Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 7:35:43 GMT
Name: Al-Balthazaras
Alias: 'Balthazar'
Species: Demon (Though he inhabits a.. mostly human body.)
Gender: Male
Age: One Month (Functionally. He doesn't know his true age, as it had never occurred to him to count it.)
Appearance:
Balthazar, bound as he is to the mortal realm, has been forced to take a physical form. And, interestingly enough, that form happened to be of a Human. Balthazar is convinced that imprisoning him in the form of one of the universe's weakest races was some sort of sick joke on the behalf of the ones that bound him to it in the first place. However, the human body is simply not up to the task of containing a cosmic entity such as himself, and thus the body he was put into twisted horribly and now resembles some grotesque, skeletal mutant. He stands at 6 foot 4 with a face that looks to have been stripped of its flesh, lacking a nose, ears, and lips on top of being completely hairless. His teeth, sharp and jagged, poke out at varying angle and simply seem to root into his jawbones themselves. His eyes are normally inky-black and devoid of any life whatsoever, though in times of great stress or emotion they glow a bright neon-green color. The rest of his body seems fairly anatomically accurate (though it certainly looks nasty), besides his ribs (of which he has two extra) and his hands, which have been twisted into great sharp claws. To disguise his features, Balthazar favors heavy hooded robes, though they do tend to make him stand out in their own way.
His aura is a pale, sickly green color and takes the shape not of the traditional fiery glow, but of countless translucent undulating chains rattling about silently as if blown by some extremely powerful wind. This is not an intentional effect, and is in fact symbolic of his binding to the mortal plane.
Personality: Balthazar is a.. complicated person. Mainly because he's not used to being one. Balthazar is unaccustomed to all the little quirks that come with a body, and a mostly-human body at that, and has a hard time dealing with his new limitations as a mortal. For instance, he sometimes forgets to eat and drink and has nearly died this way several times. Balthazar is not completely bereft of morals, like some might think, but the concept of morality is so alien to him that he hasn't yet managed to grasp exactly how it is supposed to work. Going from what is functionally a god to a mere mortal has been hard for him, and he has a very difficult time wrapping his head around many mortal concepts. Balthazar was fairly certain that the brain acted as a sort of 'command center', simply a place where orders are issued from, but this has turned out to be untrue. He didn't expect the brain to make demands! Eat, sleep, drink, be angry, be afraid, it was maddening! All of these.. feelings, emotions, urges. The urges were the worst, things his body instinctively knew he had to do, but he doesn't understand. All in all, being a person is a new experience for him and everything is an adventure. And he hates it. Balthazar longs for the days when he was in control, when he knew exactly what his place was. Now, he has to deal with all sorts of new challenges like self-doubt and fatigue and stress, all getting in the way of accomplishing his goals. He had always thought mortals so strange, the way they struggled and endured despite the utter futility of their actions, and he is only just now beginning to understand. He never knew being alive was so difficult.
Balthazar, at his core, is a being of devious cunning and calculated cruelty. He deceives and he plots and he kills, all in the pursuit of power. Power for what purpose, he does not know. He doesn't much care either, power is his singular goal and he's glad to have it, the one solid thing he can cling to in this torrent of new experiences. No matter how much things change, he can always count on that goal being there, something to work towards and keep him busy, to keep his mind off of his newfound problems. It's soothing to him, it really is, to scheme. It's one of the few things that he has managed to keep hold of from his old... "life". He has no issues with killing, of course, he hasn't really grasped the concept of 'value of human life' and is as such pretty much devoid of compassion. But that isn't to say that emotions are completely foreign to him. This is his first time experiencing them first-hand, to be sure, but he has been twisting and manipulating mortals through their emotions for a long, long time. It's just doing this to himself that has presented some difficulty. While he's not presently at his best, this doesn't mean he should be underestimated. He is, even in this state, more or less the anthropomorphic personification of cunning, and is not afraid to remind uppity mortals of this fact. He can take you apart from the inside, examine all the parts to see what makes you tick, and then put you back together again. It's like he can read people like books, find out their motivations and their deep-buried scars just by listening to them talk. He has an amazing way of making people do what he wants, namely by making them think that it was their idea to begin with. He doesn't need to pull the puppet's strings when the puppet is perfectly happy to pull them himself. He prefers not to get his hands dirty, but is capable and willing to defend himself if there is no alternative. As a rule he tries to be more powerful than his subordinates, though this isn't always possible.
