David Martin is a fragile person. He's naturally been that way since birth, and as a child, he developed too early emotionally. In grade school, he was trying to cope with things most children don't think about (i.e. philosophy, the nature of evil, the human soul.) His natural ethos was not helped by emotionally absent parents, minor OCD, and a long-term memory disorder. He is a geniunely "nice person" in spite of his heightened emotional sensitivity.

Mystica, however, is the manifestation of David's fear that evil exists for no reason. He's an entity born from the big bang -- a consciousness fully devoted to chaos with no motivation to do so outside of "because evil exists." His physical form is currently trapped beneath the ice of a long-forgotten glacier, held in limbo by an ancient song, sung in a dead tongue by a group of unknown people. His consciousness is capable of possessing other physical bodies, but his powers over reality and madness are quite limited.

As far as inspiration goes, I try to embody the writing styles/themes of HP Lovecraft, Hunter S. Thompson, and occasionally fringe horror writers.

I love writing for Mystica so much, that I've begun writing what I hope to turn into a full-length novel. It's coming along swimmingly, if I may say so myself.

Atmosphere? I go for almost purely a sense of darkness and hopelessness. It's really a trilogy of human error -- how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of the universe. And yet, with David, I think there emerges something much more; perhaps that the little interactions between people are the most significant, beautiful things in the world. But there are days where I ramp the darkness up to 11, cataloging the evil of the human soul. And then I toss in some comedy here and there, if only to downplay the negativity. I sometimes look over my work and think, "Jesus, did I miss a dose of Zoloft?"

Achievements

• 1x Tag Team Champion
  
• August 2013 Superstar of the Month (Thank you all so much!)
  
• 1x US Champion
  
• 1x X-treme Champion