Post by Sparda on May 30, 2011 8:43:03 GMT -6
Name: Sparda
Aliases: The Legendary Dark Knight
Age: Unknown; at least 2000 years
Gender: Male
Species: Demon
Alignment: Good
Canon or Original: Canon - Devil May Cry
Date of Birth: Unknown
Place of Birth: The Demon World
Physical Appearance: Click here
Personality: So articulate and well-spoken is Sparda, refined to an almost aristocratic degree of eloquence, that one would be hard-pressed to find a personal similarity between him and his youngest son. Making the mistake of angering him, however, makes it very clear from whom Dante inherited his smart mouth and rebellious streak. In a way, Sparda could be described as a combination of the polar opposite demeanours of his twin sons, possessing Vergil’s façade of icy distance and Dante’s flippant, laid-back attitude all at once. Underlying it all, though, is an iron-clad sense of honour that will not stand for any kind of injustice and an awe-inspiring determination to stand unbowed in defence of his ideals against any evil that would challenge him.
Special Abilities:
Weapons:
History: Everybody remotely related to the otherworldly madness which had claimed the human realm in his timeline has heard of the Legendary Dark Knight, Sparda. He was originally a loyal soldier beneath the self-proclaimed Prince of Darkness, Mundus, fighting to exterminate the human race and seize control of the human world in the name of his master. But as the legend tells, the demonic warrior “woke up to justice”; a sudden change of heart caused him to forsake his master and take up his sword for the sake of humanity. He single-handedly stood against Mundus’ legions, besting all who came before him before defeating Mundus himself and sealing the Prince of Darkness and the remains of his army in the demon world.
In order to close the gateway, Sparda used his own blood, along with the blood of a human priestess, in conjunction with his sword and a mystical amulet. He poured his energies into his sword to close the gateway, the Temen-ni-gru, and seal the two worlds off from each other, at the expense of a large portion of his abilities. As an added measure he imprisoned seven gatekeepers within the tower; Cerberus, Agni, Rudra, Nevan, Beowulf, Geryon and Doppelganger. On top of this he took the names of the Seven Sins and imprisoned them to set them as seals keeping the Temen-ni-gru underground, and also sealed off another entrance to the demon world using one of his trademark blades, Yamato.
The activities of the Legendary Dark Knight over the next two thousand years remain shrouded in mystery, and no amount of speculation has yet changed that. Legends tell that he ruled over the humans as a protector for a time before disappearing. He next resurfaced during the twentieth century where he met and fell in love with a human woman, Eva, who bore him twin sons who would in very different ways continue the legacy of their father, who seemed to the eyes of the supernatural world to have died shortly after his children were born.
But it seems the legend is not yet finished. Sparda found himself exiled to the netherworld with seemingly no way to return, and remained so for some time. With his precious sword nowhere to be found and only Luce and Ombra to rely upon, the demon set about gathering a new arsenal of weapons by tracking down the most impossibly powerful elemental demons he could find. Over many months he located, bitterly fought and destroyed his three targets, taking their souls as devastatingly powerful Devil Arms...
Just in time, it seemed, for events to take another wholly unexpected turn. He had been present when the rift opened; in fact, the colossal tower that was at the heart of the reality-rending turmoil almost burst out of the ground beneath his very feet. The sheer incomprehensible power this structure possessed caused the Dark Knight to black out for a moment. When he came to, not only was he welcomed by an eerie silence, as though the presence of this tower had erased all other life, but he had awoken in an entirely different place. Had the tower transported him to some other realm...?
He explored the landscape in which he had found himself for what felt like days before finally coming across a city; a grand, sprawling place, dominated by a snow-white temple. Here, he figured, he might find some answers...
Aliases: The Legendary Dark Knight
Age: Unknown; at least 2000 years
Gender: Male
Species: Demon
Alignment: Good
Canon or Original: Canon - Devil May Cry
Date of Birth: Unknown
Place of Birth: The Demon World
Physical Appearance: Click here
Personality: So articulate and well-spoken is Sparda, refined to an almost aristocratic degree of eloquence, that one would be hard-pressed to find a personal similarity between him and his youngest son. Making the mistake of angering him, however, makes it very clear from whom Dante inherited his smart mouth and rebellious streak. In a way, Sparda could be described as a combination of the polar opposite demeanours of his twin sons, possessing Vergil’s façade of icy distance and Dante’s flippant, laid-back attitude all at once. Underlying it all, though, is an iron-clad sense of honour that will not stand for any kind of injustice and an awe-inspiring determination to stand unbowed in defence of his ideals against any evil that would challenge him.
Special Abilities:
- Superhuman Physicality: Very much at the height of his awesome power, Sparda possesses a body capable of feats far beyond even demons of moderate strength. The true upper limits of his strength, speed, agility, reflexes and endurance are simply not known, nor has the Dark Knight ever been pushed to them in combat; but he has demonstrated enough strength to collapse whole buildings with a single mighty strike, enough speed to traverse distances in excess of two hundred metres nigh-instantaneously and a natural healing factor fast enough to heal small wounds almost as soon as they are inflicted and even regenerate entire lost limbs with little discomfort. His mind is also honed to razor-sharpness, allowing him to perceive even the most masterfully constructed illusions and resist any form of mental attack.
- Portals: Sparda can harness his demonic power to create portals to travel long distances. These portals manifest as swirling clouds of purple and black smoke. Anybody in the vicinity can travel through them; Sparda has even been known to use them to divert an opponent’s attack harmlessly away or redirect his own attacks to strike an enemy from impossible angles.
