User:Baluar/Baluar

Instead of being a suicidal mission as he expected, the Ouroboros' core instead entered his body, increasing his physical abilities by a huge margin and enabling him to transform into a monstrous yet extremely powerful Aragami form which resembled a huge human-like creature with pitch black scaly skin. Upon meeting his sister again, he quickly witnessed her acquiring said powers as well. It was also in that mission when Alisa and Baluar officially became a couple.

However, the Ouroboros was much smarter than it showed, and in fact let itself be absorbed only to be able to bring about destruction from a safe disguise. When given the chance, the core attempted to control Baluar, and only Nia's timely intervention allowed him to maintain control. This led them to try to get rid of the monster, but although they were successful, the creature overpowered every God Eater in the Branch. Even Baluar and Nia were unable to kill it, and they only managed to kill the monster when it was distracted attempting to kill Nia, which prompted Baluar to pick up her God Arc and backstab the monster. This event killed most of the Oracle cells that made up their bodies, but nevertheless left them as "augmented" God Eaters with Aragami-enhanced physical abilities.

Arc 2

After these events, both the twins became a part of Cradle and became part of the travelling Branch's attempts to get hold of a Kyuubi, without much success for some time. Eventually, they found more than they were looking for, and they were forced to engage a deadly Magatsu Kyuubi, entering a fight that would take them hours to win. When they won, however, they learned from Rachel Claudius herself that they were now outlaws, and that everyone now thought they were consumed by the Aragami instinct to devour.

It took them a lot of effort to get to Rachel and get rid of her while Blood took care of the transformed Julius, although her death hadn't been as... permanent as either of them would have wanted.

Arc 3

She recovered after a short time and returned in search of vengeance... or so everyone thought. After a lengthy battle (in which she revealed that, among other things, she possessed the ability to create clones of existing people), she received a lethal wound, but in her dying breath she revealed that instead of trying to conquer the world, all she wanted was to strengthen it against the unknown Aragami invasion that would come from below the Infernal Subways. The twins, as always, led the way there, where Nia was grievously wounded. This prompted Baluar to enter in a crazed bloodlust and destroy everything while she was taken to get medical attention.

Inside the structure, however, Baluar met the last thing he expected to meet: his twin sister, Nia. She revealed that she had faked her wounds, killed the one who was transporting her to the Den, and returned here to try and destroy her brother, for she hated being overshadowed by him despite being just as skilled. In a lengthy battle, Baluar eventually won a pyrrhic victory, and left her remnants while on his way to the Den.

When they reached the Den, Baluar received the news that Nia was receiving medical attention and she needed urgent surgery if she wanted to live, but that it was highly risky and so a familiar's approval was needed. He approved it without a second thought, still shocked to see his sister alive, and ultimately realized he had probably fought with Rachel's ultimate clone, the woman giving them trouble even after death. Nia's surgery was succesful, and there was much rejoicing.

Arc 4

After a few years, the twins had come once again to the Far East Branch, where they were repeatedly assaulted by a tremendously powerful Hannibal. After a fatidic meeeting, they came to learn it was actually their father, who had succumbed to an Aragami infection after the incident that supposedly had killed him so many years ago. He fled after soundly defeating them, prompting them to go out and search for him.

They thought it would be useless, but at the last second, after seeing Nia receiving a terribly powerful strike, Baluar lost control and let his Aragami instinct to devour to take over, making him exponentially more powerful but also making him a prisoner in his own body. He defeated the beast who was his father, who thanked him before turning into nothing, but the Aragami inside him craved more and attempted to kill and devour Nia. He was interrupted by Alisa, who had been previously called by Nia to try and help them. Baluar also knocked her down with little effort, but he regained control afterwards, his consciousness doing all it could to avoid ending up causing the death of those dearest to him.

Alisa could never forgive him for trying to kill her, and they broke up shortly afterwards.

Fall of the Heavens

A few years later, Baluar learned that Fenrir was hiding the destruction of an entire Branch, and went to the Branch to investigate. There, he met a woman named Lina, who was the highest-ranked God Eater of the Branch and the person who miraculously managed to save a few people from the insanely large Aragami invasion that had taken place.

