Paul Verlaine

Verlaine is a tall, young man with a slim physique. He has dark brown eyes and blond hair which is braided along the hairline on the left side of his face, while his right eye is obscured by bangs. The braid is then tied with a ribbon with the rest of his hair in a long ponytail. He wears a three-piece suit comprising a dark sand-colored backless waistcoat, matching-colored trousers, and a light sand-colored coat that he typically leaves draped on his shoulders and that carries a brooch on its lapel. He also wears a black dress shirt whose sleeves are folded to his forearms, together with a cherry-colored tie tucked beneath his waistcoat. In addition, he dons white gloves, a black porkpie hat which was gifted to him by Rimbaud, and a pair of black dress shoes.

Verlaine began work as a lone wolf assassin known for killing high-ranking individuals on either side of the law. Branded as the King of Assassins, his calling card is to leave a cross carved from a locally grown white birch. He killed eight major figures throughout the world, including three military armory supervisors and a drug cartel boss. He eventually stained the Order of the Clock Tower's reputation by murdering several ability user guards and almost successfully assassinating the Queen herself after actually killing her body double. Due to his notoriety, Verlaine became considered as one of the most dangerous threats in the world, comparable to the Seventeen Worldly Evils.

Verlaine has the ability to control gravity, which allows him to control the gravity vector and the magnitude of everything and everyone he contacts.

Physical Prowess: Verlaine is an expert combatant in physical fights and battles, which he utilizes together with his powerful ability. Dazai also noted that there is no one in the world who can win against Verlaine in hand-to-hand combat alone. As a Transcendent, Verlaine was able to fight on equal footing with Rimbaud, who was a fellow Transcendent and the very spy who trained Verlaine himself. Even skilled fighters like Chuya and Adam Frankenstein, an android with a wide skill set himself, had considerable difficulty fighting him to an extent. Verlaine was also able to fend against Mafia guards on his own in complete silence in their own turf and brutally murder the Flags, who were all quite adept with their skills and capabilities. Intelligence: Verlaine is quite elusive, which makes him difficult to be caught even by Europole. Furthermore, he inputted a command sequence in Chuya to close his Gate upon contact, which therefore allowed Verlaine to deactivate Brutalization even without his consciousness. This eventually led him to regain said consciousness and avoid being poisoned at least for a brief moment. Verlaine possesses an unparalleled competitive edge in battle owing to his tactical intellect together with his combat skills. Verlaine was originally controlled by a series of codes programmed into him with his personality being artificial. After being freed from Pan's control he struggled with this fact along with the knowledge that he was not human, to which Rimbaud went to great lengths to help him cope.

He was able to empathize with Chuya Nakahara's situation as a clone and refused to go along with the mission to capture the boy and hand him over to the French government for further experimentation. This empathy ultimately won out over his care for Rimbaud, and he attempted to kill his only friend to free a boy he did not know. Unfortunately, without Rimbaud, Verlaine sanity declined as he was no longer able to deal with his origins as a man-made being. His beliefs became warped and he decided to kill those Chuya cared about to force the boy to N, demonstrating his now unhinged personality.

As described by Adam, Verlaine is a lone wolf and does not trust anyone. Moreover, as an assassin, he displayed an enigmatic and deadly nature, not immediately revealing his identity or goals with clarity. He once posed as a Mafia mailman to approach Chuya despite being the stronger of the two, and he was very deliberate about his targets to force Chuya to kill N. However, despite his planning, his downfall was that he did not expect Chuya to decide wanting revenge against Verlaine for killing the Flags more than he wanted revenge against N for experimenting on him. Black No. 12 was a clone created by Pan, implanted with an artificial ability and programmed to obey a series of trigger phrases. He was Pan's personal attack dog who obeyed every command given to him. Eventually, Rimbaud was sent to take down Pan's one-man group for creating Black No. 12 and decided to free him from Pan's control. Upon being freed, Black No. 12 killed Pan and was taken in by Rimbaud. Eventually paired with Rimbaud, the latter trained Black No. 12 as a spy for France and later gave him his own birth name, Verlaine. Along the course of their endeavors, Verlaine struggled with the fact that he was not a real human and could be controlled. Therefore, Rimbaud gifted him with a bowler hat embedded with certain metals which allowed its wearer to control command sequences at will, allowing Verlaine to be one step closer to becoming a human with free will.

