Application for Wishing Scales.
PLAYER INFORMATION
Alias: Marbles!
Preferred Personal Pronoun: Female pronouns, please!
Age: Seventeen as of February 23rd.
Contact Info: marbles@dw, phantommarbles@AIM, phantommarbles@gmail, marburusu@plurk!
Current Characters In-game: None.
Reserved?: Yep!
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Ghirahim, Demon Lord Ghirahim, etc.
Canon: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Character Type: Canon!
Age: Old as balls. No really, I don't even know. He's just old. Physically however, he's stuck at a rough estimation of 20s-30s. It's hard to tell, especially because he has none of the telltale signs of age (wrinkles, dicolouration, saggy skin, etc).
Gender: His humanized form is physically male, though his original sword spirit form doesn't have a specific sex, as can be assumed from the creators saying that Fi -- another sword spirit -- is technically androgynous, even if Fi appears feminine. The same can be assumed for Ghirahim, though he uses male pronouns when addressing himself and so does everyone else. So, he definitely identifies with male.
Appearance: Ghirahim is a man whose presence demands attention. Everything about him is flashy and extravagant, and it's hard for your eye not to be drawn to him even in a crowded room. His hair is a pure white, cut short on one side and styled into a long part that covers half his face -- also curiosly hiding one round "human" ear from sight, while the other unhidden ear is long (with a large blue diamond earring) and matches the usual hylian trademark. His skin is an extremely pale "mocha" colour with a slightly greyish tint. He has distinctly regal features, with a thin nose, fuller lips, high cheekbones and a sharp chin. His dark brown eyes are quite large and made larger by the makeup he wears to accentuate them, with copious amounts of black eyeliner and bight purple shadow under his eyes. He also wears white lipstick.
His showy flair isn't just restricted to his face, however. His clothes consist of a white single strap top with a diamond shape cut out of the chest, as well as another half-diamond that reveals his abdomen. With that are long white gloves that reach nearly to his elbows, as well as white pants that are more or less tights, with a gold sash around the waist that has a very large red diamond encrusted into a gold attachment. The tights and gloves too have diamond cuts running along them -- only on the outer arm for the gloves, but for his legs they run up and down the font and backs of his legs. He also has a deep red cloak of sorts with a red-and-gold diamond pattern on the inside; it has three long coattails in the back and another in the front. The cloak has a large wraparound collar that frames his head and draws attention to his face, kept together by a chain crossing over the front of the clothing article.
Finally, Ghirahim is very tall and very lean, with long legs and a slim build. While his form holds some muscle definition, especially in the abdomen, he's certainly on the skinny side, and quite delicate in appearance compared to the other multiple forces of evil present in the game. Despite this, his height -- which you could likely estimate at at least over 6 feet -- is intimidating, and compensates for the overbearing demeanor his body otherwise lacks.
Here's his concept art for some better visuals of how, er, interesting he looks.
Background: You can read all about his firmly known history, pre-game and during, right here! However, because the game does not explore his past in-depth, I've drawn my own conclusions that tie up many holes, as wlel as help explain his relationships with Demise, Hylia, Fi, and so on. Keep in mind that if any of this becomes an issue, or a Demise player applies whose headcanon contrasts mine, it can be easily rearranged to correspond with whatever requirements it needs to meet!
Waaaay back in the good gold days when Demise was becoming a legitimate threat to Hylia, she put her plan into excecution of creating a sword and sword spirit that would guide her chosen hero to victory against the demon king. This sword, though, was not Fi -- it was Ghirahim. Despite being devoted to his objective, she had created him with the capacity to feel, and Ghirahim eventually became unbearably jealous of Hylia's preference of her humans over her own creation, soon resulting in him longing to become a human as well. This lead to his betrayal of Hylia by joining Demise in his uprising. The demon king agreed to give Ghirahim the humanized form he wanted in return for the spirit becoming his sword guide instead (hence why Demise's sword has a triforce on it -- it was never actually made by him, only altered). But at the same time, to ensure that neither Ghirahim nor anyone else would ever forget whose side Ghirahim was on, Demise made the left ear of this form a rounded demon ear instead of pointed. This is the ear Ghirahim hides under his hair.
