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Name: Chi
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Character
Name: Retia
Series: Eternal Poison
Timeline: Two thirds of the way through the game, when the party has taken the Light Path through Besek (the path the player takes effects how the story goes for the characters). In taking the Dark Path, Retica gets to finally kill his father and avenge the death of his mother. In taking the Light Path, Retica learns that the deity his religion worships is actually a demon (or Majin, in the demon's native tongue).
Canon Resource Links: Yeah, Eternal Poison counts as ridiculously obscure. I already have a history written up for Reti here, so I’ll just copy and paste.
Retica is searching for his father so he can kill him, and avenge his mother's murder. He was raised predominantly by his mother, in a human village. However, it is implied that his mother and father honestly loved each other; Retica is not too keen on believing this. One day, Retica's father (a Majin/Demon called Doom Shade) appeared and slaughtered Retica's mother. Enraged, and left with no protection from the prejudice of the village people, Retica set off to avenge his mother.
In order to do this he begins looking for the Eternal Poison; an artifact that, according to his faith (The Stag Religion), grants great power to those who attain it. To find both the Eternal Poison and his father, Retica entered into a demon realm called Besek (known to the demons as The Tetractis; The Path to the Goddess), which is a world that is linked to all other worlds.
While there he met up with a witch, who used a spell to bind him to her will. Without any choice in the matter Retica followed her deeper and deeper into Besek (which is conveniently where he wants to go, anyway). While there, it is ultimately up to the player what kind of encounters Retica (and the rest of the party) can have.
The Light Path
This is the path I would like to assume Retica took if I'm going to play him here; The party picked the fork in the road that lead down The Light Path, leading them to battle holy monsters. Here Retica and team battled Luxaphel, a powerful holly Majin/Demon. The Fight was especially hard on Retica, because Luxaphel is the deity his religion worships. He was shattered by the realization that his faith was based on worshiping a demon; and because he took this path, he was never granted the opportunity to confront and kill his father before he died (upon reaching the end of The Tetractis). Obviously he's not actually going to DIE this time, I'm going to take him from shortly after the fight with Luxaphel.
The Dark Path
At the end of this path lurks Doom Shade, Retica's father. In this battle, Doom Shade's defeat solidifies Retica's loyalty to Thage (the witch that put a spell on him), despite the fact that she wants to end the world with the power of the Eternal Poison. After defeating his father, Retica is less satisfied than he had hoped; the creature he defeated was just a cruel Majin; he didn't even remember Retica and his Mother. It's implied that it is because Doom Shade was born again in Besek after he had been killed for his crimes of having a child with a human, and it was this reborn Doom Shade that killed Retica's mother. However, one can only speculate.
However, since none of this would have actually happened, since I'm going to assume he had taken the light path.
Personality:
BRATBRATBRATBRATRetica is abrasive.Due to his mixed blood, the humans he grew up with (save for his mother) treated him like a leper. So understandably, he's very mistrusting of new people, and he's quick to be rude and blunt. He acts very much like you would expect someone who was mistreated all their life to act.
That isn't to say Retica is a bad person; he tends to be able to find the bright sides in the worst situations, and see the good qualities in even the worst people. In one part of the game, he talks about how human beings are naturally very selfish, but that sometimes that selfishness leads to good, such as a person doing a good deed because they want to feel good about having done it. He says that he wishes more people would be selfish in that way.
Retica is also extremely loyal once you win him over (for example, he supported a witch who was bent on ending the world because they grew close) but on the flip side, if he doesn't like you, don't expect to get him to open up very easily.
Finally, Retica has a great respect for royalty, aristocracy, and authority alike. This is a respect born of fear of the consequences; he knows well enough to tread carefully around someone who has the power to throw him into prison, for example. Tell him you’re royalty and suddenly this very brash loudmouthed little brat starts minding his p’s and q’s (he starts saying please and thank you, minding his manners, and so on).
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Strengths:
Resilient: Retica knows what he wants and goes for it, even if that means striking out all on his own. He’ll bravely face danger all alone without a hint of hesitation, and he’s survived despite all the challenges in his life.
Loyal: Though winning Retica’s loyalty is difficult, once it’s done he’s loyal no matter what, even blindly so. For example, Retica becomes loyal to a witch who wants to end the world, just because she stuck with him when no one else would. He doesn’t try to stop her, and all he wants is to stay alive long enough to see what she will do.
Independent: Retica is used to being the only one on his own side, so he’s used to going it alone. Despite his young age, Retica doesn’t often crave for the attention of others.
Archery: Retica is trained in the uses of bot long and short bows.
Weaknessess:
Can’t think abstractly: Retica’s most used phrase “what does that mean?” the boy can’t follow a metaphor to save his life. It’s tempting to call him stupid, but he’s usually fine as long as you’re very straight with him. He’s also not very good at grey area; he thinks of things in very black and white terms; if something is not one way, it’s the other.
