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Mar. 17th, 2017
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| Velvet Crowe | ||||||
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No promises.
Velvet comes from a canon full of angry and violence and unpleasant issues like child murder and torture and emotional breaking. Also a little bit of canabalism? And some mutilation?
If you'd prefer not to have it come up, or don't want to play with her because of it, let me know!
If you'd prefer not to have it come up, or don't want to play with her because of it, let me know!
Lagunbiru Info
Mar. 17th, 2017 03:23 pmName | Alias: Velvet Crowe | The Lord of Calamity
Age: 19
Canon: Tales of Berseria
Canon point: After the events at the volcano, before the attack on the Empyrean Throne. (Basically before the last dungeon.)
History: Velvet on the Tales wiki and the other tales wiki? There are two now? And neither of them are complete. Of course.
Picking up where those wikis left off, and being a lot more...brief. After stealing the ship, Velvet et crew encounter a band of pirates, and wind up joining up with them in their hunt for their captain/war against the Exorcists and Artorius. And meet their first mate, Eizin, a malak cursed with bringing misfortune to those around him. As they go on, looking for ways to kill Artorius, Velvet gradually begins to accept the malak she kidnapped as a person, eventually giving him a name (Laphicet, her brother's name. So healthy.)
They eventually strike at Artorius and it goes about as badly as you might think, and they only escape because Laphicet drags them into an earth pulse (kind of like an energy stream in the grouund?) and across the world. Along with an exorcist they had been fighting. Whom they wind up forcing to come with them as Laphicet's malak vessel.
As they go on and rumors spread about them (since they keep attacking Exorcists and sometimes towns) the world labels Velvet the Lord of Calamity, which she seems to enjoy a bit. It's useful for keeping people out of her way at least.
They look for more and more ways to defeat the Exorcists, and along the way discover that Artorius is planning to resurrect a 'god' in a sense, a being capable of ending all suffering in the world. Velvet doesn't care, she still intends to kill him. As they adventure, they discover that the exorcists have been turning other people, besides Velvet, into therions, and using them to feed power into this god that Artorius is awakening.
So they decide to steal them. A little girl, a woman, a pair of dogs, a bird, and Velvet. Once they have all of them, they hide them in the prison that Velvet had originally been kept in, and eventually the Exorcists attack to steal them back...they fail, but during the encounter Velvet finally discovers that the god that Artorius is reviving is using the body of her should-be-dead little brother. And has his personality.
And wants to eat her? That parts kind of intense.
Velvet snaps at this point, and can't seem to decide if she wants to murder him or save him, and they only survive because Laphicet (the new one) once again drags them all into an earthpulse. Only this time it's inside Velvet's little brother too?
Look it's weird. I can't fix that.
Velvet is extremely unstable inside the earthpulse, as the others try to find a way out, and she's forced to confront memories of what she has become and what her little brother has become and why, and discovers that he made the choice to die and become Innominat because he was sick and wanted to die for a reason.
Except they also discover that the 'reason', the desire to bring peace to humanity, is actually one where they take all emotions away from humanity. Which I suppose is technically peaceful. The best kind of peaceful?
It's late when I'm writing this. I apologize for any terrible jokes.
This new realization, combined with a stirring speech from Laphicet (still the second one) about being willing to change the world and caring about Velvet, seems to finally yank Velvet from her despair and let her come to terms with the idea of having to kill her own brother when she kills Artorius. Because now it has to be done in order to save the world.
Hey look, they are heroes, not villains. Kind of.
They discover when the ritual to save the world/steal all emotions will be, and disrupt it by killing the rest of Artorius's lieutenants and stuffing their souls into a volcano to wake up the other four gods in the world (still weird). This works, and drives Artorius and Innominat into retreating to a sky fortress (because sure).
And then the party goes about tying loose ends up before their go off to probably commit suicide fighting a god in the sky. And that's when Velvet winds up in Laginbiru!
