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Name: Tossino
Age: 18
Contact info: tossino, AIM: thetossedone, Skype: tosssino, Plurk
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Character Information:
Name: Lavi
Canon: D.Gray-Man, manga.
Canon point: Chapter 202.
Age: 20, 21-ish? Game stuff kind of complicates it but he’d probably personally think of it as 21.
Appearance: Something along the lines of this, the shirt that is, and this, for everything else, is how he’ll arrive, basically.
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 64 kg
Background: He has a wiki page here, but it’s not a good one so I’m afraid I’ll torture you with a whole own history.
When Lavi was six years old, Bookman picked him up (part of the reason has to do with his right eye). Just what happened to him before that is unknown, but it's not something Lavi should think about in the first place, because when he became Bookman's apprentice he resigned his name and left behind everything that had to do with his life before that. Bookman taught him everything he needed to know to do his job, which for example included languages, especially ancient ones, and training to make his memory perfect. When he was seven years old, he got hit by a stray bullet and nearly died. At age nine he grew past Bookman's height of 140 cm (4'6").
During his time as the Bookman's apprentice before the Order, he used up forty-eight personas - which will be elaborated on in the personality section, along with what exactly a Bookman is - number 48 being "Deak". He joined the Order as number 49; "Lavi". One of the first things he saw was Lenalee - and others though he took notice of especially Lenalee - crying over several coffins in the main hall. He also met the Finder Doug in his reverse novel at this age. Doug ended up becoming his (first?) close friend.
At age eighteen, Lavi reunited with Doug on a mission and later on had to kill the Akuma that Doug had become after a girl he had grown attached to during said mission had passed away, and after this Lavi was sent off to the Rewinding Time together with Bookman to treat Allen and Lenalee, and thus met Allen. This is where he appeared in the manga. After Bookman checked up on Allen and confirmed that he was fine, he and Lavi left the hospital and spent some bonding-time together in the town. Lavi taught Allen how he should deal without being able to see Akuma under their human disguises, since his left eye was currently damaged.
After fending off some Akuma and crashing into Lenalee's hospital room with Lavi's Innocence, and after Lenalee had recovered, they were sent off to hunt for Marian Cross. On the way, they got side-tracked after Allen missed the train and was caught by the major of a village who was terrified of a supposed vampire living in a castle nearby. Lavi was sent to fetch Allen once the group discovered the boy wasn't there, and got caught as well. They were forced to try and solve the mystery of the vampire.
When inspecting the castle, they ran into a group of flowers called Rosanne that Krory was taking care of, but were pretty much saved by Eliade, who lived with the vampire and who he loved. Lavi fell for her beauty and nearly agreed to being her lover, but Allen smacked some sense into him. After getting out of the trouble, they discovered the graves of the people the vampire, Krory, supposedly killed, and saw that he hadn't actually killed people, but Akuma. Lavi came to the conclusion that Krory was an accommodator of Innocence, and so they tried to convince him of this fact and get him to come with them. However, he refused to believe them, too overwhelmed by feelings, and they were forced to fight him in the garden of the castle.
Allen was thrown back into the castle, and into a battle with Eliade, who turned out to be an Akuma, and while he was battling her, Lavi continued his attempts to persuade Krory. Eventually, he decided to go all out and knock Krory out. They ended up back in the castle, were they once again faced Rosanne, and while Krory had to face the fact that Eliade was an Akuma and had to get killed, Allen remembered that he had raised a Rosanne once and told Lavi to tell the flowers that he loved them. Screaming "I love you" over and over, they finally managed to calm the flowers down. Allen's eye had evolved by this time, and was actually able to show Lavi and Krory the soul of Eliade. Lavi said he would never want to have that ability.
Krory defeated Eliade, and after blowing up the castle, he went with Lavi and Allen. (He somehow got a uniform despite them not going back to HQ, sheesh, author.)
The hunt for Cross led them to China, and a brothel owned by a woman named Anita, who was a supporter of the Order and Cross's lover. They found out that Cross had taken off to Edo in Japan, who was controlled by the Millenium Earl, but that his ship had capsized on the way and that no one had survived. But Allen said that there was no way Cross would die from that. Anita began to believe that herself, and thus she fixed a ship and crew for them to follow Cross. Right at that moment, a horde of Akuma passed over the ship towards a Fallen One, someone who has betrayed Innocence, named Suman. One of the Akuma noticed Allen and took him with them and Lavi tried to follow, but was attacked by another Akuma. Lenalee on the other hand noticed, with Tim's help, and saved him.
While Lavi and the others fought on the ship, they tried to help Suman. Lenalee had to leave to help a small girl that Allen saved from Suman, but she did so very reluctantly. After Suman had died and Allen fell victim to Tyki Mikk and was left to slowly die, Lenalee came back to the ship and asked for Lavi's help. They found Timcanpy, who had recordings of what happened to Allen, and finally found the spot where he was killed with the golem's help. They only found the remains of Allen; a pool of blood, and the ace of spades from the deck of cards Tyki dropped on him. Then they were asked to come back to the ship. There, a messenger from the Asia Branch awaited them, and told them that they had taken care of Allen. They had to leave him in China, accompanied by the new Exorcist Miranda who temporarily repaired the damaged ship with her Innocence.
The loss of Allen was very hard on everyone, but especially Lavi and Lenalee. Lavi, being under mental stress already from the loss of his friend, got tired of seeing Lenalee's gaze so empty and snapped at her, punching a window and telling her that it was war and that they just had to deal with it. Lenalee began to silently cry, and Bookman told her he would beat Lavi up for it, but it was really just used as a disguise to remind him that they were just there as Bookmen and that Lavi shouldn't get too caught up in the war.
A level 3 appeared after a while, and gave the Exorcists and the ship a lot of trouble. After the Akuma took off with Bookman and Lavi followed with his Innocence, and after he had gotten Bookman back, Lenalee told him to go back to the ship and let her handle the level 3. He did so reluctantly, and as the ones left on the ship battled the Akuma that had accompanied the level 3 and were hiding behind the clouds, Lenalee struggled with the new and much-stronger-than-they-were-used-to Akuma. Lavi used his Innocence's Wood Seal to remove the clouds and soon the Akuma were taken care of, aside from the level 3.
After a long struggle, during which the ship was nearly sunk due to the level 3's ability to manipulate gravity, Lenalee finally defeated the level 3, however she didn't come back. Lavi went to look for her, ignoring Miranda's words that his wounds would open again when he wasn't inside the range of her Innocence and that he shouldn't leave, and instead he found an Akuma who was holding a huge, green crystal casing that was apparently Lenalee. After the Akuma, who had been modified by Cross, convinced Lavi, with Tim's help, that it meant no harm, they took the crystal back to the ship.
Lenalee was very relieved to be alive, and Lavi was just as relieved that she was, but her Innocence didn't work anymore due to her pushing it to its limit, and her hair was burnt. She could barely even use her legs.
They eventually reached Edo with the Akuma's, Chomesuke's, help, however only three men from the crew on the ship had survived, and neither Anita or her personal servant Mahoja were among them. So the Exorcists said goodbye to those crewmen as Miranda dispelled her Innocence's ability to restore time. Lavi told Bookman that it was painful. But the Exorcists continued onwards for the crew's sake. They had to carefully watch their steps in a country with a population that was 90% Akuma as they made their way towards Edo, where all Akuma were actually gathering as well.
As the Earl issued the command for the Akuma to attack the Generals of the Order, the Exorcists had reached Edo, and Lavi tried to intercept the Akuma and the Noah with his Fire Seal. Lavi, Krory and Bookman, as the only Exorcists able to fight, struggled to fight the overwhelming amount of Akuma and the Noah. Lavi recognised the Noah Tyki Mikk as the one who had nearly killed Allen, and decided to take him on himself. While they fought, the Akuma gathered together into one big Akuma, and Chomesuke sacrificed herself to try and defeat it, as she was going to self-destruct anyway, while Lavi watched in shock.
Then Kanda arrived, along with Marie and General Tiedoll, and they managed to deal with the combined Akuma. Lavi was pretty happy to see Kanda. Then, without warning, the Earl set off some sort of bomb and destroyed all of Edo, only leaving a flat, desolate plain. Lenalee's Innocence protected her by once again capturing her in a crystal case, and the Earl took notice of this, targeting her, while Tyki and Skinn Bolic distracted the Exorcists Kanda and Lavi respectively. Right when it looked like the Earl would get to Lenalee, Allen appeared from within the Ark, the Noah family's transport and the Akuma manufacturing plant that was being moved to another Ark and thus wouldn't stay intact for much longer, and stopped him.
All of a sudden, there was another explosions and smoke clouded the Exorcists visions. Lavi, Allen and Kanda ended up attacking each other. Once they smoke cleared, the Noah were gone. The Exorcists left the plane and took cover under a bridge to rest. But they didn't get much rest; Lenalee was pulled into the Ark by the Earl, and Lavi, Allen, Kanda, Krory and Chouji, one of the three surviving crewmen, followed. The Ark appeared in the sky in front of the remaining group's eyes.
In their hunt for a way out to escape being left in a crumbling dimension, Tyki appeared again, with a key that would open the exit. He told them the exit was at the top of the tower in the middle of the city, and so the race with time began.
They found the first of the four doors the key would work on, and in the room they met Skinn. Kanda chased off the rest of the group and said that he would defeat the Noah, and he literally did chase them away; he attacked them. Angrily, they marched off and left him behind. The fight took too long and he fell together with the room, but did defeat Skinn.
