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PLAYER INFORMATION
Name: lonnie
Preferred pronoun(s): they/them
Contact: pm or perjury
Permissions: nya

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: dito
Canon: drakengard 3
Canon point: ending of branch d, after reverting to his dove form
Age: 22, although he physically appears much younger
History: here

Personality:

Dito gives off the appearance of a young, pretty boy with a kempt appearance. This perception is completely shattered the second he opens his mouth, where sharp senses and an equally sharp tongue come in to play along with excessive vulgarity and cruelty. His looks betray his age, as he is 22-years-old in actuality with an understanding and wisdom that he rarely uses for anything that's ever good.

"I detest ugly things. I hate the putrid breath of monsters, and I hate people corrupted by desire. How can they even stand to live like that?"

He is consistently shown to delight in hurting others, be it physically or mentally. His ability to see through other people's guises and understand their mentalities is often used for this purpose. At his core, Dito is a sadist. He takes pleasure in demeaning, scoffing, and ridiculing at others, and is frequently shown to be disgusted by those around him. Never shy about piping up about anything he deems "ugly" or "stupid", he is open about his irritation with these sorts of traits. This extends to him even expressing abhorrence with certain types of appearances, and he is shown to believe that "beautiful" people often lack brains. He frequently talks about how much he loathes Five's (voluptuous) body, often referring to her as a "pig" or "blubber bags". He further states that he hates the "buff macho" look and bulgy muscles. The worst combination of a person to him is someone that is both ugly and stupid. He is consistently shown to have little patience for things he finds useless, quick to want to discard of them or make them suffer in the case of useless individuals.

"Morals? Morals make me puke. Trotting out truth and justice? Love for your fellow man? Pffft. What a crock of shit. How can people live in a disgusting place like this?"

Five, his Intoner he was made to serve, is the pinnacle of Dito's resentment and special loathing. She is partially the source of many of his peeves, including his dislike of gluttonous individuals, stupidity, frivolousness, and even why he cites that he hates the salty sea air, claiming that it only reminds him of her sweaty body and makes him want to vomit. Dito's first introduction within the storyline occurs when he finishes off Five for Zero by slicing her in two. Finally free from her influence and control, he snaps into a rant as he begins desecrating her already dead body by kicking and stabbing it. It is insinuated that his rant is so vulgar and profane that the game even goes as far as to censor it. He maintains deep resentment for his position as her sex slave and her control over him, considering she went as far as to force him to act cute and shy, more akin to his appearance and yet the furthest behavior from his true personality. He expresses a particular hatred for her "love", stating that her love is fake, empty, and tainted -- as such, Dito's own perception of love is twisted, and he states at one point that he doesn't believe in "true love" and that it makes him want to hurl.

"Life is ugly, and people are nothing but fools. Why did the world have to end up this way?"

Dito craves and loves autonomy and violence, which serves to explain why he takes a liking to becoming Zero's disciple after killing Five. Free from Five's constant abuse and control, Dito is shown to be more receptive toward his duties as a Disciple, stating that Zero is more desirable than Five and even propositioning that he will gladly sleep with her instead (a need meant to be fulfilled by Disciples due to the high sex drive Intoners maintain). Although he isn't a particularly good Disciple: Often getting called a freak for devolving into passionate descriptions of gore, exhibiting laziness and complaining whenever the level has too much platforming, and often prone to bursts of violent impulsiveness due to his lack of patience and easily annoyed nature. The latter is a trait equally shared with Zero, and he is shown to banter with Zero often, even taking on the affectionate nickname "Z" for her and showing more comfort with being playfully childish around her (e.g., asking her for a piggy-back ride or getting excited over their acquisition of an air ship). While not exactly friendship given both Zero and Dito's utter lack of congeniality, it is shown that the two seem to have an understanding of each other in a sense. This is likely due to their shared abusive pasts and penchant for impatience and violence over cordiality or mercy. Dito repeatedly expresses that it is more fun to be around Zero and in her party, where he is content to kill things at her side and find personal entertainment. The comfort and contentedness he grows into (a far cry from his time spent in servitude to Five) is most explicitly shown in Branch D, when Dito's lust and twisted desires for an insane world cause him to experience a lapse in judgment. Dito ends up betraying the party and summoning an angel, which constitutes as a forbidden move for a Disciple to do without the order of an Intoner -- the result is the "punishment" of losing his form and being turned back into a dove, which embodies "death" for a Disciple. When Dito realizes what he's done, he frantically reaches for Zero and begs for her help. While a depraved freak in every sense of the word, Dito isn't unshakeable or numb. He is open to express discomfort, fear, and even delight -- even if the latter is usually due to mowing down soldiers.

