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Name: Wei
Age/18+?: 31
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Age/18+?: 31
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Name: Ankh
Canon: Kamen Rider OOO
Canon Point: Episode 45, just after stomping out on the Greeed
Age: 800+ (Host is in his early 20's)
Type of Character: Canon
Reference: Kamen Rider Wiki
Personality: The Greeed were made 800 years ago to serve a power hungry king in his conquest of the world. Each was made incomplete, and awoke driven by a desire to be whole that could never be fulfilled. They live with limited senses and limited emotions, and try to fill the void by taking from humans all the things they can never truly own. Even amongst themselves, it's a constant battle for the one thing they always need: more. Ankh is a Greeed, but he's something beyond that. He's the one who learned how to live, and how to be content. Over time, he learned how to be a lot more human.
That said, he started out very much a Greeed, and he maintains many of those characteristics. It's obvious in the first couple episodes that Ankh has very little reverence for life and all he cares about is getting more Medals for himself. One of the first things Ankh did was to stop Eiji from killing a Yummy that was wreaking havoc. Though Eiji got his way and ended up taking down the Yummy earlier, Ankh's plan was to let the Yummy consume an entire office building filled with people just so that it would give him that many more Medals once it was destroyed. Eiji's influence had an effect over the series in this regard, and by the time I'm picking him up from, it's unlikely that he would so happily sit by and watch that kind of destruction, much less cause it. That said, Ankh is only protective of the people who matter to him in some way, and while at this point he's not so inclined to put strangers in harm's way, he won't go too far out of his way to help them, either.
Ankh is selfish and conniving and rarely does anything that doesn't benefit him in some way. Everything he does, he calculates. Sometimes it means that he'll do things that put him at a temporary disadvantage so that he'll come out on top later. His decision to let Eiji become OOO in the first place is a perfect example of that. While he initially thought that Eiji would be stupid and easy to push around, that was a snap assessment and there was a risk in giving that kind of power to a complete stranger. As it turned out, Eiji wasn't as dumb as he first looked, but Ankh continued to keep him on his side despite a lot of frustration because having OOO around was useful.
The flip side of that is that if you know what drives him, it's relatively easy to talk him into things, provided they aren't going to be too much of a hindrance to him. He can be convinced of most things with the promise of Medals, even if they're boring or embarrassing. Similarly, he initially had no interest in Hina's safety, but Eiji talked him into protecting her by offering a year's supply of popsicles.
He's also rude. The way he speaks is generally impolite, he makes no secret of it when he doesn't like something, and it's habit for him to call people idiots as soon as they do something he doesn't agree with or doesn't understand. When Eiji brought him to live at Cous Coussier, he had to make up a cover story about Ankh having grown up in a rough environment in some foreign country, just to sufficiently explain his bad behavior.
Most of the reason for Ankh's calculating, guarded, and prickly nature comes from his background. At the beginning of the show he revived from several centuries of being sealed away in a stone coffin, and prior to that it doesn't seem like he'd had very much interaction with anyone besides the other Greeed and a power mad king. He lived in an environment where it was everyone for themselves, and the one alliance he had made led to betrayal. When the Greeed woke up again, none of them had a full set of their core medals and the first thing any of them did was steal from the others to try get the upper hand. When that's the environment he was used to, it's no wonder that he doesn't let his guard down easily.
Though for all that he's unfriendly and unsociable, it's a surprising how much so-called stupidity he'll actually put up with, whether that's getting dragged unwillingly into social events, tolerating Chiyoko attempting to give him politeness lessons, or letting Eiji push him off a table while scolding him to sit normally. Ankh actually spends many of the less serious moments in the series being the butt of jokes, often involving fairly ridiculous slapstick, and while he's clearly not happy about any of that, he puts up with it, and even decides he misses some of it once he's not there with everyone. He, of course, would chalk up all of it to needing to stay enough in everyone's good graces so he could hold on to whatever benefits they happened to be providing. But with as many times as he can be seen sitting in the background pretending not to pay attention while the rest of the group engages in whatever antics (usually dragging him in at some point) it's hard not to assume that some part of him just enjoys the company.
And by the end of the series, he really does care. At the start, he was a severed hand with an attitude who took over an unconscious human just so that he'd have a body to work with. But over time, having a human body and being around humans constantly started to change him. Having a human body gives him an entirely different way of perceiving things compared to the other Greeed. They have extremely limited senses, and while they can see, hear, and feel, it's all in some muted or distorted form, and the ability to taste is nonexistent. One of the first things he did upon taking over Shingo was eat popsicles, and he proceeded to get addicted to them because they were the first thing he'd ever tasted.
