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companyvita) wrote2013-01-06 12:04 pm
companyvita) wrote2013-01-06 12:04 pm
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[ CHARACTER INFORMATION ]
Name: Clair Leonelli
Age: 19
Gender: male
Canon: Heat Guy J
Timeline: At the end of the episode Angel where he and Daisuke are looking across the hallway at the other on relatively good terms
Background:
Synopsis of Heat Guy J according to wikipedia:
"Heat Guy J chronicles the adventures of a young Special Services officer named Daisuke Aurora and his android partner known simply as "J". The pair live and work in the fictional, futuristic Metropolis of "Judoh" (Jewde), where the understaffed and underfunded Special Services Division of the Bureau of Urban Safety has its headquarters." If you happen to find a map related to this series, it actually looks like it is our distant future. It involved seven cities of the world and Celestials, those that keep the cities going, visit every so often. Clair Leonelli of Company Vita is one person that happens to be in this city that is the CEO of said company. His connection to Daisuke Aurora is that Daisuke's father was murdered by an android sent by Clair's late father.
In the first episode, Clair and his guards are attending the funeral of his father Lorenzo. Clair is sitting beneath a tree where even then you can tell by the movements he makes, including the widening of his eyes, that he is massively unhinged. He approaches the coffin with a grenade in hand, pulls the pin, and prepares to throw the grenade. Giovanni, one of three of his personal guards, stops him and Clair ends up dropping the grenade which is throw away at the last minute by Mitchal, one of his other personal guards. Clair goes on to say that his father loved fireworks, so the grenade going off must have made him happy in the end. This was all that really happened in that episode. The second one follows with Mauro claiming that the late Don Lorenzo had proclaimed that he wanted his only son Clair to become the next Don. He cut his thumb and spilled droplets of blood into wine and it was distributed to the other leaders of the city for them to drink it to prove their acknowledgment.
As there is a mob war going on, Clair hires criminals to deliver packages to a certain part of the city. One package happens to be a truckload of napalm which Daisuke Aurora and the android J end up stopping before it can reach "Mr. Ducky" as Clair refers to another boss that ended up killing some of his men. Shogun ends up having to mediate between the two of them and Clair claims that he will agree to stop, but that he will finish something if it is started with him. He appears to be quite amused during this situation and only mildly disappointed that his napalm did not reach its destination.
Later on an episode has a beginning where there is an underground russian roulette tournament under Clair's casino. He challenges Boma to a match and proceeds to play the game with him. He almost does end up dying here as Boma warns him that the other man's bullet is in fact real. Giovanni stops Clair from nearly killing himself. The young man is completely unphased from almost dying and even makes a partnership to have Boma track down J and to destroy the android. Clair mentioned that he himself had a hatred of machine and that he knows that Boma does too. Coincidentally Daisuke does as well even though he works with J. A woman that showed up at the beginning of the episode happens to be working with the young Don because she and her family owes money. She agrees to provide him with information. There is a poet as well that apparently owes Clair money for something as well and is being forced to write poetry for the young man...a series of poems that are worthless to him. Boma ends up backing out after meeting Daisuke and Clair just accepts it. Clair also just randomly lets the poet go.
The next time, Clair takes a 'boy' away from his father and Giovanni refers to the man as to having gotten paid for what they are doing. Clair says to just drive over the man, but his guard says that they will then have to go to the carwash. This is all said nonchalantly as if they do this all the time. The boy turns out to be an android which sings and draws out J who ends up attacking it. The scene makes it look like J was attacking an innocent child in public. Clair tells the machine what to do and when the 'boy' asks him 'Is this all right?' or 'Is this okay?', he has a flashback to moments with his own father Lorenzo when he asked him the same thing. His hand tightens on the back of the chair the 'boy' had been sitting in previously. Clair has dreams while the 'boy' is singing where his father had guards sneaking up on young Clair to have him learn how to be aware of people that might plan on hurting him. His father was very strict on Clair. It is more than implied that he was physically abused in a later episode with a weapon.
It is revealed during this time that Clair is planning on destroying all the other machines. Daisuke ends up threatening Clair after this point because he is so much like his father with being reckless with what he does with his power. Clair intends on doing this further by controlling the stock market through tomatoes to show that he and his associates can make a great deal of money by manipulating what goes up and down. It is all apparently a game to him still though. He says Daisuke will also become an employee of his without even knowing it. Daisuke is tipped off that there is something that will happen to a tomato farm from the women from the street he usually talks to. This apparently was also orchestrated by Clair as there are men there that shot at them and a news helicopter shows up according to plan. There are also explosives there and tomato buying goes up which Clair intends to make go down. The explosives do not go off and are never intended to. Daisuke realizes that somebody is manipulating the system and stops the plummeting from occurring thus losing a lot of the money which he also does not seem to upset about.
