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Oct. 16th, 2018 06:04 pm
   IF WE'RE DESTROYERS AND NOT SAVIORS
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| » Horrible at drawing » Horrible at writing. Was being tutored in penmanship for his lack of an education to little success. » Counts his money first thing every morning » A maestro at the piano, but not for being taught. It's a supernatural ability he doesn't understand. » Can't read (normal) sheet music » Insomnia due to his left eye » Dislikes people who don't appreciate money/working for themselves » Can't drink alcohol, it gives him PTSD » Enjoys baths immensely but only if he has Timcanpy to polish.. » Ridiculous metabolism (and corresponding appetite) » Would eat his weight in meat for breakfast if he could. Or just in general. » Favorite food is mitarashi dango, favorite drink is mango juice » Favorite colors are black and white/monochrome and Timcanpy's yellow. » Modest chess player after starting out a very poor one » Vicious cardshark, cheats at anything you can do sleights of hand with. » Juggles and does acrobatics in his free time » If you cook for him » » DEBT. debt debt debt debt... » In ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} duplicitylog he may have shoved his network device into the back of his sock drawer where it's remained, forgotten. Oops. | @ duplicitylog
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THIS IS THE ONLY PATH I CAN TAKE...
IN ORDER TO FEEL ALIVE
ABOUT
Allen is your weird shounen horror hobo-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.
He's also an incredibly tragic, lonely boy who carries a lot of sorrow.
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 orphan brat who worked in a circus where he was mostly just beaten up and abused. 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.
He's also cagey af about anything truly personal and to most people under normal circumstances will seem a very polite, sweet kid who's quite upbeat/cheerful as he crushes his real feelings behind a smile. And who when rubbed the wrong way can be quite prickly... and cheeky... and sometimes an outright brat... but at his core he has a heart of gold and just wants to save everyone.
He's also an incredibly tragic, lonely boy who carries a lot of sorrow.
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 orphan brat who worked in a circus where he was mostly just beaten up and abused. 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.
He's also cagey af about anything truly personal and to most people under normal circumstances will seem a very polite, sweet kid who's quite upbeat/cheerful as he crushes his real feelings behind a smile. And who when rubbed the wrong way can be quite prickly... and cheeky... and sometimes an outright brat... but at his core he has a heart of gold and just wants to save everyone.
ABILITIES
InnocenceAllen is an Exorcist, previously of the Vatican and Black Order but not so much anymore, which means he's the accomodator of a holy weapon known as Innocence. His is parasitic-type, meaning his body itself is the weapon and it's a part of him. Specifically his left arm is his Innocence and thus inhuman, becoming Crown Clown when invoked. 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. He has a number of different abilities, destructive and shielding, with its various forms. The cloak can also puppet his body for him when it's too broken for him to otherwise continue moving (in order to keep fighting). He can also control ribbons from the cloak that can be used to bind people or rappel himself/be Spiderman.
The left arm in both its active and inactive forms is essentially indestructible to everything save other Innocence and Dark Matter, both incredibly canon specific as perfect opposites. Similar panfandom materials (holy and dark) would have a much lesser effect. Against metal, human materials, and other magics however it is completely impervious. In its active form its smooth like marble in black with gold trim and white, delicate but wicked claws. Inactive it's a deep blood red, leathery but smooth, and hardened like carapace where it's plated over his knuckles. There's a golden crystalline cross embedded on the back of his hand that has a very faint holy aura to it when inactive.
Cursed Eye
Allen's 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. Nothing panfandom will register to his eye, but characters sensitive to magic and curses will notice a dark energy/curse seems to be residing within the mark, notably the pentagram. He can detect akuma up to 300m away. When in his world it tends to wake him up every night with "nightmares", where he has a connection with akuma around the world and hears their cries, and the eye roils and tries to seek them out. In games it tends to give him insomnia as well, just because the sudden silence becomes loud to him.In Duplicity because Robin is there and an akuma made in (at least a 90% similar) the same way as akuma from his world, his curse reacts to her and so when he is around her his left eye becomes visibly red. He doesn't have have control over it, but around a soul who hasn't killed humans, not even the human who made her an akuma, and doesn't grieve the same way, his eye is calmer. If her soul became distressed however, so would his eye.
Physical
» Circus acrobat agility/"nimble pest"
» Above normal human strength and stamina (he's doing this when the series starts and he was a scrawny bean compared to now)
» Seriously, he can catch (blood) bullets
» Amateur swordsmanship, most of it swinging a sword as big as he with only one arm like a plank (literally)
» Limited martial arts skills
» Ambidextrous
» Excellent night vision
EXORCISM
Allen's sword takes the true form of his heart which desires only to save people, thus it only harms "that which is evil". Unlike his eye, it does have a broader panfandom scope. It will pass harmlessly through humans, humanoids—everything that doesn't fall under the category of evil/dark/malevolent. Against simpler demons, or things that are purely demonic/dark with no human element, it will cut them as any very sharp sword would, and exorcise them accordingly if applicable. But against any enemy with a human element, it will cut only the part of them which is "evil". (Like himself as a Noah.) How that happens is flexible. This will also generally (heavily) scar them. If Allen is comparatively powerful enough, it could force them human. If he's not, then it can just damage the inhuman part of them—possibly enraging it worse. Or any combination of what makes sense for the kind of being struck. Against characters who are possessed it can force out the possession as well, but if the character is acting on their own volition, just with a warped/brainwashed mind, it'll do nothing. It's very character specific so please drop me a line if you're interested!! Comments are screened.
His claws also have a raw, destructive quality of exorcism/holiness to them as well. Against demons and dark creatures they would have an additional effect. Interestingly enough, in canon akuma who have been touched by his claw say it feels nice, almost healing. "With this I have been saved." But that's also given their very specific nature and bearing a soul that wants to be saved/exorcised, and so how it will feel depends on the character struck. Even if purely a negative response though, it would still be along the lines more of "gentle to the point of being searing".
In Duplicity he has full use of all of this.
EXTRA
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