While Shingo's body is what made him physically human, his interactions with others did the rest of it. In the beginning, it was nothing more than an uneasy alliance. Eiji was an idiot who he adopted working with because having OOO as an ally is useful when struggling against the other Greeed, and Hina is nothing more than a hindrance he's forced to deal with because he happens to be possessing her brother's body. Then he spent a lot of time with them, and he got used to them. Eventually, he started to understand and even like them.
That said, it wasn't enough to keep him from betraying them and setting off on his own with Shingo's body as a hostage as soon as he got his full power back. Particularly since in the same incident that allowed him to regain his power, Eiji demonstrated terrifying destructive power of his own and wrecked three of Ankh's Cores. Ankh felt threatened. He knew Eiji had no plans to let him keep Shingo's body, and he'd be lacking in both power and senses without Shingo, so he took his host and ran... and formed a temporary alliance with the rest of the Greeed now that he was strong enough to stand up to them.
Being with the other Greeed, however, quickly brought him to the conclusion that he didn't like associating with them. By then, he'd gotten used to living with a bunch of humans who supported and cared for each other. In contrast, the Greeed only fought amongst themselves in a constant competition for Medals. In the time he spent with them, Maki also questioned Ankh describing a Greeed that had been destroyed as “dead”, saying they were just made of Medals and had no life of their own. It didn't take him long to decide he wanted nothing to do with any of it, at which point he threw the other Greeed's oh-so-precious Medals back in their faces, and stomped off alone, ultimately to go have a showdown with Eiji and decide the fate of his human host body once and for all.
That's the canon point he's coming from here. In the end, he manages to reconcile his differences with Eiji, and eventually sacrifices himself to protect him from Maki. The Core Medal containing his consciousness breaks, and Eiji spends an indeterminate amount of time trying to put it back together, and a sequel movie shows that he does succeed at some point, but who knows when or how. The future Ankh that's been revived is a lot softer around the edges and doesn't seem to mind more openly showing concern over Eiji and Hina, but at the canon point I'm pulling him from, he's still got some hurdles to get over before he'll get there.
As a last side note, Ankh's existence as a Greeed was originally distilled from the essence of birds. Aside from having an arm with a bird on the back of it and big shimmery wings that pop out sometimes, his bird origins color several other things, from the way he moves to certain habits. He's prone to sudden quick movements, tends to lead motion with his head, and carries most of his weight on one foot at a time. He tends to perch moreso than sit, finding either the nearest tree or the highest available place in the room. When he enters or leaves the room where he lives, it's through the window, not the door (and he lives in an attic). He also was at one point disturbed at having someone offer him chicken as a meal, because eating a cooked bird just seemed wrong (though that didn't stop him from getting irritated enough to take a bite out of the thing anyway).
Appearance: Way more information than you need
Abilities: Being a Greeed comes with a lot of perks. For one, they're just physically stronger than humans, to the point that there's basically no way to defeat them unless someone has a power suit. But beyond that, here are the specifics:
Medals- First of all, Greeeds are made of medals. Core Medals are, as the name implies, the core of a Greeed's existence. They are, essentially, what makes that Greeed themselves. Ankh's Core Medals are red and depict birds (hawk, peacock, and condor, to be specific). The more Cores a Greeed has, the more powerful they are and the more complete they feel. Ankh's consciousness is contained in a single Hawk medal, which broke into two pieces at the end of the series. Cell Medals, the more common and less powerful type, are silver in color and used for a lot of different purposes. Since Ankh is composed of these pieces, he can absorb them into himself or pull them out at will.
Making Yummies- One of the major things Greeeds do with Cell Medals is implanting them in someone with a strong desire in order to let that desire grow out of control. Each Greeed's Yummies work a little differently, and Ankh's tend to exist separately from their host and behave like a bird taking care of their young. They kidnap the host, keeping them in a central location that serves as a nest, while the Yummy goes out to get whatever the host wants and bring it back to them. As with all Yummies, this usually ends up with the host being extremely unhappy with this method of having their desire fulfilled, and of course havoc is wrought when the Yummy is out gathering metaphorical food for its chick. Ankh almost never creates Yummies, being incapable of doing so for most of the series, and only briefly of a mindset to consider it once he became able, but he does have the capability. He might think about it if Cell Medals are needed, because breaking down a Yummy that's grown through fulfilling desires is about the only way to create more of them.
