Post by ‹ kˆ†eworth › on Apr 24, 2011 16:23:59 GMT -8
VAN -- to rip us
I D E N T I T Y - Number/Name: - Number Placement: Left side - Human name: Wade Valentino - Nicknames: Reaper Man - Gender: Male - Nationality: English - Voice Actor of Choice: Brent Spiner (5:00) A L I G N M E N T - Alliance: - Behavior: dangerous - Action: attack T I M E - Birthdate: March 7 - Age (now): 4 years - Age (then): 32 D O I N G... - Home: nowhere - Profession (now): hunting/retrieving bodies - Profession (then): writer - Hobbies: killing, stabbing, maiming, etc. | P H Y S I C A L - Species: - Height: 9 inches - Weight: heavy - Frame: iron - Fabric: polyester - Weapons: - Accessories: - Disabilities: none H E A L T H - Overall health: good - Mental condition: insane, PTSD R E L A T I O N S H I P S - Family (now): none - Family (then): unknown |
D E E P E R
- Personality: Van almost has two personalities. These come and go spontaneously and with little or no warning. There are quite a few conditions and effects that each might have on his behavior.
If Van is experiencing sanity, his behavior will turn cold and calculating. He will be able to speak normally and without interjecting giggles or laughter. Most of the time when this hits, Van will hide himself away and ride it out in silence. See, Van remembers his past life, because of the circumstances of his death (see History (then)). When he's sane, the memories depress him and he becomes distant from most everything. If he's in danger, he'll be more careful when fighting - however if the tide turns and he is struck down, chances are he'll be completely willing to give up and die right then and there. He's been known to ask for death in situations like these.
On the other hand, if Van is experiencing a fit of insanity (which is 80% of the time) his sentences are halting and his vocal skills are almost completely shot. He punctuates his words or silence with giggles every few seconds. He fights much less carefully, throwing himself easily into the most impossible dangers with little or no attempts at keeping himself safe. When alone, he will mumble quietly to himself. If, during a fight, the tide turns and he is struck down, he will begin babbling even more incoherently than normal and will begin seeing things, talking to things that aren't there, asking questions to nobody in particular.. and basically just losing it.
All of this is attached to his history.
- (+) characteristics: confident, determined
- (-) characteristics: insane, violent, stubborn, ignorant, damaged
History (waking up): As Van did not die like most humans (nor was he transferred into a ragdoll body in the same way), he didn't wake up like most of them either. He lived as a spirit for two years before the extermination of the humans, locked as a typical haunting in the church where the wedding had taken place. He was the sort of thing most people were scared of, your typical scary haunting. When the humans began to die, he watched it all happen.
Afterwards, he watched these smaller people wander around almost under his feet. They paid no notice to him until he made the effort to contact, and appeared to one of them, a girl named 49, as a spirit the same size. He possessed her and became stuck, sharing her body until she found an alchemist, Merrick, who pulled him out and plopped him into an unused body, that of an ex-traitor named Angstrom who, for whatever reason, had abandoned his ragdoll body.
For about a year after that he wandered around attacking and killing people.. for apparently no reason. At one point he ran into the BRAIN's puppet stitchpunk, who ended up recruiting him. He isn't really a very good traitor; he does what he always did, but he has never once brought one of his victim's bodies to the BRAIN.
Then he met Lucifer. The two of them battled and Van ended up on the bottom of the other's saw blade, and he would've been killed if it hadn't been for Camille, who appeared out of nowhere to stop Lucifer. Out of a drunken, half-dead stupor, Van dragged Lucifer's saw behind him as Camille dragged him away. Lucifer later went on a search, only to find that Van had hidden the saw. He gave it up without too much of a fight, and now trails after Lucifer after being spared (temporarily?) from death.
- History ("then"): Wade was a writer. He wasn't famous or well-known, but it could be argued that he was on his way up.
He proposed and was set to be married to a wealthy girl. He wasn't a selfish man - he genuinely loved her, and she made every indication that she returned his feelings. However, her father was not convinced. He was sure that Wade was only after her - and his - money, and set out to stop it from happening. Her father was a very, very strict man, and nobody ever messed with him and his own.
The day of their wedding came. They had already said their vows and he had already joined the family, and everyone gathered in a large ballroom for the post-vow celebration.
The bride's father instructed his son (the bride's brother) to place a powder in Wade's drink. The bride and groom shared a table with the bride's family, so this was no difficult task.
Naturally, the poison acted as soon as it had been consumed. Wade collapsed beside the table, vomiting blood and wine, while the guests panicked and threw away their own drinks, thinking the wine poisoned.
The last thing Wade saw was his bride's face staring at him a mere inches away before she also left. This is the memory he's latched to, with the self-concluding idea that it was her, it was her, she'd left him when he needed her, and that maybe she hadn't loved him after all.
What he didn't notice was that her father had grabbed ahold of her and dragged her out of the building while she tried desperately to reach her dying husband.
Her father had planned it out perfectly, waiting until after they had been married to poison him to remove the crosshairs from himself. His son was found guilty of poisoning Wade Valentino and was arrested; the boy ended up being used in ragdoll experiments and was known as Miles for quite a while until his disappearance.
Wade died before any emergency employees could get to him, and his soul wandered through the church as an intelligent, residual haunting.