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Character: Louis Amamiya
Canon: Code Vein, "Heirs" ending, sometime after he takes the throne
Age: he was 20 at the time of his death/becoming immortal, but it's unknown how actually old he is.
Background Information:
••• Louis is a Revenant, a deceased person who has a Biological Organ Regenerative Parasite implanted in their hearts, raising them from the dead at the cost of bloodlust. Even when "dispersed" (they literally disperse into a golden mist), they reform after some time. Canonically, this process takes a day or so. Memories sometimes are lost upon reforming. Only when the Revenant's heart (where the parasite resides) is destroyed via stake can they truly die. Curiously, when dispersal occurs and a Revenant's body physically dissipates, this doesn't count as the heart being destroyed.
The Lost. Revenants who have frenzied after losing themselves to either their bloodlust, starvation of said blood, the BOR parasite's control escalating, or the effects of Miasma. The Queen, hosted by a young woman named Cruz, was the most powerful of them. Cruz was Louis' friend. Years ago the Queen was defeated, but she was an immortal among the immortals, and so extra measures were taken to ensure she would not survive. Her body was carved up into pieces, called "Relics", which were then implanted into certain compatible individuals. These individuals became known as Successors. Some Sucessors retain their sense of self. For others, however, they frenzy into beasts, and they create colossal, unforgiving labyrinths around themselves known as Crypts.
••• Goal of the Mist. A desolate, post-apocalyptic region shrouded in a rancid mist which separates the area from the world outside. Its purpose is two-fold: first, to keep the Horrors from the world outside from getting in; and second, to keep the abominations of the Revenants and the Lost from getting out, which would only wreak more havoc on the dwindling human population.
••• Within the Gaol, Louis's goal is to find a source of blood beads in hopes of finding a consistent supply for starving Revenants kept inside. The more the years tick by, the more their food source, that is, blood beads and the blood of humans, dwindles. Unlike some other Revenants who treat humans like chattel, Louis still wishes to protect them. Fortunately, blood beads-- fruit-like beads that grow from mysterious, white, tree-like Bloodsprings-- resemble human blood, and are an adequate substitute. Unfortunately, most of these springs are either in-the-process-of drying up or completely dried up. He follows the blood beads, their branches, their Mistles, and their vines, in order to find the Source.
••• He learns of the Successors-- those who merged with fragments of the Queen's body, two of whom have potentially miraculous abilities. One Sucessor can produce blood beads and the Red Mist, which protects all within the Gaol. Another Successor produces the fluid in the blood beads via their tears, aka the Source.
••• Louis and the group recover Relics from the Sucessors. By the end of the game when all the Queen's Relics are gathered, the protagonist absorbs them all, only to frenzy. With no choice but to act, Louis kills the protagonist. The Relics need new hosts, and Louis becomes the Sucessor of the Brain. He takes the throne, settling into a concentrated slumber within the Gaol of the Stagnant Blood, and ensures that for as long as he is capable, the Red Mist will not waver. The Horrors will not enter the Gaol, the Lost and Revenants will not leave to torment the survivors living beyond it, and he will provide as much blood as he can for the starving Revenants still trapped.
••• Backstory wiki link for more details!
Personality:
1) Tell us about who your character is and what someone’s first impression would be upon meeting them. First impression of Louis would be that he has a very unique, gothic-punk fashion sense with way too many belts and studs. Besides that? His first impression may differ on at whatever point he's found. He may come across as a rather well-spoken, respectful, and thoughtful young man. While he may not divulge much about himself, he is honest and straightforward, as well as sincere with his intentions, and when someone else speaks, they have his absolute, full attention, as whatever they may say can either help or hurt him (or his cause), and he's lived too long-- as well as died too many times-- to not be observant.
Some might pick up on the fact that he's quite studious and thorough, whether in his personal studies, his hobbies (when he allows himself the time), or when a new mystery unravels in their desolate world. Louis will dedicate entire nights to learning about a subject, if only so that it would help his crew later on. Not only is he good at gathering information, he's apt at applying it. For example, across his desk are books about mineralogy and water channels, suggesting that he synthesized the very concoction he used to trace the bloodveins to the springs across the Red Mist's demense. Not only that, but wherever the protagonist needs to go next, Louis has a suggestion as well as evidence to back up his reasoning. He has entire boards detailed with markings, scribbles, notes, and pictures of areas that we as the protagonist know nothing about until far later in the game. Louis is meticulous, but he'll also brush any of his reasoning as only a theory.
