Player: Kelly Contact:tinybro | orbynit @ discord Age: 32 Current Characters: Rolo Lamperouge
Character Name: Saralegui Character Canon: Kyou Kara Maou! Canon Point: End of season 3 episode 36 Age: 17
Crime: Perfidy
Background: The wiki is extremely barebones but I have a whole background writeup over here.
Personality: By all outward appearances, Saralegui is just the young and charismatic king of the country of Small Shimaron. He's fair in his rule, intelligent and responsible despite his age, and well-liked by his people. He's kind and charming and strives for peace – the sort of king that really cares about his people, rather than simply enjoying the luxury that such power brings.
In reality, however, Saralegui is a manipulative schemer. He plays nice with others not out of genuine kindheartedness, but because keeping up a good reputation helps him most in the cutthroat politics of his world. Saralegui doesn't shy away from using others to accomplish his goals and he's both intelligent enough and powerful enough to get away with it – "powerful" in this case referring less to his rank and more to the hypnotic magic he can work with his eyes. He doesn't even need that much of the time though, more interested in the challenge of doing things the old-fashioned way. When asked why he goes to extremes like orchestrating his own near-death to manipulate the protagonist when he could simply use his powers for the same purpose, Saralegui simply answers that it's more fun going without it. He's extremely intelligent, plotting moves out far in advance and predicting the moves on others accurately in order to make all his plotting work, and with his hypnotic abilities to fall back on, he's willing to make extremely risky gambles that always seem to work out for him in the end. It seems like having his powers to fall back on just makes him bold and almost reckless, always confident that he can just sidestep any real danger with his mind-control if things don't go his way.
It isn't a lie that he cares for his country, but even that has a selfish root – he grew up almost entirely ignored by his father and it created a craving for acknowledgement and attention in him, a spiteful need to be a greater king than his father was. Between that apparent indifference from his father and his mother having been entirely absent from his life, he has something of an abandonment complex. And going from feeling so completely unwanted to having people vying for his favor as a king has left him deeply jaded – people always have ulterior motives, as far as he's concerned, and the concept of love is a pretty lie. How could he believe in something like that, after all, when his own parents, the people who should have loved him unconditionally and before all others, wanted nothing to do with him?
On a casual level, he ranges from sincerely affable to incredibly two-faced. He's very focused on appearances and often lies or sticks to polite surface interactions to maintain that persona of a sweet and pleasant young ruler, but it's not as if everything he does always has such ulterior motives. He's very much capable of being friendly and getting along with others, and when there are no high stakes involved he can actually be pretty great for intelligent conversation or flirting or joking around. As long as things remain on a lighthearted surface level, he can be fairly genuine and likable without issue – it's getting deeper than that where things can get messy.
The only person he trusts absolutely is his bodyguard, Belias, and that's a trust built up over more than a decade of loyal servitude, and Belias entered his life early enough that Saralegui was still young and desperate enough to cling to whatever attention he was given. He takes that trust to an extreme, even putting his life in his bodyguard's skilled hands (and not just in the sense of protection, but even intentionally shooting him with a goddamn arrow). For everyone else, however, he's skeptical of others as a rule and prone to suspecting people of having ulterior motives than simply accepting the kindness of a stranger.
Despite everything he's done, Saralegui isn't exactly a villain. He does bad things, sometimes cruel things, but his intentions are at least somewhat decent. He has a very "ends justify the means" attitude, which is why he could so easily trick his only friend, the pacifistic Yuuri, into destroying entire armies for him on two separate occasions – it might hurt Yuuri, yes, but it gets rid of the threat of Large Shimaron's forces without having to send a single soldier into battle, and if it manages to kill off Large Shimaron's king in the process, then that just means he can claim the throne himself and definitely end all the fighting between humans and demons.
Abilities: - He has a power that allows him to more or less hypnotize other people. It seems to require eye contact (at least initially) and as he always removes his glasses before using it, most likely can't penetrate even transparent surfaces. The commands given don't have to be verbal, and resistance to them is based on willpower, but it should be noted that the ability is very powerful, with only the Demon King ever being shown actually breaking free from it. He doesn't seem to like abusing this power, however, as it's only ever brought out in situations he can't somehow manipulate through other means. - According to the novels, he can see in the dark.
Inventory: - The Divine Sword of Seisakoku, a powerful magic sword that can apparently only be used at all by half-humans (but only Saralegui has been able to truly control it and make full use of its power). It normally provides life-energy to a whole country and that same power can use used for things like healing, pouring magic energy into a person, and rapid growth of plantlife for miles around, as well as creating a magic barrier and teleporting across a city for some reason. The sword's abilities are pretty vague and wide in scope and we only see it do most of these things like once, but fortunately Saralegui is not very inclined to making frequent use of such powers 🙃
Questions: Please let me know if any nerfing is required! Between his basically-an-unlimited-Geass and the magic sword, I would understand completely lol
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Age: 32
Current Characters: Rolo Lamperouge
Character Name: Saralegui
Character Canon: Kyou Kara Maou!
