Siegfried Verlet

Siegfried Verlet, also known as Humility, is a member of The Equilibrium, owned and played by Humility.

## Appearence

Siegfried is a young man, standing at 5 ft and 10 inches, and weighing 152lbs. He has a lean, healthy, body - athletic in nature and well-defined; clearly something born of rugged training. He has no discerning markings, other than a birthmark on the base of his neck - in between the clavicles. His features are pleasing to the eye - his eyes a light blue, his hair, golden and soft and luscious in it’s splendour. He prefers to let it hang; rather messily, as if he hadn’t combed in days. He has rather angular features - pronounced jawbone and cheeks, etc. Despite his lax attitude concerning his appearance, he can maintain a healthy visage; not a blemish or spot to be seen on his face despite his neglect of care. Somewhat effeminate, Siegfried can draw quite an eye - regardless of gender, and as such he never fails to make a first impression at a glance.

Due to the effects of his Hatsu (**All The World’s Suffering)** Siegfried can look quite haggard at times; heavy eyebags, pale skin, drooping eyelids and more. As such, Siegfried’s looks can vary dramatically to absolutely stunning or rock-bottom, depending on his Hatsu and state of mind.

His typical attire is a simple, blue shirt - long-sleeved and collared, with an ornate pattern made up of dark blue lines that criss-cross on it, and wears plain black trousers to accompany this. The thing is, Siegfried can slap any old attire on, and manage to make it look good, usually, at least when not under the effects of **All The World’s Suffering**.

## Personality

Siegfried has an uncompromising “Hero Complex”. Born from circumstance, as a result of the oppressive conditions of his household, Siegfried has been acting as the stalwart shield for as long as he can remember, protecting those that can’t protect themselves; mainly, his brother. As a result, Siegfried acts like the typical “Hero” - an absolute pacifist, not one to rely on violence, or pain to achieve their goals, yet is a hypocrite in the fact he’s willing to jump in harm’s way if it means no one else will get hurt. Siegfried associates self-worth with self-sacrifice, only finding validation in defending people - even if they’re stronger than him. He’s absolutely uncompromising in his beliefs - known to be very stubborn in his attempts to deflect danger onto himself. Deep down, Siegfried has a contempt for himself - naturally born everyone’s superior, and gifted at everything he does, Siegfried just can’t find enjoyment in prospering while those below him suffer. As such, he doesn’t value material wealth very much; disregarding his looks, wealth and good grades in favour of personality and strength of character, something he lives by.

Siegfried respects the law, but knows it’s flaws, and as such, isn’t bound by it like some may assume a hero may be; he’ll even break it in times of distress if it means he can save more people that way.

He’s known to be quiet, reserved, even. He’s very polite, even in the face of scorn and contempt, and isn’t one to anger quickly - if it all. Kind, Siegfried is always willing to give a helping hand to those in need, and believes in equality. However, he’s very adamant in his beliefs; and as such can come off as irritating and selfish when he refuses to let anyone share his danger - and in this regard, Siegfried is quite the loner as a result of pushing people away in an effort to spare them the trouble of going through his hardships. This could be seen as Siegfried’s greatest strength and his fatal flaw; no matter how clear-headed he may seem, Siegfried can become quite reckless when other lives are at stake, in an effort to “protect” them. One might believe that Siegfried fights best alone, but the opposite is the truth - Siegfried fights his hardest when fighting to protect someone, even if he sacrifices his everything in the process, which some may find admirable, while others may find foolish.

To those that Siegfried can call his friends, however, they know him as amiable, fiercely loyal and “warm” - the kind of warmth an older brother would give you, as they struggled to protect you. The same can even be said for Siegfried’s enemies; his pacifistic nature allowing him to believe that even the most heinous of people can find redemption - however this doesn’t mean Siegfried should believe they should be forgiven, either, and Siegfried can kill someone he deems a danger as easily as he preaches kindness and love - showing that he’s not naive.

A few facts about Siegfried include his favourite colour - green, and that his favourite food is a hearty breakfast; simply consisting of bacon, eggs and bread, though he’ll settle for anything. As a result of being pampered, Siegfried isn’t really a fan of many things he was gorged on as a child - such as games, confectionery, etc. He values much more trivial things, such as those cheap rings or bracelets that commemorate a friendship and such. His ideal partner would be someone that’s honest, and down-to-the-earth; though Siegfried tends to look for this in all his friends regardless.

