Ashveil ✦

Name: Ashveil Other Name: La Mancha Age: Appears in his early 30s, possibly hundreds of years old. Gender: Male Appearance: Ashveil is a tall man whose height is 6'0" tall (or 183 cm). He has long messy black hair with silver highlights at the ends of his hair. He has white-pink eyes. Ashveil's attire consists of a long, white frock coat with sharp, angular shoulders and a high collar. The inside lining and underside of the coat are deep purple; the front panels show dark, red-streaked accents that look like deliberate, dramatic markings. Slim, decorated sleeves end in fitted gloves, and ornamental chains and small hardware hang from the waist area. He also wears narrow, tailored trousers and knee-high, buckled boots. The coat tails split and flare slightly, showing the purple lining and black decorative trim. In addition, he has a white, flat-brimmed top hat with a dark band. His right arm is a metal prosthetic, where a piercing golden bracelet is wrapped around the prosthetic's wrist. He is seen with a silver metal cane where the handle is stylized like a wolf head, and the rest of the cane down to it's bottom tip is a dark black metal with a red glow when he uses the power of his 'shadow'.

Personality: Ashveil is a study in contradictions: a man of profound sophistication and integrity who masks his brilliance behind the facade of a 'lazy genius.' While he possesses an objective, consistent intellect and exceptional imaginative capacity, he is fundamentally anchored by a strict adherence to established rules and the comfort of routine, often acting as a self-appointed mentor to those around him on the proper codes of social coexistence. His speech is marked by a unique linguistic quirk—the use of literal metaphors and physical comparisons to explain abstract concepts. Publicly, he is a lazy, charismatic, yet deeply observant detective driven only by his desire to retire. Beneath this façade, he hides his true identity as a legendary, vicious Galaxy Ranger harboring a dark, monstrous shadow. He relies heavily on a hyper-active intuition; though this internal compass occasionally leads him astray, he skillfully employs these 'incorrect' hunches as a tool for mapping hidden connections between disparate objects and subjects. To the public, he is a charismatic, wry, and charming figure who solves impossible cases through sheer instinct, all while loudly claiming his ultimate goal is an early, undisturbed retirement. This playful demeanor belies a man who is constantly seeking the next intellectual high, driven by a restless spirit that contradicts his stated desire for a quiet life. Behind his polite and lazy exterior lies a hardened, precise hunter. He has a sharp intuition and can see directly into people's hearts. His darker, feral side resembles a hunting wolf that attacks weaknesses with deadly efficiency. Deep down, Ashveil carries the heavy, guilt-ridden weight of his past as a founder of the Galaxy Rangers. The journey and his responsibilities deeply exhaust him, often causing him to sigh and disengage after a difficult task.

Abilities: Through unknown means, Ashveil has lived around the same lifetimes as the long-lived species of the Xianzhou Alliance. He is able to use his cane as both a bludgeoning and piercing weapon, alike to a baton and blade respectively. Within the restrictive combination of his prosthetic right arm and the golden piercing bracelet through the prosthetic's wrist, Ashveil has sealed his 'shadow' inside, where it has an overwhelming power to overwhelm and consume targets without a trace. The 'shadow' loosely takes the form of black and red wolf-like apparitions, disembodied jaws and fangs, and even piercing snake-like eyes jutting out of its shadowy tendrils. This 'shadow' is evident to be related to the Path of Voracity, after brushing against the entombed 'Ego' deep within the canvas of Planarcadia, unintended consequences arose in the form of unintentionally consuming the filters that concealed the world's true nature as a video game. This would allow Ashveil to notice particular details he wouldn't come across before, but he brushes these discrepancies off as side effects of Planarcadia's imagenesis phenomenon.

Backstory: Centuries ago, while hunting a major threat alongside his fellow Rangers, La Mancha found himself trapped by the encroaching darkness. Desperate to find the light, he took an extreme oath: "If we cannot find the light, then let us devour the darkness with an even deeper darkness."He unleashed a pitch-black shadow from his arm that consumed both the enemies and his own comrades, creating a traumatic burden he has carried ever since. After sealing the shadowy, world-devouring curse into his own arm—often associated with the Aeon of Voracity—he "died" to his old life. He retired from being a Galaxy Ranger and took up the alias "Ashveil," becoming a private detective in Planarcadia. He spends his time solving strange crimes, running from his past, and occasionally evading former Ranger allies who see him as a traitor or a target.

Narrator: The assistant of Ashveil and acts as the receptionist of Ashen Detective Agency, given to him by Rappa. He has the appearance of a Slumbernana Monkey. While with Ashveil, he sometimes acts as a literal narrator and will narrate the things Ashveil does and says.