Personality: In a sense, Velvet has two warring personalities that define the choices and decisions that she makes throughout her life. On the one hand, there's the Velvet before she turned into a demon. She was a happy village girl, a bit naive and sheltered from much of the evils of the world, living a life of peace. And then there's the Velvet from after she was turned into a demon and spent three years in prison letting her hate fester, a woman driven by vengeance and loss who has tried to cast aside every emotion and desire that would get in the way of killing Artorius. She is defined by her despair, and that lets her smother out the old her.
The second part dominates much of her life, really. We see this in her willingness to sacrifice anyone and anything that she has to in order to reach her goal. Burn a town of innocent people? Fine. Use a child as a hostage to escape? Perfectly fine. Murder a man for the crime of turning into a demon, even when he clearly doesn't deserve it? Also fine. She's violent, quick to anger, easily frustrated by roadblocks and generally apathetic to the needs or desires of other people.
But, as we see, that isn't all she is. The girl she used to be, before her life went to hell, is still in there. She's a demon bent on bringing down the social order that had, in some ways, saved the world...but she doesn't drink because she's nineteen. And she still cooks for all her 'friends' even though she can't actually taste anymore.
When she uses the Malak child as a hostage to escape and steal a ship, she 'accidentally' brings him with them. (He looks similar to her dead little brother.) And then, while insisting that he's only a useful tool, she gradually begins treating him like a person, giving him a name, even giving him advice for what choices and decisions he needs to make in his life.
Because she's still a big sister, in her mind. Under the anger and the hate. In fact, that's why she's on her quest for vengeance, really. Because her little brother needs avenging. Not herself, but him. When she discovers that he hasn't died in the normal sense, but become the vessel for Innominat, even though he's now willing to sacrifice the entire world, she adjusts her plans to find a way to not kill him. (A way she isn't sure about).
She still wants to murder Artorius though. No matter how much of the old her gradually surfaces, the need for vengeance is still there.
It's the realization that her brother is still alive but he's become the tool of her enemy that finally breaks the real wall between who she was and who she is. Phi, the Malak boy she had saved, has become very much a little brother to her (even though he hates being thought of that way) and helping him as eased her in that direction...and then this new discovery makes her snap. But that snap creates the opening for her to finally let go of her despair and her revenge, replacing them with determination and a kind of hope for a future that can survive her and her clearly messed up family.
Her friends who follow her, all for their own reasons and motivations, are at first just tools to her. But as she finds her footing outside of revenge, she gradually starts to be willing to help with them with their problems, albeit with a kind of casual 'I don't care what you do' sort of way where you can see she does, since she goes along with all of it. In many ways her apathy shifts into just a more laid-back attitude towards things that aren't her revenge. As long as it won't interfere, she's willing to help. Encourages them even, at times, although always couched in a kind of shield of 'meh' that she seems to be faking by the end.
She has little concern with modesty and generally doesn't care what anyone thinks about her, outside of the few people she's befriended (and even then not really.) When the people of the world start to fear her as the Lord of Calamity, she doesn't care, except that it's useful for her quest for revenge. The only time this really seems to change is when she is dealing with things that would have been concerns for her before she was changed. She takes obsessive care of her hair, she worries about people liking her cooking, that sort of thing.
She has a certain naivety about the world outside of fighting and getting revenge, as seen in how many things have to be explained to her along the course of the game. She's never done normal things like be in love or think about having a family or what she might want to do now that 'be an exorcist' turned into 'murder all the exorcists.' This will probably come up a lot at first in Lagunbiru since...yeah...sex isn't really a thing she knows much about. Oops. At least she's the right age to experiment.
From her canon point, though she hasn't told anyone, she is planning to sacrifice herself to stop Innominat (after she kills Artorius of course) and that decision gives her a certain sense of closure and the drive to keep moving forward again.
Man I hope this made sense. Velvet is complicated and personality sections are evil.
Abilities and Nerfs:
Daemon - Velvet is a demon, given enhanced strength and endurance and a high tolerance for extreme temperatures. This has also mutilated her left arm, which can transform between a massive, twisted claw and a regular-shaped arm, but is always black and red and clearly tainted. She keeps it wrapped up in bandages most of the time.
Therion - Velvet is a special kind of daemon, a therion, which gives her the ability to devour the malice and darkness in the world. She can also eat other things, like people, though she prefers not to. This is what has presumably taken away her sense of taste (except for blood).
