The Abaddon System

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The Abaddon System

Generalities

Names and Roles: Ryuk Baek Hwan (Host) / Alexander (Core Alter) / Strife (Fictive Alter) / Han-Bi Ki (Protector Alter)
Nicknames: Baek, Ryu
Velvet Underground Username: saulgoodmansmybitch
Age: 23
Gender: Male/Male/Male/Female
Race: Half-blood
Faction: Strigoi
Squad: None
Role: Wildcard
Battle Theme:

Rank: D
Red Orbs: 1600
Blue Orbs: 800

Character Description

Ryuk Baek Hwan

Physical Appearance: Ryuk is a young man with the typical traits of a person of mixed Asian-European descent. He has straight black hair, typically kept short with bangs covering his forehead; his eyes are also dark and shiny like black pearls, so much so that his iris and pupil are basically indistinguishable.
His skin colour and facial features are those of the average Korean: he's quite pale, with almond-shaped eyes and a pointy chin. His cheekbones are not as pronounced, giving his face an almost perfect upside-down egg shape.
He is slightly on the tall side, standing at 1.81m.

Clothing and Accessories: Ryuk loves to wear loose-fitting, comfortable clothing. He's often seen with oversized sweaters, hoodies, and sweatpants; his favourite colours are black, white and beige and he makes sure to wear at least one of the three every day. He's also known to bundle up in most weather conditions, almost regardless of temperature. He also often wears non-perscription glasses. In general, his choice of clothing sends nerdy vibes.
In the comfort of his home, he makes an effort to wear pajamas as much as possible.

Personality: Ryuk is an introverted, sheepish nerd that loves instant noodles and studying law above all else. He typically avoids confrontation; he's the kind of person often described as a pushover by all the people he knows.
He often keeps to himself, mostly because of his introverted nature, only really speaking when directly addressed or when his special interests are part of the conversation.
Ryuk, despite everything, has a heart of gold. While he's not the bravest person in the world, he can still muster up enough strength to stand for what he believes in.

Alexander

Physical Appearance: Alexander is a 1.81m tall man with a slender build. His facial features are characteristic of a person of Korean descent, like almond-shaped eyes and pale skin.
His hair is fiery red; it glows faintly, emitting red-orange light. The same goes for his right eye, whose iris is red and it glows in darkness; his left eye instead is pitch-black in colour. Otherwise, his face looks identical to Ryuk.

Clothing and Accessories: Alexander likes to wear clothing that doesn't go unnoticed. He likes suits and other elegant (and expensive) pieces of clothing; he picks them carefully matching colours and styles.
His favourite colours to wear are black, gold and red; his favourite piece of clothing is a red shirt that he often pairs with a velvety black suit.

Personality: Alexander is extremely confident. A polar opposite with respect to the sheepish Baek, his personality is dominant and expansive; he's also quite charming thanks to a combination of confidence and curated looks.
In general, people who meet him often feel fascinated or intimidated by his intense stare.
He is an experienced Devil Hunter, and he has fought off hundreds of demons for the sake of mankind. For this reason he likes to introduce himself as "the Hero of the People".

Strife

Physical Appearance: Strife is an alter born from a television show and collectible card game, "Tales of Abaddon". His physical appearance matches that of the character in the show bearing the same name: he has straight, dark hair that is often kept slicked back. The colour of Strife's hair is actually a very dark blue, and it glows faintly of blue as long as he controls the body.
Strife's right eye, too, can be seen to glow with a blue hue when the light is low enough. However, in normal light conditions, both eyes appear to be black.

Clothing and Accessories: One of Strife's characteristic clothing choices, in the show, is a red scarf that covers his mouth and flows in the wind. For this reason, when Strife (the alter) is in control of the body he will always cover his mouth with some piece of clothing - be it an actual scarf, a mask, the collar of a shirt, or similar things.
Other than that, Strife appears as a 1.81m tall man with facial features practically indistinguishable from those of Ryuk and Alexander.

Personality: In the show, Strife is a broody, edgy character that rarely speaks and tries to act cool at every opportunity. This personality is adopted in full by the fictive alter.
Strife maintains the good predisposition towards humans that the other fragments of Ryuk's soul have, as well as the general distrust of demons. Strife, too, is an experienced Devil Hunter even though in the field be is believed to be just a collaborator of Alexander.