Lavi and the others finally reached the next room after a long corridor, and there the Noah Jasdebi, or Jasdero and Debitto (David), waited for them. After an intense fight (and some whining about debts left from Cross), Jasdebi created an illusion of millions of keys and told the Exorcists to find the real one. Lavi told Allen to help the others while he found the real key, saying that every scratch and pattern on the real key was recorded into his mind and that there was no way an illusion would deceive the Bookman's successor. He used the Wood Seal to lift the keys into the air and make them circle him, so that it would be easiest to find the key. It took a while and the others were forced to battle an illusion of the Earl, but once he found it, it all disappeared.
Jasdero and Debitto had had enough and merged together into one body, really becoming Jasdebi. After a bit of rough fighting, Krory yelled at the others to go through the door - which they reluctantly did and tried to believe in Krory - and stayed behind to deal with the Noah. He won, but he, too, was still in the room when it crumbled.
As Lavi and the others moved on, they tried their best to keep their hopes up. They talked about what they would do once they got back to the Order.
In the next room, Tyki and Road had prepared a dinner for them (...really). After a bit of talking, Allen attacked Tyki. Lavi was about to join in, when Road blocked his path, telling him not to interfere and to play with her. She shut Lenalee and Chaoji away in a sort of box and Lavi agreed to playing with Road, if she agreed to letting them go if he won. Which she did, and thus sent him into her dream world, telling him that if he could get out, he would win. When he asked her if she was going to stop "sprouting from the chessboard pattern-like floor" and fight or not, she answered that she wasn't the one who was going to fight, and then she presented him with his opponent - himself.
As he tried to attack, his other self said that the only thing that accompanied him was his heart, so he didn't have any Innocence, and thus his Innocence disappeared. Road, the Noah of dreams, revealed her power to him; being able to connect "her world" - her dream - with the real world.
While Allen and Tyki fought, Lavi and Bookman were on a small boat headed for the Order, still inside of Road's world of course, and Lavi's other self showed up again, talking about how Lavi's heart didn't belong in the world. And then, a coffin floated by in the water, a coffin with Lenalee in it. Lavi jumped out of the boat to check on her, and Lavi's other self - let's call him Junior - said that it was just another piece of history. Road's goal was to kill Lavi's heart, though he insisted that it wasn't smashed yet.
Allen supposedly destroyed the Noah in Tyki after reaching critical point, and Road, who got very angry, became more determined to destroy Lavi, to make someone close to Allen suffer for what he did. In the dream world, Lavi struggled with not letting the illusion of those Order members that he cared for get to him, while the illusion of Bookman questioned him about his purpose. Before he could answer, Lenalee suddenly rose from her coffin and attacked him with a knife, asking him why he had abandoned them. He grabbed a knife himself as the other illusions attacked him as well, as Bookman told him to mow them down.
As he fought the illusions, he remembered when Komui showed them around the Order and he first saw Lenalee, and when he was accepted as a Bookman and Bookman's words that made him want to become his apprentice: "You can know something that no one knows." As he kept fighting, eyes tightly closed, memories kept playing inside his mind.
A card, ace of spades, fell out from somewhere in his clothes and into the water, causing him to open his eye. Allen's illusion picked the card up and talked about how Lavi held onto that for him, and then Junior destroyed his head, to Lavi's great shock. Junior said that it was just a blob of ink, nothing of importance, and that Lavi could no longer just watch and was thus a failure. Then Lenalee, Kanda and Krory suddenly stabbed his heart and Junior said he wasn't a Bookman anymore, but that he shouldn't worry, because he was still there, and he was the real "Lavi".
The ink dripped off the card and Lavi fell.
A strange mark appeared under Lavi's visible eye, back in the real world. Road told Allen that Lavi's heart had just died, and that he had to kill "that" in order to save Lenalee and Chaoji. Then, Lavi, who was really Junior now, attacked Allen. He desperately tried to bring Lavi back to his senses, talking about them being comrades, but to no avail. Junior just replied that he was not their comrade and that he never thought of them as his, and continued to attack, using his seals.
Allen attempted to attack Road instead, but she said that since her real body wasn't in that world and that those who didn't know her true form couldn't kill her. As Junior attacked Allen with his Fire Seal, seemingly going all out, Allen noticed the flames weren't burning him, and instead Road's candles that she was using to threaten the others were melting. Junior noted with shock that his body began moving on its own; Lavi's heart wasn't dead yet. He had stabbed himself in Road's world to keep himself awake.
Lavi turned the Fire Seal on himself and Road, and stabbed Allen in Road's world, having figured out her true form was hiding there. But despite the victory he figured the best thing he could do was kill himself. In Road's world, Junior asked Lavi why he wasn't like the other personas as he turned into six-year-old Junior. He asked why it was so hard to be 49th and why Lavi was fighting for temporary friends.
Allen leaped into the fire to try and stop Lavi. Once Allen was next to him, Road declared that he won the game and let Lenalee and Chaoji go. The fire froze and Road fell out of it, badly burnt, and then Lavi and Allen emerged from the ice. Lavi said he felt very good somehow, and Lenalee gave him a punch for being an idiot. Road turned into ashes with a maniacal laugh.
When the group was about to head to the door on the very top floor of the tower, Allen was about to go back and take Tyki, saying he couldn't leave him behind, which wasn't appreciated by Chaoji at all. However, Tyki's Noah actually wasn't dead, instead, it awoke completely - apparently, he had been suppressing it all the time - and he pulled Allen back down, destroying the exit in the process.
He was too strong for the Exorcists and they did the best they could, but they couldn't even scratch him. Luckily, Cross arrived to save the day after a while, told the Exorcists to stay out of his way, hid them from view, and proceeded to kick Tyki's ass; much to the other Exorcists shock. Seeing Cross's power they realised that they were still weak. Cross was just about to finish the Noah off when the Earl appeared, and as the Ark continued to collapse, Lavi and Chaoji fell to their deaths. Lavi tried using "extend" so that Allen could grab onto his Innocence, but it had been put under too much pressure and crumbled. Lavi wore a grin on his face as he fell along with Chaoji and the rocks.
Allen was consumed by hatred for the Earl and attacked, but was stopped by Cross and told off for just reacting on that emotion.
Later on, Lavi was revived along with the others when Allen restored the Ark. Or more exactly; they were brought back from a space in-between dimensions. He efficiently made a fool of himself and tried to get Allen to come to him by yelling "dinnertime" and different kinds of food. When he realised that the others were probably alive if he and Chaoji was, he called for Kanda as well, but before he had the time to finish a sentence, Kanda appeared from a door, with a just as lovely greeting (an insult) as usual. He was carrying Krory with him as well.
Allen went to get them, leaving Krory with Cross and Lenalee (probably reluctantly), and was overjoyed to see Tim again, while Lavi and Kanda mourned over their ruined anti-Akuma weapons. Finally, after all those struggles, they were able to return home, and Komui was there to greet them.
But the Exorcists didn't get to rest for long. The HQ was invaded by the Noah Lulubell and a horde of level 3 to try and take back the Egg, since otherwise the Earl would be unable to create anymore Akuma as the Egg was the Akuma manufacturing plant. When Allen rushed off from the cafeteria due to his eye activating, Lavi followed along with Bookman and Howard Link who was assigned to watch Allen. They couldn't get into the room where the Egg was held, however, due to the Noah's new Ark blocking the way. Lavi tried to hit it with a chair but... as if that was going to work.
While Allen and Bookman headed off to fight as the announcement sounded through the Order, Lavi had to stay put, and nearly got knocked over by Lenalee, who was heading to see Hevlaska about her Innocence. Komui stopped her, and threw both her and Lavi into the infirmary, because they didn't have their weapons. As everyone struggled, they were forced to stay put, and suddenly everything shook and the power went out. It was soon announced that a level 4 had left the room with the Egg; the fifth lab, and entered the Science Division. As the level 4 targeted Komui, Leverrier rushed to take Lenalee to Hevlaska.
Leverrier was pressuring Lenalee to come and grabbed her arms quite harshly, which Lavi didn't find acceptable at all, so he grabbed Leverrier's hand and stopped him. That didn't stop Leverrier from pressuring, despite that Matron and Lavi protested. But despite that still, Lenalee decided to go, to Lavi's fairly big shock, but he wasn't intending to let her go alone so he followed. Leverrier wasn't so happy, but in the end said it didn't matter. On the way to Hevlaska, Lavi questioned why Leverrier was even there and why he was doing all that. He got the answer that it was to win the war.
They arrived just in time to see the level 4 attacking Komui. The collision made the elevator he was on crash to the ground, and Lenalee cried out in despair. Lavi rushed to check on him and the rest who had been on the elevator, which included Kanda, who had protected Komui from the attack despite not having his Innocence. Lavi ran up to them and together with Kanda he covered Komui as the level 4 hovered down. Lavi had a flagpole, and Kanda had a regular sword.
Just as Hevlaska was about to put the Innocence into Lenalee's body, she was hit by an attack by the level 4 after it had taken care of Lavi and Kanda. Lenalee tried to reach the Innocence despite that the level 4 was about to finish her off, and all of a sudden Allen, who was using his Innocence to forcefully move his body, appeared and stopped the Akuma from doing so. Komui watched with wide eyes and Lavi told him to go to her, because she had been living for him. And Kanda added the final kick in the ass.
