Player Name: Ethan Personal Journal: ideally_awesome Contact: It’s on the profile.
Character Name: Laharl
Canon: Disgaea
Age: 1316--in other words early teens
Background: Laharl was born of a human witch and the demon Overlord King Krichevskoy. Overlords, the most powerful demons in the universe, ruled over the countless individual Netherworlds in alternate dimensions. Krichevskoy and his wife, among other key figures, were progressive with regards to relations between demons, angels, and humans, Krichevskoy being one of the few demons who accepted the concept of love and trying to spread it. For the beginning of the prince’s life, his mother raised him unlike any other child in the Netherworld, scolding him when he misbehaved and teaching him to be a good little boy.
However, Laharl wouldn’t finish growing up on his mother’s ideals. He fell deathly ill as an infant, and the doctors of the Netherworld were at a loss for a cure. Only his mother knew an adequate spell--though it required she sacrifice herself. Feeling that his mother died due to “love,” Laharl grew up bitterly hating the idea of it. One day, his father would, out of the blue, ask if Laharl loved him; his reply was that Laharl hated him. Krichevskoy accepted it as the logical response to expect from a demon, but resolved secretly to reform the Netherworld starting with his son.
Skip ahead a bit to the start of the game. One morning, Laharl was roused with some difficulty by Krichevskoy’s fiercely loyal vassal, Etna. She informed him that he had slept in for roughly two years, and that in that interim his father had died choking on a black pretzel, his favorite snack. Laharl simply laughs at the ridiculous fate and prepares to declare himself the new Overlord, but finds that since it was assumed he would never wake up, there was already a struggle among high-class demons to take the throne. With an army initially consisting of himself, Etna, and her hired hands, the Prinny Squad, Laharl set out to kill them all.
After defeating, for the first time, an eccentric, flamboyant, and narcissistic demon noble named Vyers, who referred to himself as the “Dark Adonis,” (Laharl broke the fourth wall and nicknamed him “Mid-boss,” which stuck), they encountered Angel Trainee Flonne. Flonne had been sent from the angel world, Celestia, under questionable and far-too-late orders to assassinate King Krichevskoy. She finds Laharl in what she assumed to be Krichevskoy’s room, and upon learning what had happened she ran away. Laharl and Etna tracked her down, and she eventually decided to stick around Laharl in order to teach him and demons in general about her favorite thing in the world: love. Laharl nicknamed her Love Freak and quietly fumed over how much she reminded him of his mother.
Laharl soon learned that Etna was a double agent--she was being manipulated by an ex-vassal of his father’s, Maderas, who had been exiled for stealing the King’s favorite snack: black pretzels. Maderas had somehow stolen Etna’s memory as leverage to get revenge on Krichevskoy’s son--in fact, Laharl’s two-year slumber was because Etna had poisoned him in the first place. However, Etna betrays Maderas and helps Laharl defeat him. Uncharacteristically--due to Flonne’s influence--Laharl forgives her.
Defeating a few more pominent demons, Laharl succeeded in becoming Overlord. Etna points out to Flonne that by helping Laharl along this far, she had officially crossed the line over into treason territory. However, no consequences arose immediately, and Flonne’s preaching began to have more and more effect on Laharl and Etna--the former even, finally, coming to terms with his mother’s death.
However, Flonne’s actions indeed didn’t go unnoticed. The stern and self-righteous archangel, Vulcanus, without the approval of the Seraph, Lamington, took military action against the Netherworld--through the filter of Earth. He lied to the leader of the Earth Defense Force that the demon Overlord was plotting an invasion of Earth. In response, the general sent Captain Gordon, 37th Defender of Earth, and his team to conquer the Netherworld pre-emptively. Rather than denying that he had any interest in Earth, Laharl made a win-win wager with Gordon--if Gordon won, Laharl wouldn’t invade Earth, but if Laharl won, Gordon had to become his vassal.
Laharl won.
When Gordon didn’t return, the EDF launched a full-scale attack on the Netherworld, which Laharl and his army repelled before tracing it back to Vulcanus in Celestia. Finally, they defeated Vulcanus and a good chunk of the rest of the angel army and explained matters to the Seraph. Lamington acknowledged all that had happened and punished Vulcanus by transforming him into a frog for 1000 years. However, he pointed out to Flonne that she, too, had to be punished--she had gone into battle with her fellow angels of Celestia. Despite protests from the rest of Laharl’s group about the circumstances under which she had acted, she went along with the severe admonishment willingly and was transformed into her favorite flower, a lily--apparently indefinitely. Outraged, Laharl attacked and defeated the Seraph.