Clair says that Daisuke has made him very angry. He almost goes with gold, but Mauro is contacted by somebody he calls Echigo and say that gold is untouchable. Clair tells Mauro he does not need him anymore, so Mauro pulls a gun on himself. Clair stops him from killing himself right there and says that nobody else can die and leave him behind.
Celestials, higher educated beings that keep the cities running, come by for an annual visit. The Celestials were moving through the underground of the cities when they were attacked and twelve of them were murdered. It delays their ability to maintain the city and threatens to make Judoh extinct. Daisuke finds out that a Celestial is wandering around the city. Echigo wants to get to this Celestial and a Celestial shows up before him since Echigo wants knowledge from said being. Noriega told Clair to be the one to get his hands on this Celestial, something Echigo wanted Noriega to do. Clair declines, but tells his guards to search the Celestial anyways. He claims, with an obvious hint of sarcasm, that it is their duty to protect those in their city. The Celestial goes underground and Clair's men are down there pursuing him as Daisuke and J enter the underground area. The Celestial is being shown something from one of the citizens when they encounter Boma. Meanwhile Clair lights up the underground by having gasoline of some kind dumped into the canal which he personally sets alight.
Giovanni and the other two guards point a gun at the Celestial and Clair threatens that the Celestial be 'allowed' to come with him. J puts out the fire. They find out that Clair took the Celestial away. Clair claims to hate the city because it is full of scum and idiots to him basically. He ends up harshly smacking the Celestial and saying that 'human beings are very dirty creatures'. To him, the only way to control people is through fear and that he knows what will happen if the Celestials abandon the city. He does not like that the Celestials have knowledge they keep all to themselves and keep the people of the seven cities hostage. He hates being controlled by something he does not understand. Daisuke's older brother Shun tells Daisuke that he can get him into Company Vita to rescue the Celestial. They shut down the city's power. Giovanni takes on J while Daisuke gets moving. Clair's men stop Daisuke. He says he is not interested in mingling with garbage when Daisuke asks if he has ever walked outside alone.
Daisuke makes the mistake of saying that Clair has a fear of being looked down on by his late father and Clair immediately fires three bullets into him, stopped only by a bulletproof vest. Clair says that he should have shot him in the head when he had the chance. Daisuke moves to shoot Clair in the head with the bullet he has around his neck after knocking out his guards. He claims he left out the gunpowder when he does not kill Clair who claims that the blond will regret not killing him. Giovanni fires at Daisuke who leaves to make sure to get to the destination to keep the city from being killed off by the Celestials.
Later on, due to Daisuke and friends attacking Company Vita, it is down for repairs for at least two months to be fully operational. Clair has a bit of a contained tantrum and promises to himself that Daisuke will pay for making him, the Vampire, look like he is completely helpless. He sends some illegals named Luca and Pixie after Daisuke and J. One of the men nearly completely destroys J by blowing him to large pieces. Daisuke is shocked by another and brought back to Clair's office under orders for him not to be killed. Clair pays them and mocks one of the men for claiming himself to be an artist (artist of killing pretty much). The men are unhappy, but Clair's guards force them to leave. Clair injects something called Blood of the Season that is a high form of LSD that makes Daisuke relive painful memories. Kyoko wonders where Daisuke ended up after J is discovered. She goes to Shogun to ask about Daisuke's whereabouts and he says that Vampire(Clair) has him. The illegals decide to go after Clair for treating them mockingly as he did.
Clair is talking to himself saying that everybody has something deep inside called trauma and that Daisuke obviously has that somewhere inside as well. This is where Clair recalls the switch in his father's hand and his own child self that has obviously been beaten and likely with that switch. Meanwhile the guards are informed that Kyoko has infiltrated the building. Clair is busy leaning down and speaking to Daisuke's drugged body and delightfully wondering what the blond is seeing. Clair is informed that Kyoko is there and he seems amused. The illegals attack Clair's office. The android one of the illegals is the one that breaks into the window. The guards leave from confronting Kyoko as they are under attack. Clair orders Daisuke to be set free since their game was interrupted. He exchanges relatively friendly barbs with him while the illegals are still attacking them. J, who has been repaired, leaps into Clair's office and takes on the illegal android.
Clair says he would have preferred to kill them himself and tells Daisuke he is pathetic for having a woman rescue him. They appear to be on surprisingly good terms here which is where Clair will be taken from before things really hit the fan for him. It is noted in the next episode that he appears bored that it is so easy to make money these days.
Through flashbacks in later episodes, it shows that his guard Giovanni Gallo has been around him since the both of them were young. The guards are very important to Clair and they find Clair to be very important to them to the point that they would willingly give their lives for him. He takes loyalty very seriously, so if he befriends anybody well enough then he will treat them as somebody that he will not allow to be killed.