While Allen struggled against the level 4 as Lenalee tried to synchronise with her Innocence, Lavi and Kanda joined in to help against a strong attack from the Akuma, grabbing onto Allen's sword and encouraging him to hang on. They were roughly knocked back and the level 4 was holding Allen, but Lenalee managed to synchronise, and joined the battle. Once the Generals returned from what could have been death, the level 4 was finally defeated. Lavi rushed to Bookman's side to make sure he was okay.
While the Exorcists were recovering, they gathered to discuss the nature of Lenalee's new Innocence; a Crystal Type. Afterwards, Bookman told Lavi to tell him as soon as he saw evidence of his own Innocence becoming a Crystal Type, and they would leave. Lavi tried not to show how much that affected him. Bookman also said that the Earl was most likely letting the Order live for a reason, as the Earl should have been able to destroy it a hundred years ago.
Due to the damage to HQ, they decided to move. Moving the Science Division evolved into a lot of incidents with potions, such as giving Allen long hair, making Lenalee talk like a cat, giving Bookman bunny ears and making him talk like a cat, and turning Lavi and Kanda into some sort of kid versions of themselves. They had to work together to move boxes, since they were so small. During the move, the power suddenly went out (again). A strange laughter echoed through the HQ.
Some sort of virus (created by Komui) had been spread by an unknown person, which turned people into some sort of... zombies? And it continued to spread by... biting. A group of about ten people, among them Lavi, Kanda, Allen and Lenalee, were forced to run as seemingly everyone in the Order tried to hunt them down and spread the virus. They found Komui and together they left to hunt down the source of the infection so that they could create an antidote. The Generals suddenly appeared, affected by the virus as well, catching the group off-guard and separating them.
Krory turned out to be the source and the person, or thing, who caused the whole thing showed... him/her/itself to Komui, Reever, Lenalee and Bookman. It was apparently a sort of ghost of everyone who had fallen victim to the Order's experiments. She - most likely she - didn't want them to leave, so she was going to make them all stay with her with the virus's help. He talked to her and made her change her mind, but it was too late to stop the spread of the virus, so everyone was infected. However, Bak came into the HQ the day afterwards and managed to fix the mess.
Once they finally managed to move to the new HQ, Lavi was in the room where Allen and Cross had the meeting about the 14th and watched. The words about the third side of the war that Cross said seemed to frighten Bookman, but the old man simply told Lavi to forget that and not ask him about it. The last time where we really saw Lavi was when he talked to Bookman about Cross's death and that they should be cautious for having heard Cross's words. He appeared in a few panels during the introduction of the half-Akuma called the Third Exorcists. His most recent brief appearance was in Whan Shan in China together with Bookman and... Chaoji?
He has a brief appearance in chapter 202 with the Noahs (their ark?) where he’s gotten infected with parasites to try and wring some information out of Bookman, but that’s basically only a few panels.
Post-Canon History: -
Previous Game History: Lavi will be coming from Kannagara, where he has been OOCly since 30th July of last year, but ICly since 6th August, about six months in-game. Though he is also aware that, if going by the passage of the seasons, it has been over a year if you think of it that way.
His introduction to Kannagara was quite a rough one. Basically an hour after arrival, or less, he witnessed one of his closest friends being killed by one Shimizu Raikou. Thus, he came into it as more locked up than usual, a bit stuck in his grief and fury at the murderer (who he had tried to kill in return). This would end up in one of the closest friendship Lavi forms in Kannagara, because of this fury and hatred.
He and Raikou end up talking a few times afterwards, responding to the dreams that the communication device of the world broadcasts, among other things, and they open up a lot to each other. He doesn’t know Raikou’s reason for that, but the reason he did was simply because due to his anger at Raikou, he didn’t care what Raikou knew about him, and thus he was comfortable telling him things he hadn’t told anyone else because he also knew Raikou wasn’t one to give secrets away. They both lacked caring.
This didn’t particularly make Lavi anymore open, but it made him less narrow-minded, in a way. Not that he would consider being angry at the murdered of your friend narrow-minded (and any normal person probably wouldn’t), but he could still actually somewhat... accept it, and that person, and look at people a little differently; more black and white than he already did.
While kind of still on the topic of dreams, these were also something that made Lavi realise that he has very amazing friend. The dreams have given away secrets he would never have told anyone not only because he’s not supposed to, but also because he’s frightened of the reactions it would bring. But despite his friends knowing all of who he is; “Lavi” being an act, a lie, and some of what really goes on in his mind, they still stay with him. And that has really shown him that friendship is irreplaceable and invaluable. As an effect, it has made him more accepting of friendship overall, even while more wary of people in a way too because... how many people like that could there be in the world, after all?
During the time of Allen’s death, before he was resurrected as always happens in Kannagara, Kanda was Lavi’s one source of calm and stability. It would normally be Bookman, but with no Bookman there, Kanda was the only one he felt he could trust to act like himself. And that was exactly what he needed at the time, along with someone to kick him back onto his feet. Kanda did all of that, and it brought them considerably closer.
Lavi has also experienced plenty of trauma, specifically during one particular week. He experienced death, but not only that; during that time it wasn’t only death either. He was brought down to the world of the fallen gods far below (Kannagara is a world divided between gods and Oni), the world of Yomi, to be tortured with hallucinations and unbearable pain. It kicked up old memories and issues that he has been torn over, and forced him into a state where he was completely set on killing his friends, a repeat of what had happened back home after Road worked him over.
Needless to say, this made him feel very week and horrible, but in another way it also made him determined not to let that sort of thing happen again. He most definitely doesn’t want to experience killing again, and he’s tired of not being strong enough not to lose his mind.
It’s made him more determined to be strong and be there for his friends, and to be more willing to work on all that. He knows he’s not a good person, and he feels more of a need to work on that now than he used to. He’s still determined not to forget his purpose, or what it means to be a Bookman, but he wants to even it out, some.
After that, anything that happens just makes Lavi feel even closer to his friends. After going home and coming back from being held by the Noah, he has at the same time locked in things to keep them to himself and gotten more open. There are a lot of things he hesitates on saying due to not wanting to hurt people, hurt his friends, but it’s never really about something “selfish” like being afraid of being left behind due to secrets being revealed.
Along with a lot of people coming and going, especially the departure of Raikou (and Gau, who he was also fairly close to), that he have considered or almost begun considering friends or family, he is definitely more likely to genuinely considering someone a friend than he did from the start. He still keeps a lot to himself, still lies, but he’s not about to drop all of that or anything. He’ll just keep it under control.
Personality: At first glance, Lavi is cheerful, optimistic, fun-loving, friendly, (very) talkative and a bit of a failure of a womaniser. He pretty much constantly wears a smile on his face and he gladly talks with anyone. Anyone. This includes the quiet, short-tempered lonewolves such as Kanda. He doesn't need to actually get any response to talk; he could talk to a wall for ages. It all depends on the person how appreciated that is; for some it's probably just annoying.
Lavi's the kind of person anyone can get along with. While he really loves to joke around and make fun of others and just amuse himself on others' expense, it's hard not to grow to like his friendly attitude. And he's generally pretty pushy and refuses to back off in the kind of subtle way that isn't quite so clingy but enough to get you to eventually become immune to everything that he throws at you, so that you sort of have to like him eventually. (He's friends with Kanda, and anyone who knows Kanda would understand that that has to mean something.) Or it's simply because you start to pity him eventually because he acts rather like an idiot. He doesn't get much respect.
He may act like an idiot, but he isn't, really (he's the second smartest out of the OT4, after Lenalee), and if anything that should be obvious by his sharp and witty tongue. He likes to play with words and annoy people by twisting their words or making puns, and he also likes shamelessly practically flirting with everything and anyone, despite his apparent love of a pretty female face. He tends to have bad luck and fall especially hard for women who aren't actually human (Eliade), though. (One of the goddesses, anyone?)
Another thing that points to his non-idiocy is that he does in fact have good things to say, like when he told Allen about how Exorcists deal with not having an eye able to see the souls of Akuma. He knows how to cheer people up and guide them through rough times in life. Most of the time anyway. Even if he shouldn't really care.
One of his habits is that he can sleep anywhere and anytime. Like under a table, for example.
Due to being a very social person, Lavi's pretty much a known face to everyone in the Order. While he may not really be friends with everyone, he's sure to have talked to nearly everyone. His jokes and pranks are likely to be well-known too, probably like some sort of mood-lifting thing in the Order. Someone has to keep the spirits up during a tough war, right? Lavi's one of those someones, no doubt about it.
But in reality he has very few people that he really counts as friends, and the ones who are obvious would be Allen, Kanda, Lenalee - but how mutual that is is questionable - and possibly Krory, depends how you choose to see it. He also has Bookman who is definitely very important to him, like a family. And that is no doubt about it mutual, even if the Bookmen aren't supposed to get attached to people.
Actually befriending Lavi is in truth not so easy, not truly doing so, and truly getting to know him isn't easy either. The only reason that he actually is so easy to like is so that he'll be able to get all the information he wants and/or needs. He's a Bookman, someone who watches wars from the sidelines and records it. They're unbiased, and that's why he's not supposed to get attached to anyone, and it's likely he never did before he joined the Order. Even if that hasn't been directly shown, he was shown to believe that humans are "stupid" and he thought of humans as something below him. So his first real friends were probably those in the Order, such as Doug and Kanda, and even so some part of him was probably still thinking that humans are stupid at least until he fought Road.
Basically, Lavi's pretty much one big lie, because it's not really him, though more him than it was at first.