Laharl spares Lamington and prepares to imitate his mother and sacrifice his life to restore Flonne to normal. However, he’s stopped by Vyers, whose behavior had suddenly become less vapid and narcissistic. He instructs everyone to wait and watch, and the flower changes back into Flonne on its own--though she is now a demon. Vyers explains that Lamington’s real punishment was simply to turn Flonne into a Fallen Angel--her personality was somewhat more devious, but otherwise unchanged. It is heavily, heavily implied that Vyers was really a living Krichevskoy in disguise and that he and Lamington had conspired all along to have Laharl and Flonne meet so that they could become the “knot” that would open up ties between Celestia and the Netherworld.
Laharl swears knowingly to Vyers that he’ll become a greater Overlord even than his father, and he and his vassals return to the Netherworld. Laharl became an Overlord of above-average power, reaching level 1200--Etna, at level 1000 and merely a Demon Lord as his second-in-command, could easily defeat some of the weaker Overlords. Due to this fact, three years later she got the idea to become an Overlord herself and ditched Laharl and Flonne after a heated and literally explosive argument.
After an extended search, Laharl was tipped off to Etna’s location in a Netherworld called Veldime when the news reported that she had killed Veldime’s Overlord, Zenon. Rushing to the planet, he encountered an Etna who had, due to being the object of a summon gone wrong (entirely her own fault, at that) had been stripped of her thousand levels. He beat her and the party who had summoned her (the main characters of Disgaea 2) into submission effortlessly, but was warded off when Rozalin, the daughter of Overlord Zenon, unleashed a mysterious power that far exceeded his own, along with a violent alternate personality.
He would later reappear, along with Flonne, to attempt to become the main character again by force. After being defeated without help from Rozalin’s dark side (the rest had leveled up considerably), Rozalin took pity on him and allowed him to be the main character for 100 seconds before being forced to join the party temporarily. A time after the game, Laharl, Etna and Flonne returned to their own Netherworld, along with Etna’s new sidekick, Hanako.
Personality: Laharl isn’t particularly evil anymore--but he’d never admit it. He’s immensely embarassed and enraged by the prospect of people considering him kind or just. His fervor for proving what a bastard he is is paradoxically childish in nature; he can be duped into doing something just by convincing him that to not do it would be generous or merciful in some way. He does everything in his power to disguise his real acts of kindness as anything he can come up with: laziness, arrogance, ulterior motives, “forgetting” his intention to do something more evil.
Whatever works best.
That said, he’s not completely washed of his character flaws either. He’s still selfish, intensely arrogant, sneaky, short-tempered, belligerent, violent, and when he gets the chance, mad with power. And while he’s learned to feel love, he doesn’t give it away very easily.
Laharl may be immature, but he’s not stupid. He’s hardly a genius, either, but he’s reasonable with tactics and taking advantage of someone else’s zeal or ignorance. And despite the manifold ways in which he could be called crazy himself, he’s frequently the voice of reason among the rest of Disgaea’s batshit insane characters--always objecting dryly or frustratedly if someone is contradicting their own logic, telling an obvious lie or thinking out loud.
Laharl has two weaknesses. Not like psychological weaknesses; full-on kryptonite shit, so to speak. These are enthusiastic, optimistic words and women with sexy bodies. Maderas tries to kill him him by siccing succubi and catgirls on him, having them shout about love and justice. The weakness to sexiness is generally more prominent, but can also be counteracted--close contact with a flat chest can restore his strength.
He takes great pride in his hair, which is for all appearances natural, seeing as it’s genetic. Krichevskoy had a similar but shorter and more complicated style. It could be considered a sign of his heritage as Overlord.
The lazy way of working out Laharl’s sleep schedule is to say that a day for him is equivalent to an hour for a semi-normal person; he seems to stay up for 12-16 days and sleep for 8-12 at a time.
Class Title: Overlord. It’s canon.
Immediate Possessions: --Laser Blade --Majin Armor --Testament --Orion’s Belt --Sony PSP --Nintendo DS Lite --Multiple PSP/DS games --Angel pendant (from Flonne)
Deposited Possessions: --1,000,000,000HL --TV --Sony PS3 (80GB) --Nintendo Wii --Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite --Multiple games --Horse Weiner
Sample Entry:
…Ugh…
…Wait. This isn’t my castle.
DAMMIT!
