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gonewithistory) wrote2010-07-29 10:13 pm
gonewithistory) wrote2010-07-29 10:13 pm
Kannagara Application
PLAYER INFO
Name/Nickname: Tossino/Toss/Tossy etc.
Age: 18
Journal: tossino
AIM/MSN/IM: AIM: thetossedone MSN: the_tossed_one@hotmail.com
Email: the_tossed_one@hotmail.com
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Lavi
Canon: D.Gray-Man
Point taken from canon: After the Thirds were introduced, about chapter 185.
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Preferred Village: Wherever his canon friends are, so currently Hisato.
Appearance: Lavi is 179 cm (5'8") tall and weighs 62 kg (137 lb - put on some weight, kid!). He has a pretty lean build and doesn't seem to have much muscle, but he can break walls with his fists so at the very least he sure knows how to use his body to its fullest. He should have some muscle, being an Exorcist and all. He has thick and messy red hair that he usually keeps out of his face with a headband or a bandanna, with some hair sticking out in front of his ears and between his eyes. His right eye is covered by an eye-patch for reasons unknown, but it's definitely not because he doesn't have an eye, and when his hair is down it usually falls over the eye-patch. His left eye is green, and it wouldn't be a surprise if the right has another colour. He has earrings.
Lavi has had several different uniforms, like all Exorcists, during the course of the manga, though they usually follow remotely the same pattern. His current uniform consists of a fairly long jacket, white pants with some sort of chaps that reach halfway up his thighs and boots that reach his knees. He also has the headband, which is black with red dots that create the shape of an X and a red/dark orange scarf. His casual clothing is the pants and boots of the uniform, his scarf and headband along with a loose shirt.
Lavi is a relaxed person and of course carries himself that way. His signature pose/walk is where he locks his hands behind his head and leans a bit backwards. Even if relaxed, though, he does use a lot of motions when talking, but especially much whenever he has some form of... "burst of emotions", like punching a hole in a window when angry.
He's wild and hasty with his actions and doesn't warn people when he's going to do something, because that takes away all the fun. His movements also have a bit of laziness to them, though, a lot of the time because he is a lazy person in a lot of ways as well, just not overly so. He somehow manages to make his movements both lazy and quick and expressive. Of course, just how lazy or unlazy he moves depends on the situation. He wouldn't slack during a battle, for example.
He's a bit clingy, touchy and very fond of physical contact, so he's close and personal and doesn't give a crap if you like it or not. He likes to drape himself over people. Especially if they don't like it, because that means it will annoy them and he loves annoying people. But he also knows when to back off so that he doesn't get himself killed (not that he really would), and to ensure his safety he uses mannerisms that show he's backing off, such as waving his hands, grinning and cowering a little. He may tread on the line, but he normally won't cross it. Not far, anyway.
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Background: This wiki is... mostly correct, but the DGM wiki was never known for its accuracy so... Writing up an own background that should be more correct (and more detailed...quite a lot more detailed).
When Lavi was six years old, Bookman picked him up (part of the reason has to do with his right eye). Just what happened to him before that is unknown, but it's not something Lavi should think about in the first place, because when he became Bookman's apprentice he resigned his name and left behind everything that had to do with his life before that. Bookman taught him everything he needed to know to do his job, which for example included languages, especially ancient ones, and training to make his memory perfect. When he was seven years old, he got hit by a stray bullet and nearly died. At age nine he grew past Bookman's height of 140 cm (4'6").
During his time as the Bookman's apprentice before the Order, he used up forty-eight personas - which will be elaborated on in the personality section, along with what exactly a Bookman is - number 48 being "Deak". He joined the Order as number 49; "Lavi". One of the first things he saw was Lenalee - and others though he took notice of especially Lenalee - crying over several coffins in the main hall. He also met the Finder Doug in his reverse novel at this age. Doug ended up becoming his (first?) close friend.
At age eighteen, Lavi reunited with Doug on a mission and later on had to kill the Akuma that Doug had become after a girl he had grown attached to during said mission had passed away, and after this Lavi was sent off to the Rewinding Time together with Bookman to treat Allen and Lenalee, and thus met Allen. This is where he appeared in the manga. After Bookman checked up on Allen and confirmed that he was fine, he and Lavi left the hospital and spent some bonding-time together in the town. Lavi taught Allen how he should deal without being able to see Akuma under their human disguises, since his left eye was currently damaged.
After fending off some Akuma and crashing into Lenalee's hospital room with Lavi's Innocence, and after Lenalee had recovered, they were sent off to hunt for Marian Cross. On the way, they got side-tracked after Allen missed the train and was caught by the major of a village who was terrified of a supposed vampire living in a castle nearby. Lavi was sent to fetch Allen once the group discovered the boy wasn't there, and got caught as well. They were forced to try and solve the mystery of the vampire.
When inspecting the castle, they ran into a group of flowers called Rosanne that Krory was taking care of, but were pretty much saved by Eliade, who lived with the vampire and who he loved. Lavi fell for her beauty and nearly agreed to being her lover, but Allen smacked some sense into him. After getting out of the trouble, they discovered the graves of the people the vampire, Krory, supposedly killed, and saw that he hadn't actually killed people, but Akuma. Lavi came to the conclusion that Krory was an accommodator of Innocence, and so they tried to convince him of this fact and get him to come with them. However, he refused to believe them, too overwhelmed by feelings, and they were forced to fight him in the garden of the castle.
Allen was thrown back into the castle, and into a battle with Eliade, who turned out to be an Akuma, and while he was battling her, Lavi continued his attempts to persuade Krory. Eventually, he decided to go all out and knock Krory out. They ended up back in the castle, were they once again faced Rosanne, and while Krory had to face the fact that Eliade was an Akuma and had to get killed, Allen remembered that he had raised a Rosanne once and told Lavi to tell the flowers that he loved them. Screaming "I love you" over and over, they finally managed to calm the flowers down. Allen's eye had evolved by this time, and was actually able to show Lavi and Krory the soul of Eliade. Lavi said he would never want to have that ability.
Krory defeated Eliade, and after blowing up the castle, he went with Lavi and Allen. (He somehow got a uniform despite them not going back to HQ, sheesh, author.)
The hunt for Cross led them to China, and a brothel owned by a woman named Anita, who was a supporter of the Order and Cross's lover. They found out that Cross had taken off to Edo in Japan, who was controlled by the Millenium Earl, but that his ship had capsized on the way and that no one had survived. But Allen said that there was no way Cross would die from that. Anita began to believe that herself, and thus she fixed a ship and crew for them to follow Cross. Right at that moment, a horde of Akuma passed over the ship towards a Fallen One, someone who has betrayed Innocence, named Suman. One of the Akuma noticed Allen and took him with them and Lavi tried to follow, but was attacked by another Akuma. Lenalee on the other hand noticed, with Tim's help, and saved him.
While Lavi and the others fought on the ship, they tried to help Suman. Lenalee had to leave to help a small girl that Allen saved from Suman, but she did so very reluctantly. After Suman had died and Allen fell victim to Tyki Mikk and was left to slowly die, Lenalee came back to the ship and asked for Lavi's help. They found Timcanpy, who had recordings of what happened to Allen, and finally found the spot where he was killed with the golem's help. They only found the remains of Allen; a pool of blood, and the ace of spades from the deck of cards Tyki dropped on him. Then they were asked to come back to the ship. There, a messenger from the Asia Branch awaited them, and told them that they had taken care of Allen. They had to leave him in China, accompanied by the new Exorcist Miranda who temporarily repaired the damaged ship with her Innocence.
The loss of Allen was very hard on everyone, but especially Lavi and Lenalee. Lavi, being under mental stress already from the loss of his friend, got tired of seeing Lenalee's gaze so empty and snapped at her, punching a window and telling her that it was war and that they just had to deal with it. Lenalee began to silently cry, and Bookman told her he would beat Lavi up for it, but it was really just used as a disguise to remind him that they were just there as Bookmen and that Lavi shouldn't get too caught up in the war.
A level 3 appeared after a while, and gave the Exorcists and the ship a lot of trouble. After the Akuma took off with Bookman and Lavi followed with his Innocence, and after he had gotten Bookman back, Lenalee told him to go back to the ship and let her handle the level 3. He did so reluctantly, and as the ones left on the ship battled the Akuma that had accompanied the level 3 and were hiding behind the clouds, Lenalee struggled with the new and much-stronger-than-they-were-used-to Akuma. Lavi used his Innocence's Wood Seal to remove the clouds and soon the Akuma were taken care of, aside from the level 3.
After a long struggle, during which the ship was nearly sunk due to the level 3's ability to manipulate gravity, Lenalee finally defeated the level 3, however she didn't come back. Lavi went to look for her, ignoring Miranda's words that his wounds would open again when he wasn't inside the range of her Innocence and that he shouldn't leave, and instead he found an Akuma who was holding a huge, green crystal casing that was apparently Lenalee. After the Akuma, who had been modified by Cross, convinced Lavi, with Tim's help, that it meant no harm, they took the crystal back to the ship.
Lenalee was very relieved to be alive, and Lavi was just as relieved that she was, but her Innocence didn't work anymore due to her pushing it to its limit, and her hair was burnt. She could barely even use her legs.
They eventually reached Edo with the Akuma's, Chomesuke's, help, however only three men from the crew on the ship had survived, and neither Anita or her personal servant Mahoja were among them. So the Exorcists said goodbye to those crewmen as Miranda dispelled her Innocence's ability to restore time. Lavi told Bookman that it was painful. But the Exorcists continued onwards for the crew's sake. They had to carefully watch their steps in a country with a population that was 90% Akuma as they made their way towards Edo, where all Akuma were actually gathering as well.
As the Earl issued the command for the Akuma to attack the Generals of the Order, the Exorcists had reached Edo, and Lavi tried to intercept the Akuma and the Noah with his Fire Seal. Lavi, Krory and Bookman, as the only Exorcists able to fight, struggled to fight the overwhelming amount of Akuma and the Noah. Lavi recognised the Noah Tyki Mikk as the one who had nearly killed Allen, and decided to take him on himself. While they fought, the Akuma gathered together into one big Akuma, and Chomesuke sacrificed herself to try and defeat it, as she was going to self-destruct anyway, while Lavi watched in shock.
Then Kanda arrived, along with Marie and General Tiedoll, and they managed to deal with the combined Akuma. Lavi was pretty happy to see Kanda. Then, without warning, the Earl set off some sort of bomb and destroyed all of Edo, only leaving a flat, desolate plain. Lenalee's Innocence protected her by once again capturing her in a crystal case, and the Earl took notice of this, targeting her, while Tyki and Skinn Bolic distracted the Exorcists Kanda and Lavi respectively. Right when it looked like the Earl would get to Lenalee, Allen appeared from within the Ark, the Noah family's transport and the Akuma manufacturing plant that was being moved to another Ark and thus wouldn't stay intact for much longer, and stopped him.
