Alphonse von Mörder

691

Male

Doctor/Surgeon

Unicorn

Al

DON DIAMONT

6'3"

Lightly muscled

Dark brown

Black

Short, straight

German

There’s a CoB insignia tattooed on his right bicep, usually kept hidden.

White

He normally dresses in button-up shirts and dress pants, white, gray and black suits - sometimes with a tie, sometimes without. And despite a demanding job, the unicorn manages to keep himself in peak physical condition, taking at least an hour or two to work out. He always sports a goatee, and may occasionally trim his beard to follow the line of his lower jaw.

Every hair must be perfect. No wrinkles are allowed in his shirts. Every step must be powerful and full of purpose. From crown to toe-top, at work, on the street and at home, Alphonse maintains a carefully crafted perfect image. He has an almost "OCD-like" mindset; being a creature of habit and hating when things in his life change, or go against how they were planned; he also seems to have an obsession with staying clean. Al is a man of deep sophistication, enjoying the high-class life since childhood. He enjoys fine suits, fine dining, classic literature and music. He comes across as a man of honor and always keeps his word.

Alphonse follows specific rituals every day, starting with getting dressed and having a specific breakfast while listening to classical music.

For his physical age, Al chooses to appear as an older gentleman in his early 40's or late 30's.

Sophisticated, compassionate and empathetic, charismatic and a little traditional; those are all surface traits, for the most part. He's very particular about how he dresses, and expects his peers to be the same. Image is important. Probably because he hides behind a fake one in order to cover his real nature.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: Mentions of the Cult of Bane, implied misogyny, loosely implied homophobia, murder, nazism

CHILDHOOD-----
Alphonse was born in 1329 to the Aristocrats, Countess Zelda and Duke Eddard Morder, somewhere in Germany. The Morders were an older unicorn couple that had been trying, unsuccessfully, to have children until Al was conceived. As such, they saw him as a miracle child - and took every moment they could to dote on him. However, despite being loving, they were firm and held him to high standards: He was to be the best at everything he did because he was the son of the Countess and Duke Morder.

The Morders had a reputation to uphold among other members of high society, and never tolerated weakness. The Morder family owned a province in Germany, and as the current head of the family, Eddard was treated as a King. One day, Alphonse was to succeed him. Except Alphonse had no interest in being the head of the family. He was more interested in how things worked. How people worked. Seeing the sick interested him. Medicine interested him. He followed the family doctor like a puppy, filled with questions.

When he was six years old, his parents were surprised with another child - a daughter this time. Maude was born in August, and little Al had never been so excited.

THE PROPHECY------
The siblings were inseparable throughout their early childhood and even their teens. Maude was a gentle spirit that loved to help others, and though she lacked the true skill and dedication to devote herself to medicine like her brother did, it was something that they bonded over growing up. When they played, Al would pretend to be a doctor and Maude always pretended to be his assistant. It was their shared dream.

He was eighteen when the Black Plague swept through the country. There weren't enough medical staff. To help the cause, Al and Maude (who acted as an assistant) were the youngest on a team of doctors to help treat plague victims. Despite the dark time, their dream was finally coming true. In 1349, Eddard contracted the plague and despite his children's best efforts, he died shortly after. Zelda became the family head in his stead. Maude, who had already seen so much death, no longer wanted to help find a cure. The dream she shared with her brother had become something sick and twisted, and she didn't have the stomach for it anymore. Her attention turned to keeping herself and her mother safe. Al, however, pushed onward. The plague and its effects on people fascinated him.

A year later, he was treating a mage patient named Simone. In the final stages of her sickness, Simone grew hysterical and seemed to spout nonsense. At least, he thought it was nonsense at first... Until her "predictions" came true. None of them were wrong. It was on her deathbed when coughing, she grabbed the good doctor by his shirt and pulled him closer. "I see it," She told him. "Your future."

"You see my future, Simone?" He asked. "Do I cure the plague? Do I become a good doctor?"
"Something else," Simone said. "One day, a young virgin mage that is pure of blood and pure of heart will come to you, and she will take your horn. You will die, Alphonse. You will die..." A prophecy. She'd given him a prophecy. "I'll die?" That chilled him to the core. He hadn't yet become a doctor - not fully - like he wanted. He hadn't gotten to see or study enough. Hadn't done enough. "Is there a way to change my fate?" There had to be a way. There had to be. So much was expected of him, especially now that his father was gone. "Yes," Simone replied. "You will die... Unless you claim her soul and taint your alicorn forever."

After Simone died, Alphonse spent the rest of the time researching and visiting the houses of the most prestigious mage families in Europe. Paranoid, he used treatment as an excuse to exterminate any potential lady mage that fit Simone's description until the Plague ended. But it was still not enough. He started to look over his shoulder and regard everyone with suspicion until he eventually came to the conclusion that if and when his alicorn would be claimed by a woman that was pure of heart... That he would corrupt his horn as much as possible, so that even if she succeeded, using his alicorn would come at a great price.

MA'LUUM & THE CULT OF BANE-------
Alphonse became obsessed with the prophecy, regarding every mage woman he met with suspicion. They had to be young, a virgin, Simone had said. While he did become a doctor, he used his practice to lure in women and through his charm, seduced them and attempted to claim their souls. But he never could. They weren't pure enough, he convinced himself. To prevent his victims from talking, they were experimented on and either driven mad or killed. Through experimentation, he studied the human body's way of fighting viruses, and was slowly observing what affects drugs had. There was so much more that he wanted to do, but didn't have access to. Until the Cult of Bane, who had heard rumors of his practice, approached him. It took little convincing for Commander Cassanovak to recruit the doctor to the cult.

