> ... sue blob of evil sad mud for repeated identity fraud?

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( PLAYER ★ INFORMATION )

NAME: Sura
AGE: 17 years old
CONTACT: sunny_rainstorm | AIM @ suramainyus | Personal PMs @ destructiveprinciple.
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( CHARACTER ★ INFORMATION )

NAME & AGE: Avenger (Angra Mainyu) | In this case, he physically looks to be around 16 years old.
CANON & CANON POINT: Fate/Hollow Ataraxia (VN), post-getting killed by Berserker after acting as a decoy to allow Bazett to reach the Einzbern's castle in the woods and being sent back to the start of the four-day time loop to await his Master.
CANON INFORMATION: The summary of Avenger's personal story is here. The summary of Fate/Stay Night is here. The summary of Fate/Hollow Ataraxia is here.


PERSONALITY:

"Angra Mainyu. The name of the most powerful demon in ancient Persia.
　The greatest nemesis in Zoroastrianism, embracing all evil, that kept fighting for 9000 years against the god of light, guardian of the good of humanity.
　The god of evil, you could say.
　The bad part is the friggin' huge scale.
Overseeing half of the entire world? Give me a break. This name is a bother.
　... Honestly, something of a smaller genre—say, the god of desks or pots—would have been a much better fit."

Many years ago, there was once a simple boy who was born to a poor family consisting of his mother, his father and his younger sister. They were not wealthy but they were happy, this family, having enough food to not starve and a warm place to sleep at night. The boy worked hard in the forest and mountains with his father from the crack of dawn to the beginning of the evening, to support them by bringing home the fruits of their labors. This boy was someone who had never minded lending a hand to others, admired by both his friends and family. True, life in the village was static, unchanging and much too boring for this boy's tastes but back then, he was certain even that feeling of dissatisfaction with following in his father's footsteps, and his grandfather's footsteps and his great-grandfather's footsteps, would fade away given enough time. The boy was not interested in doing great things with himself. The most he aspired to was to live out what time he has well in this small world. Content to spend the entirety of the tedious days of his life peacefully and uneventfully until his death, how on earth could anybody have been prepared for what came next?

Ripped brutally away from his home, and forced to undergo a practically endless cycle of violence; being cursed, beaten, tortured, blamed and branded as as a demon, as a spawn of a devil, as a wicked monster, as the container of all the evil in the world and being punished for it day after day after day, without relief; the result of this horror was understandable. The poor boy lost his mind, and his dignity, and his sanity in one fell swoop. (Not to mention all of his limbs, digits, and an eyeball.) No matter how good natured a person begins as, it was something no human being could endure and not lose themselves to it. He progressed through the stages of utter shock to a swelling of anger and then from there to fervent hatred, madly cursing the humans that tortured and degraded him for a crime that was not his, cursing the world that allowed it, and finally falling to cursing himself as well. But eventually the boy resigned himself to the role he had been saddled with and hating everything and everybody, rotted away without uttering a word of complaint at the peak of a mountain like he was supposed to.

In the end, whatever was recognizable as the boy was swallowed up altogether by the hatred of the curse put upon him. 

This evokes the "Humans Are Bastards" trope hard.

So when he was given a second existence as a Servant in the Holy Grail Wars of Fuyuki City, it's natural that Avenger was the antithesis of all the good in humanity entombed in flesh. (Or well, Servant-flesh, since Servants are spiritual beings.) He's quite lazy, perverted in regards to the ladies and laid back, preferring to take things easy and not bother with hard work, and has absolutely no sense of justice to speak of. It takes a lot to get him to put more effort than he has to into things. Avenger is noted to have a cunning mind and has no trouble adapting his plans on the fly to unexpected developments (or things not going his way) so that they'll result in the desired outcome regardless but don't expect him to usually bother with devising long term schemes or complex agendas.

He runs with what he's got and that's about it.  

He'll shamelessly omit information if it's not asked for and needlessly drag out a situation, be it a horrible one or a dull one, on a desire for the novelty of it should it strike his fancy. After centuries of existence in either unchangingly awful conditions or decades spent locked up in the darkness the Holy Grail without a true consciousness or self-awareness, he delights in experiencing new things. As stated before, a wish for novelty and entertainment is one of Avenger's more active motivations. However Avenger has a very... inappropriate sense of humor. Which is to say, he doesn't differentiate between things such as a harmless prank being played on someone and things like Bazett getting her upper torso blown off in an especially gruesome way, when it comes to giggle material. They're both amusing in his eyes. In fact, he'd probably rate Bazett's death as having a higher entertainment value due to the generous amount of bloodshed being involved.

