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Character Name: Anon
Character Series: Law of Ueki
Character Age: Unknown, but appears to be in the mid-teens
Background:
Basic series premise and character introductions can be found here.
The story of the Infernals, however, is one that starts long before the beginning of the series itself. Once upon a time, Celestials and Infernals were constantly at war trying to take over each other's worlds (the Celestial world and the Underworld). Eventually, the two sides agreed to a truce -- one that forbade either race from ever entering the other's world (except for the Celestials keeping their prison in the Underworld, but that's neither here nor there). In this state of non-contact, they then lived on in peace for tens of thousands of years.
... Except for the Protectorate clan of the Infernals, of which Anon and his father are members. The Protectorate clan continued to cling to the ambitions of the past -- that of taking over the Celestial world. It is also implied by Margaret in the anime series that they were subject to especially bad treatment, presumably by Celestials.
Anon first appears, very unexpectedly, mid-series -- when the hitherto main villain, one Robert Haydn, has just been beaten by Ueki and accidentally inhaled too much goodness and friendship and justice from all the shounen blood spilt. This is not welcome news to Margaret. Up to this point, we have been told that Margaret is Robert's father and that he has been the one instigating the whole affair -- after "saving" Robert from the terrible humans who were abusing him, he began training him for the tournament and for wiping out all humans.
Now, we learn that "Margaret" is in fact an Infernal who has taken over the body of Robert's real father, and that he actually dropped Robert into the human world in the first place to make sure he would come to hate humans. Anon is "Margaret's" real son, and he is now called forth to replace Robert in the tournament.
After defeating Robert and swallowing him to gain all his powers (see Abilities section), Anon decides to take a little stroll in the human world in order to stalk meet Ueki -- the person who'd ruined Margaret's plans and whom Robert saw as his one rival and the one who'd changed him. After some incidents (see Personality section for details), he reveals to Ueki and Mori that he is not actually Robert and delivers a challenge to Ueki, whom he really is looking forward to fighting.
By this time, God has found out that Infernals have infiltrated the tournament; as a consequence, he revises its structure -- in order to protect the rest of the contestants from Margaret and Anon, he allows Anon and Li Ho to advance directly to the 4th round while the rest of the contestants battle it out as teams in the 3rd round. He also wishes to show the Infernals that they should not cling to the past, and instead embrace the future the children in the tournament are fighting for; not understanding, just as Margaret does not, that Anon's ambitions lie elsewhere.
Anon idles and watches Team Ueki grow by battling stronger and stronger opponents. When they become cocky after 2 straight wins, he delivers a little wake-up call by personally making sure they forfeit the 3rd match. This is also so that they will be forced to fight his allies -- the Barrow Team, composed entirely of Celestials and thus a good training opportunity for Team Ueki.
(Anon will be taken from around this time -- during the 3rd round, before Team Ueki vs. Team Barrow but after he has forced Team Ueki to forfeit. The rest of this background is included due to references in the rest of the app.)
Once it is clear that they are entering the 4th round, God decides to put a stop to the Infernals once and for all -- by getting at the hand behind it all: Anon's father, "Margaret". They fight to a draw -- God refrains from using Mr. Stop to cancel out all powers and easily end the fight because he wishes to show Margaret with force that his way of cleaving to the past is the wrong way to live. The draw causes Margaret to re-evaluate his worldview to some extent -- to consider the value of the future -- but Anon, not content with this outcome, steps in to incapacitate and swallow God. With that, he takes over the regulation and running of the tournament.
The final 4th round is tuned into a battle royale, with Anon himself as the final target. The conditions: if Anon wins, he will kill everyone for the fulfillment of his dream (see Personality section); if the others win, they will obtain the original prize of the talent of blank and choosing the next God. At this critical moment, Margaret switches gears entirely and helps Ueki reach Celestial level 10 -- a move that allows him to fight evenly with Anon, and eventually to defeat him. In the final moments, Anon deliberately lets Robert go in order to become a noncontestant -- in this case, any attack Ueki makes against him will reduce his talents by 1. If he uses up all his talents attacking Anon, Ueki will disappear forever. However, thanks to a group effort and a happy accident, Anon is ultimately defeated and Ueki ends up continuing to exist. In the end, Team Ueki chooses the next God, Ueki obtains the talent of blank, and "Margaret" and Anon are banished back to the Underworld.
