Previous Game: Luceti, then Mallow Hallow (from which he was a transplant from Luceti)
Game History & Personality:
History:
Adell spent about three and a half years in the interdimensional trap that was known as Luceti, followed by almost six months in another, known as Mallow Hallow.
Luceti had the much greater influence on Adell's personality, and not simply due to his length of time there. By nature, Luceti was a place where people in the Multiverse ended up, by virtue of a phenomenon known as a Natural Shift. No one knew how exactly they worked, but it tore people from their own dimensions and universes into a specific nexus world, which was run by a corrupt scientific organization known as the Malnosso. When universal transplants ended up in that world, they were quickly deposited into an enclosure, equipped with a village and provided supplies... and for quite a long time, those in the enclosures were subject to experiments by the Malnosso, which ranged from horrific to benign... to outright bizzare. Part of the experimental atmosphere were indestructable droids that would occasionally, and often violently kidnap, whoever they pleased for experiments outside the enclosure. Most returned, and often with injuries, being drugged, or both.
This was the environment Adell lived in, one of the enclosures. Trapped with hundreds of others, most from completely different universes. As such, he was exposed to a lot of new ideas, a lot of new world views, and bushels of other heroes; and with them, plenty of inspirational thoughts and ideas that helped him mature quickly. Unfortunately, the air inside the enclosure was one of frustration and general helplessness. For all of his power and strength, the barrier around the enclosure was indestructable, and the experiments, some of which involved warping minds, were unavoidable. For all of his iron will and hot-blooded determination, his mind and memories were fiddled with more than once, and it hit uncomfortably close to home regarding the Overlord's Curse on Veldime. Many months were spent here, dealing with experiments as best as he could, but he was rarely alone for much of it. Early in his stay, he joined a village organized militia, known as the Blue Rogues. Meant to protect the people and keep the peace, the Blue Rogues fought against threats from within and without... and it was an organization that Adell eventually headed himself, once its original leader was Shifted out of the nexus world.
Eventually, the experiments eased, and more of the truth beyond the barriers emerged: the Malnosso were engaged in an endless war against a band of cultists known as the Third Party. Due to the nature of the nexus world, death was not permenant: premature death resulted in one coming back a week later with some sort of aspect of themselves missing, and natural death caused one to return to life in the state they entered the nexus world in with all memories of their previous life intact. The Third Party cultists sought to destroy this cycle with rituals believed to bring about permenant death. It was a war the Malnosso were slowly losing, and desperation enough resulted in the Malnosso using the powerful subjects in the Luceti enclosure as soldiers in specific battles against the Third Party. Adell participated in several of these, and even volunteered a couple of times. The cultists, especially their Elites, proved strong enough to be a challenge even for Adell, but every battle he came back from proved to be some sort of victory.
But more and more of the Malnosso Adell learned about, the more disillusioned he became. Elements of the organization might've had their hearts in the right place, but much of it was corrupt and ruthless, looking to use any means necessary to survive. Some in the Organization insisted such measures were the only reason they even still existed. But Adell was disgusted by their desire to keep everyone in the dark about what was really going on when it was clear the Enclosures had the power to help if there was some transparency and trust that could be built up. Of course, it didn't. And it hadn't gotten much better by the time he was transported out of the enclosure by another Natural Shift, only to end up in another universe, known as Mallow Hallow.
His time in Mallow Hallow was much shorter, by comparison. He arrived in a central town, and was taken before the realm's royalty and given a short explanation about what was going on. After a rather unfortunate discussion, it ended with him thrown out a window, but otherwise fine. He had been assigned a district to live in, one of high technology. Burned out and still bitter about his time in Luceti, Adell moved there and lived peacefully, aside from the more eccentric goings-on in the region. It was a more relaxed existence than what he had in Luceti, but many of his experiences there still dogged him, and a part of him wanted nothing more than to get back to the Netherworld.
...Looks like he might get what he was asking for. Just in the most backward way possible.
