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Timcanpy
Timcanpy
The golem of General Cross. A round, golden ball with a cross-shaped emblem on his body, wings and a long tail able to increase his size and grow sharp teeth. Cross left him to Allen when he ordered him to go to the Black Order to become a proper Exorcist, and has been with him ever since. Despite being unable to talk, Tim possesses emotions and a personality, being more akin to a curious child than to a device.
- Big Eater: He can generally seen munching on some food item without ever being satiated. Allen mentions he doesn't actually need to eat, but as he likes to imitate people he started to swallow food as a habit.
- Eyeless Face: While he does have a mouth even if it isn't normally visible, he seems to have no eyes at all.
- It Can Think: Unlike other golems, Timcanpy can feel emotions and possesses a personality of his own.
- Scary Teeth: He can unveil a mouth of his normally mouthless body, which contains sharp fangs which make him more intimidating. Tim however is generally harmless.
- Sizeshifter: He's able to change his size at will, the smallest being small enough to be swallowed by a cat while the biggest is roughly the size of a big car.
- The Speechless: Though he can create a mouth out of his body, Tim cannot talk at all, instead communicating through gestures or nibbles.
- Team Pet: He's a cute, round creature who stays away from fights and whose main function lies in tracking those he deems as his master and providing comedic moments through his inquisitive behaviour.
The Innocence
In General
Innocence
Innocence shards.
A mysterious, ancient substance discovered 100 years ago by the Black Order, used to create the weapons of the Exorcists, also known as the Crystal of God. Left behind by the mysterious civilization that fought the Earl 7000 years before the start of the story and opposing his Dark Matter, it is composed of 109 fragments all scattered around the world, one of them being the foundation of all of them, the Heart.
In order to be used by an Exorcists, the Innocence must be reforged from its fragmental state into an Anti-Akuma weapon that will allow the Exorcist to fight and purify Akuma, the Innocence being the only thing able to do something like that. Sometimes, certain wild Innocence can cause strange phenomena in the area where they were left behind, such as giving dolls life or trapping entire towns in eternal time loops.
- Ambiguously Evil: While originally presented as a holy weapon to save mankind from the Akuma, the morality of the Innocence has been put into question with several events in the story, such as the existence of the Fallen Ones (in which the Innocence is willing to kill people not related to the Holy War directly or indirectly) or Apocryphos’s ruthless actions.
- Color Motif: It is especially associated with green, representing it and contrasting the purple of the Dark matter the Earl and his allies use. The color has connotations of hope and salvation, but also hidden dark elements such as the judgment and annihilation of what they consider impure, be it Noah, Akuma or even incompatible users.
- Dismantled MacGuffin: The Innocence got scattered around the world after the Great Flood following the battle against the Earl, so it’s now the job of the Black Order to find the fragments and guard them with Hevlaska.
- Emerald Power: Innocence usually glows green and it manifests a green light in some refined Anti-Akuma weapons such as Allen’s incomplete Crown Clown or Lenalee’s Dark Boots, as well as causing explosions of green energy when an Akuma is destroyed by an Exorcist.
- Empathic Weapon: Innocence is sentient and can choose its own wielder as seen with Exorcists such as Miranda, Chaozii or Timothy, and an Exorcist’s strength depends on how synchronized it is with their Innocence. Unfortunately, the Innocence is also aware of who is compatible or not with it, so someone deemed improper by it can risk becoming a Fallen One.
- Gotta Catch Them All: One of the main goals of the Black Order is to gather all the Innocence fragments that were lost around the world after the first Holy War, trying to recover them before the Akuma or more rarely the Noah discover them first and destroy them. The manga touches this a bit, but the anime shows more of this side of the plot in filler episodes.
- Keystone Army: Innocence shards are said to be dependent on the Heart of the Innocence. If the Heart is destroyed, the remaining Innocence will follow suit.
- Loyal Phlebotinum: Innocence can only be used by those people chosen by the shards as accommodators. A non-apostle who tries to forcibly synchronize with one is violently rejected at best and dies painfully at worst no matter the case, even if they are related by blood to a deceased Exorcist.