Personality:
Clair is a very smart man. Right off the bat, you find out his IQ is read in the beginning as 148 which is considered genius level. He knows how smart he is and it shows. This is a 19 year old young man that run Company Vita and be able to attend meetings with people much older than himself. He knows how to control the strock market to the point of controlling what sells and what does not as seen in episode 5 Money. He knows what he is doing when he needs something done with or without regard of how it will affect everything else. He knows where something needs to be and how to gain approval or disapproval if he so wished it. He just happens to have more fun with making everybody hate him which is something that definitely comes back to bite him in the ass later on. He is very knowledgable about how money works as he mentioned in an episode near the middle of the city that it was becoming far too easy to make it and he had a rather dull expression on his face.
Insanity is something that is just a part of Clair now, something that one does not have to speculate too hard on when one considers what it was like for him to be Lorenzo's son. His mother died when he was very young and that was when Lorenzo had picked up Giovanni whom is Clair's closest guard and likely one of the few he would call friend if that was a word that meant something like it does to other people. It is seen through flashbacks from Clair that his father was very strict on him when it came to his schooling. He was also taught fencing with Mauro and Lorenzo set up scenarios with guards sneaking up on Clair when he was just a young child. This alone would have been fine likely enough, but still other flashbacks show a child that is beaten and Lorenzo standing over him with a switch in his hand. With mental abuse on some level being likely, physical abuse is more than implied in these scenes. Whatever he truly feels deep inside for his father is apparently resentment and hatred for what he was put through. Who else brings a grenade to a funeral just to try and throw that into a coffin?
Speaking of fireworks, Clair has with his insanity an unfortunate affinity for fire and explosions. He appears to get quite a bit of excitement out of using them. He even has a trigger in one of the earlier episodes that was fashioned off of a pez dispensor. He is shown quite a few times pulling a random grenade out of nowhere and threatening to toss it. With a man he calls Mr. Ducky, he shoved the grenade into his mouth and makes a mockery out of him before leaving him to have his guards remove it for him. He was even prepared to throw a grenade later on in a closed room out of revenge for being betrayed by Noriega and many of his own men.
Death seems to be something he is not openly afraid of. In fact, he appears to long for the thrill of what death might bring and throws caution to the wind on several occasions. The only shock he registers for something like this is a widening of the eyes followed by his remarks about how unfortunate something is or that it was indeed a close one. Early on, he gambles his very life in a game of Russian roulette. Even when he almost ends up shooting himself in the head, something Giovanni stops from happening, he reacts to it as an oh well moment and proceeds to make a deal with Boma right then and there to hunt down J. Daisuke pointing a gun at his head does not appear to have an affect. His eyes widen for a moment, but his expression does not change and he says Daisuke is a fool for not shooting him right there. When he is being shot at by anybody, he just stands there and does not make for cover. He is perfectly fine knowing that his guards would take a hit for him anyways.
Loneliness is approached early on when Mauro was about to kill himself for Clair telling him that he did not need him anymore. Despite Clair's own lack of value on his own life, those of his guards and Mauro appear to be precious to him in a way. He asks why Mauro would want to leave him behind like his father did. No matter what the attachment for Clair is, the people he has surrounded himself with mean a great deal in the idea that they can be lost. He hates the idea of being left alone. Though he will not be pulled from later on, he risks his own life when Giovanni's is in danger to keep the guard from dying. He was obviously upset with the deaths of Ian and Mitchel when one died on reconnaissance and the other by becoming a human bomb...both of those deaths not happening until a little while later. It illustrates how important people are to him that are close to him and that his own life is very important to the personal guards he had at his side and has still with Giovanni.
There is one point where he ends up smiling in a pleasant, genuine happiness sort of way and that is when he is around Mauro's grand-daughter and was swinging with her later on during the series when Clair and Giovanni go to speak with him after the elder man had
He does not like to be controlled by the Celestials, their knowledge, and their system that keeps them all confined in the seven cities which means him getting dragged to any world and made to be 'fishies swimming around for their amusement' will make him less inclined to assist Death City at first. The idea of having to conform to that will be laughable to him. Whatever ends up changing that will remain to be seen.
He has an affinity for very fine art as a lot of what one sees in his office in the episodes are from the 1600s generally and very ornate and well-made creations. He would be very upset to have to deal with the less than finer things in life in the city and will complain about that. People calling themselves artists who do less than spectacular work put him in a bad mood as that poet did earlier on and he will openly mock them for bothering to have such foolish thoughts. It legitimately makes him very angry to have somebody use the word artist. Losing all of what he did
Daisuke points out to Clair that he is acting the way that he is by looking down on people because he feels like he's being looked down on by Lorenzo. This does strike a cord with him and that was why he ended up shooting Daisuke three times without hesitation. Huring the point where he injects Daisuke with LSD and is watching him suffer from it, he takes an angry tone with the blond over having looked into his heart. There is definitely something there about looking down on people over how he was raised by his father. He has an inferiority complex ever since he was very young with what his father put him through.
Why is your character a good fit for the setting of Soul Campaign, and what will they do once they are in the game?
