George Harlow

George Harlow is an original character and is a supporting antagonist in Final Sunrise. He is a demon affiliated with The Twelve Kizuki, holding the position of Upper Moon Two.

## Personality

George Harlow, or otherwise referred to as the ‘Weeping Angel’, is the Second Upper Moon currently in service to the Demon cause, he is an enigmatic figure within their ranks, commanding an aura of reason and tranquility, starkly different to his fellow Demons, most of which harbour extremely malevolent and violent tendencies. George at the very least has some semblance of control to his actions, not acting on a Demons instinct to hunt down and devour every human he comes across, even on a few occasions being referred to as a bit ‘Soft’ because he finds the whole process tedious. The man still radiates a feeling of finely aged Wisdom and an insatiable lust for knowledge or scientific advancement in his field, being medical. While dressed in his impeccably well-tailored Kimono dress robes and Lab attire, usually consisting of a buttoned up lab coat, and almost suit like under garments, George delivers all his words in a well-mannered and clear speech pattern, barely ever raising his voice to anything, even if directly challenged by another person.  These very laid back approaches extend to how he engages in battle as well, he’s patient to a fault, always taking his time staying on the defensive wearing someone down through his potent abilities or through endless word play, until finishing it off with a merciless crescendo. His wolf-head cane, a memory from his homeland of England, mimics how he wishes to conceal the real danger within the world, feigning normality and reason to hide the true monster underneath.

To say George is an arrogant and prideful individual is an understatement, either from his wealthy and carefree background, his extensive career as a medical professional, or his rank among the strongest Demons, he has a very inflated sense of his importance. That being said, George does not often flaunt his strength, nor does he enjoy the thrill of combat engaging his foes only when backed into a corner. Pragmatism always comes first in his mind, facing down Demon Slayers, the one set of people who could put his life to an end is not something he takes lightly. His experiments on others and even himself means he understands his own capabilities, and his limitations. Though not something the Doctor would admit openly, all his actions are driven by self preservation rather than loyalty,  as much as his natural charms may say otherwise. Only fully committing to orders if the likelihood of his death is minimal. Being a medical man, George has never been driven by wild bloodlust, just an admittedly sick curiosity to how the body functions, a scientist's curiosity. When lost in this curiosity, George can be especially cold, depraved or even childlike. Those who know George well, know he’s probably the worst person who could have become a Demon.

As opposed to many of his demon brethren, the Doctor actually enjoys a successful social and work life, being renowned as a field leading surgeon in Japan under the Alias of Albert Reid, after all using his original name of George Harlow who should be over a century and a half old at this point would arise certain suspicions when he physically looks middle aged. He attends theater performances regularly (At night of course) and operates hospitals and clinics across the country, the largest of which is located in Asakusa, locally referred to as the “Iyashi no izumi” or ‘Healing Spring’ by those who have visited. Due to George’s extended life and countless experiments where he could practice his craft, new manners of surgery techniques, advancements in Biology and simply the best care money could buy being present there, the hospital has a very high success rate for its services with unearthly miracles being commonplace even if the injury was sure to be fatal. Likely the only good thing George has contributed to the world is this hospital, but even then, the means in which it was created was depraved in nature. There are rumours within the walls of the building, the disappearances of patients or staff alike, the people who work at the hospital at night being odd or have certain physical abnormalities, and the strict policy no one being allowed on the top floor of building except for certain staff and George himself have raised questions, questions that, as of yet, have went without an answer.

