LEVI CLARKE

HISTORY

Born in the year 1863, Levi never knew his parents. They died when he was at a young age and he was dumped off into an orphanage in merry ol’ England, where nobody seemed to take much notice of him. Sure he was raised properly and he was told his first and last name, seeing as how his parents did at least exist, but beyond that he was robbed of the traditional fun kids in Victorian-era England might have found. Instead, Levi decided to occupy his time by being a statue in public areas. He would watch the other orphans and become fascinated in the way they acted and spoke among one another. Even when they would do wicked things, leaving the orphanage and attacking animals or robbing people of their food, Levi would stay silent. The threat of being beaten didn’t matter much to him, which caused him to gain a decent tolerance to pain early on in his childhood life.

As Levi got older and the years passed, he grew into a somewhat unremarkable teenage boy. Somewhere between his birth and seventeenth birthday, Levi had gained a fixation for ‘stoking the fire’ so to speak between two individuals to see how things would play out. He would do or say very small things to cause a tiny crack in the metaphorical dam and would sit in a tall tree as he watched the water metaphorically rush forward. One day, whilst wandering his way back home to the orphanage, he was caught in a large explosion that knocked him off his feet. He had never experienced this sort of thing before, and without realizing it he unintentionally absorbed the soul of the only other orphan in the immediate vicinity at the time. Startled and afraid, this would be the day that Levi would meet the one and only father figure in his life: A man who called himself ‘Josef.’ The man went on to explain what the Bount were, and over the next eight years would train and raise Levi as his own.

Unsurprisingly, Levi gained an unhealthy connection with the man and when he was around the physical age of twenty-three, in 1885, he was informed that he would cease aging from this point onward and was instructed to follow Josef back to the orphanage where he had grown up. There, he witnessed Josef slaughter a whole new group of orphans along with the adults in the area, and the twin Bount absorbed the souls that were left from this massacre. Instructing the young Levi, Josef would go on to show him the ritual required to summon a Doll. Asking about what a Doll was only had the elder man summon his own, a rather beautiful woman whom captivated Levi. The ritual was a success, though by the end of it the pair of Bount were attacked by a group of Shinigami sent to London due to having caught wind of Josef’s presence. Instructing him to flee with the Doll, Josef lost his life defending Levi’s departure and once again Levi would find himself alone in the world.

…Or would he? During the next three years Levi would grow closer to the Doll he had summoned, which had started out as a small little fairy-like being and was now a full, adult size. Levi saw the Doll as a close friend and, due to their shared interests in ‘watching the world burn’, so to speak, the pair gained a strong alliance that allowed them to strengthen their powers as time passed. From late 1885 to April of 1888, Levi would spend most of his time doing what he had done best earlier in his life: Provoking the people around him just barely so that he could see how they reacted and sometimes even scaring them by summoning his Doll. Levi also traveled the world, leaving his home of England and exploring various other countries. It was easy to hide his presence, seeing as how Josef had revealed to him numerous unique traits of their race which included the inability to be tracked spiritually, and if you ignored his unique choice in clothing he appeared to be a pretty ‘normal’ human. When he came back to England in April of 1888, Levi caught wind of a rumor that a mysterious individual was slaughtering prostitutes.

Naturally this wasn’t something he could ignore, and between April 1888 and February 1891 Levi would spend his time fairly interested in this individual whom would come to be known as Jack the Ripper. Though he was only a bystander, Levi witnessed many of the murders that occurred and would constantly discuss it alongside his Doll. When the killer’s spree finally died down, the next few years would consist of Levi having fun with his dealings with the Shinigami that hunted him and the wicked creatures, which he would learn later on were called Hollow, he either killed or carried on the oddest of conversations with. Currently Levi continues to travel the world, having gotten even stronger in combat and the use of his Doll and gotten closer personality-wise to the one friend he so unhealthily clings to. His fascination with humans has also grown substantially, so watch your step if he decides to find an interest in you… Because who knows what might come next?