Percival/Average

Prince **Percival** (パーシヴァル, *Pāshivuaru*), nicknamed **Hermes** (ヘルメス, *Herumesu*) is an fanon character created for *Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!*. He's the third prince of the Kingdom of Tils, son of the King Pellinore with an unnamed queen, as well as an member of the kingdom's Knights of the Round Table and party member of the Crimson Vow. However he was revealed to been an reincarnation of an human male from another world.

Prior to their deaths, he was an close friend to the Crimson Lightning and would often join them in quests, but upon hearing on their demise he vowed to seek the vengeance on those who killed them and became an Hunter to gain experience and skills. Eventually his overall skills and abilities was considered much more refined and gained the hunter's rank of A. During an conflict to the south, he was assigned there and the Battle of Tryfrwyd commenced that revolved around the mystical Holy Grail. Throughout the conflict, he was an leading figure in the ordeal and having succeeded in driving back an unknown invasion force and obtained the Holy Grail. Prior the war, he also learnt various of magic, including Sealing Magic and sealed the Grail in a undisclosed location. After the war, he gained greater skills that allowed him to rise in the Hunter's Guild rank to A, and be knighted as an member of the Knights of the Round Table.

Percival as appeared many times to the Crimson Vow soon after, often first appearing as the one lead figure arresting the soldiers of the Albarn Empire, thanking the party in their capturing and consequences to not only the soldiers, but even to the Empire for this misconduct. However soon after, he expressed his interests in joining the Crimson Vow and hopes to become close friends to them. They accepted and officially joined the party as their "diplomat" of the party.

## Background

### Pre-Death

He hasn't explained his previous life to anyone during his second life, but he thought on his past life during an dark time on Earth's history. He remembered of how government essentially collapsed with the world run entirely on money. Seeking job being hard, he focused entirely on an VRMMORPG game where they "dive" into the game fully about the high fantasy aspects. Players can earn real currency in the game, and thus this game was effectively his entire life.

However he remembered just moments before his official death, Percival was targetted by an dark guild that kills other players. Due to this, he began to protect others with his skills as an almost full-time gamer, became an famous player known as the Template:Nihonog. This caught attention to the big corporations as he intervened with their duties. This act made him an target of an very real assassin and was killed during his Dive, and soon found himself in an unknown place with an god stating what occured. Despite this, the god said he'll reincarnate him with added perks. Due to the time period, he understood this was an "isekai" situations after reading manga and other forms of media that still remained. He only asked for an type of immortality (such as decelerated aging) and to being able to achieve abilities easier then normal but still make it a challenge to achieve. The god accepted and had him reincarnate into an new world.

## Personality

Percival is shown as an stoic prince of kind nature and of perseverance in the face of impossible odds. Despite being reincarnated into a new world, he kept his protective nature from his pervious life. During his early childhood, he has known to be an silent individual and everyone noted his expression was written with "fascination" and "deep thought", many people wandering what's thinking. Due to his reincarnation situation, he is often seen as the eccentric of the king's siblings, often using terms and words they're not familiar with from his previous life. Percival became close friends to the Crimson Lightning after they worked alongside him in escorting him across hostile territory. Thanking the party, he became close friends to them, showing an very warm side he doesn't normally show, smiling and joking around.

However after Percival got word the Crimson Lightning death, he vowed that he'll avenge his friends death and went to join an academy to become an Hunter, joining the Hunters' Prep School to learn more. However when he was being trained, he as shown an skilled attribute in both swordplay and magic, but was considered an helpful student and was elevated as an assistant teacher in terms of leadership. However due to the deaths of the Crimson Lightning, he would not make friends and focused solely on his training and helping others.