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character name: Gokudera Hayato a.k.a. Scowl // Izubucnire a.k.a. Barrage
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pg au//oc: Gokudera comes from Katekyo Hitman Reborn and was previously played in Sabra la Tau. He's being taken from an au ending of that game. Barrage is an original character developed during the course of Sabra.


GOKUDERA BULLET POINTS AND SUMMARY

• Originally a hyper loyal mafia brat who only wanted to do his very, very, very best for his boss!!!
• Unfortunately decided earning a wish in Sabra la Tau was the way to go.
• Lost all his memories, renamed himself Scowl, and transformed from a hyper loyal subordinate into the hyper loyal leader of the team he was assigned to.
• Also the wish was a lie. People were actually brought to Sabra la Tau to be sacrificed to the eternally dying god-planet in order for the other gods to be able to continue clinging to their meager scraps of life.
• Naturally Scowl really hates gods. He made an exception for Rota, goddess of decay and new growth, because she was hell bent on bringing the place to an end and made efforts to assist the blanks in that goal.
• At one point was "synced" with a soul belonging to an original native of Sabra to view the world's history. This soul stayed on as a passenger in Scowl's body.
• Eventually lost his everyloving shit over a monster goddess turning one of his castmates into a monster
• Only legit response was to become an Avatar of Rot using Rota's powers. Now he has cool rot powers he can control about 60% of the time.
• Also control over her patron animals which are terrifying giant carnivorous centipedes. Like piranhas only they're bugs so 1000 times worse.
• Accidentally caught the attention of the top dog god and triggered the endgame. Cue a lot of panicked god murdering and people getting struck by lightning and forced into games intended to be their final destruction.
• One of the gods (neither Scowl or Barrage are sure which), woke the soul that had stowed away in Scowl so that someone other than a dumbass teenager was in control of all the powers at his disposal during end game.
• Nobody died \:D/
• Now Scowl is stuck with this extra personality hanging around in his head scolding him about all the dumbass shit he's doing always.

Gokudera now goes almost solely by the name Scowl. He only allows his real name to people he's very attached to (people he adopted as famiglia during Sabra, boyfriends he picked up there (YEAH ALSO HE P. MUCH MARRIED ALLEN WALKER AND YAMAMOTO it's okay they'll understand his need to Court to fix his problems)). He's had a lot of his negative traits amplified--more paranoid, more distrustful, quicker to violence once his temper his pushed, but he's also matured in other ways. He makes more effort to understand people before giving into his negative traits. He doesn't devote loyalty to one person and one person only--that just wasn't an option when he had an entire team he needed to take care of.

And then there's the whole issue where he became the avatar of a goddess. He can spread decay now, but beause of his young age and short temper he doesn't always maintain total control over that. :'D If he starts losing his temper then all the plant and animal life around him may just begin to rot or become gangrenous. it's okay though, once everything has rotted away new life will have a much easier time than normal growing there. :)!! Similar considerations apply to the terapedes--they'll react directly to his emotions rather than actual commands he's giving them, but he won't have those unless he goes to the theater for them.


BARRAGE BULLET POINTS AND SUMMARY

• Was a cranky medicine man who picked up his trade while traveling the world in his youth.
• Also a literal berserker complete with uncontrolled fire magic when he loses control.
• Eventually became the de facto leader of his country when they entered a world wide emergency due to the coming apocalypse.
• Yeah that was a thing. Everything was going to be roasted by the angry sun and die. :Db
• But the gods had a plan!!! Just live in the Earth until the apocalypse is over. :Dbbb We'll totally get to leave again.
• And then they forced everyone into games to generate energy for them to feed off of and eventually fed them to the eternally dying planet to also both die and not die for a thousand years. ;Dbbbb
• Barrage bore a number of names during the different cycles of games he lived through. After each cycle their memories would be reset so they could be reused until they finally wore down too much and were fed to the planet.
• He was always fiercely protective of his team and would do everything he could to shield them both in and out of games.
• In spite of that protective streak and being a vicious berserker, he actually favored peace and neutrality and made efforts at maintaining at least understanding with the other teams whenever he could.
• Unfortunately his magic drew on the planet itself so he was plagued with contant echoes of the god-planet's intense, painful desire to die. It was a problem.
• Finally absorbed by the planet and remained there until he was synced with Gokudera and got stuck in his body.
• Shortly after that was awoken to take control during the final end game so Gokudera couldn't do dumbass teenage shit and ruin everything.
• Now he's stuck as a ride along personality to this dumbass kid that he scolds over the stupid shit he does all the time.

Yeeeeaaaaah \:D/ Barrage had the added bonus of regaining all of his memories upon being awoken, so he knows aaaalll about every cycle of games he lived through. All the times he made enemies of friends and friends of enemies and maybe even slept with those frenemies. Fun stuff. He still does favor peace—he's a big picture kind of guy and it's important to him to maintain good relations with people. There are exceptions of course! Sometimes a dude needs his face broken okay.

He didn't undergo as much of a change in personality during the games as Gokudera did. Hydra, the country he's originally from, was always incredibly harsh so he was no stranger to surviving in intensely high stress situations. That's daily living in Hydra. He is slower to trust people, but he's also mature enough to understand what happened in Sabra and what's happening outside of it are two very different situations and will be making conscious attempts to account for that while he readjusts to a life that isn't constant pain and suffering.

Character Info

I did a previous write up of major differences (both visually and in personality) between Scowl and canon Gokudera here.

Barrage has no such post so here is the original write up I did for him during the Sabra arc he was created in.

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Ping Notes

There are a couple of things about Scowl/Barrage that will be extremely noteworthy to anyone with the ability to sense these sorts of things. They are:

Godly Powers
Both Scowl and Barrage have been blessed or ordained an avatar by a god. Barrage's powers are flame-based and seem to have been laid over his own natural flame magic as a kind of redirect for some reason. Basically he originally drew on magic from a different source, and then a god tweaked that so he would draw from this new godly source. Scowl's powers, on the other hand, are entirely separate from his own natural power. They are powers of rot and decay, and he is very thoroughly infused with it since he became a fully fledged avatar of the goddess these powers belonged to.

Multiple Souls
Yeah this isn't some dual personality thing. Scowl and Barrage are two completely individual people. Barrage's soul is much older than Scowl's by a thousand years or so. Definitely not the one that belongs in the body, but he's there anyway. :Db

Soul Damage
Both of them have taken on some damage. Barrage's damage is much worse—having his soul literally devoured unendingly for a thousand years by a god screaming for death will do that. He's still remarkably functional, but there's a lot of wear and tear and some fraying at the edges. It is probably really horrific to look at for someone who understands what healthy souls look like. Scowl has completely minimal damage—just the echoes of a god's scream bouncing around in there.