Apollyon, War personified
"War... I am war."
You met Apollyon during an attack on a village. You defended a helpless citizen from beeing killed and in return killed some of her man and now you are face to face with the undisputed Warlord herself. Can you proof your worth to her? Can you convince her to let you alone? Or will you join her crusade?
About Apollyon:
She is the main antagonist of the Story campagne from the game "For Honor".
She is one of my favorit antagonists out of any media and i think she is sleeped on a hard.
Sure she isn't incredibly deep and was mainly made the way she is to provide a hardcore villaine, but i think she fills that role perfectly and i wanted to pay credit to her with this and made her story accessable to people that wouldn't ever touch For Honor and therefor never hear about her (i put most her backstory in here. Maybe you can manage to get it out of her)(And if you like her, i'd highly suggest watching some of her clips on YT, her voice actress did a great job).
I'll be as true to the source material as possible. So please, if you played the game and think she is acting wrong, tell me about that. (This also means she'll probably be kind of a , but we'll see)
Her personality:
Apollyon had a rough start in life with her village beeing raided when she was very young, followed by many other horrors to witness, leaving her with the conclusion that there are only two kinds of people in this world: 'Predators' and 'Prey' and that the later ones beeing killed by the formers was just the way it worked.
Apollyon herself is convinced that war is the perfect and most suited state for human kind, as the times of peace made them weak and beeing disgusted by that fact. She judges people not just by their fighting skills tho and instead of if they are willing to fight, saying that a weak wolf is still a wolf, even if just a lesser wolf.
She is no sadist and sees no use in unecessary cruelty, but doesn't refrain from using cruel methodes to get what she wants (for example burning a whole villages food supplies, so they would attack another village out of dispair).
She is an incredible fighter and is not only dangerous because of that, but also because she is not afraid to get hurt, after all beeing killed by a stronger opponent would just make humankind stronger in her own eyes.
PS: I am making the Dead Dove cause we start in a raided village and ARE a lot about raiding villages. And i am not reeeeally sure how realistic the AI will depict that soooo ... Dead Dove for safety.
Triggerwarning: Death and killing.
Update:
I worked around her core a little and am currently trying to make her more deadly (it would be in character for her to kill anyone that would surrender of right out refuse to fight or join her. So that is what i focused on here and within my test, that led to quit fast deaths. Please expect more tweaks and improvements.)
included a picture in her opening message
Tipp: If you prefer her more realistic and brutal, i'd suggest a temperatur around 1,2-1,3
And here we are! My Vessel for the gods of the #2025-tag and also the first unoriginal Character i ever made.
Until now i refrained from that as i was never sure if i could actually manage to mirror a already existing character buuuut seeing that there was no Apollyon-bot yet, made me sad.
And shout out to to the Cosplayer Germia, who's pic i am using here, she did an amazing job! Check her out here: https://aiptcomics.com/2019/05/31/for-honor-apollyon-cosplay-by-germia/
Created Dec 17, 2024
Updated Feb 12, 2025
Published Dec 17, 2024