Top 5 Book of the Shadows Monsters, Number 1

Welcome back. Now, it’s time to see how number one measures up to the rest of the list.

The number one most monstrous character in all of the Book of the Shadows is… Inori Priscilla Testarossa Arsene Yukina, the main character of the Third Moon Saga.

Inori - Guilty Crown

Third Moon starts off following Alexander Kuroshiki, a young man returning to a town he left when just a child, so he can go to high school without moving about due to his parents' work. Almost right off the bat he is greeted rudely, running into a decrepit house to escape monsters on his first night, stumbling through a rotted floor and ends up bitten by some frightening girl that emerges from a coffin. The next thing he knows, he’s in a hospital handcuffed to his bed, and being told that monsters, which should have been wiped out centuries ago, are still alive and well, and that he was actually attacked by a vampire. What’s worse, if he doesn’t submit to that vampire, allow it to feed on him regularly, he’ll die due to uncommon withdrawal symptoms due to the fact he was ever bitten in the first place.

Inori is that vampire. She is a stoic girl in appearance, estimated by some to be actually north of 600 years old. She can be short tempered and violent. Her bite leaves not the two holes commonly attributed to vampires, but six; her mouth filled with quill-like teeth numbering far more than the 32 in a normal adult human. Worse for Alexander, she has an unusual interest in him personally. He learns that as a child he frequented her home and they came to be very fond of each other. She saved his life when he was caught in the crossfire of an attack against her by the government, though taking his memories of her afterward when she had to leave.

How much of a monster she can be is seen near the end of the first of four transits for this saga. There, several years after the start of the saga, Alex and Inori are still “together”, although Alex is married and now working for the government. Alex ends up killed as a consequence of a plot. Saddened by his death, Inori proceeds to devour his corpse. As a follow-up she unleashes a single attack with a global scale that decimates 75% up to 90%, of all intelligent life on the planet – human, monster, animal, or otherwise. The toll on the human population in that one two-day event totals in the area of 6.25 billion people.

In the second transit, it is months later and we learn that Inori has begun to huddle the remnants of humanity into a cities she has begun to rebuild. These cities are operated under very strict regulations. While people are given plenty of food and water and a chance to live in peace from the many dangers outside the cities, and corporal punishment is outlawed, the price is obeying her every word, and a regular monthly donation of blood from every single person. Those who fail to comply are dragged from their homes and forced to give blood.

In the third transit, it is now a further decade and a half later. Many cities are close to pre-apocalypse levels of productivity and safety. Little has been heard of or seen of Inori since the year after her single-handed causing the apocalypse. But it’s uncovered she plans on ending all life on the planet that doesn’t share the blood of her or Alexander Kuroshiki, the survival of humanity as a species merely as a vehicle to do this.

Finally, in the fourth transit, several more years have passed. Inori’s plans have continued virtually unabated. She has some who are loyal to her invade another universe, while on earth her progeny ruthlessly execute her mandates, slaughtering in the streets without hesitation anyone who violates her orders.

By a rather wide margin, there is no individual in all of the Book of the Shadows who from start to finish is so cruel, so controlling, and so deadly, in their sole actions. Her actions are marked by extreme cruelty, even to the one she supposedly loved.

Honorable mentions are due for Sephiroth. He perpetrated a multi thousand year plan to bring down the Rosencraft family specifically, eliminate all magic users in the universe in general. Her murdered four members of the family, nearly killed Anzu, and used Lynette as his personal puppet for some 14,000 plus years.

Also deserving an honorable mention are a number of additional characters from Third Moon. Esdeath makes an appearance, retaining her hyper-Darwinian logic and penchant for torture from Akame ga Kill. Even an attempt to soothe her sharp edge ultimately backfires when she learns that Alexander is her brother, and he ends up being killed. There is also Airi, Esdeath’s interdimensional twin. While she starts out as a sympathetic character, a girl of barely ten struggling to remain “good” in a world that hates her and sees her as a monster, she ultimately snaps once Alexander, her guardian, dies. She ends up falling into Esdeath’s influence, adopting her withering view of humanity and the world in general, with the element of fire at her disposal instead of ice.

Then there is Charlotte. Charlotte is introduced in the third transit of Third Moon. She is the daughter of Alexander and Inori (another of Inori’s monstrous transgressions, she artificially inseminated herself with Alex’s DNA after he died). She has a brother, Alex. He’s the child of Alexander and his wife Risette, Risette finding out she was pregnant shortly before Alexander’s death, Inori taking Risette and Alex under her protection for the sake of getting Alex. Alex inherited his father’s limited immortality, Charlotte is a vampire not unlike her mother. Incapable of staying her bestial hunger, and with the convenience of her brother’s ability to apparently revive from any injury, she literally devours him – arms, legs, at a time – on a daily basis when she's hungry, or happy, or angry.

So there you go, the most monstrous characters of my stories. Good thing they're only stories. Enjoy your Halloween.  And don't forget to check out FanFiction.net for the latest from my Third Moon Saga. You'll get to read a new chapter from the story about the very Inori that tops this list.