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[Character] = Sion Astal, Hero King of Roland*
[Canon] = The Legend of the Legendary Heroes ( Densetsu no Yūsha no Densetsu / 伝説の勇者の伝説 )

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The Legend of the Legendary Heroes is home to a lot of terrible things. Child Soldiers, tons of violence, eye horror, high rates of child death, sexual assault, a few cannibals. (Take Game of Thrones, ramp it up a bit-) IF YOU WANT ME TO AVOID THESE THINGS, LET ME KNOW.
Sion isn't someone who takes part in that, but his history does involve it.

Sion is no longer quite human – he's something called a Human α, which really just means that he has unnatural charisma. Literally infects people with "you like me", although not in a romantic sort of way, but in a loyalty sort of way. People who can escape this are non humans, or humans who can't fully feel emotion for some reason or another. Learning he has the Mad Hero may or may not make the effect go away. This is a passive ability, and Sion can't do anything with it. Basically Sion has powers of "I just met you and you're kinda awesome I wanna follow you".

Asruld is living inside Sion, and can take control over his body, thus talking in a normal way, or can communicate with "A voice that seems to be from above and below and inside your head", because y'know, deity level being.

In a worst case scenario, and Asruld gains control of Sion's body, Asruld can summon black swords. Five is seen as what he hits Ryner with - which are controlled by willpower. These do not do physical damage. They are seen ripping clothing, but do not cause bleeding. They seem for the purpose of spiritual things - devouring or transferring Mad Hero powers. However, they seem to hurt like hell regardless.

Asruld is most commonly described as darkness - "A pitch black consciousness", "he succumbed to the darkness", "your periods of darkness". Asruld is described this way, but not described as 'evil' - rather, he is a being of destruction who exists to right the wrong that the existences of Goddesses creates. (Or, well, he was supposed to take out a set number of Goddesses, run into one more powerful than him, and collapse out of no longer having a purpose. But he changed the rules of his existence with the help and power of Ryner Reed, the Lonesome half of the Lonesome Demon)

The reason there's the whole Human α thing is because Asruld's plane of existence is the original one. The above mentioned beings known as Goddesses tried to imprison him, and the spell that keeps him bound is called Human, and makes up the Menoris that Sion lives on, with the individual humans being part of it. I think the only difference that there really is for humans and Humans is that the Menoris Human has magic to their flesh - if someone consumes magic, they can gain some by cannibalism (this is a thing that happens in canon. I am sorry)

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Is your human character immune to Sion's charisma? For reasons like having a traumatic childhood and thus struggle with emotions, trouble with emotions for other reasons, or perhaps an immunity to deities- Any blackmail information that Sion could find via digging Volunteer information he could use to twist a characters arm about! Out of context things work- "Ryner Lute proposed to his teacher at age 6 (because she would have killed him if he didn't.)" Alternatively, is there something you wouldn't want him to find in the public comms? General Opt-Out for Asruld Shenanigans: If you'd like to avoid having to deal with Asruld, just put yes here and ignore the rest of the questions. Hearing Asruld?: Y/N on hearing the "not from Sion's mouth" form of Sion's speaking? Sword: Y/N on Sword working? Or, would sword work differently from the expectation? (Actually deals physical harm, doesn't deal more pain than expected?)

Unless you really want to deal with Sion's spreading of Love, his magic Charisma is nuked due to not dealing with the right kind of Humans / because it's a bit weird to mess with / unless a game event would make it happen again.

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Is your human character immune to Sion's charisma? Yes, she isn't human and in addition, her emotional state is mutated by the presence of the Void.
Any blackmail information that Sion could find via digging He might discover a few references to 'a man named Dante', or something about the 'Cliffs of Evidet and black mist". Whether or not these little things will help him against her is another matter.

General Opt-Out for Asruld Shenanigans: If you'd like to avoid having to deal with Asruld, just put yes here and ignore the rest of the questions.
Hearing Asruld?: The Void, together with the holy magic protecting her soul, would most likely prevent Asruld from being able to speak to her without using Sion.
Sword: If the swords work on a spiritual level, then the effects would be lessened due to the presence of the Holy magic around Valdis' soul, it would still hurt, but not as much as it would someone who didn't have that particular shield.

Note: I read above that Asruld exists to 'right the wrongs that the existence of goddesses creates'. As such, I feel I should note that Valdis was once worshiped as a Goddess of Death and Chaos on her home world.

Due to the nature of the Goddesses that Asruld is familiar with, he might get pissy at her before realizing she isn't the same?

The goddesses of menoris exist to eat, as far as we've been shown, and are described as greedy foul creatures, with power to match the strength of their hunger. Lucile/Weaver says that Sion's insane half-brothers have become something like Goddesses, if I remember right, and they were basically being super gross and terrible.

