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[ CANON ] Avenger/Angra Mainyu || Fate/Hollow Ataraxia || reserved || 1/?
Name: Sura
Age: 16 years old
Personal Journal: N/A
E-mail: sunnyrainstorm.day@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: Plurk — suradalala || AIM — sunny_rainstorm
CHARACTER
Name: Avenger
Canon: Fate/Hollow Ataraxia
Age:
Timeline: Post-end of the visual novel.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this? N/A
Personality:
Many years ago, there was once a simple boy who was born to a poor family consisting of his mother, his father and his younger sister. They were not wealthy but they were happy, having enough food to not starve and a warm place to sleep. He worked hard in the forest and mountains with his father from the crack of dawn to the beginning of the evening, to support them by bringing home the fruits of their labors, and he was someone who never minded lending a hand to others, admired by both his friends and family. True, life in the village was static, unchanging and too boring for this boy's tastes but he was certain even that feeling of dissatisfaction with following in his father's footsteps, and his grandfather's footsteps, would fade away given enough time. Content to live out the tedious days of his life peacefully and uneventfully until his death, how on earth could anybody have been prepared for what came next?
Ripped brutally away from his home, and forced to undergo a practically endless cycle of being cursed, beaten, tortured, and branded as the container of all the evil in the world and being punished for it day after day after day, without relief; the result of this horror was understandable. The poor boy lost his mind, and his dignity, and his sanity in one fall swoop. He progressed through the stages of utter shock to anger and then to fervent hatred, madly cursing the humans, cursing the world, and cursing himself as well. But eventually he resigned himself to his role and rotted away at the peak of a mountain like he was supposed to.
This evokes the Humans Are Bastards trope hard.So when he was given a second existence as a Servant in the Holy Grail War, it's natural that Avenger was the antithesis of all the good in humanity entombed in flesh. He's quite lazy, perverted in regards to the ladies and laid back, preferring to take things easy and not bother with hard work, and has no sense of justice to speak of. Avenger is cunning, yes and he has no trouble adapting his plans on the fly but don't expect him to usually bother with long term schemes or complex agendas. He runs with what he's got and that's about it.
He'll shamelessly omit information if it's not asked for and needlessly drag out a situation on a desire for the novelty of it should it strike his fancy. If given the choice, he'll always select the easiest way, or even try to worm his way out of the situation altogether and he honestly doesn't care if other people see him in a poor light due to that. Avenger couldn't care less about what anybody else thinks of him. Having led a poor excuse for a life filled to the brim with physical and emotional torment, fear, despair, and betrayal by everybody he loved as a boy, and solitude has left deep, bitter scars that no amount of time or killing the humans he hates could heal in their entirety. His manner of speech is rough and uncultured, causing him to come off as rather rude and uncomfortable to speak with, and his manners are all but nonexistent.
Avenger prefers to behave selfishly. Outwardly, he's immature and whiny. If he's unhappy with the situation, it's guaranteed he'll let the people around him know via complaints or declarations of annoyance. There's an obvious casualness and disregard for social norms to him, considering he leaves his chest bare and never wears anything to cover himself up with but his tattered, red mantle and headband.
He is cynical, relentlessly mocking towards others, and bitingly sarcastic. He's also one of those people who is so... completely broken down with misery, hatred, pain and all the generally super terrible things that happened to him that he came out the other side of brokenness with mildly high levels of functionality, and a disinterest in bothering to distinguish between good and evil. His moral compass is seriously awry to put it lightly. He holds the belief that people should be true to themselves and do what they believe is right, regardless of how morally acceptable it is. Avenger wholeheartedly accepts everyone, no matter how horrible, just as they are and acknowledges carrying the burden of the wicked desires of humans as fine. He loves the world for it is worth hating to him, and tolerates and forgives humanity for their repulsiveness, divorced from his hatred of them, and this forgiveness validates their cruelty.