Lavi's visit in Road's world took advantage of his struggle with being a true Bookman and not caring about anyone and his persona's attachment to his friends. The record in the Black Order is the longest and hardest he has done so far and it's the first time he battles on the front lines, so that's probably why he got so attached to the people fighting; he's one of them. The Bookmen are supposed to be "friendly and frivolous" so that people can care about them and so that they can get information and trust, but they're not supposed to care about people or show them trust, which Lavi has begun doing. (Bookman is a hypocrite because he does this too, damn it.)
He no longer has a clear line between his persona and being the Bookman's apprentice, but after Road's mental torture he doesn't seem to be so bothered by that. Rather, he seems okay with it and seems to have decided to pull through somehow anyway. But he still tries not to let things get to him too much, so it's more like he's trying to find some sort of balance. Obviously he's not going to give up on his dream to become a Bookman.
While Lavi can be shocked of people he has grown to like but isn't all that attached to yet dies, he won't be so affected by it because it wasn't one of his important people. He really didn't take Allen's death well because Allen was very important to him, somehow, even if they hadn't known each other for so long, and still is important to him of course.
Lavi doesn't seem to generally deal so well with stress. He snapped when Lenalee was mourning over Allen, probably because it hurt him more when she did that and he doesn't appreciate such things, and when he was fighting Road he did try to kill himself even if that probably wasn't the only way, more like the easy way. The easy way out. So under stress he tends to react badly, and he has a habit of hurting those that he's close to especially if he's hurting too, because he's not exactly the most kind and heart-warming person out there. You could also say that he's a bit of a coward in some ways even if he also jumps headlong into battles that seem nearly impossible.
You could say that the way he deals with situations and how he reacts has a lot to do with what kind of situation it is and what people are involved. Things that involve his close friends usually really get to him, while things that don't involve his close friends but friend-ish people at least don't get to him all that much, and things that involve complete strangers don't matter at all. He's a very emotional person when it involves friends and the like, and himself, but he doesn't show any sympathy for complete strangers.
When Lavi does show real emotion, which is rare, it's a strong burst of it which results in hasty and/or obvious physical actions. Such as breaking the window when he got angry at Lenalee. Very few things/people bring out these kinds of emotions in him.
Due to being the Bookman's successor, though it's probably partly naturally as well, Lavi's a very observant person. He takes notice of the little things and will always remember them. He analyses situations and people and himself and as such there's most likely always something going on inside his mind; questions and musings and the like. Due to being the Bookman's successor he's also a master at acting. In the Fanbook, the individual skill that was added to all characters was acting for Lavi, and that was a five. He does slip on his persona "Lavi", but it's not so obvious and he still manages to keep up the act.
Lavi does try to be unbiased and focus on his purpose, but at the same time he refuses to just see his friends as ink on paper as is ideal for a Bookman. After he got out of Road's world, it seems as if though the Bookman's apprentice and Lavi the Exorcist has somehow merged. He knows what he wants to do, but he also know that there are things he wants to have, like friendship and people to care about. While he knows it won't be easy, he's intending to keep that up. He seems to show more of his true self lately; he's not quite as overly cheerful and such, but he still keeps the act up. It's a little bit as if he has grown a bit together with his persona.
Sexuality: Lavi is a curious creature by nature, you could say. Ever since he was a child he has been very keen on the idea of knowledge, especially when it comes to the unusual kind of knowledge that not just anyone knows. Thus, it’s only a logical conclusion to come to that he has researched plenty about sex over the years. However, due to the issues about attachments and being a Bookman and whatnot, he has not actually had sex even if he has been curious as to how it feels like. There’s simply too much of a risk of it getting too emotional, too much of a bond.
It’s not just because he’s a Bookman either, but because that sort of close attachment scares him more personally as well. He finds it frightening enough how friendship sneaks up on him, let alone love. It’s enough to have crushes, and erotic dreams, thank you very much.
The interest in people isn’t restricted by gender; the persona “Lavi” is acted out in a way that he would definitely seem heterosexual, despite the dirty jokes he tosses around him at everyone, because he mostly seriously seems to be trying to get into women’s pants. But he doesn’t actually care, and has interest in both female and male people (with a particular fondness for Asians, cough).
It’s possible he could turn “opportunity-sexual”, if you will. If it would benefit him in terms of information, he could definitely sleep with someone if there wouldn’t be issues concerning attachments. Mostly, he sees it as something to be curious about, and doesn’t want it to go deeper than that (for now).
Skills and Powers: Lavi's an Exorcist, and thus he has an Innocence. It goes by the official name of Tettsui, Metal Hammer, but apparently Lavi thought that was boring and instead he calls it Odzuchi Kodzuchi, Big Hammer Small Hammer. He calls it by that name because it's capable of changing size; in its unactivated form it's small enough to fit in his pocket, but he does keep it in a holster for easy access. Of course, it never gets any heavier for Lavi whenever he makes it bigger, due to his being its accommodator. It's also capable of extending, meaning that he can extend the handle of the hammer. He often uses this to cross longer distances or when he's in a hurry. Or just for fun.
Tettsui is also able to use several seals with different elemental abilities, which he can access by activating the Innocence's second level. The seals that have been used/are known are as follows:
Hi Ban: Gouka Kaijin (火判 劫火灰燼, lit. Fire Seal: Configuration of Ash) - this seal creates a pillar of fire that forms into a snake
Ten Ban: Raitei Kaiten (天判 雷霆回天, lit. Heaven Seal: Thundering Lightning Whirling in the Skies) - this seal creates lightning.
Moku Ban: Tenchi Bankai (木判 天地盤回, lit. Wood Seal: Roots Entwining Heaven and Earth) - this seal can control nature, such as winds and clouds.
Konbo Ban: Gouraiten (コンボ判 剛雷天, lit. Combo Seal: Strong Thunder of the Heavens) - this seal combines the Fire and Heaven seal to create a snake of fire and lightning.
Ban: Maruhi Kouka Kaijin Hiban (Seal: (Hi means fire, maru refers to the ring around the kanji for fire, so basically Maruhi means "fire" with a ring around it...) Infinite Flame Fire Seal) - this seal basically creates a vortex of fire. It's stronger than the normal Fire Seal and was what Lavi used when he tried to kill himself.
Lavi seems to be holding back on using his Innocence so that he doesn't get too strong or too attached to it, due to being a Bookman. But there has to come a time where Bookman realises that if he and Lavi hold back too much they'll be in trouble... Still, even if Lavi holds back, he's very skilled in using his Innocence and though fighting too close to the enemy isn't all that easy with a weapon like Tettsui, he knows how to do that too, and if anything, he can figure out strategies to deal with troublesome enemies. He's pretty smart after all.
It's not known just what Lavi's right eye does or why it's covered, but when he was going to find the real key back in the Ark, he said that it "wasn't going to be as quick" with just his left eye, so it's possibly an extra sharp eye of some sorts. Whatever it is, it's some sort of ability and strength.
Lavi's also knowledgeable in martial arts, as that was something else that Bookman taught him. He doesn't show this much, but it was obvious during the Ark arc when Junior fought Allen. So even without his weapon he's a force to be reckoned with, seeing as he can break marble or whatever the tower in the Ark is made of with his hands, and probably harder things than that. Bookman should also have taught him some basic medical care.
Lavi can act, and can thus get information if he needs it. But even while acting, he has a certain aura when asking and/or demanding for information, though it's subtle and something that you automatically succumb to if you're not strong enough. But it's not like he always has to search for information; nothing can escape his eye(s) and everything he hears or sees he will remember, so he can always go back to it and think about it later, and that can bring every answer he needs.
Items: Nothing out of the ordinary, really; the clothes he’s wearing and his Innocence, and that’s it.
Writing samples: All samples do need to be set within Sanctum’s game setting, and give a good idea of how you will play your character in-game!
Action: Mmm. Guess it’s good t’be used to this sorta thing by now, huh?
[There’s a very amused snicker as a grinning redhead comes into view on the screen. He offers a cheerful wave, and purses his lips, glancing around curiously.]
It’s kinda weird, though. Who woulda thought there were more worlds that pull people there against their will? Honestly, it’s almost a little ridiculous... This is certainly very different, though, from Kannagara.
[A pause, and he taps his chin, looking lost in thought for a moment. But then he turns back around to face the device and smiles again.]
Well, then, let’s hear it! What’s the deal here? Anyone who’s been here for a while and can offer some friendly advice, hmm?
Third Person Prose: It was completely unlike their own world.
They were all used to places where it was all rather secret, very hush-hush, taboo, just for reproduction, whatever. This was completely and utterly new. It wasn’t that he was completely new to the idea of sex, and there was literature and whatnot on it back home; he had spent plenty of time on those sorts of things. But it was most certainly not like this.
He didn’t even know where to start. He was just walking down the street, trying to work out if he should focus on research first, or just treat himself to looking at things and trying things out, as he stared wide-eyed and smiling at all the things he could investigate closer. It was all so weird, but very exciting, and he had rather much trouble wishing he was somewhere else or wishing he was back home or...
Sure, it was a shame that he didn’t have more of his friends here, but for now he could only be happy for all of this open information. There was a thrill in finding things that were more difficult to find too, but this... He couldn’t complain about this.
A few days and maybe he would calm down a little, but for now... he would just lose himself in this, for a while. And not refrain from spinning around like a fool because he was supposed to act like one, after all.
In the Rift sample: -
Plans: The main purpose of applying Lavi to the game is to give him a chance to further explore sex and sexuality, and their connection to emotions, in particular in relation to Kanda.