## Abilities

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## Fighting Style

Given his occupation and the obsession he’s had with biology since he was a child, George’s Demon Blood Art manifests as abilities akin to manipulating his own and others body, and the blood within it more so than most other demons. It mainly falls to defensive capabilities (With added theatrics from his love of plays) due to his reserved nature but when pushed to the brink of his strength, George can devastate his opponents through blood arts. It's rare that George resorts to using his Demon Blood Arts, relying more on his raw power than anything, he has practised techniques on others and understands how each portion of his Art works due to his analytical nature, testing and refining as he sees fit. The most notable part of his Blood Art is whenever it becomes active, tears of blood will roll down his eyes, being one of the reasons his title ‘The Weeping Angel’ has stuck for so long,

Doctor’s Order

By ingesting or absorbing organic or inorganic substances into his body through physical contact, the ability allows George to change a person’s immune system's tolerance to it over time providing he has sampled their blood beforehand, and given enough prolonged exposure to merely being in his presence it could lead to death if that substance isn’t removed from their body. In order to activate this he must ingest or absorb a volume of the substance present around a person within his body which then allows him to manipulate its lethality to others within his sphere of influence ,being fifty metres, stepping outside of that range nullifies the ability and the process must be started again. For example, if he ingested water he could calculate the dosage needed to poison his opponent if they are drenched in it, this can also extend to solids or gases, e.g. if they're holding a piece of lead, they could get lead poisoning after enough exposure.

Theatre of Blood

Using blood from either his own body or the environment (Corpses or open wounds and such), George can manifest small strings of blood to create a sort of ‘puppet’ show with a body or object. It can only really affect dead bodies or the injured or objects currently not being held by another person as major forms of muscle resistance snaps the string and thus the control. The corpse can be used as a foot soldier to do basic attacks like swing a sword or even act as a body shield but if the corpse had any abilities while it was alive or conscious George can’t make the body use them. The technique can also be used to control George’s own body to an unnatural degree to contort itself in order to avoid attacks or operate if George at any point is rendered incapable of moving through his muscles.

Puppet Master

A further development on the previous ability, if George requires more out of his ‘puppets’ as he calls them, he can bend their biology to his will in order to make them faster, more durable, or physically stronger. George can control the blood flow within the being even if it has expired, accelerating it to induce frenzied aggression or slowing it to induce lethargy, in addition if he desires he can shape someone’s body while they are attached by his strings. If he requires the individual to run faster, George can forcibly extend their bones to create longer limbs, massively increase their muscle mass so they can lift more weight, and if the man needs more dangerous puppets he even create sharpened limbs, teeth or nails to increase the damage they do , by feeding it more blood from his own person, the ‘Puppet’ can become increasingly dangerous. With this ability he can also extend the range of control he has and the quantity of those under the effect of the strings.

Surgical Precision

Using those same strings, if George wishes to have an offensive action against someone, he can collect them into a single extremely sharp strand of solidified blood to slash opponents with, the blood can technically morph into whatever form he wants but this tends to be the main weapon.

 The Immune System

George has the capability to absorb and contain all elements, materials, toxins, gases, etc that his body comes into contact with. He can then expel said substances into the air in the form of a blast much like White Blood Cells would reject a foreign element from the body, the ability is almost exclusively used for defense (Though the blast itself does cause slight damage depending on the substance, it does only a fraction of what the original attack is as it's more a redirection than an attack of its own). An example would be if someone hit George with a lingering flame attack, he could then expel those flames to stop any real damage from being dealt, there is a limit. He could only use it every Five minutes (Due to his body needing to recover from the strain of expelling the substances) so it couldn’t be repeatedly used to negate most damage. Another weakness would be if he absorbs a more dangerous element or material into his body, say an explosive device, and it detonates while inside him it could cause severe damage as it bypasses his physical defenses.

The Red Curtain

‘The Red Curtain’ as George calls it, is his main form of intimidation before a fight even starts or even acts as a smokescreen in the midst of a fight to obscure vision. He expels blood from his own body in the form of miasma, the range can be altered at will depending on how much blood he wishes to expend. The level of obscurity amounts to that of a normal level of fog, with a person still being able to see in front of them if they have a light source.

