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BASIC INFO NAME: Allen Walker A.K.A.: Red, Cheating Boy "A", The Fourteenth CANON: D.Gray-man HOMEWORLD: Victorian supernatural AGE: 18 (16-17 in canon) GENDER: Male SPECIES: Human...? FIRST GLANCE APPEARANCE:  ■■■ HEIGHT: 5'9" (he grew... a little) BUILD: Slender, compact and very fit HAIR: White (originally reddish brown) EYES: Pale grey DRESS: Victorian gentleman, waistcoats and ties, gloves SCENT: Leather and vanilla, as a good part of his uniform accent is generally leather and there's always a faint sweets/bakery scent to him and Caren blew up his gloves with vanilla perfume VOICE: Light masculine, soft but gets loud when emotional, faint British accent (pronounced when angry) DEMEANOR: Attentive, direct. Has very straight posture and holds his shoulders back. Brisk walk. Reserved with his personal space. ABILITIES Innocence Left arm is inhuman, a holy weapon of Innocence called Crown Clown. He can transform it into an exorcising blade that only hurts "that which is evil", a destructive claw, and summon a ethereal cloak that functions as semi-sentient full body armor and occasionally resembles angel wings. Physical » Circus acrobat agility » Above normal human strength and stamina » Seriously, he can catch (blood) bullets » Amateur swordsmanship » Limited martial arts skills » Ridiculous metabolism (and corresponding appetite) Magical Due to his time in Crosscheck without his Innocence, he was forced to learn proficiency in basic spellcasting beyond his Rook status. » Don't be in pain. A spell of pain relief. The effect feels cool and soothing and does not interfere with mental clarity. Note that it does not actually mend wounds. » I shall not be stopped—Crown Benedict (upgraded version) A last stand self-cast blessing, status effect purge. It will also give a brief resurgence of stamina, like a short burst of adrenaline. As this is a last stand kind of spell and was born out of a moment of desperation, the moment his adrenaline fades it's likely he'll drop like a stone. » Elemental augmentation Primarily how to take on an elemental aura with his hands for augmented hand-to-hand combat, main affinity for ice and fire. Still a novice, especially since he regained his Innocence in The Far Shore and has no actual need or desire to use it. (He's really uncomfortable with magic even still, okay.) Cursed Eye Left eye is cursed to see the souls that dwell within akuma (very canon specific), can allow others to see what he sees with its evolved form, and reacts in a more limited fashion to Dark Matter. Outside his canon very purely evil essences and spiritual creatures/souls his eye will react to with a vague sense of aura (and a headache). Noah Abilities That bastard is gone and he doesn't have to deal with any of that anymore thank you very mu—he can still play the piano somewhat, although a lot of that is largely to tutoring from Caren Orstensia. PERMISSIONS BACKTAGGING: ✔ 4TH-WALLING: ✘ THREADJACKING: ✔ MIND-READING: ᴀsᴋ FIGHTING: ✔ ROMANCE: ʟᴏʟ INJURY: ✔ KILLING: ᴀsᴋ

Allen Walker previously of crosschecks and thefarshore PERSONALITY Allen is your atypical shounen hero in that he's actually a very gentle and kind boy who wishes to save others, regardless of whether they're his enemy or not, or even if they're a total stranger. He can't help but be moved by the world immediately in front of him, and if he can help someone then he wants to—something he doesn't see as a noble calling or sense of duty, but merely his own compulsion. He literally can't help it. But as his left arm also makes him a living weapon—a "destroyer"—and he exists to destroy akuma in order to save the human souls otherwise left to rot within them. Thus he wants to be a destroyer who also saves. A lot of his more gentle nature and polite manner is a front as much as it's genuine (and sometimes he's an outright faker), given that part of his nature he forcibly adopted from his father at a young age as a coping mechanism. He's made it his own, but still retreats behind his smiles and forcing a polite front, even when he doesn't feel that way. (While he believes he is a proper gentleman, he really isn't.) Which is also because— Long before plot reasons broke him, he was originally a horribly foul-tempered and foul-mouthed hot-headed brat. Someone who was angry at the world and wanted to get stronger so he wouldn't have to depend on anyone; someone who didn't think he needed friends (and didn't think he'd ever have them). He's still that hot-blooded kid underneath his smiles and manners, and it comes out when he's nettled enough and is the driving force behind his stubborn Will To Live and Fight. He also tends to feel everything incredibly strongly and will never back down from how he feels. At his core, he is Allen "Walker" because of his father's mantra (shhh plot, shhh) to "don't stop, keep walking", later on deciding for himself that he'd make his path his own even if everything seems to conspire to force him a certain way. Even if he doesn't know where that leads. INVENTORY Timcanpy. An adorable sassball of a golem of randomly changing size, he finally reunited with Allen in The Far Shore. They're inseparable. While Timcanpy technically has some stored spells in him (from Cross), demonstrated in breaking a magical barrier—I'd presume that would be sealed. Enchanted/"synthesized" gear. Gifts from friends in Crosscheck, they rarely leave his person and are his new uniform. They carry traces of the mana/"signature" of