Name: Guts
Race: Human? (More or less human at this point, but he exists at least partially in the Interstice between the Physical and Astral worlds thanks to the Brand of Sacrifice)
Age: 23? (He doesn't really keep track, and he looks like he's in his thirties thanks to his stressful[to say the least] lifestyle)
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 230 lbs
Appearance:
Physical Attributes
Strength: Supernatural
Agility: Exceptional (Approaching Supernatural)
Constitution: High-Supernatural
Other Abilities:
Cursed Brand: As the name implies, this brand mostly makes Guts's life suck. The Brand of Sacrifice acts as a beacon for evil spirits and demons, causing them to hunger for the Branded One's flesh during the night. The brand itself is located on Guts's jugular, providing an ideal target target in battle. Additionally, the brand will bleed and cause its bearer pain while they are in the presence of demons or evil spirits, with the amount of pain and bleeding depending on the power of the demonic entity. However, as the Brand places Guts in the Interstice between the Astral and Physical worlds, he is capable of affecting both. This is to say that physical and spiritual interference are pretty much the same thing for him. Some time before ending up in the Nexus, Schierke took the time to place seals on and around the Brand to mitigate its effects.
Equipment:
Dragonslayer: As the name implies, it was a sword made specifically to kill a dragon. The blacksmith charged with making the sword poured all of his skill into it, but didn't bother to account for human limits with regards to actually wielding the sword. Regardless, the sword did its job, splitting the dragon's head open with a single blow. Guts discovered this sword at the blacksmith's warehouse (After the Blacksmith had forged a sword for Guts that was capable of cutting clean through another sword and part of the anvil used to make it), when an Apostle threw him into it after Guts broke the first sword the Blacksmith made for him. Upon finding the Dragonslayer, Guts won the fight in two blows, and has been killing demons with it ever since.
To call it a sword, though, would be incorrect. The Dragonslayer is far too long, too thick, too heavy to be called a sword; rather, it can be better described as a massive slab of iron in the vague shape of a sword. The sword itself lacks any sort of cutting edge, instead relying on sheer momentum to do the job. The sword itself has a fair bit more utility than a simple weapon, however. Due to the sheer width of the blade, it can also serve as a passable shield against most kinds of projectiles, acting as crude cover for him to hide behind. Despite the unwieldiness of the blade, Guts is capable of moving the Dragonslayer surprisingly quickly, capable of continuously blocking attacks faster than the eye can see.
Furthermore, due to having been soaked time and time again in the blood of various supernatural creatures, mostly demons, the blade itself has absorbed their collected grudges, becoming a cursed weapon capable of dealing serious damage to even the most powerful demons, successfully destroying a manifestation of a Godhand, though it has yet to be tested against an actual God Hand member.
Armcannon: Very simple. It's a cannon concealed within his mechanical arm. The hand hinges out of the way to reveal the barrel, at which point Guts pulls a simple lanyard to fire the cannon. Guts has found ways of reducing the recoil to manageable levels, but the handcannon can still do significant damage to Apostles without armor that is actually effective against cannon fire, though there are some exceptions. The cannon has a few uses aside from just blasting things.
Throwing knives: Guts picked up the use of throwing knives as weapons from Judeau, before Eclipse, and now makes a fair amount of use of those skills, though they tend to be useless against Apostles.
Repeating Crossbow: An attachment for Guts's mechanical arm that Guts is a fairly decent shot with. Doesn't see much use in actually harming Apostles.
Spike bombs: Small bombs(Insert obligatory Umineko joke here) that Guts mainly uses for dealing with swarms. Powerful enough to be of some use against weaker apostles and creatures like trolls.
Behelit: Just a simple keepsake from the Count (One of the earlier Apostles Guts faced). This object is how Apostles are made. When the owner of one of these reaches a moment of true despair, the Behelit will return to the owner, no matter how far it may have been before, and summon the God Hand to them. The God Hand will then offer the Behelit owner a choice. If they sacrifice that which they hold closest to them, then they will become an Apostle, an immortal demon with powers beyond the scope of humanity.
Puck has shown a liking for the Behelit, having given it the nickname 'Becchi' and tried to find other purposes for it aside from summoning the God Hand, such as attempting to fish with it.
Spoiler for Hiden:
Behelit in its natural state
Behelit when activated
Note: Normal Behelits are usually potato-colored (though eating one would be a very bad idea). The Behelit pictured here is a Crimson Behelit, which appears only to those destined to become members of the God Hand.
