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[nightroadsaint]

IN CHARACTER

CW: Genocide, Fratricide, murder, war, Catholism, bible references, religion, language, violence, gore, death, vampirism

Character Name: Abel Nightroad
Canon: Trinity Blood
Canon Point: From the novels/manga, Chapter 83-84, Crown of Thorns
In-Game Tattoo Placement: On his right forearm, it's the dominant hand where he uses his handgun
Current Health/Status: Healthy, but tired and nervous due to political tension happening in his canon
Age: 976+, mentally/physically he appears to be in his late 30s or 40s
Species: He appears human, but he's a host to an a sentient alien species called "Crusnik", a type of vampire, which are nanomachines/nanites flowing in his bloodstream.

History: Canon history

Personality

The past - Before and during Armagaddeon as seen in flashbacks - Before the manga's storyline
Abel resented and hated humanity, more so at a deeper disturbing level than his brother Cain. When he was younger, there were times that the idea of a systematic genocide actually delighted him. This hatred is coming from being treated as a complete, perfect clone for his brother Cain. His whole purpose to be born, to be created by the human scientists, and to exist as a clone was to be spare organ donor to Cain, in case anything wrong happened to Cain or in case of death as Cain is a highly favored prospect of hope to save humankind, for he is the Major and Leader of the Mars Project. When Cain and Abel met for the first time, the two fast developed an unbreakable bond as twin brothers and become inseparable.

Over time, the scientists treated him as expendable goods and have him assigned to different tasks in their training programs and he was subjugated to different lab tests. Therefore, he was treated subhuman like a lab rat on the spaceship and during his stay on Mars. He is argumentative to everyone with his hateful vitriol against humanity and he vehemently curses humanity, very rebellious against authority figures, and also did not like his own authority being challenged. He often picked fights with his colleagues and because of his attitude problem, this lead to the murder attempt on his life during his stay on Mars, but it had also lead to his accident discovery of the Ark.

This hatred was evident when during the wars, as he single-highhandedly slaughtered 7 million humans, along with many more with Cain and Seth on the warpath to burn the world. That was his true personality: He was violent, disobedient, morbid, quarreling, and off-putting with his ideologies. He will rationalize with his colleagues why this is rational. When he speaks his hatred against humans, to the ire of the people around him, he pushed them to the point where he has little to no friends due to his distrust, paranoia, and hate that poisoned his twisted mind down to his very soul. When he was given the power of "Crusnik," he used it to help begin a cycle of genocide to rid the world of humanity once in for all, and assisting his brother Cain and his sister Seth on the warpath.

The present personality - 900+ years after the Armageddon wars as seen in the Manga
Abel is a changed man at this point, completely opposite to the man and monster he once was. Throughout the manga, in which his journey as a priest was chronicled, we see Abel as an incompetent and unassuming priest, often deemed almost worthless on the job by his colleagues. He is a klutz who does’t pay attention to details, while unintentionally get into accidents during the job, and during his battles, he recklessly tackled his enemies with no strategy or plan.

He enjoys sweets where he insists in drinking tea mixed with 13 sugars, along with eating as many donuts and sandwiches as he can in one sitting. He splurged his given stipend, his salary from the church eating out in cafes. Because of his gluttonous habits, he isn’t concerned over his financial situation and carried little money in his wallet. He is also lazy and often seemed forgetful, but those traits are really by-products of his efforts to push back his past self, and put on a persona that he preferred other people to see him as: a friend, not their enemy.

As a priest, his role in his priesthood is taking a solemn vow to never shed blood ever again. Of course, being a priest, it's something akin to being a monk: Abstain from marriage (probably to deal with his grief of loosing Lilith and Cain) and his brothers/sisters are fellow priests and nuns, to take a path of pacifism and never kill, and to be of service to whatever Caterina of AX sets him out to do to repent for his mistakes and his sin of bloodshed. I can think his only reason to be a priest is something that a guilty murderer will do on the path to redeeming himself and seeking forgiveness by starting over with a second chance at life, and that's accepting the sins of his pasts, and then turning away from to make a new life for himself by accepting God and Jesus as Christ in his heart as a part of his religious practice, even though Abel isn't particularly religious in a sense, but more agnostic and accepting of human's goodwill in the fate of things.

