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Name: Jess
Age: 29
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Character Information

Name: Alastor
Canon: Devil May Cry/Bayonetta/Viewtiful Joe shared universe
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OU (Anime continuity)

World info: The world Alastor hails from is split into three fundamental segments, with other, derivative realities connected to them. Paradiso, or Heaven, is the home of angels and the final destination of souls deemed worthy of reward by the forces of light. Inferno, or Hell, is the home of demons and the souls of those who made pacts with them or else lived with attitudes suited to the underworld's 'might makes right' mentality. Between them is the human world, which is similar to reality save for demons having been a tangible presence in human history, even having launched an invasion 2000 years ago. While the average person lives no differently from someone in the real world, major populations often suffer mysterious murder sprees or strange happenings due to demons preying on the fringes of society. While the majority of known connections between the human world and the underworld were sealed following the war, and its subsequent ending by a traitorous demon general who fell in love with a human, many demons still lurk in the shadows, and some still find ways across. As such, both devil hunters and demon worshipers still exist, and the right information broker can help you find either.

Overlaid with the human world is a separate plane of existence known as Purgatorio, which is less a reality of its own, and more a different wavelength. Beings who know the right magic can enter Purgatorio to render themselves unseen and intangible to ordinary humans, while still able to observe them and even interact with their environment. This layer of reality is most often used by angels, who prefer to operate more subtly than do demons.

Parallel to the human world, the mirror world is a literal reflection, accessible through enchanted mirrors. There, light emanates from solid objects, and is sucked into a black hole where the sun should be.

Also parallel to the human world, and accessible with magic through a screen depicting a movie, is Movieland. A strange world, it's a patchwork quilt of different movie worlds, drawn straight from those depicted in every movie ever filmed. To those within these movie worlds, the setting and events of the movie are reality, and the world operates on movie logic rather than real physics. There, it's possible to produce objects from nowhere, so long as they either don't solve the problem at hand or were already established to be in your possession. A split second offscreen is enough to entirely change one's outfit, even without other clothes at hand. Strangely, it's also possible to use the movie worlds to alter the script of the movie represented, with the changes being displayed on all future showings.
History: Nothing is known about Alastor's history prior to canon, though things can be inferred from his introduction. He was found, sealed into a sword, on Mallet island, home of a Hellgate that opened right onto the doorstep of the demon emperor who tried to invade the human world 2000 years ago, Mundus. Presumably, he angered Mundus somehow and, as it was prophesied that a black winged demon would betray his own kind and lead to Mundus' downfall, he was sealed away. The prophesied traitor turned out to be one of Mundus' own generals, the Dark Knight Sparda, and the gate was sealed and Alastor forgotten. Over the next two millennia, humans attempted to settle Mallet, but the resultant civilization was influenced by the concentrated evil power still seeping into the island, which itself marked the place where the barrier between the human world and the underworld was thinnest. While a castle town originally grew and flourished, distortions of local time and the miasma of evil power took their toll on the people's sanity, and the civilization fell to barbarism. During this time, the chapel, which was dedicated to Mundus on the belief that the demon was a god, became warped, and Alastor's power was used to seal the door. There he stayed, as the humans died off, demons took over, and an ill-fated group of WWII soldiers attempted to find refuge on the island and were subsequently killed. Finally, the seal on the door was broken by Dante, the half-demon son of Sparda and his human lover, and Alastor attacked him in a bid for dominance...a bid which he failed, leaving him subject to Dante's control. Despite this original challenge, he served faithfully as a demonic blade, even going so far as to spark whenever he sensed hostile demons in the area. Dante used his power to fight through Mallet, to Mundus' own throne room, where he defeated the resurgent emperor and sealed him away once more.

