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Basic Character Info
Character Name: Lavi
Canon: D.Gray-Man
Age: 19, going on 20 (reasoning here! /steals)
Timeline: On assignment, towards the beginning of the "Alma" arc.
Detailed Character Info
Personality: The word is friendly. Lavi has what the Japanese call a "straightforward personality," which means that he's blunt and not shy about expressing his feelings -- especially towards women. (His ideal type, as expressed to an extremely exasperated Allen, is widows -- but he says he likes pretty much all girls between the ages of ten and forty, even though his most obvious reaction in the series so far has been to beautiful older women.) Brash, outgoing, and impulsive, Lavi doesn't hesitate to invade other people's personal space. Most people like him, but whether they do or not doesn't seem to really affect Lavi's attitude towards them. He'll be on a first-name basis within minutes, whether you like it or not. And soon after that you'll have a nickname.
This is the mask that Lavi has cultivated, over years and years of practice. It smiles pleasantly at everyone and is very easy to get along with -- and even easier to underestimate. Who would ever guess that the flushed, grinning idiot who just slung his arm around you and ordered another round at the bar was really perfectly sober and waiting with all muscles tensed for you to get just drunk enough to reveal some of your personal history? For though he might seem like the sort of man who would stand out in a crowd and put strangers off conversation that could be overheard, Lavi only makes himself seem all the more easy to dismiss by how obvious his presence beside you is.
The truth of the matter is that, despite his friendliness, Lavi has never really been fond of other people. Maybe it's because of something in his childhood, and maybe it's because of how he grew up, but humanity as a whole -- its violence and its passion, its filth and excess, its selfishness and shortsightedness -- has always disgusted him on some level. He liked learning things, was very excited as a small boy to think of traveling the world and recording its hidden history, but his interest in other people...? It was academic, if it existed at all.
In the last two years, some of this has started to change. Just since the beginning of the series, Lavi has been reprimanded several times for feeling too much -- for being genuinely angry or grieving when one of the people who shouldn't really be his friends gets hurt. His careful mask has started to sink into his skin, and Lavi isn't quite as sure anymore where it ends and he begins.
Sexuality: In Siglen, he'll be functionally bisexual, because he will have sex when he needs to -- and even a little more often than he needs to, so as to keep his head clear. Lavi values a clear head. But his "real" sexuality is... complicated.
My headcanon is that Lavi does feel attraction to other people -- but much more rarely than his persona would have you believe. In fact, only twice: Allen and Lenalee. See, when it's real, Lavi is more about personality than good looks. But feeling, really feeling, will only make this more uncomfortable for him, so he'll avoid having sex with anyone he really cares about, and if it does somehow happen anyway, he'll do his level best to pretend it didn't mean a thing.
Still, even in spite of all of that, I don't think Lavi's a virgin. See, there was once a time when he was a wide-eyed young man, full to brimming with hormones and curiosity. He knew Bookmen weren't allowed to love, and he'd always interpreted that as extending to sex -- but he also knew that sex was one of those Big, Important Things. A primal drive that governed all of humanity, as fundamental as wealth or power or religion. He was curious. And a sixteen-year-old boy, maybe experiencing a little bit of typical sixteen-year-old rebelliousness. There may have been alcohol involved, just to really seal the deal.
And it may have been kind of disappointing.
But hey, not a total loss! At least he'd picked up a new facet for his fake personality. Now, in addition to being happy-go-lucky, "Lavi" would also be lascivious.
Abilities: As a future Bookman, Lavi has total recall -- the ability to instantly memorize every facet of every experience, from a new acquaintance's face to his or her voice, inflection, tone, wardrobe, and so on. (And make no mistake, he also remembers what the ambient temperature was, how the sun felt on his own skin, etc.) Everything, in the blink of an eye. Canon implies that there is also something special about a Bookman's right eye, the eye that Lavi hides.
In part because of this ability, Lavi is arguably the best-educated member of the cast, and has memorized the contents of countless books over the years. It can be assumed that he speaks and reads a multitude of languages, at least one of which is obscure enough that he and Bookman were able to use it to speak confidentially in the crowded multiethnic mess hall of the Black Order.
Oh, and he's also been taught some of the acupuncture/acupressure techniques Bookman uses in canon to treat injuries. They're best for aches and pains, but Lavi can also use them to speed up the body's natural healing process a little for more serious wounds.
Meanwhile, as an Exorcist, Lavi is compatible with an Equipment-type Innocence officially called Iron Hammer. Lavi has given it a cuter, friendlier nickname: "Little Big Hammer".
And Little Big Hammer functions as its name would suggest -- Lavi can make it grow or shrink at will, and even just extend its handle as a form of transportation. (By placing the butt of the handle against the ground, he can propel himself across large distances, although not with perfect accuracy.) When he isn't fighting with it, he keeps it very small in a holster on his thigh, and, because of his compatibility with it, changing its size does not change the weight he feels when he hefts it.
