[CHAR] Devil May Cry: Night of Knights

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Kosara Grace

Name: Kosara Grace
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Race: Hybrid(half devil)

Theme Song: Furure in my hands

Personality: Kosara's a person that can be broadly summerized with a single word and that's energetic. Most of the time one cannot see her staying rooted in place. She's always moving, always doing something. There is only one exception and that's when she's reading a book she fancies. That's the sole time you can find her staying still for more than a minute. Her hatred towards demon kind is immense. She barely can contain her emotions when she's faced with them. Once she finds one, she want's nothing else but to tear them to bloody pieces. She's also a little bit of a talker, she likes to talk and to especialy badmouth her demonic opponents.

Out of battles with the demons, she has a lot of hobbies along with reading. She likes to listen to music, likes to tinker on her bike and also visit museum. Still having been raised in a church ran orphanage all her childhood, she also has a certain weak spot towards children. Often she would donate big portions of her earnings to such places, making sure the little buggers could have all they need. She does harbor a certain dislike for actual church folk though, having sufferend a lot of pain at their hands. Still she knews not all of them are bad apples, but it certainly left her a degree of dislike towards herself. Mostly the human part, leaving her at a certain contradiction. Hating demons, but loving her demonic mother and hating her human part while also conditioned to love and protect humanity.

This contradiction sometimes manifests at extremities as she takes up selfdamaging activities with little regard to herself or actually valuing the lives of humans more than her very own. Still she's not completely unaware of this contradiction as she often ponders why actually her life would be worth less than a human's. Still decade of brainwashing and mental conditionings are hard to overcome.

Backstory: Kosara doesn't know who her father was. All she knows it's that he was a human that her mother fell in love with. Her mother was a devil who had left the demon world under some kind of danger. Never the less she had met a human man, fell in love and had a child, but Kosara was never told her father's fate. Especially since her mother actually died when Kosara was barely 6 years of age. They lived a humble live, her mother preferring to keep a low profile and avoid all dangers because of her child. Sadly that didn't continue forever.

Just a day after her 6th birthday, Kosara and her mother were tracked down by demons. A fight was sparked within moments as her mother fought bravely, Kosara hid herself away. Still the enemies were many and her mother was alone. In the end she was slowly worn down until a deathblow was dealt. Deciding to take them all with her, Kosara's mother used the last of her concscious power to strike a counter, taking the last of the enemy with her. Kosara crawled out of her hiding place only to find her mother's body already vanishing. With her dying breath, her mother kissed her for goodbye on the forhead, giving her one last blessing and leaving all that remained of herself to her daughter. As her body vanished, her essense reformed and formed up into a devil arm - a long elegant looking curved blade, that was bigger at the present her at the time.

Following that, she was picked up by the authorities and ended up in a church ran orphanage. Throughout the entire length of time, the sword never left Kosara's presence for longer than a night. People would pull it out of her small hands and lock it away or get it as far away as possible, but come morning, the sword would always be resting by her small body by some unknown means. Still they continued to take it away form her every day.

Her stay at the orphanage wasn't the best. The other children were like family to her, but the nuns who ran it weren't kind to her. She suffered constant pressure from them, was always reprimanded for every little thing, was given more tasks to complete than the other things and was forced to prey all the time. They kept drilling into her hatred towards demons and that human life was more precious than even hers. It was incredibly effective on the mind of a young child after constant near brainwashing. Thus she grew up, hating demons with the exception of her mother, nearly hating herself too, hating her weak human part and also believing it was her duty to save human live at the expense of her own self. She became increasingly unstable at hte orphanage until one day she lashed out at one of the nuns after being whipped for opposing them. It was a mere slap, but that one slap cracked the nun's jaw and took out a number of teeth. After this event she just grabbed her sword and left the orphanage, becoming a devil hunter.

After that event when she became independent, she started hunting demons and devils with a great zeal, but never joined in any organization. Partly because she didn't quite like sharing the killing, part cause she didn't want anyone telling her what to do and partly because she was known as an extremely unstable person who while never really going to kill a human, was known to go mental on people who hurt children and other select incidents. Additionally she never takes in an actual protection job, if there aren't demons to be killed she just skips it over, looking over for something actually involving killing enemies.

COMBAT
ABILITIES
Demonic body: Her demonic heritage gives her increased strength, speed, reflexes and regeneration even when not tapping into her demonic powers.