This betrayal was what prompted Hylia to create Fi -- whom, in comparison, holds extremely little capacity to feel or completely understand emotions. This was to prevent Fi from befalling the same fate as Ghirahim... and if she did somehow end up in the hands of the enemy, she would not be able to feel the same suffering Ghirahim could have potentially been feeling even after his betrayal. After the great battle during which Demise was sealed away by Hylia, Ghirahim too was sealed with his master where he would stay up until the events of the game, slowly wasting away and very likely losing a good chunk of his sanity. As the seal started to weaken near the game's beginning, Demise forced the seal to break enough for Ghirahim to escape, with orders in mind: capture Zelda ahead of time, so Demise could be revived to his previous form as quickly as possible once he himself broke free of the seal. This too would explain Ghirahim's constant claims of being in a hurry throughout the game -- he fears he'll have to face his master's wrath if he does not have everything prepared for him at the time of his escape.
Personality: Oh, boy. If there's one thing Ghirahim isn't short of in the least, it's personality. He has a distinctly "monarch" reminiscent attitude, but one easily could argue that at the same time Ghirahim possesses all of the negative attributes associated with high rulers, yet none of the positives. On a brief once-over Ghirahim comes across as a confident and collected, if not flamboyant invidual, but his arrogant, eloquent speech and impression of high superiority over others make it very obvious that he thinks of everyone else as lesser, weaker and unworthy. He is the one to run the show, and his very presence threatens anyone who would dare opposite that.
That underlying current is where Ghirahim's true personality can be found; one the thin surface layer is peeled away, Ghirahim becomes highly sensitive and vicious on a dangerously explosive level. With enough drama in his veins to run an entire soap opera all by his lonesome, the man is prone to extreme displays of emotion and easily loses himself to these uncontrollable outbursts. Before long he becomes liable to show his true nature through this, whether it be with intense joy, seething anger, resentment, disappointment, sadness or anything else. His expression of genuine despair is one of the few sentiments he has that are highly limited in expression, however -- sadness is weakness, admitting failure, and Ghirahim never loses. His refusal to acknowledge defeat despite having experienced it is intense; he sees not these events as flat out downfalls, but as temporary obstacles that will inevitably lead to an ultimate victory.
So stubborn is he that his persistent nature rivals even Link's, especially in determination to accomplish his mission of reviving his master. Possibly one of his strongest traits in this regard is his unwavering loyalty for Demise; he does and will do anything to reunite with him and complete their mission to claim the world as Demise's own. Even after Demise has been killed and there is no possible way to bring him back, Ghirahim opts to deny that reality and escape through the Gate of Time to the past instead, where it is still possible to ressurect him. This faithfulness for the demon king exists for a number of reasons -- fear, certainly, and gratitude for all that Demise has so benevolently given him, but must importantly because at his core Ghirahim is still a sword spirit and does not feel complete without a master. Throughout the game his entire being centers around his obsession with bringing Demise back to life; there exists no purpose, no use at all for him besides the purpose and usefulness Demise gives him as his weilder. Ghirahim simply lives to serve through whatever means necessary and that manifests itself through blind adoration, devotion and subservience.
Ghirahim's behaviour is smug and mighty around others, and he exhibits highly saturated amounts of narcissism in his fawning over his own appearance and ego, but as a result of this relationship Ghirahim simulaneously has conflicted feelings of inferiority. In comparison to his master he sees himself as lowly, deserving of punishment for anything Demise perceives as deficiency just as much as he is deserving of praise for whatever the demon king percieves as power and success. It is not so far of a stretch to assume that Demise has reinforced this in him, encouraged him to see his master as perfect while strengthening Ghirahim's uncertanties within himself. Very, very deep down, Ghirahim is incredibly insecure and likely fears that he will one day be seen as useless, left to be discarded if he does not prove himself wherever possible. That Demise was struck down by Hylia to begin with is probably something he sees as his own fault rather that his master's; if he were a stronger sword, then Demise would have nothing to worry about -- the flaws are in him, rather than the demon king himself.