(This section of the article will be expanded when FotH ends)

Standing at 2.16m, Baluar is easily recognizable as one of tallest God Eaters alive. Despite the fact that he is pretty muscular, he normally comes off as a rather lean guy.

His skin is rather pale, and his eyes are his most obvious facial feature: they are large, vermillion-red spheres. His hair is also strange; while it is a rather normal color (black), it goes upwards naturally, shaping itself into spikes. The rest of his face is pretty average, with a mouth that’s usually in a serious mood but is always capable of showing a laugh or cracking a joke, and a slightly larger than average nose.

His standard outfit is a black zipped shirt, worn below a zipped jacket (that he never zips). He wears dark green, baggy pants and uses gray shoes specially designed to withstand walking on almost anything. While he has other outfits, those are more conventional, like a traditional sniper outfit (obviously tailored for him) for formal occasions.

Baluar is a man who cares deeply for everyone he comes across. His is a selfless persona.

He's also someone pretty careless who doesn't show much interest in anything, unless it really catches his attention, in which case he will begin to gather anything and everything related to it. Such is the case with videogames, which are his main hobby.

His most noticeable personality quirk, however, is probably his extensive use of sarcasm. He is a man who speaks in a snarky tone most of the time, and while he has no problems on saving anyone from death, he'll probably spend the next few minutes generally jerking around after dealing with his enemies.

He used to be more reserved when he was younger, probably a leftover from when he was forced to live on the street, but he overcame it and is now the self-proclaimed "most sarcastic asshole ever".

Baluar favors the light and maneuverable Short Swords, choosing a Wild Swd: Laoyang II as his top weapon, although he uses the Knife series if he faces strongly-elemented Aragami. Or Claudia, if the monster is weak to Freeze.

As for Shields, well, in his own words, "What's the point of blocking if you are going to be damaged anyway?". He uses Ymir+. "It weighs, but hell it's worth it." He has noted that while other shields may block all damage, Ymir offers one of the best all around defense values from all the shields.

He isn't much of a Gun user, but he uses his Phalanx Dm (Assault) to deal high damage with his custom bullets, then rushes in to fight melee.

In-story, he has a modified Short Sword (roughly the size of an average Buster Blade) with a button in the handle that sets the blade ablaze, literally. Other than that, it's the same as in-game. His blade is in fact alive (and has a female persona), and has taken the name of Katty, which Baluar suggested after thinking of a cutter. He still grins stupidly whenever calling her by name.

Baluar is a man devoted to fighting in close quarters. He uses a combination of his immense experience, his supernatural strength and his Aragami-honed senses to crush his enemies in as short a time as he can. He will toy with his opponents, if he knows what he is facing, but against unknown menaces or very large threats, he takes the safe route and goes all out, which normally results in said threats being crushed in a short timespan. This, however, means that if he can't defeat something at first, he will have trouble with it later on.

He rarely uses guns, and is not very proficient in making bullets. His bullets are normally made with someone else's help.

FAN CAST
 * Ken: Friends, but Bal is more often than not angry about Ken being such a hothead. He has literally banged his head on the wall a few times because of Ken's actions.
 * Arthur: Friends too, although Bal is often angry that Arthur decides to kill him on his stories.
 * Lyrr: Friends. While their skills compliment flawlessly, Bal can't help but wonder where Lyrr became the perv he is today.
 * Nanako: Friends, too. Bal is amazed at Nanako's skills, although he personally would never use bullets so overpowered. That doesn't stop him from asking her from help when making bullets, since he's no good at it.
 * C: Baluar is intrigued to no end by the misterious woman. His deal with her (him paying up a lot to get the news nobody else gets) has definitely gotten him used to the strange being that is C.
 * Kaze: While on friendly terms, Kaze has been infuriated more than once because Bal steals her pudding. Not wanting to finish the relationship, Bal often goes to buy three times as many puddings as he ate.

Baluar (real life Bal :V): The quintessential insufferable and sarcastic asshole who is nevertheless a good guy when you get to it. Nuff said.

He's a rather idealized versions of me, lacking any of my awkwardness and most of my flaws while sharing interests and stuff. Still flawed to some extent, as a truly idealized person wouldn't be a pain in the ass like he is (we are?)... but whatever flaws we share are things that define me as a person and without them I'd be a completely different guy. And I'm happy to be the way I am... thus, he's happy too.