If given the choice, he'll always select the easiest way, or even try to worm his way out of the situation altogether and he honestly doesn't care if other people see him in a poor light due to that. Avenger couldn't give less of a damn about what anybody else thinks of him. It's not like he has reason to. It's not like they would be wrong to think ill of him. Having led a poor excuse for a life filled to the brim with physical and emotional torment, fear, despair, and betrayal by everybody he loved as a boy back when he was human, and solitude has left deep, bitter scars on Avenger that no amount of time or killing the humans he hates could heal in their entirety. His manner of speech is rough and uncultured, causing him to come off as rather rude and uncomfortable to speak with, and his manners are all but nonexistent. Even his laughter sounds obnoxious as noted by Medusa during the sole incident where she met him on the streets during the nighttime, and Bazett on multiple occasions.

Avenger prefers to behave selfishly. He prioritizes indulging his own desires over the desires and wants of others, and similarly to how he doesn't mind how people might think poorly of him, he feel no guilt over this trait of his. Outwardly, he's immature and whiny. If he's unhappy with the situation, it's guaranteed he'll not be shy about letting the people around him know via complaints or declarations of annoyance. There's an obvious casualness and disregard for social norms to how he conducts himself, considering he leaves his tattooed chest bare and never wears anything to cover himself up with but his tattered, red mantle and headband.


"Far better, huh. What are you saying now? Did you not know how merciless reality is from the moment you were born? "

He is cynical, relentlessly mocking towards others, and bitingly sarcastic. Avenger's deep pessimism is hidden behind a screen of blithe mockery and witty remarks, but make no mistake, it's certainly there. The world has never treated Avenger kindly, no more than humanity itself has. He's one of those people who is so... completely broken down with misery, hatred, pain and all the generally super terrible things that happened to him that he came out the other side of brokenness with mildly high levels of functionality, and a disinterest in bothering to distinguish between good and evil.

His moral compass is seriously awry to put it lightly. Scratch that, it might be more than a little broken. Avenger holds the belief that people should be true to themselves and do what they believe is right, regardless of how morally acceptable it is or how society might take issue to it. Which leads onto another notable characteristic of Avenger's and that is that Avenger wholeheartedly accepts everyone, no matter how horrible, just as they are and acknowledges carrying the burden of the wicked desires of humans as fine. As part of his role, he tolerates and forgives humanity for their repulsiveness in his own twisted way, divorcing that forgivingness from his hatred of them, and this forgiveness validates their cruelty. He can't stop himself from hating humans, but he loves the world he deems as worth his hatred. This sort of total acceptance of people sounds nice on the surface but it has its moral downsides. Caren herself explains it: accepting every nasty thing in the world means accepting that senseless depravity happens, and that the weak should be left to be trampled on and abused by the strong. It means forgiving crimes that shouldn't be forgiven. Evil unwilling jesus died for our sins.

And while he is pretty much the weakest Servant ever summoned by the Holy Grail, he's still pretty abrasive, bloodthisty and homicidal despite being utterly weak.

He kills indiscriminately, when given the chance to, and Avenger really, honestly enjoys doing it as evidenced by the torn up corpses he leaves behind after the fact. It's not the fight Avenger loves, it's the kill. In a fight, he attacks like a wild beast, giving it his all to make a fast, cruel kill.


"Oh, sure it is. He's done it once already, in fact.
Didn't I tell ya', 'tis the fifth time it returns now. If the same guy gets his grubby little hands on it, ain't gonna be a surprise when he smashes it again."

This is a twist of irony, considering that Avenger is capable of assuming the shape and identity of Shirou Emiya resident protagonist of a very sexist eroge game, living out life with Shirou's friends and quietly enjoying it, the boy who is his absolute opposite in every way, being selfless, thoughtful, and hard-working. Or perhaps it's better to say that Shirou is a great deal like the villager who became Avenger was before his village turned on him and senselessly ruined his life, and that could be why he's the one he decides to assume the shape of. The fact that Avenger eventually admits to respecting and yearning for the mundane life Shirou has (but does not treasure) betrays that he can appreciate the value of normality, fake or not. 