Sensing Desire- In order to create a Yummy, a Greeed must first discover someone with a sufficiently powerful desire. In this particular field, they're a bit psychic. Unable to create Yummies for most of the series. Ankh rarely says anything about this as such, but other Greeeds notice the wishes of their would-be Yummy hosts, and Ankh certainly comments on Eiji having an utter lack of desire. Being creatures made from desire, he can easily notice the presence of a Yummy at a considerable distance, as well as pick out which human is the Yummy's host if he's able to interact with them at all.
Shapeshifting- Being fundamentally a pile of medals, a Greeed's physical appearance is mutable. Ankh's true form is humanoid, but clearly inhuman, with bird-like characteristics. But he can also choose to take on the appearance of any human he sees. Right now, he's possessing Shingo, so this mostly only applies to whether his right arm appears Greeed or human at any given moment. (After being revived with his own body, he still chooses to appear as Shingo most of the time because it's what he's used to and how other people recognise him.)
Flight- His Greeed form is based on a bird, so of course he can fly. While he doesn't usually appear to have wings, he can choose to manifest them even while appearing as a human, at which point they will suddenly and dramatically sprout from his back. The wings are translucent and iridescent and give a general impression of being made of light.
Fire- His element is fire, and he can throw fireballs. This one is pretty straightforward.
Suitability: Ankh is resilient and good at adapting to unexpected circumstances. He was sealed away for 800 years and revived as only an arm, and at a giant disadvantage compared to the other Greeed having full bodies, but he immediately figured out what he needed to do to make the best of that. He isn't great at social skills, and at least to start with he's going to be at odds with Eiji (assuming both of them are accepted), so it's debatable whether he'll “fit in” that way but he's used to that. He'll bother people as he deems it necessary (or entertaining).
As for what kinds of plots I'd want to see him in, I know he doesn't tend to fare well in pure slice of life for the reason I just said, so I'd love to get him swept up in whatever overarching plot happens. Exploring is good, too. He'll probably keep himself busy for a while trying to learn the place, anyway.
Inventory: His six remaining Core Medals, all of the remaining medals that belong to Kazari (which I think would be 8 of them, not that it really matters), and however many Cell Medals he has, all of which are basically just part of his body. He wouldn't have had much else at that canon point aside from just the clothes he's wearing.
Talent Preferences: Alteration, Conjuration, Restoration
Canon: Kamen Rider OOO
Canon Point: Episode 45, just after stomping out on the Greeed
Age: 800+ (Host is in his early 20's)
Type of Character: Canon
Reference: Kamen Rider Wiki
Personality: The Greeed were made 800 years ago to serve a power hungry king in his conquest of the world. Each was made incomplete, and awoke driven by a desire to be whole that could never be fulfilled. They live with limited senses and limited emotions, and try to fill the void by taking from humans all the things they can never truly own. Even amongst themselves, it's a constant battle for the one thing they always need: more. Ankh is a Greeed, but he's something beyond that. He's the one who learned how to live, and how to be content. Over time, he learned how to be a lot more human.
That said, he started out very much a Greeed, and he maintains many of those characteristics. It's obvious in the first couple episodes that Ankh has very little reverence for life and all he cares about is getting more Medals for himself. One of the first things Ankh did was to stop Eiji from killing a Yummy that was wreaking havoc. Though Eiji got his way and ended up taking down the Yummy earlier, Ankh's plan was to let the Yummy consume an entire office building filled with people just so that it would give him that many more Medals once it was destroyed. Eiji's influence had an effect over the series in this regard, and by the time I'm picking him up from, it's unlikely that he would so happily sit by and watch that kind of destruction, much less cause it. That said, Ankh is only protective of the people who matter to him in some way, and while at this point he's not so inclined to put strangers in harm's way, he won't go too far out of his way to help them, either.
Ankh is selfish and conniving and rarely does anything that doesn't benefit him in some way. Everything he does, he calculates. Sometimes it means that he'll do things that put him at a temporary disadvantage so that he'll come out on top later. His decision to let Eiji become OOO in the first place is a perfect example of that. While he initially thought that Eiji would be stupid and easy to push around, that was a snap assessment and there was a risk in giving that kind of power to a complete stranger. As it turned out, Eiji wasn't as dumb as he first looked, but Ankh continued to keep him on his side despite a lot of frustration because having OOO around was useful.
The flip side of that is that if you know what drives him, it's relatively easy to talk him into things, provided they aren't going to be too much of a hindrance to him. He can be convinced of most things with the promise of Medals, even if they're boring or embarrassing. Similarly, he initially had no interest in Hina's safety, but Eiji talked him into protecting her by offering a year's supply of popsicles.
