Jugglus Juggler

Name: Jugglus Juggler
Door: Left

Canon: Ultraman Orb
Canon Point: Episode 20

Age: Four thousand, but looks 30-ish
Appearance: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ultra/images/4/48/Jugglus_Juggler_I.png or https://readtiger.com/img/wkp/en/UltramanOrbJugglusJuggler.jpg

History: http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/Jugglus_Juggler

Personality:
Dark – That's an ambiguous word that could cover a lot of ground, but it's one that he would use to describe himself. The world he comes from divides the powers that be into Light and Dark, which more or less correlates to good and evil, but it goes beyond that. Darkness is the power he chose, but it's also a persona. He chooses to present himself as evil as possible, and failing that, at least morally ambiguous. He absolutely has a deceitful streak, and will portray the image he needs to get what he wants and betray others' expectations as necessary. Given the right circumstances, he's capable of killing someone without batting an eye, after having claimed them as a temporary ally. And while less directly, he's summoned kaiju to help him wipe out whole cities. There are limits to what his conscience will allow him to do—quite a lot, in fact—but he has frequently gone out of his way to keep anyone else from figuring out exactly what those limits are.

Insecure – The entire reason he ended up choosing to ally with darkness was because he tried to be a warrior of light and failed. He and Gai went together to see whether one of them would be chosen by the Light to become an Ultraman. Both of them thought that he would be the one chosen, but the Light pushed him away and chose Gai instead. The events that followed only rubbed in that he just wasn't good enough. He's been disappointed in himself since the Light rejected him, and fell increasingly to his nihilistic philosophies over time. He fell back on finding any way possible to be strong, no matter how destructive or detested. When it comes down to it, he wants to be acknowledged—by Gai, by the Light, by anyone who can sufficiently prove to him that being rejected as the Warrior of Light doesn't equate to being a complete and utter failure. He built up his dark powers to fight against Gai, because he thought that if he could at least get Gai to say, honestly, that he was the stronger of them, it would mean he was worth something. And being the stronger one became nothing short of an obsession. He needed to prove to himself that he was worthwhile, or he needed Gai to kill him and end his suffering, one or the other. … and truth be told, what he was actually going for was more often the latter.

He combines this with being too prideful to admit his weaknesses and tell people what he needs. Part of why he fell as hard as he did was because Gai failed to read the cues that said he needed support, but also he didn't directly say it; he expected Gai to guess and then got angry and miserable when he didn't. He's defensive and prickly and pushes people away when what he actually needs is for them to be closer. He can put on enough to an act to impress just about anyone in some form or another, but he's very bad at letting relationships develop any depth unless the other person manages to navigate through all his defenses and the emotional minefield behind them.

Dramatic – Juggler loves drama. He's very image conscious and does everything with his own vision of style and flair, from shamelessly flirting, to reveling in the destruction he causes, to waxing poetic about the darkness in this or that person's heart. He exaggerates for effect and gets great enjoyment out of trying to knock people down to his level, or playing up the ways the other person is making him suffer... or just getting an entertaining reaction out of them. He's the sort of person who will not only make a dramatic appearance, but will do it by appearing directly behind you, whispering his greeting into your ear, and watching you jump.

Heroic – Despite the inordinate amount of time he spent trying to make himself into the perfect villain, he originally wanted to be a hero, and it's in his nature. This is where the limits mentioned under “dark” come into play—when he's presenting himself as villainous, he does a good job of playing it off, but if one pays close attention, it's easy to see that there are still a lot of lines he won't cross. He continually says he wants Gai dead, but he never makes a serious attempt on his life, despite ample opportunity. He intentionally makes Naomi, the series's leading female, uncomfortable by invading her personal space and putting on a flirtatious act, but always does so in a way that's actually pretty harmless and always gives her plenty of room to get away. He does have the capacity for murder, but the only people we ever see him kill are invading aliens who could arguably be considered more evil than he is. 

But to clench it, he saves people from danger despite himself. In a noteworthy incident prior to the main series, he engineered a fight between Ultraman Orb and a giant monster that resulted in a huge explosion (set up as an exact mirror to the Tunguska event, though they don't actually name it that), but wound up rescuing Gai's girlfriend at the time from the blast, even going out of his way to heal her. He never told Gai, letting him come to his own wrong conclusion that she'd died in the explosion, but that was motivated by his own confusion and shame over it conflicting with his own dark self-image. Toward the end of the series, he does something similar with Naomi, protecting her from danger even when he'd been threatening to kill her moments before.

Somewhat irrelevant to the canon point, but as a general character note, he's starting to come to terms with this in the sequel movies. Much as he's still his somewhat frustrating self, and he happily disappears again after everything is finished, there's no question in the most recent movie that he's acting as one of the good guys the whole time.

Powers and Abilities:
Swordsmanship – Juggler is very proficient in a sword style known as the Serpent-Hearted Way. His appropriately named Serpent-Hearted Sword also has some magical properties to it. First off, he seems to be able to make it appear and disappear at will (and he seems to use it a couple times to open portals to take other things in and out of, so I guess it just has some kind of general hammerspace ability.) He can also use it to launch energy attacks, making a crescent shaped cut from a distance. The attack grows stronger if there's ambient dark energy to absorb, and glows purple when using an energy ability.

Dark Ring and Kaiju Cards – Through use of a handheld device known as the Dark Ring and cards containing the spirits of Kaiju, he is able to summon giant monsters that happily then go wreck cities. At the canon point I'm taking him from, he can't actually do this because he's lost the Dark Ring. He still has the cards but no way to activate them.

Kaijin form – Juggler has an alternate form that basically gives him armor and extra strength. In this form he can also fly/hover.

Strength/Speed – Even in his human-appearing form, he's significantly stronger and faster than a normal human.

Energy blasts – He can throw a ball of dark energy as an attack.

Teleportation – He can appear and disappear at will, and frequently uses this just to freak people out.

Healing – As far as we know, he's only done this once, to save Natasha. It seems to require a massive energy exchange, and he literally sacrificed part of himself to be able to do it. The one time he did is the source of the crescent shaped scar on his chest that's highly visible in his kaijin form. (We never see him bare-chested so it's unknown if his human form also shows this. I like to think the answer is yes but it's fainter since he was in his kaijin form when he did it.)

He also canonly seems to have the ability to travel through space and shift between dimensions, but those are obviously game-breaking and won't be relevant.

Inventory: His sword and his kaiju cards (even though he has no actual way of using them for anything)

Samples: meme and meme