Application: Last Eden

OOC INFORMATION.
PLAYER NAME: Boku
CONTACT: PM or dichrous 
CHARACTERS ALREADY IN-GAME: N/A 


IC INFORMATION.
CHARACTER NAME: Allen Walker
CANON: D.Gray-man
CANON POINT: 210, before meeting Kanda and Johnny. Plus another 11 months (ic) in games.
AGE: 18 (in-game aging in CC)

HISTORY: This kid is an idiot with a ridiculous backstory. Additionally, with 8 months in Crosscheck and 6 (3 ICly) in The Far Shore as dead soul standing in for the archangel Michael, 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...)


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.

(This is actually a grossly trimmed down version that doesn't go into his million and one crazy facets and quirks, so if wanted I can provide my old, far too long version with that. Sob.)

As for development from being a CRAU, see history above! He has essentially reverted more to his old, stable earlier canon self from the incredibly messy emotional trainwreck he first was from his canonpoint, and is the Allen who "in saving someone else, saved himself". It's actually frightening how well-adjusted he is now, if still a reckless, derpy idiot...

ABILITIES: Two previous games has made his already bullshit canon abilities a little more bullshit, so I will break them down and note some I'm definitely sealing/dampening. Unless they'd be cool/useful for plot reasons in which case I am more than game!! But... will otherwise make him more reasonable.

Canon

Innocence

Allen is an Exorcist, which means he's a host that was chosen by a "crystal of god" (actual religious ties to the Judeo-Christian God?debatable/probably not) commonly called "Innocence", a weapon of a light/holy nature that exists to directly counter a darker power called "Dark Matter". His is a parasitic type dubbed "Crown Clown" that he was born with, meaning his body acts as the instrument that shapes the Innocence. He is a living weapon because of it, as it takes the form of his left arm and has merged completely with his DNA, bonding with his soul and his heart. It leaves his left arm looking distinctly inhuman, even when it's inactive. The only way to separate him from it is to cut his arm off entirely, and even that didn't work the last time someone tried. It can also be sealed with ofuda so that he's unable to move or activate it.

Innocence is a weapon that must be activated before it can be spiritually sensed or used beyond being inherently tough, its natural properties versus Dark Matter—and in Allen's case making his left arm exceptionally strong and nimble (he's ambidextrous), though he achieved that only from training so much with it. Once activated, its power comes from how well it synchronizes with the host—with their heart and resolve, given it's tied to their emotions. Allen has broken 100% synchronization, making him a "critical point breaker" and technically a candidate for General of the Black Order if he weren't suspected of being a traitor and a Noah. This means he can transform his left arm into two forms, each with various abilities. The lower synchronization form of a claw, and the higher synchronization form of a giant exorcising broadsword (which requires him literally ripping his entire arm off to transform it into the sword). In either form he also has a white cloak that serves as a living body armor as well. The weapon is sentient to a degree, and he can use it (or it can use him) to push his body to move when he's too broken to do so on his own anymore. In general, the claw form of his hand has raw offensive power that can harm anything while the sword cannot harm humans/normal creatures at all.

Sword of Exorcism
The (current) ultimate form of his Innocence that mirrors Allen's own heart—the sword doesn't harm humans or flesh directly, but harms only that which is "evil", meaning he can selectively cut the darkness in a person while leaving the human themselves alive. It can exorcise, very generically even as Innocence otherwise generally doesn't, given he was confident if Lavi was possessed it would have freed him (but Lavi was not, Lavi was only Lavi, so it did nothing). It does have a corporeal form and mass to it as he can use it as a shield against attacks, but it cannot ever cut or harm normal humans and will pass right through them.

That said, as Allen himself is not human, but is also a Noah, it harms him as well and will cut part of him.

When the sword is active Allen can also use an ability called "Death Orbs" which is a series of massive explosions all around him, but this appears incredibly taxing. Additionally, at the the time I have taken him from canon he currently cannot use it, but as he gets stronger and more attuned to Innocence that at this time is fairly new to him in this he'll naturally learn it.

Cross Grave
When invoking his Innocence as a claw, he can use this ability either defensively or offensively. Defensively he can draw a cross in the air to form a shield, and offensively it serves to crucify and exorcise akuma by drawing the cross on them. It's a very powerful weapon offensively, but only in the sense of exorcism against creatures that can be purged by abilities that put them at peace. To an akuma it "feels good", presumably because of bringing that sense of salvation.

Crown Edge
Another ability with the claw invocation of his hand, he can fling crowns (yes... crowns...) from the talons of his hand like many, many rings. Explosive and ranged.

Edge End

Empowers a swipe from his left hand with a large amount of raw holy/light energy.