He's also rude. The way he speaks is generally impolite, he makes no secret of it when he doesn't like something, and it's habit for him to call people idiots as soon as they do something he doesn't agree with or doesn't understand. When Eiji brought him to live at Cous Coussier, he had to make up a cover story about Ankh having grown up in a rough environment in some foreign country, just to sufficiently explain his bad behavior.
Most of the reason for Ankh's calculating, guarded, and prickly nature comes from his background. At the beginning of the show he revived from several centuries of being sealed away in a stone coffin, and prior to that it doesn't seem like he'd had very much interaction with anyone besides the other Greeed and a power mad king. He lived in an environment where it was everyone for themselves, and the one alliance he had made led to betrayal. When the Greeed woke up again, none of them had a full set of their core medals and the first thing any of them did was steal from the others to try get the upper hand. When that's the environment he was used to, it's no wonder that he doesn't let his guard down easily.
Though for all that he's unfriendly and unsociable, it's a surprising how much so-called stupidity he'll actually put up with, whether that's getting dragged unwillingly into social events, tolerating Chiyoko attempting to give him politeness lessons, or letting Eiji push him off a table while scolding him to sit normally. Ankh actually spends many of the less serious moments in the series being the butt of jokes, often involving fairly ridiculous slapstick, and while he's clearly not happy about any of that, he puts up with it, and even decides he misses some of it once he's not there with everyone. He, of course, would chalk up all of it to needing to stay enough in everyone's good graces so he could hold on to whatever benefits they happened to be providing. But with as many times as he can be seen sitting in the background pretending not to pay attention while the rest of the group engages in whatever antics (usually dragging him in at some point) it's hard not to assume that some part of him just enjoys the company.
And by the end of the series, he really does care. At the start, he was a severed hand with an attitude who took over an unconscious human just so that he'd have a body to work with. But over time, having a human body and being around humans constantly started to change him. Having a human body gives him an entirely different way of perceiving things compared to the other Greeed. They have extremely limited senses, and while they can see, hear, and feel, it's all in some muted or distorted form, and the ability to taste is nonexistent. One of the first things he did upon taking over Shingo was eat popsicles, and he proceeded to get addicted to them because they were the first thing he'd ever tasted.
While Shingo's body is what made him physically human, his interactions with others did the rest of it. In the beginning, it was nothing more than an uneasy alliance. Eiji was an idiot who he adopted working with because having OOO as an ally is useful when struggling against the other Greeed, and Hina is nothing more than a hindrance he's forced to deal with because he happens to be possessing her brother's body. Then he spent a lot of time with them, and he got used to them. Eventually, he started to understand and even like them.
That said, it wasn't enough to keep him from betraying them and setting off on his own with Shingo's body as a hostage as soon as he got his full power back. Particularly since in the same incident that allowed him to regain his power, Eiji demonstrated terrifying destructive power of his own and wrecked three of Ankh's Cores. Ankh felt threatened. He knew Eiji had no plans to let him keep Shingo's body, and he'd be lacking in both power and senses without Shingo, so he took his host and ran... and formed a temporary alliance with the rest of the Greeed now that he was strong enough to stand up to them.
Being with the other Greeed, however, quickly brought him to the conclusion that he didn't like associating with them. By then, he'd gotten used to living with a bunch of humans who supported and cared for each other. In contrast, the Greeed only fought amongst themselves in a constant competition for Medals. In the time he spent with them, Maki also questioned Ankh describing a Greeed that had been destroyed as “dead”, saying they were just made of Medals and had no life of their own. It didn't take him long to decide he wanted nothing to do with any of it, at which point he threw the other Greeed's oh-so-precious Medals back in their faces, and stomped off alone, ultimately to go have a showdown with Eiji and decide the fate of his human host body once and for all.
That's the canon point he's coming from here. In the end, he manages to reconcile his differences with Eiji, and eventually sacrifices himself to protect him from Maki. The Core Medal containing his consciousness breaks, and Eiji spends an indeterminate amount of time trying to put it back together, and a sequel movie shows that he does succeed at some point, but who knows when or how. The future Ankh that's been revived is a lot softer around the edges and doesn't seem to mind more openly showing concern over Eiji and Hina, but at the canon point I'm pulling him from, he's still got some hurdles to get over before he'll get there.