Louis' expression varies from intense to neutral to broody, but there is never a time when he won't lend an ear-- or a hand. He might not emote much, but his actions, well, act as more meaningful expressions. In fact, the first time the protagonist meets Louis happens by coincidence, and Louis doesn't hesitate to help a stranger out through the bowels of the Crypts. Nor will he hesitate to help a Revenant, even one who has previously attacked him, through their frenzied state, going so far as to give them blood when he himself is at risk of starving. It's perhaps this that has made him accrue such a unique, capable team-- because for all of the party's eccentricities, Louis has acquired and built them a home, given them both safety and security, as well as the freedom to practice their own strengths and trades as long as they stay on his team.
Speaking of bloodthirst, though, Louis has an enormous amount of self-control in regards to both withstanding the temptation of blood and frenzying. For instance, when he finds a human woman injured, he maintains a hold on himself, and calmly de-escalates her from killing herself. Instead, he directs her to safety.
Above all, Louis is a humble, conscientious, and compassionate person. He easily expresses his shortcomings and failures, and he holds himself to impossible standards. For the moments he does express his excitement-- perhaps over a comic book, or chocolate-- he apologies for his forgetting his manners.
2) What is a driving force your character has? What goals do they have, what motivates them, etc?
"With everyone by my side, this time I should be able to deliver what you really want."
Louis intends to keep Cruz's will alive and well, although she is long gone. Her will is to protect everyone, for as much as she can, for as long as she can, in the context of their world-- or it was, when she was alive and in control of her faculties. Even during his early years as a Revenant he kept her motivation in his heart. This supported him when he was not yet a seasoned warrior, and so ended up dispersing many times. Immortality suited him, because as long as he could live, he could carry on her will, the Queen's will before she succumbed to madness, to protect others.
Of course, that is not the only thing that motivates him, and the explanation suits as an answer to the following question.
3) What are their flaws as a character? What is something they've messed up, or have done that they regret?
A very long time ago, Louis once failed to help a friend quite dear to him, a friend who had been suffering because she had sacrificed herself in a desperate attempt to help humanity in a post-apocalyptic world. Louis sat by her side, comforted her, talked to her, but when she needed him most in the throes of her agony-- when she requested that he kill her-- he could not. And so, she became the Queen.
Because Louis did not have the strength to mercy-kill his friend, it set off a series of events that made the world objectively worse for all of humanity, drastically diminishing their stagnating numbers even further. By the time Louis himself awakened as a Revenant, humanity was a mere sliver of its former population, and many of the Revenants made to combat her had also devolved into the Lost.
The decision to not grant Cruz her request has haunted him ever since; and ever since that day, as mentioned above, he has been set on making her wishes come true. Louis blames himself for the escalation of the Great Collapse into something far worse than it originally was. He wants to undo his mistakes by honoring her wish to protect everyone, no matter what. And should some semblance of her still be "alive" via her butchered body in the Relics, he wishes to finally grant Cruz her true peace.
In the course of the game (specifically, in the Heirs ending), Louis overcomes this self-perceived fault of his to not kill his friend: Louis kills the protagonist before they frenzy, preventing the birth of another Queen. Instead, he sacrifices himself as a Successor to sit on the throne to strengthen the Gaol's Red Mist and to produce blood for the starving Revenants. In doing so, he protects as many as he is capable, and all of it is at his own expense. Louis is fully aware that this is not a permanent solution to the Revenants, the Horrors, or the doom humans face, but it needn't be. All he has to do is last in this purgatory until a true solution is somehow found. Be that years, decades, or centuries later, he vows to last until that time. Existing as a Successor, imbued with a Queen's Relic, is likened to the feeling of being boiled from the inside alive. Existing as the Successor of the Brain, the most powerful of the Queen's Relics, is agony, to say nothing of the power and concentration it takes to produce the Red Mist and a healthy supply of blood to all who starve; nevertheless, he willingly burns. If Cruz could suffer for the good of all, then so can he, and he has faith that humanity will one day find a more permanent solution.
4) Optional: What is something unique and interesting about them, or what is a fun little tidbit that sets them apart from the crowd?