All of a sudden, there was another explosions and smoke clouded the Exorcists visions. Lavi, Allen and Kanda ended up attacking each other. Once they smoke cleared, the Noah were gone. The Exorcists left the plane and took cover under a bridge to rest. But they didn't get much rest; Lenalee was pulled into the Ark by the Earl, and Lavi, Allen, Kanda, Krory and Chouji, one of the three surviving crewmen, followed. The Ark appeared in the sky in front of the remaining group's eyes.
In their hunt for a way out to escape being left in a crumbling dimension, Tyki appeared again, with a key that would open the exit. He told them the exit was at the top of the tower in the middle of the city, and so the race with time began.
They found the first of the four doors the key would work on, and in the room they met Skinn. Kanda chased off the rest of the group and said that he would defeat the Noah, and he literally did chase them away; he attacked them. Angrily, they marched off and left him behind. The fight took too long and he fell together with the room, but did defeat Skinn.
Lavi and the others finally reached the next room after a long corridor, and there the Noah Jasdebi, or Jasdero and Debitto (David), waited for them. After an intense fight (and some whining about debts left from Cross), Jasdebi created an illusion of millions of keys and told the Exorcists to find the real one. Lavi told Allen to help the others while he found the real key, saying that every scratch and pattern on the real key was recorded into his mind and that there was no way an illusion would deceive the Bookman's successor. He used the Wood Seal to lift the keys into the air and make them circle him, so that it would be easiest to find the key. It took a while and the others were forced to battle an illusion of the Earl, but once he found it, it all disappeared.
Jasdero and Debitto had had enough and merged together into one body, really becoming Jasdebi. After a bit of rough fighting, Krory yelled at the others to go through the door - which they reluctantly did and tried to believe in Krory - and stayed behind to deal with the Noah. He won, but he, too, was still in the room when it crumbled.
As Lavi and the others moved on, they tried their best to keep their hopes up. They talked about what they would do once they got back to the Order.
In the next room, Tyki and Road had prepared a dinner for them (...really). After a bit of talking, Allen attacked Tyki. Lavi was about to join in, when Road blocked his path, telling him not to interfere and to play with her. She shut Lenalee and Chaoji away in a sort of box and Lavi agreed to playing with Road, if she agreed to letting them go if he won. Which she did, and thus sent him into her dream world, telling him that if he could get out, he would win. When he asked her if she was going to stop "sprouting from the chessboard pattern-like floor" and fight or not, she answered that she wasn't the one who was going to fight, and then she presented him with his opponent - himself.
As he tried to attack, his other self said that the only thing that accompanied him was his heart, so he didn't have any Innocence, and thus his Innocence disappeared. Road, the Noah of dreams, revealed her power to him; being able to connect "her world" - her dream - with the real world.
While Allen and Tyki fought, Lavi and Bookman were on a small boat headed for the Order, still inside of Road's world of course, and Lavi's other self showed up again, talking about how Lavi's heart didn't belong in the world. And then, a coffin floated by in the water, a coffin with Lenalee in it. Lavi jumped out of the boat to check on her, and Lavi's other self - let's call him Junior - said that it was just another piece of history. Road's goal was to kill Lavi's heart, though he insisted that it wasn't smashed yet.
Allen supposedly destroyed the Noah in Tyki after reaching critical point, and Road, who got very angry, became more determined to destroy Lavi, to make someone close to Allen suffer for what he did. In the dream world, Lavi struggled with not letting the illusion of those Order members that he cared for get to him, while the illusion of Bookman questioned him about his purpose. Before he could answer, Lenalee suddenly rose from her coffin and attacked him with a knife, asking him why he had abandoned them. He grabbed a knife himself as the other illusions attacked him as well, as Bookman told him to mow them down.
As he fought the illusions, he remembered when Komui showed them around the Order and he first saw Lenalee, and when he was accepted as a Bookman and Bookman's words that made him want to become his apprentice: "You can know something that no one knows." As he kept fighting, eyes tightly closed, memories kept playing inside his mind.
A card, ace of spades, fell out from somewhere in his clothes and into the water, causing him to open his eye. Allen's illusion picked the card up and talked about how Lavi held onto that for him, and then Junior destroyed his head, to Lavi's great shock. Junior said that it was just a blob of ink, nothing of importance, and that Lavi could no longer just watch and was thus a failure. Then Lenalee, Kanda and Krory suddenly stabbed his heart and Junior said he wasn't a Bookman anymore, but that he shouldn't worry, because he was still there, and he was the real "Lavi".
The ink dripped off the card and Lavi fell.
A strange mark appeared under Lavi's visible eye, back in the real world. Road told Allen that Lavi's heart had just died, and that he had to kill "that" in order to save Lenalee and Chaoji. Then, Lavi, who was really Junior now, attacked Allen. He desperately tried to bring Lavi back to his senses, talking about them being comrades, but to no avail. Junior just replied that he was not their comrade and that he never thought of them as his, and continued to attack, using his seals.
Allen attempted to attack Road instead, but she said that since her real body wasn't in that world and that those who didn't know her true form couldn't kill her. As Junior attacked Allen with his Fire Seal, seemingly going all out, Allen noticed the flames weren't burning him, and instead Road's candles that she was using to threaten the others were melting. Junior noted with shock that his body began moving on its own; Lavi's heart wasn't dead yet. He had stabbed himself in Road's world to keep himself awake.
Lavi turned the Fire Seal on himself and Road, and stabbed Allen in Road's world, having figured out her true form was hiding there. But despite the victory he figured the best thing he could do was kill himself. In Road's world, Junior asked Lavi why he wasn't like the other personas as he turned into six-year-old Junior. He asked why it was so hard to be 49th and why Lavi was fighting for temporary friends.
Allen leaped into the fire to try and stop Lavi. Once Allen was next to him, Road declared that he won the game and let Lenalee and Chaoji go. The fire froze and Road fell out of it, badly burnt, and then Lavi and Allen emerged from the ice. Lavi said he felt very good somehow, and Lenalee gave him a punch for being an idiot. Road turned into ashes with a maniacal laugh.
When the group was about to head to the door on the very top floor of the tower, Allen was about to go back and take Tyki, saying he couldn't leave him behind, which wasn't appreciated by Chaoji at all. However, Tyki's Noah actually wasn't dead, instead, it awoke completely - apparently, he had been suppressing it all the time - and he pulled Allen back down, destroying the exit in the process.
He was too strong for the Exorcists and they did the best they could, but they couldn't even scratch him. Luckily, Cross arrived to save the day after a while, told the Exorcists to stay out of his way, hid them from view, and proceeded to kick Tyki's ass; much to the other Exorcists shock. Seeing Cross's power they realised that they were still weak. Cross was just about to finish the Noah off when the Earl appeared, and as the Ark continued to collapse, Lavi and Chaoji fell to their deaths. Lavi tried using "extend" so that Allen could grab onto his Innocence, but it had been put under too much pressure and crumbled. Lavi wore a grin on his face as he fell along with Chaoji and the rocks.
Allen was consumed by hatred for the Earl and attacked, but was stopped by Cross and told off for just reacting on that emotion.
Later on, Lavi was revived along with the others when Allen restored the Ark. Or more exactly; they were brought back from a space in-between dimensions. He efficiently made a fool of himself and tried to get Allen to come to him by yelling "dinnertime" and different kinds of food. When he realised that the others were probably alive if he and Chaoji was, he called for Kanda as well, but before he had the time to finish a sentence, Kanda appeared from a door, with a just as lovely greeting (an insult) as usual. He was carrying Krory with him as well.
Allen went to get them, leaving Krory with Cross and Lenalee (probably reluctantly), and was overjoyed to see Tim again, while Lavi and Kanda mourned over their ruined anti-Akuma weapons. Finally, after all those struggles, they were able to return home, and Komui was there to greet them.
But the Exorcists didn't get to rest for long. The HQ was invaded by the Noah Lulubell and a horde of level 3 to try and take back the Egg, since otherwise the Earl would be unable to create anymore Akuma as the Egg was the Akuma manufacturing plant. When Allen rushed off from the cafeteria due to his eye activating, Lavi followed along with Bookman and Howard Link who was assigned to watch Allen. They couldn't get into the room where the Egg was held, however, due to the Noah's new Ark blocking the way. Lavi tried to hit it with a chair but... as if that was going to work.
While Allen and Bookman headed off to fight as the announcement sounded through the Order, Lavi had to stay put, and nearly got knocked over by Lenalee, who was heading to see Hevlaska about her Innocence. Komui stopped her, and threw both her and Lavi into the infirmary, because they didn't have their weapons. As everyone struggled, they were forced to stay put, and suddenly everything shook and the power went out. It was soon announced that a level 4 had left the room with the Egg; the fifth lab, and entered the Science Division. As the level 4 targeted Komui, Leverrier rushed to take Lenalee to Hevlaska.
Leverrier was pressuring Lenalee to come and grabbed her arms quite harshly, which Lavi didn't find acceptable at all, so he grabbed Leverrier's hand and stopped him. That didn't stop Leverrier from pressuring, despite that Matron and Lavi protested. But despite that still, Lenalee decided to go, to Lavi's fairly big shock, but he wasn't intending to let her go alone so he followed. Leverrier wasn't so happy, but in the end said it didn't matter. On the way to Hevlaska, Lavi questioned why Leverrier was even there and why he was doing all that. He got the answer that it was to win the war.
They arrived just in time to see the level 4 attacking Komui. The collision made the elevator he was on crash to the ground, and Lenalee cried out in despair. Lavi rushed to check on him and the rest who had been on the elevator, which included Kanda, who had protected Komui from the attack despite not having his Innocence. Lavi ran up to them and together with Kanda he covered Komui as the level 4 hovered down. Lavi had a flagpole, and Kanda had a regular sword.
Just as Hevlaska was about to put the Innocence into Lenalee's body, she was hit by an attack by the level 4 after it had taken care of Lavi and Kanda. Lenalee tried to reach the Innocence despite that the level 4 was about to finish her off, and all of a sudden Allen, who was using his Innocence to forcefully move his body, appeared and stopped the Akuma from doing so. Komui watched with wide eyes and Lavi told him to go to her, because she had been living for him. And Kanda added the final kick in the ass.
While Allen struggled against the level 4 as Lenalee tried to synchronise with her Innocence, Lavi and Kanda joined in to help against a strong attack from the Akuma, grabbing onto Allen's sword and encouraging him to hang on. They were roughly knocked back and the level 4 was holding Allen, but Lenalee managed to synchronise, and joined the battle. Once the Generals returned from what could have been death, the level 4 was finally defeated. Lavi rushed to Bookman's side to make sure he was okay.
While the Exorcists were recovering, they gathered to discuss the nature of Lenalee's new Innocence; a Crystal Type. Afterwards, Bookman told Lavi to tell him as soon as he saw evidence of his own Innocence becoming a Crystal Type, and they would leave. Lavi tried not to show how much that affected him. Bookman also said that the Earl was most likely letting the Order live for a reason, as the Earl should have been able to destroy it a hundred years ago.
