User blog:Johndoe-m9/Al-Saif (The Sword)

Backstory: After Omar Bahir’s (a terrorist working for SOMBRA known as The Sword) death at the hands of the Bureau, his murder weapon was confiscated by Mossad for further examination due to reports of a strange phenomenon happening on the entirety of Iraq involving the sword in question. However, sometime after SOMBRA ended, ROZETTA was able to obtain the sword from Mossad with her methods unknown to them, though she was able to defeat all of the agents protecting the weapon. After this, sword itself is revealed to be sentient, which is actually a Stand made from the very soul of Omar Bahir himself, and is referred to as “Al-Saif” (السيف), being derived from Bahir’s alias in Arabic. Initially seeing ROZETTA as an intruder to his prison, Al-Saif prepared to posses ROZETTA, only to be quickly defeated by her Stand and its secret power, which surprised Al-Saif and prompted him to swear loyalty on his master. ROZETTA was interested in the Stand too, so she had him stay placed on a rock near her former home in case someone attempts to raid it and knowing that they would be greedy enough to steal it before using the Stand to kill the rest of the Conspiracy Crusaders. Even after hearing his master’s death, Al-Saif continued holding his master’s reminder to him, and fortunately enough, one young man was able to draw the Stand sword, now continuing ROZETTA’s influence again...

“Live by the sword, die by the sword...” - Al-Saif

Al-Saif (アル・サイフ); Date of Creation: September 11th, 2002, User: Professor Omar Bahir (عمر باهر) (originally) and various people possessed by the Stand, Type: Automatic Stand, Bound Stand, Shared Stand, Namesake: The Sword (السيف) in Arabic

Appearance: A bound Stand, Al-Saif appears as a scimitar with a thinner silver sparkling blade curved a bit more, a gold and black hilt with purple shading, and a gold knuckle guard. It also has an inscription that reads the Stand’s name in Arabic and comes with a black scabbard encrusted with blood red jewels. These modifications were made thanks to ROZETTA.

In his true form, Al-Saif takes on the appearance of Omar Bahir, adopting his master’s clothing, facial features, and complexion at the time of his death, but sports violet shattered eyes, a matching symbol on his forehead (referencing his master’s death), slightly pale and cracked skin, and a matching burning aura surrounding him. When someone is possessed by the Stand, they will adopt the unique features same as Al-Saif himself.

Personality: Al-Saif is a brutal and loyal enforcer of ROZETTA who retains the same traits of his former master, only worse and corrupted than before. Contrast to Bahir’s tactically cunning genius and assassinates in secret, Al-Saif performs very brutal methods against his enemies and only progresses due to him easily memorizing and adapting to the opponent’s attacks in direct conflict. Holding a nasty grudge against Rook for killing “him” (actually his master, as Al-Saif still has Bahir’s memories after his death), the sadistic sword Stand is more than happy to murder him and everyone Rook loves. Initially encouraging to those who wield him, Al-Saif later won’t hesitate to leave innocent people possessed by him to die and would directly control the person. Al-Saif is also prone to arrogantly gloat and boast about his increasing power, but he can devolve into panic and worry if thing don’t well for him. Those controlled by Al-Saif will display opposite and corrupted versions of their personalities:

Julian Ramis becomes more brutal and violent against others who are either old as or older than him. He also hardly bothers to hide his sword, meaning that he occasionally sloppy in everything. Despite this, Julian shows a sense of honor as he fights face-to-face with Martine instead of attacking her in the back.

Edith Bradley becomes very violent, rude, and sadistic, as opposed to her calm and peaceful nature. She also considered that she will make the team’s heads as trophies with Al-Saif, showing more of her uncharacteristic nature.

R101 Officer Irwin becomes stoic and silent when fighting enemies, only requiring Al-Saif to do the talking. Due to his military training, Irwin is remarkably cunning and is able to maneuver through and destroy multiple traps aimed against him.

Martine Meunier displays the same destructive and demonic personality similar to her being possessed by Violet Passion, but becomes more insane, short-tempered, and mad with power. With her being skilled sword fighter, Al-Saif can easily catch up with and briefly overpower Martine’s friends at ease.

Luan Loud becomes more psychotic and remorseless than her during her April Fools prank apocalypses, even making offensive jokes about terrorists, showing a sadistic streak on her way more harmful “pranks” (attacks), and manically laughing under bouts of stress and insanity. Luan herself is not much of a fighter, but thanks to Al-Saif corrupting various people, she has developed much of their fighting styles and becomes more adept at combat.