So it's not so much that Avenger is actually a irredeemably fucking awful person at heart, as it is his prior sense of self as a kind, good-natured person who loved the world is thoroughly forgotten, hammered down to dust, and destroyed by becoming what those who cursed him as a demon childishly wanted him to be; the source and embodiment of what evil truly lies deep in the darkness of humanity's heart. Serving as the basis for mankind's idea of evil leaves no room for warm emotions or even a flimsy sense of self-identity. That's the role he had accepted for himself. It's the role humanity's selfish desires forced him to be, yet he's demonstrated that he can be caring and concerned for people and their emotional well-being under certain conditions and be selfless and aspire to be a "hero of justice" in a certain sense of the word, although that could actually simply be a flaw caused by a certain protagonist's emotions. He too has the desire to "save others" though his definition of salvation is a... tad different from that of a human's definition.

When he lived, he was a helpless sacrifice, forcibly made into the representation of what they childishly yearned for him to be, and yet it was by being loathed by everyone and by losing his very sense of self to absolve his village of any guilt in committing sins, a hero was born from the ravaged shell of the demon they called Angra Mainyu.


COURT ALLIANCE & REASONING:

Unseelie! Avenger's personal beliefs align much more closely with those of the Unseelie Court than the ideals of the Seelie Court. In fact, many of the sentiments behind the code of the Seelie Court are something Avenger innately wouldn't care for on the basis it stinks of heroism and righteousness, and by nature he is everything that it derides.

The belief that honor and heroes are all lies, a natural inclination towards chaos and discord, a love for bloodshed, pointless murder for a spot of amusement, rampantly putting his own desires before the wants of others, not having any problem with cheating to get what he wants, a desire to see and experience new things simply because Avenger finds them fun, a hatred of confinement, and a complete disregard for following the rules unless he's the one making the rules—all in all, behavior the Seelie Court certainly wouldn't approve of, but the Unseelie side of things definitively would.


ABILITIES:
(MODE NOTE: while the majority of his abilities are pathetic useless fall well within normal power levels, the mod team is completely free to power cap Avenger's more Nasu Holy Grail plot device-y abilities.)

▶ SERVANT — His status as an Heroic Spirit. Possesses the ability to shift into spirit form, the ability to form a pact with a human, etc etc and all the usual Servant benefits.

• NOBLE PHANTASM — Possesses the ability to use his Noble Phantasm—Verg Avesta (False Copy of the Inscribed Natural Word)—to inscribe his wounds upon the target and reflect back all pain of their attack back upon the attacker. However this is a rather useless skill since he has to take the attack in the first place, and needs to be alive and conscious for it to work. And until Avenger is healed, the opponent's pain will never disappear. And the book itself is a copy of the Book of Zoroaster, Avesta is a support-type book Noble Phantasm that records events accurately and correctly out of its own volition. Avenger's narration describes it as more or less being on the level of an automatic typewriter that is useless in a fight due to it being unable to harm anyone, while its only advantage is that it is able to put indescribable emotions one isn't aware of into words.
• SUPERHUMAN PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES — Possesses physical capabilities that are above those of humans. His strength, speed, endurance, and pain tolerance, and coordination and senses are all superhuman even though they don't match up up to the standards of other Servants' superior prowess. His best (which isn't saying much) areas are his speed and endurance.
• WEAPONRY— Possesses a set of twin fang-like daggers named Tawrich and Zarich, capable of using them to lock his opponent's weapons or in melee, but they're unreliable (they can break) and terribly designed weapons in general. His skill with using them to fight is average.
• COMBAT — Possesses high defensive combat skills (by defensive combat, this means he can hold back as many opponents as he wants in a stalemate without neither side gaining the upper hand for a long, long time) his style being basically maintaining a defensive stalemate between himself and his enemies. His endurance and speed are inhuman, given that he's still able to do a lot of the crazy parkour and anime-eque flashiness that tends to accompany the fighting style prevalent in the series with a reasonable degree of success even when he's the canonically noted to be the weakest of all Servants that's ever been summoned in a Grail War.
• PACT — As a Servant, Avenger can form a contract with a human to provide him with the prana he needs to remain materialized and an anchor to the world as his Master in exchange for becoming their Servant. This subjects him to the usage of the three Command Seals the pact grants the Master and prevents him from fading away. He can also share a visual link with them, allowing them to see what he sees and detect their presence.
• SPIRT MODE — Possesses the ability to dematerialize and re-materialize, basically switching freely between an invisible, incorporeal state and a solid, physical state. 
• PRANA MANIPULATION — Possesses a very minor ability to swap his clothes around for modern clothes since his bandages and rags are made of prana just as much as he is.

