Barok van Zieks

Barok van Zieks is the central antagonist turned supporting protagonist of The Great Ace Attorney duology. He is a legendary British prosecutor who was called The Reaper of the Bailey due to the defendants dying after the trial no matter the outcome making everyone believe it's a curse until Naruhodo's arrival he decides to challenge him in court after his five year retirement.
He is voiced by in the Japanese's version and by in the English version.
==History==
===Early Life===
Barok was the second offspring of the prominent aristocratic British family the Van Zieks. He had an older brother named Klint who was also a prosecutor. With his brother's mentorship, he enrolled in the University of London to become a prosecutor. While at the University he met and befriended the student scientist Albert Harbrayne. 
===The Professor's Killing===
When Barok truck Zieks first become a prosecutor, Klint was the Director of Prosecutions. Barok was assaulted one night while travelling with Genshin Asogi by hoodlums and Inspector Tobias Gregson so they could steal Asogi's ring so they could plant it in Klint's stomach during the Autospy to pin the Professor killing's solely on Genshion on Mael Stronghart's orders. 
Genshin Asogi was arrested and was going to be prosecuted by Mael Stronghart until Barok Van Zieks begged Mael to make him the prosecutor so he could get revenge for his brother. Stronghart accepted on the condition that he'd be Van Zieks Co-Consul for the trial. Asogi was convicted. 
After the trial, Mael Stronghart and his cohorts created the Reaper curse. A curse that states that anyone prosecuted by Van Zieks even if acquitted will die anyway. Van Zieks prosecuted 16 people during this time and 16 died. Van Zieks would then take a 5-year break from prosecuting due to this. 
=== Encountering With Naruhodo ===
After a five-old break due to Van Zieks breaking from the Reaper curse. He prosecuted Magnus McGilded, the one who was blamed for murdering Mason Milverton, against Japanese defense attorney Ryunosuke Naruhodo. Despite the important welcome case, van Zieks dreaming, and McGilded took a wrong vindication on account of fake evidence. However, McGilded was canceled in a fire quickly following, vexing the "Reaper of the Bailey" curse occasionally.
Soon after McGilded's trial, van Zieks prosecuted Soseki Natsume, the one who was blamed for the Assault and Battery of Olive Green. Van Zieks repeated his challenge against Naruhodo in the trial. Although van Zieks missing this case also, fairness was dressed, as Joan Garrideb, an individual of the case's jurors, was told to have unintentionally punctured Green in the back after pursuing a violent debate accompanying her partner. This created Natsume the very first accused of van Zieks to escape without penalty and not decline after.
However, in the following epoch, Soseki Natsume was put under physical or mental pressure repeatedly, in the past for the tried murder of a welcome friend guest, William Shamspeare. Van Zieks prosecuted this case against Naruhodo, and, occasionally, wasted. In an outrageous happening, it was told that Olive Green was really Shamspeare's tried person who kills. But Shamspeare wasn't blameless either, as he really unintentionally canceled Green's fiancé, Duncan Ross, in an attempt to take 1000 British pounds of loot in the lodgings earlier busy by a convict chosen Selden, containing the collar of Klint's dog or horse bred for hunting Balmung, that Selden had taken. After Soseki broke their promise to Japan, van Zieks retained tabs on him to check if he expired. Discovering he hasn't declined, he decided period only stirred absolved defendants if they persist on British soil.
About two months later, van Zieks prosecuted Gina Lestrade, the one who was blamed for murdering Pop Windibank. Again, van Zieks prosecuted Naruhodo and dreaming, afterwards, it was told that Windibank was killed by Ashley Graydon. Here, it was told that McGilded's death was indeed generated by a fake overseer rewarded by Graydon. Afterward, he reported to Graydon that he was no better than McGilded.
===Prosecuting An Old Friend===
Six months after Lestrade's trial, van Zieks prosecuted another case against Naruhodo. The chemist and welcome own old friend academy graduate Albert Harebrayne was blamed for murdering welcome enlist, Odie Asman. The sufferer was further prosecuted by van Zieks a period earlier, but he bought off the tribunal to receive exonerated. The criminal arranging experienced apiece sufferer assaulted van Zieks accompanying rifles, but he was not damaged. Once again, in spite of the help of the welcome "Masked Apprentice", van Zieks dreams after it was disclosed that an old corpse stealer chosen Enoch Drebber cooperated accompanying coroner Courtney Sithe to cancel Asman. It was therefore he shipped Harebrayne back to Germany, so welcome asserted 'curse' wouldn't cause welcome death. After the trial, he determined to show Naruhodo and Susato the face beneath the Professor's mask, Genshin Asogi, to interpret the welcome animosity of the Japanese. This was before the welcome pupil recovered welcome thoughts and disclosed the expected Kazuma Asogi.
===The Truth Behind The Professor's Killing===
By this time, Barok had extinct nineteen troubles, and sixteen of the vindicated defendants had expired following the span of months. The staying three who endured were Soseki Natsume, Gina Lestrade, and Albert Harebrayne.
Some occasion later, Barok van Zieks establish himself blamed for the murder. He was fact-finding Tobias Gregson to visualize in any case welcoming the Grim Reaper curse was literally treason anyway related to Gregson. Upon learning a note holding an address and conference occasion from Detective Gregson's commission, he establish a range: "Hugh Boone"'s suite situated on Fresno Street just except for London. But when Barok accomplish 5 pm and leave the ministry of the church, he perceived a 'gunshot' (later labeled as a firecracker). It was before that three peddlers appeared from sold, and misunderstood van Zieks as Gregson's murderer. After "Boone" shock a board apiece entrance to the building, van Zieks erect the agent's body. When the dignitary makes use of finding a policeman, Barok raised a hardware on the ground outside thinking; this is done accompanying the welcome arrest when the lawman reports on the setting.
