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[Character Name] Ovan
[Canon] .hack//GU
[Point Taken from Canon] Volume 3, just after his Rebirth is activated
[Age] Late 20s
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Haseo-sexual?
[Eye Color] Unknown, assumed blue
[Hair Color] Blue
[Height] Unknown as far as I know
[Other] Nothing special
[Clothing] This, only without the giant coffin on his arm.
[Background] At the Wiki
[Personality] > It would be easy to classify Ovan as one of the game's villains. He is, after all, Tri-Edge, the PKer (player killer - one who defeats other characters for personal gain) with a cult following on The World's forums saying mysteries about him and that players who lose to him go into a coma, and did this against one of his own guild members, Shino, which was the inciting moment for most of Haseo's actions. Ovan is also cruel enough to share information about AIDA, the virus causing those comas, with another minor villain and does nothing to stop what he does with that knowledge even when the other person, Sakaki, turns into a megalomaniacal dictator who'd ruin (or attempt to ruin) anyone who attempts to challenge his authority.
However, simply calling him a villain for his possession of AIDA and the things he did with it would be ignoring a very large portion of who Ovan is. Every cruel, evil act he committed was to push Haseo to become stronger as a player, an Avatar user, and as a person. Ovan wanted Haseo to become strong enough to defeat him once and for all. Why would a simple villain wish to be defeated? Ovan wished for that so the AIDA possessing his arm and spreading throughout The World would be eliminated as a threat and those put into a coma by it, including his 12 year old sister Aina, would wake up from their coma. That goal is the motivation for everything.
Ovan wants nothing more than for Aina to be healthy again, even if that means his own death or coma for his defeat. To that end, he pushed and manipulated Haseo, through the AIDA he controlled, to beat every other Epitaph user, including himself twice, so that Haseo would be the strongest. Ovan most likely knew what activating the Rebirth and purging AIDA from The World would do to him, but he's so focused on Aina waking up that he doesn't seem to care about his own fate afterwards. He ultimately wakes up from his coma, but there's no way for him to know he ever will when he made these plans.
Despite being the man behind the curtain and ultimately being perceived as a major threat, for over half of the games, Ovan is seen as nothing more than a person who comes and goes from The World as he pleases, and when he does show up tends to be vague or mysterious about the things he's been up to, never lying but rarely being completely honest. Given that he's shown meeting with Yata, a person bent on removing AIDA, in the first game, and nothing strange is noticed, Ovan is apparently quite good at concealing his true motives from even the people who spend plenty of time with him. Even Haseo, who'd spent months with him in the Twilight Brigade before Shino's coma, had no idea about the AIDA inside him or his desire to set off the Rebirth to take care of AIDA once and for all. Haseo is surprised every step of the way, which couldn't happen if Ovan were a less enigmatic figure. He's no villain, and certainly no hero, but nonetheless Ovan is a good-intentioned person who happened to do terrible things to the people closest to him to achieve his goals.
[Specialties/Abilities] Given his canon point, he won't have AIDA or its abilities; he will, however, have all skills belonging to the Steam Gunner class.
[Affection] He's not outwardly affectionate, but he won't mind others being that way.
[Fighting] Ovan is a strong fighter, but he's not likely to provoke anything. He will, however, fight back if attacked.
[Other Permissions] I don't care about his 4th wall, read his mind if you want, IM/PM with questions!
[Other Facts] Anything else can go here~
[Canon] .hack//GU
[Point Taken from Canon] Volume 3, just after his Rebirth is activated
[Age] Late 20s
[Gender] Male
[Sexual Orientation] Haseo-sexual?
[Eye Color] Unknown, assumed blue
[Hair Color] Blue
[Height] Unknown as far as I know
[Other] Nothing special
[Clothing] This, only without the giant coffin on his arm.
[Background] At the Wiki
[Personality] > It would be easy to classify Ovan as one of the game's villains. He is, after all, Tri-Edge, the PKer (player killer - one who defeats other characters for personal gain) with a cult following on The World's forums saying mysteries about him and that players who lose to him go into a coma, and did this against one of his own guild members, Shino, which was the inciting moment for most of Haseo's actions. Ovan is also cruel enough to share information about AIDA, the virus causing those comas, with another minor villain and does nothing to stop what he does with that knowledge even when the other person, Sakaki, turns into a megalomaniacal dictator who'd ruin (or attempt to ruin) anyone who attempts to challenge his authority.
However, simply calling him a villain for his possession of AIDA and the things he did with it would be ignoring a very large portion of who Ovan is. Every cruel, evil act he committed was to push Haseo to become stronger as a player, an Avatar user, and as a person. Ovan wanted Haseo to become strong enough to defeat him once and for all. Why would a simple villain wish to be defeated? Ovan wished for that so the AIDA possessing his arm and spreading throughout The World would be eliminated as a threat and those put into a coma by it, including his 12 year old sister Aina, would wake up from their coma. That goal is the motivation for everything.
Ovan wants nothing more than for Aina to be healthy again, even if that means his own death or coma for his defeat. To that end, he pushed and manipulated Haseo, through the AIDA he controlled, to beat every other Epitaph user, including himself twice, so that Haseo would be the strongest. Ovan most likely knew what activating the Rebirth and purging AIDA from The World would do to him, but he's so focused on Aina waking up that he doesn't seem to care about his own fate afterwards. He ultimately wakes up from his coma, but there's no way for him to know he ever will when he made these plans.
Despite being the man behind the curtain and ultimately being perceived as a major threat, for over half of the games, Ovan is seen as nothing more than a person who comes and goes from The World as he pleases, and when he does show up tends to be vague or mysterious about the things he's been up to, never lying but rarely being completely honest. Given that he's shown meeting with Yata, a person bent on removing AIDA, in the first game, and nothing strange is noticed, Ovan is apparently quite good at concealing his true motives from even the people who spend plenty of time with him. Even Haseo, who'd spent months with him in the Twilight Brigade before Shino's coma, had no idea about the AIDA inside him or his desire to set off the Rebirth to take care of AIDA once and for all. Haseo is surprised every step of the way, which couldn't happen if Ovan were a less enigmatic figure. He's no villain, and certainly no hero, but nonetheless Ovan is a good-intentioned person who happened to do terrible things to the people closest to him to achieve his goals.
[Specialties/Abilities] Given his canon point, he won't have AIDA or its abilities; he will, however, have all skills belonging to the Steam Gunner class.
[Affection] He's not outwardly affectionate, but he won't mind others being that way.
[Fighting] Ovan is a strong fighter, but he's not likely to provoke anything. He will, however, fight back if attacked.
[Other Permissions] I don't care about his 4th wall, read his mind if you want, IM/PM with questions!
[Other Facts] Anything else can go here~