Character: Pram the Oracle Fandom: Makai Kingdom / Disgaea (I'm going off the video games not the Manga/Anime, though I might still Manga/Anime stuff if it doesn't conflict) Character Notes: History: (This is assembled from what little information we get about Pram's history in the game (including some things that members of Zetta's army say), parts of it are likely really just rumours, since some of it seems to conflict with itself)
Pram was born the child of an Overlord (an Overlord is a demon who's powerful enough to rule one or more Netherworlds, which are basically the equivalent of Hell for the various planets in the multiverse), she had incredible mana power and a scarily high level of intelligence, at the age of 2 she had dethroned her father and stolen his Netherworld. (Its implied that her father was King Drake the III , who is a comic relief overlord, as her "true form" in the Good Ending has some King Drake like characteristics and he makes a comment about her stealing his Netherworld, but Pram has nothing but contempt for him, so bringing this up with her is probably not a good idea).
At some point between that and the beginning of Makai Kingdom Pram did the following in approximately the order listed: Lost the Netherworld she stole from her father somehow. Used her Shapechanging ability for one of only five times in her life so far (or for one of the three times if she is coming from the Bad Ending).
Broke into the Forbidden Library and read the Sacred Tome (the Sacred Tome is the book that records everything that has happened and everything that will happen to Lord Zetta's Netherworld).
Turned up on Zetta's Netherworld claiming to be Pram the Oracle.
Fooled Zetta and several other overlords into believing she had genuine oracular ability, by making use of what she had read, her high intelligence and a natural talent for manipulating people.
Took over a Netherworld of her own, becoming an Overlord again (the youngest Overlord that Zetta is aware of).
As Makai Kingdom started she had told Lord Zetta the location of the Forbidden Library and set in motion a sequence of events which would end with Zetta pretty much completely destroying his Netherworld (being reduced from a collection of 7 built up netherworlds to a piece of a single netherworld with nothing on it ) and being forced to confine himself to the Sacred Tome to avoid the destruction of that and himself, costing him his body (and unknown to either Pram or Zetta ejecting the spirit of the Sacred Tome which takes the form of a young girl named Trenia (but with the enormous mana power required to exist in the spaces between Netherworlds that normally only Overlord class beings have access to).
Zetta, does not realise that this was all orchestrated by Pram and summons her for aid, since she was the one who told him about the Forbidden Library and Sacred Tome in the first place. She shows up, and tells Zetta he can regain his body by recreating his Netherworld of 7 Netherworlds (a lie but something to get him to basically dance for her amusement) and calls the Star Overlord Valvagoa, and they "help" Zetta by writing wishes on the Sacred Tome (now his body), which alters reality in his Netherworld but costs mana power proportional to the wish rewritten (so only overlord class beings could create large scale things like Netherworlds). Pram gives him an Overlord's castle (actually a single Doghouse and some land and a few items to confine souls in) and Vavagoa creates a small Netherworld for him (however Ophelia one of Valvagoa's 3 personalities fills it with monsters), so Zetta sets out to conquer it.
This is basically repeated 7 more times, during which other Overlords such as Alexander the God of Destruction (Zetta's Rival), Dragon Overlord Babylon, Demon Overlord Seedle (Lord of the Underworld), and King Drake the III show up to get in on the game and another Overlord Lady Salome (Zetta's former apprentice, who had loved him and who is now dying of a mysterious sickness) shows up to help out Lord Zetta . However with the Sacred Tome now being Zetta's body, Pram can no longer see the future, and Trenia engages in various manipulations that mess with Pram's game, to have her own fun with Zetta and to basically have fun while she's free of the book. (Pram gets fairly ticked off about this, since she's not used to anyone being able to play games with her , but since she doesn't know Trenia's behind it she can't do anything about it and performs various manipulations including changing forms to point the finger at Alexander).
A whole bunch of Netherworld's later, events have lead to Lord Zetta believing he's going to die in a few days and Lady Salome decides they should die together and rams her Netherworld into his, which forces Zetta to conquer her Netherworld and leads to a confrontation in a Chapel Salome had setup, where Zetta refuses to die and is forced to kill Salome .