But with no one around at the moment to measure Ghirahim's perfection for him, he opts to drink in the idea of having become perfect, spawning further narcissism in the way he acts. It is difficult to understand the deepest layers of Ghirahim's personality because on top of it, there is so much that makes him an absolute monster to those around him. He is a psychopath through and through, violent and sadistic with no value for human life aside from providing a source of entertainment for himself. Even the slight sportsmanship he displays at the beginning -- he promises not to kill Link, as he claims it would be unfair -- quickly dissolves into nothing, disregarding the idea of "honour" and showing his truly merciless side. Indeed, Ghirahim has absolutely no concept of showing forgiveness or grace and shows complete disregard even for his demon servants, as well as anyone he considers unworthy of even the effort it would take to murder or torture them. He revels in the idea of torture especially, threatening Link once with a promise of making the boy's ears bleed from the sound of his own screams the next time their paths crossed. He is familiar with bloodshed and takes delight in the suffering he and Demise will cause when the times comes for his master to take his place as ruler.
True to that, Ghirahim is insane, with whatever stability remaining inside of him being poor and easy to disrupt. He will do whatever he can to unsettle his oponents, especially if his sadism can come into play, which also occasionally bears perversion as well. He enjoys invading Link's personal space on several of their meetings and even blatantly displays his affinity for violence by licking his lips and sword(s) during his more heated battles. He has a particular eye for those with innocent demeanors and takes pleasure in "corrupting" them, such as he does with Link and Zelda. Still, he stays at an arm's length from those around him and has little understanding of values such as friendship and morality, which makes it nearly impossible for Ghirahim to actually make friends. Even those similar to him he rarely trusts, and is liable to toy with them until they've completed their purpose and can be discarded -- ironically, the same way he fears he himself will someday be.
Powers: As a powerful spirit and 'demon', Ghirahim possesses a wide range of magical abilities, all with their own diamond motif, and his most noticeable ability is that of conjuration/teleportation. Ghirahim can teleport himself and others (up to very large numbers; he is able to teleport dozens of his monster servants all at once) both short and long distances almost instantaneously, seemingly without breaking a sweat. It's reasonable to assume there's a cap on exactly how far he's able to teleport, but the range seems to be fairly diverse as long as there is nothing blocking his ability to enter the desired area. The other side of that ability is conjuration; he can draw simple objects from thin air, such as clothing, and he can do the opposite by having them disappear as well. More complicated is his ability to conjure weapons -- specifically, swords and throwing knives, though I have drawn the conclusion that because these blades all bear an unmistakable resemblance to the appearance of his 'true' form, these weapons are actually parts of himself "pulled" out of him for his own use. Therefore, Ghirahim is able to create swords and knives out of his own body to benefit him in weapon combat. If possible, his teleportation/conjuration is what I would like him to regain first!
Ghirahim is also able to create barriers and platforms, some of which are as basic as walls and others that are volatile and act almost like fire. Both require concentration to maintain. From these "fire" barriers he can also cause small explosions, as well as create "wheels" that he can toss like a disc at his enemies. In addition, he seems to have some power over manipulating air, such as brewing up tornados and making things levitate. And finally, Ghirahim has some ability to sense magical auras, as well as extract the souls of others through hands-on, meticulous work -- though this extracting likely has much to do with preforming the appropriate ritual rather than solely his own magic being at play.
There's also the matter of his true form(s). While Ghirahim's humanoid form is vulnerable to being wounded, the form he takes on as a sword spirit is far, far less so. His body's exterior is composed of hard, though somewhat maleable black diamonds that make it impossible to injure him -- indeed, with his massive increase of physical strength, Ghirahim is nearly invincible in that form if not for one weakness. As a sword spirit, his core is situated at the large red diamond on his chest. However, it is protected by a metal cover and can only be damaged by direct, hard blows with an extremely sharp object, and even then having his diamond injured only weakens and exhausts him rather than outright killing him. The only way to do that would likely be to extract the diamond completely from his body.
And then there's Ghirahim at his most base form -- the sword. In this form, Ghirahim is completely at the mercy of his wielder -- though it is entirely possible he is still capable of appearing in the same way Fi can, as his sword spirit self, while the sword is materialized.
