Vater der Konige [APPROVED 0-5+]

» Name: Vater der Konige (Father of Kings)
» Titles: Wrath the Furious
» Age: Appears to be in his early fifties, is at least thirteen-thousand years old, though he would tell most that he was approximately nine-thousand.
» Gender: Male
» Affiliation/Rank: Shadow Fall; Infante

» True Appearance Written: Large, powerful, toned, strong. These words are used to describe the appearance of the beast that is known as Vater. If one were to look at him from the top down, they would see that he appeared to be a man who didn't look his age. In fact, despite being in his forties, the body of this man would be a body of a man in his early twenties, or someone who had consistently built himself up over life. On his head is jet black hair, and on his face is a mustache in the same shade. As well as the defining and elderly features of his face, Vater has an eyepatch covering his left eye, hiding a secret that very few know of, and the reason he has lasted so long with so few abilities. Looking at his body, we see that Vater is, above all else, well-built and muscular. This shows that he has worked on his strength for most of his life, and built up a repitoire of skills to go along with it.

Vater is usually seen to wear a blue, full length military issue coat and slacks with black dress shoes. He is almost always seen with at least one sword on him, but has also been known to carry up to six and can wield all of them simultaneously. On occasions, he has been seen without his coat in battle, wearing his military issue slacks with suspenders and boots, along with a short-sleeve black undershirt. Other times, he is seen wearing a black vest with a white dress-shirt, dress pants, and formal shoes. Usually, however, he tends to wear his military-issue clothing, from the days in which he served upon the Earth.

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» Personality: Unlike most of those in Shadow Fall, there are a few things that one must understand about Vater. He tends to, at the occasional point in time, sympathize with both humanity and their enemies. Due to his having lived within their society for a number of years, he has built up an understanding of them that is very rare to see in those so high within the Demonic rankings. Appearing generally calm and surprisingly pleasant, even with a frequent sense of humor when compared to the others. He is rarely seen to associate with the other Infante, aside from times when it is necessary to do so. If he sees humans that are to be innocent, he will try his best to let them live as opposed to killing them ruthlessly like his comrades may or may not do. Of course, if ordered to, it is likely that he will also not spare them--his sympathies only extend to choice, not orders. He will not go against any order he is given--that was, to put it lightly, not the way he was raised. As well as this, he has respect for those he considers worthy warriors.

The true note of his personality, however, comes to light when this beast of a Demon is angered. Anger, as shown in his title, does not sit well with him--rage completely takes over, and Vater becomes a formidable warrior with no mercy for anything. His attacks are ruthless, his movements show nothing but skill, and he will kill anything that gets in his way. It is this part of his personality that he understands more than the kindness that he shows to humanity, for this is the part of him that really needs no true explanation.
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≡ History It is rare for one such as this to become the way he has. Very rare indeed. So rare, in fact, that to find out that this man has become the way he has had shocked quite a few people.

When he was born, Vater had absolutely no potential whatsoever. There were no traces of Za Koa in his body to be noticed, and as a Demon, he would be classed as useless. Thousands of years would pass, and Vater would get no stronger, nor any closer to the being known as Touketsu. He was known as a 'failed demon', cast out of this world and into the Material World. This would be approximately 600 years ago--that was the scope and length of time that Vater had been kept in the Demon World for training and forced attempts at strengthening him.

However, among humans, Vater started to work on his own way. Cast into their realm with the appearance of a ten-year old child, he was found by an elderly German couple. He did not know of his own surname, so they would give him their own, and adopted him as their son. Now known as Vater der Konige, the boy began to steadily progress through life. The time was 1903, and it was plain to see that he was showing more and more of an interest in the German Army. With WWI around the corner, that life would become even more attractive to the youth. Despite the pleas of his adopted parents, Vater joined the German Army at the age of 18, enlisting and joining rather quickly.

Quickly thrust into the fray, Vater rarely had any time to himself. Instead, he focused completely on building up his strength and skill as a warrior. Over three years he got more and more powerful within the soldiers of the German Empire; rising up the ranks relatively quickly for his age. Then, he was shipped off to war. On August 5, 1914, he arrived in the Western Front, already aiming to fight the good fight. Over the years of this singular campaign, he fought, killed and continued to live as men died and fell around him. As others mourned the losses of their brothers-in-arms, Vater continued onwards, ignoring the cries of the others for their safety, and simply aiming to fight and defeat the enemy.

After this battle had ended, he continued to train, expecting more and more war. No longer was it just a fight for survival, Vater found himself craving it, the demon within slowly awakening itself to become truly powerful. Although Vater's physiology caused him to age like a human, his mind and body were starting to grow past those limitations. At the beginning of World War II, however, Vater found himself at an impasse; when a sniper managed to just get him into his sights and fire. The round penetrated his left eye, destroying it completely, yet not getting any further. Now blinded in one eye, the man attempted to continue fighting, but was discharged from the German Army and told to not worry about it all.

