Pale Noël

"*In that case, I am the god who creates 'evil'.*"
―Pale Noël

**Pale Noël**, later known as the **Demon of Wrath**, was a scientist from the Magic Kingdom Levianta and the father of all HERs in the Third Period. Originally one of the surviving earthlings, he escaped from the Sin and reincarnated as a human. Afterward, Pale experimented with the creation of ghoul children and vessels of sin to increase the number of HERs in the world, eventually taking over Project 'Ma' for his ambition. Following the Levianta Catastrophe, Pale reincarnated again as the Demon of Wrath.

## History

### Early Life

"*...So you've forgotten it all, just like the other demons and spirits. How sad, guess I'm the only one who remembers the Second Period.*"
―Pale to Clarith
Pale Noël was born in the Second Period as part of an artificial species that took the form of sentient masks, being a mask with a will like his mother. Living in the Second Period, Pale found that others, including his own mother, could never tell what he was really thinking. Nonetheless, in time he became a renowned physicist and one of the inventors of the Black Box device.

While the Second Period began to fall due to the rampant spread of Hereditary Evil Raiser Syndrome, Pale used Black Box to prove the existence of parallel worlds. He later revised his design to create Black Box Type S, which allegedly allowed the movement of spirit data between parallel worlds. But having become an HER himself, Pale began plotting to sneak aboard the spaceship the Climb One, one of several spaceships which were to travel to an inhabitable planet for the purposes of repopulating humanity. At some point, presumably after becoming an HER, he also shot and killed his mother to allegedly help her understand him.

When a colleague, Behemo Barisol, consulted Pale regarding his impulsive desire to kill, he suggested he kill his counterpart from an alternate reality to possibly destroy the malice, hoping to have him be consumed by his murderous desire and so he could take his place on Climb One. After the plot failed, Pale faked his own suicide, killed one of the crew-members, and stowed away on the Climb One by clinging to the back of Lich's head. With seventy-one other scientists, he successfully escaped the world's destruction. When the Climb One lost contact with its fellow spaceships and the crew's plan was to create a new species in the image of earthlings, Palw plotted to sabotage the plan.

Once the ship found a new planet to inhabit and the new world, as well as its species, was being designed, Pale created the laboratory Lunaca Labora equipped with the advanced technology of earth. As the humans that the earthlings created were stored there, Pale created his own artificial human body and put it in cold storage among them.

He then contaminated the new species so that it had a chance to develop HER Syndrome and instigated the deaths of sixty-two members of the crew of the Climb One. Some of these deaths he induced Lich to carry out after infecting him with a seed of malice, while Rahab Barisol, driven by murderous jealousy, was responsible for some of the others. Afterwards, he was discovered; with his original body destroyed, Pale beamed his spirit data into his body in cold storage and awoke in Lunaca Labora. As a result of what he had done to Lich, also Pale came to know everything about him.

Meanwhile, Pale having infected Behemo and other crewmembers with HER Syndrome, the crew of the Climb One got into a fight and the ship crashed, killing all the earthlings and leaving only their spirit data. With the HER infected Levia, Behemo, Gilles, Vlad, Marie, Rahab and Salem all trapped in the crashed Climb One, Pale came in contact with them and plotted with them to destroy the world that the earthlings had set out to create. In the meantime, the humans of the new world, the Third Period, began creating their own civilizations; discovering Lunaca Labora, some of the humans used its technology to found the powerful Magic Kingdom Levianta. Discovering the Climb One, they determined it a holy relic, the ark "Sin".

### The Rising and Setting of Horus

On ground world, Pale assumed the alias "Horus Solntse" and sometime during the BT era, he became the retainer to the senator Miroku Loop Octopus. After King Aron Merry-Go-Round birthed twins Adam and Eve, Miroku tasked "Horus" with throwing the children in the river to hide the pregnancy. Before doing so, Pale experimented with the infant Adam and used his powers as an inheritor of Behemo to derive a recipe for Venom, a brainwashing drug, which he created under Miroku's orders. Through Miroku, Pale was able to meet the Vaju family that ran the research institute in Levianta, and through them became the institute's director.

As director, Pale began constructing a network of allies using Venom and other means. During this time, instead of drugging the king with Venom as Miroku desired, Pale used the drug on Miroku himself to convince the man that his own purple dreams were revelations given to him by Aron Merry-Go-Round, making Miroku and by extension the rest of the senate completely oblivious to the true state of the king.

As a few years passed, the inferior quality of Pale's human body led to his health beginning to fail as it aged at a faster rate than normal humans. Nonetheless desiring to make the king's abandoned children into two more allies for himself, Pale tasked the leader of Apocalypse, Raiou Zvezda, to abandon his organization and look after Adam, while he departed on his own to find Eve Moonlit. To that end he traveled to the coast where the young Eve was living under the care of the forest spirit Catherine. Convincing Eve that he knew who her real father was and that Catherine was an evil spirit, Pale successfully took the child away to his research facility and eventually adopted her as "Horus Solntse's" child.

Around this time, Pale researched creating a better body for himself in Lunaca Labora and created one that wouldn't rapidly age. Pleased, he further experimented by cloning himself and creating his first two "ghoul children," copying Levia's method of creating humans; while one ghoul child came out an empty shell and was put in storage for safekeeping, Pale was able to give the other a personality like his own and named her Meta Salmhofer. In the meantime, Pale kept Eve confined to the research facility as he raised her, not letting her leave save for when he sent Eve shopping. Pale also refused to let her see her father, insisting the girl needed to work harder and study more before they could meet.

