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monstrueux) wrote2013-10-13 01:18 pm
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content warnings: discussion of murder, child abuse
Mun
Name/Nickname: Fox
Age: Over 18
Dreamwidth Username: monstrueux
Contact: plurk: teacuppity
Current Characters in Game: N/A
Character
Character Name: Caster, aka Gilles de Rais
Canon: Fate/Zero
Age: How old is your character? Gilles de Rais died at the age of 35 and is now a spirit who no longer ages
Appearance: What do they look like? link
Canon Point: Shortly after Ryuunosuke explains his vision of God (volume 3, act 9, part 1)
How will your character react to the initial night period?: Gilles loves mayhem and others' suffering. Therefore, he'd delight in the night period. He'd find it exciting. He would venture forth to experience all the pleasures it had to offer. He would observe the dangerous residents of the hotel, watching them attack others, possibly while in spirit form, to avoid detection, but not always. He might aid someone to escape--only to betray them at the last minute, to see the look on their face as they realize his betrayal and then experience the agony of an attack, or possibly death. Or he might well summon his own monsters, to join in on the fun. If Ryuunosuke or another person he deems a kindred spirit, were to be with him, then they could kill together, becoming yet another threat to the residents of the hotel.
History: Type-Moon wiki page
AU History: N/A
Personality: Caster, a fictionalized version of Gilles de Rais, aka Bluebeard, is a monster. He is a notorious murderer. He kills for pleasure, and not only that, but his crimes are exceptionally cruel and heinous, taking advantage of the weak and defenseless. He delights in making the deaths of those he kills as painful and miserable as possible, intent on producing in his victims the greatest and most profound despair possible. He has also practiced Satanism and proclaimed himself to be an enemy of God. He enjoys chaos and misery, and he does his best to increase the amount of both in the world. When he is summoned to take part in the Holy Grail War, his first act upon arriving is to kill a small child who was being held captive by his Master, Ryuunosuke. He and Ryuunosuke then abduct and kill more and more people as the war progresses. Their violence becomes so marked and brutal that at one point, all the other Masters in the war band together to stop them. Gilles appears to have no limits where his desire to cause death and chaos is concerned. When he dies, in canon, he is in the process of summoning a beast, the only purpose of which is to devour the city and everyone in it.
Gilles was not always this way. As a younger man, he was the Marshal of France, a devout man and a hero of the French people. He fought alongside the sainted Jeanne D'Arc in many battles. He was struck by her virtue, her strength, and her devotion to God, and he admired her greatly. She left a profound impact on him. It could be said that Jeanne was the most important person in his life. That is why, when Jeanne was captured and condemned to death, then burned alive, Gilles was devastated. It came as a great shock to him. God had abandoned and betrayed Jeanne. He was unable to get over his horror and outrage at what had happened, and he reacted to his anger and grief by first pulling away from God, then turning against him. That was why he turned to black magic and murder. He is a deeply troubled and broken man, still traumatized by Jeanne's death, yet reveling in his own monstrosity.
It is worth noting that Gilles is quite insane. He is erratic and emotional. He is given to delusional thinking. When he encounters Arturia, who looks a great deal like his beloved Jeanne, he believes she is Jeanne and will not believe differently, no matter what Arturia says or does. The more she tries to convince him, the more he twists her protests to support his own beliefs. He becomes increasingly agitated by her denials, and when agitated, he is driven to commit even more horrible acts. While Gilles is capable of appearing measured and collected for brief periods of time, it's difficult to say what might set him off and send him into a histrionic fit. Then, once he's had his fit, he'll likely decide on an action to take, a show to put on, as when he confronts Saber in the woods with an elaborate, violent game of hide and seek. He has a dramatic personality. He is fond of broad, sweeping gestures and bold displays. He loves spectacle. His talents are listed as "plotting events and producing things".
