Name: Ontos Lestrade (Formerly, Edward Lestrade)
Age: 25 (is effectively 18)
Race: Forbidden Beast
Appearance: Ontos is about 1.64 metres tall. When Edward was still alive, his hair was black.
Theme Song: Writhe in Pain: Daisuke IshiwatariPersonality: Ontos is the mixture of a 1000 dead soldiers, though their personalities have not ended up creating a schizophrenic character. it is quite philosophical and quiet, and believes that it should not try to live up to the personality that Edward was. While quite the weapon for war, Ontos prefers threatening, intimidating actions over direct combat. It is a little cynical, and yet a little optimistic.
Ontos speaks in a manner that reflects an immeasurable number of souls in a single body making decisions by majority vote, though this does not mean that it is free from emotion. It normally speaks in a semi-monotonous voice, but can express emotion when things happen.
If there's one thing Ontos is afraid of, it is being alone, though one would never realise this. The little bits of human soul that became what passes for a complete Forbidden Beast personality are almost like simple children by themselves. Each little part of a human soul is too simple and weak to survive by itself (itself being formed by emotions and little memories of dying soldiers in wars), and can only make some facsimile of human consciousness by working together. Each bit of the human soul is scared of being alone, ultimately culminating in Ontos's fear of being alone. However, due to the 1000 voices in its head that work together, it will never be alone.
At least, that's what it hopes.
History: Originally a child, and the first son of the Grand Duke Winfred Lestrade of the Kingdom of Illyria, the host of Ontos was once a bratty, loud-mouthed noble young man by the name of Edward Lestrade. Edward was a piece in the game of Illyrian noble politics, and was poised for a marriage to the fair, beautiful girl that was Alice Churchill, daughter of the trade magnate and noblewoman Duchess Miranda Churchill.
The two young noblefolk were barely in their 16s when the arranged marriage was sealed, and the alliance between Lestrade and Churchill was put together. While the beautiful young girl, Alice, was ecstatic about this, Edward could only show the weakest of smiles upon his face. For without cause or reason justly defined, the young nobleman had grown weary of the world. He saw only the worst in others, and even the idealistic Alice was someone he saw as a girl who would die stupidly for some noble cause her death would do nothing to assist.
2 years passed.
And the Incident at Nantes occurred. The romantic couple was to holiday in the city of Nantes, in France, as a gesture of romance before their marriage. However, while Nantes was threatened by a potential terrorist attack by the Illyrian Republican Front, Edward and Alice paid no heed to what they believed to be their toothless warnings.
Neither of them could live to regret it.
The Illyrian Republican Front would utilise lone snipers to cause mass havoc in Nantes. Unfortunately, as the pair was the first in the sniper scope of a sniper, Alice would die as a bullet passed through her skull, and Edward would fall down as well, the bullet piercing his future wife and embedding itself in Edward's heart. Soldiers were sent out to suppress the threat, and the Grand Duke would order his own personal guard to retrieve Edward and Alice.
Alice was dead at that stage. But Edward, left to die in the middle of the city for nearly an hour, was beyond any sort of medical help. The Grand Duke could only wail his tears away, as the life signs of his son declined with every second.
However, a little off-hand suggestion by the personal assistant of the Grand Duke, Folcourt, would lead to another great tragedy.
Folcourt suggested that Edward be brought back to health by possessing him with a Forbidden Beast.
Ordering the utmost in preserving Edward's life signs, the Grand Duke descended into the depths of the world that seemed only relevant to the kingdom's defence. He threw money, influence at everything that potentially led to the information on Forbidden Beasts. It would be a month that felt like 10 years, but the Grand Duke managed to meet a mysterious man by the name of Hawk.
Hawk would ask for a ludicrous sum of money to perform the Forbidden Beast experiment, and a 20 year contract by the Duke's side, supposedly to observe a Forbidden Beast host. No price was great enough for the Grand Duke to decline.
