Lares Morteclere

Wrapped tightly around Lares' right forearm is a horrible, terrible thing. At a glance it seems first that the vambrace he dons from wrist to elbow is composed of imitated vertebral columns- but scraped viscera and shreds of sinew clinging to it in the rotten semblance of mortflesh confirm an organic origin to this despicable object, the horror of which goes on well past this appearance.

Ribs jut from the object's underside to protect the underside of Lares' forearm, past the bony embrace of which a sickly veneer of desiccated, leathern flesh akin to that of a mummy's wilted insides has grown over the skin of its Bount wearer. Purplish veins slowly pulse across its surface, and from its top, a toothed 'beak' of defiled, yellowish ivory juts forward to cover the back of Lares' right fist, ending above the knuckles. The beak has distorted indentions of eye-sockets further back to the main bulk of the corpsely vambrace.

A hook-like protrusion of seemingly sharp but dull bone extends from the outer side of the vambrace, from the wrist up to the elbow, from the latter portion of which there descends a mess of rancid black hair wetted by some foul, putrescent goop of viscous and no doubt bodily origin. It's a nightmarish thing to look at and smells worse than it appears; a bony sore seated at the wrist's top, framed by teeth, conceals an insipid and bloodshot eye that will brim open with a sickly *crunch* at the command of 'Zeige Dich'.

In a perhaps deliberate contrast to its possessor, Ankou has an amazingly simple personality; he loves to kill, defile and profane purely for the sake of doing so. In acts of evil this being finds a sincere and gratifying fulfillment that borders on innocence: Ankou is a sincere embodiment of humanesque malice, and the somewhat cartoonish yet still frightening semblance of its visage is perhaps a mocking of its demonized looks. 

Ankou is remarkably derisive and accusatory towards anything which is flawed or needless; he does not ridicule nor correct for the purpose of doing so, but rather to thrive upon the faults of living beings. His is a will methodically oriented toward death and Ankou takes a very organized approach to killing in which every foe is an orderly, blank canvas to be disposed of very systematically: unbeknownst to Lares, Ankou subconsciously imitates the Bount's perception of the massacring Shinigami seen in childhood.

Befitting a Doll wrought of elements torn directly from human flesh and born from the font of confusion, fear and vindictiveness born of tragedy and inspired by nightmare, Ankou is a fittingly sadistic and nearly mysterious entity whom tells nothing beyond what is necessary and acts without consent nor concern. As unearthly as Lares himself can seem, Ankou's horror and demeanor can go further to drive a witness to question their awakeness... 

As expected from a fiend born of such a rancid, nightmarishly warped vambrace, much of Ankou's manifested form is rotten and perpetually putrescent; his horns are bony things covered in the smashed, viscous remains of infantile carcasses, covered in buzzing flies and crawling maggots which dribble to the ground. Blood and filth crawl unnaturally over his forelimbs up to his knees and elbows respectively, undulating with eerie shudders of vile black-brown-and-green slime that smells of death and debasing expiration.

Trailing upwards, however, the Doll's upper limbs and core are a pallid paraffin white, nearly in stark contrast with the rest of its macabre stature... albeit, orderly nodules and spikes jutting from his more prominent bones and joints differ slightly from the humanesque anatomy. A regal belt of geometric, nearly ecclesiastic gold charms form around the creature's waist, from which there descends a frayed black hakama of ritual origin that seems to resist the pushes of even the most insistent winds.

Wings of warped flesh extend from Ankou's shoulders. They are ever-rotten and are absolutely eldritch things torn from some ungodly aberration in the cesspits of the dreaming plane; the leathern-brown members are perpetually soaked in dripping blood-filth, given texture by bark-like exterior and warped humanesque visages moaning mutely across their wingspan, and clatter with the half-digested remnants of finger and arm bones hanging morbidly from their lengths.

In contrast with the horrific detail of its extremities, the face of Ankou is an amazingly simplistic thing, consisting of naught but a vicious smile of pearlescent white teeth and vapid, dull grey eyes that gleam with mirror-like iridescence in well-lit areas.