- Energy Constructs: Perhaps Sparda‘s most versatile and destructive weapon is his ability to channel his demonic power in order to launch devastating blasts of energy at a target. The only limitation to the ways in which he can manifest these blasts is his imagination; enemies can face anything from crescent-shaped waves from his sword and charged shots from his guns to enormous cylindrical beams and torrential arrow-like barrages. He can even condense it into solid constructs, creating platforms, shields and blunt-force attacks.
- Polymorphous Weapons: The evolution of Sparda’s powers has spawned this devastating new ability. Sparda is able to channel his power to form any kind of melee weapon from thin air, and in as many numbers as he pleases. These weapons can take any form: swords, spears, daggers, axes, maces, whips, you name it. The only limitation is that he can only create melee weapons. Nonetheless, even that stipulation still allows for almost endless possibilities; whether throwing a single opponent off-balance with a disjointed myriad of weapons, or slaughtering innumerable foes with a storm of blades so massive it blocks out the sun's light. Once formed, these weapons take on a physical structure, rather than remaining as spectral, energy-based constructs, but can just as easily be reduced to the demonic energy from which they are formed. Because they are constructed from his demonic energy, he can manipulate them from a distance as if telekinetically moving them, and this allows him to wield any number of weapons at once.
- Demon Form: Only the most worthy foes are honoured with a death at the hands of Dark Knight in his true demon form. In this body, he can reach the greatest heights of his power, second only to if he were to be in possession of his namesake sword, and his six powerful wings enable him to fly.
- Occult Knowledge: Less frequently called upon, rarely practical in a combat situation but useful nonetheless, is Sparda‘s vast, encyclopaedic knowledge of demonic lore and magic. He knows all kinds of spells, enchantments and sigils, with all kinds of purposes, and is very proficient in demonic metalworking and weapon-crafting processes.
- Vampiric Powers: Having absorbed a fragment of Amoura Ethelia's soul, Sparda can harness her vampiric abilities, though the fusion with his own power has augmented them to dark new levels of strength and given rise to new techniques with a demonic twist. He can entrap foes in frighteningly realistic illusions, bordering on the mind-breaking morbidity of the Waking Nightmare; rip the souls out of slain enemies, obtaining their knowledge and memories and thereafter summoning them as familiars to aid in battle; shapeshift to an unknown degree of proficiency, even transforming parts of his body; manipulate shadows into physical form and teleport through them; manipulate weather to an unknown degree of control; and manipulate objects as small as bullets and large as whole buildings through telekinesis.
Weapons:
- Revelation: This deadly blade was Amoura Ethelia's weapon of choice in Domino City. Prior to her death at the hands of Validus Recubo, she fused a fragment of her soul to the sword and entrusted it to Sparda. Wielding it as his own ever since, he has assimilated the shard of Amoura's soul, gaining some of her vampiric abilities.
- Thanatos: An imposing two-handed sword, imbued with the elemental power of fire.
- Karyos: A pair of large one-handed axes, imbued with the elemental power of ice.
- Sakhayl: A lightweight lance and shield, imbued with the elemental power of lightning.
- Luce and Ombra: Sparda’s prized custom handguns, enchanted so as to never run out of ammunition.
History: Everybody remotely related to the otherworldly madness which had claimed the human realm in his timeline has heard of the Legendary Dark Knight, Sparda. He was originally a loyal soldier beneath the self-proclaimed Prince of Darkness, Mundus, fighting to exterminate the human race and seize control of the human world in the name of his master. But as the legend tells, the demonic warrior “woke up to justice”; a sudden change of heart caused him to forsake his master and take up his sword for the sake of humanity. He single-handedly stood against Mundus’ legions, besting all who came before him before defeating Mundus himself and sealing the Prince of Darkness and the remains of his army in the demon world.
In order to close the gateway, Sparda used his own blood, along with the blood of a human priestess, in conjunction with his sword and a mystical amulet. He poured his energies into his sword to close the gateway, the Temen-ni-gru, and seal the two worlds off from each other, at the expense of a large portion of his abilities. As an added measure he imprisoned seven gatekeepers within the tower; Cerberus, Agni, Rudra, Nevan, Beowulf, Geryon and Doppelganger. On top of this he took the names of the Seven Sins and imprisoned them to set them as seals keeping the Temen-ni-gru underground, and also sealed off another entrance to the demon world using one of his trademark blades, Yamato.
The activities of the Legendary Dark Knight over the next two thousand years remain shrouded in mystery, and no amount of speculation has yet changed that. Legends tell that he ruled over the humans as a protector for a time before disappearing. He next resurfaced during the twentieth century where he met and fell in love with a human woman, Eva, who bore him twin sons who would in very different ways continue the legacy of their father, who seemed to the eyes of the supernatural world to have died shortly after his children were born.
But it seems the legend is not yet finished. Sparda found himself exiled to the netherworld with seemingly no way to return, and remained so for some time. With his precious sword nowhere to be found and only Luce and Ombra to rely upon, the demon set about gathering a new arsenal of weapons by tracking down the most impossibly powerful elemental demons he could find. Over many months he located, bitterly fought and destroyed his three targets, taking their souls as devastatingly powerful Devil Arms...
Just in time, it seemed, for events to take another wholly unexpected turn. He had been present when the rift opened; in fact, the colossal tower that was at the heart of the reality-rending turmoil almost burst out of the ground beneath his very feet. The sheer incomprehensible power this structure possessed caused the Dark Knight to black out for a moment. When he came to, not only was he welcomed by an eerie silence, as though the presence of this tower had erased all other life, but he had awoken in an entirely different place. Had the tower transported him to some other realm...?
He explored the landscape in which he had found himself for what felt like days before finally coming across a city; a grand, sprawling place, dominated by a snow-white temple. Here, he figured, he might find some answers...
Oh yeah!