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Name: Tossino
Age: 18
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Characters currently played at Sanctum, if any: None
Character Information:
Name: Lavi
Canon: D.Gray-Man, manga.
Canon point: Chapter 202.
Age: 20, 21-ish? Game stuff kind of complicates it but he’d probably personally think of it as 21.
Appearance: Something along the lines of this, the shirt that is, and this, for everything else, is how he’ll arrive, basically.
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 64 kg
Background: He has a wiki page here, but it’s not a good one so I’m afraid I’ll torture you with a whole own history.
When Lavi was six years old, Bookman picked him up (part of the reason has to do with his right eye). Just what happened to him before that is unknown, but it's not something Lavi should think about in the first place, because when he became Bookman's apprentice he resigned his name and left behind everything that had to do with his life before that. Bookman taught him everything he needed to know to do his job, which for example included languages, especially ancient ones, and training to make his memory perfect. When he was seven years old, he got hit by a stray bullet and nearly died. At age nine he grew past Bookman's height of 140 cm (4'6").
During his time as the Bookman's apprentice before the Order, he used up forty-eight personas - which will be elaborated on in the personality section, along with what exactly a Bookman is - number 48 being "Deak". He joined the Order as number 49; "Lavi". One of the first things he saw was Lenalee - and others though he took notice of especially Lenalee - crying over several coffins in the main hall. He also met the Finder Doug in his reverse novel at this age. Doug ended up becoming his (first?) close friend.
At age eighteen, Lavi reunited with Doug on a mission and later on had to kill the Akuma that Doug had become after a girl he had grown attached to during said mission had passed away, and after this Lavi was sent off to the Rewinding Time together with Bookman to treat Allen and Lenalee, and thus met Allen. This is where he appeared in the manga. After Bookman checked up on Allen and confirmed that he was fine, he and Lavi left the hospital and spent some bonding-time together in the town. Lavi taught Allen how he should deal without being able to see Akuma under their human disguises, since his left eye was currently damaged.
After fending off some Akuma and crashing into Lenalee's hospital room with Lavi's Innocence, and after Lenalee had recovered, they were sent off to hunt for Marian Cross. On the way, they got side-tracked after Allen missed the train and was caught by the major of a village who was terrified of a supposed vampire living in a castle nearby. Lavi was sent to fetch Allen once the group discovered the boy wasn't there, and got caught as well. They were forced to try and solve the mystery of the vampire.
When inspecting the castle, they ran into a group of flowers called Rosanne that Krory was taking care of, but were pretty much saved by Eliade, who lived with the vampire and who he loved. Lavi fell for her beauty and nearly agreed to being her lover, but Allen smacked some sense into him. After getting out of the trouble, they discovered the graves of the people the vampire, Krory, supposedly killed, and saw that he hadn't actually killed people, but Akuma. Lavi came to the conclusion that Krory was an accommodator of Innocence, and so they tried to convince him of this fact and get him to come with them. However, he refused to believe them, too overwhelmed by feelings, and they were forced to fight him in the garden of the castle.
Allen was thrown back into the castle, and into a battle with Eliade, who turned out to be an Akuma, and while he was battling her, Lavi continued his attempts to persuade Krory. Eventually, he decided to go all out and knock Krory out. They ended up back in the castle, were they once again faced Rosanne, and while Krory had to face the fact that Eliade was an Akuma and had to get killed, Allen remembered that he had raised a Rosanne once and told Lavi to tell the flowers that he loved them. Screaming "I love you" over and over, they finally managed to calm the flowers down. Allen's eye had evolved by this time, and was actually able to show Lavi and Krory the soul of Eliade. Lavi said he would never want to have that ability.
Krory defeated Eliade, and after blowing up the castle, he went with Lavi and Allen. (He somehow got a uniform despite them not going back to HQ, sheesh, author.)
The hunt for Cross led them to China, and a brothel owned by a woman named Anita, who was a supporter of the Order and Cross's lover. They found out that Cross had taken off to Edo in Japan, who was controlled by the Millenium Earl, but that his ship had capsized on the way and that no one had survived. But Allen said that there was no way Cross would die from that. Anita began to believe that herself, and thus she fixed a ship and crew for them to follow Cross. Right at that moment, a horde of Akuma passed over the ship towards a Fallen One, someone who has betrayed Innocence, named Suman. One of the Akuma noticed Allen and took him with them and Lavi tried to follow, but was attacked by another Akuma. Lenalee on the other hand noticed, with Tim's help, and saved him.
While Lavi and the others fought on the ship, they tried to help Suman. Lenalee had to leave to help a small girl that Allen saved from Suman, but she did so very reluctantly. After Suman had died and Allen fell victim to Tyki Mikk and was left to slowly die, Lenalee came back to the ship and asked for Lavi's help. They found Timcanpy, who had recordings of what happened to Allen, and finally found the spot where he was killed with the golem's help. They only found the remains of Allen; a pool of blood, and the ace of spades from the deck of cards Tyki dropped on him. Then they were asked to come back to the ship. There, a messenger from the Asia Branch awaited them, and told them that they had taken care of Allen. They had to leave him in China, accompanied by the new Exorcist Miranda who temporarily repaired the damaged ship with her Innocence.
The loss of Allen was very hard on everyone, but especially Lavi and Lenalee. Lavi, being under mental stress already from the loss of his friend, got tired of seeing Lenalee's gaze so empty and snapped at her, punching a window and telling her that it was war and that they just had to deal with it. Lenalee began to silently cry, and Bookman told her he would beat Lavi up for it, but it was really just used as a disguise to remind him that they were just there as Bookmen and that Lavi shouldn't get too caught up in the war.
A level 3 appeared after a while, and gave the Exorcists and the ship a lot of trouble. After the Akuma took off with Bookman and Lavi followed with his Innocence, and after he had gotten Bookman back, Lenalee told him to go back to the ship and let her handle the level 3. He did so reluctantly, and as the ones left on the ship battled the Akuma that had accompanied the level 3 and were hiding behind the clouds, Lenalee struggled with the new and much-stronger-than-they-were-used-to Akuma. Lavi used his Innocence's Wood Seal to remove the clouds and soon the Akuma were taken care of, aside from the level 3.
After a long struggle, during which the ship was nearly sunk due to the level 3's ability to manipulate gravity, Lenalee finally defeated the level 3, however she didn't come back. Lavi went to look for her, ignoring Miranda's words that his wounds would open again when he wasn't inside the range of her Innocence and that he shouldn't leave, and instead he found an Akuma who was holding a huge, green crystal casing that was apparently Lenalee. After the Akuma, who had been modified by Cross, convinced Lavi, with Tim's help, that it meant no harm, they took the crystal back to the ship.
Lenalee was very relieved to be alive, and Lavi was just as relieved that she was, but her Innocence didn't work anymore due to her pushing it to its limit, and her hair was burnt. She could barely even use her legs.
They eventually reached Edo with the Akuma's, Chomesuke's, help, however only three men from the crew on the ship had survived, and neither Anita or her personal servant Mahoja were among them. So the Exorcists said goodbye to those crewmen as Miranda dispelled her Innocence's ability to restore time. Lavi told Bookman that it was painful. But the Exorcists continued onwards for the crew's sake. They had to carefully watch their steps in a country with a population that was 90% Akuma as they made their way towards Edo, where all Akuma were actually gathering as well.
As the Earl issued the command for the Akuma to attack the Generals of the Order, the Exorcists had reached Edo, and Lavi tried to intercept the Akuma and the Noah with his Fire Seal. Lavi, Krory and Bookman, as the only Exorcists able to fight, struggled to fight the overwhelming amount of Akuma and the Noah. Lavi recognised the Noah Tyki Mikk as the one who had nearly killed Allen, and decided to take him on himself. While they fought, the Akuma gathered together into one big Akuma, and Chomesuke sacrificed herself to try and defeat it, as she was going to self-destruct anyway, while Lavi watched in shock.
Then Kanda arrived, along with Marie and General Tiedoll, and they managed to deal with the combined Akuma. Lavi was pretty happy to see Kanda. Then, without warning, the Earl set off some sort of bomb and destroyed all of Edo, only leaving a flat, desolate plain. Lenalee's Innocence protected her by once again capturing her in a crystal case, and the Earl took notice of this, targeting her, while Tyki and Skinn Bolic distracted the Exorcists Kanda and Lavi respectively. Right when it looked like the Earl would get to Lenalee, Allen appeared from within the Ark, the Noah family's transport and the Akuma manufacturing plant that was being moved to another Ark and thus wouldn't stay intact for much longer, and stopped him.
All of a sudden, there was another explosions and smoke clouded the Exorcists visions. Lavi, Allen and Kanda ended up attacking each other. Once they smoke cleared, the Noah were gone. The Exorcists left the plane and took cover under a bridge to rest. But they didn't get much rest; Lenalee was pulled into the Ark by the Earl, and Lavi, Allen, Kanda, Krory and Chouji, one of the three surviving crewmen, followed. The Ark appeared in the sky in front of the remaining group's eyes.
In their hunt for a way out to escape being left in a crumbling dimension, Tyki appeared again, with a key that would open the exit. He told them the exit was at the top of the tower in the middle of the city, and so the race with time began.
They found the first of the four doors the key would work on, and in the room they met Skinn. Kanda chased off the rest of the group and said that he would defeat the Noah, and he literally did chase them away; he attacked them. Angrily, they marched off and left him behind. The fight took too long and he fell together with the room, but did defeat Skinn.