Darwin’s Law

As a Doctor, George understands everything there is to know about the body and the blood that runs through it, and now as a Demon. He has complete domination over it. While not using any other ability, George can alter his own physical body in the midst of battle to an unnatural degree, even amongst other demons much like what he can do to his Puppets, but to a much more precise degree. Going so far as to create new arms, eyes, hands, legs, and given enough prolonged exposure to a certain attack, element or substance he can gain resistance to it like an artificial form of evolution e.g. being hit with enough attacks based on lightning, he could develop a resistance to it by altering his body to conduct electricity better letting the current pass through him, which would result in him being more durable to that said element for the duration of the fight. The buildup to the resistance being active is solely based on the consistency of the opponent's attacks, the less varied and creative the attacks, the quicker the buildup, the more varied and creative, the slower the buildup as George will take longer to collect the correct amount of data needed. The major drawback for this ability is while he is altering his body, he cannot use any additional abilities as well as all the blood is concentrated in his body.

## History

George was born to a very wealthy family, the type you’d see in story books living in grand mansions or stately manors, with every whim attended to at all times, considering most other Hashira and Demons have reasons for becoming either humanity's savior or worst nightmare, George never had an upbringing warranting the man he now is. His parents were loving and catered to his every need, even during his sudden move from London at the age of 16 to quite a rural area of Japan nearby to Toyko after his father’s career progressed and he was offered a more exciting job in an upcoming surgery as the lead Doctor. The human condition always interested George, most likely due to his father’s work with biology. How the body operated, each organ's specific role to keep it going, how it reacts to outside factors, or even how it adapts to changing environments. It was like magic to him. His career was set from the start enrolling at university back in England as soon as he came of age, he was what you could regard as a bit of a practical learner always pushing the boundaries of what was ethical or not when studying in order to boost his own understanding of the subject, it started with him simply dissecting dead animals but eventually developed into taking part-time work at the local morgue and dissecting corpses, both highly illegal and horrid. It was messy work and to some, it was quite sickening but George found every level of the job fascinating, even when discovered after spending a few too many hours with a particular cadavre his family's resources allowed any grievance to be quietly brushed under the rug, for the right price. After graduation, the man bounced about the world expanding his portfolio, even releasing a few studies on theories such as evolution and surgical techniques before finally settling back in Japan, having someone like Charles Darwin being somewhat of an idol to the man. While not building his reputation the man enjoyed the lavish wealth and resources his family provided with two of the most major pastimes being theater and acting lessons. He enjoyed the grand nature of the events, how each individual comes together to make an enchanting story, much like a cog in a machine or like the human body which he was so fascinated by, it got so far that the man often got involved directly in his spare time to do amateur stage play locally though never really considered doing it professionally as he believed science was his true calling.

The man began approaching the middle-aged time in his life, he began to feel the limits of what he could achieve as a human both mentally and physically. The rules of the world held him back from going further into his research and he knew his time was limited like most things, mortality was a concept that humanity was yet to conquer, and even hundreds of years into the future he doubted that it would have been then either, it's what drove his lust for knowledge and the reasoning to amass it as quickly as possible. He volunteered himself in the early 1800s during his later years to join some small skirmishes with mainland Asia for the Japanese where his talents could be put to great use, after a while he became desensitized to all the death around him seeing each life he saved (Or failed to) as routine over the year that the conflict took place, the men around him commonly referred to him as “Namida no Tenshi” or “The Weeping Angel” after one particularly long procedure to save a man who had his leg blown off, the man on the operating table likely suffering from the blood loss compared George to an angel, and it lasted so long that after it was finished the Doctor broke down into hysterics out of relief and exhaustion. Returning home, he began becoming distant from those he knew, George didn’t truly know why he separated himself from those he knew but one day, he just packed up and left. He told almost no one, resigning from his job by way of a letter by the time anyone had realized he was gone. His entire life’s work became worthless when faced with mortality, and he had seen it in abundance in the war, he felt like life had no meaning if everything eventually ended and traveled the country again taking odd jobs at a practice for a year or two then leaving without a trace. Maybe it was fate that led him to that one street, dawn was rising and he had just had a particularly long night at a nearby hospital. George wasn’t and still isn’t a believer in any higher power but perhaps it was fate that led him there that night, to the creature that solved all his fears about his mortality in an instant. Of course, George was a little unnerved when the Demon approached him, but the offer was too tempting, eternal life, endless opportunities, his humanity was a small price to pay. If he ever met the Apostle again, he would have to thank him.