▶ HOLY GRAIL — Can be also explained as "Fate/series' favorite Deus ex machina, aka one of those wacky plot devices." He's basically the will of the Holy Grail and the unwilling source of its taint when his village's wish for him to be the incarnation of all evil was granted by his absorption into the Grail. Let's try to keep this as concise as possible.

Avenger is involved with two Holy Grails: the Holy Grail (the Grail of Heaven) created by the Einzberns, consisting of the Greater Grail and a Lesser Grail (the physical 'container/vessal' for the Grail), and Angra Mainyu himself, the a successive, weaker Holy Grail (the Heaven's Fall/Reverse Moon) born from the Einzbern's Grail that served as the foundation of the dream world Bazett's wish created. Over the course of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Holy Grail Wars, the Einzbern's Grail amassed huge amounts of prana due to nobody ever winning a War and using it, which it put towards the goal of giving birth to Angra Mainyu. In the Fifth War, Avenger attempted to emerge and be reborn as a true incarnation of Angra Mainyu; this failed since the Grail was destroyed in all of the routes. Thanks to the vast stores of prana in the Grail, he was still reborn, however left without a vessel, the puny Holy Grail/Avenger would have harmlessly disappeared within a day if he hadn't made a contract with Bazett.

• ANGRA MAINYU — His identity as Angra Mainyu; All the World's Evil. It is a curse placed upon him by his village that forces one to be the representation of all evil and changes their alignment toward killing people and hating everything relentlessly. Angra Mainyu is the living embodiment of humanity's sins and selfish desires and wrongdoings, and Avenger is supposed to be the antithesis of everything that is good and just.
• BLACKENING — This leads into an ability he'll probably never use in-game. If a Servant is doused or swallowed up by the black mud produced by the corrupted Holy Grail, they can undergo a progress called 'Blackening,' and become an Alter. Unless they have a nature that's similar to the corruption, are distorted Heroic Spirits like True Assasin, or they're Gilgamesh and have an ego the size of several planets, a Heroic Spirit can't fend off the effects of the taint. A Blackened Servant gains a tainted physical incarnation and greater destructive strength thanks to the power of the Holy Grail, but becomes cursed by the same evil as Angra Mainyu. Their alignment switches to that of evil. They lose the ability to enter spirit mode and crease limiting their level of prana consumption. An example of a Blackened Servant is Saber Alter or Berserker Alter.
• ASSIMILATION — Since his true form is that of a black shadow-like void, Avenger can copy the personalities and appearances of others as exterior "shells", like he has done with Shirou and Irisevel. (Assuming they have had some kind of contact with the Holy Grail beforehand. The people he can do this to include: Shirou, Irisviel, Illya, Sakura, Kotomine, and Kiritsugu. Not being human, Servants are completely immune to this.) MODE NOTE: To prevent any possible infomodding since all of the people listed above are privy to enough in-universe information for this to be a real risk, Avenger cannot access the memories and the emotional reactions associated with those memories of the people he is not actively using as a 'shell.' In other words, if he's using Shirou's form, he's purely limited to Shirou's memories and Shirou's emotions even if he has used Irisviel's shape earlier on. He can perfectly recall past events he experienced in a different shell (like Kiritsugu shooting IIlya before strangling Irisviel and the emotions 'she' felt then and why 'she' felt them) but the context of that past shell's backstory will be quite hazy, absent altogether in places and reduced down to bare facts, as if it were the plot of a detail-intensive movie or book Avenger had once read. The longer the time period between the person's interaction with the Grail and the present day, and less immersive that interaction was, the more this effect will take place.
• WISH GRANTING — Not sure if this counts as an ability or not because it's such a vaguely-defined plot device, but he is great at doing things like keeping people alive when they're on the verge of death due to getting their arm cut off by a certain priest. SO HE CAN FULFILL WISHES AND ALL THAT, if the wish made is within his power to make reality. 

▶ BASIC MAGECRAFT — Can utilize magecraft to do minor things like pick simple locks if he overlays the magecraft over his own magic circuits. Avenger was also granted the power to use the Third Magic after becoming a representation of Angra Mainyu: in the Heaven's Feel route, IIlya states this attribute is what allowed him to take form inside the Grail of Heaven.
▶ SHADES — Due to the nature of the looping world Bazett's wish creates, Shades are the leftover remains of Avenger created after each time loop where he fails to release Bazett from her wish. He referred to them as what 'used to be part of him,' and Caren called them corpses that were never alive to begin with. They look like red-eyed shadows in the shape of mutated hunting dogs, armed with long claws and a shrill, insect-like screech. They're mindless husks with a low level of intelligence; Bazett, an experienced fighter, notes that if they attacked somebody "a human without combat experience would be killed immediately with no resistance. A human with ten years or more of involvement in martial arts and sports could put up a fight for several seconds provided the conditions were favourable, or, alternatively, escape." Their main advantage lies in their numbers, not their combat abilities (as canon fodder.) Avenger can utilize them as familiars outside of the time loops.
▶ EVIL MUD TENTACLES — ... Do evil mud tendrils really need to be explained tbh?