Cruel and ruthless he may be, but Gilles is not incapable of affection and other, more positive emotions, even if they aren't necessarily expressed in ways others would consider positive. He becomes very fond of his murderous Master over the course of the war. He sees in him a kindred spirit. He is protective of him and thinks quite highly of him. He shows genuine fondness in his dealings with Ryuunosuke, complimenting and embracing him and even respecting him. As in most of his dealings with others, his delusional thinking comes into play again. He considers Ryuunosuke to be quite intelligent, and an artist, when in fact, neither of those things are true. Gilles also still has deep feelings for Jeanne D'Arc. As he reveals to Ryuunosuke, his sole wish and reason for taking part in the Grail War is to be reunited with her. He has a deep and lasting obsession with her, which is his primary motivating force. Even though he expects that Jeanne will hate him for what he has become, he wants to be with her, and he wants to "save" her from what he sees as the curse that has stripped her of her memories. In reality, it's simply that the person he thinks is Jeanne is Arturia, but he believes what he is doing is good, in the way he conceptualizes good. His moral compass has been irreparably warped.
At his current canon point, Gilles has just spoken to his Master about God. Ryuunosuke claimed to believe in God, but said that he believed that God created the world for entertainment. Therefore, anyone who offers God fitting entertainment is pleasing him. As Ryuunosuke says to Caster:
"God enjoys the courage and hope of mankind, but he also likes the sorrow and despair of bloodshed. Otherwise… the hymn of life would lack its vivid color. Therefore, Sir, this world must be full of God’s love."
This twisted epiphany, although it has restored some of Gilles' faith in a way, has also had the unfortunate effect of making him more determined to commit new atrocities, to show God and Heaven what a great entertainer he can be. This cannot (and does not) end well. That said, the mad, cruel monster that Gilles became does contain a spark of the man he used to be, however small and faint. In the last moments of his existence as Caster, as he and his monster are destroyed by Excalibur, Gilles sees a vision of the man he used to be. As he remembers his moment of glory with Jeanne, standing as a hero in the cathedral at the coronation of King Charles, tears fall from his eyes. Before he dies, he almost realizes who he is, who he once was, and what he's done. He is not yet at that point, but that potential nonetheless remains within him, for that shining moment is said to have been carved in his heart.
Abilities: As the spirit of a past "hero" summoned to fight in the Holy Grail War, Gilles has exceptional strength, speed, and endurance, far beyond that of any human. Heroic Spirits cannot, for the most part, be killed by ordinary means. They are exceptional entities, incredibly powerful, and it takes exceptional means to kill them. Caster, for instance, was killed by an incredible blast of magical power from the sword Excalibur. To do something like shoot at a Servant with an ordinary bullet would not be an effective means of fighting one. It would take a magical or legendary weapon to deal them serious harm.
As he is no longer a living person, Gilles is not constrained by the demands of the flesh. He has no need to eat or drink, and he does not weaken or tire like a normal human. He also does not have to remain in his corporeal form. He can dematerialize at any time and take on spirit form and change locations quickly and without being observed. Although of course, this power will be nerfed, in that he won't be able to leave the hotel or go anywhere it doesn't want him to go.
As a Caster, Gilles has the power of magecraft, but he is not a particularly powerful Caster--no magician of the past, he was a knight. However, that is not to say he's not a force to be reckoned with. Every Heroic Spirit, being made up of their legend as well as the imagination of humanity, has a Noble Phantasm, a part of their myth that they can manifest using their energy. Gilles' is Prelati's Spellbook, the spellbook of his teacher, which allows him to summon and control nearly limitless amounts of monsters. He is also capable of mind control, and he created a bracelet that gave its bearer (Ryuunosuke) the power of mind control. He would be capable of item construction and be able to create a variety of magical items, but he gave that up in order to acquire his summoning ability.
