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PLAYER↴
Name: Sleights of Hand/Boku
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CHARACTER↴
Character Name: Allen Walker
Age: WHO KNOWS ANYMORE according to char books it's 16, but if you count the actual passage of time mentioned in the manga he has to be 17. So I'm going with 17 because it fits/feels better/he looks it now and I painstakingly mapped out every mention of every passage of time sdgfsdhfs.
Species: Human...ish. (Technically a cursed human who is also a Noah)
Canon: D.Gray-man
Canon Point: 210
Character Info: Wiki link
Personality: I fail at word economy ok. But here is my INCREDIBLY redacted personality:

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.

And if more is needed here's a blurb I did on his struggles and personality weaknesses... /furtive glance

Abilities:

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.

Lately, living Innocence has been depicted as angelic, notably Allen's own as well.

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. ~~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.

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.

Nerfs: Everything to do with the Ark will be sealed since otherwise he could use it to leave. Additionally, his eye won't have cross-fandom sight like he has in canon. Instead, he might feel a strange ache in it like he's trying to see something that isn't there, and have a heightened sense around cursed/demonic entities.

CARNIVAL↴
Soul Colour: White-gold (Allen), but there seems to be a purplish shadow clinging on.. (Nea)
Ideal Jobs: Clown/acrobat
Relevant Experience: Is this enough? But no, seriously. He grew up in a circus to the extent where it was the earliest memories he has and did the odd dirty jobs no one else wanted. After he was adopted by a ~~mentally unstable~~ clown ~~who mistook him for his dead dog "Allen"~~ he became a traveling Pierrot (throughout canon referred to as resembling and acting like the White-Face clown that foils Auguste). He still occasionally (and most recently) busks for money and because, when asked what he'd do if he had a normal life, replied he'd just like to be able to be a clown and "make people smile". His reflexes and acrobatics are ridiculous, but it should be noted as a child he hated clowns, and even after becoming one never adopts the more buffoonish roles, instead acting as counterpart and foil to them. His main skills are acrobatics and juggling.
Reason for Joining: He cheated at cards and got caught oops. But no!! Despite that being the initial reason why (that he'll be very salty about and try to squirm out of) — the offer of sweetening the deal by healing the Innocence wound he got from Kanda and sealing the continued awakening of the Noah within him (unless he does something stupid to aggravate it anew) would be an incredibly startling offer (that she would even know about that). "Take some time, figure it out.
"You'll be here a while."
He'll be irritated and distrustful, but stay if it means that as long as he's here he's no longer a danger to others—and until he finds out a way to return with the Noah controlled.

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