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Character Info
◎ Character's Name: Zero
◎ Character's Canon: Drakengard 3
◎ Character's Age: physically 17, mentally 19
◎ Canon Point: post-Branch D
◎ Background/History: Zero @ the Drakengard wikia
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense? no
◎ 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 way 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. It just comes to her so naturally at this point that she sees no point in trying to stop it. Really, if it's not something that comes up immediately or is in her way, she won't see much reason to think about it. It's not that much of a problem, after all.
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! 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, and if not violence, she can easily come up with a sarcastic insult for hem. 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. While her direct, straightforward determination carries her through much of her journey, it's this same thing that has her view just about anything that gets in her way as an annoying hindrance.
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. As for any of her own particular weirdness, she simply doesn't care what other people think. She's crass, vulgar, and will say whatever is on her mind no matter how dirty or horrendously inappropriate. While she considers herself to be worthless, she's very confident in her own abilities, sometimes to the point of cockiness. Comically enough, it's usually when she's at her most confident, usually recklessly so, that something will come along to ruin or otherwise mess up whatever she's confident about.
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 instead of letting them die in battle. In some branches where they die, Zero looks notably sad or solemn about it; sometimes one of them dying is a direct result of them betraying her, but she's never angry or mad about it, even if she shows no mercy. 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 certainly 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—it was wrong, and a world like this had to be wrong for even existing. Despite this, 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. Even after having died cursing the world, she truly, honestly wanted to save it. It was at the cost of her own life, but it was a life she thought was worthless to begin with anyways. Whereas she originally died cursing and condemning the world, she was finally able to leave it at peace.
◎ Powers/Abilities: Intoners as a whole have heightened strength, ability, and endurance compared to an ordinary human; they're described as being essentially god-like even. 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 for a short amount of time. 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 them into a zombie, or a song spell to aid children in recovering from illness leads to them turning into a 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 (and the rest of the Intoners) 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. Like the rest of her Intoner sisters, Zero also has an incredibly high sex drive.
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 and can decimate armies without breaking a sweat.
◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory: sword, spear, bracers, chakram, and the clothes on her
CEREALIA-Specific
◎ Element: fire
◎ Sense: Sound. As an Intoner and thus a being that gains power through voice and music, it seems likely that Zero would have to have good hearing.
◎ Seven Character Traits: ( open-minded, simple, straightforward ) | ( irritable, lazy, apathetic ) + cynical
Samples
◎ First-Person Sample: A musebox thread here!
◎ Third-Person Sample: In all her seventeen years of living and two years of dead-but-alive-living, Zero had never taken a more comfortable shit in her life than the one she just had in the bathroom of her apartment. As she walked out of it, even she had to admit that it was a damn nice toilet. Sure she wasn't the type to care much about the conditions, but if there were a few luxuries to be had, then she'd sure as hell take them. Even the richest of castles and manors back home had nothing compared to whatever fancy toilet this place had, and if she was grateful for anything about being here, it was for getting to experience the pleasure of an actually comfortable shit.
Everything else she didn't give two fucks about.
Honestly, just how many things were out there that liked killing worlds? First the Flower, now a bunch of fucking aliens? Beyond being absolutely ridiculous, it all seemed a little too convenient in her eyes. What happened when these kinds of things ran into each other, they duked it out to see who'd get to kill what world? She already took care of one problem alright, and sure she was no hero, but after doing something kind of good and decent, she would've thought that she deserved a break. Or just be dead even, after all the crap she had to go through, Zero would've been pretty okay with that. If Mikhail was here, she would've told him that he did a fucking lousy job of sealing her and her sisters away if this was what it led to.
But no, Mikhail wasn't here; instead of his stupid babbling about making friends or dealing with his godawful rank, it was silent and pleasant inside of this comfy room. If she believed what those people said, her dumb dragon was dead and obliterated along with the rest of her world. It was all too easy to imagine him blubbering and crying like a baby after he sealed her, but as gross as that would be, she kind of preferred it to the idea of that idiot being dead. Him not being alive left a bad feeling in her stomach.
In fact, she wanted to go back to where those CERES people were and tear them a new one again for being so fucking useless at their apparent job they let her world go to hell in the first place.
"What a bunch of dumbasses," she swears. And now she's stuck cleaning up the mess of these dumbasses. Great, just great.
◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories? no
◎ Name: Kaye
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Character Info
◎ Character's Name: Zero
◎ Character's Canon: Drakengard 3
◎ Character's Age: physically 17, mentally 19
◎ Canon Point: post-Branch D
◎ Background/History: Zero @ the Drakengard wikia
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense? no
◎ 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 way 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. It just comes to her so naturally at this point that she sees no point in trying to stop it. Really, if it's not something that comes up immediately or is in her way, she won't see much reason to think about it. It's not that much of a problem, after all.
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! 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, and if not violence, she can easily come up with a sarcastic insult for hem. 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. While her direct, straightforward determination carries her through much of her journey, it's this same thing that has her view just about anything that gets in her way as an annoying hindrance.
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. As for any of her own particular weirdness, she simply doesn't care what other people think. She's crass, vulgar, and will say whatever is on her mind no matter how dirty or horrendously inappropriate. While she considers herself to be worthless, she's very confident in her own abilities, sometimes to the point of cockiness. Comically enough, it's usually when she's at her most confident, usually recklessly so, that something will come along to ruin or otherwise mess up whatever she's confident about.
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 instead of letting them die in battle. In some branches where they die, Zero looks notably sad or solemn about it; sometimes one of them dying is a direct result of them betraying her, but she's never angry or mad about it, even if she shows no mercy. 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 certainly 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—it was wrong, and a world like this had to be wrong for even existing. Despite this, 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. Even after having died cursing the world, she truly, honestly wanted to save it. It was at the cost of her own life, but it was a life she thought was worthless to begin with anyways. Whereas she originally died cursing and condemning the world, she was finally able to leave it at peace.
◎ Powers/Abilities: Intoners as a whole have heightened strength, ability, and endurance compared to an ordinary human; they're described as being essentially god-like even. 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 for a short amount of time. 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 them into a zombie, or a song spell to aid children in recovering from illness leads to them turning into a 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 (and the rest of the Intoners) 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. Like the rest of her Intoner sisters, Zero also has an incredibly high sex drive.
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 and can decimate armies without breaking a sweat.
◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory: sword, spear, bracers, chakram, and the clothes on her
CEREALIA-Specific
◎ Element: fire
◎ Sense: Sound. As an Intoner and thus a being that gains power through voice and music, it seems likely that Zero would have to have good hearing.
◎ Seven Character Traits: ( open-minded, simple, straightforward ) | ( irritable, lazy, apathetic ) + cynical
Samples
◎ First-Person Sample: A musebox thread here!
◎ Third-Person Sample: In all her seventeen years of living and two years of dead-but-alive-living, Zero had never taken a more comfortable shit in her life than the one she just had in the bathroom of her apartment. As she walked out of it, even she had to admit that it was a damn nice toilet. Sure she wasn't the type to care much about the conditions, but if there were a few luxuries to be had, then she'd sure as hell take them. Even the richest of castles and manors back home had nothing compared to whatever fancy toilet this place had, and if she was grateful for anything about being here, it was for getting to experience the pleasure of an actually comfortable shit.
Everything else she didn't give two fucks about.
Honestly, just how many things were out there that liked killing worlds? First the Flower, now a bunch of fucking aliens? Beyond being absolutely ridiculous, it all seemed a little too convenient in her eyes. What happened when these kinds of things ran into each other, they duked it out to see who'd get to kill what world? She already took care of one problem alright, and sure she was no hero, but after doing something kind of good and decent, she would've thought that she deserved a break. Or just be dead even, after all the crap she had to go through, Zero would've been pretty okay with that. If Mikhail was here, she would've told him that he did a fucking lousy job of sealing her and her sisters away if this was what it led to.
But no, Mikhail wasn't here; instead of his stupid babbling about making friends or dealing with his godawful rank, it was silent and pleasant inside of this comfy room. If she believed what those people said, her dumb dragon was dead and obliterated along with the rest of her world. It was all too easy to imagine him blubbering and crying like a baby after he sealed her, but as gross as that would be, she kind of preferred it to the idea of that idiot being dead. Him not being alive left a bad feeling in her stomach.
In fact, she wanted to go back to where those CERES people were and tear them a new one again for being so fucking useless at their apparent job they let her world go to hell in the first place.
"What a bunch of dumbasses," she swears. And now she's stuck cleaning up the mess of these dumbasses. Great, just great.
◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories? no