AJ

AJ was born Applejack Winston Marlowe on October 31, 1945 in Macon County Georgia. No specific records of his early life are available, as once he was signed to the Death Records label in the fall of 1966, a series of fires at both his family home, and the County Hospital where he was born destroyed all traces of his former life, as well as taking the lives of his parents. He has no known siblings.

AJ relocated to New York City in the Summer of 1965 after running away from home, and took up residence in the nightmare neighborhoods of the Bronx, and Brooklyn. He lived on the streets, making his trade that of a street thug. Once the Hippie culture came to NYC and Central Park, he alternated between preying upon and communing with the flower children depending on his mood at the time. By the summer of 1966, he has a flourishing career as an extortion enforcer for a local mob, and a harem of Hippie lovers who keep him high, and well satiated when it came to pleasures of the flesh. One night while he was waiting to rob the cash drop at the Filmore East, the body guards of Death Records producer Swan got to him before he could make his getaway, and he was captured. After a severe beating he was pardoned from certain extinction by Swan, the omnipotent, enigmatic Record Producer and brought before him. Swan was taken aback by the youths incredible good looks, and talents for savagery, and criminality. In AJ, he saw raw talent and potential, that just needed to be channeled and refined. AJ was taken to Swanage, Swan's palatial Mansion and made and offer. Swan offered to give him a job, to make him into anything he wanted to be. AJ's answer was simple, he wanted to be a Rock and Roll Star. The fame, sex and drugs being had by the likes of the Beatles, Hendrix, and Led Zeppelin were the things he most wanted in life right then, and he was willing to do whatever it took to get them, no matter what the cost.

Swan offered him all of that and more, and he only wanted one thing in return, AJ's signature in his own blood at the bottom of a thick contract. After three months of living like a king at Swan's mansion where his every desire was catered to and in some cases anticipated, AJ was only too happy to sign. Who needed a soul when you were going to live like this forever? However, all parties do come to an end eventually.

Along with eternal youthful looks, AJ received other gifts, powers that would aid him in the role he was to play in Swan's master plan. Telepathy, Empathy, weather and element control, as well as the ability to read, and subjugate the minds of the weak and undisciplined were just some of the unholy powers bestowed upon Swan's protégé', but not all at once. First he had to endure a baptism of fire, and torment that would destroy the young man who was just starting to come into his own, and remold him into an amoral psychopath. The perfect Rock Star.

Swan began to rip apart the fabric that was the boy from Georgia even before the blood was dried on the parchment. For 13 years, AJ served under Swan as his student, bodyguard, and submissive lover. Harsh, and painful lessons were the routine, pleasure was metered out only at Swan's whim or when he felt AJ deserved a reward for deeds performed. During this period, AJ never left the grounds of Swanage, although he did try several times unsuccessfully to do so. Each time he was caught, and severely punished. "It is not your time yet." Swan would tell him. "Your time is coming, and when it arrives, you shall rule the universe, and the world will bow before you." Through the haze of drugs, years of abuse, and cruel love, AJ believed, and waited.

After ten years of seclusion, Swan realized that perhaps it was time to start honing skills in AJ other than the ones he utilized in boardroom and bedroom. It was time to form the ultimate band. It was time to form FAUST.