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[div style="0px; width:400px; height:auto; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; line-height:13px;"]gideon lee — all you have is your fire, and the place you need to reach. don't you ever tame your demons, but always keep 'em on a leash.
— gideon maynard lee was born on the seventh of november, 1948, to may ella and reuben lee on the family ranch in west eden, texas. gideon was the sixth out of seven children, the last of five boys, and his parents — especially his father — made it obvious that there would be nothing special in how they treated him.
— as a matter of fact, the only person in his family who really cared about him was his younger sister, virginia. his mother did, on occasion, shower him with affection, only to turn it to one of his older, stronger brothers or his sister whenever they came into view. he grew up feeling unimportant and useless, and quietly resented his family from the time he turned six until he was about ten, when he found a way to get the attention they never showed him.
— he got the idea while he was in church one sunday. the sermon that week was about getting closer to god, talking to god and even hearing god, and he figured there was no better way to get attention than to pretend to be a prophet. of course, his first attempts were small — just saying that god spoken to him at all was good enough. but after a while, that wasn't good enough, so he moved on to interpreting signs "from god" by the time he was thirteen. he once slaughtered cows from neighboring farms and insist it was god, angry at them for being "disobedient", and burned half a corn field to prove one of his prophecies.
— and by the time he was seventeen, he was the most beloved (read: feared) person in town, and the only person who knew he was a fraud was virginia, but only because she saw him drenched in blood the same night that the cows from the dearling ranch turned up dead. when she finally confronted him about it, it was too late. he had started to believe his own lies, and he really did think that god was using his hands to carry out his work on earth.
— he ran away from the ranch two months later, on the eve of his eighteenth birthday, and hitchhiked through the southwest, working odd jobs and picking up followers desperate for some kind of sign in their lives over the next three years. with ten of them, the ones he thought of as his version of jesus's disciples, he turned what was once the sierra hotel into a sort of commune for him and rest of the second saints, the name for the cult he founded.
— by the time the commune is up and running, his methods of producing signs and prophecies grew even more intense, to point of even gaining national attention on the cult. it started mostly as rumors, that he and his inner circle were plying the cult members with drugs to get them to listen to gideon. that alone was enough to get him on the wanted list in most conservative states, and when the news that he'd personally kidnapped a woman vacationing near the hotel to join his harem (which is partly true, in a way, but more on that in a minute), the tide of public opinion turned against the seconds saints.
— ok so about the kidnapping thing, it's true enough to be a misunderstanding, if that makes sense. the woman, henrietta nichols (peep that last name fam), had been on vacation when she'd met him, but she only found out he was a cult leader after she'd spent the night with him. as for the harem, it's technically not a thing, but i'll be honest, gideon's a thot, and it less harem and more "a group of girls all falling for the same fuckboy" situation.
— but anyways back to henrietta. being with her was just about the closest to being a normal person. he left the cult for a month and half, telling his followers it was for "spiritual clarity" but really it was just the two of them taking a road trip around california.
— and so at this point, he's just trying to decide between henrietta and his cult and it's angsty and dramatic and honestly idk why i'm posting him here bc all i'm gonna do is use him in a oneshot (because "die for you" by the weeknd fits him/his situation so well) or something but anyways yeah, here's this hoe.