Canon Point: End of season 3 episode 36
Age: 17
Crime: Perfidy
Background: The wiki is extremely barebones but I have a whole background writeup over here.
Personality: By all outward appearances, Saralegui is just the young and charismatic king of the country of Small Shimaron. He's fair in his rule, intelligent and responsible despite his age, and well-liked by his people. He's kind and charming and strives for peace – the sort of king that really cares about his people, rather than simply enjoying the luxury that such power brings.
In reality, however, Saralegui is a manipulative schemer. He plays nice with others not out of genuine kindheartedness, but because keeping up a good reputation helps him most in the cutthroat politics of his world. Saralegui doesn't shy away from using others to accomplish his goals and he's both intelligent enough and powerful enough to get away with it – "powerful" in this case referring less to his rank and more to the hypnotic magic he can work with his eyes. He doesn't even need that much of the time though, more interested in the challenge of doing things the old-fashioned way. When asked why he goes to extremes like orchestrating his own near-death to manipulate the protagonist when he could simply use his powers for the same purpose, Saralegui simply answers that it's more fun going without it. He's extremely intelligent, plotting moves out far in advance and predicting the moves on others accurately in order to make all his plotting work, and with his hypnotic abilities to fall back on, he's willing to make extremely risky gambles that always seem to work out for him in the end. It seems like having his powers to fall back on just makes him bold and almost reckless, always confident that he can just sidestep any real danger with his mind-control if things don't go his way.
It isn't a lie that he cares for his country, but even that has a selfish root – he grew up almost entirely ignored by his father and it created a craving for acknowledgement and attention in him, a spiteful need to be a greater king than his father was. Between that apparent indifference from his father and his mother having been entirely absent from his life, he has something of an abandonment complex. And going from feeling so completely unwanted to having people vying for his favor as a king has left him deeply jaded – people always have ulterior motives, as far as he's concerned, and the concept of love is a pretty lie. How could he believe in something like that, after all, when his own parents, the people who should have loved him unconditionally and before all others, wanted nothing to do with him?
On a casual level, he ranges from sincerely affable to incredibly two-faced. He's very focused on appearances and often lies or sticks to polite surface interactions to maintain that persona of a sweet and pleasant young ruler, but it's not as if everything he does always has such ulterior motives. He's very much capable of being friendly and getting along with others, and when there are no high stakes involved he can actually be pretty great for intelligent conversation or flirting or joking around. As long as things remain on a lighthearted surface level, he can be fairly genuine and likable without issue – it's getting deeper than that where things can get messy.
The only person he trusts absolutely is his bodyguard, Belias, and that's a trust built up over more than a decade of loyal servitude, and Belias entered his life early enough that Saralegui was still young and desperate enough to cling to whatever attention he was given. He takes that trust to an extreme, even putting his life in his bodyguard's skilled hands (and not just in the sense of protection, but even intentionally shooting him with a goddamn arrow). For everyone else, however, he's skeptical of others as a rule and prone to suspecting people of having ulterior motives than simply accepting the kindness of a stranger.
Despite everything he's done, Saralegui isn't exactly a villain. He does bad things, sometimes cruel things, but his intentions are at least somewhat decent. He has a very "ends justify the means" attitude, which is why he could so easily trick his only friend, the pacifistic Yuuri, into destroying entire armies for him on two separate occasions – it might hurt Yuuri, yes, but it gets rid of the threat of Large Shimaron's forces without having to send a single soldier into battle, and if it manages to kill off Large Shimaron's king in the process, then that just means he can claim the throne himself and definitely end all the fighting between humans and demons.
Abilities:
- He has a power that allows him to more or less hypnotize other people. It seems to require eye contact (at least initially) and as he always removes his glasses before using it, most likely can't penetrate even transparent surfaces. The commands given don't have to be verbal, and resistance to them is based on willpower, but it should be noted that the ability is very powerful, with only the Demon King ever being shown actually breaking free from it. He doesn't seem to like abusing this power, however, as it's only ever brought out in situations he can't somehow manipulate through other means.
- According to the novels, he can see in the dark.
Inventory:
- The Divine Sword of Seisakoku, a powerful magic sword that can apparently only be used at all by half-humans (but only Saralegui has been able to truly control it and make full use of its power). It normally provides life-energy to a whole country and that same power can use used for things like healing, pouring magic energy into a person, and rapid growth of plantlife for miles around, as well as creating a magic barrier and teleporting across a city for some reason. The sword's abilities are pretty vague and wide in scope and we only see it do most of these things like once, but fortunately Saralegui is not very inclined to making frequent use of such powers 🙃
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Questions: Please let me know if any nerfing is required! Between his basically-an-unlimited-Geass and the magic sword, I would understand completely lol