Due to the damage to HQ, they decided to move. Moving the Science Division evolved into a lot of incidents with potions, such as giving Allen long hair, making Lenalee talk like a cat, giving Bookman bunny ears and making him talk like a cat, and turning Lavi and Kanda into some sort of kid versions of themselves. They had to work together to move boxes, since they were so small. During the move, the power suddenly went out (again). A strange laughter echoed through the HQ.
Some sort of virus (created by Komui) had been spread by an unknown person, which turned people into some sort of... zombies? And it continued to spread by... biting. A group of about ten people, among them Lavi, Kanda, Allen and Lenalee, were forced to run as seemingly everyone in the Order tried to hunt them down and spread the virus. They found Komui and together they left to hunt down the source of the infection so that they could create an antidote. The Generals suddenly appeared, affected by the virus as well, catching the group off-guard and separating them.
Krory turned out to be the source and the person, or thing, who caused the whole thing showed... him/her/itself to Komui, Reever, Lenalee and Bookman. It was apparently a sort of ghost of everyone who had fallen victim to the Order's experiments. She - most likely she - didn't want them to leave, so she was going to make them all stay with her with the virus's help. He talked to her and made her change her mind, but it was too late to stop the spread of the virus, so everyone was infected. However, Bak came into the HQ the day afterwards and managed to fix the mess.
Once they finally managed to move to the new HQ, Lavi was in the room where Allen and Cross had the meeting about the 14th and watched. The words about the third side of the war that Cross said seemed to frighten Bookman, but the old man simply told Lavi to forget that and not ask him about it. The last time where we really saw Lavi was when he talked to Bookman about Cross's death and that they should be cautious for having heard Cross's words. He appeared in a few panels during the introduction of the half-Akuma called the Third Exorcists. His most recent brief appearance was in Whan Shan in China together with Bookman and... Chaoji?
Personality: At first glance, Lavi is cheerful, optimistic, fun-loving, friendly, (very) talkative and a bit of a failure of a womaniser. He pretty much constantly wears a smile on his face and he gladly talks with anyone. Anyone. This includes the quiet, short-tempered lonewolves such as Kanda. He doesn't need to actually get any response to talk; he could talk to a wall for ages. It all depends on the person how appreciated that is; for some it's probably just annoying.
Lavi's the kind of person anyone can get along with. While he really loves to joke around and make fun of others and just amuse himself on others' expense, it's hard not to grow to like his friendly attitude. And he's generally pretty pushy and refuses to back off in the kind of subtle way that isn't quite so clingy but enough to get you to eventually become immune to everything that he throws at you, so that you sort of have to like him eventually. (He's friends with Kanda, and anyone who knows Kanda would understand that that has to mean something.) Or it's simply because you start to pity him eventually because he acts rather like an idiot. He doesn't get much respect.
He may act like an idiot, but he isn't, really (he's the second smartest out of the OT4, after Lenalee), and if anything that should be obvious by his sharp and witty tongue. He likes to play with words and annoy people by twisting their words or making puns, and he also likes shamelessly practically flirting with everything and anyone, despite his apparent love of a pretty female face. He tends to have bad luck and fall especially hard for women who aren't actually human (Eliade), though. (One of the goddesses, anyone?)
Another thing that points to his non-idiocy is that he does in fact have good things to say, like when he told Allen about how Exorcists deal with not having an eye able to see the souls of Akuma. He knows how to cheer people up and guide them through rough times in life. Most of the time anyway. Even if he shouldn't really care.
One of his habits is that he can sleep anywhere and anytime. Like under a table, for example.
Due to being a very social person, Lavi's pretty much a known face to everyone in the Order. While he may not really be friends with everyone, he's sure to have talked to nearly everyone. His jokes and pranks are likely to be well-known too, probably like some sort of mood-lifting thing in the Order. Someone has to keep the spirits up during a tough war, right? Lavi's one of those someones, no doubt about it.
But in reality he has very few people that he really counts as friends, and the ones who are obvious would be Allen, Kanda, Lenalee - but how mutual that is is questionable - and possibly Krory, depends how you choose to see it. He also has Bookman who is definitely very important to him, like a family. And that is no doubt about it mutual, even if the Bookmen aren't supposed to get attached to people.
Actually befriending Lavi is in truth not so easy, not truly doing so, and truly getting to know him isn't easy either. The only reason that he actually is so easy to like is so that he'll be able to get all the information he wants and/or needs. He's a Bookman, someone who watches wars from the sidelines and records it. They're unbiased, and that's why he's not supposed to get attached to anyone, and it's likely he never did before he joined the Order. Even if that hasn't been directly shown, he was shown to believe that humans are "stupid" and he thought of humans as something below him. So his first real friends were probably those in the Order, such as Doug and Kanda, and even so some part of him was probably still thinking that humans are stupid at least until he fought Road.
Basically, Lavi's pretty much one big lie, because it's not really him, though more him than it was at first.
Lavi's visit in Road's world took advantage of his struggle with being a true Bookman and not caring about anyone and his persona's attachment to his friends. The record in the Black Order is the longest and hardest he has done so far and it's the first time he battles on the front lines, so that's probably why he got so attached to the people fighting; he's one of them. The Bookmen are supposed to be "friendly and frivolous" so that people can care about them and so that they can get information and trust, but they're not supposed to care about people or show them trust, which Lavi has begun doing. (Bookman is a hypocrite because he does this too, damn it.)
He no longer has a clear line between his persona and being the Bookman's apprentice, but after Road's mental torture he doesn't seem to be so bothered by that. Rather, he seems okay with it and seems to have decided to pull through somehow anyway. But he still tries not to let things get to him too much, so it's more like he's trying to find some sort of balance. Obviously he's not going to give up on his dream to become a Bookman.
While Lavi can be shocked of people he has grown to like but isn't all that attached to yet dies, he won't be so affected by it because it wasn't one of his important people. He really didn't take Allen's death well because Allen was very important to him, somehow, even if they hadn't known each other for so long, and still is important to him of course.
Lavi doesn't seem to generally deal so well with stress. He snapped when Lenalee was mourning over Allen, probably because it hurt him more when she did that and he doesn't appreciate such things, and when he was fighting Road he did try to kill himself even if that probably wasn't the only way, more like the easy way. The easy way out. So under stress he tends to react badly, and he has a habit of hurting those that he's close to especially if he's hurting too, because he's not exactly the most kind and heart-warming person out there. You could also say that he's a bit of a coward in some ways even if he also jumps headlong into battles that seem nearly impossible.
You could say that the way he deals with situations and how he reacts has a lot to do with what kind of situation it is and what people are involved. Things that involve his close friends usually really get to him, while things that don't involve his close friends but friend-ish people at least don't get to him all that much, and things that involve complete strangers don't matter at all. He's a very emotional person when it involves friends and the like, and himself, but he doesn't show any sympathy for complete strangers.
When Lavi does show real emotion, which is rare, it's a strong burst of it which results in hasty and/or obvious physical actions. Such as breaking the window when he got angry at Lenalee. Very few things/people bring out these kinds of emotions in him.
Due to being the Bookman's successor, though it's probably partly naturally as well, Lavi's a very observant person. He takes notice of the little things and will always remember them. He analyses situations and people and himself and as such there's most likely always something going on inside his mind; questions and musings and the like. Due to being the Bookman's successor he's also a master at acting. In the Fanbook, the individual skill that was added to all characters was acting for Lavi, and that was a five. He does slip on his persona "Lavi", but it's not so obvious and he still manages to keep up the act.
Lavi does try to be unbiased and focus on his purpose, but at the same time he refuses to just see his friends as ink on paper as is ideal for a Bookman. After he got out of Road's world, it seems as if though the Bookman's apprentice and Lavi the Exorcist has somehow merged. He knows what he wants to do, but he also know that there are things he wants to have, like friendship and people to care about. While he knows it won't be easy, he's intending to keep that up. He seems to show more of his true self lately; he's not quite as overly cheerful and such, but he still keeps the act up. It's a little bit as if he has grown a bit together with his persona.
Abilities/Strengths: Lavi's an Exorcist, and thus he has an Innocence. It goes by the official name of Tettsei, Metal Hammer, but apparently Lavi thought that was boring and instead he calls it Odzuchi Kodzuchi, Big Hammer Small Hammer. He calls it by that name because it's capable of changing size; in its unactivated form it's small enough to fit in his pocket, but he does keep it in a holster for easy access. Of course, it never gets any heavier for Lavi whenever he makes it bigger, due to his being its accommodator. It's also capable of extending, meaning that he can extend the handle of the hammer. He often uses this to cross longer distances or when he's in a hurry. Or just for fun.
Tettsei is also able to use several seals with different elemental abilities, which he can access by activating the Innocence's second level. The seals that have been used/are known are as follows:
Hi Ban: Gouka Kaijin (火判 劫火灰燼, lit. Fire Seal: Configuration of Ash) - this seal creates a pillar of fire that forms into a snake
Ten Ban: Raitei Kaiten (天判 雷霆回天, lit. Heaven Seal: Thundering Lightning Whirling in the Skies) - this seal creates lightning.
Moku Ban: Tenchi Bankai (木判 天地盤回, lit. Wood Seal: Roots Entwining Heaven and Earth) - this seal can control nature, such as winds and clouds.
Konbo Ban: Gouraiten (コンボ判 剛雷天, lit. Combo Seal: Strong Thunder of the Heavens) - this seal combines the Fire and Heaven seal to create a snake of fire and lightning.
Ban: Maruhi Kouka Kaijin Hiban (Seal: (Hi means fire, maru refers to the ring around the kanji for fire, so basically Maruhi means "fire" with a ring around it...) Infinite Flame Fire Seal) - this seal basically creates a vortex of fire. It's stronger than the normal Fire Seal and was what Lavi used when he tried to kill himself.
Lavi seems to be holding back on using his Innocence so that he doesn't get too strong or too attached to it, due to being a Bookman. But there has to come a time where Bookman realises that if he and Lavi hold back too much they'll be in trouble... Still, even if Lavi holds back, he's very skilled in using his Innocence and though fighting too close to the enemy isn't all that easy with a weapon like Tettsei, he knows how to do that too, and if anything, he can figure out strategies to deal with troublesome enemies. He's pretty smart after all.
It's not known just what Lavi's right eye does or why it's covered, but when he was going to find the real key back in the Ark, he said that it "wasn't going to be as quick" with just his left eye, so it's possibly an extra sharp eye of some sorts. Whatever it is, it's some sort of ability and strength.
Lavi's also knowledgeable in martial arts, as that was something else that Bookman taught him. He doesn't show this much, but it was obvious during the Ark arc when Junior fought Allen. So even without his weapon he's a force to be reckoned with, seeing as he can break marble or whatever the tower in the Ark is made of with his hands, and probably harder things than that. Bookman should also have taught him some basic medical care.