Inventory: A retractable sword-gauntlet on her right arm, the clothes she's wearing, an item bag full of random potions and food, and a comb given to her by her little brother before he died.
Appearance:
Age: 19
Canon: Tales of Berseria
Canon point: After the events at the volcano, before the attack on the Empyrean Throne. (Basically before the last dungeon.)
History: Velvet on the Tales wiki and the other tales wiki? There are two now? And neither of them are complete. Of course.
Picking up where those wikis left off, and being a lot more...brief. After stealing the ship, Velvet et crew encounter a band of pirates, and wind up joining up with them in their hunt for their captain/war against the Exorcists and Artorius. And meet their first mate, Eizin, a malak cursed with bringing misfortune to those around him. As they go on, looking for ways to kill Artorius, Velvet gradually begins to accept the malak she kidnapped as a person, eventually giving him a name (Laphicet, her brother's name. So healthy.)
They eventually strike at Artorius and it goes about as badly as you might think, and they only escape because Laphicet drags them into an earth pulse (kind of like an energy stream in the grouund?) and across the world. Along with an exorcist they had been fighting. Whom they wind up forcing to come with them as Laphicet's malak vessel.
As they go on and rumors spread about them (since they keep attacking Exorcists and sometimes towns) the world labels Velvet the Lord of Calamity, which she seems to enjoy a bit. It's useful for keeping people out of her way at least.
They look for more and more ways to defeat the Exorcists, and along the way discover that Artorius is planning to resurrect a 'god' in a sense, a being capable of ending all suffering in the world. Velvet doesn't care, she still intends to kill him. As they adventure, they discover that the exorcists have been turning other people, besides Velvet, into therions, and using them to feed power into this god that Artorius is awakening.
So they decide to steal them. A little girl, a woman, a pair of dogs, a bird, and Velvet. Once they have all of them, they hide them in the prison that Velvet had originally been kept in, and eventually the Exorcists attack to steal them back...they fail, but during the encounter Velvet finally discovers that the god that Artorius is reviving is using the body of her should-be-dead little brother. And has his personality.
And wants to eat her? That parts kind of intense.
Velvet snaps at this point, and can't seem to decide if she wants to murder him or save him, and they only survive because Laphicet (the new one) once again drags them all into an earthpulse. Only this time it's inside Velvet's little brother too?
Look it's weird. I can't fix that.
Velvet is extremely unstable inside the earthpulse, as the others try to find a way out, and she's forced to confront memories of what she has become and what her little brother has become and why, and discovers that he made the choice to die and become Innominat because he was sick and wanted to die for a reason.
Except they also discover that the 'reason', the desire to bring peace to humanity, is actually one where they take all emotions away from humanity. Which I suppose is technically peaceful. The best kind of peaceful?
It's late when I'm writing this. I apologize for any terrible jokes.
This new realization, combined with a stirring speech from Laphicet (still the second one) about being willing to change the world and caring about Velvet, seems to finally yank Velvet from her despair and let her come to terms with the idea of having to kill her own brother when she kills Artorius. Because now it has to be done in order to save the world.
Hey look, they are heroes, not villains. Kind of.
They discover when the ritual to save the world/steal all emotions will be, and disrupt it by killing the rest of Artorius's lieutenants and stuffing their souls into a volcano to wake up the other four gods in the world (still weird). This works, and drives Artorius and Innominat into retreating to a sky fortress (because sure).
And then the party goes about tying loose ends up before their go off to probably commit suicide fighting a god in the sky. And that's when Velvet winds up in Laginbiru!
Personality: In a sense, Velvet has two warring personalities that define the choices and decisions that she makes throughout her life. On the one hand, there's the Velvet before she turned into a demon. She was a happy village girl, a bit naive and sheltered from much of the evils of the world, living a life of peace. And then there's the Velvet from after she was turned into a demon and spent three years in prison letting her hate fester, a woman driven by vengeance and loss who has tried to cast aside every emotion and desire that would get in the way of killing Artorius. She is defined by her despair, and that lets her smother out the old her.