Personality: On the surface, Anon is a cheerful, happy-go-lucky creature who is most at home on the battlefield. His father Margaret called him a genius who works hard -- indeed, he is often heard saying he needs or wants to put more effort into his training. This means that normally even a seemingly weak opponent will not find him with his guard down -- he is the only one to recognize the true dangers of Mori Ai's brainwashing power, for example. However, this also means that he has some fairly high expectations for his opponents' rates of improvement -- after he has given Ueki's team time to improve their combat ability, he is very much disappointed and ready for violence when he realizes that none of them, except for Ueki, is yet a match for him.
For all that, he seems to be pretty modest about his skills -- he appears embarrassed by his father's praise of him and doesn't usually boast about his superiority. For the most part, he is at least verbally respectful of his opponents, praising the parts of their fighting that he admires while glossing over the faults even if he has succeeded in defeating them (he even had good things to say about Robert despite flattening him in 8 minutes).
Overall, if you don't delve too deeply, he is a pleasant person to be around. He can even be quite helpful -- he finds a little old lady's precious pendant for her, and promises to help Barrow Eschalot become human and able to connect with his catatonic mother again. In fact, Ueki and Mori's first impression of him is that of an uncommonly kind, helpful person. At one point, he also accidentally saves a little boy's puppy from a large, angry Doberman. The big but here is that his sense of morality is skewed to nonexistent. He is incredibly curious about things he doesn't understand (i.e. humans and everything about them) and often indulges this curiosity with thoughtless abandon. When he finds the little old lady's pendant, he's confused about why humans attach so much sentimental value to memories and the objects that are associated with them -- so he decides to destroy the pendant to see if the little old lady will die without it (Ueki ends up stopping him). When he saves the puppy, he decides to see if it's true that dogs will always return to their owners no matter what -- by tossing the puppy far away like a football (Ueki stops him again; the boy needs a babysitter, for real). In the end, he reveals that he never had any intention of fulfilling his promise to Barrow. He takes over Robert's body without a second thought when the latter expresses doubts about destroying humanity. Anon's justification for all of these acts is that every living creature's most important thing is themselves -- therefore, why should he care about the wellbeing (or death) of others?
As these dual pictures of him prove, it is in fact very hard to separate Anon the act from Anon the actual. How much of his respect for his opponents is real? Are all of his acts of curiosity really out of impetuous cluelessness, or do they hide actual malice? Since there isn't absolutely conclusive evidence either way, I believe that it is really a mixture of all of the above. His offenses against the dog and the old lady seem to be the result of sincere curiosity, since he displays no true indication of sadistic tendencies. Once an opponent seems down for the count, he'll usually leave them alone and find someone more interesting to hit. Many of his crueler moments are motivated by practical considerations -- in the final bout with Ueki, he decides to beat him until he can't move... because he only has one shot of Maou left and to miss would be unfortunate. That being said, a general lack of malicious intent does not mean he cannot be deceptive. Anon does not care whether others live or die or thrive as long as he himself is satisfied, but that does not mean he won't help others for his own ends -- and when their goals don't coincide with his anymore, he doesn't blink at breaking a promise. He fooled his father for, seemingly, years -- allowing him to believe that he wanted to aid in the clan's duties and in its bid for rule over the Celestial world, when in fact he was planning to betray Margaret all along.
As that goes to show (along with that little episode involving swallowing God), Anon doesn't have very much use for authority or tradition. He cites the path in life his father and clan had established for him (presumably from birth) -- that of carrying on the duties of the Protectorate (which apparently involves storing banned Celestial beasts) and that of winning the war that had been on ceasefire for tens of thousands of years -- as the reason for the dissatisfaction that prompted him to mull over the concept of "happiness" and how to obtain it. Anon's answer to this conundrum: "Happiness" is the ability to do whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want, with no one and nothing to hinder you. Accordingly, he set out to wipe out everyone -- Celestial, human, or Infernal -- in all three worlds so as to remove all obstacles to his personal "happiness". His only qualm is that there may be someone out there strong enough to stop him -- hence the obsession with fighting and gaining strength. The thing he values most in the world, besides happiness, is power. He even allows and helps his most dangerous opponent -- Ueki -- to grow stronger in order to test his own ability to realize his dream.