Lavi can act, and can thus get information if he needs it. But even while acting, he has a certain aura when asking and/or demanding for information, though it's subtle and something that you automatically succumb to if you're not strong enough. But it's not like he always has to search for information; nothing can escape his eye(s) and everything he hears or sees he will remember, so he can always go back to it and think about it later, and that can bring every answer he needs.
Since Lavi doesn't really care about strangers, he won't be affected if they die or are injured, unlike for example Allen who tries saving everyone he can while Lavi just cares about saving those he cares about. He can focus on keeping himself alive and getting the work done when he doesn't feel the need to worry about strangers, and thus deaths of people around him won't weigh him down.
Lavi can keep a cool head in most situations that don't affect him too much emotionally, or when it really isn't the time to lose your cool. He has lost it a few times, like when he saw Tyki in Edo and got furious, but it's a rare thing and it normally doesn't overtake him completely. This could have a lot to do with him adapting quickly to situations and making his decisions based on the situation and people involved. He doesn't get clouded by personal things. ...most of the time. When his closest friends are involved that can change, but not all the time.
Weaknesses: Due to having one of his eyes covered by an eye-patch, Lavi should have some trouble with depth-perception. He has probably gotten used to that, though, after years and years of wearing an eye-patch, whatever that reason is, so he shouldn't be all that bothered by it. But he does have a habit to destroy buildings with his Innocence, probably due to that...
As already said, he seems to be holding back and not using his Innocence to its fullest, and he seems to hide the fact that he's skilled in martial arts. It most likely has to do with his persona. This does create some troubles, though, especially when fighting Noah or higher level Akuma (we have yet to see Lavi defeat a level 3 even, for example, but he sort of should be able to defeat one due to them being fodder now and all, and due to them appearing frequently recently), and he might just have to stop worrying about that in not too long. As long as he doesn't become Crystal Type (though that's probably what he fears now) it should be fine.
Lavi's Innocence wouldn't be so easy to handle in small spaces. He could most likely manage somehow, but it would take some really quick thinking.
Out of the four main characters, Lavi is the one with the weakest mental strength (a 3 in the Fanbook, compared to Lenalee's 4 and Kanda and Allen's 5), so he's generally not all that mentally strong. His inability to handle stress especially on emotional and mental level is evidence of this. His mental strength is definitely not entirely weak, he did pull through Road's torture, but it could really be better.
He has trouble with balancing Bookman and Exorcist duties along with feelings and duty, and he constantly has to worry about getting too close to his Innocence and too close to just about everything. Sure, he's very close to a few people, but it could be worse, and even if he doesn't seem as worried about it anymore there's probably still some sort of gnawing in his consciousness about that.
Lavi's somewhat emotionally awkward due to not having shown much real emotion through his whole childhood, and he's still cold and uncaring in some cases, so when some unfamiliar situation arises and he's suddenly overwhelmed by feelings, he'll likely be struggling with that for a while. That would make him exhausted and stressed, and thus he'd end up showing emotions in sudden bursts and possibly have abrupt mood changes.
Lavi seems to get angry when people make his own suffering worse; he doesn't like when he's hurting, and gets angry. It's especially in situations like this that he will hurt people, but he does have the bad habit of just generally hurting people since he's very cold sometimes, and in a lot of cases he might not really care all that much, while in some it will just hurt him more.
It's a bit like a bad circle and he has some trouble learning and developing emotionally, since Bookmen aren't really supposed to aside from toughening up enough to be able to watch wars without being affected by it.
He seems to have some form of fear of being alone as well. Some fear of the others finding his secret out, probably, that he's pretty much been lying the whole time.
Even after the trip Road put Lavi though, he's not all that sure of who he is. Since he's mostly been playing different kinds of people since he was six years old, there might be some parts of his true self that hasn't gotten the chance to develop properly. He's definitely more sure of who he is because of Road's torture, but there are still a few things that he's not so sure of, and when something comes out that basically questions anything of these things, there will be some problems. His insecurity in himself could be what some people see and why they can't really respect him.
It'll be very interesting to see how Kannagara will make him grow~
Defining Quote(s): Chapter 28, page 10 to 11:
Lavi: But man, your reaction time is slow, Allen... Waiting for the Akuma to take shape before starting up your weapon is gonna get you killed.
Allen: Sorry. ...Lavi, how did you know?
Lavi: I don't know, yeah? I'm suspicious of everyone around me. Someone I met yesterday could be an Akuma today. 'cause that's the kinda thing we're up against. You should understand that, Allen. We are at an overwhelming disadvantage. We're different than you are, yeah? Not having that convenient eye. Akuma are mixed in with the humans. The other Exorcists and I, we end up looking at all humans as the Earl's minions.
Chapter 58, page 11 to 13:
Bookman: She's still trying to sort herself out. Miss Lena is fully regretting leaving Allen's side last night. She is condemning herself.
[Crash! Lavi punches the window.]
Lavi: Just cut it out already... There was nothing we could have done... We were all desperately fighting for our lives last night. There was no way... any of us could have helped him. This is war! We had no choice!! Get over it and stand up!!
Chapter 58, page 14:
"Don't be taken in by war. We are only on the Order's side 'by chance', all for the sake of recording history. Don't forget our goal, Lavi." ~ Bookman
Chapter 119, page 17:
"1 year... and 2 years. The time spent in the Order passed on. I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not."
Chapter 122, page 4:
Six-year-old Junior: You choose to fight for these temporary friends?! Humans create nothing but war! They're a feeble species! You know it's true! If you let your emotions get involved, it'd be agonising! I have the responsibility as a member of the Bookman Order!
Lavi: ...I kinda understand... "I"... was disappointed in humans. In the human world they were always arguing. I thought I was different from them.
"And you'll be amazed
At the secrets i keep
You'll be amazed
At my mouth full of lies"
"Now I can't look you in your eye's
Because the guilt is killing me
I try disconnect my heart again
Just so I can breathe
I wanna be myself again"
Both quotes from the song House of Cards by Madina Lake~
Other: Lavi's birthday is 10th August.
Even if Lavi seems to like women a lot (from the ages of 10 to 40, according to him... what), my headcanon says he's actually bisexual. He just acts that way, and it makes sense. My headcanon, along with a lot of other fans', also says that it's very likely that he has some form of personality or identity disorder; if the opportunity arises, it's very likely I'll explore this somehow.
Lavi is hebrew (לָבִיא) and means lion.
Action Writing Sample: [As the screen flares to life, you get a clear view of the leaves of the great Himorogi tree. Yup, it's that place again. The screen is shaking, as if the Hitomi is moving unsteadily somehow, and there's the sound of something shuffling and then some breathing. Red flashes in front of the screen for a moment, but you don't get a clear look of it before the screen makes some weird loop and then you see a pair of feet before those too disappear from view.]
Well! [Whoever's speaking, he sure sounds cheerful. The voice is pretty light and annoying, and oh so chipper, like he wasn't just pulled away from his world and tossed into this place.] This is prob'bly a dream, but I tried the pinchin' thing and didn't wake up. That's one huge tree though! Ahh, looks pretty nice, sorta glowy or somethin'.
[The screen moves again, and it finally focuses on something. A redhaired young man with one green eye and an eye-patch is making some handmotions at the tree with one hand, while his other is busy holding a... rabbit. Yes, a rabbit. He found it on the ground and thought it was ironic because Yu calls him a rabbit and all. It's brown and not reddish or anything, though. He's wearing a wide smile.
He approaches the tree, and... whatever the Hitomi is, it follows obediently, keeping a steady distance from him.]
Never seen such a tree in my whole life! It's very awesome. [Who knows who he's talking to. He tends to talk to himself sometimes, though, so nothing to worry about. Maybe.] Wonder how long it took for it to become that big. Is it really possible for a tree to be this big? Well, apparently, since it's... there 'nd all. Unless this really is a dream.
[He's standing right next to it now, and he looks up at the leaves, then he suddenly grins from ear to ear and leans forward until his front is pressed to the trunk and his free arm is spread out beside him, and he holds the rabbit safely on his other side.
Yup, he's hugging the tree that everyone seems to not like so much.]
Third Person Writing Sample: It had been a very odd thing, seeing what Lavi could swear had definitely been traces of tears in Bookman's eyes, when they returned from within the Ark. It wasn't a new thing to him that Bookman cared about him and, well, he cared about Bookman too, a lot. That wasn't a new thing. But tears. There had been tears, that he was pretty sure of. And that was scary and strange and wrong, but yet... Yet it sort of made him a bit happy too, even if it was in many ways so hard to wrap his mind around. Since Bookman so rarely showed that he cared, and all.
He leaned down towards the Bookman with a teasing, sly smile. "Didcha cry~?" he asked smoothly.
The old man smacked him on the top of his head and scowled. "Don't say such stupid things!" he growled. "And don't you dare pull such a stunt again, you daft greenhorn!"
Lavi just snickered and rubbed his head. If it hadn't been such an important part for the records, Bookman would probably have scolded him for just jumping into danger like that.
His face fell and he slowly lowered his arm. He would have to tell Bookman about what he had been about to do and that wasn't going to be fun, but he had to. That was... another very odd thing, thinking that he had actually been on the way to kill himself. He wasn't sure what the hell he had been thinking, it had just felt like it was the right thing to do even while it wasn't. Bookman wasn't going to like that at all, not at all, because the one thing Bookmen were supposed to focus more on than keeping the records and not getting attached, was not. Getting. Killed.
But it wasn't... It wasn't only that. Watching Bookman look at him like that, with some sort of weird expression on his face, it really hit him that this was about much more than just the records and keeping the Bookman clan alive. It was precious to the old man, it was, but the old man didn't want him to die because... because they were family, weren't they? They weren't supposed to care. He could count how many times Bookman had told him that, and it was a lot. They shouldn't care, and yet they did, and it was all one mess but Lavi would have to tell Bookman. He didn't want to, but it wasn't something he couldn't not say.
Bookman was his "gramps" and he was Bookman's "greenhorn" and they took care of each other. Bookman had not once left his side, he had always been there, and would always be there until he died (which probably wasn't as far away as Lavi would like). Even if his words were harsh and painful sometimes, he was just trying to help because while he wanted to create a great Bookman, he also didn't want Lavi to get hurt, right? But he couldn't do anything about that now, because Lavi was attached to these people and he would get hurt.
But that didn't matter.
Bookman had never once left his side, and he had been about to leave Bookman's. Bookman didn't have the time to look for another heir, damn it, he was really old and he wasn't going to stick around for much longer, so what the hell was Lavi thinking, trying to kill himself? This was about more than just himself and the other Exorcists. This was about him and Bookman, this was about the Bookmen, about the records, that both he and Bookman thought were important. And he had been about to leave it all.
He had a responsibility as the Bookman's apprentice. Yes, now, he was going to go through with it. He was going to live through this damn war and carry on the Bookman clan. And he would tell Bookman about everything in the Ark, about him nearly killing himself, and Bookman would be angry and who knew what kind of punishment he would get but he would take it. He was going to tell, because Bookman deserved to know, because they cared about each other, so... So he deserved to know.
