. Sure he looks like a drunk girl at the club at 3am on a Thursday most of the time, but before it gets all smeary, it’s almost a wadjet.