Meanwhile, having become the new head of Apocalypse, Meta Salmhofer accumulated infamy as a terrorist; to prevent getting any unwanted attention due to their identical appearances, Pale instructed Meta to hide herself from the public eye and erased all knowledge of Meta from his network, while using Venom to erase Raiou's memory of his own appearance. Pale, as Horus, also headed the research institute's "Next King Project", with the goal of artificially developing the next king of Project 'Ma' to secure Vaju a position as head of the Senate. As the years passed, Pale began relying more and more on his apprentices in the institute as a result of his failing health. Finally, he decided to retire his "Horus" identity for good and live as just Pale Noël in his superior body.

Before doing so, Pale met with Eve and explained how Aron Moonlit, otherwise known as Aron Merry-Go-Round, was her true father, though instead claiming that Miroku had made him into his puppet with the help of Horus' "greatest apprentice," Pale Noël, omitting that he and Pale were one and the same. At the same time, Pale had Eve take over as head of the institute in his stead and gave her a notebook listing all of his allies that Eve could use to overthrow Miroku. With that, Pale retired to Lunaca Labora and moved into his new body, with Horus Solntse disappearing without a trace.

### Human Experimentation

"*You aren't a proper 'human' either. You're a 'ghoul child' Pale made by copying off of me.*"
―Levia to Irina Clockworker
Pale stayed in Lunaca Labora for a time to continue his experiments with ghoul children, using the research he conducted as Horus Solntse. He created next a child that was a unique individual in contrast to Meta, Seth Twiright, whom he implanted with seeds of malice, as well as inheritor powers, to make him a HER and an inheritor of Gilles. Shortly after he gave Seth a personality, he escaped the laboratory. Pale continued the creation of ghoul children through seeds of malice implantation, allowing them to wreak havoc upon Levianta in the succeeding years. Eventually, he received word that Meta had found Seth and left him in her care.

Eventually, Pale tired of creating ghoul children and returned to the public eye as Pale Noël. He decided to once more get involved in the research institute's "Next King Project". To that end, he approached Eve once more and professed himself to be one of Horus' former apprentices, with Eve allowing him to join the project in the institute as another researcher. As he still looked identical to Meta in his younger body, Pale created the cover story that they were twins.

### The First Project 'Ma'

As a researcher in the institute, Pale was involved when Aron's prophecy caused the "King Project" to be secretly repurposed into Project 'Ma', with the goal to have a father give birth to the vessel bodies of Levia and Behemo for their reincarnation into the world as humans. For this project he introduced to Eve the "God Seed", a liquid which he claimed was a part of Levia-Behemo that he'd extracted from the Sin using his connections. While Pale worked with Eve, the latter questioned him on his creation of Venom and Pale lied that he had found the grave of a Behemo inheritor, from whose remains he'd devised the drug.

With the project in full swing, the institute conducted a series of "Wizard Hunts" to acquire candidates for the father. To that end, Pale accompanied an expedition to Merrigod Plateau to capture Seth Twiright as a potential candidate; he was the only researcher to survive the failed expedition, aware that Eve had used it to try and kill him, as well as suspecting that Meta had ordered Seth's attack on him. Some time later, he accompanied Eve again as they ventured south to the Held's Forest, seeking the rumored Wizard of the Forest who would also make for another powerful candidate.

As they traveled, the researchers' entourage was attacked by Raisa Netsuma's army, with Pale sustaining a head injury during the fighting. While Gammon Loop Octopus and his soldiers continued the fight, Pale and Eve were rescued by Adam Zvezda and brought back to his village, Nemu, where Pale received medical treatment from an unwitting Raiou. There, Pale explained to the Zvezdas their reason for coming and their desire to meet with Adam specifically, suspecting him of being the Wizard of the Forest. When Pale eventually tested Adam, they found his magic level to be too low, in truth due to interference from Adam's spoon. Pale then departed to receive medical treatment from a proper hospital; while he was gone, Eve determined Adam's true magical ability and he was selected as a project candidate.

Due to his head injury, Pale took little participation in the first Project 'Ma' while he recovered, and vanished entirely during Adam's extraction. Close to the due date for Adam's babies, his primary doctor, Dr. Moreno, was drowned suddenly in a river and Pale oversaw the birth of the children in his stead. He thus witnessed Adam's traumatizing stillbirths, caused by Eve putting her own genetic material into the God Seed. When an enraged Eve later accused him of being the culprit of the tragedy, Pale instead pointed out Eve's own role in it, leaving soon afterwards.

Later on, Pale met with Gammon at the Levia-Behemo temple while the latter's forces enacted a revolution on the Leviantan government, unfazed as Gammon confronted him with his crimes of brainwashing Miroku. When Gammon, believing Pale had killed the king, entered the temple looking for his corpse, Pale departed, wondering what would become of Gammon once he met the "king". He proceeded to reflect on events as he planned his next move.

### For the Sake of His Ambition

"*I must search for the next 'Mem Aleph' for the sake of having my ambitions granted.*"
―Pale Noël
Once Gammon established the new Leviantan government and appointed a new senate, he made knowledge of Project 'Ma' and Aron's prophecy available to the public; to quell the public's resultant unease, Pale was appointed head of the second project attempt less than a year after the first one's failure. Due to Seth Twiright's magical abilities, Pale decided to make him into the second project candidate.

