Veritas (Veri)

## Rachel Veri

**"You left me no choice, *Traitor*."**

Rachel Veritas (Veri) is a former antagonist (Now Anti-Hero) character in the Mark SMP. After seeing the Tenacity council as unwilling to change, she left Tenacity and completed the Citadel Mk.2. While exploring the nether they discovered a lost Steel Hallow fort, the Cathedral, took control and preformed experiments. After feeling betrayed by the council during a potential peace meeting there, she flew into a rage and attempted to kill them all, only to realize the Citadel was left undefended. Going back, Veri engaged DeadShots in a battle to the death, killing him as he activated the explosives, killing her and destroying the Citadel. Currently Veri is looking for the Queen of Steel Hallow, Maky. While on their search, they met Doodles and became friends, after gaining Veri's trust Doodles corrupted them.

Veri believes that they alone should rule, believing in "Unity under One" to create a utopia of power for everyone.

## Personality

Initially, Veri was kind and loved the community they were a part of, but upon seeing the council's and Maky's lies, she became more distant and cold, until storming out of Tenacity via feeling betrayed, soon to become a ruthless manipulator soon after. While at the Citadel, the experiments there took a heavy toll on Veri's mental state, causing her to go partially insane. The encounter with DeadShots left her with crippling fear of him, to the point of panicking at the mere mention. She has an immense hatred towards Maky, viewing her as the cause of all problems, and potentially the solution to death itself.

Veri can still display kindness and affection, as seen with her relationship with her (now dead) dog, Lily, and the person she views as family to her, Ninth.

Despite being very aggressive in their antagonistic goals of total control, Veri believes they truly care about everyone, but is willing to sacrifice 90% of humanity if it meant the other 10% survived. After corruption, these goals have now changed to destroying everything that is made and re-creating it in her own image.

Since being corrupted, Veri has greatly improved in mood, and has displayed "happiness" since then, yet is still horrified about the Cathedral.

## Soul

Veri's soul is something of an oddity, after experiments at the Cathedral, her soul became something that could "anchor" onto something to keep them persisting even after death, so long as they believe they can keep going. While Veri has lost a life to DeadShots, she hasn't moved onto life 2 yet, being in a very weak state where if she dies or remains in this state for too long, she will die. However, Veri has to find some closure / results from everything she has done before she will be willing to move on.

## History

### Tenacity and The Citadel (Trouble on the Homefront Saga)

After establishing a mini base of operation (Citadel Mk.1), Veri assisted in the "Big Dig" project to gain Tenacity resources to build their city, in exchange for ownership of the dig site. This is when they established the first true Citadel, meant to watch over the city and protect it.

Everything started to fall apart after the council betrayed Dark and lied to him, causing Veri to walk out on them. She then activated the Citadel Heart Portals, 4 massive portals in the shape of Purple Hearts, much to the horror of Tenacity. From here she left to find knowledge. While gone, however, the Shadow of Death, Sayoru, made themselves known after an attack on Tenacity from the nether, having disguised himself. Sayoru had ordered the destruction of all portals in the world, as to prevent further attacks, then vanished. The council agreed, but the Citadel still loomed in the distance.... portals active.

At the Cathedral, in which they learned of the Steel Hallow war from journals of the long deceased Connor, Veri attempted to bring back the dead by violently tearing their souls into their bodies, but made little progress. Having heard that Tenacity was going to shut down the Citadel, Veri offered a peace banquet at the Cathedral, but after realizing that DeadShots, the defense director, was not there, she flew into a rage and unleashed the 200 undead Steel Hallow people on the Council, and then raced to the Citadel. There, she found DeadShots having rigged the place to explode. After a fierce battle, Veri killed DeadShots, but not before he activated the explosives, killing her and destroying the Citadel.

## Relations

Ninth: Veri sees Ninth as the closest thing they have left to family, and is overprotective.

Arthur: Veri blamed Arthur for much of the issues plaguing Tenacity / the world, but has started to consider maybe its not his fault.

Dark: neutral / positive. Veri hasn't seen Dark since the nether was opened.

Mystic: Neutral. Veri knows they like purple as well, hasn't really spoken to them.

DeadShots: Fear. After the Citadel Veri greatly hates and fears DeadShots.

Maky: Veri blamed / hated Maky for everything that had gone wrong until they were in a position that Veri had put Maky in earlier. Now Veri is actively seeking forgiveness.

Mart: While Veri hasn't seen Mart, they hate them more due to their manipulation of Ninth.

Doodles: Veri had a hatred of Doodles, but after Doodles revived Veri's dog, Lily, and promised to do the same with her dead gf, she now allies with her.

June: June was Veri's ex gf who died of the ender-plague some time before the events of the story.