Name: Karrigell an Ankou (Wheelbarrow of Death)
Class: Zeige Dich
Tier: IV
Type: Offensive
Range: 86 meters
Description: Unleashes an unholy deluge of mortflesh, bone-spears, filth and clawing half-digested ghouls outward in a carrion wave of consuming corpsemeal; strikes foes in a large forward cone capable of dismantling buildings. Those killed in the 'blast' rise as filth-slathered, partly decomposed ghouls to mindlessly roam indefinitely and vapidly claw at their surroundings, or accost the living with what little glimmers of consciousness they have left behind their undead eyes. Allows for the most prolific means of producing zombies; the undead produced are largely useless, however, and abide no commands... their purpose is to suffer individually and defile their former vessels. Travels at Cero speed, dealing a similar amount of damage but spread out over a longer length of time. (Requires OOC permission to produce a revenant of a dead PC)

Name: Labous an Ankou (Bird of Death)
Class: Zeige Dich
Tier: III
Type: Poison
Range: 5~ meters
Description: Straying too near to Ankou is risky, for at any moment in close proximity he may cast a horrible omen over foes. A spew of rotting yet animate ravens may gush from his mouth or an open wound to slather enemies in a sticky mass of filth-laden feathers and bits of putrescent bird-flesh. The ravens themselves dissolve into shade, and plunge into the victim's shadow, whereupon they will feel false sensations of the birds squirming and pecking beneath their skin; the technique is evasible, as the shadows of the birds move no more swiftly than the birds themselves would.

If successfully passed the curse of crows afflicts an enemy with severe, putrescent sickness; the contents of their stomach will rot and fester, they will develop an incredible fever and their wounds will abruptly inflame with budding infections, and if not untreated they will remain sickly for long after battle has ceased. The curse worsens as injuries are received and as the strength of a foe wanes, hastening exhaustion. Fatigues, diseases and nauseates foes; without treatment, they may suffer major reiatsu-driven infection after battle that can kill the mortally wounded even if they survive their injuries themselves.

Cast automatically without the use of a combat action whenever Lares suffers a moderate or more severe, open wound.

Name: Gore Spate
Class: Zeige Dich
Tier: III
Type: Passive (Conditional)
Range: Self
Description: If at least one pint of blood has been spilled in Ankou's active presence, the skies will begin to occlude with rotted, ruddy-tan clouds. A rain of putrescent filth will quietly hiss to shower about him, the contents of which will slowly shift to blood as more harm and gore is loosed in a fight. This rain of hellish pestilence has an obvious detriment on the health of wildlife but primarily serves another purpose.

This curse of Ankou's draws on an insatiability for carnage. So long as there is bloody combat, Ankou benefits from an indefinite x2 augmentation to his strength. This does not extend to Lares, unless Merging is achieved. If combat ceases, or there is nothing left to kill, the strength increase is immediately lost. The filthy blood-rain intensifies and slowly spreads wider over a long battle to such extent that all wildlife within 100 meters would be severely diseased or outright doomed by the end of a particularly epic conflict.  

Name: Visceral Fetters
Class: Zeige Dich
Tier: III
Type: Binding
Range: 2-5~ Meters
Description: From any point on the surface of his eerie, pallid skin, Ankou may rupture the veneer of his outer flesh to loose a horrific spew of gore, pestilence and worming tendrils of intestine-like appendages in a projectile deluge towards a foe. The reach of such is exceedingly limited however- only six meters, in fact, matching the average length of the human digestive tract.

Should the worming intestines collide with an unfortunate adversary however, barbed teeth and radula-like tendrils will spew from the surface of their skin to cover foes in an encapsulating mesh of intertwined, hardy integumentary tissues that swiftly harden to bone consistency in the shape of spiked rib-cages. 

The worms of this technique as well as the bone cages they grow around a grappled enemy encircle the limbs of an enemy exactly as a straight-jacket would, and bind their ankles together similarly. After entangling with a foe for roughly a minute's quarter the worms will calcify to harden their binds; this ideally leaves a foe with only the motion of their feet and ankles, if they can't immediately shatter the binds. 

The worming entrails and their preternaturally pervasive filth advance for the desired enemy at half-bala speed. This technique may only target a single enemy.