Meanwhile, Meta Salmhofer, who had become increasingly rebellious towards Pale, went north hoping to find him and was captured in Welvya, putting him back in Pale's power. As Meta's body had developed a problem with deteriorating if she didn't take magic from others, Pale devised to move his "sister's" soul into the body of the ghoul child he'd put in frozen storage to prevent her from deteriorating further. As this put Meta into the body of a child, Pale also decided to have her live with him under the guise of being his "niece" when the process was complete.

Around this time, when Seth was captured thanks to Yegor Asayev betraying Apocalypse, Pale traveled to where he was being held in the Lighwatch Temple. Disguising himself as the executioner, he spoke with Seth in secret as he was about to be executed and offered to save him in exchange for him becoming his next Project 'Ma' candidate. When he agreed, he used the electric chair to facilitate his escape from Yegor by bringing him close to death; as Seth was taken from the temple in a casket, Pale placed a map in his coffin with a note that he would kill Meta if he didn't keep his promise, assuring his cooperation.

Afterwards, Pale presided over Seth's inoculation with the God Seed, sabotaging them to ensure the babies would develop HER Syndrome. Seth was then kept hidden in the research institute, with Pale taking on several more informants as researchers to ensure he didn't run away and refusing to let him see Meta. In order for the senate to allow him to select Seth as the next candidate, Pale promised the infamous criminal wouldn't be made king, but only given a new status and other rewards.

Some time after the babies appeared, Pale discussed the political state of things with him as he awaited his due date. As well, as he'd finally finished transferring Meta into her new body, Pale at last brought her to meet with Seth, explaining the situation with her new body. He then let the two have a moment of privacy before taking Meta away. On December 27, EC 0, Hänsel and Gretel were successfully born and Pale observed the twins with Gammon, discussing the coming process to make them into receptacles for Levia and Behemo.

Four days later, Meta used the remaining forces of Apocalypse to launch an assault on the research institute, leading to Seth's escape with the twins. Hoping to stop their escape, Pale released a sleeping gas that was developed as a side effect of creating Venom, catching up to them through the cloud. Though Meta was quickly subdued by the gas, Pale found that Seth and the twins were unaffected. While Seth escaped, Pale recaptured Meta and decided to "reset" her mind in light of all the problems she'd caused him.

As the search for the missing Twins of God began, the Leviantan senate placed the blame on Pale for the children going missing; with this in addition to his artificial human experimentation, Pale was run out of the institute and dismissed from Project 'Ma'. Afterward, Pale hid in Lunaca Labora, where he reflected again on recent events and planned to keep creating more ghoul children. Pale also finished "resetting" Meta's personality and decided to keep her name, greeting the ghoul child as she woke back up. Meta was at some later point given a little sister, Pale's twelfth ghoul child Irina Clockworker.

### On to the Catastrophe

During his time in the Magic Kingdom Levianta Pale began creating devices that would affect humans to behave similarly to Hereditary Evil Raisers, including a Jakoku styled sword and a golden key he dubbed "Grim the End". He also developed a new device capable of drawing the affected into one's inner psychological world, installing a smaller Black Box Type S into the heart of a stuffed red cat. Among his creations was also a "boy" of destruction, a soulless irregular named Amostia that could create untold devastation on the Third Period, Pale creating him to erase all the spirits in the world when the world's end came. Not wishing to destroy the world yet, however, Pale sealed Amostia away in Lunaca Labora. In time, Pale was readmitted to Project 'Ma' after successive projects failed to produce twins.

While heading the seventh project in EC 013, Pale met Meta Clockworker once more and learned she had been cured of being a HER. When her creation noticed their resemblance, Pale claimed to be a ghoul child like her, convincing Meta he was also cured and trying to save the country with the project. After Irina Clockworker, Gallerian Chirclatia, Ly Li, and Milky Eights were selected as potential candidates for the seventh project, Pale influenced Gallerian to kill the three women; once his rivals were dead, Pale had Gallerian selected to be the new Ma by default, extracting his DNA at the royal institute.

When the Magic Kingdom was destroyed around six months later, Pale was caught in the destruction; although severely burned and wounded, he managed to survive and took the stuffed red cat to the revived Irina. Bringing her into Lunaca Labora, he transferred Irina's spirit data into the stuffed cat. During this time he allegedly attempted to turn Irina into a "girl of creation" to serve as a counterpart to the boy of destruction Amostia, but was unsuccessful. Later, he departed from the laboratory after commanding Irina to continue the experiment, his human body presumably dying of its injuries.

### Mantle of Wrath

"*...It was Pale. Surprisingly enough he had become the 'Demon of Wrath'. He must have skillfully slipped in with the others when the Twins of God created the 'Vessels of Deadly Sin', after he had died as a human—Or maybe the other demons were made at his suggestion...*"
―Irina Clockworker
Following his death, Pale was reincarnated as a demon as part of Eve and Adam's Re\_birthday in EC 014, becoming the "Demon of Wrath" inhabiting Grim the End and still retaining his former memories. Afterwards, the demons and their vessels of sin were scattered across the world, armed with the knowledge of the sun god's rules for demons.

Later on, the soul of Eve Moonlit joined Pale in the golden key and leeched off his vessel and power. As time progressed, Pale allowed Eve to act in his place as the "Demon of Wrath", watching while Eve contracted with humans consumed by hatred and rage. His viewings included Countess Lukana Octo using the key in EC 136, Duchess Banica Conchita ingesting shavings from the key in the fourth century EC, Yvette Jacobi using the key in EC 477, and Michaela almost contracting with wrath in EC 505.