EQUIPMENT
Melee Slot 1: Devil Sword Freya(Devil Arm)- a long blade reminiscnet to the japanese nodachi swords. It's total length is 1.55m. It lacks a guard and hte entire blade is made out of smooth blue metal.
Techniques:
-Air Slash: The blade's default ability. Swings from this sword accelerate air across the blade, causing flying wind blades with each swing that cause damage beyond the sword's lenght.
-Whirl descend: After jumping, Kosara spins rapidly in the air, causing a great number of slashes before she wands.
-Rythm Slash: A slash that becomes more powerful with each successful hit. Each successful hit builds energy within the blade. All power is reset if a strike is missed.
-Wind Scar: Releases all energy that's being stored up until now within the blade from the wind Slashes in a singular powerful attack. It takes the form of a powerful wind wave that cuts at everything in a single line.
-Mother's Embrace: The blade can return to the hand of it's owner if the user loses their grasp of it. It just vanishes into air and reappears back to her side. Usable once per day.

Melee Slot 2: Basilisk's eye(Minor Devil Arm)- This one is Kosara's backup weapon that she rarely uses. It is a gauntlet with a big eye above the wrist.
Techniques:
-Stone gaze: It has the effect of paralyzing the target for a moment after each fifth strike. May not work on bigger enemies or such with strong demonic powers.
-Basilisk's gaze: Can black in incoming projectile attack and render it harmless if it's blocked precisely with the eye on the gauntlet.
-Venomous Fangs: The gauntlet's strikes cause residual damage to affect their target. It's not exactly strong, but enough to be a nuisance to enemies for a little while.

Ranged Slot 1: Sylph(Enchanted Item)- A small crossbow that Kosara's has taken a liking to. It fires bolts charged with her demonic energy and is enchanted with the elemental powers of air.
Techniques:
-Wind blast: After charging for a few seconds, the next bolt will have a small whirlwind around it, causing additional damage.
-Viper shot: Using the power of wind, the bolt will be guided towards it's target. Takes a while to charge also.
-Wired bolt: Fires a bolt that has a thin, but sturdy thread attached to it.
-Recoil: Using the crossbow's wind powers, she can push herself far away from the direction when she fires it in.
-Wind bolt: When there's not a proper loaded bolt, the crossbow can fire a compressed gust of wind instead for tiny amount of damage instead. Useful for recoil.

Ranged Slot 2: Loathing- a big customised handgun. Has a big clip and is focused for firepower. Made to fire the bullets infused with her demonic power.
Techniques:
-Shadow shot: Firing two shots at a speed that makes it sound like a single one.
-Ricochet: Firing a shot at such an angle that it ricochets and hits another target.
-Charged shot: Channeling demonic energy in the shot before firing as to have it explode on impact with the enemy.

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STYLE
Name: Phantom
Description: Kosara's style is focused on extreme mobility and overwhelming hte enemy with flurry of attacks. It relies heavily on dodges instead of blocking. In fact this reliance on dodges had led to the development of hte style's namesake move. In combat she moves rapidly across the battlefield and around the enemies, attacking from multiple angles, dashing in and retreating at extreme speeds.

Techniques:
-Momentum: This style of hers is all about the speed and the progress of the combat. The more she dodges during combat, the greater momentum she builds up, increasing her speed up. When enough speed is build up, her dodges start to leave behind afterimages from the extreme speed..
-Phantom Mirrage: The namesake of her style, this move is the essense of her dodges. Using extreme speed at the precise time before an attack, she dodges as the attack is to hit her, leaving a veritable afterimage for a moment... in other words a mirrage. Becomes avaible as Momentum builds up.
-Whispers in the wind: A lightningly fast dash and strike that allows her to strike at her opponent from great distance with as little of sound made as a whisper... or to retreat at a moment's notice. At the peak of the momentum, It appears as if her body doubles as she can use her extreme speed to keep changing directions, leaving two seeming paths her body is moving at.
-Flicker: Moving her body at extreme speeds, her arms appear as if flickering for a moment, allowing her to seem like she's attacking from one side, when she's actually attacking from another.
-At sufficient momentum and speed she can wallrun for some distance.
-Accel Strike: At peak Momentum, she can use all the build up speed for a single powerful attack, draining all build up momentum.

[AlternateMan]

SUPER AWESOME CHAIN MAN

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Name: Mesmund "Mezz" Vinclum
Gender: male
Age: 37
Race: half human half demon

Personality:
Mesmund is a half careless, and half selfless person of simplicity. He can carry out risky, self sacrificial plans without hesitation, and has no fear running around the battlefield casually with his mace flailing around him. This got even worse as he fused himself with the demon, turning him into a grumpy destructive half human half demon with a gun and a mace. Mesmund shows no fear for pain, and is eager to fight some more demon baddies any time.
He's no man of careful planning and logical conversations, so whenever the chance comes to leave it to someone else, he's always ready to take a step back. Knowing the problems to his usual tactics, the hunter enjoys cooperating for demon busting to improve his skills and see how others blow demons up.

