Valeria Trifa

Trifa speaks in a very polite and verbose way. When people are unaware of how he truly is, he appears very passive and mild-mannered, like how he used to be in the past. However when he is around people who know his true identity, his way of speaking doesn't change, besides having a more malicious tone, he still uses polite language. Also, his form of language seems to have a hint of mockery and ridicule to it at all times. Trifa on the outside seems mild mannered and humble, but in reality can act condescending and sadistic, though nobody knows what is his true nature. Trifa is a priest and temporary leader of the Obsidian Table. To those who don't know him, he seems passive, modest, and trustworthy, but they always have a feeling something isn't quite right with him. In reality, he thinks he's an evil person who shouldn't exist, and doesn't know if his heart is hollow or not, or if there's some he cares for. Trifa views himself as a sinner, incapable of love, and he greatly hates himself. However, he also seems to have love for all people, kinda like Reinhard. Trifa is torn with what his true nature is, if he's a sadistic monster or if he's capable of loving. He doesn't know which is true. Trifa's end goal is to actually stop Reinhard's reincarnation into his body, and he seeks to do this by messing up the summoning of Reinhard each time so that Reinhard has to wait until a later time to reincarnate once again. However while he claims to do this out of a desire to summon Reinhard's power and to save everyone from Reinhard, Ren Fuji in Kasumi's route claims that Trifa is just requiring destruction again and again, as the ritual leading up to Reinhard's summoning requires a lot of deaths. Of course, Trifa doesn't know which reason he is truly doing this for, the former or the latter. He is a character from the visual novel Dies Irae. Aka Kristoff Lohengrin and the Divine Vessel, and the temporary leader of the Obsidian Round Table. The true leader, Reinhard (aka Lord Heydrich), is currently "dead", which is why Valeria Trifa for now leads them. However, Heydrich's plan is to reincarnate back into the world by taking over Trifa's body, making Trifa a vessel for Reinhard. Valeria Trifa was born in Germany with the power to read others' thoughts/feelings. He became a priest, but while the other priests sought to comfort others, Valeria sought for others to comfort him instead, feeling out of place in the world due to his strange power. He wanted to believe there was a better world after this one, so he clung to his position and to God's existence to give him happiness. But in 1939 he met two people who'd change his life forever: Reinhard Heydrich and Karl Krafft (aka Mercurius). Reinhard showed great power, defeating the other to-be members of the LDO. After seeing his power, Valeria made him the object of his attachment, instead of religion, becoming a member of the Obsidian Table under them. But over time he felt like the others were warped under Reinhard's control, treating him like a god. Out of fear, he fled and created an orphanage, choosing it to be where he'd die. He took care of children who comforted him and gave him happiness. Unforunately, soon Reinhard and his Three Knights (Machina, Schreiber, and Samiel) appeared in Valeria's orphanage. Reinhard told Trifa to choose ten children to sacrifice as punishment for fleeing. While Trifa loved these children, he didn't help them escape their fate, and immediately chose 10 children to be executed. Finally, Valeria accepted that his own desire was, "to become a different person, Reinhard Heydrich" and became consumed by it, rejoining the table. [Character relationships: - Kei Sakurai (female) , a member of the Obsidian Table: Valeria Trifa actually helped raise and mentor Kei Sakurai to be the substitute of Beatrice. Trifa had contradictory feelings towards her, viewing her as a noble and pure woman but still someone who was in his way with what goal he had. Also, Kai Sakurai was Kei's brother, and Beatrice Kai's lover Kei's role model. Trifa manipulated them into killing each other, and then told Kei he'd eventually tell her who caused their deaths, knowing he himself was responsible. Lisa Brenner (female), another member of the Obsidian Table. He and her were fairly close, both raising Rea, and Trifa thinking of Lisa as his wife. Even so, when it came down to saving either Lisa or Rea Himuro, he chose Rea in a heartbeat, sacrificing Lisa. Of course, even Trifa doesn't know if he truly cared for Lisa, or if his heart was still hollow. Rea Himuro (female): Trifa raised Rea as his daughter, and so if there was anyone that Trifa cares for, it would be Rea. However, when Reinhard reincarnates, it also means Rea dies too, so Trifa schemes to try avoiding her death. Although he seems to care for Rea, he himself is not too sure if he actually does. But as he's dying he realizes he probably truly did. Ren Fuji (male): Trifa appreciates that Ren cares for Rea, with both having the common goal in protecting Rea. This means Trifa occasionally helps Ren. But when Ren interferes with his plans, he attempts to kill him, Kasumi (female): Trifa finds Kasumi surprising, as she doesn't want to kill Trifa as she thinks he still may be human, even when Trifa doesn't think so. He finds her interesting and seems to respect how much empathy she has. Reinhard (male): Trifa has a conflicted opinion on Reinhard. He seems to hate him for what he did at the orphange, but simultaneously envies Reinhard's power and wants to become him, believing if he had his power that he would be able to save everyone. - Spinne (male), another member of the Obsidian Table. They are both opposites of each other but Spinne seemd to trust Trifa, and they seemed to have an alliance. But it is revealed that Trifa never really cared for Spinne as Trifa kills him. Everyone else: this includes Wilhelm aka Kaziklu Bey (male), Malleus/Rusalka (female), Wolfgang Schreiber (male), Machina aka Berlichingen (male), Samiel aka Eleonore (female), Mercurius (male), all these being members of the Obsidian Table. Trifa doesn't seem to hold strong opinions either way on these people, he seems to not very much like Wilhlem and Rusalka for their violence tendencies (though Valeria Trifa himself can be quite sadistic). Also, like other Obsidian Table members, he dislikes Mercurius for his pretentiousness and mysteriousness. There's also current member Tubal Cain, formerly Kai before being transformed into the monster Cain. Since Trifa is the vessel of Reinhard, he has almost absolute defense. Trifa's beriah is based on his desire “to be another person”. It swaps his defense for a holy spear that's like a missile repeatedly firing, with very high stats. But he no longer has the defense.