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Name: Azul Ashengrotto Door: Door pass Canon: Twisted Wonderland Canon Point: End of Chapter 4, when Jamil passes out after the boss fight Age: 18 Appearance: Human and Overblot. His normal merform isn't shown in canon but probably looks similar to his Overblot form minus all the decoration and drippy black, with a less ashen cast to his skin. History: Canon history here. Personality: Positive Trait: Hard-working - Azul is an incredibly hard worker. The exam notes he was trading to trap other students into predatory deals were the result of painstakingly going through the records of NRC's exams for the last century and compiling all of that information into predictions and study notes. Something Azul did while also pulling down high grades in (most of) his own classes, running a profitable business, and being part of the school's Board Game Club. His Unique Magic is also the result of hard work, his contracts perfected by constant, intensive study and practice of written spellwork, using all of his octopus arms to write with. He put similar work into erasing all record of his past appearance underwater, to the extent that a guarded commemorative picture in a museum from a school field trip was the only existing unaltered picture of Azul as a child. This pattern repeats again and again in almost everything he does. Negative Trait: Vengeful - This is not only his most dangerous negative trait, it's also the one that's driven the majority of his life. Azul can hold a grudge for years, waiting for the right time to strike. In his post-Overblot flashbacks, it's explicitly shown that Azul's desire to show up and get back at the mers that bullied and ostracized him was the force behind his wide and intense studies. He set himself on the path of making them all pay when he was still a child. Unlike most children, he never let go or forgot about it. This led to him developing his ridiculously powerful Unique Magic by the time he was in junior high, and using it on his schoolmates. In exchange for fulfilling their wishes, Azul stripped away whatever part of themselves they took the most pride in as his revenge for making fun of him. There's been no indication he regrets doing it, either, let alone indication he wouldn't do similar things again if sufficiently offended. Negative Trait: Greedy - You could easily say that capitalism is Azul's religion and money his god. Not only did he start his own café and lounge on school grounds, he goes out of his way regularly to expand and promote it both personally and by eel proxy. Before his Overblot, Azul leveraged his way into a contract with Yuu with the intent of claiming Ramshackle Dorm to turn into a second branch for the Mostro Lounge. He's just as greedy for power in any form, from blackmail-worthy secrets to the abilities taken by his golden contracts. His greed is heavily driven by the fact that Azul feels inadequate when stripped down to only his own natural abilities. Negative Trait: Manipulative - For all he talks about his benevolence, Azul's reputation as a wish-granter is more like an anglerfish light; bait for prey. He searches out people's secrets and weaknesses and uses all of it against them to coax them into a deal that will usually be far more to Azul's benefit than theirs. Some people might even thank him as they sign their lives away, until the jaws snap shut. He doesn't feel any remorse about it; it's just good business, isn't it? Marketing is all about making what you've got sound appealing, regardless of what the reality of the matter is. And Azul's deep-seated need to be in control isn't likely to be satisfied by just letting people make their own choices without his thumb on the scale. Powers and Abilities: Elemental magic: Standard for his setting, the ability to manipulate and/or attack with fire, water/ice, or flora. Azul's personal leanings are towards water/ice but he is capable of any, as well as an elementally neutral 'cosmic' magic. Healing: What it says on the tin, Azul is capable of healing injuries with magic. Limitations unknown but given he's a student and not a dedicated medical mage, injuries with severe complications like nerve damage, internal bleeding, etc probably cannot be fully healed by him. Buffs/debuffs: Short term increases or decreases to attack power or resilience to damage. Alchemy/potion-making: One of Azul's specialties and incredibly broad, he can produce a very wide range of effects through the creation and use of potions, gels, lotions and similar. His human appearance, for example, is the result of a transformation potion for merfolk to go about on land. He provided Yuu with water-breathing potions and Vil with his personally formulated world's best skin toner, so the possibilities are clearly endless. However, it requires materials and time, as well as experimentation for any new potions to be devised. Merform: His human shape being the result of a potion, his octopus merform is his natural shape. He can return to it if he wants to, with all the attendant octopus biology. Unique magic: It's a Deal- hoo boy. Despite the name, Azul's golden contracts are only half of his Unique and actually function partly as a control limiter on the raw form of his power. The contracts are consensual; they require a signature. Signature given, they will magically enforce the agreed upon terms, up to and including consequences for breaking any clauses. His go-to for failure to meet his terms is service, which results in an anemone growing out of the other person's head which will painfully drag them around if they resist any of Azul's orders. His contracts also usually clearly define his collateral or other payments, which is where the limiter effect comes in. It restricts his ability to take from people to what is outlined in the contract. When he goes unstable before Overblotting, Azul starts just taking powers, abilities, and magic from others without permission and without concern for how quickly it makes his Blot build up. (Very Quickly.) Done this way, it causes pain to the victim. There doesn't seem to be a restriction on type; Azul has canonically claimed other people's voices, skills, Unique Magics... Anything that could potentially be coveted seems to be fair game. Considering he also doesn't seem to have an upper limit on how many stolen or sold abilities he can hold, or how strong they can be, nerfing this to a maximum of 5, with particularly powerful acquisitions taking up two slots. Overblot: is a violent negative state that occurs when a mage accumulates more blot than they can tolerate. The blot then manifests as a Phantom representing the negative emotions of the caster. While it drains the mage dry and absorbs them eventually, their spells and attacks become more powerful until the state is ended. If the phantom and the mage can be separated (usually by defeating them), the phantom will disappear and the excess blot will crystalize into a black rock. Music: Azul can play the piano, sing, and dance, though how well he does any of them could be open to question. He can at least play the piano well enough to keep up with Floyd changing the composition on a whim, which probably means 'very well'. In the Halloween event, the Magicam Monsters refer to Azul's dancing as inhumanly precise, while in the canon chapter 4 aftermath, Azul shoots down Jade's suggestion he ask Kalim or Jamil to teach him how to dance, citing his short time on land. So Azul is probably excellent at pure technical execution, but when it comes to natural flow and grace or Seven forbid, putting emotion into it, not so much. Gourmand: Azul's sense of taste is insane and he can identify most to all ingredients of a dish or drink within the first couple of bites/sips. If he's impressed enough, he will expound at length whether anyone wants to hear it or not. Inventory: A pen His cane A human transformation potion Samples: One and Two |
