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Player: Bella
Canon: Blood Blockade Battlefront
Canon Point: After the talk with White in episode 12, but before she leaves
Alignment: Daimonia
Date of Entry: 8/5/2015 (had a canon update on 5/9/16)
Canon: Blood Blockade Battlefront
Canon Point: After the talk with White in episode 12, but before she leaves
Alignment: Daimonia
Date of Entry: 8/5/2015 (had a canon update on 5/9/16)
Age: Unknown, but headcanon'd to 21; turned 22 in Empatheias
Birthday: May 29th
Eye Color: Blue-green
Hair Color: Blond
Height: 5'3", or somewhere around there
Amulet: First one; second one is half a heart (♥), matching with White
Appearance: Black & The Other Guy; it's worth noting that his eyes don't change color, and he's fully capable of just going around as Black appearance-wise if he wants to. The way they talk is completely different however.
Contact:
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flairBackground: (There be spoilers past here for the anime. Just a warning!) For the series, and as for Black himself:
He and his twin sister were born William and Mary Macbeth respectively in the Scotland countryside. They grew up there for the majority of their lives as well, living a peaceful if abnormal life—it's hard to call it a normal life when there are people with incredibly strong psychic powers, including the majority of your family and yourself. While Mary was born without any powers at all, William inherited enough power for the both of them.
Not that he ever used it. After an incident where he blasted Mary's perfectly made mudball back in her face and felt embarrassed by how easily she just went to make another one, William swore off purposefully using his powers until he could be as strong as his twin sister, someone who didn't have the advantage he did. Purposefully being the keyword here: they still erupted whenever he had fits of high emotion, such as crying when his dog knocked his ice cream out of his head to steal it, but those happened mostly when he was younger. As he got older, he distanced himself from getting too loud about his feelings in order to control his psi powers, with some degree of success—he never unleashed them on the boys that bullied him (despite Mary scolding him about it—“If you have psychic powers, you should use them!”), and he never even thought about using them to catch his sister's camera that they tossed carelessly over the bridge.
He dove after it instead and would've drowned if they hadn't saved him.
Many years past their childhood, but three years before the plot of Blood Blockade Battlefront begins, the barrier between the Alterworld and their world collapsed right in the center of New York City. To the public's knowledge, the barrier was restored thanks to their world's League of Higher Order Spirituals (LHOS) and the Alterworld's own type of Casters; the destroyed city was rebuilt and renamed to Hellsalem's Lot, and life continued on despite the mix of otherworldly and ordinary.
For the Macbeth family, this wasn't entirely the case. Separated from their mother and father, and then from each other, William and Mary sought to keep themselves safe while looking for familiar faces. What William found wasn't quite familiar, or even friendly—Mary came upon him using his psi powers (something he's loathe to use) to keep something from forming. She broke his concentration by calling his name and heading towards him, relieved to find him, and he immediately told her to get away because it isn't safe—
but the warning came too late, and the break in his focus is just what the entity needed. What he was keeping from forming appeared, and William gave up his body to become a vessel for what became known as “The King of Despair” in order to protect his sister and keep her from its grasp. Not long after, William witnessed his parents sacrificing themselves in order to save the city like so many Casters had done, and he and his sister were left on their own.
Three years later, William—now going by his childhood nickname “Black”, while his sister goes by hers (“White”)—works as a Caster for the LHOS, presumably to keep some secrets under wraps and because there's no other work he can do. He doesn't have a ton of time to visit his sister in the hospital, where she was put after what became known as The Great Collapse due to a heart condition that'd started up around the same time, but he does it enough to learn about a young man named Leonardo Watch. They meet, go out a few times, and all in all—Black likes him.
The King of Despair has other plans. Leonardo Watch is the holder of the All Seeing Eyes of God—a special pair of eyes that can see pretty much anything without limit, as their name would suggest, and it's just what he's been looking for for the past three years. The King of Despair, unknown to Black, makes good on a deal he made with White some indeterminable time before, and he uses her to get to Leonardo's eyes in order to put his plan for a second collapse to happen on All Hallow's Eve into motion.
Following episode 8, his former canon point, Black loses consciousness and the King of Despair takes over; he hangs out with his fellow kings, receives the glasses he needs to help his plan move along from Aligula, and proceeds to kick his pieces into motion one by one. He gives White the glasses, telling her to get her friend's (Leo's) eyeballs for him, and then leaves; he reappears in the church's doorway before she puts them on Leo to mock her for asking for forgiveness/salvation (isn't it a little too late for that?).