Rude/Blunt: Retica takes a very rude tone with most people, probably because he’s used to being treated like an outcast. It can make it difficult to get to like him, but deep down he is a really good person; it’s just difficult to see it, sometimes.
Doesn’t trust easily/let people get close: Retica is automatically suspicious of everything and everyone. He’s used to people hating him, even wanting to kill him, for no reason other than the fact that he’s half demon. Because of this, he’s very guarded and doesn’t let people get close easily.
Driven by revenge/negative emotion: Retica lets his negative emotions dictate what he does; if he’s mad, he acts on it. All he wants is to kill his father, despite the fact that it is dangerous for him to even set foot in his father’s realm, never mind killing a full blooded demon on his own. Retica is notorious for acting without thinking, just because his emotions dictate he should.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Absol
Password: Raspberry Lemonade
Samples
First Person Sample:
[The feed clicks on to a super imposed red eye. It’s narrowed in obvious and burning frustration, and there’s a quiet muttering o growls and curses in the backdrop. Finally, Retica holds the pokegear back, and the screen shows a more comprehensive look at the teen]
Someone better start giving me some answers, damn it! Is this some kind of trick? Where the hell am I? And what is that music?!
[He looks around, scowling at his surroundings like they personally offended him]
Besek’s never looked like this, not even the first stratum. I don’t care how I got here—I need to get back. I—I was so close. I know I was. I had to be. We were almost—
Nevermind. I’m getting out of here, even if no one else can help me.
Third Person Sample:
Retica slammed the pokegear shut with a furious snarl. This was bloody ridiculous; he’d made it to the belly of Besek only to suddenly find himself in an entirely different world. The fact didn’t bother him so much as the ‘how’; Besek had gates to so many words, but Retica certainly didn’t remember walking through one. If there was a silver lining to be found in all of this, it was that being away from Besek’s heavily magic charged air had hi, feeling… fine. Better than he’d felt in a long time, almost like he was… healthy.
Retica tugged his scarf more tightly around his neck, and stormed off away from the houses of the small town. He needed to be alone; he needed to fume and think and find some way home. Not far down the grassy path, Retica spotted a strange creature, drinking from a shimmery puddle. It walked on all fours and had a white body, and a long black horn. Immediately Retica thought it might be a majin, and pressed himself into the shade of a close by tree. His bow and arrows were gone, and all he had with him was the bag that strange woman pushed into his arms.
He opened it and pawed through with a frustrated growl, but he didn’t find any weapons. He was just reading the instructions on a bottled potion (deverted from his worry and furry by a spike of curiosity) when the approaching footsteps of strangers hailed his attention.
“Hey, isn’t that an Absol?”
“Yeah! They’re so unlucky; don’t you know they cause terrible disasters?”
“Really? Get rid of it!”
Peeking out from behind the tree, Retica spotted the pair of humans. The creature (apparently called Absol) had taken notice of the others, and was watching them warily. For a moment, Retica was trapped in remembering.
‘Is that a Heretic?’
‘It is! Those things are terrible; they’re going to destroy the world!’
‘Get it out of our village!’
They had come at him (a defenceless kid barely older than ten) with pitchforks and torches. He’d had to run for hours until he found his mother, and clung bloody breathless and beaten to her coattails.
The humans were whipping rocks at the Absol.
“Hey!” without thinking, Retica leapt out from behind the tree. He was mad; he hated what happened to him, hated the people who were stupid and blind enough to think a child could have a world ending agenda. Right now, these people were as bad as them. “Back off!” he barked, grabbing up a rock from the ground and whipping it right at one of the human’s. After a few seconds of dumbfounded starring (and a few more of flinching as they were pelted with rocks) the strangers deserted. Retica scowled as he watched them trot off into the brush, feeling ruffled and angry. Why were people always so hateful? His gaze turned to the Absol, who was limping a little on one leg as it tried to make a retreat into the brush.
“Hey… wait,” Retica called, awkward and deflating. The creature turned to look at him, and it’s eyes were wise and dark. Retica approached carefully, still not trusting it entirely. Kneeling, Retica fished the potion from his bag, and sprayed the Absol’s wound. “… there.” And that moment their eyes met, and Retica felt oddly naked under those dark eyes.
“… You’re welcome.” When he stood, Absol stood with him. “… are you coming with me, now?” Absol seemed unphased by Retica’s stinging skepticism and narrowed eyes. It simply watched him, as if Retica himself already knew the answer. “Alright, fine… but I need to call you something if you’re going to come with me.” Almost timidly, he reached out his hand. “… maybe I’ll call you Heretic,” he muttered dryly. “You’re just like me.”
The Absol butted his head against Retica’s palm, purring softly. Retica almost, almost smiled. No one ever wanted to be like him.
“Okay, let’s keep going.”
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