Clair is somebody that runs his own company, which happens to be the mafia, and he is very intelligent. If he is given enough of a reason, he could be persuaded to do something. If he cared at all then he might be able to assist in planning or something akin to that. He would clash with any sort of law enforcement unless it ended up being beneficial to him.
List the abilities your character will still have in Soul Campaign:
Clair has been taught fencing since he was very young as well as it can be assumed that he would be able to play something like the piano. He is an excellent marksman with a gun and he has a penchant for explosives. Due to everything in terms of abilities here, he should be able to use anything from a sword to a gun to something beyond that. His intelligence is also something he will retain despite how insanity can sometimes hamper it. By the end of the series, he appears to have a bit more of a grasp on his insanity to the point where he is quite lucid and capable of bringing together many heads of the mafia to fight under his direction.
List the weaknesses your character will gain (or lose) in Soul Campaign:
Clair will lose his empire. He is accustomed to having guards and servants that do things for him, so he lives easier. He will not be able to play his games with the stock market or anything like that. Without having all of his luxuries, he will be very irritated and likely will become quite surly with those around him. He has a lot to lose, but his abilities will be what keeps him afloat here. He already has a bad case of an inferiority complex, so being shown up by others will not help his state of mind. He is very susceptible to madness.
[ MEISTER ]
Soul Description:
Manipulative, intelligent, cunning, irritable, lonely, reckless, loyalty, childish
A black soul with a relatively bored expression on the simplistic representation of a face it has. Above the dots for eyes there is a 'tuft' of blue to represent the part of his hair that he has dyed.
Ability:
Soul Precognition-When in battle they have the potential to see a short amount of time forward and read the moves and attacks of enemies.
[ SAMPLES ]
First-Person
[This had to be somebody's idea of a joke...a really bad joke. He was hardly going to laugh at something like this. Clair had better things to do. This was just getting in the way of that. If he was supposed to believe that he was in some place with people telling him that he was stuck here then somebody was going to pay dearly for all of this.]
Now this doesn't really seem like the intelligent way to go about this, does it?
[Tapping his chin a moment, he gave the usual little laugh he had before his expression changed completely and he grasped the sides of the mirror with an enraged mask on his face.]
Don't you understand what I'm saying?! I can ruin your lives forever for doing this! You know who I am!
[A moment later and the video was distorted. There was a loud crash. The video was lopsided. It was obvious Clair just threw the mirror across the room. The young man approached the mirror before the bottom of his shoe was seen being pressed into it.]
Are you not even going to say anything? How PATHETIC! You can't even get me a room that has anything of value in it! I've never seen such deplorable conditions! There's nothing visually pleasing here at all!
[While this was something that would hardly seem important to anybody else, Clair found it to be the last straw.]
Third-Person
Oh this was just fantastic, wasn't it? All Clair wanted to do was to put Daisuke through something painful, but he ended up giving the smug bastard a nice little daydream instead. That was just so convenient. After all that Daisuke did to ruin his fun, the bastard had to keep coming back and making even this crowning achievement a failure. So typical! Despite that though, the realization that somebody actually came here for Daisuke and then having somebody stupid enough to try and come to assassinate Clair himself was almost too amusing. He could not even keep a decent frown on his face as his guards came to his side and he watched the attackers with amusement. Did they really think this was going to work? They were also interrupting a private meeting he had, but no matter. He faced them with a calm smile on his lips even as they threatened his life.
This was one of those times he felt a little bit too much like the kinds of things he went through on a weekly basis. One did not become Vampire to feel safe. He had to endure all kinds of threats, but he was used to it as well as being used to the fact that he could trust what his guards would do no question. He would not have them by his side at all if they were not prepared to do what they had to. It was just so depressing that his game with Daisuke was all over. That was why it was no big deal to have them let the blond fool go. He would just have to get him back another day. Oh and what a surprise! His robot came to save him as well! As if he could not predict this lucky streak of the other's.
Well...all he could do was approach the blond in the hallway to tell him how pathetic he was for having a woman come to his rescue, but then everything went black. For a moment, he thought that the generator must be out. He already felt anger building up over that. It was supposed to be something that maintenance was keeping on top of. Somebody was going to be losing their job very soon if the lights did not come back on soon. Drumming his fingers on his thigh, he let out a frustrated sigh. And why were the guards not reassuring him right now that they were on top of all of this? He was at least expecting that or for even Daisuke to be smarting off about how nothing was in control around here.
Finally he just lost it.
"Will somebody explain to me why NOTHING is working around here?!"
Before he could even consider the idea of taking a step in any direction, a screen came on in the middle of the blackness. All he could do was stare at it. There was not a screen there before. How did it get here and why did he not hear it? His teeth were clenched and beginning to grind back and forth as he waited for something. The static on the screen was not reflecting a thing in the room that he knew of. There was no movement. There was no WAY he ended up in a completely different place with nobody else around! He was practically shaking with as much rage as he had in him when that face appeared on the screen. He was not listening at all to any of what was being said before he let out a cry of rage.
