Thaal Sinestro

"You should know better than to follow me into the depths of my fears. You know what they say; "Stare too deeply into the abyss, and it stares right back!""

- Thaal Sinestro

Overview
Thaal Sinestro is the leader and founder of the Sinestro Corps, having been forced to find a new weapon after being booted from the Green Lantern Corps for his "misdeeds."

Personality
On the outside, Sinestro is cold, calculating, heartless, far too prideful for his own good, and incapable of some emotions. Some would call him fearless, given the light he currently wields as a weapon. But that is far from the truth; behind the mask Sinestro wears, he is capable of a full range of emotion. He could feel the entire spectrum- and surely has before.

Sinestro generally suppresses things that have hurt him, which includes love, compassion, and trust. He's extremely hesitant to open up to someone because of this, having had been betrayed by someone who he considered a close friend, as well as general loss of his loved ones.

Backstory
we know he’s born on korugar no need to go over that

might’ve had a rough childhood idk man

''parents? idk but considering he told Abin that he and Arin are the only family he has, it’s safe to assume he either has a bad relationship with his parents or they’re dead. It’s also safe to assume that he was really a loner his whole life since he told Abin that he was his only friend.''

[This part may be rewritten once I get a solid idea for what I want to happen here.]

Since his world was about to enter a civil war, Sinestro turned to the past for help. He became an archaeologist and anthropologist, studying past civilizations on Korugar and trying to figure out how they handled their conflicts. Sinestro has always been driven to help his people and help others, it’s all he really ever wanted. He’d be the first one to jump and ask “What can I do to help?”

On a dig site one day, a green lantern crash landed near by. He dropped what he was doing to go help, only aware of an explosion or crashing near by and not knowing what had caused it. He rushed to the scene, shocked to find a green lantern laying in a ship, beaten and bloodied and clearly close to death. The dying lantern says to take his ring and fight- while Sinestro is just trying to process everything.

He heard a crash, went to investigate and help, found a Green lantern- a living myth- and said Green Lantern is dying and just told him to take the ring and fight. Another crash behind Sinestro and a Qwardian Weaponer had landed. He turns around and before he can do anything- before he even learns how to form a construct- he’s attacked and thrown.

Sinestro stood, quickly figured how to form a construct, and struck back. His constructs were still weak at this time, but fear fueled his will to protect his planet. He couldn’t begin to imagine what would happen if he failed. Somehow Sinestro managed to win, though. A fresh lantern, no training or tips- the previous lantern dying in a ship.

Sinestro froze after the battle, his heart pounding and vision spinning. He couldn’t hear or see right, the adrenaline giving way to shock to take over. When he finally collected himself, he still was confused. He wanted to help the dying lantern, but he could tell the other was so far gone there was no helping him. Sinestro had stumbled and fell, chest heaving and eyes still unfocused. He was distracted, fear taking it’s course.

If that thing- whatever it was- was out there, what else could be out there? What else could threaten his home? Threaten his people? What else could be out there that could threaten the universe? By the time Sinestro had snapped back to reality, the previous lantern had died. To the present day, Sinestro still feels guilty. That was the first of many times his emotions would take control of him and cost someone their life.

When Sinestro went to his hometown, he was immediately swarmed. Word traveled fast of a Korugarian wielding a weapon from myths and so many begged Sinestro to lead. While he didn’t understand the ring, wasn’t able to keep fully up with what was going on, he hid it well as he technically followed his people. They hadn’t specified how they wanted something done, so Sinestro took care of the issue the way he would- whatever seemed logically the best choice to him. He’d always think a while on it, trying to see the best option, but sometimes the best choice didn’t arrive until after one had already been made.

Sinestro was picked up by another green lantern one day- Abin Sur. Sinestro hadn’t thought much of the other lantern upon first meeting, just believing him to have been sent to retrieve him. Sinestro soon found out Abin would be appointed his mentor, and later they would become great friends.

During Sinestro’s training, Abin had introduced him to Arin. Sinestro and Arin had immediately hit it off, quickly growing close and eventually getting married and having a child. During this time, Sinestro took some things too far, other things he could’ve done better with, some he just outright made a horrible mistake with. One of them was putting Korugar on lockdown.

If he looked back now, Sinestro could find other ways to protect his planet, but while looking back he’d also knowledge he was afraid. That he thought putting Korugar on lockdown was the best option at the time. Nobody in, nobody out, he could focus on calming the civil war more now, focus on getting the crime rates down, actually helping his people. And he knew once his people were safe, he could work on his sector. Then he could expand out to aiding other lanterns- start small to get to a big goal.

The day he lost Soranik shook him. Sinestro thought he'd fixed kidnapping. That every true criminal had been put in jail, everyone falsely accused freed and given compensation. Before he could even begin looking, He’d gotten word that Abin had died. Sinestro and Arin attended Abin’s funeral and after returning Arin home, he was told he was to pick up a new lantern from Earth.

Hal Jordan would be the first human Sinestro would ever meet and definitely not the last. Sinestro tried to get along with Hal, though in his own way of course. While Sinestro was far from perfect, he at least tried his best to be as perfect as he could be.

Sinestro was too quick to trust, though, and brought Hal to Korugar early, just a few months after they’d begun training. The planet was still on lockdown, Sinestro was still worried, and Hal was quick to jump to conclusions. Hal started a fight with Sinestro on the spot, taking the more experienced lantern by surprise. Sinestro had no idea what everything really looked like, in his mind he was doing the right thing by putting Korugar on lockdown for a while.

The Korugarians had seemed to change their mind about Sinestro; he’d made mistakes, done bad things that he believed were good- the worst he had done was publicly kill a man who had done unspeakable things to innocents- but the Korugarians were quick to not want Sinestro to lead anymore. They didn’t like the decisions he had made.

Civil war broke out; the war Sinestro had been trying to prevent. Arin died trying to escape, Sinestro had been captured and stripped of his ring, exiled and tossed into a world he had no idea the name of. Stuck in a world- possibly a universe- that Sinestro had no idea how it worked, he went back to his roots. Archaeology and Anthropology. He dug, searched for answers, and found an old enemy.

Sinestro was weary at first, ringless and no way to truly hold his own against the weaponers. He had gotten idea shortly after spotting them, though. If the green lantern rings had been made, maybe he could make his own ring.

Sinestro decided to finally fully embrace his fear, forging a yellow ring and a power battery to go along with it. Using the ring, Sinestro escaped Qward and set out on his original goal, as well as getting back at the Green Lantern Corps.

[There's more to come after this, but this is all I have written so far.]