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Name: Lord Incales
Appearance:
[A peel of laughter plunges rods of ice into your gut. The sound ringing in your ears as though in an echo chamber. It lingers long after its origin has ceased. The luminous figure leisures upon a throne of ivory, their presence alone necessitates full attention. More than attention, it demands cooperation… Your heart, it's so loud now. Thump. Thump. Thump…Curling horns frame a vermillion domelike head. As your eyes focus you see, you… huh, kinda looks like a shorter, stubbier Frieza. A runt among runts. The illusion crumples like paper mache and… the result is a tad disappointing.] - Diary excerpt from an unknown mercenary upon being approached by Lord Incales for protection
Gender: Male
Age: 78 – Pinning down an age for Acrosians is difficult(for example, some sources point at Frieza being around 40, others say 70 and Bring of Death says king Cold is centuries old) but think of Incales as approaching 'middle aged' for an long lived species
Race Options:
- Arconsian: Freeza is dead, his father is dead, his brother is dead, the Empire slash Business Operation the Cold Clan built is in tatters as rebellion sweeps the Galaxy and now two unnaturally powerful wrecking balls are making everything worse. You are a lesser relative of the Cold's not born with the great potential of Freeza and his immediate kin but perhaps with training and an alliance with this strange Super Saiyan of Earth that can be changed.
Starting Power Level:
- First form(150K) this is the form Lord Incales eats in, sleeps in, lives in. If one is to exist as a lord then one must act as one: power is to be conserved until necessity calls. Why bring a nuke into a ballroom dance, or into an administrative meeting. No, the diminutive form suits him just fine; afterall, in these trying times the misjudgement of fools can serve wonders.
- Original(850K) there are whispers that Lord Incales is a mutant - so unlike that of Cold and his offspring - stuck in his power suppression form forever unable to access but a modicum of Acrosian potential. Other whispers spell out talk of a monster residing within the venerable lord's other form. Waiting to break out and annihilate. For his part, Incales is pleased to see such rumors take root: there are monsters in the cosmos. Beasts of indomitable might, that might crush him with a single finger. As Frieza found out. As Cooler found out. As Cold found out. Acrosian potential is wanting indeed.
Bio:
[I doth saeth to thou for every king his servant, for every foot a stool] - Remark from Lord Incales upon the days of old.
Nairy could one imagine the ages of yore when the Cold dominion had yet to take form. An age where Arcos had yet to cower beneath the ice-steel grip of Cold... The term
Frost demon is an indicator, the sole reminder of this long dead age. For there to be an adjective, is to be a specifier. A limitation upon a greater noun. There were
Frost demons, as any half wit would correctly proclaim, but are there
'demons'? In the same vein, any half wit would also correctly deduce, "No, 'course not." For whatever the case in that bygone age of a planet desperately struggling against the eon of frost, the Cold clan rose. And rose. Until it touched the stars. Then dominated even those pearlescent jewels in the sky…
The red colorings of Incales' dome, a family affliction - notable in only its odd hue from the common Acrosian blue or purple, marked him from birth as a servant. The vermillion butler. The same as his progenitors, and his progenitors progenitors. The venerable king Cold, tyrant emperor Frieza, lesser among-kin Cooler all took great amusement in the family pastime of tormenting the help. Though they could hardly be blamed, what grander jest could there be than an Acrosian doing your laundry, planning the evening's dinner, and acting as an impromptu
stool. No honor, no respect, no hope.
There was no struggling against the whims of fate and nature. The Cold clan weren't a hill that one could surpass, not a mountain one may surmount. They were more renitent than the very planets they conquered. Then Frieza died. The Cooler. Then Cold. Not annoyed, not scratched, not injured. Dead. Assassinated.
What was a humble butler to do when the world, nay, the universe around him began to unravel.
A monkey - a name given to a fellow servant - shattered in but an instant what had been constructed in centuries. The Planetary Trade Organization crumpled into a hundred, hundred different factions.
Jumped up second class Acrosians trying to preserve what little remained of an empire, several dozen kicked upon species retaking their homeworld, the bankers taking what they thought due, a dozen militant arms of the PTO taking vengeance for various slights… An uprising, to say the least. An uprising of his fellow servants. And what was a butler but a chief among lessers.