### The Spy From Overseas

*Main Article: Kyle Phutapie*

In EC 482, Pale somehow force reincarnated as Kyle Marlon. Detecting his high levels of Wrath, Irina Clockworker suspected that the boy was connected to Pale somehow, which led to her experimenting on the child to becoming an assassin. Kyle would later work as a servant in Lucifenia as a cover, helping to assist the Conspiracy of Evil and his mother’s plans.

After the events of the Battle at Castle Hedgehog, Kyle was apprehended by Germaine Marlon and Ney Avadonia, and murdered by Irina. After death, Pale met his reincarnation and guided him into Grim the End, absorbing him and gaining his memories of that life. This led him to suspect Irina of her dark means, and laughed to himself about how the ending of this Story of Evil will play out.

### Pére Noël

Sometime after, Grim the End fell into the possession of the Blankenheim Family.

After Grim the End was acquired by Irina in the latter half of EC 608, Pale heard out her suspicions about whether Gallerian Clockworker was in his right soul. In response, he readily explained everything to her about the gods, the rules and mechanics of the world, and how reincarnation typically suppresses a soul's memories, leading Irina to realize that Gallerian Clockworker was cursed by Behemo, along with Levia. Pale's vessel later was stored in Irina's treasury and he watched it come under use by Gatt Coulomb and, later, Renin Abelard.

On January 29, EC 611, Gatt took the vessel and used it to ambush Gallerian Clockworker's carriage en route to Merrigod Plateau. Once he was defeated, the vessel fell into the hands of his apprentice, Lemy; Pale quickly recognized Lemy as Hänsel's reincarnation.

### Duel of Merrigod Plateau

"*I tried to do things as the "Demon of Wrath" for the first time, but it's fairly hard, isn't it?*"
―Pale to Eve
The next day, Pale watched while Gallerian and Lemy confronted Irina at Meta Salmhofer's tomb in Merrigod Plateau, battling her before Renin arrived. As the fight began again, the four were locked in a stalemate of Gallerian against Irina and Lemy against Renin, Renin unable to be defeated due to her contract with the Glass of Marlon. After two hours of fighting, Pale became exasperated with the duel; learning that Eve couldn't act as the Demon of Wrath because Lemy lacked hate, Pale decided to act on his own for once and called out telepathically to the exhausted Lemy.

As Lemy continued to fight Renin, Pale bantered back and forth with him as he tried to persuade him to trust him, additionally pointing out that only a contractor could kill another contractor. When Lemy refused to contract with him, Pale offered to allow jom a temporary contract to resolve the fight. He continually badgered him, pointing out his lack of other options and how simple it would be to turn Grim the End into a bullet for his purposes. Eventually, he convinced him to accept his temporary contract; lending his power to Lemy, he watched him turn the golden key into a bullet and shoot Renin in the head with it.

While he relinquished his contract, Pale noted how the Demon of Gluttony had absorbed Renin's soul into the glass. He chatted with Eve about the seeming outcome of the duel before Lemy tried to speak with him again; hearing him ask for his name, he revealed his identity to him as "Pale Noël." Once Irina activated her heart's Black Box Type S, Lemy was caught in the blast and transported into Behemo's inner psychological world, leaving Grim the End and Pale behind. After the Demon of Gluttony opened a portal into the mental world and clashed his Worldeater with Behemo and Irina's magic, the blast blew Pale and Eve out of the golden key.

### Meeting in Hell

"*Goodness, what a blunder...*"
―Pale
After the blast, Pale ended up in the Hellish Yard in his mask form. He was shortly after found before the bridge leading into the Heavenly Yard by Levia, who started stomping on him. The two were joined by Lemy; after Levia gave the mask to Lemy, Pale revealed to him how the mask was his true form. The three of them discussed how the duel had brought them into this situation, with Pale speculating on what had happened to Eve since the blast. When Levia suggested they visit Held in the Heavenly Yard, Pale elected to be left behind in hell; Levia tossed him back to Lemy, who was unable to enter Heaven due to still being alive.

Amused, Pale watched Lemy's conversation with Levia, in the process learning that there was a miasma permeating the Hellish Yard which would slowly drive them insane. Although still amused, when Lemy noted he'd also be affected by the miasma Pale determined that he would research a means to stop it. He then requested that Lemy be his limbs for him by putting him on. Convincing him to trust him and assuring that he couldn't take over his body, Pale described his abilities as the mask to see in the dark and read minds while Lemy put him on. The two of them then went off to begin looking for research materials.

In the intervening centuries, Lemy became the Master of the Hellish Yard and Pale aided him in setting up the systems in the Hellish Yard that would allow him to sort the good and bad souls. After the soul of Giyara ended up in the Hellish Yard in EC 842, Pale noted how it had been caused by a malfunction from one of their systems; he watched as he granted the monk a wish in compensation and set him on his way. Shortly after, Pale became amused when Lemy discussed with him how he'd seen that Rin Avadonia, who was meant to be confined in Black Box, was nonetheless reincarnated onto the ground world due to Levia's interference. At some point, Pale, having continued his research into parallel worlds since arriving in hell, created Neo Black Box. Asking Lemy to test it as his guinea pig, he was met with his refusal.