Evil unwilling jesus died for our sins.And while he is pretty much the weakest servant ever summoned by the grail, he's still pretty abrasive, bloodthisty and homicidal despite being utterly weak. He kills indiscriminately and pointlessly, when given the chance to, and Avenger really enjoys doing it as evidenced by the torn up corpses he leaves behind after the fact. In a fight, he attacks like a wild beast, giving it his all to make a fast, cruel kill. This is a twist of irony, considering that in the light of day Avenger is capable of assuming the shape and identity of Shirou Emiya
resident protagonist of a very sexist eroge game, living out life with Shirou's friends and quietly enjoying it, the boy who is his absolute opposite in every way, being selfless, thoughtful, and hard-working. Or perhaps it's better to say that Shirou is a great deal like Avenger was before his village turned on him and senselessly ruined his life, and that's maybe why he pulls a Grand Theft Me on him.So it's not so much that Avenger is actually a irredeemably fucking awful person at heart, as it is his prior sense of self as a kind, good-natured person who loved the world is thoroughly forgotten, hammered down, and destroyed by becoming what those who cursed him as a demon childishly wanted him to be; the source and embodiment of what evil truly lies deep in the darkness of humanity's heart. Serving as the basis for mankind's idea of evil leaves no room for warm emotions or even a flimsy sense of self-identity. That's the role he had accepted for himself. It's the role humanity's selfish desires forced him to be, yet he's demonstrated that he can be caring and concerned for people and their emotional well-being under certain conditions and be selfless and aspire to be a "hero of justice" in a certain sense of the word, although that could actually simply be a flaw caused by a certain protagonist's emotions. He too has the desire to "save others" though his definition of salvation is a tad different from that of a human's definition.
When he lived, he was a helpless sacrifice, forcibly made into the representation of what they childishly yearned for him to be, and yet it was by being loathed by everyone and by losing his very sense of self to absolve his village of any guilt in committing sins, a hero was born from the ravaged shell of Angra Mainyu.
[ CANON ] Avenger/Angra Mainyu || Fate/Hollow Ataraxia || reserved || 2/?
You are you, Angra Mainyu. You may forget this right away, but I will remember it to the end.
Strengths:
▶ PAIN TOLERANCE — With a backstory like his, it's no surprise that Avenger has a ridiculously high threshold for pain, no matter what's being done to him. When he gets injured or hurt, he'll yelp and whine but that's largely for show. Even major injuries can be endured or outright ignored if he doesn't feel like being a baby about it. Being in constant pain was a norm for his existence, so it doesn't slow him down greatly.
▶ LOYALTY — As horribly unbalanced and generally evil he is, Avenger is a loyal person who will refuse to turn on a Master he chooses to serve no matter what. His interpretation of personal loyalty is very different from the norm (he really doesn't see how killing you is being disloyal, honestly) but he means it when he gives his word. (How he means to keep his word is another thing altogether.)
▶ CUNNING — Avenger is noted to be cunning and can devise reasonably intelligent plans that will result in the desired outcome regardless of what happens to him or who finds out about it. (See: several of the events in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia.) He's bright enough, and offer some genuinely deep thoughts when prompted, but tends to not bother with thinking too deeply on many things.
▶ AGILITY — His coordination and speed are inhuman, given that he's still able to do a lot of the crazy parkour and anime-eque flashiness that tends to accompany the fighting style prevalent in the series with a reasonable degree of success even when he's the canonly weakest of all Servants that's ever been summoned in a Grail War.
Weaknesses:
▶ THIRD-RATE — He is the weakest of all Servants in pretty much every other parameter, and relies on his agility to hold his own. Avenger also is absolutely horrible at offensive attacking, and dies easily if taken unawares. His skills are third-rate as are his weapons, and his trump cards are practically useless if not used in coordination with Bazett's support, and even then can be negated.
▶ LAZINESS — Without the Grail, he's just an average person. He is no more intelligent than your normal villager, rude, crude, and is quite lazy and unmotivated. He has no personal goals nor any inclination to find one outside of granting the wishes' of other people. Given a chance, he'd take the easy way out of everything instead of working hard to reach his goals.
▶ INSANITY — As stated in the personality section, Avenger is a broken, insane fabrication of a person who was degraded in every possible way, had his dignity stripped from him, and had his humanity as well as his personhood taken from him, had been betrayed by everything he knew, and had his name expelled from Avesta, destroying all records of it. He wasn't treated as a human being, denied all agency and rights as himself and was forced into becoming a Heroic Spirit. From the moment he was summoned by the Einzbern family as their Servant, he had no way out or any way of escaping the situations he was placed in. He was brutally tortured and imprisoned in stone by his own village, he was imprisoned in the Grail by his death, and he was imprisoned in a hellish world by bearing his curses. His morals are screwed terribly and he is basically mankind's collective scapegoat. To make a vast understatement; this is incredibly unhealthy, and has done his mentality no favors.