## Biography

The Verlet Household has enjoyed economical splendour for the last century; a pioneering force in the advancement of technology and science alike, they are the undisputed king on the market scene - the current head Adam Verlet enjoying a success like none other before him, propelling the family to newfound heights in terms of growth and wealth. Anyone would envy being the inheritor to such a fortune; to carry the torch of the Verlet Family after Adam. Anyone would envy being the son of someone so prodigious; kind, generous, but hardworking and smart - the perfect business man, you could say. They couldn’t be more wrong. For, you see, Adam was a perfectionist - like no other. He could put on a smile for the cameras, wave when needed, and swoon the general public to get what he wanted. Yet this was only a facade; a sign of something more… dark. Because in essence, Adam Verlet was a monster - manipulative, ruthless and cruel - he knew no mercy when it came to the family business, as he’d say. What does this have to do with Siegfried, you ask? Well, everything.

At first, there were two.

Siegfried can swear he can remember the warmth of his brother; his twin; his other half, with him - always. Sigurd, they were called, and they were inseparable. Two peas in a pod, the bestest of friends, they could confide in one another, tell eachother their darkest secrets and smile with one another. Siegfried was always the stronger, smarter, *better*, of the two; Sigurd was clumsy, weak, but fierce - the willful of the two. Yet Siegfried had always found himself protecting and leading him. Growing up, they’d been pampered - showered with gifts and toys and all kinds of luxuries to last a lifetime. Life couldn’t be better, the days spent in those times could be likened to eternal bliss.  They felt it’d last forever - they were kids, young, innocent, with joy in their eyes and full of the sun… it wouldn’t last. Couldn’t last. For you see, it was.. taken from them. Their joy, their livelihood, eachother, Sigurd and Siegfried torn apart from each other and everything went downhill from there.

Their father, Adam - no, that monster they had for a father, made them understand that their everything belonged to him. That was all it took for Siegfried to be afraid of his father. Suddenly, the toys stopped coming in. His room was stripped bare of emotion - no vestige of what was once pure, unfiltered, child-like joy to be seen anywhere. The servants shunned them, not even a tear in their eye. And eventually, to Siegfried’s horror, he woke up one day, his brother gone from the bed that they shared so readily with one another - simply told that “they had been separated”.

The treatment started there. The lessons, the cruelty, the harshness. Days spent learning, grooming Siegfried, and presumably Sigurd, to be the future inheritors of the family. Break wasn’t afforded to them - they didn’t need a break, the Verlet Household didn’t need breaks. The teachers were cold, unforgiving and especially callous - always looking for a reason to punish Siegfried in his mistakes. But Siegfried learned, and he applied, and he grew. Siegfried was practically perfect at everything he did, he was a rising star, destined to become the man his father was. But Siegfried couldn’t, he couldn’t bring himself to remove that part of him - his feelings, and especially his brother, to become like the cold machine Adam Verlet had become. Especially when seeing his father personally take charge of Siegfried’s lessons, after he had excelled at everything he had been given, he knew he couldn’t become like him.

As said before, the Verlet Household enjoys a life of prestige and fortune like any other. But what about those around them; the city? The inhabitants? The poor? The working class? Cast away, like toys; the way a kid would throw away something once they're bored with them. They were sullen, empty, trapped in a life of endless squalor and poor pay - the contempt barely hidden in their eyes as they worked away. This is the reality Siegfried saw, the reality of those who worked under his father as they slaved away in their tireless effort to produce the newest cutting-edge technology - stealing ideas, endless hours spent manufacturing them and more. Siegfried felt shunned and hated by those that saw him - once they saw him with his father, they assumed him to be like them. And his father? He encouraged it. To be like him - cold, calculating and brutal.

Yet Siegfried only had one goal. To reunite with his brother - he didn’t want for the family, the business, or anything. He just wanted to be happy again. And then the day came, as they stood in front of their father. His brother had changed. Siegfried had wanted to deny it, believing they’d simply spent too much time away from one another. But when his father announced Siegfried the inheritor; Siegfried, the perfect one, the strong one - the dreams of sharing the family business crushed as Sigurd was to be cast aside like nothing, he turned to Siegfried, his features twisting into a face of disbelief and anger as it fell upon his brother, and Siegfried knew at that moment he had failed his brother, his other side.