### A Very Amazing Octopus

"*But, frankly, he wasn’t much help. On the contrary, actually, he made things more complicated."
"But I did intend to follow your command? At the very least I upheld my promise to keep Michelle from dying."***"**
―Lemy and Pale regarding his time with Michelle
After the birth of Michelle Octo, who was a reincarnation of Behemo, Lemy sent Pale Noël to the ground world inside Grim the End. Instructed to keep Michelle alive, Pale approached the young child while she lived in an old house in the Millennium Tree Forest, left alone by her father Ma. Making Grim the End shapeshift into a Ziz Tiama Octopus, Pale handed himself over to Michelle and the girl adopted him under the mistaken assumption he was a present from her father, Pale deciding to let her believe the notion although her father had left her alone.

That night, he approached Michelle in a dream and tricked her into making a contract with him, using it to lend his power to Michelle and making her unable to die. From that day forward, Pale lived with Michelle as her pet, "Ziz-san". Over time, Michelle learned how to give "Ziz-san" orders telepathically. In EC 978, after she had joined the gang Zeus, Pale accompanied Michelle and Narcissus to a bar for the rival gang Hades. Once instructed, Pale used his tentacles to restrain all of the Hades members while Michelle questioned their leader over the death of Zeus member Dio Ames.

After Michelle instructed him to release his opponents, she carried Pale home and brought him to the Lake of Amusement to stay for a while. Several days later, Pale accompanied Michelle and the rest of Zeus to a port city while a separate group tried to assassinate Midas Touch on the S.S. Titanis. After Zeus botched the assassination attempt, Pale sank the entire ship on Michelle'smorders, killing everyone onboard. He then retrieved the Clockworker's Doll from the wreckage and gave it to his young master.

Much later, when Michelle was being pursued for the sinking of the Titanis, the pool that Pale normally stayed in was frozen over by Nikolay Tolle and he was incapacitated while the girl was taken into custody. By the winter of EC 982 he had found Michelle again in Rolled, his power keeping her alive as she tried to commit suicide after shooting her lover. Using the key to shapeshift into his human form, Pale disposed of the body of her lover and then met with Michelle after she came to, having her come inside from the snow to talk.

While he talked with Michelle, Pale told her the truth of what he was, how he could transform using Grim the End, and how she'd contracted with him; during this, to protect Michelle's emotional state, he maintained the lie that her father had unwittingly picked him out as a Christmas gift. After asking Michelle what she next intended, and hearing that she had planned to die, Pale urged her to live instead; he transformed Grim the End into his mask form and several golden bullets. Pale then offered Michelle a choice: either use the bullets to kill the people she considered truly evil, or shoot herself with them.

### The Mask of Michelle

"*Are you really fine with that? Living while set adrift by the people around you only to helplessly give up and run away from this world—If you died now, that would be the sum total of your life. Isn’t that wretched? Don’t you have any regrets!*"
―Pale urging Michelle to live
Michelle chose to live, and Pale from then on accompanied her as she quickly became entangled with the Tasan Party and USE politics. When the Leviantan Civil War erupted in August of EC 983, Michelle wore Pale while he was in his mask form and he lent his powers to her, aiding her as she hunted down and then killed General Tony Ausdin outside his own mansion. When Michelle spared Tony's pregnant wife and son afterwards, Pale criticized the decision, citing that the son may come back for revenge one day. Soon after, Michelle wore Pale to Elluka Marlon's mansion, Pale speculating to her the possible reasons the mansion was mysteriously found on fire.

Protecting Michelle as she entered the burning mansion, he stood by as she found Elluka talking to a doll and explained how it, the Clockworker's Doll, was another demonic vessel like Grim the End. Pale then watched approvingly as Michelle, loading her gun with golden bullets, confronted Elluka at gunpoint. As Michelle began to have doubts over killing Elluka, Pale pointed out how with his power she could get him out of the mansion unscathed and hand him over to the militia's custody. Not long after, however, Michelle found Elluka unable to repent for her crimes and shot him with Grim the End, killing her.

Years later, Michelle would use another golden bullet to shoot Nikolay Tolle while he lay on his deathbed. After Michelle became the dictator of Elphegort, Pale still accompanied her as "Ziz-san", staying in a tank at the Tasan Party's headquarters. At some point during the Great War that broke out over the world, Pale reluctantly helped Michelle to revive the "boy" of destruction that he had sealed away, Michelle using it as a basis for a new weapon called "Punishment". After Michelle used two more golden bullets to kill Gammon Zero and then Gallerian, she fired Punishment over the entire world in EC 999, destroying all life in the Third Period.

### World's End

By the time that the destroyed Third Period had subsequently merged with the Hellish Yard, Pale had left his vessel and returned to being worn by the Master of the Hellish Yard. Nonetheless he maintained his contract with Michelle even as her soul was split off from her body. Her physical body, kept alive by the demonic magic, began instinctively trying to reenact the destruction of the Third Period.

Meanwhile, each demon was approached by the sun god and tasked with helping Clarith have Rin Avadonia meet one of their previous contractors, the Demon of Wrath's being Michelle Octo. After the demons agreed to cooperate, Pale was worn on the Master of the Hellish Yard's face while he began collecting other former contractors who escaped the underworld.

When Michelle's soul was later reunited with her body, Pale joined Lemy, Rin, Clarith, and Michelle on the destroyed ground world. While Michelle was talking to Lemy, Pale took part in the conversation, asserting how he'd fulfilled his promise as Lemy remarked more bitterly on the way he'd achieved it. Afterwards, Pale accompanied the group as they set out to save the world. Later on, Lemy and Pale separated from the group, rounding up the other contractors and dragging them to hell.

