manipulation + intimidation: naming an antagonist

Names have power.

One of the reasons I identify so strongly with the Lost is because they understand this too. This is the name I have chosen for my ex. This is how I will see him, in this place.

The Tall Blue Man

"In Arcadia, the Tall Blue Man could make the trees applaud and the rivers weep with his renditions of the classic stories. Of course, he never made up his own tales — the True Fae lack that capacity. But he could retell them with such skill that the Gentry from all over the land would ask for their favorite tales, over and over, and the Tall Blue Man was happy to oblige. Pride was his undoing. 

...There were no new tales, he said bitterly. Everything “new” was just an old story with some new dressing. 

...He travels the world in an old...asking those he meets for “a story.” ...If they tell him a story, he invariably judges it unworthy, a mere reimagining of something that he’s been telling for centuries. 

The Tall Blue Man wants nothing but to go back home and tell his stories again. The people in the world wouldn’t appreciate his craft, and so he has nothing but contempt for them. He has killed changelings, mortals, vampires, mages and even werewolves in his time, but he has yet to find his elusive original tale. It might not even exist, but the Tall Blue Man refuses to face that possibility, because it means he’s stuck here forever."

--Autumn Nightmares