He knew he had to get away from there, to anywhere, just not that place. Not the suffocating corridors of the Verlet Household. Not the tired, hateful eyes of it’s workers. He had nothing to give his father, nothing. He believed technology should be used for change, for prosperity, yet his father only used it for wealth.

So he confronted him. And in the pale light of the setting sun, the muted colours of purple and red on the horizon, how he simply said “I’m done” - throwing away everything, his inheritance, his fortune, his money, EVERYTHING! He turned, and walked away, and that walk quickly turned into a run as his father shouted at him, demanding him to get back here, to explain himself. He didn’t, of course. Determined the right the wrongs of his family, he headed for the streets, prepared for a life of hardships yet grimly satisfying victories, he tried to help the people.

Yet they knew who he was; who the infallible Siegfried Verlet was, and they hated him - hated him for his wealth, his fortune, and perfection, and they sneered and jeered at what he had lost. Siegfried knew that he wasn’t wanted of course, yet he knew he needed more - something solid, something to defend the unwilling masses with. He needed strength; real strength, not the political kind or the physical kind - he needed to throw away any pretences of bias and discrimination, he simply needed to *save*.

He sought out training, first. Days, months spent searching for whatever handhold he could get to protect the people around him - he needed *something*. And he found it, eventually, courtesy of the prowess his father instilled in him and he so hated, the technological genius that he had inherited from Adam Verlet, he found rumours of a monastery of some kind - monks who carried with them a great power that seemed to make the supernatural, natural. Pleading, on the doorsteps of the fabled Nen Monastery, far in the mountains of a little village in the middle of nowhere, he waited outside for days - first shunned as they believed him to be a simple billionaire with nothing better to do, yet as he pleaded with them - a simple, honest request to gain the power to save anyone, they saw his strength of will, and took him in, training him for the tribulations to come. He spent a good amount of years there, training, and training, and training some more until he could no longer stand, and then getting up and training some more. Siegfried was used to it, of course - he was perfect, THE Siegfried Verlet. But he secretly hated this side of him, and just wished to be more in tune with those less fortunate than him - like his brother, Sigurd.

Eventually, he was deemed a prodigy. A veritable genius at Nen. And taking the knowledge he had gathered of it over the years, he headed out - for the Hunter Exam, to gain the qualifications he so needed to be the “Hero” he so desired. And he passed, easily. With the knowledge of Nen he had gathered over the years, Finally, gaining the power he so sought, Siegfried sets out to perform justice regardless of those that hate him or love him, and hopes to bridge the gap between him and his brother who had grown so distant over the years during their separation.

### Side Story

Siegfried - shortly after leaving the monastery, grim, and a righteous fire burning in his heart - quickly found himself surrounded by problems on all fronts; the homeless, the sick, the dying - all of them needed “saving”. And so, Siegfried did just that. It wasn’t long until he obtained his Star in a particularly notable incident - the “Marble Disease”.

It had been a normal, mundane day when it had first been discovered. As they uncovered the man; stuck in a limbo between life and death, where not even a scream could pass his lips - unlike those that found them, who had been horrified. The disease; through some unknown reaction, brang the body’s motor controls to a grinding halt - memorializing them in stone and crystal forever as they drifted; trapped in their own subconscious. Siegfried, horrified, had immediately set out to find a cure right away. Having developed his Hatsu, he had isolated someone in the early stages of it - taking the disease for himself and studying it in further detail; breaking it down, combining it - doing whatever he could to do it.

And eventually, after hours, days had passed, he had discovered it. Quickly, the cure had been distributed among those infected, and the outbreak was quelled - earning Siegfried his first Star - though he greatly argues that what he did was “nothing worthy of praise” to this day.

## Skillset

- Extensive knowledge of technology and how to use it, Siegfried’s natural talents have made him a genius when it comes to utilizing and researching various forms of software and technology, and he can operate and use it like no other, on account of being born into the Verlet Family who have been experimenting and tinkering with technology for so long.

- Naturally gifted, Siegfried is very, very sharp - extremely so. He can grasp the mechanisms of things very quickly and can boast a higher IQ than many, and as such he can form plans quickly and see through them as easily.

- Very stubborn, Siegfried’s endurance and will to resist is extremely strong, on account of how his Hatsu works and simply his personality, many find Siegfried’s tenacity to be a very admirable feat as he has a very high pain tolerance and is absolutely unmoving when it comes to his goals, and as such he’s very hard to dissuade or force into surrender.