This is unforgivable! Stupid Legendary Overlord… I should have known as soon as I saw the news that I’d be targeted! I was in the middle of a perfectly good nap… I barely got a day and a half of sleep! Dammit…I wonder if Etna and Flonne are anywhere around, too.
Hmph! Alright, Overlord Baal. I’ll play along for now. Once I’ve gotten a thorough look around, I’ll challenge you and force my way back to my Netherworld. Lord of Terror or not, I’ll bet you’ve never faced an opponent like Overlord Laharl!
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Character Name: Laharl
Canon: Disgaea
Age: 1316--in other words early teens
Background: Laharl was born of a human witch and the demon Overlord King Krichevskoy. Overlords, the most powerful demons in the universe, ruled over the countless individual Netherworlds in alternate dimensions. Krichevskoy and his wife, among other key figures, were progressive with regards to relations between demons, angels, and humans, Krichevskoy being one of the few demons who accepted the concept of love and trying to spread it. For the beginning of the prince’s life, his mother raised him unlike any other child in the Netherworld, scolding him when he misbehaved and teaching him to be a good little boy.
However, Laharl wouldn’t finish growing up on his mother’s ideals. He fell deathly ill as an infant, and the doctors of the Netherworld were at a loss for a cure. Only his mother knew an adequate spell--though it required she sacrifice herself. Feeling that his mother died due to “love,” Laharl grew up bitterly hating the idea of it. One day, his father would, out of the blue, ask if Laharl loved him; his reply was that Laharl hated him. Krichevskoy accepted it as the logical response to expect from a demon, but resolved secretly to reform the Netherworld starting with his son.
Skip ahead a bit to the start of the game. One morning, Laharl was roused with some difficulty by Krichevskoy’s fiercely loyal vassal, Etna. She informed him that he had slept in for roughly two years, and that in that interim his father had died choking on a black pretzel, his favorite snack. Laharl simply laughs at the ridiculous fate and prepares to declare himself the new Overlord, but finds that since it was assumed he would never wake up, there was already a struggle among high-class demons to take the throne. With an army initially consisting of himself, Etna, and her hired hands, the Prinny Squad, Laharl set out to kill them all.
After defeating, for the first time, an eccentric, flamboyant, and narcissistic demon noble named Vyers, who referred to himself as the “Dark Adonis,” (Laharl broke the fourth wall and nicknamed him “Mid-boss,” which stuck), they encountered Angel Trainee Flonne. Flonne had been sent from the angel world, Celestia, under questionable and far-too-late orders to assassinate King Krichevskoy. She finds Laharl in what she assumed to be Krichevskoy’s room, and upon learning what had happened she ran away. Laharl and Etna tracked her down, and she eventually decided to stick around Laharl in order to teach him and demons in general about her favorite thing in the world: love. Laharl nicknamed her Love Freak and quietly fumed over how much she reminded him of his mother.
Laharl soon learned that Etna was a double agent--she was being manipulated by an ex-vassal of his father’s, Maderas, who had been exiled for stealing the King’s favorite snack: black pretzels. Maderas had somehow stolen Etna’s memory as leverage to get revenge on Krichevskoy’s son--in fact, Laharl’s two-year slumber was because Etna had poisoned him in the first place. However, Etna betrays Maderas and helps Laharl defeat him. Uncharacteristically--due to Flonne’s influence--Laharl forgives her.
Defeating a few more pominent demons, Laharl succeeded in becoming Overlord. Etna points out to Flonne that by helping Laharl along this far, she had officially crossed the line over into treason territory. However, no consequences arose immediately, and Flonne’s preaching began to have more and more effect on Laharl and Etna--the former even, finally, coming to terms with his mother’s death.
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Laharl won.
When Gordon didn’t return, the EDF launched a full-scale attack on the Netherworld, which Laharl and his army repelled before tracing it back to Vulcanus in Celestia. Finally, they defeated Vulcanus and a good chunk of the rest of the angel army and explained matters to the Seraph. Lamington acknowledged all that had happened and punished Vulcanus by transforming him into a frog for 1000 years. However, he pointed out to Flonne that she, too, had to be punished--she had gone into battle with her fellow angels of Celestia. Despite protests from the rest of Laharl’s group about the circumstances under which she had acted, she went along with the severe admonishment willingly and was transformed into her favorite flower, a lily--apparently indefinitely. Outraged, Laharl attacked and defeated the Seraph.