Personality/Power Differences
Most of Adell's personality changes come from Luceti. The short version is this version of Adell is more battle-hardened, more cynical and bitter, and somewhat more distant, but also calmer, more collected, stronger, and smarter. His hot-blooded righteousness still runs deep, but his temper is much less hair-trigger. In many ways, this version of Adell is considerably more mature and grown-up than his direct canon counterpart. He is also much more in tune with his own emotions, and more so in touch with others'; he is able to better discern how he feels about people, having experienced much deeper friendship and love with others outside of Veldime.
Battle-hardness and cynicism come from the attitude of the Malnosso during his time in Luceti. Both due to the numerous drafted battles he was placed in, and the number of experiments he endured. Some were relatively benign, like dealing with a haunted, toothy, invincible piano, but others left deeper scars, such as being tortured and genetically experimented on, having his entire history and memory temporarily rewritten to think he had always been part of the nexus world, or being bodily transformed into people he loved. At first, burning anger was usually his response to such things, but as time marched on, pointless rage with nothing to let it out on did him little good. Instead, he learned to cool that anger and put it to use for other purposes, but it left him bitter and spiteful toward the Malnosso in particular. He distrusted most of them and held contempt for most of their policies, a feeling that only grew over time, to the point that the only reason Adell agreed to fight in the drafts was to protect the innocent people in the nexus world not affiliated with the Malnosso. This cynicism bled into other aspects of his life, but more subtly than that, usually causing him to question people in charge of things and whether or not they were really concerned about public good.
His increased strength and power (basically, his higher level) can be equated to the continual rigorous training he put himself through. Never stopping his training regimens from Veldime, Adell practiced his fighting and martial arts for hours daily. His training only intensified when the holodeck-like Battle Dome was installed in Luceti, giving him access to foes from many different universes, as well as his own. Though he gained no additional Mana power from the simulations and sparring he undertook, his skill and strength was magnified. Where he gained his additional Mana energy was in the battles with Third Party cultists and Cultist Elites, the latter of which were easily as strong as demons in the Netherworld. Through all of his experience, he has adjusted his fighting style to be more complex and less predictable based on the enemies he has fought and the new techniques he has seen. Thus, his level, his skill, and his composure in battle all rose dramatically. Though he was already a force to be reckoned with at the end of Disgaea 2, Adell has become a more dangerous foe than ever.
Emotionally, friendships and more have played a big part in Adell's behavioral evolution. During his years in Luceti he befriended dozens of people, and acquainted with dozens more. Some left a lasting impact on him: his deep friendship with Terra Branford and their common trait of being not entirely human made him feel much more comfortable about his identity as a demon, for example. Thanks in part of that, Adell doesn't bother hiding what he is if asked; if anyone has a problem with him being a demon, he'll win them over with good character, like he did with the vampire hunter Simon Belmont. Even beyond greater comfort in his identity, close and intimate ties with several people helped him mature, grow up, and even find something of an adopted family.
For an extended period during his stay in Luceti, he lived in a house with numerous other people, notably the family headed by Remilia Scarlet. Remilia, her sister Flandre, their maid Sakuya, gatekeeper Meiling, librarian Patchouli, and assistant Koakuma, along with other people he was close to: notably Charlotte Hazelrink, Luka Megurine, and oddly enough, his own Mom. This family life was chaotic, but he found it to his liking a lot, and grew very close to all of them. Luka and Charlotte proved especially important in his development: the former, a Vocaloid (a singing android), whom Adell acted as her manager/master, and Charlotte, a close friend, later love interest and eventual girlfriend. Charlotte's influence on Adell was straightforward enough. As his girlfriend and a Love Freak that Flonne would adore, Charlotte helped buff out Adell's rougher edges as an individual, inadvertantly helping to calm his temper and be more patient, at least where the Malnosso were not concerned.