Han-Bi Ki

Physical Appearance: Han-Bi is a 1.81m tall woman with pale skin, green hair and the typical facial features of a person of Korean descent. Her hair seems to glow faintly with green light, most noticeable when in complete darkness. She has a wide waist and can boast a little muscle in the abdominal, shoulder and leg areas.
She appears to have heterochromia, as her right eye is green while her left is black. Her right eye, too, glows green.

Clothing and Accessories: Han-Bi loves looking fashionable and pretty. She will try to dress up in casual clothes most of the time, even if it means a simple jeans and top, but she isn't afraid to wear skirts, or sportswear, or techwear, or other kinds of aesthetic clothing choices.

Personality: Han-Bi has an expansive, energetic, almost anphitrionic personality. She's also a bit of a loudmouth, and she's not afraid to speak her mind. She's often very kind, passionate and emphatic towards others. That is the result of the fact that she lets herself be guided by her instincts and emotions a lot.
This has a big downside in that she is very easy to anger as well. In this sense, she has a really short fuse and it doesn't take much to piss her off.

Backstory

The Abaddon System is an oddity, even for this world. Four souls, all born at the same time, all living in the same body. For the longest time, however, there was only one of them: the one now known as Alexander.
Alexander was born from a human mother and a demon father, neither of which he ever got to know. His father, a demon by the name of Armageddon, came to the human world to conquer it; he was eventually bested by Devil Hunters before his presence could become an actual issue, but he still managed to leave a terrible mark on the world.
Alexander's mother left him in a dumpster soon after he was born, fearing for the possible ripercussions of giving birth to the spawn of a demon. He was found by a nurse from a nearby hospital; the child was given the hospital's name, "Alexander Jordan", but to this day only the first name remains. The name of the nurse was Han-Bi Ki.
Alexander was sent to an orphanage, up until he was adopted by a middle class family of foreigners; he was brought to Seoul, where he grew up. His Korean name became Baek Ryuk Hwan, which he decided to use above his old name.
Baek had a relatively normal childhood, all things considered; he liked to play games with his friends - especially the then-famous collectible card game "Tales of Abaddon", for which he always had a bit of a fascination. His favourite card from that game was an edgy masked warrior by the name of Strife.
At the age of 14 something in Baek started to emerge. He would often dissociate during classes, during the bus ride home, during dinner or lunch. Sometimes he would find himself sleep-walking. The situation got serious, to the point where he started waking up in places he did not recognise a few minutes before dawn.
He was sent to a psychologist, who was able to treat his sleep walking and dissociative states. Sadly, as those symptoms waned, worse emerged. Baek started to hear voices in his head, voices simultaneously familiar but undescribably different from his own thoughts. At that point, he was convinced he was going to be a schizo by the time he was 20.
One day, as he waited for his turn at the hospital where the psychologist worked, he casually struck conversation with a nurse. This woman turned out to be none other than Han-Bi, who returned to Seoul for her last few years of work before retirement. Baek underwent therapy for several years, and formed almost a mother-son relationship with the nurse that saved his life.
Eventually, he was diagnosed with DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder. He started taking medicines to suppress those symptoms, and for the longest time he was certain those medicines were working.
They did not. Instead, the medicines allowed each portion of his soul to act independently of one another - growing, learning, observing from each corner of his brain, in silence. This doesn't exactly solve the problem, but it allowed Baek to live an apparently normal life; he even got into the Seoul National University to study law.
Every day, when Baek goes to sleep, Alexander wakes up. With time, Alexander has become more and more capable at masking his presence from Baek's senses. His sleep-walking never disappeared, because it wasn't simply sleep-walking.
Being someone who almost exclusively roams the world at night, Alexander came into contact with the many criminals, drug addicts, and gang members that roam the streets of Seoul. Most importantly, Alexander is perfectly aware of the special condition of his soul. It was only a matter of time before Alexander learned about the existence of Demons, specifically after contacting and joining a cell of Strigoi Devil Hunters stationed in Seoul. The gang helped him discover his true origins as well as develop supernatural powers that were always waiting to come out.

Technical Description

Traits

Manifold Soul
Ryuk Baek's soul is split into four. The four "fragments" in which his soul is split constantly take turns in controlling the body, and are essentially constantly fighting one another to keep that control. This means that his soul is unstable; at the same time, however, his soul has become exceptionally capable at keeping intact his actual body, as every one of the four fragments works tirelessly to re-align the shape of the body with the abstract shape of the soul according to which fragment is currently in control.
To keep up with any external damage to the body, therefore, Baek's soul works non-stop to amp up his cellular regeneration. This means that Ryuk Baek can receive a lot of punishment but still come out of it mostly unscathed, and heal from wounds very quickly.