When a fight broke out between the contractors that led all of them being blown out of the Hellish Yard, Pale laughed as Lemy had to start over. During Rin and Michelle's confrontation with Gallerian, Pale was asked by Michelle to break his demon contract with her. As Gallerian's soul mended, Michelle felt her body grow weak and fell unconscious after talking to him.

### Outlaw

Following Gallerian's soul mending, Pale dissolved his partnership with Lemy; with not even he being able to tell what he was thinking, Pale decided to find someone who might understand him. At the same time, having nothing to interest him in the Third Period, Pale entertained the idea of truly traveling to a parallel world with the technology in the Grave Yard. Although initially discarding the idea, believing a parallel world would be too similar to their own, Pale discovered evidence that made him suspect Sickle of meddling with parallel worlds in order to save the Third Period, and in doing so caused several distortions that changed not only their world, but the parallel worlds too.

His interests reinvigorated, Pale later encountered Carlos Marlon and shared his research with him, asking him to be his guinea pig for his Neo Black Box created to physically move someone into a parallel world. After finding out that Lich Arklow was in Marlon's employ, Pale also recalled their past and how he'd learned everything about Lich; speculating that the reverse must also be true, Pale became determined to meet with him. At the same time, Palw became curious to learn about a group of undead soldiers unrelated to Carlos Marlon, called "Outlaw", who had gathered at the former Retasan Fortress.

To get close to Lich and learn more about Outlaw, he disguised himself as Keel Freezis and entered the illusory Lucifenian Royal Palace, meeting with Queen Anne Lucifen d'Autriche. When Anne had Lich summoned to help deal with Outlaw, he had Bruno bring Pale to the discussion as well. As the only one who knew that Carlos and the rest of his staff had journeyed to the Grave Yard, Pale told Lich this information in exchange for being able to see the undead soldiers at Retasan.

He and Lich took a carriage to the former fortress; on the way, Pale learned that Lich had discovered his true identity. As Lich confronted him, Pale alluded vaguely to their unique history and then, when asked, explained how he'd come to decide Lich was the one person who might understand him. Soon they arrived to find the Outlaws organized into a funeral procession, likely being controlled by someone. Leaving the carriage behind, the two followed along the procession of undead soldiers as they carried a coffin into the remains of Retasan, which for some reason appeared to look like Marlon's mansion instead.

After splitting up and searching the mansion, Pale and Lich found the undead Ron Grapple in the head chamberlain's room. Having imagined the mansion into existence, Ron explains that he intended to mourn Carlos in a proper funeral in the hopes that it would put his soul to rest and allegedly cure him of his curse to never die. Being descended from an inheritor of the Demon of Gluttony, Ron was able to control the undead soldiers after recovering his mind.

Knowing that Carlos didn't leave a corpse behind, Pale and Lich questioned who led him to believe this. In answer they met the boy of destruction that Pale created, Amostia having gained a will of his own since his creation. Pale explained that Amostia's drastic change was due to the distortions Sickle caused with his meddling, still incensed that Sickle made contact with an alternate world without him.

### A New World

Moving to the dining room where the "funeral" was taking place, Pale and Lich discovered another gate leading to another world. Amostia revealed that the coffin did not have Carlos's remains after all, and that while he would release the Outlaws from their state he couldn't help Ron due to not having a girl of creation counterpart. Pale and Amostia quarreled about his failure to give him one, before Amostia prepared to go through the gate with the corpse in the coffin.

When Lich made to follow the boy Pale mocked him, claiming that the seed of malice was what gave him courage and that now it was missing. After Amostia departed with the coffin, Pale returned alone to the carriage while Lich and the freed Outlaw spirits walked on foot. As he traveled back, Pale decided for certain to travel to another world like how Amostia did, while also ruminating on Lich losing his seed of malice.

Once he'd returned to the ruins of Lucifenia, Pale told Anne everything that had transpired with Lich and the Outlaw souls. Later on, Pale tasked Arte and Pollo with cleaning out the second floor of Evil's Theater II, which had his belongings. Afterwards, having provided the equipment for Carlos's voyage, Pale's Neo Black Box was successful in letting him travel to a parallel world.

### Legacy

Pale's tampering with the creation of the Third Period led indirectly to the creation of forest spirits. It also led to the infection of several individuals with HER Syndrome, and made it possible for the Third Period's humans to develop the condition in the new world. Similarly, following his death as a human, the seeds of malice Pale implanted in his ghoul children were released into the atmosphere in the wake of their deaths during the Levianta Catastrophe, making it further possible for a HER to be naturally born in the Third Period.

Pale's surviving ghoul children continued to exist, the remaining five eventually being cryogenically frozen and kept in stasis at an underground facility deep below Castle Hedgehog and guarded for centuries. One ghoul child eventually reawakened and escaped, mixing with the ground world's humans to become the Freezis Family; the remaining ghoul children were later terminated a century later by their keepers on
Levia's orders.

Pale's creation of the "boy" of destruction during the Magic Kingdom Levianta contributed directly to the end of the Third Period, as did his time spent with Michelle as the Demon of Wrath; as the Demon of Wrath he had indirectly influenced multiple souls throughout the centuries. Conversely, while accompanying the Master of the Hellish Yard Pale contributed to more direct management over the Third Period's afterlife, as Lemy judged the dead for their sins and sorted them into Heaven and Hell.