He originally rebuffed some attorneys that presented to help welcome the case. Barok later came to trust Naruhodo after he accompanied him with a photograph that Gregson abandoned on the welcome table. The photograph was excused when Barok was still a helper agent and the welcome relative was still awake. With Kazuma Asogi prosecuting the secret trial, it was disclosed that Gregson's murderer was indeed Seishiro Jigoku.
Eventually, the loyalty behind the Professor killings is told following Barok's beginning trial. He is clearly unnerved when he learns that the welcome relative, Klint, legitimately had existed the real correspondence of the Professor (after Naruhodo submitted that Klint's acknowledgment of being the Professor was pronounced expected Genshin's "last arm"). But afterward finding Klint's will, it was told that Mael Stronghart blackmailed him into murdering three nobles, containing the prior chief lawfulness. It was too disclosed that Barok's own Grim Reaper curse was actually a plot influenced by Stronghart, the one before orderly Gregson and Asa Shinn destroy all the Not Guilty defendants. He still strained John Wilson, and later Sithe, to counterfeit the postmortem records of those canceled apiece Reaper. Gregson and Wilson only endorsed these orders on the condition that Barok would not see the reason for the ‘Reaper killings'. Stronghart had preferred Barok to endure the pressure of being the Grim Reaper, as he saw that people as the political whole of London would spread the rumor, he forged that the Reaper was indeed welcome twin Klint delivering lawfulness to hooligans the one enticed their habit to a 'innocent' sentence. Stronghart had used Barok's forceful affection to welcome earlier relatives, experiencing that Barok would gladly recognize period to feel as if his welcome twin was by his welcome side, even though it was only a rumor being declared.
Barok van Zieks certain empty go of the welcome twin's vision for all time after these realities were disclosed, and proceed like the welcome "offshore companion" discerned him to. He further encouraged Albert Harebrayne back to England and would present him with a tour formerly he had done welcome work.
==Personality==
Barok van Zieks was most famous for the "curse" that materialized all whom he prosecuted. At least a few of the deaths were on account of instinctive causes or the plots of possible choice different from his. Among welcome defendants, Soseki Natsume, Gina Lestrade, and Albert Harebrayne are secret to have dwindled soon after their troubles, all of whom had Ryunosuke Naruhodo as their defense attorney and two of bureaucracy abandoned Britain before the "curse" accepted effect.
Barok van Zieks's tribunal stance was ruled by an antagonistic join of calm cleansing and histrionics. He was intensely composed, exceptionally appearing some sign of distress as far as late in a trial, and even before welcome backlashes were completely toned down sound. Though concerned more in judgment the loyalty than welcome win record, he acted not to cut the explanation some slack. He had a sarcastic elbow point and frequently secondhand snark at the payment of the justification, their helpers, and some added witnesses he raise troubling. He enhanced especially upset when the dignitary he trustworthy divulged him, to a degree when he meant welcome disappointment towards Gregson for beautiful a handle Ashley Graydon to restrain the honesty. He acted performed to have few sorts of raw spot, as he independently guaranteed that a witness the one had misrepresented a case setting to form a celebration date preserved welcome task.
He frequently received continuously accompanying shocking conduct at the chair, though this was hardened by an aura of friendly grace. Aberrant conduct in the way that slapping the ministry of church accompanying welcome boot to object was commonly made inquiries by regret for the performance. Such regrets were understandable empty talk as he acted not to create some real exertion to moderate welcome conduct or uncivil. Prominent with welcome wild chair conduct was the welcome tendency of leading sparkling wine, though he only exceptionally indeed sips from the chalices that he rushed into. Instead, he drank bureaucracy honestly to frighten the explanation and stress welcome points. When the court experiments necessary for van Zieks to change tacks, he would fling welcome container into the balcony behind him accompanying little regard to whom it power hit. Over three cases that he prosecuted against Naruhodo, not completely three containers and nineteen glasses were destroyed. Despite all this, the prosecutor's tribunal and van Zieks's apparel would wait flawlessly.
Genshin Asogi's presumed dishonesty of van Zieks intensely injured him, precipitating the agent to expand hate for all Japanese folk. This was visualized in the welcome situation of Naruhodo, never utilizing the welcome name in court as a sign of disregard, alternatively calling him a welcome "well-informed Nipponese companion". Eventually, still, Naruhodo's stance and sanctification of honesty attracted van Zieks. While van Zieks had an option for prosecuting specifically monstrous hooligans, he insolvent tendency in consideration of having the convenience to examine Naruhodo another time. It performs van Zieks was the entity of a hero figure cause many tabloids advised theory pillars on the reason he was opposing an apparently common case.
Barok van Zieks was instead more commonly accompanying Herlock Sholmes and welcome fictions than he was not quite honestly granted, but he mistrusted the police officer's deceptive trick and fabrications indicating degree tribunal measures proceeded.
One of Barok's few defects is welcome a dead relative, Klint. He is forever proved to catch welcome pin when amazed and when speaking about the Professor's case. This has various aims, still, when it's disclosed that the ribbon literally belonged to Klint. During the last case concerning this second game, he was proved expected completely unnerved while revealing the secrets behind the Professor, ultimately chief to him roar in shock when Naruhodo tells that the real sequential murderer was really welcome own twin a suggestion of correction being welcome last martyr like the idea.
Before Klint's death, he was popular for welcoming acceptable and cultivated traits, even gladly befriending family the one was from a proletariat or country than him.
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