- Mineral MacGuffin: The Innocence fragments that have no determinate shape appear as crystal-like constructions that are later given shape when they find a compatible Exorcist. Not in vain, Innocence was known as the Crystal of God by the people who fought the Earl 7000 years ago.
- Mystical 108: Other than the Heart, there are approximately 108 fragments of Innocence scattered through the world. Counting Apocryphos, the Heart and fragments seen in filler episodes, so far 45 Innocence have been shown in both the manga and the anime.
- Plot Coupon: Downplayed, as normal Innocence fragments are not as urgent to find as the Heart, but they nonetheless are valuable, as any Innocence recovered means that a new Exorcist can raise to fight the Earl and the Akuma.
Fallen Ones
Fallen Ones
Suman's Fallen.
Former humans who were overtaken by the Innocence after they were rejected by it and their synchronization rate fell below 0%. It can happen in two ways: either when a non-Accomodator attempts to forcefully synchronize themselves with an Innocence fragment or when an already established Accommodator betrays God and the Innocence.
If that happens, the Innocence will punish the fallen apostle by turning them into a gigantic, angelic torso with a huge halo at the top of the body, with their body located in the chest of the torso. With this, the Innocence drains their life force little by little until the victim dies. There is no way to save the fallen once the process starts.
- Angelic Abomination: A typical fallen looks like a floating, huge angel-like torso with a halo crowning their bodies, which gives them the more bizarre appearance biblical angels are said to have.
- Beam Spam: The main ability of a Fallen is the one to shoot immense quantities of life energy beams from the holes of their bodies in a quick amount of time. They can even use them as whips of energy in order to crush things around them.
- The Berserker: Once a person turns into a Fallen One, they become beings of utter destruction who obliterate everything in sight until they die, while their personality turns warped and homicidal, cursing everything surrounding them.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The Fallen Ones are forced to become humongous angel-like beings that expel devastating beams of energy that drains their life force little by little until they die. And even if the Innocence is forcefully removed from the host’s body, it still leaves them braindead to ensure their death and punishment is effectively executed.
- Holy Halo: Adding to their horrifying angelic design, Fallen Ones sport a halo above the place where the head of the torso should be.
- Light Is Not Good: Despite their heavenly image and light-related powers, Fallen Ones are beings focused on destruction and punishment that are dangerous to enemies, allies and innocents alike.
- Person of Mass Destruction: They can shoot big, destructive beams of energy out of their bodies that cause a lot of havoc around them, to the point of obliterating entire villages. The Akuma that the Earl sent to take down Suman’s fallen even comment gleefully how the fallen looks like one of their own.
- Super-Power Meltdown: An Innocence falling below the 0% synchronization rate turns the Accomodator (be it forced or genuine) into an Angelic Abomination shooting powerful energy beams that devastate their surroundings.
- Terminal Transformation: The outcome of a Fallen is always certain death, no matter if the subject is separated from the body in time like Allen did with Suman. Once an apostle falls, they will either die after losing all of their life force or will get braindead as a last measure of the Innocence to make sure the Fallen gets their punishment.
The Hidden One (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Apocryphos
Voiced by: Seiro Ogino (JP)
True form
A kind-looking, cheerful priest on the Black Order HQ.
In reality a strange-looking creature called "Apocryphos", a living Innocence whose role is to protect the Heart at all costs. He is powerful enough to scare a Noah. Seems to be the "Third Side of the War", Marian had previously referred to. Confirmed to be the real culprit behind Cross's attempted murder, but his motives and his relation with him have yet to be explained. Currently chasing Allen to perform something that most definitely is bad news.
- The Assimilator: Has this in mind for Allen.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Has a kind human persona, but in reality he's one tough opponent.
- Big Bad Ensemble: He's the newest antagonist; completely independent and loyal only to the Heart, but right up there with the Earl and the 14th.
- The Blank: His real form which does not look right at all, being a white being with no nose and black schlera. But as of Chapter 217, he's been turned by Jasdevi into a Toon form.
- Break Them by Talking: As he's interrogated by the Noah, he begins to tell Tyki about his resemblance to Nea and how his memory (Joyd) is attached to him, making Tyki (who starts the interrogation very spirited) shocked and thinking in the reason behind that. He's promptly silenced by Wisely before he can say more, however, his words end up forcing him to break the seal the previous Wisely put on the memories of all the Noah to unveil the truth about Nea after Tyki and Sheryl end up shaken by what Apocryphos said.