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Alias: Marbles!
Preferred Personal Pronoun: Female pronouns, please!
Age: Seventeen as of February 23rd.
Contact Info: marbles@dw, phantommarbles@AIM, phantommarbles@gmail, marburusu@plurk!
Current Characters In-game: None.
Reserved?: Yep!
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Ghirahim, Demon Lord Ghirahim, etc.
Canon: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Character Type: Canon!
Age: Old as balls. No really, I don't even know. He's just old. Physically however, he's stuck at a rough estimation of 20s-30s. It's hard to tell, especially because he has none of the telltale signs of age (wrinkles, dicolouration, saggy skin, etc).
Gender: His humanized form is physically male, though his original sword spirit form doesn't have a specific sex, as can be assumed from the creators saying that Fi -- another sword spirit -- is technically androgynous, even if Fi appears feminine. The same can be assumed for Ghirahim, though he uses male pronouns when addressing himself and so does everyone else. So, he definitely identifies with male.
Appearance: Ghirahim is a man whose presence demands attention. Everything about him is flashy and extravagant, and it's hard for your eye not to be drawn to him even in a crowded room. His hair is a pure white, cut short on one side and styled into a long part that covers half his face -- also curiosly hiding one round "human" ear from sight, while the other unhidden ear is long (with a large blue diamond earring) and matches the usual hylian trademark. His skin is an extremely pale "mocha" colour with a slightly greyish tint. He has distinctly regal features, with a thin nose, fuller lips, high cheekbones and a sharp chin. His dark brown eyes are quite large and made larger by the makeup he wears to accentuate them, with copious amounts of black eyeliner and bight purple shadow under his eyes. He also wears white lipstick.
His showy flair isn't just restricted to his face, however. His clothes consist of a white single strap top with a diamond shape cut out of the chest, as well as another half-diamond that reveals his abdomen. With that are long white gloves that reach nearly to his elbows, as well as white pants that are more or less tights, with a gold sash around the waist that has a very large red diamond encrusted into a gold attachment. The tights and gloves too have diamond cuts running along them -- only on the outer arm for the gloves, but for his legs they run up and down the font and backs of his legs. He also has a deep red cloak of sorts with a red-and-gold diamond pattern on the inside; it has three long coattails in the back and another in the front. The cloak has a large wraparound collar that frames his head and draws attention to his face, kept together by a chain crossing over the front of the clothing article.
Finally, Ghirahim is very tall and very lean, with long legs and a slim build. While his form holds some muscle definition, especially in the abdomen, he's certainly on the skinny side, and quite delicate in appearance compared to the other multiple forces of evil present in the game. Despite this, his height -- which you could likely estimate at at least over 6 feet -- is intimidating, and compensates for the overbearing demeanor his body otherwise lacks.
Here's his concept art for some better visuals of how, er, interesting he looks.
Background: You can read all about his firmly known history, pre-game and during, right here! However, because the game does not explore his past in-depth, I've drawn my own conclusions that tie up many holes, as wlel as help explain his relationships with Demise, Hylia, Fi, and so on. Keep in mind that if any of this becomes an issue, or a Demise player applies whose headcanon contrasts mine, it can be easily rearranged to correspond with whatever requirements it needs to meet!
Waaaay back in the good gold days when Demise was becoming a legitimate threat to Hylia, she put her plan into excecution of creating a sword and sword spirit that would guide her chosen hero to victory against the demon king. This sword, though, was not Fi -- it was Ghirahim. Despite being devoted to his objective, she had created him with the capacity to feel, and Ghirahim eventually became unbearably jealous of Hylia's preference of her humans over her own creation, soon resulting in him longing to become a human as well. This lead to his betrayal of Hylia by joining Demise in his uprising. The demon king agreed to give Ghirahim the humanized form he wanted in return for the spirit becoming his sword guide instead (hence why Demise's sword has a triforce on it -- it was never actually made by him, only altered). But at the same time, to ensure that neither Ghirahim nor anyone else would ever forget whose side Ghirahim was on, Demise made the left ear of this form a rounded demon ear instead of pointed. This is the ear Ghirahim hides under his hair.
