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Edgelord
     

The Black Dragon Prince / Tommy Rotten

Edgelord
“They're a blazing supernova, here to liberate us from the shackels of small-minded, comformist society. He's here to elevate us all to the true concept of freedom and independence. And I'm not just saying that 'cuz he crashed at my place for a month.” — Anonymous admirer

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  • Strength-10
  • Intelligence-4
  • Charisma-8
  • Endurance-8
  • Agility-10
  • Luck-4

Type: Destructive
Domains: Edges, Sharpness, Restlessness, Aggression, Treachery
Associations: Swords, Punk Rock, Rebellion, Anarchy, Long Jackets, Black with Red, High-School Students, Black Dragons

Summary: An "edgy" rabble-rousing, punk assumed by many to be a demigod to the radical. Patron saint of the dissatisfied and the repressed and inspiring of aimless revololution. Fan of sharp objects used mainly to hurt people.

Traits
[Provocative] Negative trait
This character may not be aggressive themselves, but they will often taunt and provoke other characters. While they may have fun doing so, they're prone to angering the wrong person and getting into trouble.
[Killer] Negative trait
This character is willing to kill in order to solve most problems, and may have absolutely no problems with doing so. This may result in a character threatening to kill people ahead of them in a line without hesitation, and following through if not taken seriously.
[Overconfident] Negative trait
This character is too confident in their abilities and is not realistic about how dangerous or challenging something may be. They may take on tasks they cannot do, or put themselves or their team in dangerous situations because they think they can handle it.
[Prankster] Negative trait
A character with this trait likes to fool around with others for their own amusement, and usually at the other person's expense. They have a habit of tampering with things they shouldn't, and their often less-than-funny attempts at humor can lead to grief, inconvenience, and even bodily harm.
[Lazy] Negative trait
This character dislikes working and will never go the extra mile. They also have a lower standard of what is too much work and may endanger themselves and others by cutting corners.
[Rude] Negative trait
This character cares very little about issues relating to anyone but them. They may make very insensitive comments towards people and voice how much they wish other characters would "get over it".
[Loves Swords] Neutral trait
Edgelord really loves sword, some would say, more than life itself, they definitely like swords far more, than Life themselves.
[Edgy] Positive trait
Edgelord is an edgy guy. As in phsysically edgy, his body is really sharp to the touch, and should be approached with care.

Original Creator: SirBlizz98


Presence

The being called Edgelord, presumed by their name to be a demigod or anomaly of The Radical, is described as taking a number of forms depending on their current disposition, but they are fairly consistent in the fact that they all tend to be fairly "edgy". They share a general theme of being fairly sharp looking and dressing in a dark and intimidating faux-classy styling, complimented by a variety of adornments of their iconography.

Such as but not limited to; Spikes; A rather elaborately designed letter "S"; A similarly elaborately designed letter "E"; A sideways cross; Skulls; More spikes; etc.

The most common form attributed to them, is one which is typically described as a large black drakon with wings. This body has two arms and legs, and a tail like a typical drakon, usually standing at eight feet tall, but sometimes taller, with a proportionately large build. Their scales are midnight black with a slight red sheen, and its claws are a bloody red color. Their head resembles a typical two-eyed drakon head crowned with a set of twelve paired spiky horns. In this form they dress in a long black leather coat with a white furry fringe, complimented by a red vest, and torn black pants.

Their second most common form attributed to them, can be described as similar to a vampwelf but for several distinctions. Most notably, they are distinctly taller and more imposing than the average vampwelf, usually standing at six feet. Their skin is black with tussled gray fur most would describe as "bedraggled", they are typically ascribed -on close examination- as being covered in a fine layer of black scales, like a dragon's. This form is often mentioned in the folklore of the vampwelf in particular, named as "Lord Faustus Darkedge" and regarded as tempestuous ruiner, and poor dinner guest.

The least commonly described, but most readily believed to be a demigod of the radical, comes in the form that most would call a dragon. This form is covered in black scales which shimmer a bloody red in certain light. Their fangs and teeth are cast in a bloody red, indeed they are often described as appearing "as if perpetually drenched in fresh blood" by those that reportedly gaze upon them. They possess a pair of great wings, which though described a shredded, nonetheless carry them swiftly aloft. Their head is long and sharply featured, and crowned with a dozen or so great pointed spikes jutting out behind. Just behind which, they have a great shaggy mane of white fur, tinged with gray and red.

Across its myriad forms, one detail is nearly always the same: It's eyes, great probing black reptilian eyes, with red slitted pupils. Gazing dismissively with naked derision at all they observe.

Disposition

Edgelord is often described as a petulant, impetuous being, quick to anger and even quicker to bore. As one might expect from a supposed demigod of The Radical, they are an intense being of furious force, tempestuous and unpredictable. They are equally as likely to lay waste to the countryside, fight in a brutal one-on-one, or laze about on an unsolicited lodger's couch.

A common thread ascribed by the those that purport to encounter them, is a distinct anti-authoritarian streak. Indeed it is reported that the worst thing one can do in Edgelord's presence is be someone of authority. It is unclear why precisely but for this reason most reports of Edgelord's appearances occur in places of structure and order, if perhaps even tyranny. As befitting it's previous nature, it's action therein range from a swift destruction of the ruling authority, to a slow rousing of the discontented and disenfranchised.

