Carl Clover

**Carl Clover** (カルル＝クローバー *Karuru Kurōbā*) is a young vigilante who dropped out of the Military Academy. He is the son of Relius Clover and the current wielder of the Arch-Enemy Event Weapon – Machine God: Nirvana. He is a playable character in the *BlazBlue* series.

## Appearance

Carl is a young boy with light blond hair, a fair complexion, blue eyes and wears jam jar glasses. His typical attire consists of an 1800s, higher class, London-style outfit with long white sleeves, ending in purple cuffs, and purple shorts. These are accompanied with purple military style boots which end in steel toecaps, a gentlemen’s purple top hat which covers his head, and a short purple cape which is attached to his body by a metal fixture in the shape of an 'X' and has a sort of cowbell hanging from it.

When he was at the Military Academy, he wore the standard male uniform, but with shorts.

When he was very young, he wore a purple collar, long sleeved shirt with an orange tie, black shorts, and brown shoes, This is shown after Amane Nishiki uses his Astral Heat on him, seen here

In the end of *BlazBlue: Centralfiction*, Carl no longer wears his glasses but they’re replaced with a half-mask on his left eye resembling his father’s opera mask, and a monocle on the right.

## Personality

Carl has a very professional mindset, and dislikes being treated as a kid. He is always calm and collected, even when staring down a foe.

This, however, is a side effect of Nirvana. Behind his mature facade, Carl hides an almost crippling dependency upon his sister Ada. He suffers greatly on the inside because he has practically lost his entire family to his father Relius’ experiments. From the get-go, the incident with Relius caused him to believe that all adults were liars who would only use him for their own ends. With the help of Litchi, Carl learns that his beliefs are not entirely true, and he overcomes his sorrows. Carl now wants to grow up to be someone like Litchi and Bang – good people who help those in need. It is for this reason that Carl did not condemn Litchi for siding with Relius and the Control Organization, and instead shows concern that she is in danger.

In Act 3 of his Arcade Mode in *Centralfiction*, his personality gradually started to transform to that of his father, Relius Clover, as he started to see people as objects and had the desire for experimenting when he wanted to experiment on Noel Vermillion similar to how Relius was to his sister and mother, despite saying in *Chronophantasma* that he would never become like his father. This is due to the world warping his memories and he thinks Ada is seriously ill and is not Nirvana and he thought he needed Noel, who has the true Blue, to save his sister, until Relius appeared and told him that he had the knowledge to re-create Ada without the Blue by showing how Ignis was created. This causes Carl to become more like Relius personality-wise when talking to Litchi and Hazama.

## Powers and Abilities

Carl does not appear to have much in the way of fighting ability, but uses the power of magic element in order to create mechanical constructs such as cogs and the like to attack his opponents. Accompanied by the Event Weapon, Machine God: Nirvana, the two are a deadly duo. Nirvana attacks using her blunt strength and steel claws, but like Carl, she does not appear to have much in the way of fighting, as she is often seen in a hunched position doing nothing until commanded. However, she reacts strongly to magic element, other Arch-Enemies, or those who have great power such as Hazama, Valkenhayn R. Hellsing, and Rachel Alucard.

Carl’s Drive is **Automaton** (オートマトン *Ōtomaton*), which springs the usually hunched over Nirvana to life, ambling towards him and only as long as the Drive button is held down. The entirety of Carl’s moveset revolves around using Nirvana and her moves can only by inputting a command after releasing the Drive button. While Carl’s own attacks are quick, Nirvana attacks with slow and crude but powerful physical strikes like double axe handles and punches. The downside is that Nirvana runs on a gauge and once depleted, she shuts down and sparks, rendered unusable until the gauge charges back up, leaving Carl very vunerable. His Overdrive is **Synchro High Speed** (シンクロハイスピード *Shinkuro Hai Supīdo*), which increase Nirvana’s overall speed.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Carl saved the Turtles from his father during their second encounter with him. He explained afterwards about his father's horrible deeds for the name of science and research. So he joins them in hopes of destroying his father once and for all

## Trivia

Naming
* “Carl” is a North Germanic male name meaning “strong man” or “free man”. The name originates in Scandinavia.
* With the exception of **Deus Ex Machina**, **Automaton** and **Synchro High Speed**, all of Carl’s attack names are named after Italian musical terms.
	+ On that note, the term “Deus ex machina” is Latin for “god out of the machine”, it is a plot device whereby a seemingly inextricable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object.

Appearance
* In some of Carl’s early designs, he was depicted with red eyes.
* When he is electrocuted, there is what looks like a small Nirvana-like object with a controller, and two wires are connected to his head.

Other
* Carl’s birthday, May 5, is also the date of the Japanese and Korean holiday Children’s Day, and the American/Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo.
* In *BlazBlue: Chronophantasma*, Carl will direct the player through the Tutorial Mode’s section *Intermediate- Cancelling*.
* Carl shares his English voice actor with Linhua.