Crown Belt/the cloak

Possible in any invocation, it's an extension of the white cloak form and body armor of his Innocence. He can use it to wrap himself in ribbons to force his body to move, rappel around and push himself off the ground like the entire cloak is a living object, or use it to reach out and bind another person or object. It manifests as white ribbons he lash out with from his right wrist. Additionally, at any time he can harden the cloak and contort it to make spikes, a shield, webbing, or any number of forms he can imagine it taking. It can be as soft as down or as hard as his claw depending on his will.

The downside of his Innocence and the cost is that all of this requires a tremendous amount of energy. Life-force and caloric. He has to consume ridiculous amounts of food to sustain his invocations or even just passively given that it is a parasite, and the more he uses it the more it shortens his lifespan. (Can he become faint from overusing his abilities and not eating enough? Yes. Yes he can. It takes a lot because his stamina is shounen protagonist levels of ridiculous, but it's possible.)

Cursed left eye

Allen's left eye is cursed so that he sees the corrupted/despairing souls that power metal/Dark Matter weapons called akuma (not actually demons). While this is extremely canon specific and it's not implied that he can see ghosts or anything else of that sort, demonic energy/cells or corrupted souls could theoretically be a parallel. Humans that are half-akuma in canon don't register as anything strange to Allen until they activate the weapons/cells in them that are akuma in nature, and then he just sees a vague dark aura around them. This is the most likely panfandom sight he would have, being sensitive to seeing dark auras and having a sort of sixth sense more about it if something is clearly darker/demonic/similar to akuma. Ghosts he could probably have a sixth sense about as well, but no actual additional sight. He's just a cheat like that.

It's also implied that it serves as a seal of sorts on the Noah memory within him, but the abilities of his eye can be sealed as well through sorcery.

 

The 14th/Noah Memory

Just because he wasn't a complicated special snowflake enough already, in addition to being an Exorcist, Allen is also (somehow) paradoxically the Fourteenth Noah, Nea D. Campbell (and thus, more recently we have discovered—half of the original Earl/First Apostle whose soul split and whose other half is Mana Campbell—also known as Mana Walker, yes Mana Walker), two things that should be mutually exclusive but somehow aren't. At the time I'm taking him from Nea's memory is actively showing itself from time to time, in moments of great stress, injury, or proximity to the Earl. His aura also shows the colder taint of the Noah as well

This is also related to him being technically 35 years old (somehow???) and having lived before as "Allen" when Nea was first lived and promised a dying Nea he would help live again/protect his memories. Somehow he became a kid again and current-him has no memory (the fanbook earlier this month confirmed his ages and that they are/were the same person).

???

Don't ask, this canon is special and explains things at a slower-than-Berserk pace.

This has been permanently sealed/scrubbed from his soul since Crosscheck. Only canon updating would refresh the Noah memory in him and thus start the whole takeover again. (Maybe someday. For plot reasons. :3c But Nea also technically has enough canon now to be his own appable character back in his old body (maybe), so..)

Noah's Ark.

The memory comes with the ability of being a/the "Musician". This means he's also able to control and pilot an interdimensional travelcube of a city called Noah's Ark via uncannily being able to play the piano and, more importantly, a certain melody that controls the interdimensional travel. It's pretty massive inside.

Practically this means he's able to create gates at any time to the Ark, can pilot it to a location, and can make gates (portals, basically) to anywhere in the world he's physically been. Usually this ends up being a series of permanent gates that once someone is in the Ark they can access by opening the door in a building associated with it, although temporary gates to somewhere while bypassing the Ark itself entirely is possible. Within the Ark are many separate pocket dimensions as well.

Sealed, related to above.

Crosscheck

Spellcasting

Beyond his inherent powers as a Rook—which he has not kept as that was quite inherent to Crosscheck himself and something he naturally began to manifest with his rank up—Allen had access and, without the use of his canon powers then, the need to learn to tap into himself (his soul, what in Crosscheck was also mana) in order to cast spells directly from his heart. At least, that was how he first learned how in a moment of desperation in battle to ease the wounds of a comrade. Since it functions almost identically to how he learned from Cross to use his Musician ability ("weave your desires into it") and has demonstrated mild acts of sorcery in canon, similar to Cross's full use of sorcery from time to time (even if he has no IC knowledge how and it's likely related to his Noah memory).

He still dislikes it and will/can only use the limited amount of spells he learned separate from his Rook abilities in moment of great need. It also means he has the propensity and ability to learn new spells, but only again when under great duress and they take the shape of his desires—saving others. As such that ability to potentially become more proficient is the main thing he learned. Technically he even had actual arcane tutoring for it when he got dragged briefly to fake Hogwarts ingame!! But he was a really terrible student and can really only do this thing haphazardly by the seat of his pants, lbr.