One of his favorite foods is chocolate. This doesn't make him unique or interesting compared to other humans, but that he doesn't immediately say 'blood'
Abilities & Inventory:
••• Immortality. Fatal wounds will cause his body to disperse, then regenerate about a day or two later, which may or may not involve losing a memory in the process. If a memory is lost with dispersal, there is a chance a Vestige might appear where he once perished. A Vestige is a thonry-like object which contains said memories and they whisper echoes of this memory, calling to any passersby. Handling a Vestige causes its thorns to impale the passerby, and it might induce madness and bloodlust-- causing a Revenant to frenzy. The game doesn't specify what happens when a normal human handles a Vestige, but it's probably painful.
••• Enhanced speed, strength, endurance, healing. A simple stab through the gut won't stop him from fighting.
••• Swordplay. He wields a greatsword with one hand.
••• Gifts: Prometheus.
••••••••• Vanishing attack. He does this shadow warp move and strikes an opponent.
••••••••• Flaming projectiles.
••••••••• Fire imbuement to weapons, either to self or another.
••••••••• Attack/stamina/reflex buff
••••••••• Greater attack/speed buff with defense penalty (self and partner)
••••••••• Drain: the Blood Veil of revenants that pierces a target to drain and filter blood (Ichor), which they then use to fuel their Gifts. The Blood Veil is actually a piece of armor that is tailored for Revenants, which both responds and changes in shape to their will. Think of it like this: if Louis needs to drain blood, he needn't do it via his fangs, he can use his Blood Veil as an extension of himself to pierce a target's armor or skin for him so that he may consume.
••• Red Mist: An impregnable wall of blood-like substance that prevents entry and exit from either side. It causes unimaginable pain to those who attempt to cross.
Canon: Code Vein, "Heirs" ending, sometime after he takes the throne
Age: he was 20 at the time of his death/becoming immortal, but it's unknown how actually old he is.
Background Information:
••• Louis is a Revenant, a deceased person who has a Biological Organ Regenerative Parasite implanted in their hearts, raising them from the dead at the cost of bloodlust. Even when "dispersed" (they literally disperse into a golden mist), they reform after some time. Canonically, this process takes a day or so. Memories sometimes are lost upon reforming. Only when the Revenant's heart (where the parasite resides) is destroyed via stake can they truly die. Curiously, when dispersal occurs and a Revenant's body physically dissipates, this doesn't count as the heart being destroyed.
The Lost. Revenants who have frenzied after losing themselves to either their bloodlust, starvation of said blood, the BOR parasite's control escalating, or the effects of Miasma. The Queen, hosted by a young woman named Cruz, was the most powerful of them. Cruz was Louis' friend. Years ago the Queen was defeated, but she was an immortal among the immortals, and so extra measures were taken to ensure she would not survive. Her body was carved up into pieces, called "Relics", which were then implanted into certain compatible individuals. These individuals became known as Successors. Some Sucessors retain their sense of self. For others, however, they frenzy into beasts, and they create colossal, unforgiving labyrinths around themselves known as Crypts.
••• Goal of the Mist. A desolate, post-apocalyptic region shrouded in a rancid mist which separates the area from the world outside. Its purpose is two-fold: first, to keep the Horrors from the world outside from getting in; and second, to keep the abominations of the Revenants and the Lost from getting out, which would only wreak more havoc on the dwindling human population.
••• Within the Gaol, Louis's goal is to find a source of blood beads in hopes of finding a consistent supply for starving Revenants kept inside. The more the years tick by, the more their food source, that is, blood beads and the blood of humans, dwindles. Unlike some other Revenants who treat humans like chattel, Louis still wishes to protect them. Fortunately, blood beads-- fruit-like beads that grow from mysterious, white, tree-like Bloodsprings-- resemble human blood, and are an adequate substitute. Unfortunately, most of these springs are either in-the-process-of drying up or completely dried up. He follows the blood beads, their branches, their Mistles, and their vines, in order to find the Source.
••• He learns of the Successors-- those who merged with fragments of the Queen's body, two of whom have potentially miraculous abilities. One Sucessor can produce blood beads and the Red Mist, which protects all within the Gaol. Another Successor produces the fluid in the blood beads via their tears, aka the Source.
••• Louis and the group recover Relics from the Sucessors. By the end of the game when all the Queen's Relics are gathered, the protagonist absorbs them all, only to frenzy. With no choice but to act, Louis kills the protagonist. The Relics need new hosts, and Louis becomes the Sucessor of the Brain. He takes the throne, settling into a concentrated slumber within the Gaol of the Stagnant Blood, and ensures that for as long as he is capable, the Red Mist will not waver. The Horrors will not enter the Gaol, the Lost and Revenants will not leave to torment the survivors living beyond it, and he will provide as much blood as he can for the starving Revenants still trapped.
