[ The Master and the Apprentice...]

Since Omen was introduced to Skeys and him in the Joe trolls, it's been mentioned more then a few times that Omen is Malice's dumb sidekick... it would appear that way but it is not true...
Omen is the one who taught Mal much of the things he needed to know to live so long and stay King...

When Soledormir was sealed away Mal was left to run wild but he wasn't the only one who was left with more freedom...

with Sol in prison Killy wasn't able to have as much privilege over controlling Omen, Judas could do more things without Killy taking over the steering wheel as much and if he did, Killy would get tried faster without feeding on his fathers power

Judas used this new flexibility to train Mal, it wasn't easy, Mal was young and wild, Judas had to beat Mal in a way that it not only displayed his power but his Intellect, he had to do this however to were Mal didn't threatened that Omen would take Mal throne...

Judas knew the /balance/ the Nightmare king was made for with his kind, It wasn't easy and took a lot of games of 'Hide the body' we're Omen would rip Mal out of his frame to teach him lesson, in more then one way, Light Eater start off really stupid but they can learn incredibly fast if their not stubbron...

Over the centuries Omen showed Mal ways to stay a live by using his assassin and coverness skills, Judas taught Mal how to hide in plain sight.

Nightmare copied the memories of their former selves so they have an idea of what people do but they don't always understand why people do certain things, Just to name a few, kindness, sincerity, flirting, courage, they all are unnatural for a Nightmare but some Nightmares as they get older they learn to fake some of these things

Been the first Nightmare and how he came into existence, Mal has both an advantage and a disadvantage compared to other Nightmares...Mal was made to be the Nightmare king, it was written in his contract but when he obtain his current frame, Mal was immature, in a Light Eater age he was only in his adolescence, unlike other Light Eater when they took over their Dreamer bodys and they become a Nightmare,the Light Eater is an adult, however Mal was not

Mal in the beginning like I said before was wild and reckless, aka he was stupid...Much like Catty but like Catty, Mal had enough awarenss and intelligence to learn but he needed help and that we're Omen come in, Mal not the type to ask for help nor did he understand he needed it but Omen had a /promise/ to keep...

After beating Maluce, Omen stared to teach him skills to stay alive, he taught Mal how to fight better, in using not only his brute force but use his head, but most of all how to survive...

Judas was trained by Alora who specialize in psychology and covert operations, Judas took those skills he leaned and try to teach Mal the same thing... The difference was, Judas is a person who was broken and made to act like a robot, Alora work to bring out his dormant personality out as Malice is pretty much a robot, he a living curse, Light Eaters only take about half of a Dreamer emotions, the negative ones, hate, anger, bitterness,spite, fear, etc...
they don't feel the positive emotions so they don't understand them

so Omen had to figure out and train Malice to fake emotions the Nightmare could't experience nor truly understand

(One examples of emotion Mal had to learn to fake was 'Blushing' it was very hard to fake because been embarrassment like flattery is foreign to Nightmares, its an emotion they can not experience and can't just simply act the body language of being embarrassed, there more to it, when a person gets embarrassed their /cheeks flush/ with color with their emotions, so if you can't experienced that emotion your not going to blush...a Nightmare has to learn a way around this, anger and frustation has a flush look, so a Nightmare has to train themselves to either control the temperature of different parts of their frame or control themseves enough to be frustrated on the inside to look flush but fake the outward appearance of being embarrassed...

it take a lot of know how and control to pull this off, its why some Nightmare struggle with mastering disguises, especially young Nightmares and the impatient ones

Back to Mal!

with Omen traing Malice, Mal learn to observe others, to pay attention to how they act, how they talk, how they interact with one another, even though a lot of things Mal didn't understand, but he learned that if he didn't mimic certain characteristics that people do he would stand out in society and that wasn't a good thing for survival...

back in the old days of Nightmare running rampid and killing each other for more power, the Nightmare numbers droped and then groups of whole chests were coming together to hunt and push backthe dark creatures.

Judas knew Mal had to learn to blend in or he would be killed if the young Nightmare king continued his wild behavior

It took time but Mal did learn to be deceptive and the older he got the better he was. there was plentey of trial and error in learning but Omen alway had his back and got Mal out of trouble...sometime the same trouble Omen got Mal in the first place.

there came a point where Mal could mingle with society and not draw unwanted attenion to himself and Omen was there ever step of the way to help guide and look after Mal

[ The Wolf in sheep's clothing...]

Mal got to the point in his lessons were Omen introduced him to making an 'alias' an identity Mal could use in the public that would not draw unwanted attenion to himself.

Mal needed this alter ego to do things that his Nightmare name could not.

Mal had an particular idea for his alter ego, He and Omen would hunt monsters, they later joined together with another group and together made the new shadowhunters

In their disguise Mal and Omen both were two of the fouders that formed the new Shadowhunters,about ten thousand years before present day Skeys.

Why Malice pick his alternate ego to be a shadow hunter was for a few reasons, one was a group was forming and what better way to gain access to informations and resources? by being a part of the shadowhunters Mal would get info on rivals Nightmares and others creatures of interest

( will continue DS posting of lore tomorrow... some time)