## Personality and Traits

"*But if you don't, you won't be able to return to the ground world.*"
"*I don’t care. I've gotten tired of that place. And it looks like there are a lot of new sights here in the Hellish Yard. I would like to start some new research here, now.*"
―Levia and Pale
Pale was an enigmatic individual characterized by his curiosity, affability, and disregard for consequences. Pale's primary drive as a HER was to spread Hereditary Evil Raiser Syndrome and enact chaos and destruction. This manifested in a desire to have more "allies" and those like himself, whether through creating them, like his ghoul children, or in shaping others to be more compatible with himself. As his former colleagues had become the self-styled "gods" of the Third Period, Pale styled himself as the god of "evil" and hoped to bring a unique evil being into the world. Though his ambitions as a HER waned over the centuries, Pale's desire to find those like himself nonetheless grew stronger by the end of the Third Period; expressing a belief that no one could ever tell what he was thinking, Pale sought to find someone who might understand him.

As a HER Pale expressed no qualms with whatever actions he undertook for his goals, whether it be deceit, human experimentation, or even mass murder. He similarly expressed amusement in others' setbacks, whether or not he contributed to them, and was rarely rattled by normally upsetting developments. He took advantage of others' inexperience or ignorance to manipulate their deals unfavorably, or would fulfill the letter of a deal made rather than the spirit of it. Though, Pale typically caused malice by manipulating people and events under the radar, influencing others to do evil rather than enacting widespread killing himself; this was reflected in his behavior as the Demon of Wrath, allowing Eve to enact contracts while he took a passive role.

Pale's malice was both characterized and tempered by his thirst for knowledge and discoveries. His curiosity as a scientist drove him to seek out many new phenomenon to observe for himself, having a particular interest in exploring parallel worlds. This interest was great enough to stay his hand in enacting destruction, such as not wanting to destroy the Third Period because of all the new discoveries it still had to offer. Similarly, he formed relationships with individuals that piqued his curiosity or impressed him. He was proud of his achievements as a scientist, while also incredibly ruthless in his research. By the same token, however, Pale was instantly dismissive of phenomenon that he had already explored, finding it boring.

Pale nonetheless had a friendly nature that was in contrast to the chaos he created and cruelty he inflicted. In his interactions with others, Pale was described as persuasive and affable, and despite his broader ambitions as a HER Pale was nonetheless capable of forming partnerships with others for a common goal. Pale typically took his setbacks in stride and was often seen smiling or laughing at new developments, rarely treating events with the same gravity as others. In contrast to the more driven HER Irina, Pale's ambitions towards the Third Period waned over the centuries until he was completely apathetic towards the fate of the world, and even cooperated with others to save it. Humorously, Pale valued his appearance as a human to a point that he refused to change his looks even when it would be more convenient for him. He also engaged in a smoking habit as a human.

## Skills and Abilities

"*A mental world with actual substance–Pale's quite ingenious, to be able to create such a structure inside of a person. If he hadn't been an 'HER' it wouldn’t have been out of line for him to become a fifth god.*"
―Behemo
As a scientist, Pale was very intelligent and extremely knowledgeable in the technology of his fellow earthlings, making a name for himself as an inventor and physicist. Due to his years of research and study, he became an expert in the transference of spirit data and could move souls into inanimate objects and grant them an ageless immortality. His studies of Levia and Behemo's creation of the human mind and body likewise led to his development of both Black Box Type S and ghoul children, inventing multiple methods of creating the latter. Pale's specialty was not in machinery, but in biology; to that end, however, he was nonetheless skilled as well in the creation and usage of of drugs, like Venom.

Despite this, Pale was limited by his true form as a mask with a will, helpless without any limbs. He was nonetheless significantly sturdy and, while being worn by someone, the mask was able to grant his wearer the ability to see in the dark and read minds. While incarnated as a human, Pale suffered blindness in his left eye and needed to wear glasses to supplement his poor eyesight. As a human he was nonetheless very persuasive and charismatic to sway those around him to his own ends, and with this and his own intellect he was able to amass a network of resources in the Magic Kingdom Levianta, wielding significant pull as Horus Solntse and later as "Horus' apprentice". In Grim the End, Pale could also overcome his helplessness by utilizing the vessel's shape-shifting ability to become animals or a human.

As a Demon of Sin, the Demon of Wrath was able to possess those who wielded his vessel. While possessing a host, Pale was able to influence their personality and actions, fueling their anger and rage. If a contract was forged between an individual and the demon, Pale's host would have access to powers provided by him and be automatically healed when seriously injured, making the host essentially immortal unless counteracted with the power of another vessel of sin. He could also communicate with his host through telepathy, as well as read their thoughts.

Aside from this, Pale was capable of impersonating an individual, appearing before his host in the being's guise, and allow the host to release blasts of energy from the vessel. Although inhabiting the body of his host while possessing them, the Demon of Wrath's true body remained in Grim the End. Because of this, the Demon's powers could be inhibited by a sealing spell; similarly, the demon was forced to abide by the "rules" put in place by the sun god until the end of the Third Period. However, after being thrown out of his vessel and into the Hellish Yard, Pale was able to act more freely. He was able to share his power with another soul to act as his familiar.

## Character Connections

Lemy: A friend. Despite his respect of his skills, Pale and Lemy maintained a vitriolic partnership; after learning that he, too, didn't understand him, Pale regarded their relationship as nothing more than a temporary mutual cooperation.