History: Balthazar, in his original form, was spawned from a cloud of negative energy left over from the destruction of a multitude of very powerful demons slain by a great hero whose name and deeds have been lost to time. As their collective essence mixed, it became dangerously unstable and threatened to destroy an entire solar system. The hero, faced with ultimate destruction, instead chose to sacrifice himself and mix his own essence into the cloud of negative energy, stabilizing it at the cost of his life. The cloud then found itself sucked into the other world, ostensibly with the intention of keeping it from becoming a danger again. However, the cloud fed off of the energy of those unfortunate souls damned to hell to eventually become too powerful for hell to contain, and it caused a rift in the dimensions that created a sort of branch dimension between the other world and the mortal plane. In this pocket dimension, the cloud was left to condense and form itself into the demonic being known as Al-Balthazaras.
Not really a demon, Balthazar was originally more of a sentient amalgamation of demonic energy. Since his days as a non-sentient cloud, he has known the hunger for power. At first it was as simple as consuming the energy of mortals, slipping out from his dimension to devour the souls of the damned, but as time wore on he grew to desire more. Soon he had started making longer forays from his home to find more and more powerful souls, and gained the attention of Heaven's hierarchy. Their early attempts to stop him were disastrous, and served little purpose but to feed Balthazar more souls. As he consumed more positive energy from his would-be jailors, his form became more stable and he was eventually able to form a physical body. With this new development, he gained a higher level of self-awareness and began to desire power beyond simple souls. He wanted Hell, Heaven, the whole shebang. He slowly began to acquire followers from among the damned (who were understandably a little bitter about their situation) and plotted an all-out rebellion against the heavens. This process took years, decades, centuries even. But then, he had nothing but time. Throughout all those years he had been mostly quiet, leading Heaven to lower their guard and eventually forget about him. All the while he was honing his craft, manipulating and playing his army against each other to encourage competition and growth. After all, it wasn't like they could kill each other. When he was satisfied, he took a few decades to break down all that individualism he had previously encouraged, turning them into loyal soldiers as well as competent warriors. Soon, he began his rebellion. Of course he didn't reveal himself at first, staging the whole thing to look like a routine 'prison riot', and the forces of Heaven deployed sloppily, thinking that nothing was wrong. Then suddenly, when they thought they were mopping up, Balthazar released his true army and used his great power to shatter the barrier keeping the damned in. Now, with nothing to keep them in, the legions of the dead poured out from hell and caused mayhem, while Balthazar and his troops used the distraction it provided to move on what he thought were Heaven's leaders. However, Balthazar had gotten overconfident.
Just as Balthazar was about to finalize his plans, he was confronted by Heavenly beings of a sort he had never encountered before, with power far outstripping his own. His troops were destroyed, and Balthazar himself was ripped from his physical form (taking most of his power with it) and shunted into the mortal plane, forcing him to inhabit the body of a human and essentially binding his own essence to its soul. Functionally mortal, Balthazar now begins the slow process of recovering some of his lost power, and beginning to plan his revenge against the ones who ruined his plans..
Starting Planet: Earth
Techniques:
Offensive
[N1] Ki Claws: This technique is fairly simple both in nature and application, and is simply an attack where Balthazar charges his hands with energy, allowing them to cut like blades.
Support
[SU] Ki Suppression
[SU] Telepathy: Balthazar can communicate with people remotely inside their heads, either willingly from anywhere (including across dimensional boundaries) or unwillingly through direct eye contact. However, this communication is one-way only, as he cannot read minds. (Side-note: His eyes glow neon green while he does this.)
[SU] Glamour: A technique whereby Balthazar forms a sort of shell of energy around his body, allowing him to disguise his physical appearance. (Think of it as him covering his entire body in a new layer of paint, but with ki) However, if attacked and struck, the shell will crack and eventually break, revealing his true nature. Naturally, this disguise can look however he wants so long as it doesn't deviate from the basic human body shape too much.