Good Ending: Zetta realises that he loves Salome and asks Pram how to bring her back. Pram is upset about her "precious toy" Zetta being so weak and in love (but for reasons absolutely not connected to compassion or feeling bad about what she'd done to Zetta) decides to write a wish in the Sacred Tome to bring the Overlord Salome back to life (which she probably knows could kill her), but the wish fails, Pram gets upset, decides that she definitely has enough mana power to bring Salome back to life and uses her "True Power" where she glows and has suspciously lion-like ears and a tail to write the wish which is succeeding however while Pram is channeling the mana required Seedle shows up and stabs her interrupting her channeling and knocking her out. Alexander then shows up and basically takes Seedle out, and Trenia shows up and tells Zetta that she didn't like the original arrogant him but likes this new him and that she's willing to go back into the tome, which she does and this allows Zetta to write a wish to revive Salome. Salome, Alexander, Zetta and Pram are then all seen together 2 days latter with Zetta still alive and the game ends.
Bad Ending: Zetta does not realise his feelings for Salome (this happens if you've killed 50 or more of your allies showing a lack of compassion), but Pram works out that Zetta's enormous mana power came from Salome combining her mana power with his (which is why she was dying since she didn't keep enough mana power to live), and gets upset that Zetta would abuse Salome's love for him like that (again absolutely not because of compassion nu-uh but because she thought he was above that).
She also shows up in Disgaea 2 (in a cutscene as a mysterious figure) and Disgaea 3 (as a downloadable content character with a mini scenario where she becomes a Teacher) both of these seem to take , depending on where the Disgaea 3 cast are up to and how they feel about having Pram hang around with them, I might take her from this scenario (which seems to take place before the Makai Kingdom ending)
Personality: Pram's an Overlord-class demon, who was raised in the Netherworld, who's incredibly intelligent and has impressive levels of mana power even for an Overlord and who has a natural gift for manipulation. As you might expect from this Pram is spoiled, self-centred, egotistical and given to treating everything in creation like they are toys for her amusement. However, both the Good and Bad Endings show that like many Disgaea demons when push comes to shove she doesn't actually like causing genuine suffering and she's willing to put her mana power and her life where her mouth is too. However as a Demon from the Netherworld she's got some fairly screwed up ideas, she thinks of love and compassion as a weakness, and thinks nothing of causing chaos for her own amusement. After her revelation at the end of Makai Kindgom (on either path), she's probably going to be a bit more cautious about causing genuine suffering but there's going to factors working against her, for one her intelligence and power makes it difficult for her to see others as anything more than toys and being from the Netherworld she's used to there being healers around who can basically heal anything short of the destruction of the side they are on (usually by the death of the Overlord) and even then the souls hang around and can be confined in objects by Overlords or by whatever mechanism a netherworld uses to put souls in bodies (like the Dark Assembly or the Homeroom), as such she's unlikely to regard killing or maiming anything thats not similar to an Overlord (ie a ruler) as really causing suffering and regards wars even of interdimensional scales as a game. Also given the usual demon attitude she's unlikely to openly display compassion even if she does get things worked out and manages to reconcile herself with the idea she's possessed of compassion (since from her point of view its a sign of weakness).
None of the above is helped by the fact that as demon's count things she's still fairly young, probably less than 1300 years old.
Another thing about Pram is that she's very good at manipulation and playing a role to suit her goals, she can go from a child like personality, to someone who's seemingly uncertain of the idea they are putting forth, to someone who's entirely confident they can kick your behind, pretty much at will, however she's not perfect at it and she tends to slip towards child like temper tantrums and displays of power as well as biting remarks, if things aren't going the way she wants them too.
Other: Pram's an Overlord which basically makes her the Queen of Hell for some poor Earth out there somewhere (although she doesn't seem very interested in it at this point in time), she has the power to confine souls to objects to create minions, to make use of whatever mechanism exists on her world to basically cause her whims to become reality (even if she has to kill, bribe or terrify a few Dark Assembly Senators along the way) and has an entire Netherworld full of demon minions of various kinds at her beck and call. She's capable of personal teleportation, including to other worlds and can have a Dimension Guide or Makai Gateway (or similar item) open a gateway to transport her followers.
Both Disgaea 2 and Disgaea 3 imply that she does have some genuine oracular ability (or it may just be what she remembers from the Sacred Tome) although it seems to be unpredictable (the abilities she gains can be either good or bad and are about 50/50 split, so she's not likely to be making use of this ability to actually predict the future).
As a demon overlord who focuses more on the magical side of things Pram has a natural talent for destructive and debuffing magics, with a particular affinity for Ice Magic, and the associated weapons (Daggers, Staves, Books and Syringes) although primarily a spellcaster Disgaea 3 indicates she's also pretty decent with a bow and also indicates she's capable of learning healing and buffing magic although she's not as good at it as she is destructive magic. She also has an elementless signature ability known as White Ray as well as several personal Ice elemental spells. Her Archery Guild evility also suggests she's fond of Archers, and Makai Kingdom suggests she's got a fondness for spellcasters.