Origin:From the beginning, Guts's life has been a continuous struggle for survival, from the moment he landed on the ground of the impromptu gallows where he was born on. Living as a Mercenary from a very young age, Guts, through innumerable battles, found himself in the Band of the Hawk, led by the charismatic Griffith. Caught up in the storm of Griffith's ideal, Guts soon found himself caught up in the Griffith's plans to secure the throne of Midland. He didn't care much about the political intrigue, but, after overhearing a speech from Griffith to the daughter of the King of Midland, Guts decides to leave the Band of the Hawk, for the sake of finding a dream to call his own. Griffith, understandably, was not pleased by the prospect of losing someone who had become both a close friend and an important part of his plan. Regardless, Griffith is unable to stop Guts from leaving, the resulting depression leading him to ruin his own plans with a single rash action.
Guts returns, some time later, to find the Band of the Hawk declared the enemies of Midland, with Casca leading the group in Griffith's absence. Words and gestures, both tender and not-so, are exchanged as Casca updates Guts on the situation. Guts then decides to rescue Griffith, who has been imprisoned in the Midland dungeons and tortured for a year. Infiltrating the area with the help of the Princess, Guts and company soon happen upon Griffith. The joy at the reunion soon turns to horror at the state that a year of torture has left him in, unable to walk, fight, or even speak. Guts and co soon leave the dungeons (Read: Guts singlehandedly smashes through the Midland troops blocking the exit and they escape through the gory mess he leaves behind). Upon returning to the rest of the Band, Guts and Casca do their best to conceal Griffith's condition, fearing that the truth would shatter their morale. Meanwhile, Guts and Casca grow closer, though they try to spare Griffith the indignity.
Some time later, Griffith, having somehow run away in a fit of madness, recovers the Crimson Beheilt. The horrors of Eclipse that follow leave all of the Band dead, except for Rickert, who wasn't present at the event itself, Casca, who was driven insane by the horrors she suffered, and Guts, who lost an arm and an eye before being rescued by the Skull Knight along with Casca.
Griffith, meanwhile, was reborn as Femto, the fifth Godhand, with the sacrifice of the Band of the Hawk.
Swearing revenge on Griffith and making a declaration of war on the Apostles, Guts traveled the land after a short visit to an old blacksmith friend, looking for Apostles. The intended goal was to force them to a state where they would use their Beheilt's, summoning the God Hand and giving Guts the opportunity to kill Griffith. This went about as well as expected when one considers that the domain of the newest Godhand was space-time. Having been thoroughly beaten, Guts goes on hunting Apostles, meeting a fairy (Puck) along the way. Faced with a pseudo-Eclipse some time later, Guts makes the decision to put Casca's safety before his revenge. Things go on like this, with Guts fighting his inner demons (Both literal and metaphorical). After some time, Guts starts to gather a new group of companions. Finally, Guts and his new group end up in a portion of the Interstice known as Qliphoth. Desperately fighting for their lives despite having been separated, Schierke, a witch and one of Guts's new companions, manages to safely retrieve all of the, only to be left unable to retrieve Guts. Guts, meanwhile, finds himself embroiled in mortal combat with a manifestation of the sado-masochistic Godhand Slan. Barely defeating Slan's manifestation due to Dragonslayer's new status as a cursed weapon (Due to all the supernatural creatures it's been killing). The lifting of Slan's influence combined with the Skull Knight's new Beheilt sword (Capable of slicing through the dimensional barrier), allows Schierke to finally locate Guts and start to retrieve him, but something goes wrong with the spell, and Guts finds himself in a hospital a couple of days later.
Quickly accustoming to the strange new place, Guts soon acquires a new set of armor, though soon finds that he won't be needing it, as there aren't any more of the night-ghouls around here, or rather not nearly as many as before. Additionally, there aren't any more hostiles, which leaves the Beast (Guts's inner demon) a very angry puppy. To work off his debts and to help keep himself in top shape, Guts opens up a gym, deciding on a place where the only troubling presence that remains a constant is a small gang of werewolves.
At least it's not the Vampires.
Weakness: Standard human weaknesses, a powerful enough demon will cause the Cursed Brand to actively hurt him to the point that prolonged exposure will actually kill him, narrow corridors (he can't get Dragonslayer going.), and he has to keep the Beast in check now that he's not actively hunting Apostles anymore.
Likes: A good fight, Casca, his new group of companions(Sort of), people who can fend for themselves, Puck (Kinda, he isn't going to admit it any time soon).
Dislikes: Griffith, Apostles, people who live off the charity of others, the Godhand (Especially Femto and Slan), people who complain about what they've gone through, kids, bugs, the pity of others, Griffith.