Sure, the vermillion butler wasn't… the biggest, the strongest, and certainly not the meanest… He had however spent the last several decades arranging civilized conventions between conquered and conquerors. Incales took pride that such conventions only rarely ended in lost limbs. A very particular set of skills helped in achieving that end: what was a body worth without the mind to match?
Presence, Illusion, control.
Thus the vermillion butler fell into obscurity and Lord Incales took forefront. He who lays claim to the remnants. The table scraps left after the mangling of the empire of demons. The path paved would lead to a different visage than the Cold's for it must.
Lord Incales was no planet wrecker. No cold blooded killer as his akin. No brute too stubborn to see past his fists. Nor could he be. Reputation tells different tales; of an indomitable madman once suborned by Frieza kept to a leash no longer.
Perhaps a madman was what this galaxy needs. After all, it was a butler's job to keep things orderly.
Only, with those two… actual, madmen running amok the galaxy spiraled into chaos ever quicker. Yesterday a central trade hub worth
solar systems was massacred, today a planet of tranquil greenskins turned to ash, tomorrow? Arcros? The galaxy?
No, no that wouldn't do. The realm called for aid… yet what was Lord Incales to do? The diplomatic venture: there wasn't enough left of the envoy to fit in a casket! Send entire armies: done, and dusted. Literally!
The marching metronome of time saw faith expire with each beat. All avenues had been tried, tested, failed.
For the first in a young epoch Incales felt yearning to be a simple butler under a most grand and terrible tyrant. Someone who'd crush these madmen for but a simple and uncaring reason. They'd stolen his place of fear in the people's heart…
Thou hath asketh, thou hath recieveth.
A figure appeared in the fringes of remnant society, a warrior who appeared perhaps but once before. In the assassination of the Cold clan. The legendary super saiyan.
Alternative solutions had met a grisly end. The sole choice was to meet these madmen. Or, to meet with this legendary super saiyan. Both may as well spell a grisly end.
Incales was prepared to persuade, bribe, connive… beg,
beg to save his people.
Fighting Style:
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Illusion techniques:
– Tetra-duplicitous split: Beware the duplicitous shadow waiting knife in hand! Three ki clones emerge from Incales - beware to those whose inattention costs them sight upon the original. Bee bites they may cause, thinner than air they may constitute - yet, death comes not from the front or sides but from behind. Name of the technique must be shouted.
– Duplicitous split: One of many, many of one. Whereas an army crumbles before the wind a sole warrior may yet plunge into a hurricane. A clone of some significant percentage of Incales' power - fear this bee's sting yet worry naught for its shell.
– Striking void: Void: a noun, to be a completely empty space. Strike: a verb, to hit forcibly. A weapon subsisting of nothing unable to attack except to the senses.
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Mental techniques:
– Gilded presence: In spring the crowd rejoiced at the birth of an exalted infant; in summer the towns celebrated the victory of an indomitable hero; in fall the kingdom reveled the crowning of an grand prince; in winter the world worshiped at the feet of their god-king. Deceived though they were for behind the gild betrayed weakness. That they too were men. The infant breathed its last, the hero aged, the prince grew corrupt, the god-king found even his flesh wasn't above corruption.
– Brigand's ambition: Into the night he swept all the king's jewels pocketed - unaware of the murderous eyes that followed. A technique less so to disappear but to be unnoticed - breaking line of sight for best effect.
– Commandment: seal: Ice fills your veins, lead encompasses your bones, fear strikes your heart. DO. NOT. MOVE.
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Fighting techniques:
– General unarmed combat: The taint of battle is never to contact the flesh, these are the Lord's wishes. When the universe finds itself unaccommodating, Incales creates distance through a series of precise strikes ment to open up space to engage in other techniques. The day Incales engages in a regular bout of fistycuffs is the day he has run out of options, or out of patience.
– Vermillion string swarm: Waving bolts of concentrated energy spring forth from Incales' finger tips seeking to envelope and corrode all they touch.
– Traitor's edge: After a period of refinement and concentration a blade of solid energy forms around Incales' forearm, meant to be used in one solid strike. This blow represents the Lord's killing blow, and is the best penetrator in his arsenal. The name must be spoken for the technique to engage.