••• Backstory wiki link for more details!
Personality:
1) Tell us about who your character is and what someone’s first impression would be upon meeting them. First impression of Louis would be that he has a very unique, gothic-punk fashion sense with way too many belts and studs. Besides that? His first impression may differ on at whatever point he's found. He may come across as a rather well-spoken, respectful, and thoughtful young man. While he may not divulge much about himself, he is honest and straightforward, as well as sincere with his intentions, and when someone else speaks, they have his absolute, full attention, as whatever they may say can either help or hurt him (or his cause), and he's lived too long-- as well as died too many times-- to not be observant.
Some might pick up on the fact that he's quite studious and thorough, whether in his personal studies, his hobbies (when he allows himself the time), or when a new mystery unravels in their desolate world. Louis will dedicate entire nights to learning about a subject, if only so that it would help his crew later on. Not only is he good at gathering information, he's apt at applying it. For example, across his desk are books about mineralogy and water channels, suggesting that he synthesized the very concoction he used to trace the bloodveins to the springs across the Red Mist's demense. Not only that, but wherever the protagonist needs to go next, Louis has a suggestion as well as evidence to back up his reasoning. He has entire boards detailed with markings, scribbles, notes, and pictures of areas that we as the protagonist know nothing about until far later in the game. Louis is meticulous, but he'll also brush any of his reasoning as only a theory.
Louis' expression varies from intense to neutral to broody, but there is never a time when he won't lend an ear-- or a hand. He might not emote much, but his actions, well, act as more meaningful expressions. In fact, the first time the protagonist meets Louis happens by coincidence, and Louis doesn't hesitate to help a stranger out through the bowels of the Crypts. Nor will he hesitate to help a Revenant, even one who has previously attacked him, through their frenzied state, going so far as to give them blood when he himself is at risk of starving. It's perhaps this that has made him accrue such a unique, capable team-- because for all of the party's eccentricities, Louis has acquired and built them a home, given them both safety and security, as well as the freedom to practice their own strengths and trades as long as they stay on his team.
Speaking of bloodthirst, though, Louis has an enormous amount of self-control in regards to both withstanding the temptation of blood and frenzying. For instance, when he finds a human woman injured, he maintains a hold on himself, and calmly de-escalates her from killing herself. Instead, he directs her to safety.
Above all, Louis is a humble, conscientious, and compassionate person. He easily expresses his shortcomings and failures, and he holds himself to impossible standards. For the moments he does express his excitement-- perhaps over a comic book, or chocolate-- he apologies for his forgetting his manners.
2) What is a driving force your character has? What goals do they have, what motivates them, etc?
"With everyone by my side, this time I should be able to deliver what you really want."
Louis intends to keep Cruz's will alive and well, although she is long gone. Her will is to protect everyone, for as much as she can, for as long as she can, in the context of their world-- or it was, when she was alive and in control of her faculties. Even during his early years as a Revenant he kept her motivation in his heart. This supported him when he was not yet a seasoned warrior, and so ended up dispersing many times. Immortality suited him, because as long as he could live, he could carry on her will, the Queen's will before she succumbed to madness, to protect others.
Of course, that is not the only thing that motivates him, and the explanation suits as an answer to the following question.
3) What are their flaws as a character? What is something they've messed up, or have done that they regret?
A very long time ago, Louis once failed to help a friend quite dear to him, a friend who had been suffering because she had sacrificed herself in a desperate attempt to help humanity in a post-apocalyptic world. Louis sat by her side, comforted her, talked to her, but when she needed him most in the throes of her agony-- when she requested that he kill her-- he could not. And so, she became the Queen.
Because Louis did not have the strength to mercy-kill his friend, it set off a series of events that made the world objectively worse for all of humanity, drastically diminishing their stagnating numbers even further. By the time Louis himself awakened as a Revenant, humanity was a mere sliver of its former population, and many of the Revenants made to combat her had also devolved into the Lost.
The decision to not grant Cruz her request has haunted him ever since; and ever since that day, as mentioned above, he has been set on making her wishes come true. Louis blames himself for the escalation of the Great Collapse into something far worse than it originally was. He wants to undo his mistakes by honoring her wish to protect everyone, no matter what. And should some semblance of her still be "alive" via her butchered body in the Relics, he wishes to finally grant Cruz her true peace.
