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| “ | Arrives the tight-knit wooden ship. The plaster body is absent. Instead, a tall wounded woman sleeping in its vessel, donning a helmet, wrapped in a robe, clutching a sword and a damaged shield. Overheard a conversation with the captain. A violent conflict with Freedom at the port in Gibraltar. They tell me, "Inside her is the plaster." And I walk away, silently believing Freedom craved liberation so terribly, she tried to take it for herself. But off the ship, she was dragged away. Freedom, locked up. Freedom, in chains. They tell me I have to take It out of her. So hook, rope, and peel. When it was done, Freedom stood motionless, Freedom stood still. I see the final bronze woman, and I feel as if, maybe even hope, she is only dormant now, and will awaken again. | „ |
| ~ Philip Reed, on what he did to Freedom while putting her on the capitol building, in his poem titled Freedom. |
| “ | Inside Freedom, Thomas and Nina are protecting America. Together. | „ |
| ~ Louisa Crawford on her family's fate. |
The Statue of Freedom, referred to as simply Freedom, is one of the two main antagonists (alongside the Air Force One Angel) in the alternate history analog horror webseries THE MONUMENT MYTHOS, the first installment in the franchise of the same name.
Originally being intended to be used as a statue on top of the Capitol much like in our universe, her purpose was twisted by Thomas Crawford and his anti-American sentiments, leading Freedom to be remodeled into some sort of suit that currently holds the remains of both Thomas and his daughter, Nina Crawford, after they were cut into pieces using Giza Glass.
Throughout her appearances, Freedom has attempted to break both metaphysical and physical chains, only to be brought down by those who wish to see it all destroyed.
Appearance[]
The Statue of Freedom.
Freedom is a nineteen-foot-tall plaster statue of a Greco-Roman woman based on Columbia, wearing a cap, robe, and carrying a sword and shield. The sword she is carrying is made of Giza Glass, causing everyone who is cut with it to be immortalized in the form of a Canyon Crown. Freedom's eyes have a very humane appearance, as they are actually those belonging to Thomas Crawford. In most documented appearances, she is also wearing a pelt of human skin in an attempt to "become" the woman depicted in the statue.
Biography[]
Freedom's Creation and Freedom's Creation[]
Freedom, the statue, was originally drafted and sculpted with plaster by Thomas Crawford by request of Montgomery Meigs, the engineer of the project, to adorn a statue representing liberty itself on top of the capital building. Crawford took six weeks for correspondence to Meigs, and he told him that casting is causing delays, due to them asking for her cap to be changed. Crawford went to Egypt to get a material for the sword she would hold, which would end up being Giza Glass, an anomalous substance related with many other entities. While preparing her sword, he noticed something strange when he was sharpening it. He had cut the tip of his finger with the sword, but it did not bleed, and he was still able to have feeling from it, even being able to move it with enough concentration. He then decided to cut off his own hand so he could move it at the workshop. This obsession with cutting himself up to remotely control his limbs eventually led Crawford to cutting up his own body and placing it inside of the hollow area of the plaster. His wife and daughter both noted that they could see his eyes behind the statue's gaze.
Approaching Gibraltar[]
After Crawfords's disappearance, an investigator named Alfonso Zaffino reported to Meigs that Crawford is dead and that the ship carrying the statue, named the Monarca, would arrive in a month. On April 16th, 1858, when Inspector Zaffino had arrived to their residence to ask Crawford's wife about his disappearance, she had, according to Crawford's daughter, Nina, screamed out "She has his eyes!" in a panic, begging for Zaffino, and later, the crew of the Monarca, to not take away the statue. This screaming had scared Nina and she ran out of the house. On April 18th, she had remembered conversations between her parents and remembered which ship was carrying the statue to America, and she had hid in one of the crates carrying a piece of Freedom beside the docked Monarca. She had sensed her father's presence in the statue. Both Nina and the crew of the Monarca document strange events that occur the coming days while approaching the port to Gibralter. Nina documents how she heard boxes being cut open and clay scratching on the ground on April 21st, and the crew also notes the open boxes, as well as some holes in the bottom of the ship that they had to patch with tar. On April 24th, Nina notes that the scratching was even louder, scaring her greatly, and that the boxes were cut again. She went to go scavenge for food on the ship, the crew had spotted her as she went to go hide in a crate, noting that she is afraid, but also noting that the crate was the only hiding place. The crew mention seeing her, but also mention even larger holes in the ship's hull. The captain of the Monarca admits that he cannot explain the damage. On the 27th, the crew had spotted Nina again, and also saw her enter a crate, but when they searched said crate, they could not find her.