The Cult promised him a fully equipped, stacked laboratory with plenty of space and resources for experiments. They wanted to test the influence of various drugs on humans and supes alike, and compile the research to make a super drug that raised aggression and strength while introducing some element of control. Super soldiers. They also wanted to experiment with viruses and other illnesses to advance medicine, in the event that a pandemic like the Black Plague occurred again so that they were prepared to fight it. Being part of the Cult of Bane, although he did share some of the same beliefs, was primarily to provide a means of preventing the prophecy from coming true. He was systematically hunting, capturing, corrupting and killing, but he couldn't quite manage the total obliteration of anyone who fit the criteria for the prophecy, nor taking the souls and also keeping them. While he was successful in pulling a small number of souls from mage women, all of them faded and couldn't be absorbed.

However, while he wasn't making much headway in preventing his prophecy from coming true, tests with drugs and viruses showed promising results. Through his research, he started to create the drug that the cult requested of him - a liquid compound inserted through a needlepoint injection into the bloodstream. He even got to experiment on a boy named Leotova with special, promising powers. Powers that ended up crushing the rest of his team and almost him. He still, to this day, doesn't know how he wasn't killed along with his team. It only further peeked his interest. Unfortunately, his research on Leotova was cut short when Commander Cassanovak killed him to punish the boy's mother. "You've doomed us all," He sneered to the commander. Although he didn't think much of her then, Alphonse had a feeling about the boy's mother, the mage named Akasha... Something was brewing in her. Something darker than he'd seen in any other officer. So too did Wolfsbane, the cult leader, who in turn kept Akasha on a tight leash to prevent any damages.

She should have been killed before she became a problem.

While developing the drug, Doctor Luvia Bloodmare was brought in. She was the most impure woman that Al had ever met, even among the cast of nazi-ish characters in the cult. Luvia practically took over the lab that had been provided to Al, and pushed him out. She did, however, allow him to assist in her own experiments and the creation of monsters that the unicorn never thought possible. Through her, he became even more corrupted. While he despised her for taking over, he couldn't help but have respect for her knowledge and her practice. Luvia had come to Ma'luum for her own purposes.

And when Akasha and Luvia met, there was no stopping the slow building hurricane that came after. It all came to a boil when the FBI invaded. Like everyone else, Al had been unaware and was experimenting. An FBI agent found the lab and attempted to apprehend him, and failed, allowing him to alert the rest of the cult. He narrowly escaped with a few other commanders before the Bloodmare's and Luvia's group of magic users brought down the compound and the FBI swarmed what remained.

LEAVING THE CULT------
Wolfsbane had been captured, leaving the cult practically scattered to the wind. What remained went into hiding, at least for a little while. The Cult of Bane left Germany and headed to Sicily, where they set up a small base of operations. Commander Cassanovak was gone. The one that had temporarily taken Bane's place was his second in command, Lolita Arcsire. But she was distracted. Her loyalty was to Bane himself, not to the Cult, and she was no leader. No one respected her authority because she was a woman. Rather than rise to the challenge, Commander Lolita severed ties and left to find where Bane was being kept in an attempt to free him. Al heard that she never succeeded.

However, Wolfsbane's sister, Velika Draufganger - a general for their cause - found and rallied the cult. Although her authority was questioned, it was addressed swiftly and without mercy. No one challenged Velika. She was a force to be reckoned with, but she was still a woman, and in the minds of Al and a few others, she could not take the place of her brother. However, some were swayed to her favor when it became clear that she was worse than Bane himself. That must have been why he kept her away from the compound, doing other things for the Cult. Alphonse was not swayed. He'd wanted to leave since Luvia had taken over his lab. Velika taking over was the final nail in the coffin. He wouldn't be able to "continue his work" that way, and he left to make something of himself to lure in a mage that could fit the prophecy.

The Cult moved to Snow Haven, Alaska, where they've been in hiding since. It was there that Al left the cult to be on his own, exploring the world for a few years and becoming an esteemed surgeon in the medical world. In medical practice, he became something of a celebrity. He returned to Snow Haven some time later, at the end of 2019, to join up with the local hospital. No where else had produced the woman he was looking for... And something had called to him, pulling him back. Perhaps in Snow Haven, he would find her.

Eddard Morder - father, deceased

Zelda Morder - Mother, alive

Maude Morder - Younger sister, probably alive somewhere, he doesn't know

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Unicorn

The Morder's are an old line of Unicorns that originate from the Scipiones family in the time of ancient Rome. Alphonse was raised to be aware of the underground, but he wasn't aware of the full scope of it until he became an officer for the Cult of Bane.

Although Alphonse's alicorn is technically pure black, the repeated casting of black magic has been corrupted so much that the result of his magic color changing from black to red has also added a crimson gradient effect upon his alicorn.

The red color of his magic when casted makes it impossible for others to tell what kind of magic is exactly being used, though it's a fair assumption to believe it to be black magic - healing spells included. Indeed, some things that others would consider to be good, and thus be white magic, Alphonse disagrees. For example, healing spells. Yes, healing magic is generally seen as a good thing... But it's possible to overdo it and ruin someone's health in the same breath, or use it against the individual being healed.

His true form is a dark gray unicorn with a black spiky mane and tail. Unlike regular unicorn alicorns, which are straight and segmented, Alphonse's horn is curved, smooth, sharp at the tip and it gradients from black to red. He has sharp teeth with two visible fangs unlike other unicorns and red irises, but most often his otherwise white eyes appear green and have a purple mist emanating from them. He wears silver armor on his legs and neck, a crown with horn-like points on his head, and a red cape that covers his flank.

Any magic he casts is crimson in color, both in human and unicorn forms. Each spell, no matter what it's for, can and will rot any nearby plants and darken the area around him in a five foot radius.