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Character: Artorius Collbrande
Canon: Tales of Berseria
Canon Point: After leading the attack on the Titania with Innominat
CRAU, Canon AU: No
Character age: 32
Canon Abilities/Powers:
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Despair. Artorius' life has been deeply marred with extensive losses - his mentor died saving his life, something he feels deeply responsible for and has immense survivor's guilt over, and he walked out on his training shortly after it happened and basically went out into the woods in the middle of nowhere to die quietly where he wouldn't trouble anyone. He was found and saved by a woman he would eventually marry, and they conceived a child together; however, seven years before the start of the game, both she and their unborn child were killed during an attack on the village where they lived. To rub salt into already exceedingly fresh wounds, Artorius was informed that his family had been more or less left to die by the other villagers, who did nothing to aid them during the attack.
Some time after this, Artorius' brother-in-law Laphicet - the young brother of his late wife, whom Artorius was taking care of along with Laphicet's teenage sister Velvet - came to him for the sake of discussion, bringing up the fact that he was dying of a terminal illness; not wanting his death to be in vain, Laphicet asked Artorius to use him as a human sacrifice, to bring about an event that would awaken a god and hopefully save the world. Artorius eventually did agree to do so, only for the sacrifice to be interrupted by Velvet, who didn't know about the arrangement with Laphicet; as such...well, Artorius tried to kill her too, for the good of humanity. That move ultimately didn't work out entirely, but it worked well enough for his purposes - when Velvet survived the murder attempt, he had her imprisoned and let his newly resurrected god feed off of her hatred to strengthen him.
Artorius admits himself that he hates Laphicet and Velvet for having survived the initial attack on the village, saying that he wished they had died instead of his wife and son; however, this is shot down in the finale, where it's mentioned that he probably would have tried to save the world for them if they'd died instead, something that he doesn't deny. Basically, he's overally just sort of wretched; he's full of self-loathing for being unable to save people from suffering, and for finding the few deaths that he had any control over to be necessary. He's passively suicidal, refusing at times to eat or do anything that will prolong his life because he doesn't believe he deserves to live, and he doesn't care that others are actively trying to kill him, or have every intention of doing so in the future. He surrounds himself with people that don't care about him and quite frankly he seems to like it that way; he has very little interest in doing anything but alleviating the suffering of the world - at the same time, no matter how much he wants to be the person that he needed to save him back then, it doesn't change the fact that when it mattered, no one was there for him, and he's very aware of that fact.
How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:
At the climax of the game, he literally becomes the personification of despair in order to raise his god and restore him to his full glory, letting Innominat feed on him and all the negative energy he's putting out, and it's more than enough for that attempt to be successful and to accomplish that part of the goal. Despair is the driving factor behind everything he does - up to and including trying to rewrite the world to remove all emotion from it, so no one else will suffer. However, the world he's trying to create - a world of reason and logic, with no fear or pain or sadness - is his ideal world, not anyone else's. It's a way to escape from the pain of his past and the agony of his present, it's something he's sacrificed and murdered to achieve, and it's something he absolutely can't let go of - and perhaps more importantly, won't let himself let go of, because he feels he doesn't deserve to.
So I'd say it's pretty much a ten? "Rewriting the world to punch all the emotions out of it" seems to warrant a ten.
What is their greatest virtue?:
Despite his goal ultimately being one that will benefit him - more than he fully realizes or cares to acknowledge - and likewise despite the fact that he's willing to do absolutely monstrous things to achieve what he's after, in the end Artorius is a generally selfless individual. As far as he's cognitively aware, everything he does is in the interest of saving the world, and he's willing to suffer as much as, if not more, than everyone else to make that happen. He's willing to give up everything he has in the interest of helping others; even though he admits that he doesn't know how to like himself at all, he's still willing to do whatever is necessary to ensure that the greatest number of people possible can have their suffering and their problems alleviated.
After his wife died, he was treated terribly by the other members of the village where he lived with Velvet and Laphicet; they often spoke ill of him, either to his face or in front of his family members, about how he "let his wife die", and generally speaking they all saw him as a weirdo for talking to things that, at the time, no one else could see (later shown to be spirits and malakhim that he could perceive due to his high resonance). Just the same, he continued to protect the village from harm and defend it from any daemons that came too near to it; he also provided in terms of favors and the like (for some reason this village had this man chopping wood and building fences, despite the fact that he had one functional arm? I don't… Aball is terrible) and he very rarely told people no or talked back. Regardless of his treatment, he rarely has negative things to say about anyone; they're just people that he helps, and that he wants to help, all of his own volition.