Samples
First Person: On the test drive meme
Third Person:
Gilles entered the diner after Ryuunosuke, following at his heels and looming over him, but in a fond manner. He presented no menace to Ryuunosuke. He scanned the interior of the diner curiously. While he and Ryuunosuke had been working together in Fuyuki City, they had kept mainly to the shadows. There had been the workshop, under the city, and the furtive forays into town to abduct their victims. They had not traveled abroad so openly as some of the other Servant and Master pairs. That had been because their work was different than that of the others. More important. More beautiful. They were artists, dedicated to their craft! They had had to labor in darkness, building their beautiful creations. It was such a shame their hard work had been destroyed…
Yet that was the past. Their situation had changed. The War was not here, the Grail was not here. Their time was not limited, or so they came to believe, as the days stretched on and they did not return to Fuyuki. They could take their time here. They could indulge in other leisure activities, more than killing, as entertaining as killing was. Gilles examined the bright lights overhead, the bold colors of the booths. How strange… the colors were like those of his coat of arms. What an amusing coincidence. He smiled, then laughed, as the server led them to their table. He noticed the server's attempt to respectfully ignore his laughter. He found his appearance and mannerisms often drew stares or inspired avoidance, but he didn't mind. It amused him. In this existence, as a Heroic Spirit, he would do as he liked. He was free! He could express himself. He had done so in Fuyuki City with Ryuunosuke, and he would do the same here. Those Church men who had limited his behaviors and punished him, and those thieves who had stolen his land, none of them were here, and if they were to appear, it was within his power to strike them down. To make them suffer.
Thoughts of their suffering left his head as the waiter brought them to their booth, and he took a seat across from Ryuunosuke, smiling warmly across the table at the young man. They were handed menus, and Caster took his eagerly, opening it to look it over. The food here was much different from what he had eaten in his lifetime. France in the 1400s had been quite unlike Fuyuki City in the 1990s, and 1969 was no more similar to his own time. If not for the Grail having gifted him with information about the modern world, he would have been utterly confused, utterly lost. As it was, some things the Grail hadn't told him, supposedly inessential things, and so much remained fresh and new to him. Like this menu, and the food on it. He didn't need to eat, but he wanted to taste food again. He had had quite an appetite, as a living man. All his tastes had been extravagant, his hungers immense.
"What do you like, Ryuunosuke?" he asked, looking up.
"I could really go for a hamburger! I'm starving." Ryuunosuke declared this cheerfully.
"Hamburger?" asked Gilles. He found it on the menu easily enough, but the menu didn't explain what it was. There was also something called a cheeseburger, which he assumed was similar. "What is a hamburger?"
Ryuunosuke's eyes widened. "You've never had one? You have to! They're awesome--like a lot of meat ripped into pieces, then forced and squeezed back together again and thrown on the fire."
"I do like meat," said Gilles, and the thought of eating this dish that Ryuunosuke so enjoyed appealed to him. So why not? "I'll order a hamburger also!"
"You've got to have it rare, though," Ryuunosuke cautioned. "Extra rare. You'll like it better that way."
When the waiter came to take their order, Gilles boldly exclaimed that he desired a hamburger, extra rare. Ryuunosuke did the same, and Gilles laughed again. This time, Ryuunosuke laughed with him, and although Gilles didn't know what the joke was, or if there was a joke, he knew that it was a very funny one indeed.
While they waited for their order to be filled, Ryuunosuke talked, and Gilles was glad to carry on a conversation with him, but his gaze yet roamed the diner, taking in not only the decor but also the other patrons. They were peacefully eating for the most part, some of them laughing and talking much as he and Ryuunosuke were. Some of them were watching, although they always turned away, when Gilles turned toward them. He smiled. He didn't stop smiling. Imagine, what he could do to this place, if he chose. He could bring his demons here and they would sweep through the dining room, turn the idle chatter into screams! This ordinary restaurant would be transformed into a stage, spattered with blood and viscera. He'd love to see them all torn apart, their skin split open and their insides hanging out--
"Our food has arrived, Ryuunosuke!" Gilles made this unnecessary announcement with a dramatic flourish of his hand, fingers pointing toward the waiter, who blanched.
"Ah ha, great, I was about to die!" Ryuunosuke didn't hesitate to snatch his burger from the plate, bringing it up to his mouth, his teeth cutting through the soft white roll and then tearing into the red meat beneath. Gilles quickly followed suit. He bit down, and the taste blossomed in his mouth, of charred flesh and blood, the first food he had eaten in centuries. He swallowed hungrily. The sweet red fluid from the meat trickled from his lips and dribbled down his chin. He licked his lips. It was delicious: this hamburger. Yes, he liked it very much.
"Dude, you ate that in like two seconds." Ryuunosuke still had about half of his own burger remaining. He gazed up at Gilles admiringly.
"Mm, so I did." Gilles licked at his fingers, turning toward the waiter, who was trying and failing to make his escape. "I want more." Yes, more. Why limit himself? He could eat more and more and never stop.