- He’s resistant to most forms of pain, as his Hatsu involves feeling a great deal of pain, his tolerance is so high some might even consider as if he’s in pain at all when using his Hatsu, though this doesn’t mean he can handle everything, however.

- Very persuasive, due to training as an entrepreneur he received, and after living on the streets after essentially disowning the family, they have only grown as he struggles to survive.

- He has basic survival skills, but nothing too major.

## Nen

### Basic Techniques

Siegfried, having mastered the “79 steps to enlightenment” at frighteningly fast speeds, Siegfried is a genius at Nen when compared to the majority. As such, he boasts an extremely refined kit of Basic Nen Techniques, not excelling in any of them in favour of being well-rounded in all of them.

### Advanced Nen Techniques

Siegfried specializes in defense, having an extremely strong Ken, with the runner-up for his best being his Ryu as he can easily switch which spot on his body he is defending. While not as strong as an Enhancer’s, his natural tenacity and endurance can lessen the gap somewhat. Compared to the other techniques, Siegfried is rather adept at all of them besides In.

Siegfried’s control over his Aura is so great, he can apply basic uses of every category besides Conjuration; using transmutation to shape his Aura into a knife, a blunt weapon, etc - being able to shoot off Aura Blasts at varying degrees of strength; enough so that’d it damage the average Nen User, but not enough to pose a serious problem to more adept User’s. He can also use manipulation to manipulate objects - being able to levitate them from a distance; he mainly uses this to deliver his USB injection from range to make it easier to use, and his use of enhancement is self-explanatory.

### Nen Mastery Weakness

In - Siegfried’s tenacious and headstrong personality (on account of his beliefs) makes it so he clashes with In quite a bit, (though not Zetsu, as he can easily clear his mind to make calm, and rational decisions, and as such can use it quite easily) though it can still compete with an average Nen User’s In, however, those more adept would easily be able to see through his.

### All The World's Suffering

Siegfried, through the use of his Hatsu, can download “suffering” through the use of electronic appliances, and store them on “servers”; which allows him to research/edit the accumulated suffering as he sees fit.

To do this, Siegfried first conjures a simple USB stick. This USB stick is unbreakable, and serves as an extension of Siegfried’s body, allowing him to “download” suffering by inserting into people with injuries or diseases. The time taken to download “suffering” is relative to the severity of the problem, and can range from 10 seconds to 5 minutes respectively. When “suffering” has been downloaded, the target is healed in their entirety, and the “suffering” is stored on a “server” - a demiplane made via Emission that stores the collected suffering. There is a storage limit to the server, but it varies depending on Siegfried’s state of mind and physical condition, and as such, can be very low, or very high.

There is a catch, however. When “suffering” has been downloaded, and is on the “server”, Siegfried will experience the pain that comes with it as if he’s afflicted with it - but will take no “real” damage from the “suffering”; only experiencing the pain mentally/spiritually. The more “suffering” Siegfried downloads, the more pain he’ll feel accordingly. “Suffering” is measured in “Torment Bytes” (or TB). The average maximum storage cap of TB for Siegfried is 55 TB, but as said before, it can vary wildly depending on Siegfried’s mood and physical condition. The average cost for “suffering” is as follows:

Non-Life Threatening - 5 TB

Non-Life Threatening Disease - 7 TB

Missing Limb [Minor] - 10 TB

Missing Limb [Major] - 20 TB

Life-Threatening Injury - 25 TB

Life-Threatening Disease - 30 TB

Mortal Injury - 50 TB

Terminal Disease - 50 TB

If Siegfried ever exceeds the max TB, he’ll be hit with the accumulated force of every injury/disease he has downloaded, which would usually result in his death most of the time.

#### All The World’s Suffering - Angra Mainyu

This sub-hatsu allows Siegfried to access the “suffering” he has stored on his server, giving him various ways to manipulate it; by plugging the USB stick into a PC of some kind, Siegfried can connect it to the server. This allows him to see the various symptoms of the suffering he has acquired, and this can aid him in identifying and researching it.

However, as an additional ability, Siegfried can combine all the “suffering” he has stored into one, single attack that he can unleash at the cost of being reduced into a state of a Zetsu for weeks; even months or YEARS at a time; meaning that Siegfried doesn’t tend to use this often.