He also acts foolishly to avoid heavy situations and puts on a warm smile and enjoys polite, friendly banter to his friends and colleagues. While his smiles was genuine, it is also deceitful as he purpose hide what he is really thinking from other people and at times, it’s hard to tell what he’s really thinking (and this antic of hiding secrets of his Other Self frustrated Esther to no end during their time together as colleagues). He enjoys acting this way to hide the guilt of his past from other people. He wants people to see him as a silly priest who really cares about humans (Terrans) and his only wish is to protect them and protect the peace to honor Lilith’s memory and sacrifice, not just for humans, but for himself.

In truth, he actually really hates himself and sees his Other Self, 02, as a monster. His sarcasm and bitterness are him controlling his self-loathing and anger, and impatience with people, but the centuries became a burden to him that it's becoming more of hopelessness and despair. As Lilith explained to him in one chapter of the manga, he becomes bitter and angry and ultimately hopeless from feeling betrayed, but there is still a spark of humanity where he wanted to desperately love others and feel their kindness, that she sees his potential to love world and the people in it, and that Abel has the redeeming capacity show them love and mercy. He is so weary to the point there are times he desperately wanted to die and end his seemingly immortal in despair, in his desperate wish to see his soulmate, Lilith again.

Abel detests seeing sacrifice and suffering in the meek. He'll detest an enemy, especially if there are others who are more than willing to cause other people pain. He will go to great lengths to protect other people to the point it’s masochistic, and yet he himself rarely become truthful of his pain as he doesn’t trust himself to be open with his own pain that often he becomes secretive of his own injury and will happily suffer for it, thinking he deserved the punishment. He fears damaging friendships and losing their trust in him, as he’s feared his Monster self will traumatize them as it did to Esther, as he very much wanted to let people know he is on their side.

What mentally drains him that he is almost constantly doing battle with his guilt complex and conscience that tells him he doesn't deserve their trust and kept what little friendship with humans, even if he earned it. Abel suffered centuries of painful betrayals and his twin brother, Cain is the primary thorn in Abel's life. His cheerful, sweet, and clumsy persona may at times can be super annoying and shallow and if it anything can be superficial, sugary, and sweet then yes, he is faking it for your sake, but that’s him trying to protect himself from damaging and traumatizing you or hiding his own pain and depression as he badly wanted people to go with this image of him being a kind priest and this present self as the Redeemer. He can frustrate others by deflecting or dismissing the question so that people won't know his true monster as a killer and the "Enemy of the World" personality during the Armagadeon wars. The only motivation that enforces to live and continue to keep on living in his final mission to find Cain and kill his mentally unstable brother to end the long-standing feud that lasted for over 900 years.

When it comes to interactions with other people, there may be times he gets a little desperate for the company due to feeling an increase in his loneliness and depression to help distract himself, and he’ll be a little nosey in what people do, but that noisiness and questioning comes from his curiosity and boredom. He’ll do his best to protect his secret as a Crusnik, seeing his Other Self as the reminder of his sins, but once in a while, he’ll smartly hide that part of himself and reveal a thing or two about himself if he doesn’t see the harm in it for example, he will say he once was an astronaut who worked and colonized Mars to spark an interest in a conversation about science in an effort to build a friendship, but he won’t go further than that as he will try to keep the conversation as general as possible. While Abel will do his best to guard his secrets or his true thoughts, if there is a question that he doesn’t feel like answering, especially concerning his powers and his pasts, he’ll dismissed it, brush it off, or give you an answer that is applicable and acceptable, or at best, a pleasant euphemism of his hidden nature. He doesn’t hate his Other Self completely, as he sees the little buggers of his nanomachines as a useful tool, both offense/defense to protect his friends.

Abel was seen by his colleagues especially in the priesthood as very scholarly, and his friendly and cheerful demeanor makes him a good friend among the company. Esther found his presence and his quiet strength and fortitude comforting. He proves to be very caring, empathetic, and compassionate, and despite his ineptitude of understanding his own emotions and feelings, as he felt he lost a connection to his own humanity and his connection to others socially, he will do anything to come through to save his friends or save a life or protect the weak. He shows remorse and reluctance when taking a life or even taking on an enemy wishing to spare them death. Other colleagues may seem him as foolish, and even arrogant as seen in his battle against Petro, but Abel was really buying time for his friends to escape from the Crusader's unit.