▶ DEPENDANCE — His existence as a Servant is dependent upon the supply of mana from the Master he has formed a contract with. If the flow of mana is severed or the Master killed, he wouldn't be able to stay in the world for very long or take a physical form. Over time or if he uses his Noble Phantasm, the mana depletes.
▶ HATRED — Avenger hates all things. Hatred is the state he constantly exists in, so his spiteful hatred can be used against him like any other emotion and he falls prey to his anger easily. He's not exactly what you can call an emotional person, but he's violable and does react to what he feels. Along with a tendency to ignore the consequences that could result from doing something stupid or harmful, this can bite him in the ass. The Servant act overconfident and pay the price, as witnessed in his combat against Saber.
▶ BLOODLUST — His twisted idea of amusement is pointless murder whenever he allowed to do it and get away with it, and he regards it as his 'job.' Needless to say, this generates conflict with others.
Abilities:
▶ NOBLE PHANTASM — Possesses the ability to use his Noble Phantasm—Verg Avesta (False Copy of the Inscribed Natural Word)—to inscribe his wounds upon the target and reflect back all pain of their attack back upon the attacker. However this is a rather useless skill since he has to take the attack in the first place, and needs to be alive and conscious for it to work. And until Avenger is healed, the opponent's pain will never disappear. And the book itself is a copy of the Book of Zoroaster, Avesta is a support-type book Noble Phantasm that records events accurately and correctly out of its own volition. Avenger's narration describes it as more or less being on the level of an automatic typewriter that is useless in a fight due to it being unable to harm anyone, while its only advantage is that it is able to put indescribable emotions one isn't aware of into words.
▶ SERVANT — His status as an Heroic Spirit. Possesses the ability to shift into spirit form, the ability to form a pact with a human, and all the usual Servant benefits.
▶ COMBAT — Possesses high defensive combat skills (by defensive combat, this means he can hold back as many opponents as he wants in a stalemate without neither side gaining the upper hand for a long, long time) his style being basically while he can't win a fight, he can't lose either if he plays it defensively.
▶ HOLY GRAIL — Not sure if this counts as a power or not, but he is great keeping people alive when they're on the verge of death. SO HE CAN FULFILL WISHES AND ALL THAT, if the wish made is within his power to make reality. (This cannot happen in-game due to the fact that his connection with the Grail is severed by the transport out of his dimension.) He's basically the will of the Holy Grail and the unwilling source of its taint when his village's wish for him to be the incarnation of all evil was granted by his absorption into the Grail. He was also granted the power to use the Third Sorcery after becoming Angra Mainyu.
▶ ASSIMILATION — Avenger can copy the personalities and appearances of others as exterior "shells", like he has done with Shirou and Irisevel. (Assuming they have had some kind of contact with the Grail beforehand.)
▶ ANGRA MAINYU — His identity as Angra Mainyu; All the World's Evil. It is a curse placed upon him by his village that forces one to be the representation of all evil and changes their alignment toward killing people and hating everything relentlessly. Angra Mainyu is the living embodiment of humanity's sins and selfish desires and wrongdoings, and Avenger is supposed to be the antithesis of everything that is good and just.
▶ WEAPONRY — Possesses a set of twin fang-like daggers named Tawrich and Zarich, capable of using them to lock his opponent's weapons or in melee, but they're unreliable (they can break) and terribly designed weapons in general. His skill with using them to fight is average.
[ CANON ] Avenger/Angra Mainyu || Fate/Hollow Ataraxia || reserved || 3/3
[ The view, when the feed steadies, is of the darkened streets spread out before the camera from somewhere impressively high up in the city, and judging from the way he handles the device, the person toying with the pocketwatch camera has no real idea of how to work it beyond turning the feed on and pressing the buttons; the video keeps flickering on and off erratically from the video option to the voice function to text and back again to video.
Or maybe he's just messing around with it for kicks. It's hard to tell.
