Michael Roa Valdamjong

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Roa Valdamjong is a major antagonist in the visual novel Tsukihime. He is a vampire and ranked as a numberless Dead Apostle. He is nicknamed "The Serpent of Akasha" which refers to his reincarnation ability as Akasha is source of all things in the Tsukihime universe.

Contents 1 Profile 2 Shiki Tohno 3 Role 4 Powers and abilities

[edit] Profile

Roa was a priest of the church that sought immortality and tricked Arcueid into drinking blood hidden within a rose, causing her to go berserk and wipe out almost all the True Ancestors, and also turning Roa into one of the most powerful Dark Apostles, to the point where he was strong enough to defeat Altrouge Brunestud when she tried to "teach him a lesson" as the rest of the Dark Apostles saw him as a upstart.

His original body was finally defeated by a coalition comprised of Arcueid and the Burial Agency, and he has been re-incarnating ever since then. By the time of Tsukihime he has already re-incarnated 17 times and been destroyed by Arcueid each time as she seeks to gain her stolen power back, and perhaps to achieve some measure of revenge. Roa has 2 requirements for choosing the host of his next reincarnation, his family must have a high social standing so he would be born into luxury, and a body with a high potential. His last host was Ciel, who was chosen in haste and thus was born into a bakery's family but instead had a body with an extremely high physical and magical potential. In Tsukihime, Roa is responsible for the grisly vampire murders in the city.

[edit] Shiki Tohno

Shiki Tohno (遠野 四季, Tōno Shiki^?) is Roa's 18th incarnation and can be considered "the real Shiki Tohno". This Shiki is not to be confused with Shiki Tohno (遠野 志貴, Tōno Shiki^?), the protagonist of Tsukihime; though both of them are named Shiki, the kanji in their names are different. The real Shiki Tohno was good friends with Shiki (an adopted member of the Tohno family, from the Nanaya clan). The real Shiki however went berserk after he lost control to his demonic blood and nearly killed the adopted Shiki (who was defending Akiha), however Makihisa Tohno (Shiki's father) punished the real Shiki by nearly killing him. He was then kept locked up in the Tohno Mansion's cellar for around eight years. After this incident somehow the adopted Shiki and real Shiki ended up sharing the same "life" which led to a connection of their minds eight years later.

[edit] Role

In both the "Near-Side Moon" stories (Ciel and Arcueid) and "Far-Side Moon" stories (Akiha, Hisui, and Kohaku) Shiki/Roa serves as a antagonist. However they are differences in his goals, appearance, and known abilities. For instance in the Near-Side stories Roa is a dominant personality over the real Shiki's body (though the real Shiki does manage to say a few words to the adopted Shiki) and looks (possibly) like Roa's original body (long black hair, dressed with a priests robe); his goal here is to kill Arcueid and doing nothing more than what normal Dead Apostles do (which involves killing and consuming). In the Far-Side stories the real Shiki's personality is dominant over Roa's though there are hints that Roa's personality lingers in his mind. His appearance resembles the real Shiki only eight years older with pale hair and wearing a kimono. His goal in this arc is primarily to kill the adopted Shiki and return to his place as part of the Tohno family.

[edit] Powers and abilities

Near-Side Route

Roa has supreme healing regeneration from the deepest of wounds. He was able to revive himself from being slaughtered by Arcueid's Marble Phantasm which destroyed every part of his body with the exception of his ankles (from which he regenerates himself). Roa also has a knife which he uses against the adopted Shiki.

Far-side route

Shiki-dominant Roa uses melee attacks from both his knife and his own claws, he also has a skill which crystalizes blood which then can be used as a sword or throwing weapon. The real Shiki dominant Roa lacks the regeneration technique of Near-Side route Roa. Instead, he has an ability called "Immortality", which, rather than simply regenerating wounds, adapts around fatal injuries and allows him to survive even without vital organs. This ability also grants Shiki limited regenerative ability, evidenced by his ability to reattach, but not replace, lost limbs.

Both Routes

Roa in both routes has a ability similar to Shiki Tohno's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, having gained this ability after he was nearly killed by his father Makihisa Tohno. His eyes are significantly different from Shiki's, they lack the ability to destroy inanimate objects and is more akin to cutting the "life" of a person rather than the "death".

Tsukihime (TYPE-MOON)
Characters
Shiki Tohno | Arcueid Brunestud | Ciel | Akiha Tohno | Hisui | Kohaku
Len | Sion Eltnam Atlasia | Dead Apostle | Roa
Related articles
Tsukihime | Shingetsutan Tsukihime | PLUS-DISC | Kagetsu Tohya | Melty Blood