When the ritual was performed, a sacrifice was needed from Edward Lestrade. Though the young noble man had been essentially in a coma every since the injury, his mind and body was racked by the agony of staying alive. When asked for a sacrifice, the young man would wish for only one sacrifice.
"Me."And in that moment, Edward Lestrade's soul died. In his place, was the Forbidden Beast born of the little bits of souls, minds and personalities, of 1000 soldiers that died in war. It called itself 'Ontos'.
Inadvertently, the confusion of the Forbidden Beast as it awoke, staring into the eyes of the father of its host, it would ask the question that broke the Grand Duke's mind.
"Who are you?"The Grand Duke collapsed, and died a few days later. His eldest daughter, Melanie Lestrade, would take the title of Grand Duchess. She would order Ontos to come to their family mansion a few days after the Grand Duke died, to make a single decision; whether to accept Ontos as a member of their family. While a Forbidden Beast, Ontos still looked like their brother, and was not of an entirely alien morality as compared to the humans of the time.
The 3 sisters, and 3 brothers of it would vote, with the Grand Duchess herself providing a tie-breaking vote if necessary. The brothers and sisters would end up voting 3-3, forcing the affair into the hands of Melanie. But she recalled a meeting with Ontos, in the evening, that sealed her impression of the Forbidden Beast.
The night was about to begin, and Melanie sat down at her own quarters, to drink and watch the moon. However, Ontos would make its way into her room, asking for a meeting. She agreed, and the two chat. About Edward, about Forbidden Beasts, and about the Grand Duke. Ontos had expressed its ambivalence about the whole voting thing, and considered a life away from them if Melanie's family truly hated Ontos for what it represented.
"We do not know how to make you happy. But we wish that you do not be sad."The smile upon Ontos's face as it said that locked in Melanie's own perspective of Ontos. It was not their brother, but it was someone she could love as family all the same.
And when the tie-breaking affair came to order, Melanie made her decision with no hesitation or doubt. That was 7 years ago. While the noble Ontos Lestrade was adopted into the household with little outside fanfare, many not in the know wonder what happened to Edward and who was the young man that looked exactly like him that took on his place.
Weapon(s): An anti-materiel rifle (in appearance image). It is single shot, and capable of piercing concrete walls. (Though the bullet wouldn't be fatal after that, but still hurts a LOT.)
Pistol. Not much to it, normal calibre and normal range.
Abilities/Powers:Death Dies Hard: Born of souls that have died in war, Ontos can shift its body around in... weird ways. It can, with zero effort, turn parts of its body into weaponry. A finger (or toe) itself can materialise as a pistol. A forearm, bicep, thigh, foreleg or a whole hand can turn into a
battle rifle or combat shotgun that would not be out of place in a soldier's hands.
More parts can make more, higher calibre rifles. When materialising a gun from itself, Ontos can automatically generate ammo for it, but it has to be reloaded manually. It can levitate and handle any part of itself with no effort, but it costs some energy for it to generate ammo whenever a new gun is formed. If it fires any of its weapons without actually pushing the trigger with its own fingers (or getting someone else to), it will cost some energy as well.
The guns, while effectively instantaneously transforming from body part to weapon, takes roughly 30 seconds to do the reverse. Furthermore, it must reconnect to its original joint where it came off in order to reverse the process.
It can make about 15 guns at most before compromising on things like firing rate and bullet velocity.
Fury of the Bulletstorm: Ontos can shift its main body into a mini-gun, that holds a maximum of enough ammo to fire for 10 seconds continuously. While it has other forms to transform to, a minigun gets the message across the clearest.
Requiem for a Dream: Basically, a move that will put Ontos out of commission for days. But it allows it to transform into a gun that means
serious business.
Heroes of Another Time: Ontos takes no physical effort to manually handle the guns it forms, and shoots extremely well. Other people will have to deal with its weight, though. Despite being a Forbidden Beast, however, Ontos is only about as strong as the average man. (Though its small size would mean that it is a significant improvement over Edward's previous strength.)
Rayjah un ramm!
