bloodstainedlineage | app post; (city of ariel)

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□ Name: Mischa
□ Age: 26
□ Contact: crossfortune @ plurk, star_maiden12@yahoo.com
□ Journal: crossfortune @ dw
□ Do you play anyone in Ariel?: No

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□ Name: Testament
□ Journal: bloodstainedlineage @ dw
□ Series: Guilty Gear
□ Canon point: post-Guilty Gear XX
□ History: http://guilty-gear.wikia.com/wiki/Testament, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_Gear_(series)
□ Personality:
Testament is, to say the least, a complicated individual, who has undergone several (and massive) changes of heart over the course of his life. As a human, before undergoing the Gear conversion process, he was extremely gentle, and hated violence to the point of phobia. Unfortunately for his mental health and stability, he was also a member of the Sacred Order of Holy Knights, a soldier in humanity’s war to survive and his temperament entirely unsuited for it. He ended up depressed and unstable, which made him easy to take advantage of: when the Post-War Administration Bureau approached him with an offer to turn him into a Gear, between his depression and his desire for power, to grow stronger and make his adoptive father proud, he accepted.

Like every (or almost every) other Gear, he fell under Justice’s influence and under her control, though unusually (along with signs of resistance to said control), he retained his sense of self and was capable of cognizant thought. He learned to hate humanity over this period, completely independently of any influence Justice had over him, and when he is first introduced in the original Guilty Gear, he is (to say the least), a complete psychopath, plotting to sacrifice whoever wins the tournament (or himself, as a contingency plan) in order to revive Justice to finish the genocide of humanity.

He has since gotten better, both from being freed from Justice’s influence after her death and because of the influence of and meeting Dizzy: recovering psychopath now. Mostly. (He has his moments, such as in the bad ending path in which Dizzy dies and he completely flips his shit and vows to kill humanity, but that path isn’t the canon outcome). He isn’t actively genocidal anymore, but he still hates and is extremely distrustful of humans, with the exception of children, who even now he has a fondness for, and chooses to isolate himself partly to get away from them.

Gloomy, often harsh, and cold, Testament is not an approachable person by any stretch of the imagination, and has been (fairly) described as uptight. He tends towards the solitary: with the exception of his familiars, his only company in the forest was Dizzy, and now that she is gone, he has no one. Though he has regained his gentle heart after meeting Dizzy, most people are not privy to this, with the exception of Dizzy. He wants to atone for his actions in helping attempt to commit genocide and his indirect hand in killing his father (who was killed by the unsealed Justice), and has thrown himself into protecting Dizzy and protecting the Grove from any outsiders as his means of atonement and a new purpose in life. Also notably, despite his huge amount of guilt, he is not a deathseeker: he intends to live in order to expiate his sins.

He has been described as “willing to do anything” to protect people...and he certainly demonstrates that quite amply in the lengths he is willing to go to protect Dizzy, even once she has left his care, and the forest: he gives trespassers into the Grove one warning before he resorts to violence to remove them from it (even though he does not like violence in the least), and is generally extremely overprotective of Dizzy and distrustful of the Jellyfish Pirates who she now travels with.

Needless to say, in addition to everything else, Testament is an extremely stubborn bitch with a very difficult time in letting anything go and tendencies towards irrational obsession. Any-fucking-thing. Also, he’s implied to be kind of vain, but that’s subtle and really minor compared to his glaring personality flaws.
□ Age: No canon age given: appears to be in his twenties but is older than that (most likely between 60-70 given dialogue hints)
□ Gender: Male
□ Appearance: Testament is tall (6’1” in his bare feet and his boots have heels on top of that) and thin, with waist-length black hair, red eyes, and pale skin. He dresses in all black, and while his clothes are the remnants of his Holy Knight uniform, basically amount to a halter top with sleeves and a skirt as well as fingerless gloves: he shows a lot of skin. Very attractive, with a very beautiful face: his attractiveness was even commented on by another character when he was being batshit insane.
□ Abilities/Powers:
As a Gear, Testament is essentially a walking, intelligent magical bioweapon with a great deal of magical power: he’s certainly less powerful than certain others in his canon (Slayer, Dizzy, Justice, Sol Badguy) but still frighteningly powerful and notably without the ability to turn his powers down much less than full intensity. He wields blood magic and holds blood contracts with a number of different familiars: namely a succubus (which usually follows him around in the form of a raven: she has the ability to life-drain) and his EXE_Beast (a small purple horrible hell monster thing that is very good at chewing on Testament’s opponents).

Wields a scythe made out of blood: very deadly with it. Moves very quickly on his feet when he runs, and is stronger and faster than an ordinary human due to being a genetically enhanced bioweapon.

Canon, unfortunately, is spare on the exact details of many of Testament’s powers. He demonstrates teleportation ability: he teleports into every fight and teleports further on a few occasions. The range of this power is unknown: he very likely can’t pull off anything like Faust’s dimensional teleporting bullshit, but as to exactly how far he can go, it’s unknown.

For more specifics on the blood magic, in addition to blood manipulation, he has been shown to summon horrible demon trees that rise up from the earth and can poison people if they touch them, demonic seals that curse people/get them attacked by his succubus familiar, bloodwebs that are invisible until you touch them and can also poison people. He can dissolve into blood as well.

Canon has also mentioned his ability to perform “earth seals”, a brand of sealing magic done with earth magic, but what they exactly do- or how much ability Testament has with earth magic- has not been explained.

In the past, he planned and carried out a blood magic ritual to revive Justice, the original Commander Gear, from her dimensional prison. Likely pretty knowledgeable in occult stuff, given both the ritual he planned and the very odd magic that he uses. Intellectually very intelligent: he isn’t a genius, but he’s still very smart (if with a large gap in his education, as well as terrible with technology like the others in his canon who aren’t either a few hundred years old or time-travelers, and blinded by his stubbornness), and can be very manipulative if he has to be.

Also can fight in that skirt of his without flashing everyone. Somehow.
□ Personal Items:
1. set of clothes
2. well-worn book
3. Dizzy’s letter that she wrote to him
4. a hairbrush
5. partly-written reply to Dizzy’s letter
□ First Person Sample:
[the video shows a clear view of some of the ruins outside the city from above, as though the person looking down at them was in a high place, like at the top of a tall building or something.] Hmph. This city promises peace, but it won’t last. Humans don’t learn. [pause.] ...even when it nearly destroys them.
□ Third Person Sample:
Somehow, Testament was not surprised to hear about the war that had devastated this world: humans were much the same no matter where they are, and it was no surprise that they had turned on each other. The fact that anything was left to rebuild - much less the remains agreeing to stop long enough to do so - was the surprise. The pleasure and peace that this city was supposedly founded on? He expects it to last only as long as those in power needed it to, and no more. He wants to live in peace, but he doubts (and nothing has shown him any different) that he can ever find that peace living among humans.

And being arrogant enough to force others into this world to help rebuild their mess, when they had no right to do so? Hmph. He did not take kindly to this in the least, for a variety of reasons: he had his own mistakes to make up for already, this was not the world that he needed to serve and seek forgiveness from, he had Dizzy and the Grove to protect as part of his redemption.

And he would have absolutely nothing to do with what they wanted of him: strip his ability to fulfill his purpose from him? Force him here to do their bidding and will? Hah. Damn humans. Never be able to return? He would see about that.