Lavi and the others finally reached the next room after a long corridor, and there the Noah Jasdebi, or Jasdero and Debitto (David), waited for them. After an intense fight (and some whining about debts left from Cross), Jasdebi created an illusion of millions of keys and told the Exorcists to find the real one. Lavi told Allen to help the others while he found the real key, saying that every scratch and pattern on the real key was recorded into his mind and that there was no way an illusion would deceive the Bookman's successor. He used the Wood Seal to lift the keys into the air and make them circle him, so that it would be easiest to find the key. It took a while and the others were forced to battle an illusion of the Earl, but once he found it, it all disappeared.
Jasdero and Debitto had had enough and merged together into one body, really becoming Jasdebi. After a bit of rough fighting, Krory yelled at the others to go through the door - which they reluctantly did and tried to believe in Krory - and stayed behind to deal with the Noah. He won, but he, too, was still in the room when it crumbled.
As Lavi and the others moved on, they tried their best to keep their hopes up. They talked about what they would do once they got back to the Order.
In the next room, Tyki and Road had prepared a dinner for them (...really). After a bit of talking, Allen attacked Tyki. Lavi was about to join in, when Road blocked his path, telling him not to interfere and to play with her. She shut Lenalee and Chaoji away in a sort of box and Lavi agreed to playing with Road, if she agreed to letting them go if he won. Which she did, and thus sent him into her dream world, telling him that if he could get out, he would win. When he asked her if she was going to stop "sprouting from the chessboard pattern-like floor" and fight or not, she answered that she wasn't the one who was going to fight, and then she presented him with his opponent - himself.
As he tried to attack, his other self said that the only thing that accompanied him was his heart, so he didn't have any Innocence, and thus his Innocence disappeared. Road, the Noah of dreams, revealed her power to him; being able to connect "her world" - her dream - with the real world.
While Allen and Tyki fought, Lavi and Bookman were on a small boat headed for the Order, still inside of Road's world of course, and Lavi's other self showed up again, talking about how Lavi's heart didn't belong in the world. And then, a coffin floated by in the water, a coffin with Lenalee in it. Lavi jumped out of the boat to check on her, and Lavi's other self - let's call him Junior - said that it was just another piece of history. Road's goal was to kill Lavi's heart, though he insisted that it wasn't smashed yet.
Allen supposedly destroyed the Noah in Tyki after reaching critical point, and Road, who got very angry, became more determined to destroy Lavi, to make someone close to Allen suffer for what he did. In the dream world, Lavi struggled with not letting the illusion of those Order members that he cared for get to him, while the illusion of Bookman questioned him about his purpose. Before he could answer, Lenalee suddenly rose from her coffin and attacked him with a knife, asking him why he had abandoned them. He grabbed a knife himself as the other illusions attacked him as well, as Bookman told him to mow them down.
As he fought the illusions, he remembered when Komui showed them around the Order and he first saw Lenalee, and when he was accepted as a Bookman and Bookman's words that made him want to become his apprentice: "You can know something that no one knows." As he kept fighting, eyes tightly closed, memories kept playing inside his mind.
A card, ace of spades, fell out from somewhere in his clothes and into the water, causing him to open his eye. Allen's illusion picked the card up and talked about how Lavi held onto that for him, and then Junior destroyed his head, to Lavi's great shock. Junior said that it was just a blob of ink, nothing of importance, and that Lavi could no longer just watch and was thus a failure. Then Lenalee, Kanda and Krory suddenly stabbed his heart and Junior said he wasn't a Bookman anymore, but that he shouldn't worry, because he was still there, and he was the real "Lavi".
The ink dripped off the card and Lavi fell.
A strange mark appeared under Lavi's visible eye, back in the real world. Road told Allen that Lavi's heart had just died, and that he had to kill "that" in order to save Lenalee and Chaoji. Then, Lavi, who was really Junior now, attacked Allen. He desperately tried to bring Lavi back to his senses, talking about them being comrades, but to no avail. Junior just replied that he was not their comrade and that he never thought of them as his, and continued to attack, using his seals.
Allen attempted to attack Road instead, but she said that since her real body wasn't in that world and that those who didn't know her true form couldn't kill her. As Junior attacked Allen with his Fire Seal, seemingly going all out, Allen noticed the flames weren't burning him, and instead Road's candles that she was using to threaten the others were melting. Junior noted with shock that his body began moving on its own; Lavi's heart wasn't dead yet. He had stabbed himself in Road's world to keep himself awake.
Lavi turned the Fire Seal on himself and Road, and stabbed Allen in Road's world, having figured out her true form was hiding there. But despite the victory he figured the best thing he could do was kill himself. In Road's world, Junior asked Lavi why he wasn't like the other personas as he turned into six-year-old Junior. He asked why it was so hard to be 49th and why Lavi was fighting for temporary friends.
Allen leaped into the fire to try and stop Lavi. Once Allen was next to him, Road declared that he won the game and let Lenalee and Chaoji go. The fire froze and Road fell out of it, badly burnt, and then Lavi and Allen emerged from the ice. Lavi said he felt very good somehow, and Lenalee gave him a punch for being an idiot. Road turned into ashes with a maniacal laugh.
When the group was about to head to the door on the very top floor of the tower, Allen was about to go back and take Tyki, saying he couldn't leave him behind, which wasn't appreciated by Chaoji at all. However, Tyki's Noah actually wasn't dead, instead, it awoke completely - apparently, he had been suppressing it all the time - and he pulled Allen back down, destroying the exit in the process.
He was too strong for the Exorcists and they did the best they could, but they couldn't even scratch him. Luckily, Cross arrived to save the day after a while, told the Exorcists to stay out of his way, hid them from view, and proceeded to kick Tyki's ass; much to the other Exorcists shock. Seeing Cross's power they realised that they were still weak. Cross was just about to finish the Noah off when the Earl appeared, and as the Ark continued to collapse, Lavi and Chaoji fell to their deaths. Lavi tried using "extend" so that Allen could grab onto his Innocence, but it had been put under too much pressure and crumbled. Lavi wore a grin on his face as he fell along with Chaoji and the rocks.
Allen was consumed by hatred for the Earl and attacked, but was stopped by Cross and told off for just reacting on that emotion.
Later on, Lavi was revived along with the others when Allen restored the Ark. Or more exactly; they were brought back from a space in-between dimensions. He efficiently made a fool of himself and tried to get Allen to come to him by yelling "dinnertime" and different kinds of food. When he realised that the others were probably alive if he and Chaoji was, he called for Kanda as well, but before he had the time to finish a sentence, Kanda appeared from a door, with a just as lovely greeting (an insult) as usual. He was carrying Krory with him as well.
Allen went to get them, leaving Krory with Cross and Lenalee (probably reluctantly), and was overjoyed to see Tim again, while Lavi and Kanda mourned over their ruined anti-Akuma weapons. Finally, after all those struggles, they were able to return home, and Komui was there to greet them.
But the Exorcists didn't get to rest for long. The HQ was invaded by the Noah Lulubell and a horde of level 3 to try and take back the Egg, since otherwise the Earl would be unable to create anymore Akuma as the Egg was the Akuma manufacturing plant. When Allen rushed off from the cafeteria due to his eye activating, Lavi followed along with Bookman and Howard Link who was assigned to watch Allen. They couldn't get into the room where the Egg was held, however, due to the Noah's new Ark blocking the way. Lavi tried to hit it with a chair but... as if that was going to work.
While Allen and Bookman headed off to fight as the announcement sounded through the Order, Lavi had to stay put, and nearly got knocked over by Lenalee, who was heading to see Hevlaska about her Innocence. Komui stopped her, and threw both her and Lavi into the infirmary, because they didn't have their weapons. As everyone struggled, they were forced to stay put, and suddenly everything shook and the power went out. It was soon announced that a level 4 had left the room with the Egg; the fifth lab, and entered the Science Division. As the level 4 targeted Komui, Leverrier rushed to take Lenalee to Hevlaska.
Leverrier was pressuring Lenalee to come and grabbed her arms quite harshly, which Lavi didn't find acceptable at all, so he grabbed Leverrier's hand and stopped him. That didn't stop Leverrier from pressuring, despite that Matron and Lavi protested. But despite that still, Lenalee decided to go, to Lavi's fairly big shock, but he wasn't intending to let her go alone so he followed. Leverrier wasn't so happy, but in the end said it didn't matter. On the way to Hevlaska, Lavi questioned why Leverrier was even there and why he was doing all that. He got the answer that it was to win the war.
They arrived just in time to see the level 4 attacking Komui. The collision made the elevator he was on crash to the ground, and Lenalee cried out in despair. Lavi rushed to check on him and the rest who had been on the elevator, which included Kanda, who had protected Komui from the attack despite not having his Innocence. Lavi ran up to them and together with Kanda he covered Komui as the level 4 hovered down. Lavi had a flagpole, and Kanda had a regular sword.
Just as Hevlaska was about to put the Innocence into Lenalee's body, she was hit by an attack by the level 4 after it had taken care of Lavi and Kanda. Lenalee tried to reach the Innocence despite that the level 4 was about to finish her off, and all of a sudden Allen, who was using his Innocence to forcefully move his body, appeared and stopped the Akuma from doing so. Komui watched with wide eyes and Lavi told him to go to her, because she had been living for him. And Kanda added the final kick in the ass.