Vinclum is a much calmer being. After their fusion, Tether acted as a ‘voice of reason’ for Mesmund when he tried to make not so good decisions, adding a logical deadliness to the reckless demon hunter. Other than the most dangerous situations, Tether remains silent, as fighting isn’t his favorite thing. As he was the one who proposed the idea of the two fusing with each other, he does not object to Memsund’s non hesitant slaying activity.

Backstory:

Intense Backstory

Mesmund was a purely human demon hunter, showing up in a scene of demonic mess with his trusty gun and mace. Facing demon problems from his early age, he knew how threatening they could be, and was always on the run along with his family. He wanted at least a week's worth of a peaceful life out of the cities, where proper protection was even scarce. So he decided to become a demon hunter, slaying the big bad demons to sleep another day in peace. Time passed like that, with him hunting down demons he could find and moving on to kill another. Demon hunting became more of a life to him, with no other hobbies or job to do.

Vinclum was a part of a demonic legion of “Inquisitors”, who jailed demons that were deemed as dangerous by the legion itself or the majority of the demons. Many of them were given the power of the head demon to chain the outlaws and put them in the pits of flames they had control of. Vinclum himself was one of the stronger demons that had the chains with themselves from their creation. The legion carried on their hunt of their own kind until it split, with one of its higher generals parting off with a large number of its soldiers, including Vinclum himself, to descend to the human world for some ‘proper demonic activities’. There they started preying on humans, capturing any demons the tyrannical general found disturbing. The word about them got around, and a great number of demon hunters gathered to raid them. After a long, violent fight, the legion was annihilated, in the spot only a few dying demon hunters left waiting for their doom. Vinclum, having to survive the attack by luck, approached one of them in his injured form with one risky proposal to offer.

Mesmund took part in a raid with a handful of other demon hunters, hearing of a vicious demon legion that's been terrifying the locals. After a gigantic fight, he fell down, waiting his death, until a strange demon approached him. It introduced itself to him and offered him another chance, an opportunity to continue his life as a demon hunter... in a different way. In his dying breath, there was no reason to refuse. They fused themselves, newly born as a 50% demon and 50% human being. Mesmund's weapons of choice, his gun and mace, were fused as a part of him too, turning into devil arms themselves.

COMBAT
ABILITIES
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EQUIPMENT
Melee Slot 1: Vinclum
Mesmund’s sturdy flail was changed at Vinclum’s merging, forging it into a flail with big bladed chains on its head. Other than that, Vinclum’s chains can also serve purposes in battle too.
Techniques:

Vinclum Techniques

-Sweep: Mezz flails his weapon in a horizontally wide arc, striking a handful of enemies with ease.
-Table Flip: Mezz grabs the flail’s head with his chain arm and slams it against the ground, sending a shockwave around him and putting enemies nearby airborne.
-Hammer the Nail: Attacks that mostly smash downwards, that get more violent and stronger with successive strikes. He also walks forward with each strike, marching his victims to doom.
-Cartwheel: Mesmund leaps forward while spinning like a wheel midair, his flail going with him like a ribbon and hitting the enemy in front of him multiple times.
-Uppercut: Mezz smacks the flail upward, sending the enemy up to the strike. can be used in the air too to continue the air combo.
-360 Sweeper: Mezz charges his attack by spinning the flail around in his hand, and releases a mad spinning attack that covers all directions close range. While it lasts, Mezz walks slowly and can only cancel by rolling.

Ranged Slot 1: Fifth Star
Mesmund’s personally modified shotgun was changed into a five barrel gun of doom, now using shots of chain created by Vinclum. It has unlimited ammo, but is a pain to reload.
Techniques:

Fifth Star techniques

-Birdshot: Mezz stuffs the barrels with additional chains, blasting off a short ranged barrage of chains. It has higher damage in total, but has lower accuracy.
-Doubletap: Mezz rapidly reloads and fires the weapon twice, suffering a longer cooldown time to attack again.

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STYLE
Name: Shambling Shackles
Description:
Mesmund dashes through the battlefield, concentrating on smashing enemies mercilessly with little mobility and a wave of devastating strikes. Among his combos are moves that can break an enemy’s guard, pull himself towards an enemy, and such that helps him ravage the battlefield.
His dodging move is him wrapping himself in demonic chains and rolling, knocking back weak nearby enemies.