This was the worst thing one could do, as Vater spent the next six years hearing about the losses that this country was getting. More and more people died, they lost ground and then... Hiroshima. The Japanese, their allies, were bombed and nothing could be done. The eventual dissolution of the Axis and the loss of Germany was more than he could take, and his soul turned to rage and anger--its true purpose revealed. A sudden blast of demonic energy overtook his soul, and the man, who had aged many years, would suddenly take on the final stage of his full transformation into demonhood.

Taken quickly back to the Demon World, it was soon found that, although he had no usual powers, the Za Koa flowing through his body was placing itself into the realm of his eye, slowly getting more and more powerful. The concentration that existed in his left eye was nothing to be scoffed at, and from that point onwards, Vater started his training to become a Demon Beast, a fully-fledged warrior who would cause all others to tremble before him...
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» Natural Abilities:

No Magical Skill: Unlike a lot of Demons, Vater has no real way of using Demonic Magic or manipulating Za Koa. Yes, he is connected to the core of Touketsu and siphons a lot of his strength through as such, but this is all that he is limited to--most of the Za Koa energy flows directly into his eye, and stays within his eye. The rest of it is used to keep the strength of his body up--for this reason, he cannot manipulate it, or the appearance of his own body. This makes him somewhat closer to a human than a demon, though only by rights.

Weak Regeneration: One of the benefits of Za Koa on Vater's body is that he has gained the ability to regenerate from a lot of wounds quite quickly. Most wounds are easily healed from, though ones that go deeper are more difficult to regenerate. Fatal wounds cannot be healed.

Exceptional Strength: Being a basely-physical fighter, most of Vater's bodily Za Koa is implanted into his physical strength, increasing his power on the battlefield by a large amount. This allows him to carry objects in the area of a thousand to a million tons with slight difficulty, though doing anything with them is a different story.

Exceptional Speed: Despite being unable to move between the shadows like most Demons, Vater's body itself is conditioned to move with little resistance from the air in which he is moving in. His muscles are fine-tuned to move at the drop of a hat, and he can react to situations at a speed that is much higher than usual, able to generally keep up with flash-step movers on physical terms.

Skill with the Blade: The first of Vater's majority skills is his skill with the blade. Having used these weapons for most of his lifetime, Vater has been able to give himself a mastery over them through training in speciality. Able to simultaneously wield up to six swords at once, Vater has conditioned himself to the exact prime of skill that he needs to fight those with more out-of-line abilities.

Skill with the Fist: The other of Vater's majority skills is the skill to fight in hand-to-hand combat. Using what is known as Krav Maga, Vater's style of fighting specifically focuses on finishing a fight as quickly as possible. Therefore, attacks to the most vulnerable places on the body will be used as often as possible (face, neck, groin, knee, etc.). Due to the non-sports use of this martial art, there are no given rules against fighting with techniques that avoid serious injury to the opponent.

The general principles of Krav Maga include:

• Either counter-attacking as soon as possible, or attacking pre-emptively.
  
• Targeting attacks towards the body's most vulnerable positions.
  
• Neutralizing the opponent as quickly as possible by responding with an unbroken stream of counter attacks and if necessary a take down/joint break.
  
• Maintaining awareness of surroundings while dealing with the threat in order to look for escape routes, further attackers, objects that could be used to defend or help attack and so on.

» Unique Abilities:

At any given time, Vater really only has one major and unique ability to use.



Known as the Ultimative Auge (Ultimate Eye), this ability is channelled and hidden through the left eye of the Beast. A rather simple and refined ability, the Ultimative Auge has the same functionality whether or not it is hidden--it is simply hidden usually in order to hide Vater's true identity. Instead of the usual iris/pupil combination, the Auge instead has a symbol upon it known as the "Ouroboros"; an image of a snake eating its own tail.

Filled to the brim with Za Koa energy, the Auge is capable of seeing everything that a normal eye cannot, including movement, illusions and the general flow of time itself. Using this, Vater is able to completely enhance the way that he fights; seeing attacks before they occur, hidden abilities coming towards him, attacks that stream around and hit from behind, and everything of that sort. Adding this to his formidable fighting skill, Vater can be seen as a peerless warrior of the blade in his own way.
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Racial Skills

• Za Koa Skill: Beginner
  
• Demon Magic: Beginner
  
• Shadow Movement: Beginner
  
• Akuma Kyōdo: Beginner
  

General Skills

• Durability: Adept
  
• General Speed: Master
  
• Strength: Master
  
• Weapon Skill: Master