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| BRIEF OVERVIEW |
Name: Bishop / Ernest Rammsteiner
Age: 'old man'
Alignment: Civilian-Other
Profession: priest, information monger/intermediary
Location: small church in Reggio Calabria
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| CANON SYNOPSIS |
Bishop is a blind priest who runs a small church and occasionally gives jobs and/or information to Haine and his partner Badou. His information appears to be rather accurate and he can, somehow, afford to pay the two well for their services. Although he claims to be very ordinary, the man has shown proficiency with a sword being, perhaps, on par (or nearly on par) with Freuling.
A bit on the strange side, Bishop has a fondness for 'Gothic-Lolita' outfits and keeps a large store of them (in a variety of sizes) in the church. When Nill comes to stay with him, his inability to see is jokingly questioned as he all but fanboys over how adorable she looks in the outfits. However silly he can be at times, Bishop can be just as serious when the situation calls for it. He's a smart man, well informed and knowledgeable, as well as good enough at keeping secrets (read: withholding information) when they need to be kept.
Bishop is not merely a priest. He has been revealed to be "the lost number one" - the results of the very first Cerberus experiment who escaped from the 'Underground'. He doesn't appear to have greater speed, stamina, or strength the way Haine and Giovanni do, but it has yet to be shown whether he has the ability to regenerate or anything else unusual.
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| ONORATA HISTORY |
Bishop does not remember the youngest years of his childhood, nor does he even remember his family, his home, his real name. He was sure that he had them, once, but the part of his mind that holds those memories is blacked out, shut off. The earliest he can remember is regaining consciousness in a laboratory, surrounded by the sound of machines and a number of voices he later learned belonged to doctors and scientists. There was a general panic on his end as he realized that he could no longer see but, given no real choices, he grew accustomed to it.
The young man was informed that his name would now be 'Ernest Rammsteiner' and he would be staying with the good men and women around him in order to aid them in a few very important tests. Ernest stayed with the scientists for quite some time and was tested many times, but he never seemed to have exactly what it is that they wanted. As the days, months, years - was it years? - passed, Ernest grew adept at using his other senses to make up for his blindness, as well as handling a blade in a fight. As he was doing this he also listened, and he learned other things. He listened to the voices of the men and women whispering their theories and their disapprovals, and he eventually came to learn who it was that was running the show, and why.
The antimafia committee wanted soldiers to rival the power of the families, and this - human experiments - were what they had turned to for their solution. There was just one little problem with their grand scheme, as far as he himself was concerned: Ernest did not want to be any sort of soldier for them. He wasn't entirely sure whether they had purposefully wiped his memories somehow, or if whatever trauma he'd gone through before arriving there had done it for them, but either way he blamed them for the loss of his identity and of his vision.
It took some time to craft an escape but Ernest was a rather smart young man. After waiting several weeks for an opportune moment, he was finally given his chance and made full use of it.
Naturally, the escape of the very first 'Cerberus' experiment caused a great deal of an uproar, and there was quite the period of time in which Ernest was forced to stay constantly running and always hiding. Time passed, however, and the antimafia commission, who could surely find other children, who could surely try again (and more successfully at that!), left off of actively following after Ernest's whereabouts.
After gaining his freedom, Ernest ended up at an old church in Reggio Calabria. There, he was taken care of by the old minister who both lived and worked in the church. But it wasn't only sermons that the old man spoke - he was also an information-monger and intermediary, selling what he found out on his own, and through contacts, to whoever would pay a price.
All went well for Ernest and his minister guardian for a period of time. One night, however, his caretaker was attacked by an intoxicated client not pleased with what he'd been told for what he paid. Ernest might have been dead as well, but he managed to kill the drugged man with a knife he kept on himself. From that time on, not knowing where else to go and doubting he'd like any place as much as he did the church, Ernest decided to take over the business.
Over the years, he gained not only a new nickname ('Bishop'), and a new sort of weapon (a sword hidden in a cane), but a decent group of his own contacts. To the current day, he holds no particular love for the antimafia commission and tends to be somewhat more difficult with any visitors he may receive from their end.
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