As a pacifist, Abel will do his best to adopt a more peaceful, and quieter approach to life as Abel's history is dominated by war and violence, and the hidden thirst of genocide ever prevalent in Unit 02. He will do his best to never act out in anger and to really reign his temper in, with patience. Under stressful situations, his temper will come off as sarcasm, and he might snap out in anger. He tends to preferred quieter places and needs a lot of space to think his thoughts to himself. The church is a perfect place, in this instance to calm him during prayer times. Also, being of scientific mind, he also works from a place of logic and rationality. If you give him time and patience to think up the answers, his advice will come from a gentle, calm, analytical, articulate, and loving place like that of a Father and a priest should be. Once Abel settled down, and tuned into his caring side, he's a caring guardian and reliable protector over people he cares about and has acquaintances with.

Personal Moral Codes

God is Good and Justice will always prevails: Abel is a Catholic priest, so his personal moral codes is also a religious and spiritual one and has adopted Catholic values such as the belief that there are Evil existing in the World, that God and Jesus and the Holy spirit exist, and there's a clear distinction between Good and Evil, and doing the Right thing. Abel wouldn't push his beliefs on others, but he is very motivated is doing the right thing because he was motivated by his own guilt and feeling remorse, rather than true altruism and selflessness to help others.

Love and Evil Exists: While not overly religious, he also believes that evil exist in the world, be it by moral or supernatural means. First within himself, and then outward. The greater good exist within himself, but greater than that, it's Love and God, which Lilith wanted to point to him. This Love triumphs over his own sins and wickedness, and it's this force that drove him to do better as a priest.

Life is precious and every life is worth protecting: Abel true insecurities and fears is Himself. As he was once the Contra Mundi, the Enemy of the World and a God of Death, his mark of his sins isn't what he's proud of, and it was his shame that made him believed he's a sinner. He truly regret the loss of life during the Wars, and he fundementally had loved the world, but wanted to be everyone's friends and desire a kinship with them, and protecting humans as he now sees life is precious. His clusmy, klutzy nature, and wanting badly to be liked by his colleagues and peers maybe linked to his fears and insecurities and to his guilt. What appears to be cowardice is his good nature in not wanting to harm other people.

The redeemer: Abel redeemed himself by joining the Vatican and allow himself to help to their cause to help keep world peace when he felt true remorse and regret over his ideals. He was, more or less, a rebellious, angry child who was being used in the name of science to save humanity and he, being a little shit, had turned his back on humanity, turned his hatred on humans because of his deep sense of betrayal by them instead of using his genius to save them. Now he spent his entire life devoted to protect humans, see the value of their lives, no matter how small, and will happily die for them to atone for his sins. But no dying, he has to stay alive enough, long enough to end his twin brother, Cain's madness.

Insecurities/Personal Demons

Guilt: Abel struggles his guilt in using his power of the Crunsik. He really struggles the necessity of killing vampires to protect others, and it's a struggling balance out his karma and justice. He didn't want them to come out, and he would do what he can to really surpressed his Crusnik personality and it's bloodlust and thirst for destruction.

Temper and grudges: Abel also have a fierce temper and rage, and can be very short, and is not and above seeking revenge on Cain for the murder of Lilith Sahl, his lost lover. While he can control his temper well, but in the presence of Cain, let say Abel is someone who doesn't simply "let go and forgive" and can hold on grudges and fued for as long as it takes. 900 years worth of grudges to be exact. But Abel is not the sort to seek revenge...unless he was pushed to the edge to seek justice.

Selfishness vs selflessness: Lilith sees the truth in Abel's heart. That he is a child, first and foremost, and she adored him and cared for him. She saved him from death and even after, and she loved him. In Abel's point of view, it was justice for the injustice and sufferings he endured. He was selfish for using 02, the hallmark of his sins and used as a weapon as a projection of his revenge, he realized this 900 years too late.

Part of him still grieves over his mistakes, and he hoped to atone for his sins by devoting his life to correct this mistakes and used his power to protect humans and for good.

Abilities/Powers/Weaknesses
In Crusnik form, the alien nanomachines 02 personality will take over. It refers itself as "We". The entity sees Abel as it's the host and kept Abel alive for 950+ years. Abel can control the power level of 02 via verbal command, but for really strong opponents, he typically starts a battle at 40% which is enough to kill a vampire.