While Allen struggled against the level 4 as Lenalee tried to synchronise with her Innocence, Lavi and Kanda joined in to help against a strong attack from the Akuma, grabbing onto Allen's sword and encouraging him to hang on. They were roughly knocked back and the level 4 was holding Allen, but Lenalee managed to synchronise, and joined the battle. Once the Generals returned from what could have been death, the level 4 was finally defeated. Lavi rushed to Bookman's side to make sure he was okay.
While the Exorcists were recovering, they gathered to discuss the nature of Lenalee's new Innocence; a Crystal Type. Afterwards, Bookman told Lavi to tell him as soon as he saw evidence of his own Innocence becoming a Crystal Type, and they would leave. Lavi tried not to show how much that affected him. Bookman also said that the Earl was most likely letting the Order live for a reason, as the Earl should have been able to destroy it a hundred years ago.
Due to the damage to HQ, they decided to move. Moving the Science Division evolved into a lot of incidents with potions, such as giving Allen long hair, making Lenalee talk like a cat, giving Bookman bunny ears and making him talk like a cat, and turning Lavi and Kanda into some sort of kid versions of themselves. They had to work together to move boxes, since they were so small. During the move, the power suddenly went out (again). A strange laughter echoed through the HQ.
Some sort of virus (created by Komui) had been spread by an unknown person, which turned people into some sort of... zombies? And it continued to spread by... biting. A group of about ten people, among them Lavi, Kanda, Allen and Lenalee, were forced to run as seemingly everyone in the Order tried to hunt them down and spread the virus. They found Komui and together they left to hunt down the source of the infection so that they could create an antidote. The Generals suddenly appeared, affected by the virus as well, catching the group off-guard and separating them.
Krory turned out to be the source and the person, or thing, who caused the whole thing showed... him/her/itself to Komui, Reever, Lenalee and Bookman. It was apparently a sort of ghost of everyone who had fallen victim to the Order's experiments. She - most likely she - didn't want them to leave, so she was going to make them all stay with her with the virus's help. He talked to her and made her change her mind, but it was too late to stop the spread of the virus, so everyone was infected. However, Bak came into the HQ the day afterwards and managed to fix the mess.
Once they finally managed to move to the new HQ, Lavi was in the room where Allen and Cross had the meeting about the 14th and watched. The words about the third side of the war that Cross said seemed to frighten Bookman, but the old man simply told Lavi to forget that and not ask him about it. The last time where we really saw Lavi was when he talked to Bookman about Cross's death and that they should be cautious for having heard Cross's words. He appeared in a few panels during the introduction of the half-Akuma called the Third Exorcists. His most recent brief appearance was in Whan Shan in China together with Bookman and... Chaoji?
He has a brief appearance in chapter 202 with the Noahs (their ark?) where he’s gotten infected with parasites to try and wring some information out of Bookman, but that’s basically only a few panels.
Post-Canon History: -
Previous Game History: Lavi will be coming from Kannagara, where he has been OOCly since 30th July of last year, but ICly since 6th August, about six months in-game. Though he is also aware that, if going by the passage of the seasons, it has been over a year if you think of it that way.
His introduction to Kannagara was quite a rough one. Basically an hour after arrival, or less, he witnessed one of his closest friends being killed by one Shimizu Raikou. Thus, he came into it as more locked up than usual, a bit stuck in his grief and fury at the murderer (who he had tried to kill in return). This would end up in one of the closest friendship Lavi forms in Kannagara, because of this fury and hatred.
He and Raikou end up talking a few times afterwards, responding to the dreams that the communication device of the world broadcasts, among other things, and they open up a lot to each other. He doesn’t know Raikou’s reason for that, but the reason he did was simply because due to his anger at Raikou, he didn’t care what Raikou knew about him, and thus he was comfortable telling him things he hadn’t told anyone else because he also knew Raikou wasn’t one to give secrets away. They both lacked caring.
This didn’t particularly make Lavi anymore open, but it made him less narrow-minded, in a way. Not that he would consider being angry at the murdered of your friend narrow-minded (and any normal person probably wouldn’t), but he could still actually somewhat... accept it, and that person, and look at people a little differently; more black and white than he already did.
While kind of still on the topic of dreams, these were also something that made Lavi realise that he has very amazing friend. The dreams have given away secrets he would never have told anyone not only because he’s not supposed to, but also because he’s frightened of the reactions it would bring. But despite his friends knowing all of who he is; “Lavi” being an act, a lie, and some of what really goes on in his mind, they still stay with him. And that has really shown him that friendship is irreplaceable and invaluable. As an effect, it has made him more accepting of friendship overall, even while more wary of people in a way too because... how many people like that could there be in the world, after all?
During the time of Allen’s death, before he was resurrected as always happens in Kannagara, Kanda was Lavi’s one source of calm and stability. It would normally be Bookman, but with no Bookman there, Kanda was the only one he felt he could trust to act like himself. And that was exactly what he needed at the time, along with someone to kick him back onto his feet. Kanda did all of that, and it brought them considerably closer.
Lavi has also experienced plenty of trauma, specifically during one particular week. He experienced death, but not only that; during that time it wasn’t only death either. He was brought down to the world of the fallen gods far below (Kannagara is a world divided between gods and Oni), the world of Yomi, to be tortured with hallucinations and unbearable pain. It kicked up old memories and issues that he has been torn over, and forced him into a state where he was completely set on killing his friends, a repeat of what had happened back home after Road worked him over.
Needless to say, this made him feel very week and horrible, but in another way it also made him determined not to let that sort of thing happen again. He most definitely doesn’t want to experience killing again, and he’s tired of not being strong enough not to lose his mind.
It’s made him more determined to be strong and be there for his friends, and to be more willing to work on all that. He knows he’s not a good person, and he feels more of a need to work on that now than he used to. He’s still determined not to forget his purpose, or what it means to be a Bookman, but he wants to even it out, some.
After that, anything that happens just makes Lavi feel even closer to his friends. After going home and coming back from being held by the Noah, he has at the same time locked in things to keep them to himself and gotten more open. There are a lot of things he hesitates on saying due to not wanting to hurt people, hurt his friends, but it’s never really about something “selfish” like being afraid of being left behind due to secrets being revealed.
Along with a lot of people coming and going, especially the departure of Raikou (and Gau, who he was also fairly close to), that he have considered or almost begun considering friends or family, he is definitely more likely to genuinely considering someone a friend than he did from the start. He still keeps a lot to himself, still lies, but he’s not about to drop all of that or anything. He’ll just keep it under control.
Personality: At first glance, Lavi is cheerful, optimistic, fun-loving, friendly, (very) talkative and a bit of a failure of a womaniser. He pretty much constantly wears a smile on his face and he gladly talks with anyone. Anyone. This includes the quiet, short-tempered lonewolves such as Kanda. He doesn't need to actually get any response to talk; he could talk to a wall for ages. It all depends on the person how appreciated that is; for some it's probably just annoying.
Lavi's the kind of person anyone can get along with. While he really loves to joke around and make fun of others and just amuse himself on others' expense, it's hard not to grow to like his friendly attitude. And he's generally pretty pushy and refuses to back off in the kind of subtle way that isn't quite so clingy but enough to get you to eventually become immune to everything that he throws at you, so that you sort of have to like him eventually. (He's friends with Kanda, and anyone who knows Kanda would understand that that has to mean something.) Or it's simply because you start to pity him eventually because he acts rather like an idiot. He doesn't get much respect.
He may act like an idiot, but he isn't, really (he's the second smartest out of the OT4, after Lenalee), and if anything that should be obvious by his sharp and witty tongue. He likes to play with words and annoy people by twisting their words or making puns, and he also likes shamelessly practically flirting with everything and anyone, despite his apparent love of a pretty female face. He tends to have bad luck and fall especially hard for women who aren't actually human (Eliade), though. (One of the goddesses, anyone?)
Another thing that points to his non-idiocy is that he does in fact have good things to say, like when he told Allen about how Exorcists deal with not having an eye able to see the souls of Akuma. He knows how to cheer people up and guide them through rough times in life. Most of the time anyway. Even if he shouldn't really care.
One of his habits is that he can sleep anywhere and anytime. Like under a table, for example.
Due to being a very social person, Lavi's pretty much a known face to everyone in the Order. While he may not really be friends with everyone, he's sure to have talked to nearly everyone. His jokes and pranks are likely to be well-known too, probably like some sort of mood-lifting thing in the Order. Someone has to keep the spirits up during a tough war, right? Lavi's one of those someones, no doubt about it.
But in reality he has very few people that he really counts as friends, and the ones who are obvious would be Allen, Kanda, Lenalee - but how mutual that is is questionable - and possibly Krory, depends how you choose to see it. He also has Bookman who is definitely very important to him, like a family. And that is no doubt about it mutual, even if the Bookmen aren't supposed to get attached to people.
Actually befriending Lavi is in truth not so easy, not truly doing so, and truly getting to know him isn't easy either. The only reason that he actually is so easy to like is so that he'll be able to get all the information he wants and/or needs. He's a Bookman, someone who watches wars from the sidelines and records it. They're unbiased, and that's why he's not supposed to get attached to anyone, and it's likely he never did before he joined the Order. Even if that hasn't been directly shown, he was shown to believe that humans are "stupid" and he thought of humans as something below him. So his first real friends were probably those in the Order, such as Doug and Kanda, and even so some part of him was probably still thinking that humans are stupid at least until he fought Road.
Basically, Lavi's pretty much one big lie, because it's not really him, though more him than it was at first.