Mun
Name/Nickname: Fox
Age: Over 18
Dreamwidth Username: monstrueux
Contact: plurk: teacuppity
Current Characters in Game: N/A
Character
Character Name: Caster, aka Gilles de Rais
Canon: Fate/Zero
Age: How old is your character? Gilles de Rais died at the age of 35 and is now a spirit who no longer ages
Appearance: What do they look like? link
Canon Point: Shortly after Ryuunosuke explains his vision of God (volume 3, act 9, part 1)
How will your character react to the initial night period?: Gilles loves mayhem and others' suffering. Therefore, he'd delight in the night period. He'd find it exciting. He would venture forth to experience all the pleasures it had to offer. He would observe the dangerous residents of the hotel, watching them attack others, possibly while in spirit form, to avoid detection, but not always. He might aid someone to escape--only to betray them at the last minute, to see the look on their face as they realize his betrayal and then experience the agony of an attack, or possibly death. Or he might well summon his own monsters, to join in on the fun. If Ryuunosuke or another person he deems a kindred spirit, were to be with him, then they could kill together, becoming yet another threat to the residents of the hotel.
History: Type-Moon wiki page
AU History: N/A
Personality: Caster, a fictionalized version of Gilles de Rais, aka Bluebeard, is a monster. He is a notorious murderer. He kills for pleasure, and not only that, but his crimes are exceptionally cruel and heinous, taking advantage of the weak and defenseless. He delights in making the deaths of those he kills as painful and miserable as possible, intent on producing in his victims the greatest and most profound despair possible. He has also practiced Satanism and proclaimed himself to be an enemy of God. He enjoys chaos and misery, and he does his best to increase the amount of both in the world. When he is summoned to take part in the Holy Grail War, his first act upon arriving is to kill a small child who was being held captive by his Master, Ryuunosuke. He and Ryuunosuke then abduct and kill more and more people as the war progresses. Their violence becomes so marked and brutal that at one point, all the other Masters in the war band together to stop them. Gilles appears to have no limits where his desire to cause death and chaos is concerned. When he dies, in canon, he is in the process of summoning a beast, the only purpose of which is to devour the city and everyone in it.
Gilles was not always this way. As a younger man, he was the Marshal of France, a devout man and a hero of the French people. He fought alongside the sainted Jeanne D'Arc in many battles. He was struck by her virtue, her strength, and her devotion to God, and he admired her greatly. She left a profound impact on him. It could be said that Jeanne was the most important person in his life. That is why, when Jeanne was captured and condemned to death, then burned alive, Gilles was devastated. It came as a great shock to him. God had abandoned and betrayed Jeanne. He was unable to get over his horror and outrage at what had happened, and he reacted to his anger and grief by first pulling away from God, then turning against him. That was why he turned to black magic and murder. He is a deeply troubled and broken man, still traumatized by Jeanne's death, yet reveling in his own monstrosity.
It is worth noting that Gilles is quite insane. He is erratic and emotional. He is given to delusional thinking. When he encounters Arturia, who looks a great deal like his beloved Jeanne, he believes she is Jeanne and will not believe differently, no matter what Arturia says or does. The more she tries to convince him, the more he twists her protests to support his own beliefs. He becomes increasingly agitated by her denials, and when agitated, he is driven to commit even more horrible acts. While Gilles is capable of appearing measured and collected for brief periods of time, it's difficult to say what might set him off and send him into a histrionic fit. Then, once he's had his fit, he'll likely decide on an action to take, a show to put on, as when he confronts Saber in the woods with an elaborate, violent game of hide and seek. He has a dramatic personality. He is fond of broad, sweeping gestures and bold displays. He loves spectacle. His talents are listed as "plotting events and producing things".
