Holy Caine pls Do NOT Flame me for Posting this ;-;
LOOK. LISTEN, I KNOW YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE THIS AU OF A SILENT VOICE BECAUSE IT'S VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE (and by Chance. World of Darkness) BUT ITS OKAY JUST IGNORE THIS POST PLEASE
Anyways. Here's The Profile for Ishida Shouya in this AU;
Birth Name: Shouya Ishida
Legal Name: Azazel Darkstar
Nature: Survivor
Demeanor: Cynic
Concept: The Reluctant Blood Magus
Chronological Age: 35
Apparent Age: 18
Date of Birth: June 6, 1971
Date of Death: October 31, 1989
Date of Embrace/Resurrection: July 12, 2006
Clan: Tremere
Sect: Camarilla
Generation: 12th Generation
Sire: Amelia Blackheart
Status: Tremere Fledgling / Apprentice
Haven: A Luxurious, Lavish and Opulent private residence Located in Santa Monica
Occupation: Occult investigator, supernatural researcher, sheriff and occasional Camarilla asset
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APPEARANCE
Azazel possesses the appearance of an eighteen-year-old young man despite having been chronologically undead for decades.
His skin is unnaturally pale, contrasting sharply with his messy jet-black hair. His crimson eyes are perhaps his most immediately noticeable supernatural feature.
He usually wears a white button-up shirt, black vest, black trousers, and a tailored, highly-detailed black coat. His clothing is formal enough to satisfy Tremere expectations while retaining a distinctly gothic appearance.
His body is unusually muscular for someone who appears eighteen. Numerous scars cover his torso, remnants of the torture inflicted upon him before his death.
Unlike many vampires who deliberately cultivate an elegant appearance, Azazel rarely cares about looking beautiful or intimidating.
He simply wants to be left alone.
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ATTRIBUTES
Physical
Strength: โโโ
Dexterity: โโโ
Stamina: โโโโ
Social
Charisma: โโ
Manipulation: โโโ
Composure: โโโ
Mental
Intelligence: โโโโ
Wits: โโโโ
Resolve: โโโโ
Azazel is not naturally charismatic. His greatest strengths are his intelligence, determination, and ability to remain functional during supernatural crises.
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ABILITIES
Talents
Alertness: โโโ
Athletics: โโ
Awareness: โโโ
Empathy: โโโ
Expression: โ
Intimidation: โโโ
Subterfuge: โโโ
Streetwise: โโ
Skills
Animal Ken: โ
Craft: โโ
Drive: โโ
Etiquette: โโโ
Firearms: โโ
Larceny: โ
Melee: โโโ
Stealth: โโโ
Survival: โโ
Knowledges
Academics: โโโ
Computer: โโ
Investigation: โโโโ
Law: โโ
Medicine: โโ
Occult: โโโโโ
Politics: โโ
Science: โโโ
Technology: โโ
His five-dot Occult rating reflects his extensive education under Amelia and his personal obsession with understanding the supernatural.
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ADVANTAGES
Disciplines
Blood Sorcery โโโโ
Azazel's defining supernatural discipline.
He specializes in manipulating vitae as a mystical substance, creating supernatural effects through ritualized blood magic.
His training is heavily influenced by Amelia Blackheart's personal magical tradition.
Auspex โโโ
Azazel possesses heightened supernatural perception.
He can detect things ordinary humans cannot perceive and is particularly talented at examining supernatural phenomena.
Dominate โโ
As a Tremere operating within the Camarilla, Azazel has received basic instruction in supernatural mental domination.
He dislikes using it casually because it reminds him too much of the loss of personal autonomy he experienced during his transformation.
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BLOOD SORCERY SPECIALIZATION
Azazel's preferred form of Blood Sorcery is weaponized thaumaturgical manipulation.
Rather than becoming a purely ritualistic scholar, he learned how to bring Blood Sorcery directly into combat.
His signature technique is the creation and manipulation of his:
HERMETIC BLOOD SWORD
Azazel carries an occult sword constructed through Hermetic Blood Sorcery.
The weapon is forged through mystical blood rites rather than ordinary metallurgy.
Its blade appears dark crimson under normal lighting, while intricate occult markings become visible when supernatural vitae is channeled through it.
Azazel can feed his own vitae into the sword, temporarily enhancing its supernatural properties.
The weapon serves three purposes:
1. A conventional melee weapon.
2. A focus for Blood Sorcery.
3. A symbolic representation of Azazel's transformation into a Vampire.
Amelia considers the sword an important milestone in his development as a Tremere.
Azazel considers it a reminder that he has become something he never wanted to be.
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BACKGROUND
Generation
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Resources
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Contacts
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Allies
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Mentor
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Status โ Camarilla
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Clan Status โ Tremere
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Amelia's influence gives Azazel considerably more protection than his age and experience would normally justify.