Gibraltar and the Crazed Faller[]
When the Monarca lands in port in Gibraltar on April 29th, 1858, the crew had attempted to open the crates for customs officers, but nothing was found within them. Several large holes were found within the hull of the ship. In order for both of these events to occur in tandem, the parts of Freedom would have had to open holes in the hull with it's sword, evacuate the parts of the statue through the holes, and the reform itself away from the dock at Gibralter, carrying Nina with it. When Freedom is reformed, it carried Nina up a mountain through a jungle at very high speeds, cutting through many, many trees in the process. The statue would stare at Nina the whole climb up. It had eventaully found a cave, and it camped there, putting Nina down. It started a fire by clanging it's arms against rocks, and began sharpening it's sword. It would stare at Nina the whole time it was sharpening it's sword. After it is finished sharpening, Freedom would use this new, sharpened sword to skin Nina and put her inside of the plaster mold, and also place her skin on on the outside of Freedom. Many would report the obviously loud noises cutting down several hundred trees would make, blaming it on a "gigantic, crazed faller."
Commissioner H. Morgan and thirteen other officers would search the scene of the sound. They note two very important things about the scene, the first being that the path that Freedom took was very linear, with no bends in the path, and secondly, that the areas where the trees were cut were still warm to the touch, causing several forest fires. This means Freedom was moving the sword so quickly that the friction by itself heated the wood. The commissioner and other officers eventually find the Freedom statue in the cave, and connect the shape of the blade to the shape of the cuts on the wood. They also note how a hollowed torso was hanging on the plaster statue in St. Michaels Cave. They would dispose of Nina's remains at a morgue, and then write off what happened in the jungle and St. Michael's Cave as the "result of heavy winds." They would also find Nina's journal during a second investigation, which highlights her observations on the Monarca, as well as what occurred on the 29th.
Phillip Reed and the Final Bronze Woman[]
When Freedom is retrieved from St. Michaels Cave, it is taken from the port to America. Because none of these engineers could figure out how to lift a bolted statue to the top of the capitol building, they gave up almost immediately. Phillip Reed, the only slave on the project, decided to step forward and engineer a pulley system to lift up parts of the bronze casting. Before the casting and the pulleys could occur, though, Reed needed to do one thing. As described above in his poem titled Freedom, Freedom had caused issues while being taken back to port in Gibralter. When it had arrived, Reed describes Freedom not as a statue, but as a woman, donning the same cap, shield and sword. The engineers would have to tell him, the plaster was inside of the woman, and he would have to take it out. He then described flaying the woman using a hook to peel the skin off of her. He then explains how still she was after the process, and hoping that the final product, the "Final Bronze Woman", would awaken again someday. It's hard to say if this flaying was figurative, having to pull skin off of Freedom because of what happened in St. Michaels Cave, or literal, seeing a full fledged woman of the statue that he had to skin to get the plaster from. This is because of what we see during the ADA's attack on the capitol in 1977.