Cruel and ruthless he may be, but Gilles is not incapable of affection and other, more positive emotions, even if they aren't necessarily expressed in ways others would consider positive. He becomes very fond of his murderous Master over the course of the war. He sees in him a kindred spirit. He is protective of him and thinks quite highly of him. He shows genuine fondness in his dealings with Ryuunosuke, complimenting and embracing him and even respecting him. As in most of his dealings with others, his delusional thinking comes into play again. He considers Ryuunosuke to be quite intelligent, and an artist, when in fact, neither of those things are true. Gilles also still has deep feelings for Jeanne D'Arc. As he reveals to Ryuunosuke, his sole wish and reason for taking part in the Grail War is to be reunited with her. He has a deep and lasting obsession with her, which is his primary motivating force. Even though he expects that Jeanne will hate him for what he has become, he wants to be with her, and he wants to "save" her from what he sees as the curse that has stripped her of her memories. In reality, it's simply that the person he thinks is Jeanne is Arturia, but he believes what he is doing is good, in the way he conceptualizes good. His moral compass has been irreparably warped.
At his current canon point, Gilles has just spoken to his Master about God. Ryuunosuke claimed to believe in God, but said that he believed that God created the world for entertainment. Therefore, anyone who offers God fitting entertainment is pleasing him. As Ryuunosuke says to Caster:
"God enjoys the courage and hope of mankind, but he also likes the sorrow and despair of bloodshed. Otherwise… the hymn of life would lack its vivid color. Therefore, Sir, this world must be full of God’s love."
This twisted epiphany, although it has restored some of Gilles' faith in a way, has also had the unfortunate effect of making him more determined to commit new atrocities, to show God and Heaven what a great entertainer he can be. This cannot (and does not) end well. That said, the mad, cruel monster that Gilles became does contain a spark of the man he used to be, however small and faint. In the last moments of his existence as Caster, as he and his monster are destroyed by Excalibur, Gilles sees a vision of the man he used to be. As he remembers his moment of glory with Jeanne, standing as a hero in the cathedral at the coronation of King Charles, tears fall from his eyes. Before he dies, he almost realizes who he is, who he once was, and what he's done. He is not yet at that point, but that potential nonetheless remains within him, for that shining moment is said to have been carved in his heart.
Abilities: As the spirit of a past "hero" summoned to fight in the Holy Grail War, Gilles has exceptional strength, speed, and endurance, far beyond that of any human. Heroic Spirits cannot, for the most part, be killed by ordinary means. They are exceptional entities, incredibly powerful, and it takes exceptional means to kill them. Caster, for instance, was killed by an incredible blast of magical power from the sword Excalibur. To do something like shoot at a Servant with an ordinary bullet would not be an effective means of fighting one. It would take a magical or legendary weapon to deal them serious harm.
As he is no longer a living person, Gilles is not constrained by the demands of the flesh. He has no need to eat or drink, and he does not weaken or tire like a normal human. He also does not have to remain in his corporeal form. He can dematerialize at any time and take on spirit form and change locations quickly and without being observed. Although of course, this power will be nerfed, in that he won't be able to leave the hotel or go anywhere it doesn't want him to go.
As a Caster, Gilles has the power of magecraft, but he is not a particularly powerful Caster--no magician of the past, he was a knight. However, that is not to say he's not a force to be reckoned with. Every Heroic Spirit, being made up of their legend as well as the imagination of humanity, has a Noble Phantasm, a part of their myth that they can manifest using their energy. Gilles' is Prelati's Spellbook, the spellbook of his teacher, which allows him to summon and control nearly limitless amounts of monsters. He is also capable of mind control, and he created a bracelet that gave its bearer (Ryuunosuke) the power of mind control. He would be capable of item construction and be able to create a variety of magical items, but he gave that up in order to acquire his summoning ability.
Samples
First Person: On the test drive meme
Third Person:
Gilles entered the diner after Ryuunosuke, following at his heels and looming over him, but in a fond manner. He presented no menace to Ryuunosuke. He scanned the interior of the diner curiously. While he and Ryuunosuke had been working together in Fuyuki City, they had kept mainly to the shadows. There had been the workshop, under the city, and the furtive forays into town to abduct their victims. They had not traveled abroad so openly as some of the other Servant and Master pairs. That had been because their work was different than that of the others. More important. More beautiful. They were artists, dedicated to their craft! They had had to labor in darkness, building their beautiful creations. It was such a shame their hard work had been destroyed…
Yet that was the past. Their situation had changed. The War was not here, the Grail was not here. Their time was not limited, or so they came to believe, as the days stretched on and they did not return to Fuyuki. They could take their time here. They could indulge in other leisure activities, more than killing, as entertaining as killing was. Gilles examined the bright lights overhead, the bold colors of the booths. How strange… the colors were like those of his coat of arms. What an amusing coincidence. He smiled, then laughed, as the server led them to their table. He noticed the server's attempt to respectfully ignore his laughter. He found his appearance and mannerisms often drew stares or inspired avoidance, but he didn't mind. It amused him. In this existence, as a Heroic Spirit, he would do as he liked. He was free! He could express himself. He had done so in Fuyuki City with Ryuunosuke, and he would do the same here. Those Church men who had limited his behaviors and punished him, and those thieves who had stolen his land, none of them were here, and if they were to appear, it was within his power to strike them down. To make them suffer.