INVENTORY:

He's got nothing but the black wrappings bound around his hands and legs, the ripped-up red mantle tied around his waist, his Noble Phantasm—a copy of the book Avesta (summonable), and his twin daggers (summonable).

( WRITING ★ SAMPLES )

NETWORK SAMPLE: 

( OPEN TO BOTH COURTS )

[ The audio feed, when it comes onto the lockets, is of silence except for the occasional noises of rustling, like fabric shifting and footsteps. Then a muffled thunking noise. Somebody's somewhere up high. ]

—... I wonder how long they've been going at each other? [ He hums to himself, unseen, his mouth curling unpleasantly. ]

Sheesh, even if it's been years since the earth was as lively as this place, these oh-so-mighty Kings and Queens and their courts might just be giving humans a run for their money in terms of bloodshed. Things like that really are universal, eh? 'Suppose I should be grateful. I'm not thrilled 'bout the bit of magic rock knocking inside my chest but 'tis dedication like that that keeps me from going unemployed. And I've heard unemployment is the pits.

[ He sounds as if he's talking aloud to himself more than anything. Then, his focus returns to the locket. Avenger coughs. ]

So, speaking of which, I'm looking for a certain lady. Long shot, I know, but I'm obliged to try anyway, you see. She's, um... In her twenties, dressed in a nice suit. Her hair's cut short. Good at punching things hard enough to kill 'em in one blow. Kinda clumsy and stiff? And really stringy with her money. Lemme know if you see her.


LOG SAMPLE:

The broken bones of his right leg creaked in complaint, the torn muscles wrapped around it throbbing in that dull, easily ignorable litany of pain that burned like a branding iron. Damn, that big monster had really smashed it up. He could still run on it—well, okay, fine, what with the energy loss brought on by their headlong sprint away from that roaring monster and his prana reserves running (of course) very low, he could manage an undignified rapid hobble that looked a great deal like running to your casual bystander, but it wasn't anywhere near his usual speeds. That was annoying.

The carpet of moss and dead leaves prickled under his feet.

Avenger tightened his grip on the handles of his daggers and lifted them up to a ready position in front of his chest. He slowly shifted his stance, coaching himself to not turn heel and make a break for the hills. The watery sunlight streaming through the branches of the trees gleamed dully off the engraved metal. He might as well have held up the charred gloves (he'd snatched them up from the ground after Bazett has thrown them away) for the good it'd do him against Berserker; when you pit the weakest Servant against the strongest one, the outcome is self-evident. But it's the gesture that counts as far as Avenger knows and he figured waving his knives at his enemy before they killed him would make for a better death scene than the gloves. It wasn't like he was all that eager to have his head smashed in by the big monster barreling its way through the forest towards him, and his spine flung in bloody pieces across the forest floor. Still, he'd said his piece to Bazett, walked out here under his own power, and he was confident his Master had already put him out of her mind completely now that he had provided her with a clear shot at her mission. Straight as an arrow flies from Point A to Point B. She wouldn't be making any detours.

Avenger would do his part. If that entailed acting as a decoy, that was that. He didn't need to win this fight—just stall for time. She would do hers.

He still reserved the right to say he wasn't looking forward much to the dying bit. It didn't bug him to get killed, it just wasn't fun to experience no matter how many times it happened.

The Servant blinked, tipped his head. Heart pounding, Avenger listened intently. Any second now, that big monster would arrive.

...— Huh, come to think of it, it was almost amusing. The Einzberns had managed to summon the unstoppable whirlwind of slaughter they'd cheated in vain to try and get with him in his initial summoning so many generations ago, in the very same generation in which all of their hopes for the Heaven's Feel had been smashed once and for all. They kept pinning their hopes on trump cards that didn't work out. If you looked at it like that, the irony of their failure was obvious.

He wondered if the little girl patiently waiting in the winter castle for his foolish, misguided Master to have their long-awaited chat would agree with him.