Bernard Savel

> "It's, for everyone's own good. Yours. Mine. Now, unless you'd like to, pour me a cup, please, come with me quietly, Mallory." - Bernard
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## Bernard Savel

* Normal
* Shadow
* Coat
* Black Tears

### Relatives

Mallory Savel (Sister)Hidari Hitoshi (Brother-in-law)

### Occupation

Office worker (formerly)Chemistry Teacher (formerly)

## Appearance

Bernard is an average build man, with rounded brown hair and blue eyes. He wears a white dress shirt with the bottom buttons unbuttoned with one part tucked into his pants and the other part not. He wears a black tie with a cross on it with the tie stuffed into his breast pocket. He wears black jeans and has a chain on his belt.

Bernard sometimes wears a dark brown trench coat with a light but faded blue "V" on one of the sides of the collar.

## Personality

Bernard is very closed off and doesn't show his emotions easily, as he always uses a monotone voice, not by choice. He tends to apply logic to all situations and has trouble with emotions. He cares deeply for his sister but is poor at expressing it.

Bernard has very little self-love and self-preservation, and believes if he were to be gone, the world wouldn't be very different.

After the events of The Quiet Decay, Bernard started to open up more and get better at expressing emotion, though still had a lot of trouble with it.

## Background

### Before The Quiet Decay

Bernard grew up in Ohio with his parents and his sister, Mallory, in a heavily Catholic household. His parents favored Mallory, and payed much less attention to Bernard growing up. One day, when Bernard had just turned eight years old and was alone in a park, Bernard realized he was the second favorite child. This realization is when his stand, Saint Calvin, awoke. Bernard played with Calvin for a week or two every day. When he tried to tell and show his parents, they couldn't see anything. Being a heavily Catholic household, they assumed he was possessed. They hired an exorcist to get rid of Saint Calvin, which did not get rid of it, but did convince Bernard he was possessed and evil. He became more introverted closed-off, causing Saint Calvin to leave for a while, making them think the exorcism worked. During this time, the Savel family moved to Electros, Japan, due to the father being in the military and relocating.

Once in Japan, Saint Calvin returned. They tried to exorcise him again, however Saint Calvin refused to leave this time. Bernard was then sent to a mental hospital. When there, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Saint Calvin refused to leave Bernard's side while he was on meds, even though Bernard wanted Calvin to leave, telling himself Calvin wasn't real and he really was crazy, and refusing comfort Calvin attempted to give, shoving him away every time.

When Bernard had been there for nearly two years, after shoving Calvin away too hard, it's paw was hurt, hurting Bernard's hand as well. This was when he realized all of this was only hurting himself. Soon after Bernard pretended he was getting better. After a year of acting, at the age of eleven, he was discharged and went back to his family. After getting out of the mental hospital, he had been prescribed medication for schizophrenia. He stopped taking them right after being discharged, flushing them down the toilet to make his parents think he was taking them.

Bernard had a hard time adjusting back to regular society, and had become hardened and less expressive, no matter how he tried to express his emotions outwardly. This made it hard to make friends, as people considered him the weird kid or even a monster for being unempathetic and emotionless. For the rest of his childhood Saint Calvin was his only real friend.

At the age of 17, Bernard's parents moved away from Electros again, while Bernard and Mallory stayed behind. Bernard started to lose his faith in God that he had throughout his life around the same time. He decided to try and read the entirety of the bible to try and be closer to God, but over the reading slowly lost faith more and more, writing notes and poking holes in things as he went along, until he no longer had faith in God by the end.

Bernard graduated high school at age 19, and went into an office job, but his true passion lied in chemistry. His coworkers all called him "Vernard," as the Japanese sound for "B" and "V" are the same. He leaned into this, and put a blue "V" on his trench coat. He researched guns and took up hunting as a hobby.

### The Quiet Decay

In 2088 at the age of 24, Bernard began to get black tears and went on a small rampage, injuring people and causing property damages, but was never caught due to the ability of Saint Calvin. He began to try and find a cure immediately. He eventually tracked them down to Mallory, and decided he needed to help, however in his black tears state he was resentful of Mallory for being the favorite child, and under the mindset of "If people think I'm a monster, I might as well be one." This caused him to do things like steal the phone containing the nightmare stand Pain, control Sen to guard Mallory orchestrating the Episode 5 fight, and steal Wilson from the Speedwagon Foundation during Mallory being under the black tear effect in Episode 6.

Once Bernard kidnapped Mallory and locked her in the guest room of their old family house, under the black tears he would taunt Mallory, and act sadistically, while when he was not under the effect he worked as much as he could to find a cure. After getting close, he called Giuseppe Gibson, for help completing the cure. Once GiGi and the gang got there they worked all day to finish 5-UN. When they were leaving however, Bernard had the effects of the black tears come back, and went back inside, activating his ability on them all, commencing the fight of Episode 8.

After the fight, Bernard activated Saint Calvin on Mallory before she could take control of his body. After being handed a note by Emperor's New Clothes, Bernard brought GiGi all the parts he needed for his new body at the beginning of Episode 10, before taking part in the final confrontation against Mallory and Bitter Rosethorn Tea.

In the Christmas Special Bernard was shown to be working on being more expressive, and still had possession of Pain and Wilson.

### After The Quiet Decay

Bernard stayed in Electros working with GiGi until he was 33 in 2097, when Bernard moved to Chicago, Illinois, to work at GiGi's school in America. Bernard became the chemistry teacher.

Bernard had a few partners throughout life but died a bachelor. In 2131 of lung cancer, surrounded by friends and family.

## Abilities

### Physical Abilities

Bernard is very knowledgeable about firearms, specifically hunting rifles.

### Hamon

Bernard's hamon weapon of choice is sharpened crosses he uses as throwing weapons.

### Pain

Pain gives Bernard the ability to control people's actions by speaking orders to anyone in the area wearing headphones, earbuds, or anything of the sort.

### Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)

Wilson, or "Expensive Mistakes," is a small nightmare stand bound to a go-pro like object. He has the ability to move eyes and cameras, mainly to avert their watching from things Wilson says they shouldn't see.

### Saint Calvin

Saint Calvin gives Bernard the ability to be forgotten. Anyone who stops looking at Bernard while the ability is active will forget everything about him instantly. The memories come back once you see Bernard or Saint Calvin again, however they don't flood back, they simply exist again, so the target will have to try and remember to access them.

Saint Calvin can also extend the ability to one other person or thing in range. Bernard is immune to this effect.

## Trivia

* Bernard can cry on command.
* Bernard claps his hands or hits his knees slowly when he doesn't have anything to do with his hands.
* Bernard's family visited him about once a month in the mental hospital.
* All three of Bernard's stands were named like people; Calvin, Wilson, and Pain was named Trent to follow the trend.
* Bernard died of lung cancer despite being a hamon user, both because he smoked a lot and he didn't care to practice hamon later in life, even knowing it would make him healthy and live longer.
* Bernard had one fear most of his life; that he really was crazy. That stands didn't exist, and it was all just him really having schizophrenia. This was never gotten over, as any evidence against it could be countered with the logic of "I'm just imagining that too," in his head.
* Bernard, Pain, Wilson, and Saint Calvin all have blue as their primary color.
* Had Hidari died during The Quiet Decay, Bernard was going to be Westley's backup character.