Notes
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Name: Clair Leonelli
Age: 19
Gender: male
Canon: Heat Guy J
Timeline: At the end of the episode Angel where he and Daisuke are looking across the hallway at the other on relatively good terms
Background:
Synopsis of Heat Guy J according to wikipedia:
"Heat Guy J chronicles the adventures of a young Special Services officer named Daisuke Aurora and his android partner known simply as "J". The pair live and work in the fictional, futuristic Metropolis of "Judoh" (Jewde), where the understaffed and underfunded Special Services Division of the Bureau of Urban Safety has its headquarters." If you happen to find a map related to this series, it actually looks like it is our distant future. It involved seven cities of the world and Celestials, those that keep the cities going, visit every so often. Clair Leonelli of Company Vita is one person that happens to be in this city that is the CEO of said company. His connection to Daisuke Aurora is that Daisuke's father was murdered by an android sent by Clair's late father.
In the first episode, Clair and his guards are attending the funeral of his father Lorenzo. Clair is sitting beneath a tree where even then you can tell by the movements he makes, including the widening of his eyes, that he is massively unhinged. He approaches the coffin with a grenade in hand, pulls the pin, and prepares to throw the grenade. Giovanni, one of three of his personal guards, stops him and Clair ends up dropping the grenade which is throw away at the last minute by Mitchal, one of his other personal guards. Clair goes on to say that his father loved fireworks, so the grenade going off must have made him happy in the end. This was all that really happened in that episode. The second one follows with Mauro claiming that the late Don Lorenzo had proclaimed that he wanted his only son Clair to become the next Don. He cut his thumb and spilled droplets of blood into wine and it was distributed to the other leaders of the city for them to drink it to prove their acknowledgment.
As there is a mob war going on, Clair hires criminals to deliver packages to a certain part of the city. One package happens to be a truckload of napalm which Daisuke Aurora and the android J end up stopping before it can reach "Mr. Ducky" as Clair refers to another boss that ended up killing some of his men. Shogun ends up having to mediate between the two of them and Clair claims that he will agree to stop, but that he will finish something if it is started with him. He appears to be quite amused during this situation and only mildly disappointed that his napalm did not reach its destination.
Later on an episode has a beginning where there is an underground russian roulette tournament under Clair's casino. He challenges Boma to a match and proceeds to play the game with him. He almost does end up dying here as Boma warns him that the other man's bullet is in fact real. Giovanni stops Clair from nearly killing himself. The young man is completely unphased from almost dying and even makes a partnership to have Boma track down J and to destroy the android. Clair mentioned that he himself had a hatred of machine and that he knows that Boma does too. Coincidentally Daisuke does as well even though he works with J. A woman that showed up at the beginning of the episode happens to be working with the young Don because she and her family owes money. She agrees to provide him with information. There is a poet as well that apparently owes Clair money for something as well and is being forced to write poetry for the young man...a series of poems that are worthless to him. Boma ends up backing out after meeting Daisuke and Clair just accepts it. Clair also just randomly lets the poet go.
The next time, Clair takes a 'boy' away from his father and Giovanni refers to the man as to having gotten paid for what they are doing. Clair says to just drive over the man, but his guard says that they will then have to go to the carwash. This is all said nonchalantly as if they do this all the time. The boy turns out to be an android which sings and draws out J who ends up attacking it. The scene makes it look like J was attacking an innocent child in public. Clair tells the machine what to do and when the 'boy' asks him 'Is this all right?' or 'Is this okay?', he has a flashback to moments with his own father Lorenzo when he asked him the same thing. His hand tightens on the back of the chair the 'boy' had been sitting in previously. Clair has dreams while the 'boy' is singing where his father had guards sneaking up on young Clair to have him learn how to be aware of people that might plan on hurting him. His father was very strict on Clair. It is more than implied that he was physically abused in a later episode with a weapon.
It is revealed during this time that Clair is planning on destroying all the other machines. Daisuke ends up threatening Clair after this point because he is so much like his father with being reckless with what he does with his power. Clair intends on doing this further by controlling the stock market through tomatoes to show that he and his associates can make a great deal of money by manipulating what goes up and down. It is all apparently a game to him still though. He says Daisuke will also become an employee of his without even knowing it. Daisuke is tipped off that there is something that will happen to a tomato farm from the women from the street he usually talks to. This apparently was also orchestrated by Clair as there are men there that shot at them and a news helicopter shows up according to plan. There are also explosives there and tomato buying goes up which Clair intends to make go down. The explosives do not go off and are never intended to. Daisuke realizes that somebody is manipulating the system and stops the plummeting from occurring thus losing a lot of the money which he also does not seem to upset about.
Clair says that Daisuke has made him very angry. He almost goes with gold, but Mauro is contacted by somebody he calls Echigo and say that gold is untouchable. Clair tells Mauro he does not need him anymore, so Mauro pulls a gun on himself. Clair stops him from killing himself right there and says that nobody else can die and leave him behind.