ADA Attack 1977[]
On January 6th, 1977, the ADA launched an attack on the U.S. capitol which caused the bronze statue of Freedom to fall from the top of the capitol via gunfire from the organization. This leads to the plaster model awakening, and going into a building. A video the starts where the person recording sees the head of the Freedom statue, before it ascends and we hear the scream of a woman, followed by stretching sounds. The statue skins the woman before wearing her skin. When the statue returns, it is much more human like in its features, in some ways that are physically impossible. Because the observer is a camera, an objective observer, one can assume that it is not an exaggeration or hallucination. Therefore, the statue has an anomalous property that it can become more human like if it wears someone's skin, giving Reed's poem a literal meaning. Although, the other option is equally as likely, as it's transformation may have failed from not having enough skin. After the attack, many would blame the statue falling on Philip Reed, and the ADA would use this to demonize him. Many organizations wished to purchase the statue of Freedom, but because of it's anomolous nature and political pressures, the U.S. government and the Department of the Interior decide to place Freedom in the Grand Canyon, which it then protects against trespassers with it's Giza Glass blade, similar to the Giza Guardians.
The Maize Murders[]
While in the Grand Canyon, Freedom is revealed to, via a classified file titled ST-FR 4.3099, kill thirteen people put into the Grand Canyon for either affiliating with the ADA, or being a "curious person", meaning that they had looked into the actions of the government and Maize far too much to keep them alive. A secondary goal is mentioned, which is to "protect Maize assets." What these assets are is unclear. Among these people, a notable one is Maya Arnoldson, sister of Nathaniel Arnoldson, due to her actions in revealing the Horned Serpent's existence. Maya doesn't truly die however, as Freedom is wielding a Giza Glass blade, which turns her, and the other twelve targeted victims of Freedom, into Crowns.
Mutually Assured Destruction[]
In an attempt to neutralize the Air Force One Angel, the US Department of Technology (DoT) had devised a plan to achieve this through utilization of Freedom, making the two anomalies fight each other. In this plan, called Operation Thunderbird, they would use androids as lures for Freedom, and when it got close to the androids, an array of False Children would activate and charge a substance released into the area called Giza Gas, causing the immediate formation of a Giza Glass prison for Freedom. The DoT would then carry this prison over to where the Angel was currently hiding, within the Babylon Forest. When Freedom finally breaks out of the Giza Glass, it encounters the Angel, and attempts to decapitate it, but with the Angel being able to fight back with incredible power, this clash between the two results in both of them "dying", and potentially in the Great Division due to the sheer amount of energy the Angel released in this fight.
Montyverse[]
In a splinter timeline created by the Angel's Ashes, it's assumed that Freedom's story mostly remains the same with minor differences, such as being shot down from the Capitol by the "Anti-Monty Association" instead of the Anti-Dean Association. This would remain so until her confrontation against the Angel.
The Great Division Aversion/Reversion[]
Freedom was killed after the great destruction of the Deanverse, with the Angel winning. Yet after a talk with Cthonaut A, the Angel ends up undoing the Great Division by dividing itself and spreading itself throughout the timestream, which leads to the moment of the Great Division not happening with the Angel being affected by its future divided self, and asking for death. Freedom, without doubt or even sentient thinking, doesn't hesitate to slice off Angel's head, presumably turning them into something much worse.
Redemption and Unification[]
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Trivia[]
- In our Universe, Thomas Crawford had 4+ children, whereas in the Deaniverse, Nina seems to be his only child.
- Nina Crawford doesn't even exist in our Universe, implying that Thomas Crawford's love life is significantly different in the Deaniverse.
- The reason Freedom's cap was required to change was due to it being a cap freed Roman slaves used to wear, and a certain U.S. official, who was at the time a slaveholder, disliked what it represent to the point of fits. This man was Jefferson Davis.
- In our Universe, Phillip Reed was still the original constructor of the bronze Freedom, creating a pulley system that split the statue into five parts to lift it to the top of the capitol building. The reason he created this system was because none of the other engineers in the project could figure out how to bring the statue up.
- In a twist of fate, Jefferson Davis became the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War, and when he lost, he was jailed, while Phillip Reed was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation and lived to be an successful engineer. Freedom had adorned itself to those who deserved it.
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