And just where were they going to end up?
Lavi wasn't all that sure, but he had a feeling it was rather going straight to hell.
Name/Nickname: Tossino/Toss/Tossy etc.
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CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Lavi
Canon: D.Gray-Man
Point taken from canon: After the Thirds were introduced, about chapter 185.
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Preferred Village: Wherever his canon friends are, so currently Hisato.
Appearance: Lavi is 179 cm (5'8") tall and weighs 62 kg (137 lb - put on some weight, kid!). He has a pretty lean build and doesn't seem to have much muscle, but he can break walls with his fists so at the very least he sure knows how to use his body to its fullest. He should have some muscle, being an Exorcist and all. He has thick and messy red hair that he usually keeps out of his face with a headband or a bandanna, with some hair sticking out in front of his ears and between his eyes. His right eye is covered by an eye-patch for reasons unknown, but it's definitely not because he doesn't have an eye, and when his hair is down it usually falls over the eye-patch. His left eye is green, and it wouldn't be a surprise if the right has another colour. He has earrings.
Lavi has had several different uniforms, like all Exorcists, during the course of the manga, though they usually follow remotely the same pattern. His current uniform consists of a fairly long jacket, white pants with some sort of chaps that reach halfway up his thighs and boots that reach his knees. He also has the headband, which is black with red dots that create the shape of an X and a red/dark orange scarf. His casual clothing is the pants and boots of the uniform, his scarf and headband along with a loose shirt.
Lavi is a relaxed person and of course carries himself that way. His signature pose/walk is where he locks his hands behind his head and leans a bit backwards. Even if relaxed, though, he does use a lot of motions when talking, but especially much whenever he has some form of... "burst of emotions", like punching a hole in a window when angry.
He's wild and hasty with his actions and doesn't warn people when he's going to do something, because that takes away all the fun. His movements also have a bit of laziness to them, though, a lot of the time because he is a lazy person in a lot of ways as well, just not overly so. He somehow manages to make his movements both lazy and quick and expressive. Of course, just how lazy or unlazy he moves depends on the situation. He wouldn't slack during a battle, for example.
He's a bit clingy, touchy and very fond of physical contact, so he's close and personal and doesn't give a crap if you like it or not. He likes to drape himself over people. Especially if they don't like it, because that means it will annoy them and he loves annoying people. But he also knows when to back off so that he doesn't get himself killed (not that he really would), and to ensure his safety he uses mannerisms that show he's backing off, such as waving his hands, grinning and cowering a little. He may tread on the line, but he normally won't cross it. Not far, anyway.
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Background: This wiki is... mostly correct, but the DGM wiki was never known for its accuracy so... Writing up an own background that should be more correct (and more detailed...quite a lot more detailed).
When Lavi was six years old, Bookman picked him up (part of the reason has to do with his right eye). Just what happened to him before that is unknown, but it's not something Lavi should think about in the first place, because when he became Bookman's apprentice he resigned his name and left behind everything that had to do with his life before that. Bookman taught him everything he needed to know to do his job, which for example included languages, especially ancient ones, and training to make his memory perfect. When he was seven years old, he got hit by a stray bullet and nearly died. At age nine he grew past Bookman's height of 140 cm (4'6").
During his time as the Bookman's apprentice before the Order, he used up forty-eight personas - which will be elaborated on in the personality section, along with what exactly a Bookman is - number 48 being "Deak". He joined the Order as number 49; "Lavi". One of the first things he saw was Lenalee - and others though he took notice of especially Lenalee - crying over several coffins in the main hall. He also met the Finder Doug in his reverse novel at this age. Doug ended up becoming his (first?) close friend.
At age eighteen, Lavi reunited with Doug on a mission and later on had to kill the Akuma that Doug had become after a girl he had grown attached to during said mission had passed away, and after this Lavi was sent off to the Rewinding Time together with Bookman to treat Allen and Lenalee, and thus met Allen. This is where he appeared in the manga. After Bookman checked up on Allen and confirmed that he was fine, he and Lavi left the hospital and spent some bonding-time together in the town. Lavi taught Allen how he should deal without being able to see Akuma under their human disguises, since his left eye was currently damaged.
After fending off some Akuma and crashing into Lenalee's hospital room with Lavi's Innocence, and after Lenalee had recovered, they were sent off to hunt for Marian Cross. On the way, they got side-tracked after Allen missed the train and was caught by the major of a village who was terrified of a supposed vampire living in a castle nearby. Lavi was sent to fetch Allen once the group discovered the boy wasn't there, and got caught as well. They were forced to try and solve the mystery of the vampire.
When inspecting the castle, they ran into a group of flowers called Rosanne that Krory was taking care of, but were pretty much saved by Eliade, who lived with the vampire and who he loved. Lavi fell for her beauty and nearly agreed to being her lover, but Allen smacked some sense into him. After getting out of the trouble, they discovered the graves of the people the vampire, Krory, supposedly killed, and saw that he hadn't actually killed people, but Akuma. Lavi came to the conclusion that Krory was an accommodator of Innocence, and so they tried to convince him of this fact and get him to come with them. However, he refused to believe them, too overwhelmed by feelings, and they were forced to fight him in the garden of the castle.
Allen was thrown back into the castle, and into a battle with Eliade, who turned out to be an Akuma, and while he was battling her, Lavi continued his attempts to persuade Krory. Eventually, he decided to go all out and knock Krory out. They ended up back in the castle, were they once again faced Rosanne, and while Krory had to face the fact that Eliade was an Akuma and had to get killed, Allen remembered that he had raised a Rosanne once and told Lavi to tell the flowers that he loved them. Screaming "I love you" over and over, they finally managed to calm the flowers down. Allen's eye had evolved by this time, and was actually able to show Lavi and Krory the soul of Eliade. Lavi said he would never want to have that ability.
Krory defeated Eliade, and after blowing up the castle, he went with Lavi and Allen. (He somehow got a uniform despite them not going back to HQ, sheesh, author.)
The hunt for Cross led them to China, and a brothel owned by a woman named Anita, who was a supporter of the Order and Cross's lover. They found out that Cross had taken off to Edo in Japan, who was controlled by the Millenium Earl, but that his ship had capsized on the way and that no one had survived. But Allen said that there was no way Cross would die from that. Anita began to believe that herself, and thus she fixed a ship and crew for them to follow Cross. Right at that moment, a horde of Akuma passed over the ship towards a Fallen One, someone who has betrayed Innocence, named Suman. One of the Akuma noticed Allen and took him with them and Lavi tried to follow, but was attacked by another Akuma. Lenalee on the other hand noticed, with Tim's help, and saved him.
While Lavi and the others fought on the ship, they tried to help Suman. Lenalee had to leave to help a small girl that Allen saved from Suman, but she did so very reluctantly. After Suman had died and Allen fell victim to Tyki Mikk and was left to slowly die, Lenalee came back to the ship and asked for Lavi's help. They found Timcanpy, who had recordings of what happened to Allen, and finally found the spot where he was killed with the golem's help. They only found the remains of Allen; a pool of blood, and the ace of spades from the deck of cards Tyki dropped on him. Then they were asked to come back to the ship. There, a messenger from the Asia Branch awaited them, and told them that they had taken care of Allen. They had to leave him in China, accompanied by the new Exorcist Miranda who temporarily repaired the damaged ship with her Innocence.
The loss of Allen was very hard on everyone, but especially Lavi and Lenalee. Lavi, being under mental stress already from the loss of his friend, got tired of seeing Lenalee's gaze so empty and snapped at her, punching a window and telling her that it was war and that they just had to deal with it. Lenalee began to silently cry, and Bookman told her he would beat Lavi up for it, but it was really just used as a disguise to remind him that they were just there as Bookmen and that Lavi shouldn't get too caught up in the war.
A level 3 appeared after a while, and gave the Exorcists and the ship a lot of trouble. After the Akuma took off with Bookman and Lavi followed with his Innocence, and after he had gotten Bookman back, Lenalee told him to go back to the ship and let her handle the level 3. He did so reluctantly, and as the ones left on the ship battled the Akuma that had accompanied the level 3 and were hiding behind the clouds, Lenalee struggled with the new and much-stronger-than-they-were-used-to Akuma. Lavi used his Innocence's Wood Seal to remove the clouds and soon the Akuma were taken care of, aside from the level 3.
After a long struggle, during which the ship was nearly sunk due to the level 3's ability to manipulate gravity, Lenalee finally defeated the level 3, however she didn't come back. Lavi went to look for her, ignoring Miranda's words that his wounds would open again when he wasn't inside the range of her Innocence and that he shouldn't leave, and instead he found an Akuma who was holding a huge, green crystal casing that was apparently Lenalee. After the Akuma, who had been modified by Cross, convinced Lavi, with Tim's help, that it meant no harm, they took the crystal back to the ship.
Lenalee was very relieved to be alive, and Lavi was just as relieved that she was, but her Innocence didn't work anymore due to her pushing it to its limit, and her hair was burnt. She could barely even use her legs.
They eventually reached Edo with the Akuma's, Chomesuke's, help, however only three men from the crew on the ship had survived, and neither Anita or her personal servant Mahoja were among them. So the Exorcists said goodbye to those crewmen as Miranda dispelled her Innocence's ability to restore time. Lavi told Bookman that it was painful. But the Exorcists continued onwards for the crew's sake. They had to carefully watch their steps in a country with a population that was 90% Akuma as they made their way towards Edo, where all Akuma were actually gathering as well.
As the Earl issued the command for the Akuma to attack the Generals of the Order, the Exorcists had reached Edo, and Lavi tried to intercept the Akuma and the Noah with his Fire Seal. Lavi, Krory and Bookman, as the only Exorcists able to fight, struggled to fight the overwhelming amount of Akuma and the Noah. Lavi recognised the Noah Tyki Mikk as the one who had nearly killed Allen, and decided to take him on himself. While they fought, the Akuma gathered together into one big Akuma, and Chomesuke sacrificed herself to try and defeat it, as she was going to self-destruct anyway, while Lavi watched in shock.
Then Kanda arrived, along with Marie and General Tiedoll, and they managed to deal with the combined Akuma. Lavi was pretty happy to see Kanda. Then, without warning, the Earl set off some sort of bomb and destroyed all of Edo, only leaving a flat, desolate plain. Lenalee's Innocence protected her by once again capturing her in a crystal case, and the Earl took notice of this, targeting her, while Tyki and Skinn Bolic distracted the Exorcists Kanda and Lavi respectively. Right when it looked like the Earl would get to Lenalee, Allen appeared from within the Ark, the Noah family's transport and the Akuma manufacturing plant that was being moved to another Ark and thus wouldn't stay intact for much longer, and stopped him.
