Original P.O.D. Members: ORIGINS

TheSpare15: In Snow Hill, London there was a child born in the year 1886. The parents of this child were Phillip Newton Spare and Eliza Anne Adelaide Osman. This child that was born during the brutal English winter of 1886 was the couple's 15th child. When the child started to grow the mother knew that her child had a gift. You see the child always had a pencil in his hand and could draw anything he saw, almost perfectly. However, this was quite a sore spot for the father as he was a successful police officer and dearly wanted his youngest son to follow in his footsteps. One night the father came home in a drunken rage and the boy awakened to his father beating on his mother and ranting, "This can not be happening in my family, my son should be a police officer, not a damn artist." Then the fathers eyes turned to the boy that had woken up, and he approached the boy with his hand raised to beat his youngest child. In a calm and soothing voice the boy, only 5 years old at this point simply said, "I would not do that if I were you, art is not my only talent." The father scoffed and swung his arm to strike the boy...then in that moment the boy raised his hand and with no explanation the fathers drunken head was cut from his body and he fell to the floor...dead. As his mother wept the boy looked at the 14 other children, and even though he was the youngest he somehow knew he was now the man of this household. He looked down at his fathers severed head and simply said, "I am no longer the artist I thought I was....I AM THE SPARE 15!"