Percival

personality,

Despite being a teenager, Percival acts like a very young child with extreme innocence and naivety and is easily mistaken for a small child due to his short stature and attitude, being surprised that people see him as such. Having grown up in an isolated environment, far from the outside world and humanity, with only his grandfather as his acquaintance, he is overflowing with curiosity about everything he doesn't know, and since there is much he doesn't know, he is always excited by the prospect of new experiences and adventures. Due to his lack of life experiences, he is extremely naive and easily trusts people he barely knows to hand over all of his belongings or follow them wherever they went. After losing his grandfather, whom he loved more than anyone, Percival leaves home, largely to find his killer, but also because he wants to live adventures just as his grandfather inspired him to do. Appreciating his grandfather's words, Percival attempts to act as a Holy Knight should, facing evil and protecting the weak. He seems to be quite interested in women, observing Elva's body (and groping her breasts) when they bathed in the lake, but more out of genuine curiosity than lustful intent.

Percival's body 2 years after his "death" Percival appears to be a very young boy, displaying a small and slim figure, despite being in his late teens, with green hair and orchid-colored eyes. His attire consists of tunic-like cloth and shorts. He later wears his grandfather's purple-horned iron helmet and an orange cape with a brooch shaped like a serpentine creature biting its tail. After an encounter with Ironside, Percival has a large cross-shaped scar on his upper body, angled slightly to the right. The same scar also extends to his right arm, which lines up perfectly with the scars on his body when he stands with his arms down; the position of his body when he received the scar. In the anime, the scar is larger, running all the way down his body and left arm to his back. Two years after his body was abandoned, his body somehow matured a bit, his hair grew longer and he gained height and muscle. After his resurrection, his hair was cut back to its original style. His attire changed to a full-body black suit underneath his old cape with the Ouroboros symbol on it.

history

Sixteen years ago, Ironside recovered the lifeless body of an infant, the seventh prince of an unspecified kingdom, amidst the wreckage of a chariot that fell off a cliff. Taking him back to the Kingdom of Camelot, he intended to use the deceased child as the vessel for a powerful Life Spirit using a forbidden spell that cost him some of his life force, intending to transfer his son's soul into it, so that he could have an immortal body that would allow him to live outside of Camelot and live for millennia. This Life Spirit would gain a sense of self, thus giving "birth" to the human known as Percival. That same night, Varghese betrayed Camelot and King Arthur Pendragon, due to a combination of his change in personality due to the power of Chaos and Ironside's intentions for Percival. Hoping that Arthur would one day return to his old self and stop the Holy Knights of Camelot who blindly followed their king without question; all while being hunted by his former colleagues until he eventually turned to Camelot's enemy, due to their conflicting ideologies on the coexistence of the five races: the Kingdom of Liones. There, he was greeted by the new king, Meliodas, who had the injured knight treated as where Varghese explained his reasoning for betraying Camelot, which Meliodas believed in. He then bestowed upon him an ouroborus medallion as a token of everlasting friendship and carved two stars into his helmet as a show of trust and cooperation. Despite this, seeing that Varghese was now a fugitive from Camelot with nowhere to go, Meliodas made him the offer to raise Percival for him, but Varghese insisted that Percival would be his responsibility and would raise him to be the kindest child he could be as opposed to his cruel son's blind loyalty to King Arthur.

After this, she traveled with Percival to the Finger of God, where she raised him in complete isolation until the beginning of the series, teaching him to fight from the time he was only three years old through Gouren. At some point when Percival was no more than a year old, he ended up lost in the Demon Realm by accidentally crossing an entrance into a God's Finger cave. There he was adopted by the current Demon King, Zeldris, who cared for him alongside Gelda until they were finally able to return him to his world. During this time, the demons came to worship Percival because he saved the race from Behemoth, healing the demons whose life force had been taken and returning the beast to its slumber, considering him their "savior". [2] It is around this time in the Demon Realm that Percival learned the Demon Clan's language, enough to become fluent over a decade later. Because he was raised by Varghese and surrounded by his love, Percival forgot that he was a Life Spirit and became self-aware.

skills

As a powerful Life Spirit in a human vessel that gained self-awareness, Percival's small stature hides incredible strength and abilities beyond any human of his age. He is first shown when he takes out a monstrous wolf the size of a house with nothing more than a slap to the face, sending it straight to the ground and cracking the earth. Percival has a unique build, providing him with enough stamina to stand upright showing little to no pain despite being struck by Ironside's magical power, leaving him with a massive scar, while Varghese, a former Holy Knight, was brutally mutilated and blinded. As an infant, after falling into the Demon Realm, Percival survived its harsh conditions and breathed normally, unaffected by the miasma that is toxic to all other races. [3] He has a unique resistance to drugs and sleeping chemicals; He woke up shortly after being given Belladonna leaves that were meant to render him unconscious for ten hours. Having lived on God's Finger with his grandfather, Percival learned many hunting and cooking skills from him, making use of a sword to properly and efficiently skin a Roc bird, and later filleted fish. Despite this, however, Percival's abysmal archery skills border on the implausible, having the apparent ability to hit targets behind him, despite the fact that he was aiming at targets in front of him. Percival's breathing capacity is far greater than other humans, running with ease on God's Finger, despite it normally being difficult to breathe in such a place, holding off the Chion Sylph who was blocking the air around him.

As one of the Four Knights of the Apocalypse, Percival is an extremely talented Holy Knight, managing to awaken his magic power in the middle of a difficult fight; using it to reverse his situation and managing to gain the upper hand against his opponent, even though he was not fighting seriously. His fighting skills appeared to be basic, to the point of barely holding his own against more experienced Holy Knights such as Pellegarde single-handedly, that he was not taken seriously. It wasn't until Lancelot's training, emulating the people he failed to defeat: Talisker, Macduff, Pellegarde, and Ironside. Although, Zarura N'Du passed the second and third level, Percival managed to beat the fourth level and then train under Lancelot; improving his swordsmanship, to the point of countering and injuring Mortlach's "Thousand Cross", whose swordsmanship is described as being superior to Ironside. During his two years in a coma, Percival claims to have "remembered" several useful pieces of information about his abilities as a Life Spirit. When he awakens, he develops greater mastery of his magical, physical, and sensory abilities, allowing him to confront Worreldane and Gawain, though he also claims to need to reacclimate to his body. Percival also seems to have developed the ability to sense all the other Life Spirits scattered across Britannia and communicate with them, allowing him to become aware of many events supposedly occurring far away from him.