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Player Information

Name: Britt
Personal Journal: sugarrushing
Age: 21
Contact Info: sugarrushing or xxAMETZA on AIM
Other Characters Played: [OU] Sheba and [OU] Anise Tatlin

Character Information

Character Name: Dio (spoilery real name is "Left," but he goes by Dio)
Character Series: Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Character Age: He looks as though he's in his early-to-mid-twenties, but his actual age is up in the air. He's from the fourth generation of a group of clones, but the game never actually says when his generation of clones was made.
Character Gender: Male
Original Canon
Canon Point: After taking the Myrmidon knife from Alice's dead body in the timeline where he stashes the knife between AB rooms and she finds it.
Background Link: Dio's Background | Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition

tl;dr the characters from this game are stuck in yet another incarnation of the Nonary Game that is deliberately set up so that Sigma and Phi can jump from timeline to timeline in order to develop their timeline jumping skills so that they can stop an outbreak of a terrible virus that happened a looooong time ago and pretty much screwed humanity over, while Dio's the dickhead trying to stop them from doing so. With betrayal. And bombs.
Personality: Dio isn't stupid - he's just an asshole. It's important to keep this in mind, because while he certainly acts like an idiot from time to time, he's not unintelligent. The sooner you understand this, the less likely it is that he'll be able to trick you, because he very often acts like he just messed up by accident to keep from being held accountable for his actions. (Not that it works during the Nonary Game; most of the people involved are to genre savvy when it comes to dealing with jackasses. But he does play the fool rather convincingly if you don't know he's a jerk to start with.)

He is incredibly selfish. Case in point: though it's definitely possible for everyone to escape from the Nonary Game alive, he purposely tries to just get himself out as quickly as possible and makes it obvious that he doesn't care whether or not his gamemates live or die. He states many times that his ultimate goal is to look out for number one. In the short term, this means getting himself out of the Nonary Game safely; in the long term, however, this actually means furthering the aims of the religious cult called Free the Soul and making the man called Brother proud.

Dio is a fanatical believer in the teachings of Free the Soul (which basically states that humans are corrupted by greed and are, in most cases, beyond redemption; the tl;dr version of it is that people must separate themselves from greed and worldliness, and then when they die they can be reborn in the form of a new, "pure" human being - in this case, meaning a clone). He was raised on them from birth (which is understandable, given that he is a clone) and this means that his default impression of other people is that they're just as impure and corrupted as the very worst examples of humanity. He believes that the only way to make everyone purely equal is for them to all be clones - there's no reason for discrimination, then, because everyone is the same. Individuality seems weird to him (though he does have traits that make him different from other clones, which sort of makes him a walking contradiction).

He is fiercely loyal to Brother, the leader of Free the Soul; he works so hard as the leader of the Myrmidons (basically the "enforcers" for Free the Soul) in order to make Brother proud. He believes that Brother is the one who can lead humanity to redemption and that he owes his existence as a "new human" to him - however, he knows that just being born a clone isn't enough, and that he has to earn it. He undertook the sabotage of the AB project and deliberately entered the Nonary Game in order to do so, an action that proves he's willing to take great personal risk just to further the fanatical goals of his organization. He's been described as a terrorist, and honestly, that's not an inaccurate description - much of his usual work is a form of terrorism (particularly when you think about the fact that Free the Soul was the one to unleash the Radical-6 virus as a bioweapon in the first place). Basically? He's an extremist.

But even being an extremist, he does sometimes fall off the wagon. He's so desperate to prove himself by sabotaging the AB Project because, even though he's the leader of the Myrmidons, he did once partake in something that has been described as a "sin" by his organization; because he's supposed to cut himself off from all earthly temptations, love and lust were off-limits, but he did once get up to some questionable activities with a woman. This caused him to be disgraced in the eyes of his contemporaries and his superiors, and he is now desperate to prove himself and make up for his mistakes so that he can claw his way back up to salvation by performing great deeds, which is what Free the Soul's teachings say will guarantee him a higher rank in the organization and will guarantee his redemption, as he was raised on the teachings from birth.

That being said, Dio is, surprisingly, not a complete asshole. He does actually have a hard time stomping all over the innocent (seen in how he once saved a kitten and how he couldn't bring himself to betray Luna in the first round of the Ambidex Game); it's because his religion teaches that humanity is corrupted, and when he sees people who are truly altruistic, it seems as though he's the one corrupted when he treats them badly. After all, humanity is supposed to strive to be pure under the teachings he follows, so it almost seems wrong for him to hurt people he can't see any bad in. It surprises him greatly when someone goes against his expectations (like Luna did - but then, spoilers, Luna's not human), but not greatly enough for him to stray from his path. His path is one that's meant to lead to humanity's redemption, after all; knocking down people who are further down that path than him just doesn't make sense in terms of achieving his goals.

He will literally do anything to achieve his goals, however. It doesn't matter to him if he ends up disposing of a few "impure" humans; it doesn't matter to him if he himself perishes in the act, because, after all, dying for the sake of a noble cause is going to earn him salvation just as well as it would if he came back successfully. He's willing to set and detonate bombs in the event that his plan of escaping the Nonary Game fails; he's willing to stab an old woman and murder various others for his goal. He's not afraid of dirtying his hands in order to create a more pure world, because someone has to, after all.
Abilities: He's a clone, but his abilities are that of a normal human's. (Aside from being an extra big bag of dicks, but hey... that's not because he's a clone, it's because he's Dio.)
Sample Entry: Right over here!