Christopher Keynes

Christopher "Topher" Keynes, aka Gargoyle, was a major antagonist in the second volume of the manga series To The Abandoned Sacred Beasts, and a member of the Incarnates Program run by Cain Madhouse.

History
Growing up as an orphan on the streets of the impoverished town of Whitechurch, Topher was forced to steal and lie in order to live from a very early age, and eventually even as a child, he came to the conclusion that his life was utterly meaningless and that he had little point in carring on living.

When he was at his lowest point, the young Topher was met by a travelling evngelical clergyman, who taught him and many other young boys the ways of the Lord and of love, and so Topher became a born-again Christian. His faith finally brought the purpose and meaning he had craved into his life. Topher said that he "felt a flame light up in his heart" as he heard the Words of God, and he could hardly contain his sorrow when the clergyman left.

Still, Topher continued his mission towards righteousness and doing the Word of God until the civil war began and turned Whitechurch into a bloodbath. As such, Topher joiined the Northern side of the war as a soldier, because he felt that the North had the "side of justice". As a soldier for the U.S. Military, Topher was an exceptionally patriotic and proud of his fight for justice, and he was considered an inspiration by many of his fellows, even his superior and friend Captain Hank. Eventually, he joined the Incarnates progam led by Hank, Elaine Bluelake, and Cain Madhouse, in n experiment which would permanently change Hank into a monstrous beast (referred to as an "incarnate" with exceptional strength and abilities to help ensure that the war was won by the North (who at this point were losing).

Gladly participating, Topher was transformed into a dragonlike form, and took up the name Gargoyle. Topher loved this form and relished in "dispensing justice" (through death) to all of the Southern troops he could face. After a ceasefire was announced, Topher was outraged that so many Southern army "scoundrels" were still alive an unpunished, and horrified that the war had ended before he could "execute true justice".

After the war, Gargoyle returned to his hometown of Whitechurch, only to find that all of the citizens were horrified by him ad ran away, thinking of him as a monster. This caused Topher to hide in slums and eventually retreat to the slums' abandoned church, where he took up his mantle as a vigilante "protecting" the city from sinners by killing everyone who eveer commits cruel acts