While Pram is primarily a spellcaster she's also an Overlord so her physically potential is actually equivalent to that of a fairly capable demon warrior and the massive amount of power she has makes it unlikely for her to be threatened physically by anything short of a Demon Lord class creature (things a step down from Overlords) but she tries to avoid being put in such situations since she's vastly less effective than she is as a spellcaster and she'd prefer not to show any signs of weakness, since she's well aware that other Overlord's and Gods and similar creatures do exist out there in the multiverse.
Additional Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makai_Kingdom http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/926289/41488 (Makai Kindgom Game script) http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/Pram
First Person (entry type): (Stikes are thought, not actually typed) Hi there, DramaDramaDuck, I'm Pram the Oracle, tee-hee. [s]And from what I've seen this place looks like it could provide me with some entertainment[/s].
I did a little looking around, when I found that my computer wouldn't leave this site, and apparently I'm not going to be allowed to leave until I decide to stay [s]And that incompetent professor is going to pay for building me a machine that can get stuck by anything, I'll be giving her the honour of being first on the battlefield next time we go to war and she'll be coming back as a Prinny[/s], so I thought why not introduce myself and get to know some of you ? From what I've seen this place is positively full of interesting people
So in that spirit, I'm the Overlord of my Netherworld, my hobbies include magic, archery, ruling my Netherworld and finding ways to keep myself amused since most of that is so easy its boring *giggle*.
Third Person: Prompt: Conflicting
Pram lounged in her throne considering Zetta's acts while he'd been the Sacred Tome and after Salome's death and ressurection. She was absolutely not thinking about her own actions and the sympathy she had felt both for Salome with her disgustingly obviously crush on Zetta and for how pathetic Zetta had become when he'd lost her, it had completely spoiled the fun of playing with him. The reason she was definitely not thinking about that might have been because a demon cannot show weakness like compassion or love, and if she showed such weakness either the demons of her Netherworld would become weak and invite invasion from others or they would see it as a weakness in herself and she'd be forced to crush them either by force or by manipulating the factions she maintained against each other and while that would give her momentary satisfaction playing with such simple toys would quickly grow boring.
Pram shifted in her throne, before shaking her head, this wasn't getting her anywhere, she needed to find something to keep her mind occupied. Perhaps she'd pop in on Zetta and Salome and see what was going on, because Zetta was always an interesting plaything and definitely not because she was interested in how they were dealing with the problem of their affection for each other while being Overlords or there was always that invitation to teach at Evil Academy, she could always travel there and back easily enough and the Nether Institute should provide plenty of new toys and opportunities for entertainment, and it would be a useful way to see what defences it and many other Netherworlds possessed.
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Pram the Oracle 2/4?
Fandom: Makai Kingdom / Disgaea (I'm going off the video games not the Manga/Anime, though I might still Manga/Anime stuff if it doesn't conflict)
Character Notes:
History:
(This is assembled from what little information we get about Pram's history in the game (including some things that members of Zetta's army say), parts of it are likely really just rumours, since some of it seems to conflict with itself)
Pram was born the child of an Overlord (an Overlord is a demon who's powerful enough to rule one or more Netherworlds, which are basically the equivalent of Hell for the various planets in the multiverse), she had incredible mana power and a scarily high level of intelligence, at the age of 2 she had dethroned her father and stolen his Netherworld. (Its implied that her father was King Drake the III , who is a comic relief overlord, as her "true form" in the Good Ending has some King Drake like characteristics and he makes a comment about her stealing his Netherworld, but Pram has nothing but contempt for him, so bringing this up with her is probably not a good idea).
At some point between that and the beginning of Makai Kingdom Pram did the following in approximately the order listed:
Lost the Netherworld she stole from her father somehow.
Used her Shapechanging ability for one of only five times in her life so far (or for one of the three times if she is coming from the Bad Ending).
Broke into the Forbidden Library and read the Sacred Tome (the Sacred Tome is the book that records everything that has happened and everything that will happen to Lord Zetta's Netherworld).
Turned up on Zetta's Netherworld claiming to be Pram the Oracle.
Fooled Zetta and several other overlords into believing she had genuine oracular ability, by making use of what she had read, her high intelligence and a natural talent for manipulating people.
Took over a Netherworld of her own, becoming an Overlord again (the youngest Overlord that Zetta is aware of).