Of course, Anon's idealization of power (fighting power, that is, not political power -- since he seems to have no interest in ruling the Celestial world or the Underworld) means that he is very much invested in making sure his own is reliable; in turn, he seems intent on relying only on his own power (the people he swallows seem to count as part and parcel of this). He makes sure that the end of the tournament is him vs. the world, and though he could have used Mr. Stop to cancel out everyone's powers and win by default, he never pulls it out even when the situation grows desperate. He doesn't seem interested in using the talent of blank to achieve his dream either -- he gives no thought to backing straight out of the tournament by releasing Robert in order to make it more difficult for Ueki to defeat him. It seems likely that his disregard for authority is rooted at least partly in the fact that, before Ueki, nobody had ever even come close to defeating him. Once Ueki does defeat him, Anon accepts his first ever defeat gracefully and begins to consider Ueki's point of view -- that maybe his dream isn't true happiness after all.
Abilities: As an Infernal, Anon has two particular innate abilities: the first, referred to as enhanced function, is in fact a great enhancement of the entire set of attributes used for combat -- strength, stamina, dexterity, sensory perception, agility, toughness, etc. According to Margaret, this enhancement makes up for most Infernals' lack of the Celestial sacred weaponry. To illustrate, Anon can fight against four finalists of the tournament for nearly nine hours straight without breaking a sweat (this may be a bit exaggerated, however, since by then he had swallowed God). He is said to be stronger than Margaret, who on a martial level can fight God to a draw (under normal circumstances, God can simply cancel all powers, making sure Margaret cannot even begin to fight him). His intuition is also very sharp, probably as a result of this -- the first time he meets Ueki and Ai, he senses several moments beforehand that the place where he's standing on the sidewalk is about to have something bad happen to it and leaves. Eventually, a runaway truck barrels right through the spot. This doesn't mean his senses are infallible, however -- in the final battle, the other members of Ueki's team are able to ambush him at a critical juncture and turn the tide of the fight.
The second ability has to do with his being a member of the Protectorate clan of the Infernals: each member of this clan has the ability to take on the identity and all abilities (combat-related or otherwise) of any person or creature they swallow. Anon uses this ability to take on the identity of Robert Haydn and participate in the tournament -- he also gains all of Robert's sacred weapons as well as his ability to transform ideals into reality. (More on this in a later section.) Although at the time point from which he enters Mayfield Anon has not yet swallowed God, this later act allows him to preside over the rules of the entire tournament and to use Mr. Stop (the power-canceling device) -- demonstrating the extent to which the identity of the victim is stolen. Victims of this ability are not digested or anything, but simply stored in a dormant state within the body of the Protectorate member and can be regurgitated unharmed -- leading to a loss of the ability to assume that identity and the powers associated with it. It is unknown what limit, if any, there is to the number of individuals that can be stored at any one time. Anon stored at least two (Robert and God), and his father Margaret is known to have stored at least 6 Celestial beasts on top of the Celestial whose identity he'd assumed.
Anon is, however, a relatively young Infernal and that means that he probably doesn't have perfect mastery of his abilities. While he is said to be a genius, and normally remains calm and calculating under pressure (though normally he doesn't get very much challenge, either -- he lost his cool once Ueki proved he could match him), he is often heard remarking that he needs to put in effort. Moreover, when the dogs in the human world sense his supernatural nature, he notes that it means he hasn't trained enough to hide his aura. His disguises as Robert and God are hardly perfect -- they are largely superficial changes of hair and eye color and facial shape while other things such as hairstyle and body type remain constant. His father Margaret's disguises seem much more complete -- he fools almost everyone in the Celestial world for at least 10 years in his guise as Margaret, and he turns almost completely into a Celestial beast near the end. One can infer, then, that Anon still has some ways to go in controlling both of his natural abilities.
The abilities he gets from his victims, however, come with mastery already in hand. At this point, he can use all of Robert's
10 Sacred weapons as well as his ability to change ideals into reality. The strongest weapon, Maou, can only be used 6 times in one's entire life. Anon/Robert has 4 uses of it left. The ability to make ideals into reality applies not just to weapons, though it is principally used to make his Sacred weapons ideally tough, or make it so they never miss a target, and so forth. Robert also demonstrates that he can make an ideal cup of tea -- one that will never spill. The limitations on this power are that he cannot make things ideal in every way -- only enhance their existing function. Also, it cannot be used on living things. Although it is not demonstrated in-series, it can be assumed that Anon also inherited Robert's level 2 power -- that of controlling the gravity of anything his ideal objects touch. The ideal objects that will make other things heavier turn red, while those that will make other things lighter turn blue. The overall limitation on this power (that of changing ideals into reality) is that the user's life is shortened by 1 year with each use.
Sample Entry:
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