All of a sudden, there was another explosions and smoke clouded the Exorcists visions. Lavi, Allen and Kanda ended up attacking each other. Once they smoke cleared, the Noah were gone. The Exorcists left the plane and took cover under a bridge to rest. But they didn't get much rest; Lenalee was pulled into the Ark by the Earl, and Lavi, Allen, Kanda, Krory and Chouji, one of the three surviving crewmen, followed. The Ark appeared in the sky in front of the remaining group's eyes.
In their hunt for a way out to escape being left in a crumbling dimension, Tyki appeared again, with a key that would open the exit. He told them the exit was at the top of the tower in the middle of the city, and so the race with time began.
They found the first of the four doors the key would work on, and in the room they met Skinn. Kanda chased off the rest of the group and said that he would defeat the Noah, and he literally did chase them away; he attacked them. Angrily, they marched off and left him behind. The fight took too long and he fell together with the room, but did defeat Skinn.
Lavi and the others finally reached the next room after a long corridor, and there the Noah Jasdebi, or Jasdero and Debitto (David), waited for them. After an intense fight (and some whining about debts left from Cross), Jasdebi created an illusion of millions of keys and told the Exorcists to find the real one. Lavi told Allen to help the others while he found the real key, saying that every scratch and pattern on the real key was recorded into his mind and that there was no way an illusion would deceive the Bookman's successor. He used the Wood Seal to lift the keys into the air and make them circle him, so that it would be easiest to find the key. It took a while and the others were forced to battle an illusion of the Earl, but once he found it, it all disappeared.
Jasdero and Debitto had had enough and merged together into one body, really becoming Jasdebi. After a bit of rough fighting, Krory yelled at the others to go through the door - which they reluctantly did and tried to believe in Krory - and stayed behind to deal with the Noah. He won, but he, too, was still in the room when it crumbled.
As Lavi and the others moved on, they tried their best to keep their hopes up. They talked about what they would do once they got back to the Order.
In the next room, Tyki and Road had prepared a dinner for them (...really). After a bit of talking, Allen attacked Tyki. Lavi was about to join in, when Road blocked his path, telling him not to interfere and to play with her. She shut Lenalee and Chaoji away in a sort of box and Lavi agreed to playing with Road, if she agreed to letting them go if he won. Which she did, and thus sent him into her dream world, telling him that if he could get out, he would win. When he asked her if she was going to stop "sprouting from the chessboard pattern-like floor" and fight or not, she answered that she wasn't the one who was going to fight, and then she presented him with his opponent - himself.
As he tried to attack, his other self said that the only thing that accompanied him was his heart, so he didn't have any Innocence, and thus his Innocence disappeared. Road, the Noah of dreams, revealed her power to him; being able to connect "her world" - her dream - with the real world.
While Allen and Tyki fought, Lavi and Bookman were on a small boat headed for the Order, still inside of Road's world of course, and Lavi's other self showed up again, talking about how Lavi's heart didn't belong in the world. And then, a coffin floated by in the water, a coffin with Lenalee in it. Lavi jumped out of the boat to check on her, and Lavi's other self - let's call him Junior - said that it was just another piece of history. Road's goal was to kill Lavi's heart, though he insisted that it wasn't smashed yet.
Allen supposedly destroyed the Noah in Tyki after reaching critical point, and Road, who got very angry, became more determined to destroy Lavi, to make someone close to Allen suffer for what he did. In the dream world, Lavi struggled with not letting the illusion of those Order members that he cared for get to him, while the illusion of Bookman questioned him about his purpose. Before he could answer, Lenalee suddenly rose from her coffin and attacked him with a knife, asking him why he had abandoned them. He grabbed a knife himself as the other illusions attacked him as well, as Bookman told him to mow them down.
As he fought the illusions, he remembered when Komui showed them around the Order and he first saw Lenalee, and when he was accepted as a Bookman and Bookman's words that made him want to become his apprentice: "You can know something that no one knows." As he kept fighting, eyes tightly closed, memories kept playing inside his mind.
A card, ace of spades, fell out from somewhere in his clothes and into the water, causing him to open his eye. Allen's illusion picked the card up and talked about how Lavi held onto that for him, and then Junior destroyed his head, to Lavi's great shock. Junior said that it was just a blob of ink, nothing of importance, and that Lavi could no longer just watch and was thus a failure. Then Lenalee, Kanda and Krory suddenly stabbed his heart and Junior said he wasn't a Bookman anymore, but that he shouldn't worry, because he was still there, and he was the real "Lavi".
The ink dripped off the card and Lavi fell.
A strange mark appeared under Lavi's visible eye, back in the real world. Road told Allen that Lavi's heart had just died, and that he had to kill "that" in order to save Lenalee and Chaoji. Then, Lavi, who was really Junior now, attacked Allen. He desperately tried to bring Lavi back to his senses, talking about them being comrades, but to no avail. Junior just replied that he was not their comrade and that he never thought of them as his, and continued to attack, using his seals.
Allen attempted to attack Road instead, but she said that since her real body wasn't in that world and that those who didn't know her true form couldn't kill her. As Junior attacked Allen with his Fire Seal, seemingly going all out, Allen noticed the flames weren't burning him, and instead Road's candles that she was using to threaten the others were melting. Junior noted with shock that his body began moving on its own; Lavi's heart wasn't dead yet. He had stabbed himself in Road's world to keep himself awake.
Lavi turned the Fire Seal on himself and Road, and stabbed Allen in Road's world, having figured out her true form was hiding there. But despite the victory he figured the best thing he could do was kill himself. In Road's world, Junior asked Lavi why he wasn't like the other personas as he turned into six-year-old Junior. He asked why it was so hard to be 49th and why Lavi was fighting for temporary friends.
Allen leaped into the fire to try and stop Lavi. Once Allen was next to him, Road declared that he won the game and let Lenalee and Chaoji go. The fire froze and Road fell out of it, badly burnt, and then Lavi and Allen emerged from the ice. Lavi said he felt very good somehow, and Lenalee gave him a punch for being an idiot. Road turned into ashes with a maniacal laugh.
When the group was about to head to the door on the very top floor of the tower, Allen was about to go back and take Tyki, saying he couldn't leave him behind, which wasn't appreciated by Chaoji at all. However, Tyki's Noah actually wasn't dead, instead, it awoke completely - apparently, he had been suppressing it all the time - and he pulled Allen back down, destroying the exit in the process.
He was too strong for the Exorcists and they did the best they could, but they couldn't even scratch him. Luckily, Cross arrived to save the day after a while, told the Exorcists to stay out of his way, hid them from view, and proceeded to kick Tyki's ass; much to the other Exorcists shock. Seeing Cross's power they realised that they were still weak. Cross was just about to finish the Noah off when the Earl appeared, and as the Ark continued to collapse, Lavi and Chaoji fell to their deaths. Lavi tried using "extend" so that Allen could grab onto his Innocence, but it had been put under too much pressure and crumbled. Lavi wore a grin on his face as he fell along with Chaoji and the rocks.
Allen was consumed by hatred for the Earl and attacked, but was stopped by Cross and told off for just reacting on that emotion.
Later on, Lavi was revived along with the others when Allen restored the Ark. Or more exactly; they were brought back from a space in-between dimensions. He efficiently made a fool of himself and tried to get Allen to come to him by yelling "dinnertime" and different kinds of food. When he realised that the others were probably alive if he and Chaoji was, he called for Kanda as well, but before he had the time to finish a sentence, Kanda appeared from a door, with a just as lovely greeting (an insult) as usual. He was carrying Krory with him as well.
Allen went to get them, leaving Krory with Cross and Lenalee (probably reluctantly), and was overjoyed to see Tim again, while Lavi and Kanda mourned over their ruined anti-Akuma weapons. Finally, after all those struggles, they were able to return home, and Komui was there to greet them.
But the Exorcists didn't get to rest for long. The HQ was invaded by the Noah Lulubell and a horde of level 3 to try and take back the Egg, since otherwise the Earl would be unable to create anymore Akuma as the Egg was the Akuma manufacturing plant. When Allen rushed off from the cafeteria due to his eye activating, Lavi followed along with Bookman and Howard Link who was assigned to watch Allen. They couldn't get into the room where the Egg was held, however, due to the Noah's new Ark blocking the way. Lavi tried to hit it with a chair but... as if that was going to work.
While Allen and Bookman headed off to fight as the announcement sounded through the Order, Lavi had to stay put, and nearly got knocked over by Lenalee, who was heading to see Hevlaska about her Innocence. Komui stopped her, and threw both her and Lavi into the infirmary, because they didn't have their weapons. As everyone struggled, they were forced to stay put, and suddenly everything shook and the power went out. It was soon announced that a level 4 had left the room with the Egg; the fifth lab, and entered the Science Division. As the level 4 targeted Komui, Leverrier rushed to take Lenalee to Hevlaska.
Leverrier was pressuring Lenalee to come and grabbed her arms quite harshly, which Lavi didn't find acceptable at all, so he grabbed Leverrier's hand and stopped him. That didn't stop Leverrier from pressuring, despite that Matron and Lavi protested. But despite that still, Lenalee decided to go, to Lavi's fairly big shock, but he wasn't intending to let her go alone so he followed. Leverrier wasn't so happy, but in the end said it didn't matter. On the way to Hevlaska, Lavi questioned why Leverrier was even there and why he was doing all that. He got the answer that it was to win the war.
They arrived just in time to see the level 4 attacking Komui. The collision made the elevator he was on crash to the ground, and Lenalee cried out in despair. Lavi rushed to check on him and the rest who had been on the elevator, which included Kanda, who had protected Komui from the attack despite not having his Innocence. Lavi ran up to them and together with Kanda he covered Komui as the level 4 hovered down. Lavi had a flagpole, and Kanda had a regular sword.
Just as Hevlaska was about to put the Innocence into Lenalee's body, she was hit by an attack by the level 4 after it had taken care of Lavi and Kanda. Lenalee tried to reach the Innocence despite that the level 4 was about to finish her off, and all of a sudden Allen, who was using his Innocence to forcefully move his body, appeared and stopped the Akuma from doing so. Komui watched with wide eyes and Lavi told him to go to her, because she had been living for him. And Kanda added the final kick in the ass.
While Allen struggled against the level 4 as Lenalee tried to synchronise with her Innocence, Lavi and Kanda joined in to help against a strong attack from the Akuma, grabbing onto Allen's sword and encouraging him to hang on. They were roughly knocked back and the level 4 was holding Allen, but Lenalee managed to synchronise, and joined the battle. Once the Generals returned from what could have been death, the level 4 was finally defeated. Lavi rushed to Bookman's side to make sure he was okay.
While the Exorcists were recovering, they gathered to discuss the nature of Lenalee's new Innocence; a Crystal Type. Afterwards, Bookman told Lavi to tell him as soon as he saw evidence of his own Innocence becoming a Crystal Type, and they would leave. Lavi tried not to show how much that affected him. Bookman also said that the Earl was most likely letting the Order live for a reason, as the Earl should have been able to destroy it a hundred years ago.
