Adam Sargant

Adam Sargant is a prodigiously talented practitioner with a deep, long-standing interest in jujutsu-like curse magic.

Born into the Sargant family and raised under the strict control of his mother, Lizbeth Sargant, he eventually rejects his family to protect those he loves.

He becomes the secret guardian and later partner of Iris, a girl purchased as a "training dummy" for destructive experiments.

With her, he escapes the Sargant household, starts a fugitive life, and becomes the father of Philomela Sargant.

Adam grows up obedient and compliant, molded to follow Lizbeth’s orders and expectations without question.

Despite this, he has a fundamentally gentle side, shown in the way he protects Iris and later devotes himself to his daughter.

He is highly intelligent, observant, and cautious, planning long-term escapes and setting up layered safeguards for Philomela’s future.

His feelings are intense and often repressed: he bears deep hatred and revulsion toward Lizbeth, but also a painful understanding of her loneliness and obsession.

Even as a curse, his personality remains sharp and emotionally complex, combining bitter sarcasm with genuine affection for Philomela.

He is willing to destroy himself if that is what it takes to oppose his mother and keep his daughter free.

From childhood, Adam is recognized as highly gifted in magic and theory.

Lizbeth Sargant exploits this gift, raising him as a tool and heir to her own obsessions rather than as a son.

He grows up entirely under her control, following her every instruction and internalizing her worldview.

For a long time, he does not question his home, his mother's methods, or the moral cost of their family's practices.

Lizbeth’s intense, possessive fixation on him shapes his entire life.

Only later, after becoming a father himself, does Adam fully grasp the terrifying strength of his mother’s attachment and how it warped them both.

Adam’s life shifts dramatically when Iris enters the Sargant household.

She has been bought as a "practice target" for training people to break others, essentially a living tool for cruelty.

Officially, Adam takes her in as an experimental subject for his curse research.

In truth, she becomes his first friend of the same age and the first person he chooses to protect for his own reasons.

Through daily life with Iris, Adam begins to see how wrong his home really is.

The violence, dehumanization, and cold experimentation around them start to appear twisted rather than normal.

This realization pushes him to question everything: his mother, the family, and the destiny laid out for him.

Quietly, he begins to think beyond the Sargant household and plan a future that does not belong to Lizbeth.

Once his doubts solidify into resolve, Adam starts to prepare in secret.

He collects knowledge, resources, and plans escape routes, always hiding these from Lizbeth and the rest of the family.

Eventually, he puts his plan into action, eloping with Iris and successfully fleeing from the Sargant home.

Their escape is not just a physical break, but an outright rejection of Lizbeth’s control and the family’s abuses.

Adam and Iris live as fugitives, constantly avoiding Lizbeth’s influence and the pursuit that follows them.

Despite the hardship, this period is also when they build a genuine life together, separate from the Sargant legacy.

During this fugitive life, Philomela Sargant is born.

Becoming a father marks another turning point in Adam’s emotional world.

Holding his daughter, Adam finally understands the overwhelming intensity of a parent’s attachment to a child.

He realizes how powerful and consuming such feelings can become, and he recognizes that he shares this capacity with Lizbeth.

This recognition is double-edged.

On one hand, he feels a disturbing kinship with his mother, acknowledging that he carries her blood and potential for obsession.

On the other hand, this understanding motivates him to act differently.

Rather than imprison Philomela, he dedicates himself to preparing ways for her to survive and escape even if he can no longer protect her directly.

As part of these preparations, Adam creates Alcyone, a magical construct designed to serve as Philomela’s guardian.

On the surface, Alcyone functions as a nanny, tending to Philomela’s daily needs and providing constant care.

However, Adam gives Alcyone more than just child-care functions.

He equips her with defensive capabilities, specifically to protect Philomela from threats, including those originating from Lizbeth.

Crucially, he also embeds a curse into Alcyone that takes the form of Adam himself.

This curse carries Adam’s memories and is constructed to reproduce his personality, acting as a posthumous extension of his will.

The curse’s core source is Adam’s deep-seated hatred and rejection of his mother.

It exists partly to ensure that if Lizbeth ever tries to harm Philomela, his curse-self will rise to defend his daughter and oppose Lizbeth.

Despite his efforts, Adam is eventually located by agents sent by Lizbeth Sargant.

They track down his hiding place and confront him, forcing a direct clash.

Adam uses a dangerous curse that reflects damage back onto his attackers.

He deliberately allows himself to be shot by one of the pursuers, causing the curse to kill or disable them by returning the inflicted harm.

After defeating his pursuers, Adam recognizes that returning to Lizbeth or being dragged back into her world is absolutely unacceptable.

Rather than risk recapture or manipulation, he chooses to die on his own terms.

He commits suicide, severing his connection to Lizbeth and the Sargant household once and for all.

Immediately after his death, his body turns into something like crystalline salt and crumbles into dust, leaving no remains behind.

This final act denies Lizbeth even the comfort of his corpse as an object of control or ritual.

It is the ultimate statement of refusal: he will never go back, not in life and not in death.

The curse embedded in Alcyone is designed as a projection of Adam himself.

When activated, it appears in Adam’s own shape and behaves as if he were still alive, drawing on his memories and personality patterns.

Its existence is fueled by Adam’s hatred of Lizbeth.

The curse is, in many ways, his lingering resentment given form and purpose.

When the curse eventually manifests, Adam’s reconstructed self reflects on the situation with bitter irony.

He admits that he had hoped his prediction would be wrong, that it would not be Lizbeth who eventually attacked Philomela.

However, he finds that his expectation was accurate—"so it came to this after all."

Despite the pain of being right, he immediately moves to oppose the threat and protect his daughter through the only means still available to him.

Once the curse activates, Adam’s spectral self tries to return Lizbeth’s malice back onto her.

His intent is to reflect her curse or power the way he had once reflected physical damage during his own lifetime.

However, the situation has escalated beyond simple human-scale conflict.

Lizbeth has been drawn into the role of a core, or "nucleus," for an otherworldly god, an entity that absorbs magic and similar energies.

As this nucleus, she is sealed within the god’s being and protected by its ability to consume magical force.

This renders Adam’s direct attempts to strike back ineffective; he cannot reach or meaningfully harm her in that state.

At this critical moment, Morrígan appears and offers Adam a new path.

He accepts her invitation and quite literally transforms into her spear, becoming a weapon wielded by the goddess.

In this form, Adam is able to cut through the otherworldly god’s body, tearing it open and dragging its contents out.

This violent incision allows him to recover the "last will" or final testament of Karnamagos, which is required to banish the foreign god back to its own realm.

By acting as Morrígan’s spear, Adam turns his curse, his hatred, and his lingering existence into a focused, divine weapon.

It is both a literal and symbolic culmination of his fight against the power that consumed his mother and threatened his daughter.

After the battle, Adam gains a chance to speak with Lizbeth one last time.

This final conversation is charged with decades of emotion, resentment, and painful insight.

Adam openly states his hatred toward his mother, making clear how deeply she wounded him.

At the same time, he expresses pity for Lizbeth, recognizing that her love was so strong, so twisted, and so all-consuming that it left her utterly alone.

Her obsession with him, and her inability to let others draw close, isolated her until she had no one.

Adam can acknowledge that tragedy without forgiving what she did or the damage she caused.

He then bids farewell to Philomela.

Even as a remnant of a curse and a divine weapon, his final thoughts and words are for his daughter’s future.

After delivering his parting words, Adam’s manifested form dissipates.

He disappears completely, ending his existence as both man and curse and leaving Philomela to move forward without the shadow of Lizbeth’s control.