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BASICS AGE - 22 | NOVEMBER 13TH, 1998. HOMETOWN - Vicovu de Sus, (Northern) Romania. SPECIES - Demon | Reshaped. FAMILY - All deceased. LANGUAGE - English, Portuguese, Cantonese, Romanian. OCCUPATION - Headhunter | Private Investigator. APPEARANCE - Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr in Kill your Darlings. 5'8" / 1.78m ( X ) VOICE - Paul Banks, lead singer of Interpol. ( X ) ☙ THE WORLD ONCE UPON A TIME, ALL THE DEVILS FLED HELL AND CAME TO EARTH. That's how our story begins, on an Earth where demons ran rampant to fuck, kill and eat every human they could find on their path. It was the apocalypse, as some would call it, the end of the world where humans had any say, so they called for the ancient powers of sleeping gods to come and save them from damnation. With prayer and devotion the gods from long forgotten pantheons returned and swept the demons from the Earth, taking their place in ruling over the human race. With this new era, armies of humans blinded by their loyalty to the gods were bred, persecuting those considered impure or nonbelievers, often accused of being vessels to demons who had not been killed during salvation. Saved or not - Earth no longer belonged to Mankind. If it had once been the Devil's playground, it was now made purely for the entertainment of the deities that had vanquished it. Gods were turning human believers into Saints - people blessed with super-powered and quasi-invulnerability to act as their god's weapons - and Priests - humans with the ability to warp minds and convert others to their gods - marching in a war against Hell. Gods used human bodies as their vessels so that they could walk the Earth and act as proper rulers - their Messiahs - discarded whenever they grew bored of their appearance and jumped onto the next. As mankind always does... people grew tired of these gods. Their solution - their method of insurgence - ironically enough, was to call back the Devil. A group of humans, who would later be referred to as The Unholy Seven, performed a bloody ritual to summon the Devil, and ask for Its help in taking back the Earth. They made a pact to kill all the gods, and in return the Devil took a non-believer to become Its future Messiah. The chosen's name was Diana. Dragged down to Hell where she burned and suffered for two years, she was branded with a number of supernatural and sentient tattoos that would later aid her once she was returned to the human realm. She is the Devil's weapon, and the only person capable of slaughtering Saints and Gods alike. Her mission isn't just to wipe out these deities, though - Hell is empty and the Devil would see it repopulated, so she goes from city to city to reshape humans into demons and send them back down to Hell where they now belong. ☙ THE BOY WHO BECAME A MONSTER If you ask Petre where he's from, he'll quickly tell you 'In The Middle of Nowhere', Romania. Truth is he was born in a small village in the northern region, sheltered by caring and religious parents with strong family values. He lived a relatively normal childhood, a mild student at school and generally considered an anti-social twerp among his peers. He was always small and skittish, too shy to ever be extroverted or openly friendly to anyone, even if he was never mean. In fact Petre was occasionally bullied by the bigger kids, an easy target to anyone wanting to strike out their superiority and show off to girls. Just like any other child in his village, Petre was a true believer of the god Baldr, of purity and light. However mild-mannered as he was, the boy always grew with slight unrest in his heart, craving for something more, wondering what it was like in the world out there. Surely there was more to life than utter and total devotion to this god. Surely there was more value in a person than who or what he believed in. This would be Petre's greatest debate, and it would be the cause of his downfall. Petre succumbed to the wrath of his precious god when he dared to question His place on this Earth. His punishment was far greater than he could ever withstand - his entire family was completely wiped out, and he was left alive only to watch and remember their deaths. The Dodrescus would become a message to the rest of the village, should anyone else choose to rise against their ruler. Luckily or not, Diana arrived just in time to perform the Devil's work and avenge Petre's relatives, killing the murderous god. When she found the young human crawling and bleeding in the dark depths of his wrecked home, she offered back the rest of his life and made him the first Reshaped human - now a demon with powers from Hell - and his soul was promised to burn eternally. In a moment of mercy and regret, Diana bargained with the Devil to keep him on Earth, and It conceded. The transformation from human to demon was immediate. If it had not been for Diana, it would have been absolutely chaotic - Petre was now a being who thrived in sin and destruction, instinctive and amoral, actively looking for outlets to an ever accumulating need to corrupt. Violence was an easy solution - he often helped Diana fight off and kill enemies that crossed their way, doing so viciously. The literal hunger for human flesh came after, and he ate his first victim as he completely lost control, shredding him with claws and fangs until there was nothing left. Needless to say he grew more and more reckless, and Diana had to teach him a lesson or two to make him smart before he just got himself killed. In addition to some modicum of control, Petre learned several other things, among them how to speak more languages with fluency, doing so at an alarming speed. He also learned how to fight with the right techniques, use a weapon or two, how to pick victims and use his ability to control minds by wiring himself to the person's Sins, etc. One of the most relevant time periods of his Reshaped life was practically at its beginning. He and Diana arrived to a location in Canada to investigate the rumors of a newly emerged Saint called Caleb Waters, who served the god Osiris. While Diana was the only one of the two capable of killing gods with her sword Kaladanda, Petre was still able to hunt down and kill Saints, Priests, even some Messiahs, so he was given the task to kill off Caleb on his own. Having tracked him down, Petre quickly found that he wasn't a Saint after all. Instead Caleb was just incredibly devoted to his god, and just as suspicious of Petre when he first showed up - he pointed a gun at Petre's head and threatened him based on the fact that the boy was a stranger, and because he'd been following him. Convincing