Whose who aren't deterred by the rapid changes may catch glimpses of ragged, red cloth and dark hazel eyes. Since this is a purely video recording, the aura of palpable darkness and corruption that rolls off him isn't noticeable
thankfully. Then the pocketwatch is set down on the ground and aside from the occasional noises of rustling, like fabric shifting and footsteps, Avenger is silent and isn't visible in the feed. The viewers instead get treated to the sight of the starry night sky, a blanket of stars spiraling across the fading black in the meantime. The watery light at the edges of the horizon indicates dawn is fast approaching.Apparently he's got a little bored with the technology and wanders off to toe and peer over the edge of the building he's on. Eventually, a snatch of his voice drifts back to the recording. ]
—... isn't Fuyuki City?
[ It sounds like he's talking to himself more than anything. Soon, a hand reaches down and unintentionally covers up the camera as he picks up the pocketwatch again. Guess Avenger thinks it's worth another attempt. The feed cuts off, leaving only the sound still recording as he fiddles with it aimlessly, his brow furrowing slightly. ]
Alright... uh, wait. Okay, if I—
[ A few moments pass before there's a bit of a clatter and then we have the video recording back! And casually seated on the edge of one of the buildings, we have the newcomer to this fair city. Unruly black hair, an obstinate facial expression, and more noticeable of all, almost every inch of dark skin inscribed with savage glyphs. He has a very important question to ask; ]
Hey, somebody tell me what the date is?
[ Avenger, it's too fucking early for this, goddamn. ]
Third Person:
This isn't the void, ■■ thought in bewilderment.
It's the first intellectual thought he's had in a long time—or maybe it was seconds ago. It was... hard to tell, really. Such a concept like time had creased mattering to him ages ago.
When the train finally lurched to a stop at its destination, and Avenger had
been kicked offdisembarked, stumbling slightly on the stairs of the train, into the depilated station, he already had a throbbing headache from the sudden onrush of overwhelming clatter and noise that assaulted him in unwanted greeting. His temples ached in protest of the clamor. Re-adjusting to possessing physical senses would take a little bit, much less the entire ordeal of having a physical form again. Ignoring the mutters and gawking of the insignificant humans hanging around the station, soon he'd exited the station and was wandering aimlessly through the foggy streets.Avenger walked slowly and dazedly stared (it wasn't Fuyuki City, no chance in hell. he knew that city like the back of his tattooed hands and this wasn't it) at the unfamiliar buildings that surrounded him, the old-fashioned streets and attempted to figure out what was going on. He grimaced. Let's start with the most pressing issue; how in the void was this personality still existing?
Hadn't the previous Self ended after all?
He remembered it clearly now, returning to that empty place outside of the world. His own end. Back to the original existence. Nihility. Fucking nothingness. The Self had known of death. Not that had mattered. His wish had been fulfilled, he had done what he couldn't before. What could compare to that?
His tired legs eventually took him to a worn, stone bench in some forgotten corner where he sat down and rubbed his face. Had another magus Summoned him to grant their wish? Another Grail War? What kind of magus was downright stupid enough to do that?
The answer is almost all of them.And if they were that idiotic, what sort of assholes would drag him to a dreary place like this without asking his permission first? Frankly, it rang out as implausible to him. The Servant was a one-time only mistake and upon becoming nothingness, shouldn't be possibly be feasibly brought back with the same copied intellect again. There was no chance this illusion could revived, since the Holy Grail was destroyed and the Wars that had accompanied it finished for good.Yet, it was seemingly exactly what had happened and Avenger stood, alone and lost, in this foreign city as proof. The strength to pull off something on that scale was more than a little scary to consider.
Even if it wasn't magi at work, there was definitively unsavory scheming underfoot here that he didn't want to bother with. Ugh...
And finally; okay, if he was existing here, fine. He had no problem with that. Many things could be accomplished as long as there is life, even a mere semblance of it. Avenger had completed his duties, and fulfilled his obligation to Bazett, and hence had no reason to not dawdle here for awhile. Didn't have any goals that would be delayed by this ridiculous occurrence. Why quibble needlessly over the details? It was pleasant to able to breath, move and consciously think here, in this place.
Well then, that begs the question of where was here?
His stomach growled loudly. Avenger put a hand over his bare stomach, flushing for a second at the unfamiliar sensation.
... Amendment to that first question: where was here, and did it have any food places where he could get a hamburger? Physical incarnation, strings probably attached or not, warranted a celebration for himself in his mind.
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