Lavi's visit in Road's world took advantage of his struggle with being a true Bookman and not caring about anyone and his persona's attachment to his friends. The record in the Black Order is the longest and hardest he has done so far and it's the first time he battles on the front lines, so that's probably why he got so attached to the people fighting; he's one of them. The Bookmen are supposed to be "friendly and frivolous" so that people can care about them and so that they can get information and trust, but they're not supposed to care about people or show them trust, which Lavi has begun doing. (Bookman is a hypocrite because he does this too, damn it.)
He no longer has a clear line between his persona and being the Bookman's apprentice, but after Road's mental torture he doesn't seem to be so bothered by that. Rather, he seems okay with it and seems to have decided to pull through somehow anyway. But he still tries not to let things get to him too much, so it's more like he's trying to find some sort of balance. Obviously he's not going to give up on his dream to become a Bookman.
While Lavi can be shocked of people he has grown to like but isn't all that attached to yet dies, he won't be so affected by it because it wasn't one of his important people. He really didn't take Allen's death well because Allen was very important to him, somehow, even if they hadn't known each other for so long, and still is important to him of course.
Lavi doesn't seem to generally deal so well with stress. He snapped when Lenalee was mourning over Allen, probably because it hurt him more when she did that and he doesn't appreciate such things, and when he was fighting Road he did try to kill himself even if that probably wasn't the only way, more like the easy way. The easy way out. So under stress he tends to react badly, and he has a habit of hurting those that he's close to especially if he's hurting too, because he's not exactly the most kind and heart-warming person out there. You could also say that he's a bit of a coward in some ways even if he also jumps headlong into battles that seem nearly impossible.
You could say that the way he deals with situations and how he reacts has a lot to do with what kind of situation it is and what people are involved. Things that involve his close friends usually really get to him, while things that don't involve his close friends but friend-ish people at least don't get to him all that much, and things that involve complete strangers don't matter at all. He's a very emotional person when it involves friends and the like, and himself, but he doesn't show any sympathy for complete strangers.
When Lavi does show real emotion, which is rare, it's a strong burst of it which results in hasty and/or obvious physical actions. Such as breaking the window when he got angry at Lenalee. Very few things/people bring out these kinds of emotions in him.
Due to being the Bookman's successor, though it's probably partly naturally as well, Lavi's a very observant person. He takes notice of the little things and will always remember them. He analyses situations and people and himself and as such there's most likely always something going on inside his mind; questions and musings and the like. Due to being the Bookman's successor he's also a master at acting. In the Fanbook, the individual skill that was added to all characters was acting for Lavi, and that was a five. He does slip on his persona "Lavi", but it's not so obvious and he still manages to keep up the act.
Lavi does try to be unbiased and focus on his purpose, but at the same time he refuses to just see his friends as ink on paper as is ideal for a Bookman. After he got out of Road's world, it seems as if though the Bookman's apprentice and Lavi the Exorcist has somehow merged. He knows what he wants to do, but he also know that there are things he wants to have, like friendship and people to care about. While he knows it won't be easy, he's intending to keep that up. He seems to show more of his true self lately; he's not quite as overly cheerful and such, but he still keeps the act up. It's a little bit as if he has grown a bit together with his persona.
Sexuality: Lavi is a curious creature by nature, you could say. Ever since he was a child he has been very keen on the idea of knowledge, especially when it comes to the unusual kind of knowledge that not just anyone knows. Thus, it’s only a logical conclusion to come to that he has researched plenty about sex over the years. However, due to the issues about attachments and being a Bookman and whatnot, he has not actually had sex even if he has been curious as to how it feels like. There’s simply too much of a risk of it getting too emotional, too much of a bond.
It’s not just because he’s a Bookman either, but because that sort of close attachment scares him more personally as well. He finds it frightening enough how friendship sneaks up on him, let alone love. It’s enough to have crushes, and erotic dreams, thank you very much.
The interest in people isn’t restricted by gender; the persona “Lavi” is acted out in a way that he would definitely seem heterosexual, despite the dirty jokes he tosses around him at everyone, because he mostly seriously seems to be trying to get into women’s pants. But he doesn’t actually care, and has interest in both female and male people (with a particular fondness for Asians, cough).
It’s possible he could turn “opportunity-sexual”, if you will. If it would benefit him in terms of information, he could definitely sleep with someone if there wouldn’t be issues concerning attachments. Mostly, he sees it as something to be curious about, and doesn’t want it to go deeper than that (for now).
Skills and Powers: Lavi's an Exorcist, and thus he has an Innocence. It goes by the official name of Tettsui, Metal Hammer, but apparently Lavi thought that was boring and instead he calls it Odzuchi Kodzuchi, Big Hammer Small Hammer. He calls it by that name because it's capable of changing size; in its unactivated form it's small enough to fit in his pocket, but he does keep it in a holster for easy access. Of course, it never gets any heavier for Lavi whenever he makes it bigger, due to his being its accommodator. It's also capable of extending, meaning that he can extend the handle of the hammer. He often uses this to cross longer distances or when he's in a hurry. Or just for fun.
Tettsui is also able to use several seals with different elemental abilities, which he can access by activating the Innocence's second level. The seals that have been used/are known are as follows:
Hi Ban: Gouka Kaijin (火判 劫火灰燼, lit. Fire Seal: Configuration of Ash) - this seal creates a pillar of fire that forms into a snake
Ten Ban: Raitei Kaiten (天判 雷霆回天, lit. Heaven Seal: Thundering Lightning Whirling in the Skies) - this seal creates lightning.
Moku Ban: Tenchi Bankai (木判 天地盤回, lit. Wood Seal: Roots Entwining Heaven and Earth) - this seal can control nature, such as winds and clouds.
Konbo Ban: Gouraiten (コンボ判 剛雷天, lit. Combo Seal: Strong Thunder of the Heavens) - this seal combines the Fire and Heaven seal to create a snake of fire and lightning.
Ban: Maruhi Kouka Kaijin Hiban (Seal: (Hi means fire, maru refers to the ring around the kanji for fire, so basically Maruhi means "fire" with a ring around it...) Infinite Flame Fire Seal) - this seal basically creates a vortex of fire. It's stronger than the normal Fire Seal and was what Lavi used when he tried to kill himself.
Lavi seems to be holding back on using his Innocence so that he doesn't get too strong or too attached to it, due to being a Bookman. But there has to come a time where Bookman realises that if he and Lavi hold back too much they'll be in trouble... Still, even if Lavi holds back, he's very skilled in using his Innocence and though fighting too close to the enemy isn't all that easy with a weapon like Tettsui, he knows how to do that too, and if anything, he can figure out strategies to deal with troublesome enemies. He's pretty smart after all.
It's not known just what Lavi's right eye does or why it's covered, but when he was going to find the real key back in the Ark, he said that it "wasn't going to be as quick" with just his left eye, so it's possibly an extra sharp eye of some sorts. Whatever it is, it's some sort of ability and strength.
Lavi's also knowledgeable in martial arts, as that was something else that Bookman taught him. He doesn't show this much, but it was obvious during the Ark arc when Junior fought Allen. So even without his weapon he's a force to be reckoned with, seeing as he can break marble or whatever the tower in the Ark is made of with his hands, and probably harder things than that. Bookman should also have taught him some basic medical care.
Lavi can act, and can thus get information if he needs it. But even while acting, he has a certain aura when asking and/or demanding for information, though it's subtle and something that you automatically succumb to if you're not strong enough. But it's not like he always has to search for information; nothing can escape his eye(s) and everything he hears or sees he will remember, so he can always go back to it and think about it later, and that can bring every answer he needs.
Items: Nothing out of the ordinary, really; the clothes he’s wearing and his Innocence, and that’s it.
Writing samples: All samples do need to be set within Sanctum’s game setting, and give a good idea of how you will play your character in-game!
Action: Mmm. Guess it’s good t’be used to this sorta thing by now, huh?
[There’s a very amused snicker as a grinning redhead comes into view on the screen. He offers a cheerful wave, and purses his lips, glancing around curiously.]
It’s kinda weird, though. Who woulda thought there were more worlds that pull people there against their will? Honestly, it’s almost a little ridiculous... This is certainly very different, though, from Kannagara.
[A pause, and he taps his chin, looking lost in thought for a moment. But then he turns back around to face the device and smiles again.]
Well, then, let’s hear it! What’s the deal here? Anyone who’s been here for a while and can offer some friendly advice, hmm?
Third Person Prose: It was completely unlike their own world.
They were all used to places where it was all rather secret, very hush-hush, taboo, just for reproduction, whatever. This was completely and utterly new. It wasn’t that he was completely new to the idea of sex, and there was literature and whatnot on it back home; he had spent plenty of time on those sorts of things. But it was most certainly not like this.
He didn’t even know where to start. He was just walking down the street, trying to work out if he should focus on research first, or just treat himself to looking at things and trying things out, as he stared wide-eyed and smiling at all the things he could investigate closer. It was all so weird, but very exciting, and he had rather much trouble wishing he was somewhere else or wishing he was back home or...
Sure, it was a shame that he didn’t have more of his friends here, but for now he could only be happy for all of this open information. There was a thrill in finding things that were more difficult to find too, but this... He couldn’t complain about this.
A few days and maybe he would calm down a little, but for now... he would just lose himself in this, for a while. And not refrain from spinning around like a fool because he was supposed to act like one, after all.
In the Rift sample: -
Plans: The main purpose of applying Lavi to the game is to give him a chance to further explore sex and sexuality, and their connection to emotions, in particular in relation to Kanda.
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