Luka was more complicated and a longer term project. As her Master/Producer, it was his responsibility to oversee her musical talents and as it turned out, help her unique AI develop into something more humanlike. Rather than mimic human emotion, help her to simulate it, to feel it herself. Unfortunately, Adell was unable to really bring this change about; Luka just felt like she was malfunctioning and broken, and Adell felt ultimately he did more harm than good to her in the long run. Though Luka herself would be the first to say he was wrong about that, Adell ultimately viewed the results as his greatest failure. He cared for the Vocaloid extremely deeply, but he felt like he let her down. This failure shook his confidence somewhat, and still haunts him even today, wondering what would've happened if he had been successful before she was Shifted from the enclosure. Though fate wasn't done with him on the matter yet.
Another Luka appeared eventually; this time not a Vocaloid. A younger, more bookish Luka Megurine, but one that was decidedly human. Adell never told her about the previous Luka he knew, but when the fates had him saving her from a monster in the village, he found himself acting as her protector and roommate. He took her under his wing and did his best for her too, especially as she had accepted who he was as a demon, and had cared for him selflessly while he was both injured and recovering from a DNA splicing experiment.
Being close to people in Luceti was not always the best idea, especially as the Natural Shifts that moved people in and out of the Nexus World were fickle. Most of his new family vanished almost overnight at one point, starting with the Scarlet family. Soon, one by one, the others in his formerly crowded home vanished one by one, until Vocaloid Luka Charlotte as well. The impact of losing so many people back to the infinite space of the multiverse shook him deeply, and left him with a deep emptiness and loneliness that caused him to become more withdrawn and distant from people, slowing the rate at which he sought out new friendships considerably. It was only made worse when his circle of friends and people he cared about continued to shrink and shrink over time due to the Shifts. This trait especially dogged him all the way through his time at Mallow Hallow... even though he again met up with the human version of Luka there.
Overall, at his very heart, Adell is still the same righteous, just, honest, and forthright man he used to be. But closer to the surface, what once was a hot, freshly forged blade is now tempered, cooled, and sharpened. More patient, more reserved, and more intelligent, backed with a greater amount of power.
Adell / Disgaea 2 / Transplant (Luceti/Mallow Hallow) / Reserved / 2/2
Game History & Personality:
History:
Adell spent about three and a half years in the interdimensional trap that was known as Luceti, followed by almost six months in another, known as Mallow Hallow.
Luceti had the much greater influence on Adell's personality, and not simply due to his length of time there. By nature, Luceti was a place where people in the Multiverse ended up, by virtue of a phenomenon known as a Natural Shift. No one knew how exactly they worked, but it tore people from their own dimensions and universes into a specific nexus world, which was run by a corrupt scientific organization known as the Malnosso. When universal transplants ended up in that world, they were quickly deposited into an enclosure, equipped with a village and provided supplies... and for quite a long time, those in the enclosures were subject to experiments by the Malnosso, which ranged from horrific to benign... to outright bizzare. Part of the experimental atmosphere were indestructable droids that would occasionally, and often violently kidnap, whoever they pleased for experiments outside the enclosure. Most returned, and often with injuries, being drugged, or both.
This was the environment Adell lived in, one of the enclosures. Trapped with hundreds of others, most from completely different universes. As such, he was exposed to a lot of new ideas, a lot of new world views, and bushels of other heroes; and with them, plenty of inspirational thoughts and ideas that helped him mature quickly. Unfortunately, the air inside the enclosure was one of frustration and general helplessness. For all of his power and strength, the barrier around the enclosure was indestructable, and the experiments, some of which involved warping minds, were unavoidable. For all of his iron will and hot-blooded determination, his mind and memories were fiddled with more than once, and it hit uncomfortably close to home regarding the Overlord's Curse on Veldime. Many months were spent here, dealing with experiments as best as he could, but he was rarely alone for much of it. Early in his stay, he joined a village organized militia, known as the Blue Rogues. Meant to protect the people and keep the peace, the Blue Rogues fought against threats from within and without... and it was an organization that Adell eventually headed himself, once its original leader was Shifted out of the nexus world.