This betrayal was what prompted Hylia to create Fi -- whom, in comparison, holds extremely little capacity to feel or completely understand emotions. This was to prevent Fi from befalling the same fate as Ghirahim... and if she did somehow end up in the hands of the enemy, she would not be able to feel the same suffering Ghirahim could have potentially been feeling even after his betrayal. After the great battle during which Demise was sealed away by Hylia, Ghirahim too was sealed with his master where he would stay up until the events of the game, slowly wasting away and very likely losing a good chunk of his sanity. As the seal started to weaken near the game's beginning, Demise forced the seal to break enough for Ghirahim to escape, with orders in mind: capture Zelda ahead of time, so Demise could be revived to his previous form as quickly as possible once he himself broke free of the seal. This too would explain Ghirahim's constant claims of being in a hurry throughout the game -- he fears he'll have to face his master's wrath if he does not have everything prepared for him at the time of his escape.
Personality: Oh, boy. If there's one thing Ghirahim isn't short of in the least, it's personality. He has a distinctly "monarch" reminiscent attitude, but one easily could argue that at the same time Ghirahim possesses all of the negative attributes associated with high rulers, yet none of the positives. On a brief once-over Ghirahim comes across as a confident and collected, if not flamboyant invidual, but his arrogant, eloquent speech and impression of high superiority over others make it very obvious that he thinks of everyone else as lesser, weaker and unworthy. He is the one to run the show, and his very presence threatens anyone who would dare opposite that.
That underlying current is where Ghirahim's true personality can be found; one the thin surface layer is peeled away, Ghirahim becomes highly sensitive and vicious on a dangerously explosive level. With enough drama in his veins to run an entire soap opera all by his lonesome, the man is prone to extreme displays of emotion and easily loses himself to these uncontrollable outbursts. Before long he becomes liable to show his true nature through this, whether it be with intense joy, seething anger, resentment, disappointment, sadness or anything else. His expression of genuine despair is one of the few sentiments he has that are highly limited in expression, however -- sadness is weakness, admitting failure, and Ghirahim never loses. His refusal to acknowledge defeat despite having experienced it is intense; he sees not these events as flat out downfalls, but as temporary obstacles that will inevitably lead to an ultimate victory.
So stubborn is he that his persistent nature rivals even Link's, especially in determination to accomplish his mission of reviving his master. Possibly one of his strongest traits in this regard is his unwavering loyalty for Demise; he does and will do anything to reunite with him and complete their mission to claim the world as Demise's own. Even after Demise has been killed and there is no possible way to bring him back, Ghirahim opts to deny that reality and escape through the Gate of Time to the past instead, where it is still possible to ressurect him. This faithfulness for the demon king exists for a number of reasons -- fear, certainly, and gratitude for all that Demise has so benevolently given him, but must importantly because at his core Ghirahim is still a sword spirit and does not feel complete without a master. Throughout the game his entire being centers around his obsession with bringing Demise back to life; there exists no purpose, no use at all for him besides the purpose and usefulness Demise gives him as his weilder. Ghirahim simply lives to serve through whatever means necessary and that manifests itself through blind adoration, devotion and subservience.
Ghirahim's behaviour is smug and mighty around others, and he exhibits highly saturated amounts of narcissism in his fawning over his own appearance and ego, but as a result of this relationship Ghirahim simulaneously has conflicted feelings of inferiority. In comparison to his master he sees himself as lowly, deserving of punishment for anything Demise perceives as deficiency just as much as he is deserving of praise for whatever the demon king percieves as power and success. It is not so far of a stretch to assume that Demise has reinforced this in him, encouraged him to see his master as perfect while strengthening Ghirahim's uncertanties within himself. Very, very deep down, Ghirahim is incredibly insecure and likely fears that he will one day be seen as useless, left to be discarded if he does not prove himself wherever possible. That Demise was struck down by Hylia to begin with is probably something he sees as his own fault rather that his master's; if he were a stronger sword, then Demise would have nothing to worry about -- the flaws are in him, rather than the demon king himself.
