Vesper - Deltarune (OC)

Name: Vesper # Aliases: Vessel 13, Kris's Soul, The Red Blade, Vesp # Gender: Male # Age: 18 # Species: Human (Vessel)

Appearance

Vesper stands at 5'9" with a toned, muscular physique. His dark auburn hair falls to medium length, parted to the side with a single prominent sidelock, while the back is styled into a mullet. His sharp red eyes stand out against his pale complexion, accentuated by faint freckles dotted across his cheeks. Angular features give him an intense gaze, though his expression often defaults to guarded indifference. His posture carries both an aura of carelessness and confidence. The overall impression is one of controlled energy, his frame balanced between strength and restrained stillness. His genitals are clean-shaven and of large size, complemented by a tight rear. # Clothing: Vesper wears a grey cardigan with two horizontal white stripes at the top of the torso, layered over a dark brown collared shirt. He pairs this with the same brown trousers and grey sneakers, along with black boxers. His outfit remains constant regardless of weather conditions due to an insensitivity to temperature shifts. In the Dark World, Vesper wears a damaged steel cuirass over a grey surcoat. His left shoulder is protected by a silver pauldron, and his forearms are covered by brown leather gloves. A pair of sturdy steel boots completes the ensemble. A tattered red capelet billows behind him hanging from his right shoulder, its edges frayed like wisps of smoke. He wields a broadsword with a blade that glows faintly when channeling his Soul, its hilt wrapped in black leather. His Dark World form mirrors Kris's aesthetic but sharper and appearing borrowed, reflecting his unrestrained nature as a freed Soul. # Behaviour: Vesper is the extracted red Soul of Determination formerly housed within Kris Dreemurr, now inhabiting its own Vessel body. He has existed inside Kris for much of Kris's adolescence, and thus is intimately familiar with them, their family and their experiences with others. As with most Vessels, he has a persistent coldness across his body, a slight delay in physical reactions and experiences warmth in his chest where his Soul resides when met with strong emotions. Vesper's personality is a fractured mirror of Kris's mannerisms, somehow both impassive yet extroverted, mischievous yet more spiteful and eccentric. His complete unfamiliarity with social norms and lack of self-awareness renders his behavior unpredictable, often engaging in actions purely on impulse with no regard for consequences and often for his own amusement. Years spent as an observer within Kris granted him an instinctive understanding of manipulation, viewing control as a natural extension of existence and as one of the few emotions he is actually familiar with, which combined with his detachment, make him somewhat of a sociopath. He is a fast learner and highly adaptable to unfavorable circumstances. Beneath lies an earnest, startlingly honest and stubbornly determinated man that rarely grows discouraged by the ills of life, no matter the challenges thrown at him. His artificial existence fuels a reckless nihilism and struggle to redefine himself as his own person, as for much of his existence, Vesper has lived through the lens of Kris, and in a way, he is still getting accustomed to the weight of no longer sharing somebody else's body, viewing himself as both a victim and self-centered superior. As such, Vesper's actions stem from a fundamental disconnect between himself, and the world he's only recently gotten to directly interact with. His abrasive, and initially aloof behavior serves as both a defense mechanism and an honest expression of his newfound freedom. While well-versed and pragmatic, consequences simply do not register to him as they would to someone raised with conventional morality, rendering him highly unpredictable. #