Techniques:

Style Techniques

-Battlefield Tumbleweed: As an ‘evasive move’, Mezz covers himself in layers of chains and rolls towards his target, pushing away any enemies in his path.
-Deliverer: Mezz shoots strands of chains from his left arm to an enemy, and pulls himself to the target.
-Roundhouse: The chain arm reaches out for an enemy, and swings Mezz and the enemy around in a circle knocking any unfortunate hostiles in the way. After a full lap or two he smashes the enemy to the ground.
-Bulldozer: Mezz charges forward for a short distance, breaking the guard of an enemy in his way.
-Rough landing: Mezz, while airborne, can mark the ground near him to shoot chains to the destination and pull himself down immediately. The impact stuns nearby enemies in a small region for a short duration.

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[FamishedPants]

Gawain

Appearance

Name:
Gawain
Gender:
Male
Age:
Around late 30s
Race:
Hybrid

Theme Song:
"To Battle"

Personality:

As a loyal knight to Arthur, Gawain exhibits behaviors one would come to expect of him. He is quite affable, shows no fear in the face of difficulties, comes off as humble, and is extremely courteous to everybody he meets, be they human or demon, and particularly to those that are both. At least on the basis of his character, many would find it hard to hate him.

Juxtaposed by that is his approach to combat, however. Though skilled in battle, he does not have years of proper swordsmanship or the grace that would accompany it. Rather, his way of fighting almost seems brutish and unbecoming of a knight, yet still he retains jovial nature, even when lives are on the line. In it’s own twisted way, he somehow manages to make his brutish methods appear graceful. Jarring, to say the least.

Gawain is not without fault though. He places a great deal of importance in his physical appearance, always ensuring his demonic attributes are hidden behind cloth, as if he’s ashamed of it. In the event that his devil features are revealed, he’s equally likely to go into a berserk state as he is to retreat into a mental shell. Furthermore, his loyalty to Arthur urges him to defend the man’s name, and he doesn’t take kindly to insults thrown that way.

His favorite food is Strawberries, or anything that has them in it.

Backstory:

The bastard son of a fairly strong demon with many ties, Hades, and one of his human concubines, Gawain never got to enjoy his childhood in hell. He spent his earliest years in the Underworld catering to his father’s every whim and facing discrimination by both the demons he encountered there and his own human mother for owning features that resembled Hades. Less a person and more of a ‘thing’ to be used and discarded, Gawain burned with a desire for vengeance, but was too weak to act upon it, and so feigned obedience as he bided his time.

He lived in terrible conditions and was treated as nothing more than a slave until he was nearly a teen. Around this time, an incident in Fortuna occurred and as a result, Hell Gates opened up, allowing both he and his father, as well as other demons, to invade the human world. At the time, Hades had a specific goal in mind and, instead of attacking Fortuna and the area around it like the other demons, set off to achieve it. Thus, they were spared from an encounter that surely would have led to their end.

In the weeks prior to escaping from the Demon World, Gawain had displayed feats of power that intrigued Hades. For lack of a better word, Gawain’s ‘bullies’ from the Demon World had come to learn he was not an individual to mess with, even if he was merely ‘human trash’, or whatever variant they’d decided to call him on any given day. When one day they attempted to assault him for talking back at them, he single-handedly defeated them and, in doing so, earned a bit of respect from his father. This little bit of respect is what made Hades take Gawain with him to the Human World, as he desired to have a trustworthy pawn to perform tasks he did not want to bother with himself.

Gawain was convinced this would eventually lead him to his freedom. Performing whatever task it was that Hades gave him, be it to fend off pesky devil hunters, or even gather blood for Hades, Gawain did so in the hopes that he’d become strong enough to betray his father, and lead a life of a free man. But while Gawain was getting stronger, so too was Hades. Often, perhaps as a way to blow off steam, Hades would spar with Gawain. And not once could Gawain steal a victory from the demon. This weighed on his mind, to the point where he wasn’t even sure if it was possible to escape his father’s grasp.

Following that, he’d fallen into despair, and resigned himself to a life that’d never entirely be his own. He’d execute the orders he was given, be treated as a second-rate being, and live a meaningless existence until the day he died. That’s what he was convinced of. And he was sure it was because he was a mongrel, just like they all had said.