Dante took Alastor home from Mallet, but had little interest in continuing to use him. In time, Alastor grew impatient and, assuming he had no negotiating power as Dante's bound servant, manifested a new body and snuck away. Somehow, he discovered Movieland, and integrated himself into the Captain Blue movie series, a superhero setting based on many Sentai and Kamen Rider tropes. There, he joined the villainous organization Jadow, in hopes it would give him an opportunity to duel the eponymous Captain Blue, only to be disappointed when Jadow's Almighty Leader, King Blue, slew the hero first. Soon after, Jadow's forces were ordered to bring a kidnapped woman, Silvia, from the real world back to headquarters as their prisoner, while her boyfriend, Joe, managed to pursue her through the Movieland portal. Joe soon proved to have inherited Captain Blue's power through the transformatve V-Watch, and managed to use it to stumble his way through surviving encounters with Jadow's three junior officers. Alastor went to finish the job, but was surprised to find that Joe had some latent talent as a fighter. Though not defeated, he chose to retreat and give the new hero a chance to grow into his new abilities.

From then on, Alastor acted as a combination of rival and secret coach to Joe. He spoke to Silvia, in hopes of learning how her boyfriend thinks, and was quite taken with the woman...though he left even more confused than he'd been to start with. It wasn't until Joe guessed on his own what would help cheer Sylvia up, and asked Alastor himself to deliver it, that he realized that while the hero put little thought into anything, his gut instinct was remarkably accurate. Unfortunately, this interaction put Alastor into conflict with his fellow senior officer, Fire Leo, and the two continued to squabble throughout Alastor's time with Jadow.

In an effort to test Joe's character, Alastor orchestrated a questionably villainous scheme of his own, and sent two powerful Jadow robots to strip a small artists' town of its color. When the robots initially defeated Joe, Alastor sabotaged the V-Watch and left the young man where he would be found. Ultimately, the hero rose to the occasion, fighting to rescue his captured sidekick even injured and stripped of his powers, and defeated the culprits after managing to reactivate the watch and finding a way to outwit his opponents. Alastor watched on, approving of the display of Joe's 'true colors'.

With Joe's continued successes, Jadow's coordinator, a woman named Sprocket, grew frustrated. She attempted to set a trap for Joe by forcing Alastor to play the role of groom in a 'force the captive to marry the villain' scheme, to Alastor's discomfort. Silvia proved to be comfortable alone with him, even noting that she could do worse, as far as guys from Movieland went, but ultimately proved unable to restrain her anxiety, as she was truly devoted to her current relationship. Though Joe wound up embroiled in a local revolt, Silvia fled on her own. Alastor retrieved her, and allowed the couple a parting exchange before returning her to captivity.

With the forced wedding incident in the past, Alastor was free to go back to observing Joe, and caught him planning to fake Captain Blue's return in order to give hope back to a sick child. He volunteered to help without hesitation, happy to lend a hand for the sake of a sick kid. The two decided to fake a villain attack, with Alastor taking the role of the Sssssquid of Inesssscapable Doom!, and Joe disguising himself as Captain Blue. Things didn't go quite as planned, and they managed to accidentally trade masks before Alastor found himself moving to protect the young boy from a falling piece of rubble. Though Alastor's costume was destroyed, the kid didn't realize the monster was also fake, and believed Alastor to be a real hero protecting him...to the devil's awkward embarrassment. He didn't have the heart to correct the boy, and instead flew off immediately after introducing himself.

The wedding incident hadn't spoiled Silvia's opinion of him either, and after he helped her when he found her lost in the halls of Jadow HQ, she pointed out that he wasn't like the rest of Jadow. Though he pretended not to know what she meant, the comment was evidently still weighing on him when Sprocket roped him into her next scheme to bait Joe into a trap. She had Silvia tied to the short hand of a clocktower, so that she would be crushed if not rescued by midnight. Though Alastor disliked the idea, he was unable to talk her out of it, and knew better than to push his luck with open defiance...especially after Sprocket questioned his motives for objecting. This was the final straw for him, and he fought brutally when Joe arrived, willfully disregarding the safety of bystanders as the battle tore the clocktower down around them. He was mere seconds away from skewering his rival amidst the rubble when King Blue personally intervened and dragged him back to HQ, supposedly because he he was posing a danger to Jadow's prisoner in his enraged state.