It's also worth mentioning here that one of his core beliefs involves the employment of logic and reason over emotion - as far as his personal interpretation of it goes, that involves disregarding one's personal feelings and acting on behalf of the greater good, always. He prioritizes the benefit of many over the benefit of one, and the benefit of one over the benefit of the self; it's another of those things that drives everything he does, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:
Probably a five? He's aware of his tendencies to sacrifice what makes him happy in favor of making others happy, and people have commented on how much he's given up for others before, but the fact of the matter is that it literally just doesn't occur to him to do otherwise. It's just something people should do, in his mind, and he doesn't see why he wouldn't do it, and as such he's more than a bit blind to the notion of that being a virtue as opposed to it being something that he should be during normally anyway.
Items:
- His sword
- A wooden charm on a leather cord that he always has on his person
Samples: TDM!
Special notes
Due to the incident that claimed the lives of his wife and son, Artorius' right arm is paralyzed at the shoulder. He isn't capable of moving or using it at all; he has a brace that he wears to keep it strapped to his chest, and it seems twisted and atrophied through disuse, but he's learned to compensate enough to be able to function well without it. As such, I'm perfectly content to keep the paralysis as-is, if that's all right!
Age: 18+
Contact info:
Character: Artorius Collbrande
Canon: Tales of Berseria
Canon Point: After leading the attack on the Titania with Innominat
CRAU, Canon AU: No
Character age: 32
Canon Abilities/Powers:
- Resonance: To describe it simply and without getting into too much jargon, resonance is the ability to see and interact with supernatural beings that most humans are incapable of sensing in any way. This includes being able to see entities like the malakhim, who are normally invisible and inaudible to those without resonance, as well as being able to see daemons in their true forms. In the latter case, he sees daemons as literal monsters, as opposed to perceiving them as humans who have simply gone insane, which is how most people would register them.
- Swordsmanship: He's noted as being the second most powerful swordsman in the world, surpassed only by Shigure Rangetsu, who trained his entire life to earn his own title. He's still considered such after the incident that claimed his right arm; notably, he wasn't originally left-handed, so he had to retrain himself to use his sword in his non-dominant hand.
- Combat Magic: On top of his general swordsmanship abilities, Artorius is capable of imbuing his attacks with limited magic, giving them an elemental affinity or boosting his effectiveness to deal more damage to his opponents. The capacity to inflict burns and the like.
- Emotional Suppression: Toward the end of the game, Artorius is revealed to have been harboring so much despair that it would have consumed and killed a normal person; he was able to keep it in check by way of prayer, willpower, and meditation, to the extent of suppressing all of his emotions and keeping himself in a state of generally being unable to properly feel anything, positive or negative. It's something he does to himself, outside of anything supernaturally-aided, and it doesn't get rid of his malevolence altogether; it just keeps it in check, and it's something he needs to maintain constantly in order to keep himself human back home. Presumably the malevolence thing will be a moot point here, but it's going to be something he's in the practice of doing regardless.
- Armatization: This power is more or less a moot point because it requires another character that would be theoretically appable to work. However, in the interest of full disclosure, Artorius has managed to draft a method by which he can fuse with a god and increase his power both physically and magically in the process. It's not something that's perfected at his canon point so he wouldn't even try it even if Innominat or a god of comparable power were here, but it is part of his end goals.
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Despair. Artorius' life has been deeply marred with extensive losses - his mentor died saving his life, something he feels deeply responsible for and has immense survivor's guilt over, and he walked out on his training shortly after it happened and basically went out into the woods in the middle of nowhere to die quietly where he wouldn't trouble anyone. He was found and saved by a woman he would eventually marry, and they conceived a child together; however, seven years before the start of the game, both she and their unborn child were killed during an attack on the village where they lived. To rub salt into already exceedingly fresh wounds, Artorius was informed that his family had been more or less left to die by the other villagers, who did nothing to aid them during the attack.
Some time after this, Artorius' brother-in-law Laphicet - the young brother of his late wife, whom Artorius was taking care of along with Laphicet's teenage sister Velvet - came to him for the sake of discussion, bringing up the fact that he was dying of a terminal illness; not wanting his death to be in vain, Laphicet asked Artorius to use him as a human sacrifice, to bring about an event that would awaken a god and hopefully save the world. Artorius eventually did agree to do so, only for the sacrifice to be interrupted by Velvet, who didn't know about the arrangement with Laphicet; as such...well, Artorius tried to kill her too, for the good of humanity. That move ultimately didn't work out entirely, but it worked well enough for his purposes - when Velvet survived the murder attempt, he had her imprisoned and let his newly resurrected god feed off of her hatred to strengthen him.
