[ooc] canon info
"Hey, do you know this flower? It's a lotus.
It's born from the mud, pointing upward to heaven. A flower that blesses the world."
-past!Alma Karma; chapter 191, pages 35-36
BASIC STATS
Name: Alma Karma
Gender: physically male
Age: appears 19ish
Race: Akuma (see below)
Height: 180 cm (5'9")
Weight: 61 kg (134 lbs)
Canon Point: Chapter 198
CANON BASICS
In an alternate end to the nineteenth century, Exorcists are soldiers for the Black Order who use a special weapon called Innocence to destroy Akuma. The Akuma (translates to "demon") are machines powered by the souls of the dead that were called back from beyond by their grieving loved ones, who were tricked into doing so by the Millennium Earl.
The Millennium Earl is a scary man who controls the Akuma and wishes for the end of humanity. His family are the Noah, who are humans whose Noah genes awoke and so they were possessed by a Memory of Noah and given special powers. The Exorcists fight the Noah as well, etc. etc.
Here's the wiki entry for D.Gray-Man and the wiki entry for Alma Karma.
-----Spoilers for D.Gray-Man chapters 188 through 200 past here.-----
CONTEXT
Being from about the 1890s as well as locked inside an underground lab for most of his life, Alma really didn't get to experience the time period very much. Plus, for some reason the D.Gray-Man scientists are super advanced tech-wise anyway. :|a They combine tech with magic and spells to create 'futuristic' devices, such as flying bat-golems able to be used like walkie talkies with video, as well as complicated robots able to think on their own.
APPEARANCE
Alma is kind of Asian-looking, with dark, short hair, rounded features, and angular eyes. However he's rather obviously not completely Asian with his large eyes and oversized eyebrows. His hair is usually kept short with fringe and side bits that frame his face while the rest is very short and scruffy.
Although at first glance, he might appear very human, there's rather obvious differences. For one, many of his joints (ex. ankles, wrists, knees) look like doll-joints. His skin appear more rigid and fake looking in certain places and generally has a sickened/pale tone to it. He has large protrusions from his shoulders and black markings patterned all over him, including a large triangle on his stomach, tribal-like markings on his biceps, and a hand/claw marking over his 'heart'. Alma also has a prehensile, demonic-looking tail and a glowing halo-like ring floating above his head.
WHAT IS HE?
He's an experiment, called a Second Exorcist, where scientists took a dead/dying human and transferred their brain/soul to an artificial body. However, after the failure of Second Exorcists, Alma was further experimented on and injected with Dark Matter (what makes Akuma) which proved to be a bad idea. When he awoke, his hatred combined with the Dark Matter and made him into an Akuma hybrid.
So basically, he breaths, he bleeds, and he can die, but he looks like a doll and is powered by the sorrow/hatred/agony in his soul. Being a Second Exorcist gives him healing powers (which he has mostly worn out, so they don't work very well anymore) and being an Akuma gives him the power to blast energy from his mouth and hands.
ISN'T 'HE' A 'SHE'?
Alma originally (before dying and being reborn as a Second Exorcist) was a woman. However, Alma grew up for a year or two, as a boy, not knowing this. I will probably continue to use male pronouns for Alma, but know that his gender identity is pretty screwed up because he's only had a few hours/days in canon to mentally deal with the fact he was previously a she.
IMPORTANT QUOTES
"I'm happy to see you, Yuu. But I've got to kill you now."
-Alma Karma; chapter 193, page 21
"Day after day... all alone, as I waited for my friends to wake up, I always wondered 'why aren't they waking up?' Heh. There's no way they'd wake up, right? ...There's no way they'd want to wake up, right~?
Ah, man. But I still talked to them every day... and I was super noisy-- 'cause my voice is loud, right? And even though I ended up reading all kinds of books to have things to talk about, man--"
-Alma Karma; chapter 193, pages 24-25
Yuu Kanda: "You... you didn't... recall your past, did you...? Is that why you killed them? Edgar and... Don't tell me, everyone else in the lab...?"
Alma Karma: "Ridiculous, isn't it? This is what you'd call an Akuma..." [slices into himself]
Yuu Kanda: "Alma!?"
Alma Karma: "I couldn't stop. No matter how many times I destroy it, my body regenerates... I CAN'T STOP, YUU!"
-chapter 193, pages 25-27
"Yuu... you can understand, can't you? Let's die together. As long as we're alive, the humans will never repent. In order to win this Holy War, they'll continue to use us as tools forever. There's nothing left worth protecting."
-Alma Karma; chapter 193, pages 29-30
"I'm sorry... Nine years ago, You destroyed me and lived on, Yuu. But that was to keep your promise with me, huh. As long as you live, you'll surely search for me. One day, you might realize that Alma is me. And that's the one thing I can't endure."
-Alma Karma; chapter 198, pages 26-27
"...He [Alma Karma] didn't become an Akuma for revenge. Alma's soul was of the woman Kanda loved! Alma found out the truth about Kanda through Noah's power, and became an Akuma to forever bury his own true form!"
-Allen Walker; chapter 199, pages 8-9
"I can't tell him... If Yuu found out I was "that person", then he would stop searching... The promise we made that day... As long as he was bound by the promise he made with "that person", he is forever hers..."
-Alma Karma; chapter 199, page 11
"He [Yuu Kanda] is the one person... I didn't want to lose...!"
-Alma Karma; chapter 199, page 13
Alma Karma: "Yuu...-u...?"
Yuu Kanda: "Let's run away from here together. To a place where there is no Innocence, no Church. Together this time..."
Alma Karma: "Did you hear... what I said...?"
Yuu Kanda: "I heard the whole thing, idiot."
-chapter 199, pages 24-25
"I can't forgive the organization, even now... I hate them... so much I can hardly bear it. But... I should sink into the mud... I killed many... even lending my power to the Earl... so much..."
-Alma Karma; chapter 200, page 8
Yuu Kanda: "Love.. together...? Is that what...?"
spirit!Alma Karma: "Just like us, right?"
-chapter 190, pages 13-14
"Hey, do you know this flower? It points toward heaven. It's a lotus.
It's born from the mud, pointing upward to heaven. A flower that blesses the world."
-past!Alma Karma; chapter 191, pages 35-36
past!Alma Karma: "Man, I'd like to see that... The whole field in full bloom."
past!Yuu Kanda: "Someday the two of us could see it together..."
past!Alma Karma: "Really? Even if we're both old and gray?"
past!Yuu Kanda: "... Just you wait."
past!Alma Karma: "I'll wait, forever..."
-chapter 193, pages 3-4
"I love you, Yuu."
-Yuu Kanda's hallucination of spirit!Alma Karma; chapter 200, page 12