As a last side note, Ankh's existence as a Greeed was originally distilled from the essence of birds. Aside from having an arm with a bird on the back of it and big shimmery wings that pop out sometimes, his bird origins color several other things, from the way he moves to certain habits. He's prone to sudden quick movements, tends to lead motion with his head, and carries most of his weight on one foot at a time. He tends to perch moreso than sit, finding either the nearest tree or the highest available place in the room. When he enters or leaves the room where he lives, it's through the window, not the door (and he lives in an attic). He also was at one point disturbed at having someone offer him chicken as a meal, because eating a cooked bird just seemed wrong (though that didn't stop him from getting irritated enough to take a bite out of the thing anyway).
Appearance: Way more information than you need
Abilities: Being a Greeed comes with a lot of perks. For one, they're just physically stronger than humans, to the point that there's basically no way to defeat them unless someone has a power suit. But beyond that, here are the specifics:
Medals- First of all, Greeeds are made of medals. Core Medals are, as the name implies, the core of a Greeed's existence. They are, essentially, what makes that Greeed themselves. Ankh's Core Medals are red and depict birds (hawk, peacock, and condor, to be specific). The more Cores a Greeed has, the more powerful they are and the more complete they feel. Ankh's consciousness is contained in a single Hawk medal, which broke into two pieces at the end of the series. Cell Medals, the more common and less powerful type, are silver in color and used for a lot of different purposes. Since Ankh is composed of these pieces, he can absorb them into himself or pull them out at will.
Making Yummies- One of the major things Greeeds do with Cell Medals is implanting them in someone with a strong desire in order to let that desire grow out of control. Each Greeed's Yummies work a little differently, and Ankh's tend to exist separately from their host and behave like a bird taking care of their young. They kidnap the host, keeping them in a central location that serves as a nest, while the Yummy goes out to get whatever the host wants and bring it back to them. As with all Yummies, this usually ends up with the host being extremely unhappy with this method of having their desire fulfilled, and of course havoc is wrought when the Yummy is out gathering metaphorical food for its chick. Ankh almost never creates Yummies, being incapable of doing so for most of the series, and only briefly of a mindset to consider it once he became able, but he does have the capability. He might think about it if Cell Medals are needed, because breaking down a Yummy that's grown through fulfilling desires is about the only way to create more of them.
Sensing Desire- In order to create a Yummy, a Greeed must first discover someone with a sufficiently powerful desire. In this particular field, they're a bit psychic. Unable to create Yummies for most of the series. Ankh rarely says anything about this as such, but other Greeeds notice the wishes of their would-be Yummy hosts, and Ankh certainly comments on Eiji having an utter lack of desire. Being creatures made from desire, he can easily notice the presence of a Yummy at a considerable distance, as well as pick out which human is the Yummy's host if he's able to interact with them at all.
Shapeshifting- Being fundamentally a pile of medals, a Greeed's physical appearance is mutable. Ankh's true form is humanoid, but clearly inhuman, with bird-like characteristics. But he can also choose to take on the appearance of any human he sees. Right now, he's possessing Shingo, so this mostly only applies to whether his right arm appears Greeed or human at any given moment. (After being revived with his own body, he still chooses to appear as Shingo most of the time because it's what he's used to and how other people recognise him.)
Flight- His Greeed form is based on a bird, so of course he can fly. While he doesn't usually appear to have wings, he can choose to manifest them even while appearing as a human, at which point they will suddenly and dramatically sprout from his back. The wings are translucent and iridescent and give a general impression of being made of light.
Fire- His element is fire, and he can throw fireballs. This one is pretty straightforward.
Suitability: Ankh is resilient and good at adapting to unexpected circumstances. He was sealed away for 800 years and revived as only an arm, and at a giant disadvantage compared to the other Greeed having full bodies, but he immediately figured out what he needed to do to make the best of that. He isn't great at social skills, and at least to start with he's going to be at odds with Eiji (assuming both of them are accepted), so it's debatable whether he'll “fit in” that way but he's used to that. He'll bother people as he deems it necessary (or entertaining).
As for what kinds of plots I'd want to see him in, I know he doesn't tend to fare well in pure slice of life for the reason I just said, so I'd love to get him swept up in whatever overarching plot happens. Exploring is good, too. He'll probably keep himself busy for a while trying to learn the place, anyway.
Inventory: His six remaining Core Medals, all of the remaining medals that belong to Kazari (which I think would be 8 of them, not that it really matters), and however many Cell Medals he has, all of which are basically just part of his body. He wouldn't have had much else at that canon point aside from just the clothes he's wearing.
Talent Preferences: Alteration, Conjuration, Restoration
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