Edgelord is said to get along most evenly with such types, though seemingly not for any sense of empathy or sympathy to their plight -real or imagined- but rather for a simple common distaste for being told what to do and thrill for destruction. Amongst those few who claim to have known them in person, they have a reputation for being "crude, rude, and with a bad attitude". Exulting in a way, that his admirer's reportedly find charming, and most others would find deeply unpleasant.

Acts

Many accounts describe a being presumbed to be Edgelord, describing "A Black Dragon" plunging forth down from the sky upon an unsuspecting bastion of order. Justly ruled or not, those places the rule of law pooled thickest were judged indifferently. The Fortunate amongst those would simply be razed in a storm of destruction and fury.

Those less fortunate, the Black Dragon would descend into the bowels of these places. From there they would strike and prod and gauge at the backfoot of their order. The dispossessed, the disenfranchised, and the dissatisfied. These movements always start small, unfocused, popular dissension, edgy bands, contrarian pop-celebs expressing crude, unsolicited opinions.

As his influences of the mass discontent grows so too the expression. Protests to riots, debates to arguments, moderation closes and friendship. At around this point the society collapses into anarchic dystrophy. Edgelord is often observed participating for a while, but shortly after, is known to leave, with nobody fully certain why.

Special

Infinity Edge Works: Edgelord, true to his name, is a master of anything and everything that has an edge, a blade, or is even slightly sharp. His greatest expression of this mastery is to summon a seemingly unlimited number of such objects -mainly swords- from seemingly out of nothing.

Edgelord is subsequently able to control these swords telekinetically, flinging them about as projectiles. They can enhance the "edges" of these swords -and indeed any edged object- enabling even the most seemingly benign of objects to be turned into a wickedly sharp blade.

Dragonblood Vengeance

--the following is an excerpt from a collected volume of the traditional tales of the svlanoi, elements have been left as the original where possible--

On a dark and stormy night, as all nights in Transylvaar these turns, on the month of storms, upon the fifth year of the era of bats, in a certain village lay a cabal of conspirators. For near upon fythens of turns had the dwellings of the tribe of Glazcon been assailed by the Dark Ones. All the sons of Yenkar and all the daughters of Yonkar, had fallen to the sway of the Dark Ones named "Vampwelf". All save, for the House of Reiss, first of his name. They alone held against the darkness, in what was certain to be a pitiful end to the last son of Isvald, last free-lord of Ztsvlistadt. For the Dark Ones, with their monsters and their slave-soldiers, had cornered the Band of Reiss at last. Reiss and his follows despaired and made one last desperate plea for salvation from their hitherfore silent gods. But all that came in answer was a streak of crimson lightning, and a crashing of thunder, which to all assembled seemed fitting as a final toll of their doom.

But then came crashing down, like a firebolt from the heavens, a strange beast of being. From head to foot five cubits they stood, clad in black scales which in the moonlight shone like rivengylds by pyrelight. Though they seemed a man, no man were they, with a muzzle like a great lizard, and a coiling tail like a serpent, and wings oh vast and terrible wings which presently rested pon its haunches. The leader of the vampwelf band approached in inquiry of the dark stranger, but with only a short chortle as reply, the strange struck the dark one in twain, with a blade that seemed to appear expressly for the purpose. The bloody battle that followed was swift as the stranger cut down all of the arrayed foes who did not hasten to flee. A weighty moment followed, before Reiss at last approached the stranger. The stranger spoke at length to Reiss, offering him and his fellow a choice, to receive a blessing of power and earn their freedom, or to be forever slaves. The stranger spilled their blood into a bowl, indicating plainly the mechanism of their choice.

Another weighty moment followed, before Tanis, daughter and only child of Reiss, stepped forward, and with a bold declaration of her own will, imbibed deeply of the stranger's blood. All at once, Tanis shifted and bent, her form shifting unnaturally. Her limbs grew long and sharp, her face stretched and contorted, from pon her back sprouted black wings, out her backside a serpentine tail, and all about her burst forth dark scales. Over an hour, she grew and changed and grew, before finally settling into the form of a great and terrible beast, with a continence not dissimilar to the stranger's own. After yet a third weighty moment, what had been Tanis, bid the rest of the band to drink, and shortly, starting with Reiss, they did. And one, by one, by one, did they change in the manner of Tanis, Twthens they numbered, all counted, and understanding, innately, their new might, each, took wing, to reek vengeance on the Dark Ones.

Trivia

• Folklore describes that Edgelord's presence is announced by a sudden bolt of red-and-black lightning, punctuated by a thunderous blast that sounds terribly near regardless of how close the being truly is.

• The thrash metal band DethEdge, while featuring common themes of graphic violence and anarchous destruction, and fronted by a drakon with a rare black pigmentation, is confirmed to not be associated with Edgelord. Probably.

• According to folklore, Edgelord lives "In a 'Manor' in the pale clouds of Nocturnis", the gas giant orbited by Transylvaar. Less believable tales, by people claiming to have been there, insist that, in the privacy of their own home they have an additional, distinctly different form, unseen by all.

• At one point there was a being claiming to be Edgelord, except they were much more conscientious while still being a rebellious punk. Those idolizers of Edgelord regarded him as a "Fake", and an "Insult to the Original", "Edgelord in name only". At some point, after much consternation, he was reportedly killed by the original real Edgelord. Though this couldn't be confirmed as their body was never found.

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