Who knows, as a being who knew only Destruction, he might potentially get along with Death-

Could be interesting CR.

Is your human character immune to Sion's charisma?
Raine is only half human, and in many respects her elven blood is what dominates, so I'd go with little if any effect.
China is fully human, but... pulls a very similar trick in a very different way, and has a general disdain for Emotions. She might notice the pull, perhaps? Or just ignore it entirely.

Any blackmail information that Sion could find via digging
Raine is pretty open and not disreputable. She keeps information close to her chest, but it's nothing blackmail-worthy, just stuff she prefers she not be general knowledge. Should be pretty evident that threats to the people she cares about are the best way to leverage her, though. There's one thing that only three people currently know which I would really prefer not see the light of day, though, and it's never been on the network, so I don't see how Sion could hear about it anyway.
China is for the most part utterly shameless, an information broker, and the one thing she's ever been blackmailed with in canon is no longer usable leverage. I can't honestly think there's anything that could be used on her, though her lack of fondness for Anton Shudder might be a thing that can be picked up on?
General Opt-Out for Asruld Shenanigans:
Hearing Asruld?: Sure, if it comes up.
Sword: Sure also, if it winds up being a thing. Though Raine is magically/spiritually inclined to light, if that would affect anything.

I came to the realization that it's not the right kind of Humans for Sion's weird charisma to work. (it works because everyone in his world are actually spell constructs in a massive spell, and he's altering their spell workings by infecting them with more Love than they usually have) But if for some reason that it would carry over anyway, I'll keep it in mind!

I'm not entirely sure if the light alignment would be a problem or not. There is an indication that there are elemental pairings going on, but I'm pretty sure Sword doesn't have an alignment? We can roll with a strange slight resistance if you want?

All right. We'll roll with 'not a thing' for now, then. If things go magically wonky later for some reason (...not out of the question) then we can revisit it. :3

Hmmm, I'll leave that up to you. For some reason I drew the impression Sword was associated with darkness.

Probably part of the description! black swords, dark magic seems like an easy connection.

Is your human character immune to Sion's charisma? I'd say partially. Zel is human mentally, but generally he's been stabbed in the back enough that he mistrusts people. So Sion's charisma might move him up to Zel assuming he's a generally good and safe guy, but not breaking from his 'I band to people when required only'.
Any blackmail information that Sion could find via digging Most of Zel's screw-ups were open enough that they wouldn't work well for blackmail. But if I think of anything, I'll let you know. He is a mercenary at heart, and mostly the fact he's been stuck in a single city for years has kept him tame.
General Opt-Out for Asruld Shenanigans: No
Hearing Asruld?:Sure. Zel's dealt with scary things possessing humans. (Generally it has not been good experiences.)
Sword: Sure! Zel is perfectly vulnerable to magical bullshit, even if non-magical physical swords don't work too well on him.

Any situation where Asruld talks will probably just add to that pile. Sorry for the surprise? At least it won't leave a scar?

Cain (

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Is your human character immune to Sion's charisma? Probably not, although Cain is well-versed enough in his own emotions to feel it and not immediately react on that feeling if he has a chance to analyze and realize that he doesn't want to do anything.
Any blackmail information that Sion could find via digging Anything is open-season, but tbh Cain is hard to blackmail since he's to the point of not feeling very threatened by anything in the long run.
General opt-out for Asruld Shenanigans: nah
Hearing Asruld? y.
Sword: y. Sword would probably have an interesting effect in that could run into Cain's immortality but probably not budge it due to its implementation being a result of universal law where he's from.

yeah Sword is a mess in his canon too (I read further, and wow it's a terrible thing, but Sion isn't from that point yet so-), it's ... capable of erasing things from existence (he kills a spell from the world, everyone's memories included, a couple days after his canonpoint, for example-), but Sion isn't at that power level here.

As a note for Cain, when Asruld becomes active, the numbers for both Sion and Asruld will begin to fluxuate up and down - they're fighting each other, which really means that the human is trying to consume the divine being and visa versa.

I need to hit up your permissions post or pp you with more questions, because ... i read more of the canon and more information!! yay!! cry a lot.

Casey Ramone (

dragonaught)
Is your human character immune to Sion's charisma? NOPE. Not even close.
Any blackmail information that Sion could find via digging Er, nothing that they've done unless Sion were the type to use their being agender against them? Ehhh.
General opt-out for Asruld shenanigans: Meh, I'm not too bothered.
Hearing Asruld? Yeah, why not.
Sword: I could go for it.

Essentially, whatever happens will happen!

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