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CHARACTER
NAME: Oz Bezarius
AGE: Fifteen (but because of crazy time-jumping, technically twenty-five…but not really)
FANDOM/MEDIUM: Pandora Hearts
TIMELINE PERIOD: Leaving Cheshire’s dimension
ABILITIES: Apart from having an illegal contract with a chain called the blood-stained rabbit, no. And considering Alice probably won’t be here, he’s pretty much just your average teenager.
CHARACTER BACKGROUND:
The series of Pandora Hearts begins on the day of Oz’s fifteenth birthday. The first thing viewers learn about Oz, amongst many others, is that he’s your typical teenaged boy. Oz hides from his maids, roams the grounds of the mansion tirelessly, and enjoys picking on his servant, Gilbert, who is also his age (fourteen). On the day of his birthday, Oz, his sister Ada, and Gilbert wander up to a ruin that Oz found earlier that day, all the while evading the pesky maids who are intent on fitting Oz into his outfit for that night.
While exploring, and teasing Gilbert senseless, Oz and Gilbert fall down into a hidden part of the ruins—which just so happens to look like a graveyard. The graveyard, with only one headstone, attracts Oz’s attention at once. Swung around the cross-like tombstone is a golden pocket-watch. Interested, Oz reaches out and takes it. An eerie melody begins and before Oz knows it, he appears in a room filled with dolls. The melody continues, the dolls come to life, whispering incoherent things, and a girl appears before him. Confused as to how this girl knows Oz, he tries to escape, only to be thwarted. Angered that Oz cannot remember her, the girl tackles Oz to the ground, promising that she will kill him if they cannot be together.
Oz reawakens shortly after to see a worried Gilbert. Oz shrugs off the odd event and pockets the watch, deciding it would be best to head back home. Later that night, during his ceremony, Oz is sent to the abyss after a series of life-changing events including the possession of Gilbert and the reappearance of the ‘girl’ from the room.
When Oz awakes, he is in a world thought to be a fairytale made to keep young children in line. He has found himself in the abyss—the prison of darkness for those who have committed the most horrible of sins.
Shortly after, Oz ends up being forced into a contract with the ‘girl’ from the room, whose name is Alice but is referred to by many of the other characters as Bea- Rabbit. When Oz returns to the normal world, contracted to Alice, he awakes to a room with oddly familiar faces and a man that looks remarkably like his servant Gilbert, but much older.
Oz learns that the Chain he had made a contract with is peculiar--different than most. She is searching for her lost memories and is far more human than any other Chain. Oz swears that he'll help her find her memories, no matter what. He likens Alice's lack of memories to his servant, Gilbert, and grows a bit nostalgic, determined to find the small servant boy while he learns more about the organization Pandora Raven, Break, and Sharon are a part of.
Pandora, as he learns, was made to protect the abyss. And illogically, he is the key. To what exactly, he isn't sure, but Pandora has made it clear that they want him--they even tried to save him from the abyss, having made preparations to do such just before the boy returned with Alice.
Forced to become a 'subdorinate' of the odd organization, Oz and his 'following' are sent out into the capital to explore, eat, and the works. Eventually, these rendezvous lead the group to the old mansion where Oz's coming-of-age-ceremony was held. Vines have grown over the old building and time has taken its toll on it. Oz wonders how the place could change so suddenly in just a few days.
However, while sharing a conversation with Alice outside about friendship, gunshots are heard and Oz's confusion is finally cleared. Concerned as to what is going on, Oz rushes inside with Alice at his side, only to find a hooded Baskerville at the top of the stairs, with a horribly familiar chain dubbed Doldum. Within her control are members of Pandora, moving about with zombie-like gaits, as well as Raven, who is tangled up in the middle by invisible, unbreakable bonds. The hooded baskerville, addressed as Zwei, notices Oz's arrival and cackles manically, looking to Raven with utter amusement. Without warning, Zwei announces that ten years have passed and it's ironic that Raven would be posessed once more by her, in this very spot. And that is when she addresses the man as 'Gilbert Nightray', a sadistic smile on her lips.
Unable to accept that ten years have passed in only a day, at most, in the abyss, Oz rushes forward, only to be attacked by a posessed Raven. The man, obviously physically stronger, manages to pin Oz to the ground, a look of hatred and insanity in his eyes. Without thinking, Oz's hands make quick work with the man's cravat, struggling to get up...only to find a scar leading from Raven's shoulder to his hip. The same scar he had given his servant before disappearing into the abyss. Oz then is faced with an absoluete reality; Raven is Gilbert.
