Behemo Barisol

**Behemo Barisol**, also known as the true **Master of the Heavenly Yard**, was one of the four pillar gods of the Third Period. Originally a human from the First Period, he later joined the earthlings in their digital universe, bringing them into reality to revitalize his destroyed world. He later joined the earthlings' rebellion against Luna Hazuki, becoming sealed within the Climb One as a result and later incarnating in the corpse of Irina Clockworker.

## History

### Early Life

Behemo Barisol lived in the technologically-advanced First Period. Born the wealthy son of Barisol, he developed an affinity for crossdressing and playing with dolls, to the disgust of his peers. Later on, Behemo started dating a maid employed by his family. When he one day asked to borrow her clothes so that he could wear them, the flustered and uncomfortable woman denied the request.

During this time, humanity created a virtual world known as the Second Period; due to being related to one of the developers, Behemo was allowed to create an avatar based on himself, choosing to have it revised to be a girl, Levia Barisol, as that was his ideal self. As the avatars became too advanced in terms of intelligence and technology, the First Period humans decided to create a crisis in the form of Hereditary Evil Raiser Syndrome (or HERS). Levia later made contact with the First Period, thinking Behemo was herself from a parallel world.

Later on, Behemo hid from angry voices in a room surrounded by "massacred doll limbs." As he did, he found himself rescued by Levia, creating a new avatar of himself within the Second Period that had no revisions this time.

### Escape From Reality

While in the digital world, Behemo became employed at Professor Held Yggdra's clinic and research facility, working as Levia's coworker. During this time, he studied under Lich Arklow, as well as Held, and had an artificial eye installed into his body. As the Second Period began to collapse due to HERS contaminating the world, Behemo, Levia, and 70 other researchers boarded one of several spaceships intended to travel to inhabitable planets and repopulate them, theirs under the name Climb One. Behemo then made it so that the Climb One would bring them into the reality of the (now ruined) First Period.

As they lost contact with the other spaceships, the crew of the Climb One realized that they were the last inhabitants of Earth, and decided to create a new species in the image of the earthlings, Behemo being put in charge of creating their bodies. While making these bodies, he also created a body shaped like a dragon from old myths.

After finding a new planet to inhabit, really the site of the destroyed First Period, they set about constructing the new world and species; they also set up an underground laboratory to hold their equipment, Lunaca Labora, which led into a separate repository called the Grave Yard. Behemo was later put in charge of the Grave Yard. During this time, he was also present as a research facility was established on the moon above the planet. At some point, he engineered the Black Box Type B, with one ending up in the Grave Yard.

During this, Seth Twiright, a HER who had secretly boarded the Climb One, instigated the deaths of 62 crew members and contaminated the new species of humans to have a possibility of developing HERS. The remaining crew, including Behemo, proposed they reincarnate as gods to guide the humans, unaware that at least Levia was a HER. When Held and Luna Hazuki disagreed, Behemo joined the ensuing fight and was killed along with everyone else when it caused the Climb One to crash, leaving behind only his spirit data. Although Behemo and Levia planned to escape using the dragon body he had made, this was sabotaged by Held and Luna beforehand.

Behemo and his colleagues remained trapped in the Climb One while the new race of humans began building their societies. Around this time, they forgot about the existence of TALOS. Eventually, the humans of Magic Kingdom Levianta discovered the Climb One; Levia and Behemo began whispering to the first Alice Merry-Go-Round, establishing her and her future descendants as prophets and themselves as gods, with a lofty account of the Third Period's creation. The two became worshipped in the new Levin faith and a temple was built around the broken down Climb One, renamed as the "Sin" ark.

### False Gods

Centuries later while establishing themselves as deities, the earthlings came in contact with Seth Twiright, who had reincarnated as a human and later became a scientist in the Magic Kingdom Levianta; having succumbed to their HERS, Behemo and the others plotted with him to spread malice and destroy the Third Period. As Seth refused to move them into new bodies, Levia and Behemo also plotted to make proper bodies for themselves, planning to make them with earthling DNA so that they could use the Black Box Type L and move out of the Sin ark.

In BT 05, the two "gods," pretending to be Maria Moonlit's parents, told her that they would destroy the world if their worshippers didn't cleanse the Sin ark by creating human vessels for them. Prophet Merry-Go-Round then shared the gods' lies with the nation, helping to start Project 'MA' to create suitable vessels for them to inhabit; its second project finally produced the twins Hänsel and Gretel on December 27, EC 0, only for the mother Meta Salmhofer to flee with the twins shortly after. As Project 'MA' faced continued failures over the years, Levia and Behemo grew impatient.