In the course of the game (specifically, in the Heirs ending), Louis overcomes this self-perceived fault of his to not kill his friend: Louis kills the protagonist before they frenzy, preventing the birth of another Queen. Instead, he sacrifices himself as a Successor to sit on the throne to strengthen the Gaol's Red Mist and to produce blood for the starving Revenants. In doing so, he protects as many as he is capable, and all of it is at his own expense. Louis is fully aware that this is not a permanent solution to the Revenants, the Horrors, or the doom humans face, but it needn't be. All he has to do is last in this purgatory until a true solution is somehow found. Be that years, decades, or centuries later, he vows to last until that time. Existing as a Successor, imbued with a Queen's Relic, is likened to the feeling of being boiled from the inside alive. Existing as the Successor of the Brain, the most powerful of the Queen's Relics, is agony, to say nothing of the power and concentration it takes to produce the Red Mist and a healthy supply of blood to all who starve; nevertheless, he willingly burns. If Cruz could suffer for the good of all, then so can he, and he has faith that humanity will one day find a more permanent solution.
4) Optional: What is something unique and interesting about them, or what is a fun little tidbit that sets them apart from the crowd?
One of his favorite foods is chocolate. This doesn't make him unique or interesting compared to other humans, but that he doesn't immediately say 'blood'
Abilities & Inventory:
••• Immortality. Fatal wounds will cause his body to disperse, then regenerate about a day or two later, which may or may not involve losing a memory in the process. If a memory is lost with dispersal, there is a chance a Vestige might appear where he once perished. A Vestige is a thonry-like object which contains said memories and they whisper echoes of this memory, calling to any passersby. Handling a Vestige causes its thorns to impale the passerby, and it might induce madness and bloodlust-- causing a Revenant to frenzy. The game doesn't specify what happens when a normal human handles a Vestige, but it's probably painful.
••• Enhanced speed, strength, endurance, healing. A simple stab through the gut won't stop him from fighting.
••• Swordplay. He wields a greatsword with one hand.
••• Gifts: Prometheus.
••••••••• Vanishing attack. He does this shadow warp move and strikes an opponent.
••••••••• Flaming projectiles.
••••••••• Fire imbuement to weapons, either to self or another.
••••••••• Attack/stamina/reflex buff
••••••••• Greater attack/speed buff with defense penalty (self and partner)
••••••••• Drain: the Blood Veil of revenants that pierces a target to drain and filter blood (Ichor), which they then use to fuel their Gifts. The Blood Veil is actually a piece of armor that is tailored for Revenants, which both responds and changes in shape to their will. Think of it like this: if Louis needs to drain blood, he needn't do it via his fangs, he can use his Blood Veil as an extension of himself to pierce a target's armor or skin for him so that he may consume.
••• Red Mist: An impregnable wall of blood-like substance that prevents entry and exit from either side. It causes unimaginable pain to those who attempt to cross.
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OKAY this is a difficult choice, and I might need y'all to choose for me because I genuinely don't know.
In the game, Louis doesn't align himself with the provincial government of the Gaol, but he also doesn't associate with the other, rebellious, gang-like factions that entrap and enslave humans, either. He is the type that works with both and uses either to his advantage. In his world, he is resourceful enough that he doesn't need to align himself with either, and he's well-respected in his world that neither side manages to persuade him to join.
I think the wanting-to-help-others could possibly align him to the Paladins. Or maybe because they keep a better library. Alternatively, he could be a Corsair, because it seems unlikely that Elturt has places where they'd let a not!vampire drink blood, and he needs to feed, or at least have easy access to any black markets in which people sell blood. In short, not 100% oocly sure which place could be best for him.
If Louis had a choice, he would align himself with the corsairs solely for the blood aspect of it.
In the game, Louis doesn't align himself with the provincial government of the Gaol, but he also doesn't associate with the other, rebellious, gang-like factions that entrap and enslave humans, either. He is the type that works with both and uses either to his advantage. In his world, he is resourceful enough that he doesn't need to align himself with either, and he's well-respected in his world that neither side manages to persuade him to join.
I think the wanting-to-help-others could possibly align him to the Paladins. Or maybe because they keep a better library. Alternatively, he could be a Corsair, because it seems unlikely that Elturt has places where they'd let a not!vampire drink blood, and he needs to feed, or at least have easy access to any black markets in which people sell blood. In short, not 100% oocly sure which place could be best for him.
If Louis had a choice, he would align himself with the corsairs solely for the blood aspect of it.
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