His plans moving along without a hitch, he drags Leo down to a place beneath the cemetery whilst monologuing about the fleeting nature of humanity and uses his eyes to locate the other barriers holding Hellsalem's Lot City up. Afterwards, he swings by the theater to pick up White, bring her back to church, and shoot her after commenting that they're the same—living on borrowed time and lingering affection.
...he shoots her because she's the last barrier holding up everything so it doesn't all go to shit, essentially. And the city... doesn't go to shit immediately, because god bless White she fogs up the city. This pisses the King of Despair off, of course, so after a bunch of grumbling and a chat with his least favorite person, Femt, he uses his psi powers to force the fog away and start shifting around the city like it's just a bunch of interlocking puzzle pieces.
Then he makes a big boss battle tower out of the church and surrounding area and waits for Leonardo Watch to come and kill him. Klaus von Reinherz, the leader of Libra, comes along instead and they have a chat and a fight, with Klaus desperately trying to save Black—but the King of Despair mentions a very interesting fact about his deal with his body:
he welcomed him in. Black accepted him—it's not a case of him just taking what he wants.
Regardless, the battle ends in the King of Despair's favor (barely), Leo swings by, gives a huge peptalk to White (who's still around as a ghost, seeing as she's part of the barrier and the area they're in is where she became one three years ago), and... loves wins, essentially. Leo, with the help of White, headbutts Black back into consciousness and makes the King of Despair sleep for once. White has a talk with Black about accepting the fact your twin is actually very dead this time and there's nothing you can do about it because you're not strong enough to without killing yourself and that's bad, Black, please don't reject the world you're going to be living in from now on.
...and that's where his canon point is, essentially, after this peptalk and hug and touching moment between twins that proves family is important.
Personality: William Macbeth was born a prodigy in a family of powerful psi-users. Growing up, he was kind, well-meaning, and easy-going; not even being bullied for being small and wearing glasses seemed to damper his spirits (though he admits it made him feel pathetic that his sister would come save him and beat them up—he loved her for it, but still), nor did a scrape with death after he dove into a river after his sister's camera stop him from pursuing equally reckless, life-destroying decisions in the future. Despite the immense psi-powers he was born with, he never once used them. Not to fight back, not to stop the camera from falling into the river, nothing.
There is a reason for this, like all things.
Mary was born without psi-powers—unlike him, where he was born with power enough for the both of them. He perceived her to be stronger than him for it; she rarely cried, no matter the situation, where even the smallest thing could send him wailing and pulling ground out from beneath them in chunks. She accepted things as they happened and moved on. A good example is when they were much younger: he'd blown a mud ball up in her face (a perfectly made one, one he's sure she wanted him to compliment, but it'd only shown how bad his dry, lumpy ball was), and all she'd done was turn and go to make another. He'd felt, then, that he was being left behind—that Mary was growing up faster than him, that she was shedding the childish feelings he was still having—and he swore to himself that he'd never use his psi-powers until he felt he was strong enough to use them.
There is something important to note, and that is this: there is no one more important to William Macbeth in this world than his twin sister, Mary. The lengths he'd go to for her safety are without limit and completely without thought. His personality shifts entirely when his sister's brought into the picture—he becomes overbearingly protective, quick to anger, and incredibly reckless. If it threatens her, he's ready to take it on, whether or not it's something that can be defeated. He even hides her existence from the League of Higher Order Spirituals, and the both of them end up going by their childhood nicknames in public in order to keep their identities safe: Black and White.
This brave, noble behavior has unfortunately landed him the honor of being possessed by a being that refers to itself as “The King of Despair”. The King of Despair is malicious, mocking, manipulative, and overall a terrible person; he plans and plots and uses people without a second thought, in stark contrast to his host Black, who holds a fair amount of consideration for the rest of the world. In the King's own words, “If there's an efficacious method that allows you to achieve your objective, then you fully embrace it, no matter what it is.”
That includes going back on any agreements made. The King of Despair's only and ultimate goal is to trigger a second great collapse in Hellsalem's Lot. It's not as if he does it for no reason: he speaks a fair amount of times about how everyone wants to leave a mark on the world, to see that their actions truly do mean something to people, and how the despair of his being is that he is actually forgotten by Death itself. It's not a stretch to say he's looking for a way to make sure he won't be forgotten again, just as it isn't a stretch to say he's trying to find a way to permanently die. The implication that the King is an immortal being isn't a very subtle one after all, and in a city full of various creatures, beings, and lifespans, it's no surprise either.