After Kiril Clockworker witnessed his fiancee Elluka Chirclatia accidentally murder his little sister Irina in EC 13, the twin gods decided to entice the man to free them from the Sin ark in their dragon body, unwilling to wait for their vessels to be born and, knowing that Kiril could use the Black Box Type L due to being a clone of Seth. Behemo enticed Kiril to enter the Levia-Behemo Temple, find the Sin ark hidden within, and use the black box. However, before Levia and Behemo could transfer their souls into the dragon body, the mindless beast awoke and grew violent, destroying the ark and contributing to a massive explosion. During this, the black box transferred the twins into Irina's corpse before shutting down shortly after.

### Eternal Sorceress

*Main Article: IR*

Once incarnated into Irina Clockworker's corpse, Behemo became the active consciousness while Levia slumbered in the subconscious. Believing himself to be the true Irina, the reincarnated Behemo awoke to see the destroyed temple and became consumed with grief. "IR" met with Held a few years later and was tasked with collecting the Vessels of Virtue, accepting the quest to atone for her "mistakes" and pass the time during her newfound immortality.

Over the centuries, IR traveled across Bolganio, helping anyone in need that she came across and getting involved with the Venomania Incident, the Disappearance of Saintess Conchita, the Lucifenian Expansion War, and Marlon's tyrannical period. During the latter period, she incarnated two Forest Spirits as humans, Lich and Eater, training them as her apprentices.

IR and Lich continued the search for the vessels of virtue across the continent while pursuing Elluka, who was also seeking the vessels. After IR confronted the Angel of Diligence and forced the witch's spirit into her own, her memories as Behemo reawakened. In denial of her true nature, IR continued pursuing the red cat mage and eventually confronted her at Merrigod Plateau on January 30, EC 611. After Elluka activated her Black Box Type S during their duel, Behemo was transported into his own mental world and was forced to face the reality of his true identity.

### Confronting Reality

Manifesting in his original form, Behemo ascended the stairs of the illusory Leviantan temple and found Elluka, Lich, Levia, and Meta in their true forms, standing before the Climb One. Unable to deny his true identity any longer, he lowered his head in silence while Elluka directed Lich to go to him. Confirming with Lich that he had regained all his memories, Behemo moved towards the Sin ark and learned from Elluka how they were only in his mental world due to the device built by Seth.

After musing on this, Behemo questioned Elluka and learned how the mage had figured out that he wasn't the real Irina, attributing it to several factors over the years. The two then fell to discussing how Held had known his true identity immediately and sought to keep him from finding out; realizing Lich had been made his apprentice to monitor him, Behemo confirmed this with Lich and learned how his true purpose was to help seal Levia and Behemo away again.

After calming down Lich, who expressed his irritation at being made into a babysitter, Behemo questioned him further and learned the trick Held undertook to prevent Lich and Eater from losing their memories with their reincarnation. Behemo then returned to Elluka, who brought up more reasons why it would have been impossible for Behemo to have been the true Irina, including how they knew the Swap Technique, and finally admitted that Seth had told her after becoming the Angel of Patience. Behemo then watched as Elluka revealed how she had experimented with Meta inside the Clockworker's Doll, giving Meta the ability to summon the "Court".

Elluka then had Meta invoke the Court, operating as a sphere of judgment that equalized everyone and made it possible to kill gods. Challenging Levia and Behemo to continue their duel, the five of them were suddenly interrupted by the arrival of the spirits Adam and Eve Moonlit. The duel then began in earnest; as their magic all clashed, the resulting blast caused Elluka, Behemo, and Meta's souls to fuse together into one being.

### Pure Being

*Main Article: MA*

The resulting amalgamation between Behemo, Elluka, and Meta became MA; like IR before her, she traveled across Bolganio helping people and being involved in many historical events, including the Enbizaka Murder Scandal. Later in her life, MA decided to become "pure" to avoid the destruction of the world. As part of this, she began absorbing the angels of virtue using the Swap Technique, as well as purging herself of the other consciousnesses inside her. When MA had an affair with Garrick Lucif and conceived a daughter, Themis Sudou, she used the baby as a vessel for Behemo's soul.

### Hellish Assassin

*Main Article: Themis Sudou*

Inside Themis' body, Behemo lost all of his memories as per the rules of reincarnation. Growing up abandoned by her mother, Themis contracted with Seth Twiright in the form of her pet Ziz Tiama, Ziz-san, and thus became a contractor of Patience. Over time, Themis took up a life of crime in a gang called "Zeus", until she was eventually arrested and became an assassin for PN. When she was assigned to kill her lover, Nyoze Okuto, Themis went down a path that led her to becoming the dictator of Elphegort. In EC 999, Themis used the weapon "Atonement" to destroy the world; although she survived the blast, Behemo's soul was expelled from her body.

