Application Part 4 - History

Apr 13, 2009 20:44

Warning: Spoilers are scattered liberally throughout this entire application.


History: Emil supposedly grew up in the town of Palmacosta until around the time his world, Sylvarant, was reunited with the parallel world of Tethe’alla by Lloyd Irving and his companions. Tension developed between the worlds, and about a year and a half later Lloyd reportedly led the Blood Purge, a massacre of Palmacosta in which Emil’s parents died. Emil went to live with his aunt in Luin, where conflicting opinions about Lloyd and Emil’s timid nature made him a bully magnet. It was while he was being pushed around six months later that he met Richter, who told Emil to stand up for himself and gave him some words that served as Emil’s inspiration throughout the rest of the game: "Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality."

It turned out that Richter meant to kill a girl named Marta, claiming she wanted to wake Ratatosk. Emil sided with Marta, and with the help of Tenebrae, one of Ratatosk’s Centurion servants, he became a Knight of Ratatosk to protect her, gaining new strength and power under Ratatosk’s possession. Marta and Tenebrae explained that a "jewel" on Marta’s forehead was Ratatosk’s core (similar to an egg), and they needed to awaken him and his Centurions because Ratatosk was the Summon Spirit of the Great Kharlan Tree that had supplied the life-giving mana to the world before it had been divided.

Because Marta believed Emil had saved her during the Blood Purge, she wanted Emil to be her Knight of Ratatosk and was smitten with him right off. This unnerved him more than a bit, but eventually he left with them on their journey to find the cores and seek out Lloyd Irving, who was after the cores. They traveled around, collecting the Centurions’ cores and coming upon Lloyd’s old friends from his own journey two years previously. These friends accompanied Emil and Marta to help awaken Ratatosk and find out what Lloyd was doing, since Lloyd refused to explain himself even to his friends.

As they continued on, Emil grew stronger as both a fighter and a person: he stood up to Richter and Marta (separately), getting Marta to see that he wasn’t some idealized knight, and later on his friends said straight out that he was becoming more assertive and able to stand behind his convictions. Emil began to understand what kind of people Lloyd’s friends were, and who they believed Lloyd to be despite how it didn’t quite match up to the present. The truth? The Lloyd of the Blood Purge had been a well-disguised imposter, causing trouble while the real Lloyd was still trying to get the Centurions’ cores for reasons he kept silent about. Emil offered to work together, but Lloyd refused when Emil wouldn’t give him all the cores he and the others had collected so far.

Meanwhile there was another side to Emil manifesting itself more and more: Emil as he was supposedly "possessed" by Ratatosk, soon dubbed Ratatosk Mode. Ratatosk Mode seemed to consider himself a different person from the "normal" Emil, referring to the other as a coward and making references to his own superiority over the other in ability (somewhat justified, as Emil rarely fought outside of Ratatosk Mode). At first Emil only shifted into this persona when he was fighting; then, later on, when he became angry; and when the awakened Centurions rose up to appeal to Ratatosk in order to aid Tenebrae, Emil didn’t switch out of Ratatosk Mode for at least the better part of an entire day. When he returned to normal, Emil only had vague memories of what had occurred while in Ratatosk Mode.

With time Emil discovered that he might not really be Emil Castagnier but Aster, a prodigy researcher at Sybak Academy who had once been friends with Richter before they performed field tests related to research on Ratatosk. Richter was believed to have murdered Aster at that time, which fit with visions/memories Emil had had in which Richter killed him. It seemed for a while that Emil could actually be an amnesiac Aster, his true self manifesting in Ratatosk Mode-at least, until the real kicker came.

Emil was Ratatosk. Once Richter revealed this to him, he remembered Richter and Aster’s appeal to him to restore the balance of mana, as Ratatosk had also been the overseer of the world’s mana flow and the guardian to the Ginnungagap, where the door to the demon realm lay. Bitter over a past betrayal, he’d planned to destroy mankind for the destruction of his tree, killing Aster and being killed by Richter in revenge.

The next morning after he’d recovered from the battle, Tenebrae (who’d known who Emil was all along) told him that when Marta awoke him during the Blood Purge he’d planted a fake core on Marta’s forehead to lure enemies toward her and away from him, a thought that horrified Emil. His memories as Emil were fabrications, created so he could play innocent until he regained his power. They found out that the others had found Richter’s location, but it’s from while they’re on their way that I’m taking Emil.

!!ooc, !application, !thedollsyhouse

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