The next day, he awoke in an alley luckily shielded from the sunlight. He felt ill, and weak, barely staggering to his feet at first before regaining his composure and beginning to exit it, stopping himself as he had broken into the daylight ripping his arm back the moment it touched the sunbeam. His demonic nature slowly became apparent to him as he avoided any daylight scurrying in buildings until he made it home. George was unsure what had happened to him at first, for days he locked himself away testing himself to understand what he was now. Inflicting pain than watching it vanish almost instantly before his eyes. He felt stronger, a lot stronger but something was missing. He was starving, and thirsty, all the needs of the body screaming out at once as the days passed until he couldn’t stand it anymore, no human food or drink could satisfy him as the only option became apparent. It was a cold night when he killed his first person, despite serving in a conflict he never had taken another life. It felt good and after the fact, he felt even stronger. It was like an addiction, no matter how many people he killed and consumed he couldn’t get enough. Now, he understood that stalking the people of Toyko during the night to feast upon them was not exactly efficient, nor safe in case he was discovered. He knew there were others, like him, the person who gave him this power was still out there, and he doubted they were alone. At first, adapting to his weakness to the sun was difficult, moving exclusively during the night made traveling or working quite tedious, but this was a great learning experience for the man, what his strengths were, and what his weaknesses were as well. George encountered his first Demon Slayer a few months after his transformation, having butchered a family while they slept; he was caught in the aftermath covered in their blood. The fight was exceedingly hard, as George was not someone who fought all that often, only managing to achieve victory through him regenerating over and over again.

Though he acknowledged he had grown stronger because of it, he hoped not to really put himself in that position again. In truth that’s why he began opening his clinics and hospitals, easier access to people while using his title as Doctor, and limiting the risk of the Slayers noticing his presence, within five years George had over a dozen hospitals and twice as many smaller clinics across Japan, each time he stopped by, another few dozen people would go missing, never tracing the disappearance back to George or his newly created alias, Doctor Albert Reid. The next year the man opened his largest endeavor, the central hospital of Asakusa in Toyko, a large expansive complex offering their services to whoever needed it, as well as any Demon who needed a safe way to resupply their blood with limited risk. That was also not exactly a benevolent action on his part, true many Demons enjoy free access to the patients of the hospital with very limited risk, but he has ,and sometimes still does, taken to essentially kidnapping the odd Demon for his experiments, the natural regenerative abilities of a Demon make them serve as ideal training tools to perfect surgical techniques and perform tests on, as any major wound can be healed very quickly before George consumes them to increase his own power. The constant influx of patients, demons and wounded slayers to his hospitals made his own strength rise to a staggering rate, his own pragmatism making him excel as a Demon more so than having the innate bloodlust to go and hunt hundreds of people night after night. It came to the attention of the Kizuki not long after his main hospital opened, with mentions of a Demon of great value to the cause began circulating, talks were had and offers to bring him into the fold were given, which George gladly accepted. The beginning of the First World War made the influx of wounded people skyrocket with his clinics littered with the dead and dying, which in turn led to George’s own power increasing developing his own Demon Blood Art to a higher level, climbing up the ranks until reaching the rank of Upper Moon 2, after tearing his predecessor in half with his bare hands. With the year being 1920, George’s hold on Japan’s medical sectors grew tighter, with his role among the Upper Moons allowing him certain freedoms and control amongst the other, lower ranking Demons. Most noticeably with the night staff of his hospitals consisting mainly of Demons, though only ones with limited signs of their condition.