Eventually, the experiments eased, and more of the truth beyond the barriers emerged: the Malnosso were engaged in an endless war against a band of cultists known as the Third Party. Due to the nature of the nexus world, death was not permenant: premature death resulted in one coming back a week later with some sort of aspect of themselves missing, and natural death caused one to return to life in the state they entered the nexus world in with all memories of their previous life intact. The Third Party cultists sought to destroy this cycle with rituals believed to bring about permenant death. It was a war the Malnosso were slowly losing, and desperation enough resulted in the Malnosso using the powerful subjects in the Luceti enclosure as soldiers in specific battles against the Third Party. Adell participated in several of these, and even volunteered a couple of times. The cultists, especially their Elites, proved strong enough to be a challenge even for Adell, but every battle he came back from proved to be some sort of victory.
But more and more of the Malnosso Adell learned about, the more disillusioned he became. Elements of the organization might've had their hearts in the right place, but much of it was corrupt and ruthless, looking to use any means necessary to survive. Some in the Organization insisted such measures were the only reason they even still existed. But Adell was disgusted by their desire to keep everyone in the dark about what was really going on when it was clear the Enclosures had the power to help if there was some transparency and trust that could be built up. Of course, it didn't. And it hadn't gotten much better by the time he was transported out of the enclosure by another Natural Shift, only to end up in another universe, known as Mallow Hallow.
His time in Mallow Hallow was much shorter, by comparison. He arrived in a central town, and was taken before the realm's royalty and given a short explanation about what was going on. After a rather unfortunate discussion, it ended with him thrown out a window, but otherwise fine. He had been assigned a district to live in, one of high technology. Burned out and still bitter about his time in Luceti, Adell moved there and lived peacefully, aside from the more eccentric goings-on in the region. It was a more relaxed existence than what he had in Luceti, but many of his experiences there still dogged him, and a part of him wanted nothing more than to get back to the Netherworld.
...Looks like he might get what he was asking for. Just in the most backward way possible.
Personality/Power Differences
Most of Adell's personality changes come from Luceti. The short version is this version of Adell is more battle-hardened, more cynical and bitter, and somewhat more distant, but also calmer, more collected, stronger, and smarter. His hot-blooded righteousness still runs deep, but his temper is much less hair-trigger. In many ways, this version of Adell is considerably more mature and grown-up than his direct canon counterpart. He is also much more in tune with his own emotions, and more so in touch with others'; he is able to better discern how he feels about people, having experienced much deeper friendship and love with others outside of Veldime.
Battle-hardness and cynicism come from the attitude of the Malnosso during his time in Luceti. Both due to the numerous drafted battles he was placed in, and the number of experiments he endured. Some were relatively benign, like dealing with a haunted, toothy, invincible piano, but others left deeper scars, such as being tortured and genetically experimented on, having his entire history and memory temporarily rewritten to think he had always been part of the nexus world, or being bodily transformed into people he loved. At first, burning anger was usually his response to such things, but as time marched on, pointless rage with nothing to let it out on did him little good. Instead, he learned to cool that anger and put it to use for other purposes, but it left him bitter and spiteful toward the Malnosso in particular. He distrusted most of them and held contempt for most of their policies, a feeling that only grew over time, to the point that the only reason Adell agreed to fight in the drafts was to protect the innocent people in the nexus world not affiliated with the Malnosso. This cynicism bled into other aspects of his life, but more subtly than that, usually causing him to question people in charge of things and whether or not they were really concerned about public good.
His increased strength and power (basically, his higher level) can be equated to the continual rigorous training he put himself through. Never stopping his training regimens from Veldime, Adell practiced his fighting and martial arts for hours daily. His training only intensified when the holodeck-like Battle Dome was installed in Luceti, giving him access to foes from many different universes, as well as his own. Though he gained no additional Mana power from the simulations and sparring he undertook, his skill and strength was magnified. Where he gained his additional Mana energy was in the battles with Third Party cultists and Cultist Elites, the latter of which were easily as strong as demons in the Netherworld. Through all of his experience, he has adjusted his fighting style to be more complex and less predictable based on the enemies he has fought and the new techniques he has seen. Thus, his level, his skill, and his composure in battle all rose dramatically. Though he was already a force to be reckoned with at the end of Disgaea 2, Adell has become a more dangerous foe than ever.
Emotionally, friendships and more have played a big part in Adell's behavioral evolution. During his years in Luceti he befriended dozens of people, and acquainted with dozens more. Some left a lasting impact on him: his deep friendship with Terra Branford and their common trait of being not entirely human made him feel much more comfortable about his identity as a demon, for example. Thanks in part of that, Adell doesn't bother hiding what he is if asked; if anyone has a problem with him being a demon, he'll win them over with good character, like he did with the vampire hunter Simon Belmont. Even beyond greater comfort in his identity, close and intimate ties with several people helped him mature, grow up, and even find something of an adopted family.
For an extended period during his stay in Luceti, he lived in a house with numerous other people, notably the family headed by Remilia Scarlet. Remilia, her sister Flandre, their maid Sakuya, gatekeeper Meiling, librarian Patchouli, and assistant Koakuma, along with other people he was close to: notably Charlotte Hazelrink, Luka Megurine, and oddly enough, his own Mom. This family life was chaotic, but he found it to his liking a lot, and grew very close to all of them. Luka and Charlotte proved especially important in his development: the former, a Vocaloid (a singing android), whom Adell acted as her manager/master, and Charlotte, a close friend, later love interest and eventual girlfriend. Charlotte's influence on Adell was straightforward enough. As his girlfriend and a Love Freak that Flonne would adore, Charlotte helped buff out Adell's rougher edges as an individual, inadvertantly helping to calm his temper and be more patient, at least where the Malnosso were not concerned.
Luka was more complicated and a longer term project. As her Master/Producer, it was his responsibility to oversee her musical talents and as it turned out, help her unique AI develop into something more humanlike. Rather than mimic human emotion, help her to simulate it, to feel it herself. Unfortunately, Adell was unable to really bring this change about; Luka just felt like she was malfunctioning and broken, and Adell felt ultimately he did more harm than good to her in the long run. Though Luka herself would be the first to say he was wrong about that, Adell ultimately viewed the results as his greatest failure. He cared for the Vocaloid extremely deeply, but he felt like he let her down. This failure shook his confidence somewhat, and still haunts him even today, wondering what would've happened if he had been successful before she was Shifted from the enclosure. Though fate wasn't done with him on the matter yet.
Another Luka appeared eventually; this time not a Vocaloid. A younger, more bookish Luka Megurine, but one that was decidedly human. Adell never told her about the previous Luka he knew, but when the fates had him saving her from a monster in the village, he found himself acting as her protector and roommate. He took her under his wing and did his best for her too, especially as she had accepted who he was as a demon, and had cared for him selflessly while he was both injured and recovering from a DNA splicing experiment.
Being close to people in Luceti was not always the best idea, especially as the Natural Shifts that moved people in and out of the Nexus World were fickle. Most of his new family vanished almost overnight at one point, starting with the Scarlet family. Soon, one by one, the others in his formerly crowded home vanished one by one, until Vocaloid Luka Charlotte as well. The impact of losing so many people back to the infinite space of the multiverse shook him deeply, and left him with a deep emptiness and loneliness that caused him to become more withdrawn and distant from people, slowing the rate at which he sought out new friendships considerably. It was only made worse when his circle of friends and people he cared about continued to shrink and shrink over time due to the Shifts. This trait especially dogged him all the way through his time at Mallow Hallow... even though he again met up with the human version of Luka there.
Overall, at his very heart, Adell is still the same righteous, just, honest, and forthright man he used to be. But closer to the surface, what once was a hot, freshly forged blade is now tempered, cooled, and sharpened. More patient, more reserved, and more intelligent, backed with a greater amount of power.
Adell is a demon grown up by the age of 21.