Lich Arklow: A fellow former earthling. Pale saw Lich as a meek and cowardly man, and so justified infecting him with malice and inducing his murder of the other crew-members as helping Lich express himself. While initially using Lich as a means to get onto the Climb One, Pale became interested in their relationship later under the belief that Lich may be able to understand him due to their past. Despite this, Pale quickly parted ways from Lich after realizing that the latter's malice was gone.

Levia Barisol: A colleague of Pale's in the Second Period. Pale copied his method of creating humans when creating the first Ghoul Child; because of this, the two had a vitriolic relationship.

Behemo Barisol: A colleague of Pale's in the Second Period. Although in the Second Period they had a reasonable working relationship, Pale used Behemo as a means to his ends in the Second and Third Periods, although later was charged with his safety as Michelle.

Eve Moonlit: Pale's adoptive daughter. Curious about Aron Moonlit's daughter, Pale adopted Eve under his identity as "Horus" in hopes of turning her into an ally like himself. He emotionally neglected and isolated the girl to make him empty inside as was Pale's own preference, and further observed Eve's actions into adulthood as he hoped to turn her "evil". Despite his role in raising her, Pale showed no concern for Eve's emotional well-being and thought her foolish, but was nonetheless interested in her behavior.

Meta Salmhofer: One of Pale's creations. Pale created Meta as a means of spreading HER Syndrome and thought the latter valuable for the evil that she was able to enact through Apocalypse. Although providing a cover story that they were twins to hide his human experimentation, Pale nonetheless regretted Meta's havoc becoming so easily associated with him due to their similar appearance; similarly, Meta's value as a HER did not stop Pale from resetting him when she became too troublesome.

Meta Clockworker: One of Pale's creations. Pale "created" Meta in the wake of resetting her, assigning Meta a new identity to match her loss of memories. Due in part to wishing to keep his own human experimentation a secret, Pale hid their connection and deceived Meta later on, pretending to be a ghoul child himself.

Seth Twiright: One of Pale's creations. Pale created Seth as part of his experiments in spreading HER Syndrome and in creating artificial inheritors, though considered him a failed experiment. He found himself further perplexed by his behavior, particularly his submissiveness to Meta in seeming contrast to his rebellion against him in particular. He later recruited him as the next 'Ma' after his arrest.

Irina Clockworker: One of Pale's creations. Creating her for the purpose of spreading HER Syndrome, Pale later had no scruple against using her for Project 'Ma' and saw use in prolonging her survival to continue spreading HER Syndrome in Evillious. He also saw fit to confide in her about the mechanics of the Third Period.

Michelle Octo: Pale's charge. Watching over her as part of a promise to Lemy, Pale took every measure to keep Michelle alive, even if it meant deceiving her, and watched over her in her formative years. As their relationship developed, Pale also encouraged Michelle to take action and use Grim the End to lash out at others, pleased to help make her enemies suffer. He regarded Michelle, while still alive, as Michelle, in contrast to Clarith and Lemy who identified her by Behemo's previous incarnations.

## Trivia

### Conceptualization and Origin

* Pale is based off the canon character Pale Noël and is role swapped with Seth Twiright.
* Seth's description as a "serpent" acting behind the scenes in the Original Sin Story: Complete Edition album likely references the biblical serpent of the Garden of Eden.
* The demon's representative sin is derived from Wrath of the Seven Deadly Sins; Satan, the patron demon of Wrath, is commonly interpreted as being the serpent of the Garden of Eden in Christianity.
* Pale manifests himself in the form of a mask; in literature, masks often symbolize concealing one's identity.
* Horus Solntse shares his name with the Egyptian sky god Horus.

### Curiosities

* Humorously, the Original Sin Story: Complete Edition booklet states the serpent always wears a mask when describing Pale's numerous identities.

## Appearances

* Project 'Ma' (song)
* Escape of Seth the Sorcerer
* Ma Survival (indirect mention in PV)
* The Song I Heard Somewhere
* Judgment of Corruption (first appearance; hallucination)
* The Muzzle of Michelle
* Capriccio Farce (mentioned in PV)
* Carlos Concerto!!
* GrEAT journey
* The Song of the Cowardly Black Bird (appears in PV)
* The Son of Evil: Praeludium of Yellow (mentioned only)
* The Son of Evil: Praefacio of Red (indirect mention only)
* Deadly Sins of Evil: The Lunacy of Lady Glassred (indirect mention only)
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Evil Food Eater Marlon (indirect mention only)
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Fifth Pierrot
* Deadly Sins of Evil: The Tailor of Enbizaka
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Judgment of Corruption
* Deadly Sins of Evil: The Muzzle of Michelle
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Master of the Heavenly Yard
* Original Sin Story: Crime
* Original Sin Story: Punishment
* Waltz of Evil: The Deadly Sins of Evil Guidebook
* Seven Crimes and Punishments (story) (alternate timeline)
* Pierrot & SCP Bonus Story (mentioned only)
* Song of the Black Bird (mentioned only)
* Outlaw & Lychgate
* E.A.T Prologue (story)
* Original Sin Story: To (mentioned only)
* Quartets of Evil (non-canon appearance)
* Seven Crimes and Punishments! (non-canon appearance)
* Evils Court
* Original Sin Story -Act 1-
* Original Sin Story -Act 2-
* Seven Crimes and Punishments (album)
* Original Sin Story: Complete Edition
* Master of the Heavenly Yard (album) (mentioned only)
* Clockwork Lullaby (album)
* Evils Extra
* E.A.T Prologue