Abel usually starts at 40% power at any given battle and he still has control over his own consciousness and sanity. When he transforms to his Crusnik form, a pair of black feathered wings will come out of his back, his eyes turned red, his hair flows up, his hands become claws, and he'll be in a trance where 02 personality takes over. He will have that fallen black winged angel look, regenerative healing of his injuries take place, and his strength/speed/stamina increases. His feathered wings are hard enough to use as razor sharp swords and as a defense shield to defend against lasers beams shot from airships, produce bio-electrical fields with the power of lightning, and he can fly high in the sky to take his fight to the sky. As for his main weapon, it's a huge wicked looking red scythe that he produced from his own blood, that can cut through steel and slice enemies in half. Abel is able to control at this level of power for a period length of time without draining himself too much, but when he reverts back to normal, he will be extremely drained and needs to eat or sleep with rest.

At 80%, which is the highest level, he can form bioelectric fields that is enough to destroy heavily armored tanks and airships, healing and regeneration of any broken limbs is instantaneous, and etc. While he is damned near indestructible at this point, he’ll also goes berserk and attack everyone including friends and allies, as at this power level, he loss his grip on reality. He cannot hold this power for long, and holding this high power takes a lot of energy. When he reverts back to his normal form, he'll be extremely exhausted and need a lot of naps and food with rest. Abel fears loosing his sanity and his control over his other Self, 02 whenever he used his Crusnik powers.

Abel adopted the philosophy of pacifism and nonviolence in a strenuous effort to deal with his guilt and to really reign in control over his temper, rage, and hatred. His remorse of murdering 7 million people with the help of his siblings, Cain and Seth have much to do with his struggle to really reign his powers back in, therefore what others had seen and deemed as cowardice or escaping from battle was really his effort to never use his powers and let others see that his Other Self, 02 is a powerful, homicidal monster that can plunge cities and devastate the civilizations and environment of the planet. Therefore, when it comes to combat and fighting, Abel will get nervous to fight even in his normal form and will train to restraint himself from going into battle if any at all.

He is also combat-phobic due to the trauma of being left out to die on Mars by the colonizers and experienced oxygen deprivation in Mars non-existent atmosphere. He was forced to kill his own brother with the help of his sister Seth, pushed him into the airlock and to watch him slowly die as he turned to ashes on the high fall dropped down to Earth's atmosphere. He is reluctant to engage fighting an enemy and will resort to peace talks to avoid a duel and violence as he adopted pacifism as a priest.

While he's a sharpshooter and has an accurate aim as a gunslinger, he gets nervous having to kill anyone (due to his past as Contra Mundi during the Teran wars) even if it's for the greater good. He considers Crusnik a "mark of his sins," a side of himself he hates showing anyone and prefers to use only as a last resort when absolutely necessary - such as self-defense and protecting his friends. The problem is, the harder he resists and pushes 02‘s powerful pull to release itself, the more draining it is for him mentally and physically.

Overall summary: You’ll only need to be concerned with two levels of Abel’s power. There is 40% and 80%. You’ll never see Abel at 100% because operating at 100% the nanomachines power will be extremely physical/mental taxing on Abel’s body. The nanomachines will sense their host’s body dysfunction and in order to protect its body, it will automatically shut-down and Abel will black out and lose consciousness for several hours. He won’t be able to hold that much power even at that level as that level, as at 80% and above, Abel fights against Cain and his unit 01.

As for feeding, Abel can only feed on vampires from his world. He cannot feed on blood from other humans. The vampires in his world carries a specific bacillus that his nanomachines feeds on, and therefore, the vampires is the crusiniks source of food. Therefore, vampires from other worlds and normal humans are safe around him. However, when he feels the thirst pangs, it simply means he needs to be more cautious on energy conserving and he'll be more reluctant activating 02 other than for self-defense and protecting innocent civilians reasons. Being a pacifist, he will not rely on 02 to win for him in his battles. Being hungry, 02 may not respond to his verbal commands and may shut down from not being properly drinking and fed.

Since his vampire powers are purely technological as they are sentient nanomachines called 02, traditional vampires/demons whose powers are based on darkness or magic cannot sense his vampirism at all. In his normal/regular form is human form, unit 02 is sleeping and dormat.