That incident must have caused some reflection on Alastor's part, as when Joe found Jadow HQ and was in danger of being killed by a buffed Fire Leo, Alastor intervened to protect him, renouncing his villain status in the process and encouraging Joe to bring down Jadow and save Silvia. The resulting brawl led to the edge of the platform they were on collapsing, with Leo's bulk dragging Alastor down. Though both were ultimately able to walk away from the clash, Alastor was badly wounded, and forced into a more human-like and decidedly weaker form.

After Jadow's downfall, Alastor began roaming other movie worlds in hopes of finding a solar eclipse, which would restore his lost power. In one with striking similarities to the Wizard of Oz, he encountered Silvia, who had been in a fight with Joe. Though she didn't recognize him, she still told him she felt as though Joe wasn't taking his role as hero seriously. He advised her on how Joe works as a hero and was able to calm her down in time for her to be there for a confrontation with the minions of a new villainous group, Gedow. With two inexperienced fighters, Silvia and Joe's adviser recently turned true sidekick, Blue Jr., the heroes were overwhelmed by the opposition. It was Alastor's intervention, using what magic he had left to direct powerful winds, that saved them. While they tried to thank him properly, he refused to acknowledge them, and left without a word. He later saved Joe from an attack from a shapeshifting alien in a sci-fi movie, this time without even showing himself.

When he finally found a movie with a solar eclipse, it turned out Sprocket was there as well, hoping to use the eclipse and the power of a jewel in the movie to grant her own wish. The pair held a truce during the conflict, but the heroes' attempt at recovering the diamond led to the destruction of the island beneath the eclipse. When Alastor insisted he needed to stay behind to see the solar event, the movie's protagonist offered to give him a great view of it...unfortunately, this turned out to be from orbit, and was ultimately useless to the demon.

It wasn't much longer before Alastor's body gave out completely, and he collapsed by the side of the road. A woman native to the current movie world found him and tended to his wounds, but he still found himself weak and wracked with debilitating coughing. By coincidence, Joe and his group had also arrived in this movie, now accompanied by an android named Rachel, and the same woman invited them to dinner. There, she explained that the town was trapped in a time loop the night before Halloween. Every night, they would decorate the town for Halloween and ready their costumes...and every morning, they would find the work undone. Supposedly, however, a solar eclipse could break the cycle.

Naturally, it wouldn't be so simple as just waiting for the scripted eclipse. Gedow had set their sights on ruining the movie's ending, and sent a monster to obscure the eclipse at the last moment. Alastor, wounded as he was, tried to leave the situation to Joe, but found himself unable to turn his back on someone who had helped him so much, regardless of his confidence in the hero's power. Though barely able to walk, he joined the fray, and the two proved a devastating team. This, however, only provoked the monster to attack the same woman Alastor had come back to protect, and he threw himself in harm's way. Though it seemed for a moment that he had sacrificed his life to save her and her love interest, his selfless action brought tears to the eyes of the fake suns obscuring the eclipse and extinguished them. The light of the solar eclipse restored Alastor's power at the last moment, and his triumphant comeback easily destroyed the monster. He chose not to challenge Joe right away, instead leaving to make himself a nuisance to Gedow.

Eavesdropping on the organization revealed that they planned to ruin a Captain Blue movie by installing a fake. He went to expose the imposter, supposedly out of respect for his old rival. While his appearance inadvertantly scared the locals, Joe saw through the bluff to the kindness actually motivating the demon's actions. Alastor blew off the accusation and reminded Joe that they were enemies, before leaving the hero to deal with the exposed imposter himself.