Celestials, higher educated beings that keep the cities running, come by for an annual visit. The Celestials were moving through the underground of the cities when they were attacked and twelve of them were murdered. It delays their ability to maintain the city and threatens to make Judoh extinct. Daisuke finds out that a Celestial is wandering around the city. Echigo wants to get to this Celestial and a Celestial shows up before him since Echigo wants knowledge from said being. Noriega told Clair to be the one to get his hands on this Celestial, something Echigo wanted Noriega to do. Clair declines, but tells his guards to search the Celestial anyways. He claims, with an obvious hint of sarcasm, that it is their duty to protect those in their city. The Celestial goes underground and Clair's men are down there pursuing him as Daisuke and J enter the underground area. The Celestial is being shown something from one of the citizens when they encounter Boma. Meanwhile Clair lights up the underground by having gasoline of some kind dumped into the canal which he personally sets alight.
Giovanni and the other two guards point a gun at the Celestial and Clair threatens that the Celestial be 'allowed' to come with him. J puts out the fire. They find out that Clair took the Celestial away. Clair claims to hate the city because it is full of scum and idiots to him basically. He ends up harshly smacking the Celestial and saying that 'human beings are very dirty creatures'. To him, the only way to control people is through fear and that he knows what will happen if the Celestials abandon the city. He does not like that the Celestials have knowledge they keep all to themselves and keep the people of the seven cities hostage. He hates being controlled by something he does not understand. Daisuke's older brother Shun tells Daisuke that he can get him into Company Vita to rescue the Celestial. They shut down the city's power. Giovanni takes on J while Daisuke gets moving. Clair's men stop Daisuke. He says he is not interested in mingling with garbage when Daisuke asks if he has ever walked outside alone.
Daisuke makes the mistake of saying that Clair has a fear of being looked down on by his late father and Clair immediately fires three bullets into him, stopped only by a bulletproof vest. Clair says that he should have shot him in the head when he had the chance. Daisuke moves to shoot Clair in the head with the bullet he has around his neck after knocking out his guards. He claims he left out the gunpowder when he does not kill Clair who claims that the blond will regret not killing him. Giovanni fires at Daisuke who leaves to make sure to get to the destination to keep the city from being killed off by the Celestials.
Later on, due to Daisuke and friends attacking Company Vita, it is down for repairs for at least two months to be fully operational. Clair has a bit of a contained tantrum and promises to himself that Daisuke will pay for making him, the Vampire, look like he is completely helpless. He sends some illegals named Luca and Pixie after Daisuke and J. One of the men nearly completely destroys J by blowing him to large pieces. Daisuke is shocked by another and brought back to Clair's office under orders for him not to be killed. Clair pays them and mocks one of the men for claiming himself to be an artist (artist of killing pretty much). The men are unhappy, but Clair's guards force them to leave. Clair injects something called Blood of the Season that is a high form of LSD that makes Daisuke relive painful memories. Kyoko wonders where Daisuke ended up after J is discovered. She goes to Shogun to ask about Daisuke's whereabouts and he says that Vampire(Clair) has him. The illegals decide to go after Clair for treating them mockingly as he did.
Clair is talking to himself saying that everybody has something deep inside called trauma and that Daisuke obviously has that somewhere inside as well. This is where Clair recalls the switch in his father's hand and his own child self that has obviously been beaten and likely with that switch. Meanwhile the guards are informed that Kyoko has infiltrated the building. Clair is busy leaning down and speaking to Daisuke's drugged body and delightfully wondering what the blond is seeing. Clair is informed that Kyoko is there and he seems amused. The illegals attack Clair's office. The android one of the illegals is the one that breaks into the window. The guards leave from confronting Kyoko as they are under attack. Clair orders Daisuke to be set free since their game was interrupted. He exchanges relatively friendly barbs with him while the illegals are still attacking them. J, who has been repaired, leaps into Clair's office and takes on the illegal android.
Clair says he would have preferred to kill them himself and tells Daisuke he is pathetic for having a woman rescue him. They appear to be on surprisingly good terms here which is where Clair will be taken from before things really hit the fan for him. It is noted in the next episode that he appears bored that it is so easy to make money these days.
Through flashbacks in later episodes, it shows that his guard Giovanni Gallo has been around him since the both of them were young. The guards are very important to Clair and they find Clair to be very important to them to the point that they would willingly give their lives for him. He takes loyalty very seriously, so if he befriends anybody well enough then he will treat them as somebody that he will not allow to be killed.