Warping abilities

Self healing/regenerating ability slow downs, and if a person is within 10 feet close to him, they will suffer the same injuries

He won't be able to regenerate his own limbs, organs, or even his head, and takes more damage from bullets or bites or poison from monsters/in-game events, so he can potentially die if he doesn't find a safe place and time to heal

Physical strength, speed, endurance, mostly kept

Poison resistance, he's gonna get really sick if poisoned repeatedly or if left uncured without the antidote for long periods of time

Durability and endurance, he's resilient due to his self-healing abilities

Flying/his wings: It's a related to his horror-based ability, the nanomachines flowing through his bloodstream can form his wings out of his back and form his weapon the scythe out of his own blood, however since he heals much more slowly and requires a lot of blood to sustain the energy he needed, he will summon them out of necessity and if he has the necessary energy. If he has no energy or have not been fed, this ability will not work. The wings and the blood sycthe may be nerfed and may not be working and be reliable at all, since it requires a lot of blood, his blood and drinking blood for the energy necessary, and Abel being a derp doesn't feed himself properly as in, he sometimes starve himself due to his pacisfism.

Horror-based ability: The nanonites flowing in his bloodstream are very acidic, Alien-acidic. If he bleeds, the nanomachines/buggers, can form little mouths which can eat flesh/muscle/bones. However, their true function is to eat his own fallen flesh when he's injured and are re-absorbed through his wings and main body to aid the regeneration and healing of his body. Since his self-healing ability is very much slow down, he'll take more damage then usual, and if poisoned, taken mutiple bullets, beheaded, loss a limb, or bleeding internaly too much he won't be able to regenerate quickly and if not healed within a safe space, he can potentially die.

Considering this is a dreamscape sort of world, his transformation abilities is dampen and the nanomachines 02 will stay dormat unless they sense their host body is in danger, and that's when their self-defense and coping machine will activate to protect the host. Otherwise, they stay in sleep mode, taking care not to allow their host to be drained too much.

Therefore, in conclusion, Abel is a nanomachine-type of vampire. His wings and blood sycthe is nerfed. May rely on his guns more to conserve his energy and strength. The self-healing and regeneration ability is less efficient, and can potentially die if he gets reckless and gets in to too much fights, and must practice precaution when fighting or facing monsters if he could pick his battles wisely.

Inventory:
Slot 1: A chained silver pocket watch
Slot 2: His rosary for private prayer times
Slot 3: The Holy Bible (he's a priest after all)
Slot 4: A glasses case containing an extra pair of glasses (he only has one extra pair as he tends to break his glasses during missions)
Slot 5: A box of silver ammunition, limited ammo of 50 bullets
slot 6: His colt revolver gun the Peacemaker with the inscription ‘Sanguine et Virtue’ already loaded with 6 bullets


Writing Samples

Sample one
It was early morning that the priest rose up to go to the Morning Mass at church. He walked through the streets of Rome and saw that many had to risen with the morning sun. The baker began to bake bread, the cafes are open, and people are hustle and bustle in the morning commune rush. The warm aroma of breakfast cooking in the kitchens of the cafe is in the air mingled with the scent of imported roast coffee and tea brewing.

After breakfast at one of the local cafe, Abel went to the Vatican headquaters to make his report. Afterward, he visited the cathedral in the afternoon, when it's quiet for his midmorning prayers and meditations where he entered inside and took a seat on the aged wooden pew and began to pray with the bible on hand. The Archedecon priest and the other monks have already started singing their liturgy and pslam of the day, greeting and praising the Lord, thanking the Lord for everything. The monk prayed quietly, saying his prayers to both God and Mother Mary.

Just another peaceful day. After he's done with his prayers, he rose up and is heading out. Abel is a good priest, who devoted his life to peace and to God.

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Player's note: Under another account 02crusnikabel, but this account shall be used for the game.

Within Deerington setting: TDM sample!

OUT OF CHARACTER

Player Name: Pandora Rose
Player Age: 31
Player Contact: PM this journal please

Other Characters In Game: N/A
In-Game Tag If Accepted: Abel Nightroad
Permissions for Character: Permissions here!
Are you comfortable with prominent elements of fourth-walling?: No and require talking it out with me
What themes of horror/psychological thrillers do you enjoy the most? Favorite range from Dracula, The Shining, Hellsing, H.P Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, vampirism, werewolves, ghost stories, and the psychological part where the characters go mad and get really in touch with their dark side, the truth and core of their insanity, connect to their true selves, their inner monsters, and confront their inner demons
Is there anything in particular you absolutely need specific content warnings for?: Pretty much anything hardcore gross like amputations, guro, medical, health-related, excessive gore, cannabalism, underage characters involved, and etc
Additional Information: Anything trauma related requires talking it out with me via PM!