Dealing with the imposter, it turned out, was the wrong move. After the fake's defeat, a dark cloud began to spread over Movieland. Alastor tracked down Joe, fleeing in a small plane, and learned that it was the fault of the Black Emperor, leader of Gedow. The darkness outpaced the plane's speed, and Joe tried to grab onto Alastor for help, but the ensuing argument led them to crash. They landed on the same island whee Alastor and Joe had first met, and Alastor took that as a sign that it was time for their rematch, to which Joe agreed. Unlike the anger of their last conflict, both combatants seemed to be enjoying their duel, but there would be no victor this time. The spreading darkness reached the shore of the island, and the Black Emperor himself appeared to announce his intention to destroy and remake Movieland, then use the resulting negativity to attack the real world. He offered to rescue Alastor from the destruction in exchange for his loyalty, but Alastor wanted nothing to do with it.

Though it seemed like the end of Movieland and its inhabitants, a white glow from Silvia's belt shone and remade Movieland, but not without error. The settings were scattered in a nonsensical patchwork, and Alastor claimed that the quickest way to undo the damage would be to defeat the Black Emperor. The group, however, was soon split apart, with Alastor waking up alone with Rachel.

When the demon and android managed to find Joe and the others, it was in a frozen wasteland, along with Fire Leo. Alastor was eager to continue the rematch, but Leo, whose fiery mane was extinguished, interrupted him. Alastor commented on the lost mane, and the lion explained that he had collapsed in the snow and been found by an ice princess, then become her knight in snowy armor. Alastor was uninterested in the story, instead determined to continue his fight with Joe, but Joe insisted it was too cold. Instead, the group took refuge in the princess' ice castle, only for it to be attacked by Gedow's forces, led by Fire Leo's brother, Ice Tiger.

While Joe went out to defend the castle, Alastor deemed this Leo's fight. Leo, however, was afraid to display his fire powers to his icy love, and found himself soundly beat back. Frustrated, Alastor forced his hand by collapsing a portion of the castle above the princess. Leo shielded her, but reignited his mane in the process. The princess didn't reject him as he had feared, and Leo returned to the battle and defeated his brother. The conflict, however, opened a chasm in the tundra, once again separating Alastor and Rachel from Joe.

While the pair traveled together in search of Joe, Silvia, and Blue Jr., they began to bond, and ultimately became sparring partners. Rachel noted that Alastor had helped Joe before and insisted he didn't really want to fight him, but Alastor rejected the notion and claimed it was a matter of the heart that the androd couldn't understand. This turned out to cause more problems, as Gedow tempted Rachel with a mechanical heart just as the pair arrived in the same city as Joe's group. The heart caused Rachel's emotions to run wildly out of control, and Alastor and Joe both struggled to keep her calm, until she ultimately went into a rage, forcing both of them to defend themselves while being unwilling to risk harming her by fighting back in earnest. Joe was able to overcome the influence of the heart and help Rachel break free, and Alastor had to grudgingly acknowledge his rival's idea, but still refused the notion that he ddn't want to fight.

Now on his own, the next time Alastor saw Joe was in the leadup to confonting Gedow's leader. Knowing it was now or never, Alastor challenged Joe, and Joe obliged. The ensuing fight turned more brutal than their previous, with Alastor once again aggravated by his own denial of his true feelings and pained by his refusal to acknowledge he didn't want to fight to the death. Rachel reckognized Alastor's suffering and interrupted the fight, only to be hit by an angrily redirected attack that had originally been meant for Joe. The blow stunned the android, and fear of the worst shocked Alastor back to his senses. Calmed but choked with guilt, he admitted she was right, but feared it was too late to join the group, before Rachel awoke and assured him that his feelings now were what mattered.

Needing time to think, Alastor left Joe and company to confront Gedow without him. He lingered in Movieland as the battle spilled over into the real world, and made his decision to join the fight at the last second. As he stepped into the theater the battle was raging outside of, a magically bolstered film roll bumped into his foot, its couriers incapacitated. He set the film to play, giving the heroes the boost they needed to defeat the demonic entity that had been possessing the Black Emperor, in actuality Joe's father, Jet Black.