### World's End

As the destroyed world merged with the Hellish Yard, the disembodied Behemo shut himself off from reality, deluding himself into thinking he was still living in the collapsing Second Period, constructing an illusion of Held's old research clinic around him. Under the illusion of finishing some apprentice work for his sister, Behemo was shocked to find an intruder in the office.

After the individual requested his help, with several unrelated intruders breaking in elsewhere in the facility, Behemo listened to his request: that he tell them about what kind of life Themis Sudou had led, the woman having been brought in as a catatonic body with a revolver that she had shot six people with. As Themis was unable to speak herself, Behemo was forced to attempt to use the Mind Swap Technique to fulfill the request, though admitting their relative inexperience with it. While he set up the procedure, the intruder introduced themself as "Postman".

Behemo then activated the swap with a black box and, over a series of hour-long intervals, looked at Themis' memories of the people she killed, including Ward Zero, Nikolay Tolle, Nyoze Okuto, Tony Ausdin, Garrick Lucif, and MA, becoming increasingly perplexed as Themis' surroundings in Evillious clashed with what he was familiar with in the Second Period. Rushing to see the full story near the end, Behemo exited from a final memory and told Postman what he had learned about Themis' life and character. He then claimed the specific memories were false due to the fantastic elements he saw within them.

Postman, revealing herself as Mora Avadonia, insisted that they were the truth and that Behemo was the one living in a delusion. As he protested, finally admitting he didn't want to know the truth, Mora input an "irregular system" into the black box that forced Behemo to look back on his own life. Regaining all of his memories of the Third Period, Behemo finally returned to his body and his consciousness as Themis Sudou was restored.

Following his physical body's death as "Themis Sudou", as well as Kyle and Mora's subsequent creation of the Fourth Period, Behemo (inside the Clockworker's Doll) participated in the ball at Marlon Castle before being incorporated into the Fourth Period, where he became one of the members of the "Evillious" SNS group chat, commenting on the state of the new world.

## Skills and Abilities

Behemo was an intelligent scientist who specialized in the creation of artificial bodies, being the mind being creating human bodies and even fantasy creatures like dragons. He was similarly savvy in operating the technology of the Second Period, though lacking the expertise for more complex mechanical devices. Having received an artificial eye implant, Behemo could adjust his sight via switching the channel settings with a mental command, allowing him to see great distances and even through pitch-black darkness or solid surfaces. Behemo's beautiful appearance also made it difficult to distinguish him from a female.

After becoming a god, Behemo had extreme longevity and automatically reincarnated after death. Despite this, he was still subject to the rules of the Third Period, although he was still free to move between worlds without any hazard. Following his incarnation as IR, Behemo possessed the memories and knowledge of Irina Clockworker and later Meta Salmhofer. Behemo also possessed great magical power, and was taught at some point how to use the powerful Body Swap Technique, allowing him to move or transfer his or someone else's soul into another body or object.

## Character Connections

Levia Barisol: Behemo's digital counterpart. Conceptualizing her as his ideal self, he was later shocked as she made contact with his world, eventually joining her as an avatar himself. Although willing to work with his "sister" as colleagues, the two had a barbed relationship, with Behemo flippant in the face of her embarrassment over his deviant behavior.

Luna Hazuki: A colleague of Behemo's. Behemo worked with Luna reasonably well during the Second Period, but was willing to try and kill her during the creation of the Third Period.

Held Yggdra: One of Behemo's instructors. Behemo worked under Held as a student and employee, although later being willing to try and kill him during the creation of the Third Period. However, Behemo's memories of his respect for Held were strong enough that he even recalled them as IR, although still irritated with his behavior at times.

Lich Arklow: Behemo's coworker. Initially knowing him as one of Levia's assistants, even becoming his student temporarily, Behemo got much closer with him during his time as "IR" and considered him a dear friend. As a result, even after gaining his memories back, Behemo didn't hold anything against Lich for his true role in their relationship, understanding how annoying it was for him.

Irina Clockworker: A woman that Behemo impersonated. Behemo had no qualms with pretending to be Irina to gain his freedom. Following his incarnation into Irina's body, Behemo believed he was her and clung strongly to his new identity, in denial of the truth for months after learning it.

Themis Sudou: Behemo's reincarnation. His nature as a HER subconsciously affected Themis; after being separated from her body, Behemo preferred to hide himself from the truth of what he did as Themis. Eventually his soul and body reconciled when he was directly confronted with the truth, and Behemo returned to identifying as the woman.