The second part dominates much of her life, really. We see this in her willingness to sacrifice anyone and anything that she has to in order to reach her goal. Burn a town of innocent people? Fine. Use a child as a hostage to escape? Perfectly fine. Murder a man for the crime of turning into a demon, even when he clearly doesn't deserve it? Also fine. She's violent, quick to anger, easily frustrated by roadblocks and generally apathetic to the needs or desires of other people.
But, as we see, that isn't all she is. The girl she used to be, before her life went to hell, is still in there. She's a demon bent on bringing down the social order that had, in some ways, saved the world...but she doesn't drink because she's nineteen. And she still cooks for all her 'friends' even though she can't actually taste anymore.
When she uses the Malak child as a hostage to escape and steal a ship, she 'accidentally' brings him with them. (He looks similar to her dead little brother.) And then, while insisting that he's only a useful tool, she gradually begins treating him like a person, giving him a name, even giving him advice for what choices and decisions he needs to make in his life.
Because she's still a big sister, in her mind. Under the anger and the hate. In fact, that's why she's on her quest for vengeance, really. Because her little brother needs avenging. Not herself, but him. When she discovers that he hasn't died in the normal sense, but become the vessel for Innominat, even though he's now willing to sacrifice the entire world, she adjusts her plans to find a way to not kill him. (A way she isn't sure about).
She still wants to murder Artorius though. No matter how much of the old her gradually surfaces, the need for vengeance is still there.
It's the realization that her brother is still alive but he's become the tool of her enemy that finally breaks the real wall between who she was and who she is. Phi, the Malak boy she had saved, has become very much a little brother to her (even though he hates being thought of that way) and helping him as eased her in that direction...and then this new discovery makes her snap. But that snap creates the opening for her to finally let go of her despair and her revenge, replacing them with determination and a kind of hope for a future that can survive her and her clearly messed up family.
Her friends who follow her, all for their own reasons and motivations, are at first just tools to her. But as she finds her footing outside of revenge, she gradually starts to be willing to help with them with their problems, albeit with a kind of casual 'I don't care what you do' sort of way where you can see she does, since she goes along with all of it. In many ways her apathy shifts into just a more laid-back attitude towards things that aren't her revenge. As long as it won't interfere, she's willing to help. Encourages them even, at times, although always couched in a kind of shield of 'meh' that she seems to be faking by the end.
She has little concern with modesty and generally doesn't care what anyone thinks about her, outside of the few people she's befriended (and even then not really.) When the people of the world start to fear her as the Lord of Calamity, she doesn't care, except that it's useful for her quest for revenge. The only time this really seems to change is when she is dealing with things that would have been concerns for her before she was changed. She takes obsessive care of her hair, she worries about people liking her cooking, that sort of thing.
She has a certain naivety about the world outside of fighting and getting revenge, as seen in how many things have to be explained to her along the course of the game. She's never done normal things like be in love or think about having a family or what she might want to do now that 'be an exorcist' turned into 'murder all the exorcists.' This will probably come up a lot at first in Lagunbiru since...yeah...sex isn't really a thing she knows much about. Oops. At least she's the right age to experiment.
From her canon point, though she hasn't told anyone, she is planning to sacrifice herself to stop Innominat (after she kills Artorius of course) and that decision gives her a certain sense of closure and the drive to keep moving forward again.
Man I hope this made sense. Velvet is complicated and personality sections are evil.
Abilities and Nerfs:
Daemon - Velvet is a demon, given enhanced strength and endurance and a high tolerance for extreme temperatures. This has also mutilated her left arm, which can transform between a massive, twisted claw and a regular-shaped arm, but is always black and red and clearly tainted. She keeps it wrapped up in bandages most of the time.
Therion - Velvet is a special kind of daemon, a therion, which gives her the ability to devour the malice and darkness in the world. She can also eat other things, like people, though she prefers not to. This is what has presumably taken away her sense of taste (except for blood).
Inventory: A retractable sword-gauntlet on her right arm, the clothes she's wearing, an item bag full of random potions and food, and a comb given to her by her little brother before he died.
Appearance: