Main Character name:
Lee Shioon
Appearance:
Accessories:
None
Clan/Group (Does your Character belong to a clan and or group, if so what?):
Sun-Woo Clan
Martial Arts Alliance
Murim-in
Goals (What does your character seek to accomplish in this game of endless battles?):
Shiwoon isn't expecting anything to come of this. He simply wants to use this as an opportunity to train, hoping to push himself beyond that of his former master.
Likes:
His master
Seeing justice done
Sah-hee
Dislikes:
Injustice
Killing
Being forced into things
Personality:
Shi-Woon was able to slowly develop his own will and courage based of his own spirit and Chun-Woo's blunt lessons. Unlike Chun-Woo, Shi-Woon has an utter distaste for killing, talking his master out of killing enemies despite the consequences. Shi-Woon has no problem with depending on others but also has an overwhelming resolve to protect those he cares for. This trait was present before training, but afterwards, he has the ability to act on it more effectively. He is still very meek and prefers to avoid confrontation unless the situation calls for it.
According to
So-Chun Hyuk, Shi-Woon is a person who surpasses the instincts of mankind. He is prepared to die whenever he fights, abandoning the fear that most people have while fighting. This lack of fear then has the reverse effect on his opponents, making enemies who are superior to Shi-Woon fear him.
[1] Ju Sang-Sik has seen the same thing, stating that Shi-Woon fights like a veteran of the Murim. He also states that contrary to his innocent nature, Shi-Woon is very calculating fighter.
[2]
It should be noted that throughout the series his resolve not only irritates others but can even leave people to pondering his magnificence. This effect is so powerful that many people have gone from disliking, or even wanting to kill, Shi-Woon to actually joining his cause or falling for him. This "skill" has been effective on everyone from peers all the way to elders, geniuses, and even homicidal masters. Some examples:
Chun-Woo Han,
Shi-Ho Lee,
Jang So-Sul,
So-Chun Hyuk,
Jin-Ie Kwon,
Ji-Gun Yoo,
Sera Kang,
Elder Jeong,
Elder Kwon,
Mun-Gi Ma.
He has picked up some trait from
Chun-Woo is having small bouts of uncharacteristically strong rage. These have been seen when something he cares for has been insulted, threatened, or hurt. He's rage was first seen when Chang-Ho threatens Sae-Hee in the first part of the series but is not as intense until later one. His rage reappears again when he finds out that the
S.U.C. had severely hurt his mother and when he learns that
Sera Kang was hurt using while herself as a distraction. This rage leads to him entering the
Black Origin Thresholdwhen
Jang-II Jeong is seemingly killed by an explosive during the S.U.C.'s attack on his school. More recently, he has developed a great pride in the Sun-Woo clan. If anyone insults or debases the Clan, even indirectly through not respecting him as the Ganju, Shi-Woon reacts with rage and anger. Having had drastically different experiences within the
Murim, master and pupil also differ in temperament when their rage does manifest. Chun-Woo will often show sadistic pleasure along with his rage while Shi-Woon simply becomes cold, determined and assertive.
After being given the seat of the Martial Arts Alliance Chief, Shi-Woon desire to become stronger was strengthened as he needed to be stronger in order to live up to the responsibility and trust placed on to him. As he also developed strong a desire to fight in order to see how much he improved. This was seen when he was leaving the the
Martial Arts Alliance building and came across So-Chun Hyuk, upon seeing him he was thinking about fighting him to see how much he has improved his skills and techniques.
Items (What items besides your main weapons do you carry? Example: String, Small Bombs, Kunai, Extra):
None
Main Weapon(s):
Fists
Skills/Powers:
Secondary Character name:
Guts/Gattsu
Appearance:
Accessories:
The Berserk Armor
Prosthetic Arm
Clan/Group (Does your Character belong to a clan and or group, if so what?):
The Band of the Hawk (former)
Goals (What does your character seek to accomplish in this game of endless battles?):
There is no real "goal". He hopes he can find some simple entertainment and some fun. That's all.
Likes:
Killing
Fighting
Feeling Challenged
Dislikes:
Monsters
What he considers "Scum"
Being touched by other men
Personality:
Being born from a bloody situation and forced into a life of violence, Guts had hardly any time to live like a normal child. While he experienced moments of happiness and joy, his true passion was warped into desiring the fight, mostly to gain Gambino's favor and later to satisfy his own fighting abilities. After successfully killing the first person he would in a list of thousands, Guts tempered himself to become stronger and know how to hold his sword, eventually building a strong and very personal relationship with the blade he wields. During his time with the Band of the Hawk, Guts had also told Casca that he was only ever happy when wielding his sword.
"I'd rather fight for my life than live it." (Episode 19)
After leaving the Hawks, Guts appreciates his bond with his sword and realizes that he wants to create his own sparks. This connection with sparks causes him to uncharacteristically and gratefully thank Judeau when the latter uses the light from sparks to briefly identify the locations of the attacking
Bākiraka assassins in their effort to save Griffith.
Guts stabbing Gambino in self-defense.
As a child he attempted to make something of a family between his adoptive mother and father, though the former was struck by an illness, dying early on and the latter rarely gave his approval despite how much Guts desired it. Seeing Gambino and Shisu as his adoptive parents, Guts has never thought about his birth parents, putting Gambino as the closest thing he had to a father despite the mercenary leader's attempt to kill him. Guts sinks into depression after accidentally killing Gambino in self-defense, with only himself left as a reminder of his early life.
In the four years he travels around with various mercenary groups, it is shown that Guts had not grown close to anybody until meeting Griffith and the Band of the Hawk. Outwardly displaying a lonely, though arrogant teenage persona, Guts grows close to the Hawks throughout his three years with them, even disregarding Corku's negativity in greater light of his conflicts with Casca and adapting to the rough mercenary persona shared by the Hawks. Only after talking to Gaston moments before the Eclipse does Guts realize that the Hawks were a family to him and that he was too stubborn to admit it. The Eclipse's occurrence causes the Hawks to be sacrificed and Guts, upon waking up after four days of rest, ran outside Godo's elven mine and cried upon remembering the Hawks' deaths. Guts later accepts his loneliness after realizing the demonic nature of the enemies he will face. When he realizes that his actions were indirectly the cause for the Hawks' deaths, he admits that he had no right to avenge them and focuses on finding a cure for Casca's mental instability. Later, Isidro, Farnese, and Serpico resolve to join him, and Guts admits that he never knew that he would have comrades again seeing this as a new light in his life.
Despite hating and rejecting the Demon Child that Casca would bear to him and refusing to acknowledge him as his child, after settling with his new party and encountering the child, he begins to think of him and wonder if he was "still out there wandering the night all by himself", unaware that Griffith used his body for the Incarnation Ceremony. This implies that Guts may feel a certain degree of paternity towards the child.
Having been raped by
Donovan at an early age, Guts has developed an aversion to being touched by other men, perhaps extending to homophobia. When Guts is suddenly touched by another man, he will react violently to the person touching him, only reacting curiously when he realizes that Casca slept with him to keep him warm. Later, after he wakes up on
Roderick's ship, Guts inwardly hopes that Roderick did not revive him by performing mouth to mouth resuscitation.
The three years he spends with the Hawks largely downplays this paranoia as he becomes more friendly with the Raiders, only starting up again when he makes love to Casca. This later allows him to leave behind his fear of being touched. The Eclipse causes him to take up this fear again in a way largely related to the first. Notably, his right eye's last sight is of Casca being raped by Femto, while he was held down by an Apostle and unable to do more than watch.
Guts' sword is also tied to his' instinct for survival, saving him when he is attacked by a drunken Gambino and later when he is attacked by a pack of wolves. In both cases, Guts did not intend to kill his attacker and in the latter case, even resigned himself to death before realizing how much he wanted to live. Hearing Griffith's conceptualization of a true friend elicits a resolution from Guts not to be swallowed up in Griffith's dream.
His "struggler" attitude towards most things, however, has a rebound in which Guts realizes the true value of what he had left behind after he has lost it. All this combined serves to fuel Guts' large disregard of and hatred towards the concept of fate. He displays a similar, though more mellow, disregard of God, simply shrugging it off as a dark joke compared to his heated response to fate.
Guts has a very tactical personality, when he is not enraged he will study his opponent thoroughly if given the opportunity. He has become a brilliant warrior because of this and on-top of his normal survival instincts, this advantage of his brain allows him to survive some of the most difficult battles. He is prone to using decoys and tricks to defeat his larger enemies, on-top of evasive maneuvers and hiding while looking for a weak spot.
In his Berserk Mode however, Guts acts as a wild animal with only the will to kill and survive. He will use anything that he can forge as a weapon (even an Apostle's horn). If he's not in his Berserk Mode, sometimes Guts enters a sort of kill mode that causes his eyes to fade slightly but become very serious, thus showing his resolve and determination to kill anything in his way to achieve victory.
Guts is subject to blood lust, getting an intense bestial satisfaction off of killing other people almost to the degree that he could be considered somewhat psychotic. He will occasionally grin in such a manner that makes him appear to be a demon and loves the feeling of killing scum. He's always open for a challenge and does not mind literally crushing somebody's body and internal organs to employ his battle techniques. That being said, Guts has no morals on how he kills people and will easily slaughter anyone without giving it a second thought.
Early in the manga, Guts valued life according to strength: the weaker the being, the more it deserved to die, with a measure of nonchalance toward bystanders and those caught in the crossfire. This leads to conflict with
Puck, whose happiness and morality contrasts with Guts' morbidity and borderline immorality. In the Band of the Hawk, Guts is casual with its members and acts rowdy, reckless and sometimes goofy (especially in certain situations with Griffith). When it comes to close friends such as
Casca and
Judeau, he will smile and talk with them on an even level very interested in sharing his own thoughts but keeping his secrets as well.
He treats the Apostles as targets that deserve to die and while some he will kill quickly, others he would not mind calling out for the terrible things they do and wants them to feel pain, getting a sick satisfaction off of some of it.
Guts is, first and foremost, an incredibly resilient man. Despite the hardships he's been meant to suffer from his cursed birth, he has grown and changed considerably, gaining in both strength of body and mind. The brash stubbornness of his youth has melted into a somewhat "worldly" view on things and the people around him; he's come to realize over time what matters most to him and what he is willing to sacrifice to protect it - everything. He gives of himself relentlessly for the sake of those precious few who've managed to fight their ways into his heart despite the long voyage it took to get there; Guts is both incredibly loyal and incredibly selfless, though this was not always the case. It took unfathomable loss for him to finally understand what his priorities truly were.
He holds himself at an arm's length to most, preferring to keep his distance in order to protect those around him; cursed with the Brand of Sacrifice, Guts is a veritable 'demon beacon;' the mark on the base of his neck is like a magnet drawing in all the wretched creatures of the shadows and darkness. Anyone around him is guaranteed to become entrapped in the endless battles Guts is forced to partake in as he's constantly under attack. However, it isn't only by fault of the Brand that Guts keeps from forming many personal relationships; he still feels a deep, strong sense of loss and longing after the betrayal of the man he viewed as his best friend, Griffith, and the transformation of the woman he loves, Casca. Dealing with both of these issues on a daily basis has left him emotionally damaged, likely beyond repair, but given him insight into himself and others he wouldn't have possessed otherwise.
Beneath the outer layers of his personality the regret, the longing, the emotional distance, is an insatiable anger and blood lust that cannot hope to be tamed nor satisfied. With the usage of the Berserker Armor, he's constantly doing battle with himself in order to keep these emotions in check, lest he let his rage win out and he becomes a mindless beast unable to determine friend from foe. The nature of these feelings are clear his hatred and pain caused by Griffith's betrayal, his actions, the loss of the Band of the Hawk, everything that happened to Casca, being made to watch her rape and subsequent loss of mental capacities, his disgust and loathing for the God Hand. His hatred for demons, and anything resembling them, is considerable. In fact, it has been subtly demonstrated that Guts suffers a kind of dementia brought on by post-traumatic stress. There have been times when he has hallucinated about a black dog that is the mental projection of all the pain and anguish he has suffered. The fact that the visions of the dog appear when he is awake indicate that he is be suffering from a form of schizophrenia as the dog has a life of its own and speaks to Guts as if it is someone else.
Guts refuses to acknowledge the concept that humanity's fate has been pre-determined or previously ordained; he fights against his own as being Branded for the Sacrifice, and is determined to see the end to God Hand, and Griffith in particular. However, in the face of seeing Casca well again, even revenge had taken a back-seat to attempting to bring her back and find some way to protect those he loves against the onslaught of Apostles and demons that they attract.
Berserk Mode (Black Berserker Rage for Guts) is a special sub-genre of personality that activates in people that are typically prominent in rage and is used mostly in battle. While in Berserk Mode, it's as if nothing can get through to the person and they will kill multiple enemies with increased stamina, endurance and adrenaline. Berserk Mode allows someone to surpass human limitations and throw away their fears in order to survive, which Guts displays quite often in dangerous situations.
Items (What items besides your main weapons do you carry? Example: String, Small Bombs, Kunai, Extra):
Small Bombs
Throwing Knives
Various Essential Survival Gear
Main Weapon(s):
Guts possesses titanic strength gained from a harsh childhood lived with a band of mercenaries. Guts is seen by many as the personification of endurance and human willpower. Somehow Guts always manages to survive, even risking his life needlessly, as long as it was a risk that lay along a path to victory. He has engaged and successfully triumphed against many human opponents such as
Bazuso,
Zondark and
Boscogn. However, his greatest battles are against the horrific beings known as
Apostles, who can transform into giant demons, easily surpassing groups of men.
At the age of six, Guts began his training with
Gambino, using a sword forged for adults even when the mercenaries watching suggested that he should use a sword more suited to his size. Even though he clearly struggles to wield the blade, Guts persists, managing to scratch Gambino's chin. Guts continues his training to the point where he can hold his own against full grown men. At the age of nine, he enters his first battle with a longsword and makes his first kill, albeit indirectly. However, he is later hit by a flail in the back and is almost killed, but is saved by Gambino's intervention.
At the age of eleven, he is shown to have improved significantly. Able to wield his longsword with only a single hand, Guts goes as far as to kill a mounted general. Later, in self-defense, his body reacts on its own to defend himself against seven wolves, a feat made all the more impressive by two broken ribs and blood loss caused by a bolt wound, all received earlier after fleeing the band of mercenaries he was traveling with.
Sometime after being picked up by another band of mercenaries, and later travelling alone, Guts, with a smaller and duller sword, was able to defeat a larger armored man with a mace, despite the fact that his sword was completely unable to break through his opponent's armor. This demonstrates Guts' ability to adapt with different, and even inferior, weapons. He also incorporates a left wrist guard to assist in blocking enemy attacks by placing it behind the blade of his sword rather than leverage his strength upon the handle.
By his late teens, Guts is seen wielding a sword three times larger and three times heavier than a standard great sword. When none of all the men present upon a battlefield were willing to duel Bazuso, who has reputedly slain thirty men, Guts confidently steps forward and controls the whole fight. Though he almost dies due to his recklessness, his strength and willpower managed to see him through the fight.
In his early twenties, as the Black Swordsman, Guts is shown to be a true master swordsman, even considered by the Count to be the greatest of all humans. Guts is shown to be able to block attacks faster than the human eye can see, and all with the insanely heavy Dragonslayer. With his vast arsenal, Guts is shown to be able to dispatch foes at any range, each weapon option growing in lethality as he gets closer.
Element (Does your character have a specified element that him/her uses?):
Rage
History:
Incomplete
Wiki Link:
http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/Guts