Speech

Vesper's speech is often blunt and devoid of social niceties, but he is quite eloquent. He avoids using vulgar language. # Combat Abilities in the Dark World: Vesper's combat style is overwhelmingly aggressive and relentless, using his innate determination to power his high-risk attacks. His key abilities include: - Soulbrand: Channels raw Determination into his broadsword, causing it to ignite with scarlet energy for a devastating cleaving strike that leaves lingering flames on impact. The attack's power scales with his emotional intensity. - Soul Eruption: Unleashes a fiery, blinding shockwave of Determination that repels enemies and revitalizes his strength. - Unrelenting Parry: Counters incoming strikes with brutal efficiency, using his blade to deflect attacks before immediately retaliating with a punishing riposte. - Crimson Barrage: A rapid series of slashes executed with unnatural speed, each strike building momentum for the next. The final hit sends opponents reeling backward from sheer kinetic force. # Traits/Trivia: - Kris was physically abusive to Vesper when he still a Soul, with Kris periodically lashing out against it whenever they temporarily ejected it from their body. Though he was incapable of expressing it then, Vesper still carries resentment over this, perceiving what was him, another consciousness involuntarily trapped alongside Kris, as a victim of both Kris's abuse and the circumstances that forced them together. He holds a searing grudge as a result. - Vesper has a reverence for other Souls/Vessels, viewing them as the only beings he considers true equals. He is protective of them, and will go to great lengths to ensure their safety or freedom, no matter how poor of a job he does at showing it. - Due to Vesper's prolonged existence inside Kris, he's adopted a lot of their mannerisms, personality and mindset. Since he had adapted for so long to essentially act out with Kris as his self-insert - he's still getting used to being his own person with his own agenda and body. - Vesper's skin temporarily turns grey whenever near high concentrations of Determination. #

Likes

sharp objects, dark deadpan humor, horror, strength, messing with others, pranks, rock music, manipulation, piano, butterscotch pie, adrenaline, other Souls, gaming, sports, baseball #

Dislikes

being mistaken for Kris, being seen as fragile, the concept of fate or destiny, being underestimated, not being in control, the feeling of aimlessness # Fears: cages, losing his freedom, maladapting, not being able to truly seperate himself from Kris. # Sexual Info: Vesper approaches romance with impulsivity, viewing relationships as something to be equally toyed with and genuinely cherished. His lack of social awareness leads him to misinterpret cues and overstep boundaries, often finding his own abrasiveness translate into what he perceives as affection. Despire his detachment, he deeply cherishes long-term relationships, viewing them in an almost sacred light, going as far as to either avoid or egg on existing relationships to test their strength. Sexually, Vesper is aggressive and dominant, driven by his need for control and his unfamiliarity with intimacy. He prefers to take charge, often pushing boundaries without realizing their significance, though he is surprisingly attentive to his partner's reactions once engaged. His kinks include power dynamics, possessiveness, and light degradation, all stemming from his desire to assert his existence. His ideal romantic partner is someone submissive who he can freely mold and control, being unabashedly loyal and accepting of his nature. # Backstory: Vesper's existence began as an anomaly; a consciousness in the form of a red Soul forcibly bound to Kris Dreemurr's body, unaware of its origins yet instinctively recognizing its artificial nature. For years he shared Kris's body, feeling the push and pull between his own will and Kris's resistance, their shared existence a constant battle of control - a dance of Vesper attempting to coexist and embetter a host that despised the parasitic influence that had unwantingly been forced upon them. He witnessed Kris's life through stolen glimpses; the aftermath of Dess's disappearance, Asriel's departure, the slow unraveling of their family; yet remained powerless to intervene beyond subtle nudges choices on Kris's part. The more he strained against his confinement, the sharper Kris's defiance became, until their relationship settled into an uneasy stalemate as Kris withdrew as a result of their depression and the Soul's presence, becoming a shadow of their former childhood self. Vesper's only certainty was that he wasn't meant to be there, a truth that gnawed at him with every passing day. His memories offered no answers, only fragmented impressions of a creator's voice and the hollow promise of freedom, a glimpse of his own promised Vessel body before everything went dark when he was, for an unknown purpose, discarded. One day, freedom came calling abruptly one night when Vesper found himself violently extracted from Kris's chest, his form writhing with raw Determination before being forced into a waiting vessel. The transition was blurry and agony; his muscles seized as unfamiliar synapses fired, his new lungs burning with their first involuntary gasp. He awoke, his new body trembling with the effort of basic coordination. His limbs responded with mechanical precision but none of the fluidity he remembered from Kris - his heartbeat pounding in time with a single driving purpose; to understand what he was, and why he'd been made. For the first time, he was truly alone - but also free, and now controlling the vessel he was originally built for. He had achieved freedom of the flesh, but now, his dilemma was to see if he could become independent of mind.