- Body Horror: His feather-related power.
- Dissonant Serenity: He remains calm and collected, even as his victims undergo tortuous Mind Rape.
- Notably, the only time he loses his cool is when Allen declares that the very idea of uniting with him makes him want to puke.
- The Dragon: He's this for the Heart of the Innocence, being its more direct and loyal servant. Unlike other Innocence, Apocryphos exists only to protect and support the Heart.
- Fake Memories: He can implant those in witnesses apparently. While it temporarily works on Kanda, his Healing Factor is able to counter it.
- Feather Motif: And not anywhere that feathers should naturally be.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He adopts the shape of a bespectacled man in his human form, with the glasses making him come as unnerving and malicious when they turn into Scary Shiny Glasses.
- Greater-Scope Villain: He is Allen's true Arch-Nemesis by proxy of being the one to activate Allen's innocence, causing Mana's Death of Personality and the birth of the current, Ax-Crazy Millenium Earl. Had he not mind raped Mana through Allen's innocence the world might have never had to see the Earl again and known peace, Mana being implied to be the first of the Earl's incarnations to actively reject "the scenario" and try to preserve love in the world.
- Humanoid Abomination: Sentient energy that looks like The Blank, anyone?
- Karmic Transformation: By Jasdevi. There's just something oddly satisfying about an absolute menace of a monster being turned into a harmless toon.
- Light Is Not Good: His true form is completely white and he uses the holy power of the Innocence, but Apocryphos is a ruthless being with zero care about how many people he has to off for the sake of his mission.
- One-Winged Angel: Goes from a kind priest to a weird Blank-ish thing.
- Power Gives You Wings: He can generate a pair of angel wings out of his back to inflict a massive memory wipe on others.
- Purely Aesthetic Glasses: According to the Fanbook Gray Log, Apocryphos doesn't needs glasses in his human form and only has them as part of his disguise.
- Scary Shiny Glasses: His glasses are permanently covered by the light reflected on them, to the point the Scary Shiny Glasses is how he normally looks, with his eyes being revealed only in certain instances. This overall makes him look more menacing.
- Sinister Minister: Downplayed as he's not really a true priest, but he goes under the guise of one of the cardinals of the Order while going incognito, with his true monstrous form only being revealed once when he fights Tyki.
- Shout-Out: To Vash The Stampede, Father Anderson (as well as Incognito from the same series), and after being "tooned" by Jasdevi, Charlotte.
- Story-Breaker Power: He singlehandedly counts as "The third side of the war" and in his 2 chapters of combat, it shows. He completely manhandles Tyki and Howard, knocks out Road in 1 hit, regenerates from having a candle shoved through his eye in seconds and is not just immune to, but can also disable Innocence. On top of all this, he can afflict people with a feather-like substance that blinds the affected party and disables their Innonence. He´s the "Grim Reaper when it comes to Noahs".
- They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Apocryphos's human form is that of a rather average-looking man with an appearance one would expect from an ordinary priest, greatly contrasting the more shonenesque designs of the Exorcists, the Noah and other important characters of the manga, with his human design becoming more sharper and distinct once he reveals himself as a major antagonist. Considering that his role is to remain hidden until needed to act, picking a plain appearance makes sense to not stand out.
- Walking Spoiler: Even the most basic description of him and his role spoil major twists in the plot.
- Winged Humanoid: Briefly displays this, though he doesn't exactly use said wings to fly...
- Your Head A-Splode: While being captive of the Noah, Wisely explodes his head when he was telling Tyki the reason why he resembled Nea and why his memory chose to a host resembling him, silencing him before he talked too much. Of course, Apocryphos being a sentient Innocence, this doesn't kills him, with Wisely mentioning that his head will grow back soon.
Heart of the Innocence
The Heart
Representation of the Heart.
A particular shard of Innocence which powers and maintains the remaining Innocence fragments. Said to hold a great power, its destruction can however cause the following annihilation of the other Innocence, as they are connected to it. For this reason, both the Black Order and the Noah are in a constant race to find the Heart, as that could be the decisive event for the Holy War.