Personality:
Clair is a very smart man. Right off the bat, you find out his IQ is read in the beginning as 148 which is considered genius level. He knows how smart he is and it shows. This is a 19 year old young man that run Company Vita and be able to attend meetings with people much older than himself. He knows how to control the strock market to the point of controlling what sells and what does not as seen in episode 5 Money. He knows what he is doing when he needs something done with or without regard of how it will affect everything else. He knows where something needs to be and how to gain approval or disapproval if he so wished it. He just happens to have more fun with making everybody hate him which is something that definitely comes back to bite him in the ass later on. He is very knowledgable about how money works as he mentioned in an episode near the middle of the city that it was becoming far too easy to make it and he had a rather dull expression on his face.
Insanity is something that is just a part of Clair now, something that one does not have to speculate too hard on when one considers what it was like for him to be Lorenzo's son. His mother died when he was very young and that was when Lorenzo had picked up Giovanni whom is Clair's closest guard and likely one of the few he would call friend if that was a word that meant something like it does to other people. It is seen through flashbacks from Clair that his father was very strict on him when it came to his schooling. He was also taught fencing with Mauro and Lorenzo set up scenarios with guards sneaking up on Clair when he was just a young child. This alone would have been fine likely enough, but still other flashbacks show a child that is beaten and Lorenzo standing over him with a switch in his hand. With mental abuse on some level being likely, physical abuse is more than implied in these scenes. Whatever he truly feels deep inside for his father is apparently resentment and hatred for what he was put through. Who else brings a grenade to a funeral just to try and throw that into a coffin?
Speaking of fireworks, Clair has with his insanity an unfortunate affinity for fire and explosions. He appears to get quite a bit of excitement out of using them. He even has a trigger in one of the earlier episodes that was fashioned off of a pez dispensor. He is shown quite a few times pulling a random grenade out of nowhere and threatening to toss it. With a man he calls Mr. Ducky, he shoved the grenade into his mouth and makes a mockery out of him before leaving him to have his guards remove it for him. He was even prepared to throw a grenade later on in a closed room out of revenge for being betrayed by Noriega and many of his own men.
Death seems to be something he is not openly afraid of. In fact, he appears to long for the thrill of what death might bring and throws caution to the wind on several occasions. The only shock he registers for something like this is a widening of the eyes followed by his remarks about how unfortunate something is or that it was indeed a close one. Early on, he gambles his very life in a game of Russian roulette. Even when he almost ends up shooting himself in the head, something Giovanni stops from happening, he reacts to it as an oh well moment and proceeds to make a deal with Boma right then and there to hunt down J. Daisuke pointing a gun at his head does not appear to have an affect. His eyes widen for a moment, but his expression does not change and he says Daisuke is a fool for not shooting him right there. When he is being shot at by anybody, he just stands there and does not make for cover. He is perfectly fine knowing that his guards would take a hit for him anyways.
Loneliness is approached early on when Mauro was about to kill himself for Clair telling him that he did not need him anymore. Despite Clair's own lack of value on his own life, those of his guards and Mauro appear to be precious to him in a way. He asks why Mauro would want to leave him behind like his father did. No matter what the attachment for Clair is, the people he has surrounded himself with mean a great deal in the idea that they can be lost. He hates the idea of being left alone. Though he will not be pulled from later on, he risks his own life when Giovanni's is in danger to keep the guard from dying. He was obviously upset with the deaths of Ian and Mitchel when one died on reconnaissance and the other by becoming a human bomb...both of those deaths not happening until a little while later. It illustrates how important people are to him that are close to him and that his own life is very important to the personal guards he had at his side and has still with Giovanni.
There is one point where he ends up smiling in a pleasant, genuine happiness sort of way and that is when he is around Mauro's grand-daughter and was swinging with her later on during the series when Clair and Giovanni go to speak with him after the elder man had
He does not like to be controlled by the Celestials, their knowledge, and their system that keeps them all confined in the seven cities which means him getting dragged to any world and made to be 'fishies swimming around for their amusement' will make him less inclined to assist Death City at first. The idea of having to conform to that will be laughable to him. Whatever ends up changing that will remain to be seen.
He has an affinity for very fine art as a lot of what one sees in his office in the episodes are from the 1600s generally and very ornate and well-made creations. He would be very upset to have to deal with the less than finer things in life in the city and will complain about that. People calling themselves artists who do less than spectacular work put him in a bad mood as that poet did earlier on and he will openly mock them for bothering to have such foolish thoughts. It legitimately makes him very angry to have somebody use the word artist. Losing all of what he did
Daisuke points out to Clair that he is acting the way that he is by looking down on people because he feels like he's being looked down on by Lorenzo. This does strike a cord with him and that was why he ended up shooting Daisuke three times without hesitation. Huring the point where he injects Daisuke with LSD and is watching him suffer from it, he takes an angry tone with the blond over having looked into his heart. There is definitely something there about looking down on people over how he was raised by his father. He has an inferiority complex ever since he was very young with what his father put him through.
Why is your character a good fit for the setting of Soul Campaign, and what will they do once they are in the game?
