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Player: Kaye
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Age: 20
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Character: Zero
Age: 19
Canon: Drakengard 3
Canon Point: post-Branch D
Background: Zero @ the Drakengard wikia
Personality: Zero may seem like your typical ruthless, nasty foul-mouthed villain, but in reality, she's so much more than that. Described as lazy, irritable, apathetic, and completely uninhibited when it comes to men, Zero would be the first to say that there's nothing good about her. This isn't quiet self-deprecating humor either—the fact that there's nothing of value in her entire existence is her own frank opinion. In her own words, the only thing she has that she can call her own is life, something she understands quite well that she'll lose well enough. Still, as meaningless as she thinks her own being is, there's quite a lot to be found in the things she does, the things she says.
To put it simply, Zero is, well... simple. If she has to do something, she wants to get it done quickly. If she doesn't want to do it, no force on earth could get her to do it. Due to the fact that the only goal she has is to kill all her sisters, this unfortunately spells disaster for everyone else. It doesn't matter who stands in her way to reaching her sisters and killing them—whether they're soldiers, women, children, or the elderly, she doesn't give a damn. If someone stands in her way, she's going to kill them to get them out of her way, easy as that. However, that isn't to say she really enjoys killing people. In truth, she's been killing people for so long that she describes it as being "as natural as taking a piss". Whereas her companion Dito revels in the blood and pained cries of their enemies, Zero doesn't care one ay or the other about it. There have been plenty of times where she didn't actually need to kill someone, but she did it regardless. She herself doesn't understand why she does; she's simply accepted it as it is.
When faced with obstacles though, Zero's irritability and short temper quickly reveal themselves. She's extremely impatient and will complain about what's bothering her the entire time she's dealing with it. Look, platform jumping is stupid and a waste of time and how does it even work? Magic? Isn't that a convenient explanation, whenever something happens that you don't know how to explain, just say "magic" and it'll answer everything! What's with these puzzles and riddles Three made, none of them even make any sense, it'd be so much faster if she could just run through this godforsaken forest without getting lost! That fairy king guy wasn't going to tell them anything useful anyways, so what if she squished him in her hand like a bug? It's not her problem that all the fairies are without a king now, they can go find someone else. Even when traveling with her companions, she frequently threatens physical violence if they start to annoy her with their own comments. With Mikhail, it's not just threats; she frequently beats or stabs him when he's irritating her in particular. Given her short temper, violence is the easy solution to every annoying thing that comes her way.
However, despite impatient and irritable attitude, she's also extremely nonchalant with a number of things. For one, Zero is the complete opposite of picky when it comes to food and men; she's even described in game as so un-picky that she would eat off the floor willingly. Perhaps it's due to the fact that she couldn't afford to be picky when she was younger, but seeing as how she can easily get food now, it's a bit much. Considering how violent she is, her unquestioning attitude with Dito's fascination for blood and guts and suffering might not be a surprise, but even the most sexually open of people would probably find Octa's desire to try having sex with a black hole really weird. Zero couldn't care less though, and any comments from her regarding her companions' weirder habits are more likely to be making fun of them than questioning it.
Given everything Zero presents about herself, she seems more like a villain protagonist than anything else. However, underneath all the swearing and killing, there are a few examples of an at least decent person somewhere in there. For as much trouble she gives Mikhail, she also cares about the young dragon very much. Whenever Mikhail is in real, actual danger, Zero does everything she can to take care of and protect him. She begs him to flee or reincarnate rather than sacrifice himself for her; during the story branches where he does indeed die for her, she either flies into a bloodthirsty rage or breaks completely. Zero would be the last person to admit that she actually cares for what is essentially a kid dragon, but in the long run, she wants him to live on. For all the crap she gives her other companions as well, she's actually quite grateful for everything they do for her. Rather than taking them into the final battle with her in one branch like they want to, she stops them and returns them to their original forms rather than let them die in battle. In some branches where they die, Zero actually looks sad over it. As ruthless as she can be, there's still something of a heart in there.
Undeniably angry and hateful, it's no surprise that she originally died cursing the world. While she undeniably continued the injustice that her own life was so full of, she recognized that and considered the world to be worthless with how much wrong was in it. The people who fought for justice and the weak always ended up losing in her world. Even so, when she realized that the flower that brought her back to life wanted to destroy this worthless world, she did everything she could to stop it—killing herself, finding a dragon, hunting down her "sisters" across the world, whatever it took. Despite having died cursing the world, she truly, honestly wanted to save it. It may have been at the cost of her own life and leaving behind the one being she ever really cared about, but it was what she wanted. She was glad to have finally put the flower's menace to and end.
Abilities: Intoners as a whole have heightened strength, ability, and endurance compared to an ordinary human. As an Intoner, Zero has a number of other strange powers, most notably being capable of using magic through the power of song. Most often, this power is used in combat by absorbing blood. The more blood Zero drenches herself in, the more powerful she becomes, and after having been soaked in enough blood, she can briefly unleash what the game calls "Intoner Mode". Her strength and speed increase exponentially, and she becomes nigh invulnerable. Other uses of song magic include creating shields, creating barriers, setting curses, and even summoning magical, powerful creatures for combat. An Intoner's song is a powerful thing though; without a strong enough mind, it can easily go out of control. What should be a song to increase one's strength could turn that into a zombie, or a song spell to aid children in recovering from illness leads to them turning into a combined, giant homunculus monster.
Zero is capable of healing herself, primarily through regeneration. For example, if she was to lose a limb, she could simply stick it back onto herself, and the arm will reattach and work with no problem. While cuts and the like will heal on their own, if she takes enough damage or what would otherwise be a fatal wound, she will regenerate from the flower in her eye. The flower will bloom, growing exponentially larger, until a new Zero emerges from the center covered in blood. This process can be interrupted by blocking the center of the flower, but otherwise, she can regenerate almost infinitely. The only way she can be truly killed is by the power of a dragon, either by being defeated by a dragon itself or by being killed by a weapon made out of a dragon, such as a sword made out of dragon bone.
Having fought to survive nearly her entire life, Zero is extremely adept in combat. Her preferred weapon is a sword, but she is also proficient in using spears, chakrams, and bracers for hand-to-hand combat. Combined with her enhanced strength, agility, and endurance as an Intoner, she's capable of killing dozens of regular people single-handedly. She often faces monsters more than twice her size with little to no problem.
Other: The flower which grants Zero's supernatural abilities is actually a parasite that is also slowly eating away at her mind. Hopefully that part of it will be power-capped though...
First Person Sample: A musebox thread.
Third Person Sample: A test drive thread.
Questions: n/a