Most of the background regarding the Heart is cryptic and mysterious. Both Lenalee and Allen have been assumed to be potential hosts of the Heart because of the weird behavior of their Innocence compared with other Exorcists, but nothing conclusive has been found so far.
- Ambiguous Situation: Nothing about its whereabouts or if it even has a host is known. During the Noah Ark incident both Lenalee and Allen were labeled as potential candidates for the Accommodator of the Heart given how strangely their Innocence acted, as they saved their lives in critical moments, something not seen before. The Earl, however, believes the Heart may have already found its Accommodator and that it was using Lenalee and Allen as decoys to distract him and his allies from its presence. So far its true nature keeps remaining a mystery.
- Ambiguously Evil: Given Apocryphos’s morally questionable actions for its sake, is not clear if the Heart is really on the side of the good, is a Well-Intentioned Extremist or if it has a goal or will of its own.
- Artifact of Hope: It is this for the Black Order, as its finding will help them to bring an end to the war against the Earl. That being said, given certain developments, it’s not sure if the Heart will bring salvation or not.
- Cosmic Keystone: A minor yet important example, as the Heart doesn’t affect the world as a whole, but if it is destroyed, the rest of the Innocence will also perish, which would rob the Exorcist of their power and would mean the absolute victory of the Earl and the destruction of the world.
- Fakin' MacGuffin: The Earl theorizes that the Heart already awakened and took an Accommodator, and is using other Innocence as decoys to remain hidden from its enemies, implying Lenalee’s Dark Boots and Allen’s Crown Clown are just distractions.
- The Ghost: Despite being mentioned early in the series, the Heart so far hasn’t make any physical appearance, and most of its background and status remains a mystery.
- Living MacGuffin: With the appearance of Apocryphos, it’s been implied the Heart may be sentient and have its own agenda.
- Mineral MacGuffin: Komui imagines it as a heart-shaped crystal shard like the average Innocence, however, its true shape has never been revealed so far.
- Plot Coupon: One of the main beings that moves the plot, as the Holy War will turn in favor of the side which finds it first, for better or worse.
- Sword of Plot Advancement: For the Black Order, finding the Heart is of vital importance, as obtaining it will give them a huge advantage over the Earl. While the true power of the Heart hasn’t been revealed, it is implied it is enough to turn the course of the war in favor of the side who finds it.
Campbell Mansion
Mana Walker/Mana D. Campbell (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Katerina Eve Campbell (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Katerina Eve Campbell
Katerina holding one of her baby sons.
A mysterious woman who lived at the Campbell mansion. She was Nea and Mana's mother and presumably a friend of the Millennium Earl before he split in two.
- Meaningful Name: Her middle name is Eve. And considering she seems to be acquainted with a man named "Adam", we can assume that this isn't a coincidence.
- Sympathy for the Devil: She's shown wheeping when the Millennium Earl dies/splits, clearly mourning him despite the fact that he is the one who will end humanity.
Bookman Clan
The former Bookman Jr. (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
The former Bookman Jr.
Jr. in Allen's memories.
The former successor of Bookman. 35 years ago, he was a friend of Nea and "Allen", the latter being the person who would inherit Nea's memory. When Nea faced destruction, the former Jr. decided to throw away his Bookman duties, and became "Allen"'s protector.
- Declaration of Protection: Towards "Allen". When Nea was killed, 35 years ago, Jr. decided to abandon his Bookman duties, and chose to become Nea's host's protector instead.
- Posthumous Character: Thought to be so, by Lucia and the Master of Zeugle, who are members of the Bookman clan. According to them, Lavi couldn't have appeared as a successor if the former Jr. was still alive.
- Red Herring: The former Jr. was purposely framed to be thought to have been the past "Allen" from 35 years ago. However, Nea actually never said this was the case, and the visual tricks are implied to have been deliberate, to hide the fact that two people had been involved with Nea in his plan.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: As the successor of a wise man tasked with recording history and a great knowledge of all sort of events, he's shown to be a bespectacled man.
- Walking Spoiler: Knowing his true identity spoils the fact that there was another person involved with Nea and Allen's past life, as well as reveal the fate of Bookman's former disciple.