• Don't be in pain.
  His first attempt at a healing spell, it doesn't even do that. At tier 1 it will relieve the immediate pain of a single person's minor wounds, much like a topical anasthetic, and persists for a short time. At tier 2, a single person's moderate to severe wounds will be numbed for around half an hour and they will feel no pain, much like high dose morphine. At tier 3 it will affect allies within a 15 foot proximity, persisting again for about half an hour. The effect feels cool and soothing and does not interfere with mental clarity. Note that it does not actually mend wounds. (He has not yet unlocked tier 3.)
• I shall not be stopped—Crown Benedict (upgraded version)
  A last stand self-cast blessing, status effect purge. At tier 1 it will remove status effects or curses upon Allen, draining his mana for each one removed. It will also give a brief resurgence of stamina, like a short burst of adrenaline. When the spell fades off though he'll be more exhausted to compensate. At tier 2, he'll also gain additional temporary resistance to whatever status effects were purged. At tier 3 the effect spreads to allies within a 15 foot radius. 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. (He has not yet unlocked tier 3.)
• Elemental augmentation
  The only thing he learned at Pigeonsblood (and only thing he was there to learn with Lenalee). His main knack was for ice-based magic and to a lesser degree fire, primarily how to take on an elemental aura with his hands for augmented hand-to-hand combat. 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.)

While there were other spells he learned—shields and buffs—his shields were him trying to mimic Cross Grave from his canon abilities (which he has back) and his buffs were based on his inherent Maestro abilities as a Rook (which I will presume he lost, given it wasn't something he consciously learned from scratch, but merely honed). If he could retain his Maestro Rook abilities I'd be intrigued, just since it meant his words and voice (and any music he'd play) would have an additional weight behind them, bolstering his comrades and drawing attention to him from enemies away from party members (tank taunt, basically), but it isn't an ability he retained in The Far Shore unlike his basic spell affinity.

The Far Shore 

God abilities

He was the reincarnation of the Archangel Michael who could look into people's souls, let's not even go there, lol.

Shinki
More seriously, as a Noragami-verse god, Allen had two shinki that he had named (Lavi who literally punched him in the face and made him do it when he balked and Lux Crownguard) and thus could, by calling them the names he gave them, summon them from their human/spirit forms to weapon forms, which would enable him to then Rend (destroy) ayakashi, similar to akuma in his world. Essentially, he could name a spirit (another PC) and turn them into a divine weapon to banish evil/negative energy from the world. It also meant he had a bond with them and could sense their strong emotions, good or bad, from any distance.

Teleportation
As a god who exists to answer prayers, he could of course teleport to nearly anywhere. Generally he needed a focal point, such as to his shinki or to someone actively praying.

Enhanced strength and agility
He was a god. Self-explanatory; his normal shounen canon degree of nearly supernatural strength, agility, and stamina were further expanded.

Insubstantiality
Being technically beyond the world of the living (dead/beyond death) and of the Far Shore, while he could exist on the Near Shore (the real world) and had a tangible body, people would either never notice he was there or, if he made pointed effort to talk to/reach them, realize him briefly only to completely forget about him or that he ever existed a moment later.

Glancing back on his canon powers and how ridiculous they already are, especially combined with minor Crosscheck retained abilities and enchanted gear—I'm going to go ahead and presume that all of this is going to be gone/retained with Michael who he no longer is because if he retains it means he's also technically an archangel. Which I mean... that works, it's better than being the Fourteenth still, canon did literally just draw his Innocence as angel wings in the latest chapter so who knows—but lol.

Mostly I'm curious what connections he'd still have to his shinki, if any, given both of them are apping as CRAUs as well.

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.)
  • He'd have his leather gloves and makeshift mask with Scan functionality that Lux gave him, but he left those in The Far Shore. Oops.

FACTION: Ice.

While handles and ridiculous light imagery aside (and where I defaulted at first), Allen's actually not a good fit for that faction as all, mostly due to the fact he has a deep distrust of anything to do with science teams and inventions (ahaha.. ha) and could not possibly be less interested in politics. Britishisms and the more polite nature of its citizens absolutely, he'd fit in incredibly well there, but anything more plot-related would fall flat with him. Ice, on the other hand...