the people that made them and feel as they did to the touch. Boots of waterwalking/water resistance. Originally a gift from Gilbert Nightray after he accidentally melted Allen's boots in a dungeon (oops), they were later enchanted with water dragon scales. Hero uniform of a Rook augmented with draconic/dragonguard plating. A gift from Lux woven with her energy and Krory's, it contains the blessing of the Gisela dragon Allen once fought for and did so by slaying him, letting him be rebirthed by his wife the phoenix. It offers fire/holy resistance and boosts holy powers, additionally being far lighter than armor plate should be. Featherlight pin. Infused with lovespur and bearing both Lenalee and Lux's signatures, it gives a speed and charm boost, making him very light on his feet. He wears it over his breast where his old Rook (♖) badge used to be. Ring of the Phoenix. Originally one of the enchanted rings given to all Heroes infected with the zombie plague virus that culminated in the Merilorn Forest nightmare, a matched set was later synthesized by Allen and Lux (sort of accidentally) with ashes from the Phoenix (the same who was the wife of the dragon whose blessing was fashioned into Allen's armor). Diamond and gold melted by phoenix ash, it bears a resemblance to the rings of Innocence Allen can use with Crown Clown and is warm to the touch. Functioning only in conjunction with its partner, if either Allen or Lux take what would be a deathblow while in loose proximity to each other, the other will take half the damage, thus sparing the wearer. Both the rings would break in the process however. They also grant a mild fire resistance. While the making of Lux's ring was intentional, the making of his own was by accident. He's still a bit annoyed about it. It's because it had been stuck on his hand ever since Merilorn Forest—and still is. He's not used to wearing rings and always covers it up with gloves anyway. Star pendant of rejuvenation. From Sion Astal, this wood-carved necklace boosts mana rejuvenation for Allen so long as he wears it. Without the same demand of Enprise-based mana it has less direct effect, but would still boost his spiritual power and assist with maintaining his invocation of Innocence similarly. (It might also just be a placebo effect from feeling like a part of Sion is with him.) HISTORY This kid is an idiot with a ridiculous backstory. Additionally, with 8 months in Crosscheck and 3 (ic) in The Far Shore, he's come pretty far.  From crosschecks  "Because of how this world works, we're all connected. And that gives us a responsibility to these people..." Allelujah Arriving as an excommunicated fugitive-Exorcist in Enprise, he was enlisted as a Hero and, though without his Innocence or any of his abilities, similarly purged of the Fourteenth Noah's growing influence within him. Wary but stable for the first time in months, he was quickly befriended by Sion Astal (Legend of Legendary Heroes) and Allelujah (Gundam 00). Both of them struck a chord in Allen, someone so adamant on existing in his own world—someone so lonely without his home and comrades he knows he can't return to—that they were all bound similarly and had a responsible to protect not just the people they'd known, but this world's as well. And that that was what joined them together. Later on, after the battle on the plateau where Lux Crownguard died in defending him, Allen would admit to Lavi how he wanted to exist in this world too. And with Lavi accepting that—and standing at his side for it—he was able to accept that as okay as well. Additionally, despite vaulting himself over a castle railing and running away from Lavi when first the other Exorcist arrived and nearly trying to flee Lenalee as well (as if he could), with both of them accepting Allen so openly as Allen despite leaving how he had, his relations with his comrades have healed. At least as long as they aren't in their own world. Hero life suited Allen incredibly well, and he grew in talent as a Rook (defensive magic-wielding class, the tank, sort of a paladin), re-centering himself without the fear of losing himself to his Noah memories as days passed. Even if to the very end he stormed dungeons head-first and would nearly get himself killed in the process repeatedly. He made it his purpose in Enprise to seek out dungeons and why they came to exist in the first place, to destroy the raging souls that spawned them and reclaim the dungeon cores that fueled their sadness, as they resonated with him as akuma had. As to the war between Blanc and Noir—it was the first war between humans he had to fight in and he hated it. While he would fight to protect innocents and his comrades, he refused to take another's life and would instead focus on defending and escorting, choosing to knock out Noir troops when pressed to fight. During this time he also roomed with a boy-crazy, typical modern-day highschool cheerleader-type who didn't mind nudity and found him excessively weird. How he survived that is anyone's guess....  