As Makai Kingdom started she had told Lord Zetta the location of the Forbidden Library and set in motion a sequence of events which would end with Zetta pretty much completely destroying his Netherworld (being reduced from a collection of 7 built up netherworlds to a piece of a single netherworld with nothing on it ) and being forced to confine himself to the Sacred Tome to avoid the destruction of that and himself, costing him his body (and unknown to either Pram or Zetta ejecting the spirit of the Sacred Tome which takes the form of a young girl named Trenia (but with the enormous mana power required to exist in the spaces between Netherworlds that normally only Overlord class beings have access to).
Pram the Oracle 3/4?
This is basically repeated 7 more times, during which other Overlords such as Alexander the God of Destruction (Zetta's Rival), Dragon Overlord Babylon, Demon Overlord Seedle (Lord of the Underworld), and King Drake the III show up to get in on the game and another Overlord Lady Salome (Zetta's former apprentice, who had loved him and who is now dying of a mysterious sickness) shows up to help out Lord Zetta . However with the Sacred Tome now being Zetta's body, Pram can no longer see the future, and Trenia engages in various manipulations that mess with Pram's game, to have her own fun with Zetta and to basically have fun while she's free of the book. (Pram gets fairly ticked off about this, since she's not used to anyone being able to play games with her , but since she doesn't know Trenia's behind it she can't do anything about it and performs various manipulations including changing forms to point the finger at Alexander).
A whole bunch of Netherworld's later, events have lead to Lord Zetta believing he's going to die in a few days and Lady Salome decides they should die together and rams her Netherworld into his, which forces Zetta to conquer her Netherworld and leads to a confrontation in a Chapel Salome had setup, where Zetta refuses to die and is forced to kill Salome .
Good Ending: Zetta realises that he loves Salome and asks Pram how to bring her back. Pram is upset about her "precious toy" Zetta being so weak and in love (but for reasons absolutely not connected to compassion or feeling bad about what she'd done to Zetta) decides to write a wish in the Sacred Tome to bring the Overlord Salome back to life (which she probably knows could kill her), but the wish fails, Pram gets upset, decides that she definitely has enough mana power to bring Salome back to life and uses her "True Power" where she glows and has suspciously lion-like ears and a tail to write the wish which is succeeding however while Pram is channeling the mana required Seedle shows up and stabs her interrupting her channeling and knocking her out. Alexander then shows up and basically takes Seedle out, and Trenia shows up and tells Zetta that she didn't like the original arrogant him but likes this new him and that she's willing to go back into the tome, which she does and this allows Zetta to write a wish to revive Salome. Salome, Alexander, Zetta and Pram are then all seen together 2 days latter with Zetta still alive and the game ends.
Bad Ending: Zetta does not realise his feelings for Salome (this happens if you've killed 50 or more of your allies showing a lack of compassion), but Pram works out that Zetta's enormous mana power came from Salome combining her mana power with his (which is why she was dying since she didn't keep enough mana power to live), and gets upset that Zetta would abuse Salome's love for him like that (again absolutely not because of compassion nu-uh but because she thought he was above that).
She also shows up in Disgaea 2 (in a cutscene as a mysterious figure) and Disgaea 3 (as a downloadable content character with a mini scenario where she becomes a Teacher) both of these seem to take , depending on where the Disgaea 3 cast are up to and how they feel about having Pram hang around with them, I might take her from this scenario (which seems to take place before the Makai Kingdom ending)
Re: Pram the Oracle 4/5?
Pram's an Overlord-class demon, who was raised in the Netherworld, who's incredibly intelligent and has impressive levels of mana power even for an Overlord and who has a natural gift for manipulation. As you might expect from this Pram is spoiled, self-centred, egotistical and given to treating everything in creation like they are toys for her amusement. However, both the Good and Bad Endings show that like many Disgaea demons when push comes to shove she doesn't actually like causing genuine suffering and she's willing to put her mana power and her life where her mouth is too. However as a Demon from the Netherworld she's got some fairly screwed up ideas, she thinks of love and compassion as a weakness, and thinks nothing of causing chaos for her own amusement. After her revelation at the end of Makai Kindgom (on either path), she's probably going to be a bit more cautious about causing genuine suffering but there's going to factors working against her, for one her intelligence and power makes it difficult for her to see others as anything more than toys and being from the Netherworld she's used to there being healers around who can basically heal anything short of the destruction of the side they are on (usually by the death of the Overlord) and even then the souls hang around and can be confined in objects by Overlords or by whatever mechanism a netherworld uses to put souls in bodies (like the Dark Assembly or the Homeroom), as such she's unlikely to regard killing or maiming anything thats not similar to an Overlord (ie a ruler) as really causing suffering and regards wars even of interdimensional scales as a game. Also given the usual demon attitude she's unlikely to openly display compassion even if she does get things worked out and manages to reconcile herself with the idea she's possessed of compassion (since from her point of view its a sign of weakness).