Laharl spares Lamington and prepares to imitate his mother and sacrifice his life to restore Flonne to normal. However, he’s stopped by Vyers, whose behavior had suddenly become less vapid and narcissistic. He instructs everyone to wait and watch, and the flower changes back into Flonne on its own--though she is now a demon. Vyers explains that Lamington’s real punishment was simply to turn Flonne into a Fallen Angel--her personality was somewhat more devious, but otherwise unchanged. It is heavily, heavily implied that Vyers was really a living Krichevskoy in disguise and that he and Lamington had conspired all along to have Laharl and Flonne meet so that they could become the “knot” that would open up ties between Celestia and the Netherworld.
Laharl swears knowingly to Vyers that he’ll become a greater Overlord even than his father, and he and his vassals return to the Netherworld. Laharl became an Overlord of above-average power, reaching level 1200--Etna, at level 1000 and merely a Demon Lord as his second-in-command, could easily defeat some of the weaker Overlords. Due to this fact, three years later she got the idea to become an Overlord herself and ditched Laharl and Flonne after a heated and literally explosive argument.
After an extended search, Laharl was tipped off to Etna’s location in a Netherworld called Veldime when the news reported that she had killed Veldime’s Overlord, Zenon. Rushing to the planet, he encountered an Etna who had, due to being the object of a summon gone wrong (entirely her own fault, at that) had been stripped of her thousand levels. He beat her and the party who had summoned her (the main characters of Disgaea 2) into submission effortlessly, but was warded off when Rozalin, the daughter of Overlord Zenon, unleashed a mysterious power that far exceeded his own, along with a violent alternate personality.
He would later reappear, along with Flonne, to attempt to become the main character again by force. After being defeated without help from Rozalin’s dark side (the rest had leveled up considerably), Rozalin took pity on him and allowed him to be the main character for 100 seconds before being forced to join the party temporarily. A time after the game, Laharl, Etna and Flonne returned to their own Netherworld, along with Etna’s new sidekick, Hanako.
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Whatever works best.
That said, he’s not completely washed of his character flaws either. He’s still selfish, intensely arrogant, sneaky, short-tempered, belligerent, violent, and when he gets the chance, mad with power. And while he’s learned to feel love, he doesn’t give it away very easily.
Laharl may be immature, but he’s not stupid. He’s hardly a genius, either, but he’s reasonable with tactics and taking advantage of someone else’s zeal or ignorance. And despite the manifold ways in which he could be called crazy himself, he’s frequently the voice of reason among the rest of Disgaea’s batshit insane characters--always objecting dryly or frustratedly if someone is contradicting their own logic, telling an obvious lie or thinking out loud.
Laharl has two weaknesses. Not like psychological weaknesses; full-on kryptonite shit, so to speak. These are enthusiastic, optimistic words and women with sexy bodies. Maderas tries to kill him him by siccing succubi and catgirls on him, having them shout about love and justice. The weakness to sexiness is generally more prominent, but can also be counteracted--close contact with a flat chest can restore his strength.
He takes great pride in his hair, which is for all appearances natural, seeing as it’s genetic. Krichevskoy had a similar but shorter and more complicated style. It could be considered a sign of his heritage as Overlord.
The lazy way of working out Laharl’s sleep schedule is to say that a day for him is equivalent to an hour for a semi-normal person; he seems to stay up for 12-16 days and sleep for 8-12 at a time.
Class Title: Overlord. It’s canon.
Immediate Possessions:
--Laser Blade
--Majin Armor
--Testament
--Orion’s Belt
--Sony PSP
--Nintendo DS Lite
--Multiple PSP/DS games
--Angel pendant (from Flonne)
Deposited Possessions:
--1,000,000,000HL
--TV
--Sony PS3 (80GB)
--Nintendo Wii
--Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite
--Multiple games
--Horse Weiner
Sample Entry:
…Ugh…
…Wait. This isn’t my castle.
DAMMIT!
This is unforgivable! Stupid Legendary Overlord… I should have known as soon as I saw the news that I’d be targeted! I was in the middle of a perfectly good nap… I barely got a day and a half of sleep! Dammit…I wonder if Etna and Flonne are anywhere around, too.
Hmph! Alright, Overlord Baal. I’ll play along for now. Once I’ve gotten a thorough look around, I’ll challenge you and force my way back to my Netherworld. Lord of Terror or not, I’ll bet you’ve never faced an opponent like Overlord Laharl!
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Comment with one of your fifty Laharl journals and join netherworld_rpg, darkassembly, and netherworldlogs.
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I only have like.
Five.
I think.
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