Since he was adamant on getting stronger but could not use his Innocence and all power in Enprise were spells or magical weapons, he learned how to tap into his own mana and cast spells, primarily with the help of another (very different kind of) exorcist, Caren Orstensia (Fate/). She told him spellcasting was weaving your desire with motion and the words that fit it, something similar to how the Musician's ability with the Ark worked, and as such it's the one new skillset he's kept with him since Enprise. Even if he's pretty terrible with magic and only learned spells in moments of desperation, and his repertoire as such is only a handful of healing and defensive spells that he usually forgets about until similar moments of need. Sorcery reminds him of Cross. Lenalee also convinced him to come along to fake Hogwarts Pigeonsblood for a few months when war efforts and diplomacy opened up the borders, however... he was never really the best student. At all. On the few occasions he actually went. (He was rather relieved when the next operation called them back.) "It is also easy to forget ourselves—that you are not so simply an exorcist, a hero, but that you are human, that you are Allen Walker. [ His friend. ] And to know what it is that you safeguard and defend will only make you stronger still." Sion Astal And yet the most marked change for Allen came from Sion striking him over the head with that sentiment—that even yes, as Heroes who lived for war and to fight in dungeons, sworn to exist to protect people, who were brothers in arms and everything Allen had always cherished... that they could live as normal people did when they weren't fighting as well. That he saw Sion do, as he went to live in the countryside with the lady who was important to him—Sion who was similar to Allen in so many regards, yet strikingly different in others. Who would smile and hold himself in such a way like one who was going to burn himself out and remain not as himself anymore once it passed—who Allen promised to save from that or any other fate, from himself.. Sion who despite all of that remained a King, a Hero—and also lived as a normal man. Happily. Between battle and sorrow. With an enviable grace and ease. To Allen, who didn't realize (didn't want to realize) how lonely he was until he had comrades again, who would not be so melodramatic as to consciously believe that sort of life would never be for him... also never really expected that kind of thing would ever be for him. There wasn't time for that, he had too many other things to worry about, etc., etc. And yet Sion whose demons were deeper and darker than Allen's were anymore—he still managed that. Sion who would so gently admonish Allen so— "Wouldn't it be silly, Allen, if you couldn't enjoy the very thing which you fought to protect?" Sion Astal It's still something that Allen struggles with and finds himself conflicted over to this day. Especially that throughout the eight months he spent there, he would befriend Luxanna Crownguard. Someone as righteous and impulsive as he was, who struggled similarly with the morality of the war they were facing and her own estranged home. Someone who, when he met her, was so very lonely when he himself still was—he couldn't help but want reach out to her. To cheer her up and help her find her sense of purpose. Something that started as a simple desire to reach past the painted fake smile she wore that led to promising on the night she died to save him in battle, even if quietly to himself, that he wanted to make her happy—a promise he hadn't made since he decided to follow (to live and exist for) Mana. Lux, who accepted almost every part of him and saw even his curse as more gift than something terrible—who only couldn't accept that he saw himself as a weapon. From then on, they were inseparable; fighting and sparring together, exchanging gifts (his bequeathing a set of armor to her he'd fashioned after Crown Clown for himself after realizing he still retained enough of it within him to manifest in times of great need) and talking at length. Until he'd depart for Pigeonsblood to train with Lenalee—with the promise he'd join Lux later and live with her in the new home she was also departing for.  Like Sion had. If you stood on your head and squinted, it might not be platonic. Or it could be. Over the months and occasional tumultuous episodes of runaway emotions that ended in impromptu kissesit's debatable what they were—other than speculation could make Allen get rather prickly at best, and neither have ever wanted to name it. And for a few months it was probably the most comfortable, the most normal he could ever recall feeling. Until they both entered the dungeon within the cursed Lake Lebedche, however—and died together there, not to wake again in Enprise. From thefarshore   Waking up again in the Far Shore—back on earth but over a hundred years too late for his time—as a soul chosen to be the latest reincarnation of the archangel Michael, Allen was quickly thrust into how lonely the position would be beyond the fact that living humans could no longer see or remember him for more than brief moments of time, but when he discovered the shinki that would be assigned to him (the soul he would be expected to name as his divine weapon) was none other than Lux. Just that, as all shinki, she had completely forgotten him and everything about her life. Unlike Allen as a god, who remembered everything. Forbidden from and bound from discussing her life or their past at all lest he make her fall and become an ayakashi, he forged a new partnership with her as god and shinki. The thing that was expected of him and of course he couldn't say no to, she'd be alone then and risk either fading from existence or becoming an ayakashi (what he understood as essentially an akuma), and yet the thing that was an unexpected parallel and point of development for him: promising a partnership with her not unlike they he had with Crown Clown (who ironically he regained