In the aftermath, Alastor decided to remain in Movieland and fight as a hero, alongside Blue Jr. and Rachel. He found himself more at peace with himself in this new role, and joined the others when the restored Captain Blue, also Silvia's father and the creator of the Captain Blue setting, announced an acting tournament to decide his true successor. The tournament, however, was plagued by strange accidents, and even disappearances, along with some sort of hateful presence detectable only to Alastor. At the tournament's finale, the cause revealed itself: a tsukumogami comprised of the gestalt spirit of outdated movie props, enraged at having been replaced. The spirit fought in a body of animated props, until Captain Blue settled on a solution: the tsukumogami itself would be the star of his next movie.

With that settled, everyone offered words of encouragement to the new actor...including Alastor, who had found a way to reconcile his conflicting feelings toward Joe by fighting against him as a friendly rival, using the conflict to sharpen both of their skills and make them better heroes.
Canon point: Beginning of the first episode, before meeting Joe.
Age: Unknown, but at least 2000. Physically appears as though in his 20s.

Personality:Alastor is a devil...and this has absolutely no impact on his personality other than providing the image he tries to live up to. Though he initially claimed to be a villain, he has repeatedly shown that he's capable of sympathy and even kindness. He doesn't believe in pointless cruelty, nor does he ignore debts. He believes strongly in honor and refuses to use dirty tricks or superior numbers to gain the upper hand. In fact, he subverts nearly every expectation of a typical villain.

But while he's a poor excuse for a devil, he's far from a saint, either. He's stubborn, prideful and temperamental, sarcastic and easily amused at the expense of others. He has a tendency to act on his own desires, only agreeing to requests when he himself feels like it. His strong independent streak makes him a difficult ally to manage sometimes. Typically he's more agreeable toward those he respects, but his respect can be difficult to earn. A strong will, sharp instincts and the ability to stand up for and chase what's important to you are all good ways to earn points with him, as are general competence, intelligence and skill in combat. But even those who have his respect are still subject to his dry humor and teasing, both fond and mocking. Rarely does he keep a sarcastic quip to himself, particularly if he views you as a rival.

On that note, rivalry is an important concept to Alastor. Not only does he believe in testing his abilities against worthy opponents, he also actively enjoys clashing with fellow warriors. If an opponent shows promise but isn't quite up to his level yet, he's willing to wait and even aid in the growth of his fledgling rival in the hopes that they'll become someone worth fighting. To that end, he will do whatever is necessary to ensure that he gets his chance for a rematch, to the point that he's been known to risk his own safety to ensure that nobody else finishes his rival off before then. This focus can become dangerous at times, however, as he's entirely capable of becoming so focused on his fight that he forgets other things that may matter to him. In such cases, he reacts consistently with anger to interruptions, regardless of who or what was the cause, and may even lash out violently if he's capable.

Despite this seemingly self-centered attitude, he has displayed some outright heroic tendencies that only become more evident as time goes on. He's freely offered his skills to help cheer up a sick child affected by the actions of his own organization, offered advice that helped Joe protect innocents without prompting and risked his life for someone who mildly inconvenienced herself to help him. Any accusations of being nice or having motivations other than self interest, however, are met with denial and even derision. After all, devils aren't kind, right?

But his kind and honorable streak isn't the end of his oddities as a devil. In fact, he seems to be religious. Not only has he attributed coincidences in his favor to divine will, but he wears a stole in his human form, a garment generally associated with clergy. He seems unaware of God's distaste for his kind, possibly as a result of having been sealed away when the truce between Paradiso and Inferno collapsed.

Another odd trait he has among largely vicious and uncivilized devils is a sense of dignity. With a few exceptions, he tries to maintain an image of control and aloofness, although he has mixed success due to his general difficulties in hiding his emotions. When calm, however, he presents a convincing image of restraint and maturity.