But yes: he has a plan, and he's going back on most of the agreements he's made in order to make sure it goes smoothly. That includes the one he made with Black three years ago: that his sister White was off-limits, and he wouldn't involve her at all. Technically speaking, the King did have no part in involving White—she decided to do that all on her own, in order to get her brother back from his clutches. He's not above double-crossing people if it suits his needs, obviously, but he does it through loopholes instead of out-right lying or cheating them. In Black's case, the King keeps him in the dark by literally keeping him in the dark. Black never has any recollection of what goes on when the King possesses his body, creating holes in his memory that can get a little worrisome depending on who he meets and what mischief the King gets into.
It's better in the King's eyes that Black's kept in the dark about the whole business anyway, as he is ultimately the type of character who would sincerely do anything to derail a plan that involved the use of his sister or the destruction of the city.
Especially considering Black seems to know what her heart really is, the same as the King of Despair: a barrier seemingly linked directly to the seal keeping Hellsalem's Lot from collapsing into the inter-dimensional sinkhole that appeared three years ago. If the city goes down, so does she.
And there is no way he could ever bear to live without her, just as she can't bear to live without him.
Abilities: As defined by Blood Blockade Battlefront, “Psi: Psychic abilities, or a person who possesses them. Supernatural powers that cannot be rationally explained by science.”
This is what Black is. So far, he's been shown to be capable of telekinesis (lifting things up, both voluntarily and involuntarily, with the latter coming out at periods of high emotion; holding things and people in place; etc), teleportation (likely applies to short distances, going by how another psi's teleporting works in a later episode), and concentrating his psychic power enough to blow up someone's head.
However, Black likes using his psychic power almost as much as he likes being a registered Caster in the LHOS—that is to say, not at all. He even specifically admits to Leonardo that he's no good at using them, no matter what he does. How truthful that is isn't certain, though considering he couldn't hold coffee in place without a struggle it's safe to say he's spent more years learning how not to use them.
As for the King of Despair, he excels at using Black's psychic powers. In fact, the last two abilities on the list are specifically him. He's also capable of possessing Black's body completely whenever he likes with no to little resistance on Black's part, thanks to their little deal, and Black doesn't remember a single thing from the point he loses consciousness at.
Other: N/A
Permissions: Permissions for actions done to this character.
Key: ☐ (neutral; contact first) | ☑ (yes) | ☒ (no).
» Backtagging: ☑
» Threadhopping: ☑
» Hugging: ☑
» Kissing: ☑
» Fighting: ☐
» Injuring: ☐
» Killing: ☐
» Fourth Wall: ☐
» Manipulation: ☐
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abilities:
- black is really powerful. like really, really powerful. like "clear the fog, effortlessly shove people and rocks around, shove the great collapse into motion when it gets stopped" powerful. thanks king of despair.
- pyrokinesis? maybe? blue flames that aren't just for show. they can explode and do a lot of damage, and they appear and disappear without any hassle.
- the macbeth family seems to have some knowledge of life magic, seeing as they infused their own lives into the barrier (and, in order to keep their daughter alive, made her a living barrier to save her). this is pretty forbidden. black knows enough to be able to repair the barrier the king of despair destroyed (mary macbeth) and probably knows how to keep people alive using a magic conduit similar to the way his parents did to his sister. ("I can't repair the barrier and keep you alive.")
background:
-ohh my god i need rewatch 12 like ten more times for this
-this is totally obv but BLACK WELCOMED HIM. HE DOESNT NEED RESCUING, HE TOOK THIS ON WILLINGLY. THERE'S NO "RESCUE" TO BE HAD FOR SOMEONE WHO WELCOMED A DEMON
-speaking of
-"Fallen. Blue. Devil. King of Despair. You've had many names, Watchman."
personality stuff:
-kod really doesnt give a flying fuck
-he wants to die bc he thinks dying during another collapse will help him see that light again (its his hope, his freedom from immortality, gives him that sense of joy/exaltation that his wishes will come true)
-he's also 100% in love/captivated by the determination humanity expresses, that shines through even the darkest of nights
-this is why he can't call humanity idiots or pity them. they're too innocent... i hate him
b5 stuff:
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- watch is definitely his dad's
other notes
- THE HOUSE & THE DOG
feelings shit:
- vines: fear, excessive anxiety and worry, anger (thorned)
- general: flowers (floriography)
- barrier/shield: strong courage + love
- calm aoe: concentration on composure/calmness
flower language bits
- sunflower: warmth
- prince's feather: mild embarrassment
- tassel flower (cacalia): adulation (excessive praise)
- asphodel: my regrets follow you to the grave
- rue: regret, sorrow, repentance
- dried white rose: sorrow
- spearmint: warmth of sentiment
- pink peony: shame, bashful
- purple lilac: first emotions of love
- yellow rose: affection
- lavender rose: enchantment
- light pink rose: admiration