Due to the damage to HQ, they decided to move. Moving the Science Division evolved into a lot of incidents with potions, such as giving Allen long hair, making Lenalee talk like a cat, giving Bookman bunny ears and making him talk like a cat, and turning Lavi and Kanda into some sort of kid versions of themselves. They had to work together to move boxes, since they were so small. During the move, the power suddenly went out (again). A strange laughter echoed through the HQ.
Some sort of virus (created by Komui) had been spread by an unknown person, which turned people into some sort of... zombies? And it continued to spread by... biting. A group of about ten people, among them Lavi, Kanda, Allen and Lenalee, were forced to run as seemingly everyone in the Order tried to hunt them down and spread the virus. They found Komui and together they left to hunt down the source of the infection so that they could create an antidote. The Generals suddenly appeared, affected by the virus as well, catching the group off-guard and separating them.
Krory turned out to be the source and the person, or thing, who caused the whole thing showed... him/her/itself to Komui, Reever, Lenalee and Bookman. It was apparently a sort of ghost of everyone who had fallen victim to the Order's experiments. She - most likely she - didn't want them to leave, so she was going to make them all stay with her with the virus's help. He talked to her and made her change her mind, but it was too late to stop the spread of the virus, so everyone was infected. However, Bak came into the HQ the day afterwards and managed to fix the mess.
Once they finally managed to move to the new HQ, Lavi was in the room where Allen and Cross had the meeting about the 14th and watched. The words about the third side of the war that Cross said seemed to frighten Bookman, but the old man simply told Lavi to forget that and not ask him about it. The last time where we really saw Lavi was when he talked to Bookman about Cross's death and that they should be cautious for having heard Cross's words. He appeared in a few panels during the introduction of the half-Akuma called the Third Exorcists. His most recent brief appearance was in Whan Shan in China together with Bookman and... Chaoji?
Personality: At first glance, Lavi is cheerful, optimistic, fun-loving, friendly, (very) talkative and a bit of a failure of a womaniser. He pretty much constantly wears a smile on his face and he gladly talks with anyone. Anyone. This includes the quiet, short-tempered lonewolves such as Kanda. He doesn't need to actually get any response to talk; he could talk to a wall for ages. It all depends on the person how appreciated that is; for some it's probably just annoying.
Lavi's the kind of person anyone can get along with. While he really loves to joke around and make fun of others and just amuse himself on others' expense, it's hard not to grow to like his friendly attitude. And he's generally pretty pushy and refuses to back off in the kind of subtle way that isn't quite so clingy but enough to get you to eventually become immune to everything that he throws at you, so that you sort of have to like him eventually. (He's friends with Kanda, and anyone who knows Kanda would understand that that has to mean something.) Or it's simply because you start to pity him eventually because he acts rather like an idiot. He doesn't get much respect.
He may act like an idiot, but he isn't, really (he's the second smartest out of the OT4, after Lenalee), and if anything that should be obvious by his sharp and witty tongue. He likes to play with words and annoy people by twisting their words or making puns, and he also likes shamelessly practically flirting with everything and anyone, despite his apparent love of a pretty female face. He tends to have bad luck and fall especially hard for women who aren't actually human (Eliade), though. (One of the goddesses, anyone?)
Another thing that points to his non-idiocy is that he does in fact have good things to say, like when he told Allen about how Exorcists deal with not having an eye able to see the souls of Akuma. He knows how to cheer people up and guide them through rough times in life. Most of the time anyway. Even if he shouldn't really care.
One of his habits is that he can sleep anywhere and anytime. Like under a table, for example.
Due to being a very social person, Lavi's pretty much a known face to everyone in the Order. While he may not really be friends with everyone, he's sure to have talked to nearly everyone. His jokes and pranks are likely to be well-known too, probably like some sort of mood-lifting thing in the Order. Someone has to keep the spirits up during a tough war, right? Lavi's one of those someones, no doubt about it.
But in reality he has very few people that he really counts as friends, and the ones who are obvious would be Allen, Kanda, Lenalee - but how mutual that is is questionable - and possibly Krory, depends how you choose to see it. He also has Bookman who is definitely very important to him, like a family. And that is no doubt about it mutual, even if the Bookmen aren't supposed to get attached to people.
Actually befriending Lavi is in truth not so easy, not truly doing so, and truly getting to know him isn't easy either. The only reason that he actually is so easy to like is so that he'll be able to get all the information he wants and/or needs. He's a Bookman, someone who watches wars from the sidelines and records it. They're unbiased, and that's why he's not supposed to get attached to anyone, and it's likely he never did before he joined the Order. Even if that hasn't been directly shown, he was shown to believe that humans are "stupid" and he thought of humans as something below him. So his first real friends were probably those in the Order, such as Doug and Kanda, and even so some part of him was probably still thinking that humans are stupid at least until he fought Road.
Basically, Lavi's pretty much one big lie, because it's not really him, though more him than it was at first.
Lavi's visit in Road's world took advantage of his struggle with being a true Bookman and not caring about anyone and his persona's attachment to his friends. The record in the Black Order is the longest and hardest he has done so far and it's the first time he battles on the front lines, so that's probably why he got so attached to the people fighting; he's one of them. The Bookmen are supposed to be "friendly and frivolous" so that people can care about them and so that they can get information and trust, but they're not supposed to care about people or show them trust, which Lavi has begun doing. (Bookman is a hypocrite because he does this too, damn it.)
He no longer has a clear line between his persona and being the Bookman's apprentice, but after Road's mental torture he doesn't seem to be so bothered by that. Rather, he seems okay with it and seems to have decided to pull through somehow anyway. But he still tries not to let things get to him too much, so it's more like he's trying to find some sort of balance. Obviously he's not going to give up on his dream to become a Bookman.
While Lavi can be shocked of people he has grown to like but isn't all that attached to yet dies, he won't be so affected by it because it wasn't one of his important people. He really didn't take Allen's death well because Allen was very important to him, somehow, even if they hadn't known each other for so long, and still is important to him of course.
Lavi doesn't seem to generally deal so well with stress. He snapped when Lenalee was mourning over Allen, probably because it hurt him more when she did that and he doesn't appreciate such things, and when he was fighting Road he did try to kill himself even if that probably wasn't the only way, more like the easy way. The easy way out. So under stress he tends to react badly, and he has a habit of hurting those that he's close to especially if he's hurting too, because he's not exactly the most kind and heart-warming person out there. You could also say that he's a bit of a coward in some ways even if he also jumps headlong into battles that seem nearly impossible.
You could say that the way he deals with situations and how he reacts has a lot to do with what kind of situation it is and what people are involved. Things that involve his close friends usually really get to him, while things that don't involve his close friends but friend-ish people at least don't get to him all that much, and things that involve complete strangers don't matter at all. He's a very emotional person when it involves friends and the like, and himself, but he doesn't show any sympathy for complete strangers.
When Lavi does show real emotion, which is rare, it's a strong burst of it which results in hasty and/or obvious physical actions. Such as breaking the window when he got angry at Lenalee. Very few things/people bring out these kinds of emotions in him.
Due to being the Bookman's successor, though it's probably partly naturally as well, Lavi's a very observant person. He takes notice of the little things and will always remember them. He analyses situations and people and himself and as such there's most likely always something going on inside his mind; questions and musings and the like. Due to being the Bookman's successor he's also a master at acting. In the Fanbook, the individual skill that was added to all characters was acting for Lavi, and that was a five. He does slip on his persona "Lavi", but it's not so obvious and he still manages to keep up the act.
Lavi does try to be unbiased and focus on his purpose, but at the same time he refuses to just see his friends as ink on paper as is ideal for a Bookman. After he got out of Road's world, it seems as if though the Bookman's apprentice and Lavi the Exorcist has somehow merged. He knows what he wants to do, but he also know that there are things he wants to have, like friendship and people to care about. While he knows it won't be easy, he's intending to keep that up. He seems to show more of his true self lately; he's not quite as overly cheerful and such, but he still keeps the act up. It's a little bit as if he has grown a bit together with his persona.
Abilities/Strengths: Lavi's an Exorcist, and thus he has an Innocence. It goes by the official name of Tettsei, Metal Hammer, but apparently Lavi thought that was boring and instead he calls it Odzuchi Kodzuchi, Big Hammer Small Hammer. He calls it by that name because it's capable of changing size; in its unactivated form it's small enough to fit in his pocket, but he does keep it in a holster for easy access. Of course, it never gets any heavier for Lavi whenever he makes it bigger, due to his being its accommodator. It's also capable of extending, meaning that he can extend the handle of the hammer. He often uses this to cross longer distances or when he's in a hurry. Or just for fun.
Tettsei is also able to use several seals with different elemental abilities, which he can access by activating the Innocence's second level. The seals that have been used/are known are as follows:
Hi Ban: Gouka Kaijin (火判 劫火灰燼, lit. Fire Seal: Configuration of Ash) - this seal creates a pillar of fire that forms into a snake
Ten Ban: Raitei Kaiten (天判 雷霆回天, lit. Heaven Seal: Thundering Lightning Whirling in the Skies) - this seal creates lightning.
Moku Ban: Tenchi Bankai (木判 天地盤回, lit. Wood Seal: Roots Entwining Heaven and Earth) - this seal can control nature, such as winds and clouds.
Konbo Ban: Gouraiten (コンボ判 剛雷天, lit. Combo Seal: Strong Thunder of the Heavens) - this seal combines the Fire and Heaven seal to create a snake of fire and lightning.
Ban: Maruhi Kouka Kaijin Hiban (Seal: (Hi means fire, maru refers to the ring around the kanji for fire, so basically Maruhi means "fire" with a ring around it...) Infinite Flame Fire Seal) - this seal basically creates a vortex of fire. It's stronger than the normal Fire Seal and was what Lavi used when he tried to kill himself.
Lavi seems to be holding back on using his Innocence so that he doesn't get too strong or too attached to it, due to being a Bookman. But there has to come a time where Bookman realises that if he and Lavi hold back too much they'll be in trouble... Still, even if Lavi holds back, he's very skilled in using his Innocence and though fighting too close to the enemy isn't all that easy with a weapon like Tettsei, he knows how to do that too, and if anything, he can figure out strategies to deal with troublesome enemies. He's pretty smart after all.
It's not known just what Lavi's right eye does or why it's covered, but when he was going to find the real key back in the Ark, he said that it "wasn't going to be as quick" with just his left eye, so it's possibly an extra sharp eye of some sorts. Whatever it is, it's some sort of ability and strength.
Lavi's also knowledgeable in martial arts, as that was something else that Bookman taught him. He doesn't show this much, but it was obvious during the Ark arc when Junior fought Allen. So even without his weapon he's a force to be reckoned with, seeing as he can break marble or whatever the tower in the Ark is made of with his hands, and probably harder things than that. Bookman should also have taught him some basic medical care.
Lavi can act, and can thus get information if he needs it. But even while acting, he has a certain aura when asking and/or demanding for information, though it's subtle and something that you automatically succumb to if you're not strong enough. But it's not like he always has to search for information; nothing can escape his eye(s) and everything he hears or sees he will remember, so he can always go back to it and think about it later, and that can bring every answer he needs.