This is not to say he's stuffy and has no childish tendencies. In fact, the truth is somewhat the opposite. He has a self-admitted weakness for dramatics and seems unable to resist a flashy entrance, shows a tendency to enjoy using his teleportation to startle or surprise people, has a fondness for puns and has an unashamed love of sweets. On top of that, he can be downright petty at times, trying to humiliate his inferior officers by making sure everyone was reminded of their most spectacular failure largely for his own amusement and feeling the need to rub in Joe's difficulties with banana peels in his irritation. Still, rarely does he do anything outright harmful out of petty amusement or irritation.

Overall, Alastor is a rough but generally good hearted person trying too hard to live up to his dark image and deluding himself into thinking that he doesn't care about others. While his temper and his eagerness for battle can get the better of him sometimes and lead him to act in truely nasty ways, most of the time he's more likely to be irritating or even helpful than actually dangerous.
Character changes: The most likely change for Alastor to experience as a result of access to the network is an accelleration of his canon arc, as he encounters a broader range of perspectves and a general community that's less likely to fear him by default. He may be convinced to either give up his grudge against Dante or return to actually confront his issues with him, particularly if the devil hunter himself gains access to the network.

Capabilities: Alastor comes from a high powered setting, and is a heavyweight even by those standards. He has strength and agility both far beyond those of a human, extrahuman senses (including empathy and telepathy), and can withstand impacts that would shatter concrete...then quickly heal from most mundane sources of damage. He also displays complete immunity to mundane temperatures, and resistance to even supernatural fire. If he is somehow killed, he's able to recover even from that, so long as the Devil Arm in Dante's possession is still intact. As his body is inherently magical, he has some degree of natural shapeshifting ability...though he seems unable to get rid of the purple hue to his skin or pointed elongation to his ears.

In addition to those basics common to most powerful demons of his world, he also has some impressve magic. He can control clouds, wind, fog, and especially lightning for miles around him, able to conjure a thunderstorm out of nothing with ease, and even transform his enire body into electricity and travel as a bolt of lightning. Even at his weakest, he can still manipulate nearby air currents to produce powerful gusts, and even small tornadoes. He shows a knack for spacial manipulation as well, able to easily create portals invisible to all but him, which he can use to travel or eavesdrop across large distances, and he levitates as easly as he walks. Conjuraton is another noteworthy skill of his, as he can create realistic and solid swords out of nothing. The full extent of his magical ability is unknown, as magic in his setting is left largely undefined in its limits. As such, any usages beyond what he's canonically shown to be capable of will be based on what everyone involved considers appropriate for the scene. Most significantly to the game concept, he can travel to and from Movieland through any movie screen, and could potentially use this power to enter any world that has movies.

Though already powerful, he is not at his limit. Any demon can grow in power by consuming parts of other demons or angels...or, to a much greater degree, human blood. He also has the potential, if pushed to his limit while fighting for someone truly dear to him, ascend to the same level of world shaking power as Mundus or Sparda.

In terms of mundane skills, he's cunning, observant, and quick-witted. He's also, as his conjury would suggest, an expert swordsman. He's skilled at hand-to-hand combat as well, even if he prefers the blade. At the moment, he also has access to an army of sapient robotic minions called Biankies. The Biankies, howeve, are incredibly weak compared to all but inexperienced civilians. Their true talents lie in cooking and housekeeping.

Sample: What's in a hero?

Notes: Due to his canon's...special relationship wth the fourth wall, any or all of his exploits in Movieland may appear as movies or TV shows in other settings, and explicitly will appear as movies in his own native setting. Under these conditions, characters with media knowledge will be free to recognize him as 'fictional'. By the same token, he might be familia with parody or lawyer friendly alternate versions of movie characters, and has a permissions post in his journal to opt-in to being recognized.