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[[File:Ecliptic_path.jpg|thumb|The Zodiac Healer is confined by this ecliptic path.]]The '''Zodiac Healer''' is a | [[File:Ecliptic_path.jpg|thumb|The Zodiac Healer is confined by this ecliptic path.]]The '''Zodiac Healer''' is a former serial killer and alleged time-traveler who has reversed both time and morality. | ||
He is now repeatedly moving | He is now repeatedly moving backward in [[time]], serially healing the murdered. Moving backward in time feels like Sisyphus pushing the rock uphill. | ||
The Zodiac Healer is a hostile colleague of [[Baron Zersetzung]]. | |||
== In the News == | |||
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File:Guo_Shoujing_studies_the_Pleiades.jpg|[[Guo Shoujing (nonfiction)]] studies the Pleiades, computes path of Zodiac Healer. | |||
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== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | |||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | |||
* [[The Custodian]] | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Sol Apollo Zodiac Zone Plat (nonfiction)]] - anagram of "[[Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli]]" | |||
* [[Superhero (nonfiction)]] | * [[Superhero (nonfiction)]] | ||
I remember Christine Lavin telling a joke about "What do you get when you run a slasher movie in reverse? Some maniac with a chainsaw heals the dead, some of them become virgins, and everybody goes camping." Years later, in my Gnomon storytelling days, I remembered that joke and fictionalized the slasher as the Zodiac Healer -- a reverse serial killer, reverse in time, so a healer, and reverse in morality, so repentant. | |||
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[[Category:Fictional characters (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Fictional characters (nonfiction)]] | ||
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[[Category:Superheroes]] | [[Category:Superheroes]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:43, 20 November 2021
The Zodiac Healer is a former serial killer and alleged time-traveler who has reversed both time and morality.
He is now repeatedly moving backward in time, serially healing the murdered. Moving backward in time feels like Sisyphus pushing the rock uphill.
The Zodiac Healer is a hostile colleague of Baron Zersetzung.
In the News
Guo Shoujing (nonfiction) studies the Pleiades, computes path of Zodiac Healer.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Sol Apollo Zodiac Zone Plat (nonfiction) - anagram of "Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli"
- Superhero (nonfiction)
I remember Christine Lavin telling a joke about "What do you get when you run a slasher movie in reverse? Some maniac with a chainsaw heals the dead, some of them become virgins, and everybody goes camping." Years later, in my Gnomon storytelling days, I remembered that joke and fictionalized the slasher as the Zodiac Healer -- a reverse serial killer, reverse in time, so a healer, and reverse in morality, so repentant.