Ashmaed that he had been gone so long, and had caused the servant so much anguish, Oz reaches for Raven's gun, telling him he'd be better off dead than living to see the hurt and pain he caused Gilbert--knowing that he broke his promise of staying with the servant. Somehow, Raven snaps out of his trance and just before Oz shoots himself, redirects the gun in Zwei's direction.
After the chaos of settles down, and Raven pledges loyalty to Oz, even though he had betrayed him by Joining the Nightrays, the group return to the capital. While exploring one day, Oz is left in an alleyway with Gilbert's hat while Alice and Raven 'get food'.
Later, he is pulled into a dimension made by Alice’s memories, where he encounters a Chain called Cheshire who has sworn to protect Alice’s memories no matter what. Here, Oz learns that Alice was once a real person, murdered during the Tragedy of Sabrie one hundred years ago.
Generally, Pandora Hearts is riddled with askew references to Alice in Wonderland and is centered around the tragic story regarding Alice and Oz’s past.
CHARACTER PERSONALITY:
Oz, contrary to his age, is a highly complex character. On the outside, he emanates youthful happiness and naivety. From his actions, it becomes clear that Oz is extremely selfless and values others’ lives far more than his own. On the outside, he’s the average teenaged boy that takes enjoyment in looking / flirting with pretty young girls and the occasional teasing of his servant. Oz is a playful person who usually always sees the bright side of the situation and often choose to ignore the darker. Oz is almost always smiling, even in the grimmest of situations. He’s a benevolent person who wishes to explore and learn as much as he can. Ever since he was little, he was fascinated by books and the knowledge they possessed. He strove to learn as much as humanely possible to impress his father. However, when Oz discovers that his father wishes that he was never born and has no affection whatsoever for the young boy, his life does a one-eighty.
Oz’s true side stems from the rejection of his father. On the inside, Oz is a highly depressed character who considers him worthless. He would willingly sacrifice his own life to make a difference. He considers his life pointless and has come to believe that his existence is truly a sin. This attitude ultimately brought him to contract with the Chain Alice, sealing his fate with a black clock mark on his chest. Oz’s almost suicidal tendencies, which are usually easily masked by the happy façade and front he puts up, eventually subside after he realizes that he does wish to live to see his future. Although his views on how he sees himself change somewhat, he still considers everyone elses’ lives to be far more valuable than his own.
All in all, Oz just wants to see other people happy.
WORLD: It’s a pseudo-Victorian England, to put it simply, called Lybia. Nobles wear fancy clothes, Dukes and Duke Households reign supreme, carriages are driven, and things are fairly simple. Technology is…almost nonexistent save for the basic electricity and whatnot.
OCCUPATION: Tailor, pft.
SAMPLES
THIRD PERSON
Time never really mattered before to Oz Bezarius. To him, he had all the time in the world to play, explore, flirt with pretty girls, and have fun. But as of lately, time suddenly mattered.
Fingertips brushed slowly over the back of the golden pocket watch in his lap, tracing the mysterious emblem a few times. Oz’s head remained tipped as green eyes surveyed it, wondering if he stared long enough if the watch would whisper its secrets to him. Each time it opened, he could hear a faint melody—a lullaby that was so eerie and downright mysterious that it seemed to always make his hair stand on edge.
“Hm…” Oz murmured before glancing up to the midday sun. Break and the others had promised to return shortly to the hotel room. Why they had left him by himself was beyond his understanding. Usually Gilbert stayed…because Gilbert was just protective like that, but this time, not even Alice stayed.
“Oh well,” he mused and hopped off the bed, breaking out of his lethargic and indifferent disposition. The young boy headed over to the window, curiously peering out onto the bustling streets of the city. “I wonder if there’re any cute girls out there.”
FIRST PERSON:
Ah…not much was done today, I must admit. Managed to have a day of traveling without any big catastrophes, so I suppose that’s always a good thing! … Though, it’s still hard getting used to this place. Oh well, at least there are cute girls, right? I just hope everyone is safe back home. …Also, where’s the food? Didn’t they say it would done some. I’m staaaarvviiing.
NOTES: …. Hi :3