Special
N/A
Items: 500 Zenni
One-Use Pod
Alias: 'Balthazar'
Species: Demon (Though he inhabits a.. mostly human body.)
Gender: Male
Age: One Month (Functionally. He doesn't know his true age, as it had never occurred to him to count it.)
Appearance:
Balthazar, bound as he is to the mortal realm, has been forced to take a physical form. And, interestingly enough, that form happened to be of a Human. Balthazar is convinced that imprisoning him in the form of one of the universe's weakest races was some sort of sick joke on the behalf of the ones that bound him to it in the first place. However, the human body is simply not up to the task of containing a cosmic entity such as himself, and thus the body he was put into twisted horribly and now resembles some grotesque, skeletal mutant. He stands at 6 foot 4 with a face that looks to have been stripped of its flesh, lacking a nose, ears, and lips on top of being completely hairless. His teeth, sharp and jagged, poke out at varying angle and simply seem to root into his jawbones themselves. His eyes are normally inky-black and devoid of any life whatsoever, though in times of great stress or emotion they glow a bright neon-green color. The rest of his body seems fairly anatomically accurate (though it certainly looks nasty), besides his ribs (of which he has two extra) and his hands, which have been twisted into great sharp claws. To disguise his features, Balthazar favors heavy hooded robes, though they do tend to make him stand out in their own way.
His aura is a pale, sickly green color and takes the shape not of the traditional fiery glow, but of countless translucent undulating chains rattling about silently as if blown by some extremely powerful wind. This is not an intentional effect, and is in fact symbolic of his binding to the mortal plane.
Personality: Balthazar is a.. complicated person. Mainly because he's not used to being one. Balthazar is unaccustomed to all the little quirks that come with a body, and a mostly-human body at that, and has a hard time dealing with his new limitations as a mortal. For instance, he sometimes forgets to eat and drink and has nearly died this way several times. Balthazar is not completely bereft of morals, like some might think, but the concept of morality is so alien to him that he hasn't yet managed to grasp exactly how it is supposed to work. Going from what is functionally a god to a mere mortal has been hard for him, and he has a very difficult time wrapping his head around many mortal concepts. Balthazar was fairly certain that the brain acted as a sort of 'command center', simply a place where orders are issued from, but this has turned out to be untrue. He didn't expect the brain to make demands! Eat, sleep, drink, be angry, be afraid, it was maddening! All of these.. feelings, emotions, urges. The urges were the worst, things his body instinctively knew he had to do, but he doesn't understand. All in all, being a person is a new experience for him and everything is an adventure. And he hates it. Balthazar longs for the days when he was in control, when he knew exactly what his place was. Now, he has to deal with all sorts of new challenges like self-doubt and fatigue and stress, all getting in the way of accomplishing his goals. He had always thought mortals so strange, the way they struggled and endured despite the utter futility of their actions, and he is only just now beginning to understand. He never knew being alive was so difficult.
Balthazar, at his core, is a being of devious cunning and calculated cruelty. He deceives and he plots and he kills, all in the pursuit of power. Power for what purpose, he does not know. He doesn't much care either, power is his singular goal and he's glad to have it, the one solid thing he can cling to in this torrent of new experiences. No matter how much things change, he can always count on that goal being there, something to work towards and keep him busy, to keep his mind off of his newfound problems. It's soothing to him, it really is, to scheme. It's one of the few things that he has managed to keep hold of from his old... "life". He has no issues with killing, of course, he hasn't really grasped the concept of 'value of human life' and is as such pretty much devoid of compassion. But that isn't to say that emotions are completely foreign to him. This is his first time experiencing them first-hand, to be sure, but he has been twisting and manipulating mortals through their emotions for a long, long time. It's just doing this to himself that has presented some difficulty. While he's not presently at his best, this doesn't mean he should be underestimated. He is, even in this state, more or less the anthropomorphic personification of cunning, and is not afraid to remind uppity mortals of this fact. He can take you apart from the inside, examine all the parts to see what makes you tick, and then put you back together again. It's like he can read people like books, find out their motivations and their deep-buried scars just by listening to them talk. He has an amazing way of making people do what he wants, namely by making them think that it was their idea to begin with. He doesn't need to pull the puppet's strings when the puppet is perfectly happy to pull them himself. He prefers not to get his hands dirty, but is capable and willing to defend himself if there is no alternative. As a rule he tries to be more powerful than his subordinates, though this isn't always possible.
