Difference between revisions of "Waxillium Ladrian"

Against his better judgement, and under the disapproving eye of his butler, Tillaume, Wax beginsbegan to piece together the history of the Vanishers, hoping to discover the reason for their unorthodox targets as well as the secret behind the way they commit their crimes. Realizing the distraction this has created for his house duties, Waxillium endeavorsendeavored to put away this new obsession and attendattended the Yomen-Ostlin wedding dinner with Steris, marking their public debut as a couple.{{book ref|mb4|3}}

After the wedding iswas interrupted by the arrival of bandits from the Vanishers gang, who proceedproceeded to rob the lords and ladies in attendance at gunpoint, Wax initially refusesrefused Wayne’s insistence that he take up a pistol, having convincing himself that the Elendel constabulary willwould be able to handle the disturbance with far less bloodshed. When the gang goeswent too far, killing a man and taking Steris as a hostage, Wax admitsadmitted that he cannotcould not stand idly by, and attacksattacked the gang with his backup pistols and the full fury of his steel-pushing.{{book ref|mb4|5}}

In the ensuing gunfight, Wax, Wayne, and, surprisingly, Steris’ cousin Marasi workworked together to subdue the majority of the attackers, while successfully minimizing civilian casualties. When Marasi iswas suddenly held at gunpoint by one of the gang, in the same fashion as Lessie a year ago, Wax nearly freezesfroze up again. Marasi strugglesstruggled, andsuccessfully stunsstunning the Vanisher holding her, momentarily opening up the shot for Wax and forcing him to make a choice to overcome his fear to pull the trigger and save her. As the robbers retreatretreated, Waxillium iswas surprised to discover the identity of the Vanishers’ leader, Miles “Hundredlives” Dagouter, another former lawman from the Roughs.{{book ref|mb4|6}}

With Steris kidnapped, Wax re-doublesdoubled his efforts into his previous investigation. Having obtained one of the Vanishers’ aluminum guns, Wax pourspoured himself into researching its makeup and possible origin as well as workingworkied to uncover the mystery of the Vanishers’s ultimate goal.{{book ref|mb4|7}} In the middle of his investigation, Wax, Wayne, and Marasi arewere caught up in an explosion in his study, set off by his butler in a botched attempt to assassinate him.{{book ref|mb4|9}}

Eventually discovering the location of the Vanishers’ hideout and confirming Hundredlives’ involvement, Wax beginsbegan forming a plan to take down the unbeatable, former lawman.{{book ref|mb4|10}} Focusing his attention on puzzling out the Vanishers’ peculiar robbery methods, Wax iswas taken by surprise when the Vanishers attackattacked his train en route back to Elendel.{{book ref|mb4|12}}

Wounded in the attack and shaken by Hundredlives’ claim that the real evil in the world is the corruption of Elendel itself{{book ref|mb4|13}}, Waxillium escapesescaped to Ranette’s house, where he obtainsobtained [[Hazekiller]] bullets and a new prototype revolver, [[Vindication]].{{book ref|mb4|14}}

Correctly deducing the Vanishers’ next target, Wax setsset Wayne and Marasi to work, zeroing in on the protection of Lord Tekiel’s next shipment train, which includes the new, [[Breaknaught]] cargo car. Infiltrating the car just before the predicted robbery takes place, Wax allowsallowed himself to be taken to the Vanishers’ lair.{{book ref|mb4|16}}

Making use of a large amount of dynamite smuggled alongside him in the Breaknaught, Waxillium fightsfought his way through the Vanishers’ hideout, losing Vindication in the fray. Successfully springing a trap made specially to capture Hundredlives, Wax iswas then forced to flee when the outlaw optsopted to blow himself up with a personal explosive, rather than be captured.

Escaping into the mists, Waxillium briefly experiencesexperienced a conversation with [[Harmony]], culminating in the realization that Harmony worked behind the scenes to orchestrate the delivery of Wax’s old, lost weapons to the Vanishers’ hideout, just forin thistime to momenthelp.{{book ref|mb4|18}}. Newly re-armed, Wax locateslocated and rescuesrescued Steris, killing numerous members of the Vanishers gang and destroying their hideout with a tremendous feat of metalborn power.

As the building collapsescollapsed, several surviving Vanishers, led by the now fully-healed, Miles Hundredlives, holdheld Marasi at gunpoint.

Refusing to freeze up and lose another woman’s life to the same type of standoff, Wax callscalled for Wayne to create a speed bubble. Firing at the Vanisher through the speed bubble, Wax compensatescompensated for the unavoidable veering of the time-slowed bullet by firing a second time, in an incredibly aimed shot which strikesstruck his first bullet and causescaused it to ricochet directly into the thug’s head.

Miles and an already injured Wax squaresquared off, with Hundredlives beating Wax mercilessly. Waxillium holdsheld on, taking the punishment of Miles’ blows as Marasi secretly holdshelds them in a time bubble. Wax successfully distractsdistracted the outlaw, laying all of his hopes on the absent Wayne, who finally returnsreturned, having surrounded the three of them with Elendel’s constables.{{book ref|mb4|19}}