"The rotten fruit tastes the most sweet. A rotten body is beauty personified. Why does everyone fail to notice these things?"

At his root, Dito's core ideology and desire is for a world where "ugly" is beautiful and a place where an "undesirable sap" like him can fit in due to his insane lust for blood, guts, and gore. He is so particularly infatuated with this concept that he is even willing to cast aside his hatred for Five when she resurrects herself in Branch D as a walking corpse, ecstatic about her new form and gleefully telling her that she could do anything she wants to him like that. This is also when he betrays both Zero and the party, all too eager at the possibility of creating an "insane" world for himself that he's always wanted. Given his immediate regret over his impulsive decision to chase after this by summoning an angel (a taboo ritual for Disciples to perform without the order of an Intoner), it is clear that his fixation with the grotesque is intense enough to even obscure his normally sharp-witted senses. Dito's desires and consequential actions always begin and end with his twisted hunger.

Powers/abilities:

Dito is a Disciple, which is essentially an entity created exclusively as a conduit and servant for the "Goddess" beings known as Intoners, who utilize the power of Songs. As such, he has the ability to summon an angel via a pact that corresponds with his particular Intoner. In his case, he is able to bring forth Phanuel. His physical body is also demonstrated to be more durable and capable than an ordinary person's, complete with increased strength, better agility and jumping ability, and a regenerative ability. He is formidable against monsters and other humans. He is only shown to receive any meaningful or fatal wounds from Intoners or other Disciples.

Questions:

✽ What does your character consider to be their top three strengths?

Dito knows he's intelligent and is expresses a loathing for stupid and ugly people often. Additionally, he is shown to use his sharp senses and perception toward others and ability to see through guises to feed his penchant for engaging in sadistic cruelty. He does this both through his own inhuman physical strength and with his sharp tongue. Dito definitely considers the ability to kill and overall lack of morality a strength.

✽ What do others consider to be your character's greatest weakness?

The party he interacts with the most often remark that Dito's most detrimental trait of character is that he is, essentially, a "psycho". While there are also remarks made about his laziness and impatience, it is always predominantly his inherent sadism and pleasure in both killing and viscera that causes the most discomfort and problems. It is even due to his twisted hunger for these aforementioned things that he ends up making the most vital mistakes that repeatedly result in his own death or loss of form across the storyline branches.

✽ What are your character's three greatest fears?

Dito loathes subjugation. It is the prevailing reason he hates his job as a Disciple and his own Intoner, Five, who serves as a leading source of dread due to her control over him; she perpetually forced him to behave a certain way and sexually assaulted him. Dito also cannot stand being in a normal world, often expressing his hatred of it and attributing such to his love of abnormalcy and the grotesque. His own personal criteria for what he finds "ugly" varies due to this -- for example, he cannot stand buxom figures (largely due to Five) or "bulgy muscles", but loves rotten innards!

✽ What would your character choose for a last meal?

Dito's favorite foods include fermented foods and stew. He's said to like anything nice and warm. He would choose the aforementioned for a last meal.

✽ Has your character ever killed? If so, how did that affect them? If not, how would it affect them?

Dito literally gets off on killing, blood, and guts. He loves pain, suffering, and screams of agony. He's shown to be quite fond of viscera, taking delight and fascination in dead (and undead) bodies, blood in his eyes, and things like that. He's even shown to get sexually aroused by these things, so that's pretty much the extent of how any killing is going to affect him.

✽ If your character was given one selfish wish (eg. must be applied to themselves and not affect others), what would it be?

While Dito's basest desire stems from the fact that he would love to exist in a world where only ugly is beautiful, this is probably too broad to the point of affecting other people. He is, however, shown to fantasize often about turning Five inside out and seeing her innards dangle. He becomes completely ecstatic when she is "revived" as a rotting, zombie form in one route, and expresses that he would love to fuck her like that. So, his selfish wish would be to fuck a reanimated corpse, ideally one where he could play with the guts himself and that looks like Five. :,) Rotten bodies are beautiful to him.

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