History: Balthazar, in his original form, was spawned from a cloud of negative energy left over from the destruction of a multitude of very powerful demons slain by a great hero whose name and deeds have been lost to time. As their collective essence mixed, it became dangerously unstable and threatened to destroy an entire solar system. The hero, faced with ultimate destruction, instead chose to sacrifice himself and mix his own essence into the cloud of negative energy, stabilizing it at the cost of his life. The cloud then found itself sucked into the other world, ostensibly with the intention of keeping it from becoming a danger again. However, the cloud fed off of the energy of those unfortunate souls damned to hell to eventually become too powerful for hell to contain, and it caused a rift in the dimensions that created a sort of branch dimension between the other world and the mortal plane. In this pocket dimension, the cloud was left to condense and form itself into the demonic being known as Al-Balthazaras.
Not really a demon, Balthazar was originally more of a sentient amalgamation of demonic energy. Since his days as a non-sentient cloud, he has known the hunger for power. At first it was as simple as consuming the energy of mortals, slipping out from his dimension to devour the souls of the damned, but as time wore on he grew to desire more. Soon he had started making longer forays from his home to find more and more powerful souls, and gained the attention of Heaven's hierarchy. Their early attempts to stop him were disastrous, and served little purpose but to feed Balthazar more souls. As he consumed more positive energy from his would-be jailors, his form became more stable and he was eventually able to form a physical body. With this new development, he gained a higher level of self-awareness and began to desire power beyond simple souls. He wanted Hell, Heaven, the whole shebang. He slowly began to acquire followers from among the damned (who were understandably a little bitter about their situation) and plotted an all-out rebellion against the heavens. This process took years, decades, centuries even. But then, he had nothing but time. Throughout all those years he had been mostly quiet, leading Heaven to lower their guard and eventually forget about him. All the while he was honing his craft, manipulating and playing his army against each other to encourage competition and growth. After all, it wasn't like they could kill each other. When he was satisfied, he took a few decades to break down all that individualism he had previously encouraged, turning them into loyal soldiers as well as competent warriors. Soon, he began his rebellion. Of course he didn't reveal himself at first, staging the whole thing to look like a routine 'prison riot', and the forces of Heaven deployed sloppily, thinking that nothing was wrong. Then suddenly, when they thought they were mopping up, Balthazar released his true army and used his great power to shatter the barrier keeping the damned in. Now, with nothing to keep them in, the legions of the dead poured out from hell and caused mayhem, while Balthazar and his troops used the distraction it provided to move on what he thought were Heaven's leaders. However, Balthazar had gotten overconfident.
Just as Balthazar was about to finalize his plans, he was confronted by Heavenly beings of a sort he had never encountered before, with power far outstripping his own. His troops were destroyed, and Balthazar himself was ripped from his physical form (taking most of his power with it) and shunted into the mortal plane, forcing him to inhabit the body of a human and essentially binding his own essence to its soul. Functionally mortal, Balthazar now begins the slow process of recovering some of his lost power, and beginning to plan his revenge against the ones who ruined his plans..
Starting Planet: Earth
Techniques:
Offensive
[N1] Ki Claws: This technique is fairly simple both in nature and application, and is simply an attack where Balthazar charges his hands with energy, allowing them to cut like blades.
Support
[SU] Ki Suppression
[SU] Telepathy: Balthazar can communicate with people remotely inside their heads, either willingly from anywhere (including across dimensional boundaries) or unwillingly through direct eye contact. However, this communication is one-way only, as he cannot read minds. (Side-note: His eyes glow neon green while he does this.)
[SU] Glamour: A technique whereby Balthazar forms a sort of shell of energy around his body, allowing him to disguise his physical appearance. (Think of it as him covering his entire body in a new layer of paint, but with ki) However, if attacked and struck, the shell will crack and eventually break, revealing his true nature. Naturally, this disguise can look however he wants so long as it doesn't deviate from the basic human body shape too much.
Special
N/A
Items: 500 Zenni
One-Use Pod