Since Lavi doesn't really care about strangers, he won't be affected if they die or are injured, unlike for example Allen who tries saving everyone he can while Lavi just cares about saving those he cares about. He can focus on keeping himself alive and getting the work done when he doesn't feel the need to worry about strangers, and thus deaths of people around him won't weigh him down.
Lavi can keep a cool head in most situations that don't affect him too much emotionally, or when it really isn't the time to lose your cool. He has lost it a few times, like when he saw Tyki in Edo and got furious, but it's a rare thing and it normally doesn't overtake him completely. This could have a lot to do with him adapting quickly to situations and making his decisions based on the situation and people involved. He doesn't get clouded by personal things. ...most of the time. When his closest friends are involved that can change, but not all the time.
Weaknesses: Due to having one of his eyes covered by an eye-patch, Lavi should have some trouble with depth-perception. He has probably gotten used to that, though, after years and years of wearing an eye-patch, whatever that reason is, so he shouldn't be all that bothered by it. But he does have a habit to destroy buildings with his Innocence, probably due to that...
As already said, he seems to be holding back and not using his Innocence to its fullest, and he seems to hide the fact that he's skilled in martial arts. It most likely has to do with his persona. This does create some troubles, though, especially when fighting Noah or higher level Akuma (we have yet to see Lavi defeat a level 3 even, for example, but he sort of should be able to defeat one due to them being fodder now and all, and due to them appearing frequently recently), and he might just have to stop worrying about that in not too long. As long as he doesn't become Crystal Type (though that's probably what he fears now) it should be fine.
Lavi's Innocence wouldn't be so easy to handle in small spaces. He could most likely manage somehow, but it would take some really quick thinking.
Out of the four main characters, Lavi is the one with the weakest mental strength (a 3 in the Fanbook, compared to Lenalee's 4 and Kanda and Allen's 5), so he's generally not all that mentally strong. His inability to handle stress especially on emotional and mental level is evidence of this. His mental strength is definitely not entirely weak, he did pull through Road's torture, but it could really be better.
He has trouble with balancing Bookman and Exorcist duties along with feelings and duty, and he constantly has to worry about getting too close to his Innocence and too close to just about everything. Sure, he's very close to a few people, but it could be worse, and even if he doesn't seem as worried about it anymore there's probably still some sort of gnawing in his consciousness about that.
Lavi's somewhat emotionally awkward due to not having shown much real emotion through his whole childhood, and he's still cold and uncaring in some cases, so when some unfamiliar situation arises and he's suddenly overwhelmed by feelings, he'll likely be struggling with that for a while. That would make him exhausted and stressed, and thus he'd end up showing emotions in sudden bursts and possibly have abrupt mood changes.
Lavi seems to get angry when people make his own suffering worse; he doesn't like when he's hurting, and gets angry. It's especially in situations like this that he will hurt people, but he does have the bad habit of just generally hurting people since he's very cold sometimes, and in a lot of cases he might not really care all that much, while in some it will just hurt him more.
It's a bit like a bad circle and he has some trouble learning and developing emotionally, since Bookmen aren't really supposed to aside from toughening up enough to be able to watch wars without being affected by it.
He seems to have some form of fear of being alone as well. Some fear of the others finding his secret out, probably, that he's pretty much been lying the whole time.
Even after the trip Road put Lavi though, he's not all that sure of who he is. Since he's mostly been playing different kinds of people since he was six years old, there might be some parts of his true self that hasn't gotten the chance to develop properly. He's definitely more sure of who he is because of Road's torture, but there are still a few things that he's not so sure of, and when something comes out that basically questions anything of these things, there will be some problems. His insecurity in himself could be what some people see and why they can't really respect him.
It'll be very interesting to see how Kannagara will make him grow~
Defining Quote(s): Chapter 28, page 10 to 11:
Lavi: But man, your reaction time is slow, Allen... Waiting for the Akuma to take shape before starting up your weapon is gonna get you killed.
Allen: Sorry. ...Lavi, how did you know?
Lavi: I don't know, yeah? I'm suspicious of everyone around me. Someone I met yesterday could be an Akuma today. 'cause that's the kinda thing we're up against. You should understand that, Allen. We are at an overwhelming disadvantage. We're different than you are, yeah? Not having that convenient eye. Akuma are mixed in with the humans. The other Exorcists and I, we end up looking at all humans as the Earl's minions.
Chapter 58, page 11 to 13:
Bookman: She's still trying to sort herself out. Miss Lena is fully regretting leaving Allen's side last night. She is condemning herself.
[Crash! Lavi punches the window.]
Lavi: Just cut it out already... There was nothing we could have done... We were all desperately fighting for our lives last night. There was no way... any of us could have helped him. This is war! We had no choice!! Get over it and stand up!!
Chapter 58, page 14:
"Don't be taken in by war. We are only on the Order's side 'by chance', all for the sake of recording history. Don't forget our goal, Lavi." ~ Bookman
Chapter 119, page 17:
"1 year... and 2 years. The time spent in the Order passed on. I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not."
Chapter 122, page 4:
Six-year-old Junior: You choose to fight for these temporary friends?! Humans create nothing but war! They're a feeble species! You know it's true! If you let your emotions get involved, it'd be agonising! I have the responsibility as a member of the Bookman Order!
Lavi: ...I kinda understand... "I"... was disappointed in humans. In the human world they were always arguing. I thought I was different from them.
"And you'll be amazed
At the secrets i keep
You'll be amazed
At my mouth full of lies"
"Now I can't look you in your eye's
Because the guilt is killing me
I try disconnect my heart again
Just so I can breathe
I wanna be myself again"
Both quotes from the song House of Cards by Madina Lake~
Other: Lavi's birthday is 10th August.
Even if Lavi seems to like women a lot (from the ages of 10 to 40, according to him... what), my headcanon says he's actually bisexual. He just acts that way, and it makes sense. My headcanon, along with a lot of other fans', also says that it's very likely that he has some form of personality or identity disorder; if the opportunity arises, it's very likely I'll explore this somehow.
Lavi is hebrew (לָבִיא) and means lion.
Action Writing Sample: [As the screen flares to life, you get a clear view of the leaves of the great Himorogi tree. Yup, it's that place again. The screen is shaking, as if the Hitomi is moving unsteadily somehow, and there's the sound of something shuffling and then some breathing. Red flashes in front of the screen for a moment, but you don't get a clear look of it before the screen makes some weird loop and then you see a pair of feet before those too disappear from view.]
Well! [Whoever's speaking, he sure sounds cheerful. The voice is pretty light and annoying, and oh so chipper, like he wasn't just pulled away from his world and tossed into this place.] This is prob'bly a dream, but I tried the pinchin' thing and didn't wake up. That's one huge tree though! Ahh, looks pretty nice, sorta glowy or somethin'.
[The screen moves again, and it finally focuses on something. A redhaired young man with one green eye and an eye-patch is making some handmotions at the tree with one hand, while his other is busy holding a... rabbit. Yes, a rabbit. He found it on the ground and thought it was ironic because Yu calls him a rabbit and all. It's brown and not reddish or anything, though. He's wearing a wide smile.
He approaches the tree, and... whatever the Hitomi is, it follows obediently, keeping a steady distance from him.]
Never seen such a tree in my whole life! It's very awesome. [Who knows who he's talking to. He tends to talk to himself sometimes, though, so nothing to worry about. Maybe.] Wonder how long it took for it to become that big. Is it really possible for a tree to be this big? Well, apparently, since it's... there 'nd all. Unless this really is a dream.
[He's standing right next to it now, and he looks up at the leaves, then he suddenly grins from ear to ear and leans forward until his front is pressed to the trunk and his free arm is spread out beside him, and he holds the rabbit safely on his other side.
Yup, he's hugging the tree that everyone seems to not like so much.]
Third Person Writing Sample: It had been a very odd thing, seeing what Lavi could swear had definitely been traces of tears in Bookman's eyes, when they returned from within the Ark. It wasn't a new thing to him that Bookman cared about him and, well, he cared about Bookman too, a lot. That wasn't a new thing. But tears. There had been tears, that he was pretty sure of. And that was scary and strange and wrong, but yet... Yet it sort of made him a bit happy too, even if it was in many ways so hard to wrap his mind around. Since Bookman so rarely showed that he cared, and all.
He leaned down towards the Bookman with a teasing, sly smile. "Didcha cry~?" he asked smoothly.
The old man smacked him on the top of his head and scowled. "Don't say such stupid things!" he growled. "And don't you dare pull such a stunt again, you daft greenhorn!"
Lavi just snickered and rubbed his head. If it hadn't been such an important part for the records, Bookman would probably have scolded him for just jumping into danger like that.
His face fell and he slowly lowered his arm. He would have to tell Bookman about what he had been about to do and that wasn't going to be fun, but he had to. That was... another very odd thing, thinking that he had actually been on the way to kill himself. He wasn't sure what the hell he had been thinking, it had just felt like it was the right thing to do even while it wasn't. Bookman wasn't going to like that at all, not at all, because the one thing Bookmen were supposed to focus more on than keeping the records and not getting attached, was not. Getting. Killed.
But it wasn't... It wasn't only that. Watching Bookman look at him like that, with some sort of weird expression on his face, it really hit him that this was about much more than just the records and keeping the Bookman clan alive. It was precious to the old man, it was, but the old man didn't want him to die because... because they were family, weren't they? They weren't supposed to care. He could count how many times Bookman had told him that, and it was a lot. They shouldn't care, and yet they did, and it was all one mess but Lavi would have to tell Bookman. He didn't want to, but it wasn't something he couldn't not say.
Bookman was his "gramps" and he was Bookman's "greenhorn" and they took care of each other. Bookman had not once left his side, he had always been there, and would always be there until he died (which probably wasn't as far away as Lavi would like). Even if his words were harsh and painful sometimes, he was just trying to help because while he wanted to create a great Bookman, he also didn't want Lavi to get hurt, right? But he couldn't do anything about that now, because Lavi was attached to these people and he would get hurt.
But that didn't matter.
Bookman had never once left his side, and he had been about to leave Bookman's. Bookman didn't have the time to look for another heir, damn it, he was really old and he wasn't going to stick around for much longer, so what the hell was Lavi thinking, trying to kill himself? This was about more than just himself and the other Exorcists. This was about him and Bookman, this was about the Bookmen, about the records, that both he and Bookman thought were important. And he had been about to leave it all.
He had a responsibility as the Bookman's apprentice. Yes, now, he was going to go through with it. He was going to live through this damn war and carry on the Bookman clan. And he would tell Bookman about everything in the Ark, about him nearly killing himself, and Bookman would be angry and who knew what kind of punishment he would get but he would take it. He was going to tell, because Bookman deserved to know, because they cared about each other, so... So he deserved to know.
And just where were they going to end up?
Lavi wasn't all that sure, but he had a feeling it was rather going straight to hell.