In addition to the obvious "hitting other people really hard and getting from point A to point B" functions, Lavi can also use Little Big Hammer to unleash the power of the elements by choosing between and "judging" any of a variety of Seals. (This is accomplished by summoning an enormous ring of those seals and then striking the appropriate one with Little Big Hammer.) So far, Lavi has only used four of his many seals: Fire and Heaven for specific physical elemental attacks, and Wood to direct any element in a more precise and less necessarily combative way -- such as when he wanted to blow aside the cloud covering that was hiding his enemies. The last seal, his Combo Seal, lets him use two of his other seals together for an even more devastating attack.
Multifandom: Rita, Tales of Vesperia
Oh, man, would Lavi ever love to pick her brains a little. Zomg a totally new world with totally new history and totally new technology and wow. Wow! And Rita would be a better resource than most, given her prodigy status. Lavi might just hover around her for a few days, asking obnoxious questions about everything. Of course, this goes for most anyone from a different universe, SO.
Rita isn't an exceptional person like Allen or Lenalee -- she's a perfectly normal human being, with good traits and bad. Selfishness, arrogance, and everything else Lavi has come to expect from the human race. But she does have a softer side, especially when it comes to Estelle, and I think that might catch Lavi's eye a little; what's so special about this Estelle person, that she got to Rita like that? He'd be curious.
Oh, and Rita is also easy to needle, so Lavi would get on that, STAT -- at least until she first used one of her Artes on him for it. He's used to threats of violence, but no one's ever actually set him on fire before.
Action sample:
[ He'd made sure she was a very pretty girl -- one of the oh-so-friendly natives, with sweet-smelling shampoo and curves in all the right places. She was a good choice; if Allen or Lenalee or Yu were here, if this girl told them what he'd done, it would've seemed typical. Typical "Lavi".
But it wasn't typical. This sweat on his skin, this heat in his blood, this tremble in his hands as he watched her spread herself out for him -- they weren't typical. He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, but her scent was heavy in the air and... affecting. It made his belly clench in a very not-typical way.
He -- wanted her, this curvy girl with dark eyes and soft hair. He... wanted this. No, want was too mild a word: he needed it. It was an ache, a throb, a strange sort of hunger. And his body felt alien, his skin stretched tight and his mouth almost painfully dry -- his, fine, his dick so damn hard.
Not typical. Not typical at all. But the girl was curling her fingers in the front of his shirt, moving her carefully over his face with an uncertain expression.
Lavi realized he'd stopped smiling, and hitched his lips up into something good-natured but ever so slightly crooked, ever so slightly rakish, because girls liked that sort of thing. Then he kissed her, before she could wonder too much at the abrupt change, and made a private vow to never, ever wait this long again. ]
Character Name: Lavi
Canon: D.Gray-Man
Age: 19, going on 20 (reasoning here! /steals)
Timeline: On assignment, towards the beginning of the "Alma" arc.
Detailed Character Info
Personality: The word is friendly. Lavi has what the Japanese call a "straightforward personality," which means that he's blunt and not shy about expressing his feelings -- especially towards women. (His ideal type, as expressed to an extremely exasperated Allen, is widows -- but he says he likes pretty much all girls between the ages of ten and forty, even though his most obvious reaction in the series so far has been to beautiful older women.) Brash, outgoing, and impulsive, Lavi doesn't hesitate to invade other people's personal space. Most people like him, but whether they do or not doesn't seem to really affect Lavi's attitude towards them. He'll be on a first-name basis within minutes, whether you like it or not. And soon after that you'll have a nickname.
This is the mask that Lavi has cultivated, over years and years of practice. It smiles pleasantly at everyone and is very easy to get along with -- and even easier to underestimate. Who would ever guess that the flushed, grinning idiot who just slung his arm around you and ordered another round at the bar was really perfectly sober and waiting with all muscles tensed for you to get just drunk enough to reveal some of your personal history? For though he might seem like the sort of man who would stand out in a crowd and put strangers off conversation that could be overheard, Lavi only makes himself seem all the more easy to dismiss by how obvious his presence beside you is.
The truth of the matter is that, despite his friendliness, Lavi has never really been fond of other people. Maybe it's because of something in his childhood, and maybe it's because of how he grew up, but humanity as a whole -- its violence and its passion, its filth and excess, its selfishness and shortsightedness -- has always disgusted him on some level. He liked learning things, was very excited as a small boy to think of traveling the world and recording its hidden history, but his interest in other people...? It was academic, if it existed at all.
In the last two years, some of this has started to change. Just since the beginning of the series, Lavi has been reprimanded several times for feeling too much -- for being genuinely angry or grieving when one of the people who shouldn't really be his friends gets hurt. His careful mask has started to sink into his skin, and Lavi isn't quite as sure anymore where it ends and he begins.
Sexuality: In Siglen, he'll be functionally bisexual, because he will have sex when he needs to -- and even a little more often than he needs to, so as to keep his head clear. Lavi values a clear head. But his "real" sexuality is... complicated.
My headcanon is that Lavi does feel attraction to other people -- but much more rarely than his persona would have you believe. In fact, only twice: Allen and Lenalee. See, when it's real, Lavi is more about personality than good looks. But feeling, really feeling, will only make this more uncomfortable for him, so he'll avoid having sex with anyone he really cares about, and if it does somehow happen anyway, he'll do his level best to pretend it didn't mean a thing.