Artorius admits himself that he hates Laphicet and Velvet for having survived the initial attack on the village, saying that he wished they had died instead of his wife and son; however, this is shot down in the finale, where it's mentioned that he probably would have tried to save the world for them if they'd died instead, something that he doesn't deny. Basically, he's overally just sort of wretched; he's full of self-loathing for being unable to save people from suffering, and for finding the few deaths that he had any control over to be necessary. He's passively suicidal, refusing at times to eat or do anything that will prolong his life because he doesn't believe he deserves to live, and he doesn't care that others are actively trying to kill him, or have every intention of doing so in the future. He surrounds himself with people that don't care about him and quite frankly he seems to like it that way; he has very little interest in doing anything but alleviating the suffering of the world - at the same time, no matter how much he wants to be the person that he needed to save him back then, it doesn't change the fact that when it mattered, no one was there for him, and he's very aware of that fact.
How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:
At the climax of the game, he literally becomes the personification of despair in order to raise his god and restore him to his full glory, letting Innominat feed on him and all the negative energy he's putting out, and it's more than enough for that attempt to be successful and to accomplish that part of the goal. Despair is the driving factor behind everything he does - up to and including trying to rewrite the world to remove all emotion from it, so no one else will suffer. However, the world he's trying to create - a world of reason and logic, with no fear or pain or sadness - is his ideal world, not anyone else's. It's a way to escape from the pain of his past and the agony of his present, it's something he's sacrificed and murdered to achieve, and it's something he absolutely can't let go of - and perhaps more importantly, won't let himself let go of, because he feels he doesn't deserve to.
So I'd say it's pretty much a ten? "Rewriting the world to punch all the emotions out of it" seems to warrant a ten.
What is their greatest virtue?:
Despite his goal ultimately being one that will benefit him - more than he fully realizes or cares to acknowledge - and likewise despite the fact that he's willing to do absolutely monstrous things to achieve what he's after, in the end Artorius is a generally selfless individual. As far as he's cognitively aware, everything he does is in the interest of saving the world, and he's willing to suffer as much as, if not more, than everyone else to make that happen. He's willing to give up everything he has in the interest of helping others; even though he admits that he doesn't know how to like himself at all, he's still willing to do whatever is necessary to ensure that the greatest number of people possible can have their suffering and their problems alleviated.
After his wife died, he was treated terribly by the other members of the village where he lived with Velvet and Laphicet; they often spoke ill of him, either to his face or in front of his family members, about how he "let his wife die", and generally speaking they all saw him as a weirdo for talking to things that, at the time, no one else could see (later shown to be spirits and malakhim that he could perceive due to his high resonance). Just the same, he continued to protect the village from harm and defend it from any daemons that came too near to it; he also provided in terms of favors and the like (for some reason this village had this man chopping wood and building fences, despite the fact that he had one functional arm? I don't… Aball is terrible) and he very rarely told people no or talked back. Regardless of his treatment, he rarely has negative things to say about anyone; they're just people that he helps, and that he wants to help, all of his own volition.
It's also worth mentioning here that one of his core beliefs involves the employment of logic and reason over emotion - as far as his personal interpretation of it goes, that involves disregarding one's personal feelings and acting on behalf of the greater good, always. He prioritizes the benefit of many over the benefit of one, and the benefit of one over the benefit of the self; it's another of those things that drives everything he does, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:
Probably a five? He's aware of his tendencies to sacrifice what makes him happy in favor of making others happy, and people have commented on how much he's given up for others before, but the fact of the matter is that it literally just doesn't occur to him to do otherwise. It's just something people should do, in his mind, and he doesn't see why he wouldn't do it, and as such he's more than a bit blind to the notion of that being a virtue as opposed to it being something that he should be during normally anyway.
Items:
- His sword
- A wooden charm on a leather cord that he always has on his person
Samples: TDM!
Special notes
Due to the incident that claimed the lives of his wife and son, Artorius' right arm is paralyzed at the shoulder. He isn't capable of moving or using it at all; he has a brace that he wears to keep it strapped to his chest, and it seems twisted and atrophied through disuse, but he's learned to compensate enough to be able to function well without it. As such, I'm perfectly content to keep the paralysis as-is, if that's all right!