But with no one around at the moment to measure Ghirahim's perfection for him, he opts to drink in the idea of having become perfect, spawning further narcissism in the way he acts. It is difficult to understand the deepest layers of Ghirahim's personality because on top of it, there is so much that makes him an absolute monster to those around him. He is a psychopath through and through, violent and sadistic with no value for human life aside from providing a source of entertainment for himself. Even the slight sportsmanship he displays at the beginning -- he promises not to kill Link, as he claims it would be unfair -- quickly dissolves into nothing, disregarding the idea of "honour" and showing his truly merciless side. Indeed, Ghirahim has absolutely no concept of showing forgiveness or grace and shows complete disregard even for his demon servants, as well as anyone he considers unworthy of even the effort it would take to murder or torture them. He revels in the idea of torture especially, threatening Link once with a promise of making the boy's ears bleed from the sound of his own screams the next time their paths crossed. He is familiar with bloodshed and takes delight in the suffering he and Demise will cause when the times comes for his master to take his place as ruler.
True to that, Ghirahim is insane, with whatever stability remaining inside of him being poor and easy to disrupt. He will do whatever he can to unsettle his oponents, especially if his sadism can come into play, which also occasionally bears perversion as well. He enjoys invading Link's personal space on several of their meetings and even blatantly displays his affinity for violence by licking his lips and sword(s) during his more heated battles. He has a particular eye for those with innocent demeanors and takes pleasure in "corrupting" them, such as he does with Link and Zelda. Still, he stays at an arm's length from those around him and has little understanding of values such as friendship and morality, which makes it nearly impossible for Ghirahim to actually make friends. Even those similar to him he rarely trusts, and is liable to toy with them until they've completed their purpose and can be discarded -- ironically, the same way he fears he himself will someday be.
Powers: As a powerful spirit and 'demon', Ghirahim possesses a wide range of magical abilities, all with their own diamond motif, and his most noticeable ability is that of conjuration/teleportation. Ghirahim can teleport himself and others (up to very large numbers; he is able to teleport dozens of his monster servants all at once) both short and long distances almost instantaneously, seemingly without breaking a sweat. It's reasonable to assume there's a cap on exactly how far he's able to teleport, but the range seems to be fairly diverse as long as there is nothing blocking his ability to enter the desired area. The other side of that ability is conjuration; he can draw simple objects from thin air, such as clothing, and he can do the opposite by having them disappear as well. More complicated is his ability to conjure weapons -- specifically, swords and throwing knives, though I have drawn the conclusion that because these blades all bear an unmistakable resemblance to the appearance of his 'true' form, these weapons are actually parts of himself "pulled" out of him for his own use. Therefore, Ghirahim is able to create swords and knives out of his own body to benefit him in weapon combat. If possible, his teleportation/conjuration is what I would like him to regain first!
Ghirahim is also able to create barriers and platforms, some of which are as basic as walls and others that are volatile and act almost like fire. Both require concentration to maintain. From these "fire" barriers he can also cause small explosions, as well as create "wheels" that he can toss like a disc at his enemies. In addition, he seems to have some power over manipulating air, such as brewing up tornados and making things levitate. And finally, Ghirahim has some ability to sense magical auras, as well as extract the souls of others through hands-on, meticulous work -- though this extracting likely has much to do with preforming the appropriate ritual rather than solely his own magic being at play.
There's also the matter of his true form(s). While Ghirahim's humanoid form is vulnerable to being wounded, the form he takes on as a sword spirit is far, far less so. His body's exterior is composed of hard, though somewhat maleable black diamonds that make it impossible to injure him -- indeed, with his massive increase of physical strength, Ghirahim is nearly invincible in that form if not for one weakness. As a sword spirit, his core is situated at the large red diamond on his chest. However, it is protected by a metal cover and can only be damaged by direct, hard blows with an extremely sharp object, and even then having his diamond injured only weakens and exhausts him rather than outright killing him. The only way to do that would likely be to extract the diamond completely from his body.
And then there's Ghirahim at his most base form -- the sword. In this form, Ghirahim is completely at the mercy of his wielder -- though it is entirely possible he is still capable of appearing in the same way Fi can, as his sword spirit self, while the sword is materialized.
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