None of the above is helped by the fact that as demon's count things she's still fairly young, probably less than 1300 years old.
Another thing about Pram is that she's very good at manipulation and playing a role to suit her goals, she can go from a child like personality, to someone who's seemingly uncertain of the idea they are putting forth, to someone who's entirely confident they can kick your behind, pretty much at will, however she's not perfect at it and she tends to slip towards child like temper tantrums and displays of power as well as biting remarks, if things aren't going the way she wants them too.
Re: Pram the Oracle 5/6
Pram's an Overlord which basically makes her the Queen of Hell for some poor Earth out there somewhere (although she doesn't seem very interested in it at this point in time), she has the power to confine souls to objects to create minions, to make use of whatever mechanism exists on her world to basically cause her whims to become reality (even if she has to kill, bribe or terrify a few Dark Assembly Senators along the way) and has an entire Netherworld full of demon minions of various kinds at her beck and call. She's capable of personal teleportation, including to other worlds and can have a Dimension Guide or Makai Gateway (or similar item) open a gateway to transport her followers.
Both Disgaea 2 and Disgaea 3 imply that she does have some genuine oracular ability (or it may just be what she remembers from the Sacred Tome) although it seems to be unpredictable (the abilities she gains can be either good or bad and are about 50/50 split, so she's not likely to be making use of this ability to actually predict the future).
As a demon overlord who focuses more on the magical side of things Pram has a natural talent for destructive and debuffing magics, with a particular affinity for Ice Magic, and the associated weapons (Daggers, Staves, Books and Syringes) although primarily a spellcaster Disgaea 3 indicates she's also pretty decent with a bow and also indicates she's capable of learning healing and buffing magic although she's not as good at it as she is destructive magic. She also has an elementless signature ability known as White Ray as well as several personal Ice elemental spells. Her Archery Guild evility also suggests she's fond of Archers, and Makai Kingdom suggests she's got a fondness for spellcasters.
While Pram is primarily a spellcaster she's also an Overlord so her physically potential is actually equivalent to that of a fairly capable demon warrior and the massive amount of power she has makes it unlikely for her to be threatened physically by anything short of a Demon Lord class creature (things a step down from Overlords) but she tries to avoid being put in such situations since she's vastly less effective than she is as a spellcaster and she'd prefer not to show any signs of weakness, since she's well aware that other Overlord's and Gods and similar creatures do exist out there in the multiverse.
Additional Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makai_Kingdom
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/926289/41488 (Makai Kindgom Game script)
http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/Pram
Pram the Oracle 6/6
Hi there, DramaDramaDuck, I'm Pram the Oracle, tee-hee. [s]And from what I've seen this place looks like it could provide me with some entertainment[/s].
I did a little looking around, when I found that my computer wouldn't leave this site, and apparently I'm not going to be allowed to leave until I decide to stay [s]And that incompetent professor is going to pay for building me a machine that can get stuck by anything, I'll be giving her the honour of being first on the battlefield next time we go to war and she'll be coming back as a Prinny[/s], so I thought why not introduce myself and get to know some of you ? From what I've seen this place is positively full of interesting people
So in that spirit, I'm the Overlord of my Netherworld, my hobbies include magic, archery, ruling my Netherworld and finding ways to keep myself amused since most of that is so easy its boring *giggle*.
Third Person:
Prompt: Conflicting
Pram lounged in her throne considering Zetta's acts while he'd been the Sacred Tome and after Salome's death and ressurection. She was absolutely not thinking about her own actions and the sympathy she had felt both for Salome with her disgustingly obviously crush on Zetta and for how pathetic Zetta had become when he'd lost her, it had completely spoiled the fun of playing with him. The reason she was definitely not thinking about that might have been because a demon cannot show weakness like compassion or love, and if she showed such weakness either the demons of her Netherworld would become weak and invite invasion from others or they would see it as a weakness in herself and she'd be forced to crush them either by force or by manipulating the factions she maintained against each other and while that would give her momentary satisfaction playing with such simple toys would quickly grow boring.
Pram shifted in her throne, before shaking her head, this wasn't getting her anywhere, she needed to find something to keep her mind occupied. Perhaps she'd pop in on Zetta and Salome and see what was going on, because Zetta was always an interesting plaything and definitely not because she was interested in how they were dealing with the problem of their affection for each other while being Overlords or there was always that invitation to teach at Evil Academy, she could always travel there and back easily enough and the Nether Institute should provide plenty of new toys and opportunities for entertainment, and it would be a useful way to see what defences it and many other Netherworlds possessed.
Rejected