as well), where they would be a weapon together to save this world then—even if she couldn't remember him and all the times they'd fought together in the past. What he didn't expect, as his self-identification as someone who existed as a weapon to save others had been the only aspect of himself she could never accept and was upset by—is that was how she now understood herself and wholly accepted and believed in it. And that Allen now was the one who had to convince her she was human too, that that they were still alive in all the ways that actually mattered—that you could be both of those and not compromise yourself. Human and weapon both. "And that's how you can fight the way that you do. Because you see yourself as both, and because you want to protect this world and everyone, whether they are friend or foe. Hearing you say something like that..." "It gives me hope that I can do the same. That maybe we aren't so different after all." Lux Crownguard Developmentally, it's the most healthy and at-peace he's ever been with his belief of being a weapon (a twist on his canon declaration of "I'm no longer human") and without feeling like he's lost or compromised a part of himself. That maybe you could be human, could maybe have parts of a normal life—be happy... and still exist as a weapon to save others. Primarily because he came to that belief not for himself—but for her, because he couldn't stand the shell of herself it seemed she had become when considering herself only his weapon. In saving her, he saved himself.  Just... she couldn't remember enough to realize the significance.  Lavi was also someone he met again in the Far Shore, who was also dead in their world and a spirit now... and who was also a shinki. And who thus also didn't remember—or, because he couldn't remember anything of himself... was even really Lavi as Allen knew him anymore, as "Lavi" was one of 49 aliases he had as a Bookman, and all of which (and his inner self as Junior) were a muddled mess without cohesive memories to keep them separate.  It broke his heart. Repeatedly. And he never once stopped trying to re-befriend Lavi, even when the other was callous and angry and at times so very much like how he'd been briefly on the Ark that it's made Allen question if he ever truly knew "Lavi" in the first place—as he also learned, when Lavi began to regain some of his memories... that "Lavi" wasn't even his real name, but one of 49. Allen was the one to insist "Lavi is Lavi" however, and that whoever the person was Lavi wanted to be—it was up to him to decide. As for his names... Lavi is also the only other shinki for Allen to name—and is in fact the only one not assigned for him to do so, but in fact went Nora/"Stray" for Allen (became shinki to another god while still being named and serving his primary one), something highly frowned on. It's something he had to nearly bully Allen to do when the two were stranded in battle against a giant ayakashi threatening a village, as the thought of naming his friend as technically someone to serve him, even if he saw that kind of thing as a mutual partnership with Lux was something he balked at even when battle was necessitating it. But Lavi punched him in the face and demanded him to—Lavi who had been so averse to Allen and had tried to avoid him ever since it became painfully obvious they'd once known each other, had tried to deny and squirm out of them ever being comrades or friends... was the one believing in them then. "...I've told you, if it's the two of us, we can do it." Lavi While injuries from battle (Allen passing out) after that stopped them from discussing what that meant for quite some time, or if Allen should rescind the name (and thus bond) he had given Lavi in order for them to fight because the battle had passed... they met again at the Tanabata festival, where Lavi actually was the one to say being a shinki to both Allen and his own god—he was okay with that. And finally, in the crushing emotional relief of that, the two of them could start becoming friends again. As painful as that still was for Allen. Not long after that, Lux finally began to regain her memories—and she remembered him. Not everything—but all of their time previously in Enprise. And after all of the friends he'd had and then lost, either outright or through them being shinki and thus not remembering him, and with humans still alive never realizing he even exist more than briefly—she was the first and only person to actually remember him as Allen Walker.  It was... an emotional reunion. And not one he will ever talk about. Because he is a gentleman. But they're joined at the hip as a result and Lux will forever be the person he is the most comfortable and thus himself around. Which is actually rare for someone as selectively cagey as Allen. He'd also never call her his girlfriend and cold-cock the man that implied it because how rude, assuming that. Beyond his struggles with his shinki and throwing himself into answering prayers and fighting ayakashi because what other purpose did he have anymore, he lived a relatively peaceful life at his temple which... was actually a very tiny cottage of a church, woops. It attracted a lot of wild birds and local wildlife somehow. Probably because of Lux. But he did discover Vegas while he was there and disappeared for about two weeks to become its high-rolling god. (He'd later claim he left Lux a note saying as much, but Timcanpy probably ate it...)

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