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Apostles have always been one important
element of Berserk. They were originally normal
people, not necessary rich or noble, nor important
for society. Due to a lucky sequence (destiny
actually) of events, all of them did happen to
find a behelit (the olive-green one, not the red
one; you can go check our study about behelit
if you wish to know more about it). All the apostles
have in common one particular element: pain, suffering
for a negative condition that took away a lot
of time of their existence, or for a particular
event of their life that made them feel an extremely
deep pain, making them collapse under the weight
of something terribly tragic. This agony brought
them to use their behelit to summon the God Hand.
After calling these demons, they have been able
to obtain a super-human body, becoming semi-immortal
and gaining incredible powers, devoting their
own lives to evil forces. In order to become an
apostle, after summoning the God Hand, the evoker
has to make a sacrifice, offering to the darkness
the people or the person they love the most.
After becoming apostles, they can still keep their
human form, but they can also transform in horrible
monsters whenever they want to. Their
physical form, when not human, is usually similar
to a particular animal, and every apostle has
a different shape. The animal they take their
appearance from (like the snake for Koca or the
dragonfly for Lucine), usually represents the
inner soul of every apostle, his own nature, his
dream or his weakness. In the very moment in which
their supernatural body is destroyed, they all
return to their original human look, and their
soul is quickly swallowed by a sort of vortex
of damnation.
Even if they are actually servants of the God
Hand, they don’t have any particular task
or mission they have to accomplish or to do. In
the fatalistic vision expressed by K. Miura, all
that they have to do is just to behave as they
please, following all their desires, doing what
their souls make them willing to do. They just
do not have to stop in what they are doing, whatever
it is.
Anyways, it might happen that an apostle receives
a task or particular orders from the God Hand.
If this happens, the apostle has to obviously
obey (we can think about Wiald for example), putting
the orders he received in front of anything else,
and giving his life to serve the evil forces.
Another characteristic they all share, is the
fact that they can transform in monsters the common
people around them, dramatically increasing their
strength, resistance and agility, and making them
become like powerful slaves ready to follow any
order.
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