Manifold Body
With Ryuk's soul being as peculiar as it is, there are other secondary effects that have a visible impact on his body. Every fragment of his soul reshapes the body into its own vision of what the body should look like; this would not be possible if the body didn't have the ability to shapeshift naturally into other forms.
In fact, while any of his forms has yet to show any characteristically demonic features, there is no doubt that his body can shapeshift into each fragment's idea of self when they take control.
Each fragment 's description can be found above.

Equipment

Name: Tales of Abaddon Structure Deck
Description: This deck of cards has been imprinted with Strife's magical powers. Whenever he is in control of the body, this deck manifests in his possession and dispels as soon as someone else takes control.
The cards themselves were once actual, physical cards bought and collected by a young Baek; with time, these cards have been strongly influenced by the demonic side of Abaddon, which caused them to resonate with one fragment of his soul in particular.
Upgrade Points: 2
Upgrades:

• Card Type: Animalia - Aspect-like
  The main, and most common, card type of Tales of Abaddon is the "Animalia" type. As a matter of fact, these cards represent artistic renditions of animals with fantasy features, such as zebras with unicorn horns or giant spiders.
  However, these animals are exactly identical to the actual creatures one can find on Earth and don't possess any special powers. Strife has the power to make each card a reality, summoning the animal into the physical world for a certain time before having to unsummon them.
  

Forms

Name: The First Seal
Description: Alexander is the name of Ryuk's "First Seal" form, representing the horseman of Conquest. His appearance and general description have been written out in full in the corresponding section above.
When Alexander is controlling the body, Ryuk loses his natural regeneration ability but gains supernatural powers.
Upgrade Points: 2
Upgrades:

• Hero of the People - Aspect-like
  Alexander can call forth summoned swords. These swords take the appearance of long and thin blades with a handle on one extremity and a rhomboidal cross-section. They appear as if made of an ethereal, semi-transparent, vermilion material and they are surrounded by sparkles of the same colour.
  These weapons are all identical in shape and size, and they are able to hover in mid-air and be controlled at a distance through telepathy.
  

Name: The Second Seal
Description: Strife is the name of Ryuk's "Second Seal" form, representing the horseman of War. His appearance and general description have been written out in full in the corresponding section above.
When Strife is controlling the body, Ryuk loses his natural regeneration ability. This form has yet to show any other ability.
Upgrade Points: 0
Upgrades:

Name: The Third Seal
Description: Han-Bi Ki is the name of Ryuk's "Third Seal" form. Her appearance and general description have been written out in full in the corresponding section above.
When Han-Bi is controlling the body, Ryuk loses his natural regeneration ability. This form has yet to show any other ability.
Upgrade Points: 0
Upgrades:

Combat Foci

Techniques

Name: Summoned Sword Excalibur
Description: Alexander summons a single sword and controls it telekinetically. The telekinetic control is not relative to his position, so he can move the sword and his body independently of each other.
Focus: None
Aspect: Hero of the People

Name: Summoned Sword Exalibur's Final Act: the End of the Tale
Description: Alexander summons behind himself a large number of swords at once, up to hundreds or - at full power - even thousands, before simply commanding all of the summoned swords to fly directly at his chosen target in a straight line. The swords all converge into the same point at roughly the same time.
Focus: None
Aspect: Hero of the People

Name: Normal Summoning - Eagle, Messenger of the Ice Barrier
Description: Strife pulls out the card "Eagle, Messenger of the Ice Barrier" from his deck and summons the card. From a magical circle drawn in midair emerges a giant eagle, with a wingspan of several meters. The eagle is capable of transporting Strife and some cargo, flying across large distances. The eagle may also use its beak and claws to damage a target.
Focus: None
Aspect: Card Type: Animalia

Name: Normal Summoning - Abare Ushi Oni
Description: Strife pulls out the card "Abare Ushi Oni" from his deck and summons the card. From a magical circle drawn in midair emerges a bull, that immediately charges at the enemy. The bull has three tails, two pairs of horns and is at least two and a half meters tall, making it a heavy hitter.
Abare Ushi Oni is unsummoned a few seconds after it impacts the intended target, but it may change course to follow the target before then.
Focus: None
Aspect: Card Type: Animalia