Caleb that he was harmless, he instead pretended to need his help and was taken in. It was on their very first night together that Petre indulged in his first sexual experience, and from then on he weaved a web of manipulation to corrupt and turn Caleb away from his god. This only lasted for so long before Petre had to leave. When he returned a few years later, he found that Caleb had become a Saint during his absence, and killed him for it. This was the first time he had become obsessed with someone other than Diana, and taken their decisions as an act of betrayal, which would be a prelude to several relationships through the following six years, where his loyalty to Diana would remain the only constant. Now, the year is 2020. Sacred Cities are scattered across the world; Petre and Diana wander from one to the next, posing as a headhunters and private investigators to catch non-believers but instead eliminating as many Gods as possible as they Reshape humans and send them down to Hell. ☙ PERSONALITY TRIGGER WARNING - He is sadistic, violent, remorseless, abusive. He loves violence and sex, corruption in all its forms. CODEPENDENCY - Diana is the only person in the world Petre counts on, the only one he can trust. She is his creator, his savior, his ally and friend - family. They share a strange kind of codependency; they rely on each other for almost everything. Diana tells Petre what she won't tell anyone else and he shows her what no one else gets to see. If there's anything in this world he cares about, it's her. However at the same time his devotion is genuine, he's also very aware that she holds the key to his destruction. One word from her and he'll be burning forever in Hell. This makes him wary, afraid one day he might just bore or anger her beyond repair. If there's one thing he's terrified of in this world it's of leaving it. Still he'll do anything for her and even if they spend time apart, they always end up finding one another. PRIDE - Petre is vain. He cares a lot about his appearance, presents himself in proper, expensive attire, hair slicked to the side. He likes purchasing and owning things, but he isn't above stealing or taking them with his impel power. POWER - A power freak through and through, he likes dominance and control, be it in a fight, a conversation - sex. Sometimes he fantasizes about letting it all go, letting someone take over and overpower him, but he rarely follows through. UNSTABLE - His personality has grounded characteristics, but a there's a lot about him that's inconstant, unpredictable. His mood swings according to his wants, and they aren't always the same thing. BRAND NEW- Petre is new to the world, in a way. Six years ago is how far back his memory goes. There are some things he's still learning about, namely himself. SINS - Being a demon - the first Reshaped human - Petre is the embodiment of all sins, and he lives to see them fulfilled in humans. He strives for corruption, draws pleasure from it. In a way he is capable of detecting which of the deadly sins are the most prominent ones in an individual, though all humans are capable of every one. Pinpointing the strongest in each of them allows him to better influence them with his Impel ability. WEAKNESS - He hates religion and gods, no exceptions. Just being around them affects his health and mood. ☙ POWERS IMPEL - To influence people by tapping into their sins. The outcome can vary depending on which sin is influenced and who is being influenced. CORRUPTION - Related to Impel; he has a strong urge and need to corrupt humans and turn them into darker versions of themselves. DEMON BIOLOGY - He can't get sick. He cannot be burnt and can walk through fire without so much a charred hair. He has regenerative skills and can grow back limbs, but this requires eating a number of humans to acquire the energy. He has demonic strength and stamina. He can make his teeth and nails sharper to tear flesh easily. FIRE AND HEAT - He can create the sensory illusion that one is getting hotter, or actually burning, through touch. Petre can generate fire, but he cannot control it. He can burn and melt virtually anything through touch. ☙ WEAKNESSES BLOOD HUNGER - Due to his nature as a demon, Petre has to constantly feed on human flesh and bone. If he does not feed regularly, he becomes much less in control of himself and his actions, until he goes full berserk and starts fucking shit up. HOLINESS - Anything related to religion makes him want to violently hurl. Church music makes him screech like a banshee and bleed out of his ears. That sort of stuff. He usually cannot walk in holy places, as he starts to feel so much pain he can barely walk. Any powers with the same connotation however are extremely hurtful to him. ☙ CANON NOTES At one point in the story, Diana finds a love interest. Petre becomes jealous - Envy comes easily to him, after all - given their codependent relationship, and plots the love interest's death. This is the beginning of the split between him and Diana. After killing a number of gods, Petre gains more thirst for power. This leads up to him devouring the Devil and taking all which was hers. When the Devil dies, however, both he and Diana share part of her essence, though it's Petre to keeps the majority of her power and inherits Hell. He goes on to start devouring other gods in order to keep gaining more power. Because Diana is responsible for his creation, she keeps his life force, which is the only true way to destroy him. So the only way to kill Petre is by killing Diana first, something she only discovers later on. ☙ RELATIONSHIPS DIANA - Practically a sister, they're always in each other's company, either quipping or just kicking ass. He leaves most of the violence to her while he works on logistics, which works just fine for both of them. If there's only one thing Petre cares about it's her. THE DEVIL - The one who started it all, the one who had Diana Reshape him and then spared him an eternity burning in Hell thanks to her. The Devil is his and Diana's contractor, and to all effects, his owner. CALEB WATERS - The man who would be a Saint, the very first human Petre tried to fully corrupt. His dedication to his god would eventually grant him powers, but the demon would soon find him and kill him for this supposed act of betrayal. ☙ INVENTORY CIGARETTES - He's always, always smoking. Doesn't care much about the brand, just the burn. LIGHTER - Zippo, gold. CELLPHONE - Standard smooth-looking smartphone. CLOTHES - Likes to dress fancy, mostly dapper, pretty hipster. Unlike Diana he pays a lot of attention to his appearance, from his hair to his shoes, and he almost always looks impeccable.