Still, even in spite of all of that, I don't think Lavi's a virgin. See, there was once a time when he was a wide-eyed young man, full to brimming with hormones and curiosity. He knew Bookmen weren't allowed to love, and he'd always interpreted that as extending to sex -- but he also knew that sex was one of those Big, Important Things. A primal drive that governed all of humanity, as fundamental as wealth or power or religion. He was curious. And a sixteen-year-old boy, maybe experiencing a little bit of typical sixteen-year-old rebelliousness. There may have been alcohol involved, just to really seal the deal.
And it may have been kind of disappointing.
But hey, not a total loss! At least he'd picked up a new facet for his fake personality. Now, in addition to being happy-go-lucky, "Lavi" would also be lascivious.
Abilities: As a future Bookman, Lavi has total recall -- the ability to instantly memorize every facet of every experience, from a new acquaintance's face to his or her voice, inflection, tone, wardrobe, and so on. (And make no mistake, he also remembers what the ambient temperature was, how the sun felt on his own skin, etc.) Everything, in the blink of an eye. Canon implies that there is also something special about a Bookman's right eye, the eye that Lavi hides.
In part because of this ability, Lavi is arguably the best-educated member of the cast, and has memorized the contents of countless books over the years. It can be assumed that he speaks and reads a multitude of languages, at least one of which is obscure enough that he and Bookman were able to use it to speak confidentially in the crowded multiethnic mess hall of the Black Order.
Oh, and he's also been taught some of the acupuncture/acupressure techniques Bookman uses in canon to treat injuries. They're best for aches and pains, but Lavi can also use them to speed up the body's natural healing process a little for more serious wounds.
Meanwhile, as an Exorcist, Lavi is compatible with an Equipment-type Innocence officially called Iron Hammer. Lavi has given it a cuter, friendlier nickname: "Little Big Hammer".
And Little Big Hammer functions as its name would suggest -- Lavi can make it grow or shrink at will, and even just extend its handle as a form of transportation. (By placing the butt of the handle against the ground, he can propel himself across large distances, although not with perfect accuracy.) When he isn't fighting with it, he keeps it very small in a holster on his thigh, and, because of his compatibility with it, changing its size does not change the weight he feels when he hefts it.
In addition to the obvious "hitting other people really hard and getting from point A to point B" functions, Lavi can also use Little Big Hammer to unleash the power of the elements by choosing between and "judging" any of a variety of Seals. (This is accomplished by summoning an enormous ring of those seals and then striking the appropriate one with Little Big Hammer.) So far, Lavi has only used four of his many seals: Fire and Heaven for specific physical elemental attacks, and Wood to direct any element in a more precise and less necessarily combative way -- such as when he wanted to blow aside the cloud covering that was hiding his enemies. The last seal, his Combo Seal, lets him use two of his other seals together for an even more devastating attack.
Multifandom: Rita, Tales of Vesperia
Oh, man, would Lavi ever love to pick her brains a little. Zomg a totally new world with totally new history and totally new technology and wow. Wow! And Rita would be a better resource than most, given her prodigy status. Lavi might just hover around her for a few days, asking obnoxious questions about everything. Of course, this goes for most anyone from a different universe, SO.
Rita isn't an exceptional person like Allen or Lenalee -- she's a perfectly normal human being, with good traits and bad. Selfishness, arrogance, and everything else Lavi has come to expect from the human race. But she does have a softer side, especially when it comes to Estelle, and I think that might catch Lavi's eye a little; what's so special about this Estelle person, that she got to Rita like that? He'd be curious.
Oh, and Rita is also easy to needle, so Lavi would get on that, STAT -- at least until she first used one of her Artes on him for it. He's used to threats of violence, but no one's ever actually set him on fire before.
Action sample:
[ He'd made sure she was a very pretty girl -- one of the oh-so-friendly natives, with sweet-smelling shampoo and curves in all the right places. She was a good choice; if Allen or Lenalee or Yu were here, if this girl told them what he'd done, it would've seemed typical. Typical "Lavi".
But it wasn't typical. This sweat on his skin, this heat in his blood, this tremble in his hands as he watched her spread herself out for him -- they weren't typical. He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself, but her scent was heavy in the air and... affecting. It made his belly clench in a very not-typical way.
He -- wanted her, this curvy girl with dark eyes and soft hair. He... wanted this. No, want was too mild a word: he needed it. It was an ache, a throb, a strange sort of hunger. And his body felt alien, his skin stretched tight and his mouth almost painfully dry -- his, fine, his dick so damn hard.
Not typical. Not typical at all. But the girl was curling her fingers in the front of his shirt, moving her carefully over his face with an uncertain expression.
Lavi realized he'd stopped smiling, and hitched his lips up into something good-natured but ever so slightly crooked, ever so slightly rakish, because girls liked that sort of thing. Then he kissed her, before she could wonder too much at the abrupt change, and made a private vow to never, ever wait this long again. ]