Canonly, Allen is known and commented on by others as having incredibly deep bonds, notably the bond that his has with his own inhuman and semi-sentient Innocence, which he considers a partner and, upon reaching his current ultimate form with it, remarks "you and I, together we are one," a weapon to save the world. It makes him a very solo character, especially late in canon as he leaves the Order and everyone he's known, promising to be true to himself even if their paths have to part. The bond he has with his Innocence, though—that's forever and what makes him an Exorcist, and he'd die before cutting himself off with it, even with it lately being a hindrance and liability to him. Similarly, in The Far Shore the way he rationalized and understood naming other people, other souls to become his weapons—he saw it as the as the same kind of partnership as he had made with Crown Clown. Lux in particular, who he promised to be a weapon to save the world together with. (Part of his character development and opening up more to others and deepening bonds.) Tasked with a dragon, the creatures that essentially allow them to survive here—he would form a similar sort of bond with quite naturally (after initial uncertainty over it and hilarity, because Allen).  It would become a very grounding sense of purpose for him where he otherwise might feel adrift/out of place and stagnate. Beyond that...

In Crosscheck (and evidenced in his equips), dragons (and one in particular) were important moments in his development. Literally the day he first arrived was the day dragons first reappeared and were oddly berserk, driven such by the living grief given form of the Gisela dragon, Tianya. While of course he slew a few because they were trying to kill him and massacring civilians, he doesn't like it either but who wouldn't—Tianya was harder. Clearly a spirit raging in his own grief and thus driving everyone mad and creating the dungeon around himself because of that (or so Allen understood it because of the similarity to akuma—and later the dragon's phoenix wife clarified he was essentially correct), he wanted to save him... but of course, being so lost in his rage, that was impossible, and so they fought to the death—Allen's first dungeon kill (since he was also the only melee and tank of his group and pretty up close and personal), which defined for him that they were lost and raging souls drowning in their own grief, and to do so was a mercy to them. Tianya especially seemed to in death finally let go of his rage and grief, thus allowing him rebirth later at the hands of the phoenix, so that they could after centuries finally reunite. Allen would later go on to seek out the phoenix, Lianyi, who would fight him and Lux to test their wills. Realizing that because he'd destroyed her husband the dragon before, she'd finally been able to reunite with him—there could be no greater relief to him. And so from that encounter he also bears his blessed dragon armor (that got worked into his Hero uniform because... full suit of armor... ... no...).

tl;dr, dragons have always meant a lot to him since then. And Tianya was a point of guilt he had for the longest time. It'd be an incredibly poetic full circle for him—beyond the lone sentinel aspects of the Ice faction, which especially after being a reincarnated (guardian) archangel in The Far Shore, being a forever-on-his-own-but-not fugitive in canon who lives for the sake of others but is incredibly lonely, and being now in his third game and developing a very "lone sentinel of worlds" kind of mindset as he realizes he might forever be adrift like this—it's a very natural fit for him. He's also a shounen protag and will thus commit 210% to the role and be all over anything plotty so long as it's not politicky. Unlike Light where he'd be out of place with politics and science and modern society in general, and Blood which, while he's immensely spiritually powerful, he'd just find incredibly distasteful and probably the only faction he'd actually be somewhat against. He'd probably try to thwart it in his own quiet (or not so quiet if his Righteous Indignation gets set off) way of protest, which admittedly... that could be interesting...

Also Timcanpy would be incredibly jealous of his dragon at first, and it would be hilariously adorable.

 
OBJECTIVES: I've already outlined most of it above in discussion of his potential factions..!

In addition to that, while I'd have to see how it plays out ingame... since he's a CRAU coming from two previous games (and technically died in the first and was dead and a spirit throughout the second), that he hasn't truly had the Noah memory in him at all since he left his world... I think he's actually going to come to the realization this kind of thing, being pulled around like that—it's like his soul is adrift between worlds and just fills in gaps where it's needed. Which is heartwrenching and something he'll struggle a bit with, but especially since his canonpoint is at a time when his own sense of self was fading away and being eroded by the Noah memory—that he exists only as himself now and not the 14th, was dead but now isn't again... I think he'll suspect he did actually fade away in his world; that he no longer exists there. Regardless if that's what he ends up believing or not, Allen is a very much a "I can't help but want to save what's directly in front of me", so his focus is less on the "ok we'll get you here so I can go home" aspect, and very much on genuinely wanting to help the world he's now in. He is still adamant on needing to exist in his world as well, but... it's complicated now.

AS FOR ME, I desperately want and need to get him involved in plot aspects, especially anything to do with combat, survival, and exploration. He stagnates terribly and becomes unplayable without a driven need and purpose ingame, especially if there's anything with an aspect of "must be destroyed in order to save it". Without knowing deeper metaplot things I can't give more specifics, but—plot for a thinks-on-his-feet-but-with-his-hands shounen protag. Gimmie. c: Give him something he feels a need to protect and an ability to do so and he's there until the bitter end.

ANYTHING ELSE: 


SAMPLE.
TDM post! And his most recent thread in TFS.