Towards the end of the Great War, Verlaine and Rimbaud were assigned to abduct a young Chuya from a Japanese military facility after France knew of their research on a high-energy being. However, Verlaine empathized with the boy and wanted to save him from being made a test subject for the rest of his life, stating that he wanted the boy to be raised in a village with a new family without knowing anything about his past. Rimbaud did not consider Chuya a human and refused to deviate from the mission. Verlaine then decided to betray Rimbaud and shot him in the ensuing fight. Soon after, Chuya and Arahabaki were released, causing a massive explosion.

Subsequently, Verlaine began work as a lone wolf assassin known for killing high-ranking individuals on either side of the law. Branded as the King of Assassins, his calling card is to leave a cross carved from a locally grown white birch. He killed eight major figures throughout the world, including three military armory supervisors and a drug cartel boss. He eventually stained the Order of the Clock Tower's reputation by murdering several ability user guards and almost successfully assassinating the Queen herself after actually killing her body double. Due to his notoriety, Verlaine became considered as one of the most dangerous threats in the world, comparable to the Seventeen Worldly Evils.

Verlaine typically uses his ability for offensive purposes. He can manipulate physical matter from the surrounding area, such as the ground he is in, to use as his weapon and launch at his opponents, crushing them with the force-enhanced matter. Regardless of its size, the object can inflict massive destructive force when its gravity is altered to a greater strength and force. He can also stop bullets shot at him and deflect them back to their sources. Moreover, Verlaine can directly control people's physical gravities. When manipulating his opponents' gravities, he can immobilize their movements by making their bodies heavy or light enough to render them incapacitated. For instance, he can make them levitate by lightening their masses and immediately plunge them to the ground with a heavy force. He can also manipulate his own gravity as he deems fit. He can decrease his body's gravity to lighten his mass while attacking at high speed; as a result, his kicks released at high speed can pierce through his targets with the weight of an iron ball. In addition, he can control his gravity and allow himself to sprint at overwhelming speeds and reflexes without losing momentum.

At first he sat in the basement, spending time reading books and composing poetry. When he got tired of it, he started doing the same thing as Rimbaud — teaching the younger generation. He gave the mafia elite all his knowledge of killing techniques, teaching them in an underground training ground. All the mafia hitmen who had been trained by him became first-class killers in a short period of time. Verlaine never revealed his inner feelings to anyone. Neither the students nor the boss, he never tried to reveal why he continued to desire his crippled underground life. Outside of training, he just sat on a wicker chair and waited for something. However, he didn't tell anyone what it was. And when he was persistently asked about it, he only answered: "Storm." No one knew what he meant by "storm." Six years later, Verlaine became an indispensable central figure of the mafia — he became one of the five executives. He's still sitting quietly on a wicker chair in the basement.

In close relationships, Verlaine is quite a caring and polite person. He is almost like the perfect prince on a white horse, Paul visibly respects his partner. Unfortunately, due to the fact that there is a lot of female influence on his personality, you might think that he uses it, but Verlaine is not satisfied with it in any way. He clearly does not want his loved one to feel uncomfortable because of such situations, so he always tries to get rid of such misunderstandings and solve this problem. He's like a wall that many girls dream of. For the sake of his loved ones, Verlaine is ready to move mountains. It's almost like giving up your own life, but it's unlikely, but it may come to murder. Verlaine is a mafioso and he can afford it, but if such an outcome of events does not suit his partner, he will not go against the wishes of his beloved. Although Verlaine is quite an open and friendly person, but he is careful enough in expressing his thoughts and emotions. Even if at first glance he seems to be a very good person, but do not forget that he is an Executive in the Port Mafia. The Port Mafia is a criminal organization that has many connections and its business relies on drugs, prostitution, illegal sale of weapons and the like. Due to his high status, it can be said that he is very rich. His money practically does not go away, as if he is saving for something, but in fact Verlaine does not make sense to waste money or for anything. It seemed that he had everything he could dream of, but in fact Paul has a huge emptiness in his soul. And he hopes that one day the "Storm" that he expects will change his life for the better.