Clair is somebody that runs his own company, which happens to be the mafia, and he is very intelligent. If he is given enough of a reason, he could be persuaded to do something. If he cared at all then he might be able to assist in planning or something akin to that. He would clash with any sort of law enforcement unless it ended up being beneficial to him.
List the abilities your character will still have in Soul Campaign:
Clair has been taught fencing since he was very young as well as it can be assumed that he would be able to play something like the piano. He is an excellent marksman with a gun and he has a penchant for explosives. Due to everything in terms of abilities here, he should be able to use anything from a sword to a gun to something beyond that. His intelligence is also something he will retain despite how insanity can sometimes hamper it. By the end of the series, he appears to have a bit more of a grasp on his insanity to the point where he is quite lucid and capable of bringing together many heads of the mafia to fight under his direction.
List the weaknesses your character will gain (or lose) in Soul Campaign:
Clair will lose his empire. He is accustomed to having guards and servants that do things for him, so he lives easier. He will not be able to play his games with the stock market or anything like that. Without having all of his luxuries, he will be very irritated and likely will become quite surly with those around him. He has a lot to lose, but his abilities will be what keeps him afloat here. He already has a bad case of an inferiority complex, so being shown up by others will not help his state of mind. He is very susceptible to madness.
[ MEISTER ]
Soul Description:
Manipulative, intelligent, cunning, irritable, lonely, reckless, loyalty, childish
A black soul with a relatively bored expression on the simplistic representation of a face it has. Above the dots for eyes there is a 'tuft' of blue to represent the part of his hair that he has dyed.
Ability:
Soul Precognition-When in battle they have the potential to see a short amount of time forward and read the moves and attacks of enemies.
[ SAMPLES ]
First-Person
[This had to be somebody's idea of a joke...a really bad joke. He was hardly going to laugh at something like this. Clair had better things to do. This was just getting in the way of that. If he was supposed to believe that he was in some place with people telling him that he was stuck here then somebody was going to pay dearly for all of this.]
Now this doesn't really seem like the intelligent way to go about this, does it?
[Tapping his chin a moment, he gave the usual little laugh he had before his expression changed completely and he grasped the sides of the mirror with an enraged mask on his face.]
Don't you understand what I'm saying?! I can ruin your lives forever for doing this! You know who I am!
[A moment later and the video was distorted. There was a loud crash. The video was lopsided. It was obvious Clair just threw the mirror across the room. The young man approached the mirror before the bottom of his shoe was seen being pressed into it.]
Are you not even going to say anything? How PATHETIC! You can't even get me a room that has anything of value in it! I've never seen such deplorable conditions! There's nothing visually pleasing here at all!
[While this was something that would hardly seem important to anybody else, Clair found it to be the last straw.]
Third-Person
Oh this was just fantastic, wasn't it? All Clair wanted to do was to put Daisuke through something painful, but he ended up giving the smug bastard a nice little daydream instead. That was just so convenient. After all that Daisuke did to ruin his fun, the bastard had to keep coming back and making even this crowning achievement a failure. So typical! Despite that though, the realization that somebody actually came here for Daisuke and then having somebody stupid enough to try and come to assassinate Clair himself was almost too amusing. He could not even keep a decent frown on his face as his guards came to his side and he watched the attackers with amusement. Did they really think this was going to work? They were also interrupting a private meeting he had, but no matter. He faced them with a calm smile on his lips even as they threatened his life.
This was one of those times he felt a little bit too much like the kinds of things he went through on a weekly basis. One did not become Vampire to feel safe. He had to endure all kinds of threats, but he was used to it as well as being used to the fact that he could trust what his guards would do no question. He would not have them by his side at all if they were not prepared to do what they had to. It was just so depressing that his game with Daisuke was all over. That was why it was no big deal to have them let the blond fool go. He would just have to get him back another day. Oh and what a surprise! His robot came to save him as well! As if he could not predict this lucky streak of the other's.
Well...all he could do was approach the blond in the hallway to tell him how pathetic he was for having a woman come to his rescue, but then everything went black. For a moment, he thought that the generator must be out. He already felt anger building up over that. It was supposed to be something that maintenance was keeping on top of. Somebody was going to be losing their job very soon if the lights did not come back on soon. Drumming his fingers on his thigh, he let out a frustrated sigh. And why were the guards not reassuring him right now that they were on top of all of this? He was at least expecting that or for even Daisuke to be smarting off about how nothing was in control around here.
Finally he just lost it.
"Will somebody explain to me why NOTHING is working around here?!"
Before he could even consider the idea of taking a step in any direction, a screen came on in the middle of the blackness. All he could do was stare at it. There was not a screen there before. How did it get here and why did he not hear it? His teeth were clenched and beginning to grind back and forth as he waited for something. The static on the screen was not reflecting a thing in the room that he knew of. There was no movement. There was no WAY he ended up in a completely different place with nobody else around! He was practically shaking with as much rage as he had in him when that face appeared on the screen. He was not listening at all to any of what was being said before he let out a cry of rage.
Notes
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