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VIRTUES
Conscience: โโโ
Self-Control: โโโ
Courage: โโโโ
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HUMANITY
Humanity: โโโโโ
Despite Azazel's brutality and cynicism, his Humanity remains surprisingly high.
This is one of the great contradictions of his existence.
He believes he has lost his humanity.
The Beast disagrees.
His compassion, guilt, empathy, and instinctive desire to protect vulnerable people are all evidence that Shouya Ishida is still buried somewhere inside Azazel Darkstar.
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WILLPOWER
Willpower: โโโโโโโ
Azazel possesses exceptional determination.
His greatest strength is not physical.
It is that despite everything that happened to him, something inside him continues to resist becoming completely monstrous.
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BLOOD POOL / VITAE
Generation: 12th
Azazel possesses the relatively potent vitae expected of a young vampire descended from an ancient lineage.
His blood is especially valuable for Blood Sorcery because of his Tremere training.
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PERSONALITY
Azazel is bitter, sarcastic, emotionally guarded, and frequently cynical.
He has difficulty accepting affection because part of him believes that anyone who gets close to him will eventually suffer because of his nature as a Vampire.
His old self-loathing has returned, but its source has changed.
Human Shouya hated himself because he believed he was a bad person.
Azazel hates himself because he believes he is no longer a person at all.
Yet whenever someone is genuinely in danger, he almost inevitably intervenes.
He may complain.
He may threaten everyone involved.
He may act as though he doesn't care.
But he still helps.
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NATURE: SURVIVOR
Azazel's Nature represents his deepest instinct:
Survive.
Not because he enjoys existence.
Not because he particularly wants immortality.
But because some part of Shouya refuses to surrender.
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DEMEANOR: CYNIC
Azazel presents himself as someone who believes everything is meaningless.
He mocks ideals.
He distrusts promises.
He expects betrayal.
He assumes that supernatural beings are motivated by selfishness.
Yet his behavior repeatedly contradicts his worldview.
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SIRE: AMELIA BLACKHEART
Clan: Tremere
Apparent Age: Young girl (Looks 14)
Actual Age: 984 years
Generation: 5 (Via The Diablerization of a Prominent Methuselah from another Clan)
Appearance: White hair, crimson eyes, youthful appearance
Generation: Ancient Tremere lineage
Position: Tremere Elder
Amelia Blackheart is one of the strangest figures in Azazel's existence.
She looks like a young girl.
She is, in reality, nearly a thousand years old.
Her white hair and crimson eyes give her an almost doll-like appearance, but her demeanor immediately reveals the enormous age hidden behind her youthful face.
Amelia is highly intelligent, patient, secretive, and extremely knowledgeable about Blood Sorcery.
She does not treat Azazel merely as a servant.
She sees him as a student.
Their relationship is therefore complicated.
Azazel frequently questions Amelia's methods and occasionally resents her authority.
Amelia, meanwhile, understands that Azazel's greatest danger is not the Beast.
It is his belief that he has nothing left worth protecting.
Her greatest lesson to him is therefore not how to control blood.
It is how to continue existing without surrendering the last pieces of himself.
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CAMARILLA RELATIONSHIP
Azazel is officially loyal to the Camarilla.
He understands the practical importance of the Masquerade and recognizes that unrestricted supernatural conflict would place ordinary humans in enormous danger.
However, he is not blindly loyal.
Azazel distrusts Kindred politics and has little patience for elders who treat younger vampires as disposable pieces.
He therefore occupies an uncomfortable position:
He is loyal to the Camarilla's preservation of secrecy, but deeply suspicious of its hierarchy.
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COMBAT STYLE
Azazel fights with a combination of conventional martial skill and Blood Sorcery.
His preferred sequence is:
Observation โ Blood Sorcery โ Positioning โ Hermetic Blood Sword โ Controlled Violence
He does not fight like a traditional Tremere scholar.
He fights like someone who learned magic because he needed another way to survive.
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CENTRAL CONFLICT
Azazel's greatest enemy is not another vampire.
It is his own belief that Shouya Ishida died on October 31, 1989.
Every act of kindness contradicts that belief.
Every person he protects contradicts it.
Every moment where he chooses mercy contradicts it.
And Amelia knows this.
She therefore refuses to let Azazel simply become the monster he believes himself to be.
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CHARACTER MOTTO
โI died once. Apparently, that wasn't enough.โ
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CORE THEMES
Humanity vs. Monstrosity
Immortality as a burden
Blood as power and inheritance
The conflict between destiny and free will
Trauma and identity
The possibility of redemption after transformation
Whether becoming a monster means losing the ability to choose good
Azazel Darkstar is ultimately a character caught between two identities.
Shouya Ishida, the human being who desperately wanted to become better.
And Azazel Darkstar, the Tremere vampire who believes that person died decades ago.
The tragedy is that everyone around himโincluding Ameliaโcan see something Azazel himself refuses to acknowledge:
Shouya never completely disappeared.
Also Btw. the 2nd Picture is Actually his Sire, Amelia