Thoughts of their suffering left his head as the waiter brought them to their booth, and he took a seat across from Ryuunosuke, smiling warmly across the table at the young man. They were handed menus, and Caster took his eagerly, opening it to look it over. The food here was much different from what he had eaten in his lifetime. France in the 1400s had been quite unlike Fuyuki City in the 1990s, and 1969 was no more similar to his own time. If not for the Grail having gifted him with information about the modern world, he would have been utterly confused, utterly lost. As it was, some things the Grail hadn't told him, supposedly inessential things, and so much remained fresh and new to him. Like this menu, and the food on it. He didn't need to eat, but he wanted to taste food again. He had had quite an appetite, as a living man. All his tastes had been extravagant, his hungers immense.
"What do you like, Ryuunosuke?" he asked, looking up.
"I could really go for a hamburger! I'm starving." Ryuunosuke declared this cheerfully.
"Hamburger?" asked Gilles. He found it on the menu easily enough, but the menu didn't explain what it was. There was also something called a cheeseburger, which he assumed was similar. "What is a hamburger?"
Ryuunosuke's eyes widened. "You've never had one? You have to! They're awesome--like a lot of meat ripped into pieces, then forced and squeezed back together again and thrown on the fire."
"I do like meat," said Gilles, and the thought of eating this dish that Ryuunosuke so enjoyed appealed to him. So why not? "I'll order a hamburger also!"
"You've got to have it rare, though," Ryuunosuke cautioned. "Extra rare. You'll like it better that way."
When the waiter came to take their order, Gilles boldly exclaimed that he desired a hamburger, extra rare. Ryuunosuke did the same, and Gilles laughed again. This time, Ryuunosuke laughed with him, and although Gilles didn't know what the joke was, or if there was a joke, he knew that it was a very funny one indeed.
While they waited for their order to be filled, Ryuunosuke talked, and Gilles was glad to carry on a conversation with him, but his gaze yet roamed the diner, taking in not only the decor but also the other patrons. They were peacefully eating for the most part, some of them laughing and talking much as he and Ryuunosuke were. Some of them were watching, although they always turned away, when Gilles turned toward them. He smiled. He didn't stop smiling. Imagine, what he could do to this place, if he chose. He could bring his demons here and they would sweep through the dining room, turn the idle chatter into screams! This ordinary restaurant would be transformed into a stage, spattered with blood and viscera. He'd love to see them all torn apart, their skin split open and their insides hanging out--
"Our food has arrived, Ryuunosuke!" Gilles made this unnecessary announcement with a dramatic flourish of his hand, fingers pointing toward the waiter, who blanched.
"Ah ha, great, I was about to die!" Ryuunosuke didn't hesitate to snatch his burger from the plate, bringing it up to his mouth, his teeth cutting through the soft white roll and then tearing into the red meat beneath. Gilles quickly followed suit. He bit down, and the taste blossomed in his mouth, of charred flesh and blood, the first food he had eaten in centuries. He swallowed hungrily. The sweet red fluid from the meat trickled from his lips and dribbled down his chin. He licked his lips. It was delicious: this hamburger. Yes, he liked it very much.
"Dude, you ate that in like two seconds." Ryuunosuke still had about half of his own burger remaining. He gazed up at Gilles admiringly.
"Mm, so I did." Gilles licked at his fingers, turning toward the waiter, who was trying and failing to make his escape. "I want more." Yes, more. Why limit himself? He could eat more and more and never stop.