It was in this depression that Gawain met Arthur. His appearance initially was nothing of note to Gawain. Despite Hades holding great power, Demons had proven to be rather stupid when it came to assessing threats and he imagined this half-demon would be no different. He would challenge Hades, lose, and be made an example of, as pointless as that seemed to be. But then something strange happened: Hades lost. He lost… and to someone who wasn’t even fully demon? Gawain’s eyes lit up, the vestiges of hope flaring once again within them. In Hades’ eyes, however, only bitter resentment showed. The powerful demon Hades could not bear the humiliation of not only losing, but losing to a mongrel. His pride made it impossible for him to submit to becoming a subject of Arthur’s, and that left merely one fate for him.

Gawain had become free from his father, at last! Though he was upset that it wasn’t by his own hand, the yet-to-be knight knew immediately what he would do with his new self. Without any hesitation, he bowed before his savior, and in doing so, became the knight he is today.

COMBAT

ABILITIES:
Demonic Physiology - Like many demons and hybrids, Gawain sports a body physically superior to that of a normal human, giving him increased strength, speed, reaction, endurance, and the ability to recover from most wounds provided they aren’t outright fatal.

Soul Devourer: A power he inherited from his father, Hades, Gawain is capable of absorbing the lifeforce of his foes. Explained in Style section.

False Identity: A power bestowed upon him by the great Merlin. It allows both he and his weapons to temporarily take the form of Arthur. The trick fades away when engaged in combat, however.

EQUIPMENT:
Hades (Devil Arm): A weapon made from the soul of his father. A scythe that can change its form into a unique kusarigama. Rends the life of its victims to strengthen the opposite form’s attacks.
Techniques:

• Suffering: Hades stores the life essence of beings it strikes, and spends it when attacks are made in the form other than the one it stored it.
• Agony: Gawain twirls the Scythe or Kusarigama in front of him, hitting enemies caught multiple times with the final hit knocking enemies skywards. Works in the air, too, but knocks enemies to the ground.
• Hatred/Wrath: A quick attack with Hades that swaps it to the other form.
• Despair: A single swipe from the scythe fully empowered by Suffering deals great damage in an arc in front of him. Or, a relentless assault of melee slashes and stab from the Kusarigama to a single enemy before him.
• Apprehend: Places the blade of the scythe behind foes in front of him and drags them closer to him. If used with kusarigama, throws blades into a single foe and either pulls them to him or him to them if they are larger from a drastically increased range.

Babe (Minor Devil Arm): A weapon created from the combination of some weak demon and an aluminum baseball bat. To the untrained eye, it would merely appear to be a baseball bat with bloodied spikes on it.
Techniques:

• Pop Fly: Upward swing with the bat, knocking enemies airborne. Or, if in the air, downward swing that bounces enemies off the floor.
• YER OUT: Two horizontal swings followed by an attempt at a homerun. Knocks enemies far back.
• Bunt - Gawain hold the bat in front of him in order to clash with an enemy attack, causing a parry effect if successful.

Cue (Demonic Energy): A manifestation of Gawain’s demonic power, in the form of a small ball of black fire. Can be launched out of his hand almost like a cannon, or thrown. Only one ‘Cue’ can be out at a time, so if he decides to summon another one, the first will immediately disappear.
Techniques:

• Break: Cue is launched hard in a straight line and will knock down most enemies in its way.
• Put a Lot of English On It - Cue is thrown and orbits Gawain, constantly hitting foes within close proximity to him.
• Bank Shot - Cue is thrown at enemies and repeatedly bounces between foes grouped close together.
• Lag - Gawain throws Cue in a way that makes it immediately bounce off a foe and return to him, strengthening the next throw if he decides to catch it. Can stack with itself twice.
• Scratch - Cue can be detonated at any time, the radius and damage of the blast increasing based on how long it has been in the air without returning (except via Lag).

STYLE
Death’s Dance
Gawain can be best described as an ‘Ebb and Flow’ fighter, as the ideal situation for him in a battle is to utilize his own life force to empower his assaults, and then fall into a defensive posture and regain his footing in the event foes are not vanquished, as he has limited mobility options and his assault will often leave him feeling weak.
Techniques:

• Soul Devourer: Gawain can absorb the life energy of his foes, either through the attacks he lands on them or through skillful defense against their own. He may also pour his own life energy into his attacks to increase their strength.
• Debate/Perfect Debate: Postures defensively in order to receive enemy blows. Activating at the last minute not only entirely blocks an attack, but also leads to Rebuttal.
• Rebuttal: In the event of a Perfect Debate, Gawain recovers a little bit and his next melee attack is made stronger.
• Refutation: Strikes out with a blow that scales off damage negated by Debate, up to a point. Release, more or less.

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