Nimitz Leak

"Nimitz Leak"

- contemplating her powers as a Dark Lord.

About
Nimitz Leak is a miserable girl from Apemunta village, a small rural community located along the outskirts of western Leazas. After being subjected to a series of pitiful events, she fortuitously came to acquire the powers of the Dark Lord Lexington.

Throughout her childhood Nimitz endured relentless bullying and ridicule from her peers, who would often mock her for her unkempt appearance and awkward mannerisms. Both of Nimitz's parents were largely inattentive to her well-being, causing them to provide her with little emotional support through her suffering. This combination of a poor home and school life steadily led Nimitz to close herself off from the rest of the world, isolating herself from others to stew in contempt and self-hatred.

In the year LP0003, Nimitz became a student of Melfeis Promenade, a recently hired teacher at the village schoolhouse. Observing Nimitz's unhappiness, Melfeis would often approach her after class to talk with her about her thoughts and feelings in an effort to make her feel more at ease. While Nimitz was initially reluctant to open up to her teacher, Melfeis' compassion and attentiveness caused her to gradually open up to her until she started to view her as a confidant she could place her trust in. Over time, Nimitz began to view these visits with Melfeis as the highlight of her days, and would even schedule them of her own accord as a means of venting her frustrations and receiving constructive advice.

Later on into the school year, a boy named Amades Kakades transferred into Nimitz's class after his family moved to Apemunta village from another town. Amades differed from the rest of Nimitz's peers by always treating her kindly, and would come to her defense whenever he witnessed her getting harassed by their classmates. Nimitz was unused to such positive treatment, and quickly became infatuated with Amades in response. Unsure of how to act on her newfound attraction, she revealed her feelings to Melfeis, who encouraged her to be honest and upfront about them. Despite Melfeis' advice, Nimitz remained too shy confess her love to Amades, and chose to instead settle on being his friend. Despite the abuse she continued to suffer from others, the warmth brought into her life by Melfeis and Amades allowed Nimitz to feel hope and fulfillment for the first time ever.

The happier life that Nimitz had found for herself came crashing down two months after the conclusion of the 7th Leazas-Helman War, where she visited her school after hours for her usual consultation with Melfeis to find her teacher in the process of having sex with Amades. Seeing the teacher she had come to trust with the boy she loved filled Nimitz with an overwhelming combination of betrayal, confusion, and humiliation which caused her to retreat even further into her mind and away from the world than she ever had before. In her trauma, she abandoned school altogether and spent the next several week locked in her room wallowing in a near-catatonic state of despair. Her isolation caused her to grow even more estranged from her parents until she felt as though she had lost her place in their household. No longer capable of bearing the bad memories she associated with either her school or home life, Nimitz eventually fled Apemunta Village in the middle of the night without a word in search of a new beginning for herself.

After leaving her home village, Nimitz traveled to a neighboring community and began working at a part-time job that provided live-in housing. Though at first cautiously optimistic about starting her life anew, she found her situation to be no different than it had been in her hometown, as the older women that she worked with started to speak ill of her much in the same way her classmates had. Alone and unloved, her misery reached new heights in the year LP0007, when she was attacked by a group of thugs while on her way home from buying groceries. While the thugs initially motioned to assault her, they abandoned the act after see her face more closely, dismissing her as being too ugly to be worth the effort. The incident reinvigorated the grief and humiliation of seeing Melfeis and Amades together that Nimitz had repressed in her mind to such a degree that she lost all hope and resolved to take her own life as an escape. Purchasing a knife and a pair of sweet buns, she ate a final meal to calm her nerves before slitting her wrists.

Just as Nimitz began to cut herself, she was called out to from behind Atlanta, an Apostle of the deceased Dark Lord Lexington. Seeking an individual with a strong proclivity for performing evil acts, Atlanta acknowledged Nimitz as an ideal host for her master due to her deep-seated resentment of the world. Atlanta offered Lexington's Demonic Blood Soul to Nimitz, claiming that she would be given the power to take revenge on the people that tormented her if she consumed it. Lacking the reason to question Atlanta's intentions in the moment, Nimitz obliged and ingested the blood soul, welcoming Lexington's being into her body in the process. While Atlanta had intended for Lexington's will to overpower Nimitz's and gain full control over her body, the extent to which the young girl had kept her Soul guarded from others miraculously prevented the Dark Lord from reaching it, creating a strange equilibrium within herself that enabled both her own soul and Lexington's to coexist without either overwriting the other.

Imbued with Lexington's power, Nimitz's figure transformed into that of a towering female Oni, leading Atlanta to mistakenly assume that her master had succeeded in possessing her. While frightened by her sudden change in appearance, Nimitz feared how Atlanta would retaliate if she learned the truth even more and chose to pretend as though she were Lexington to remain beneath suspicion. Eager to return to spreading carnage with her master, Atlanta sent a message to the Elite Dark Lord Kayblis, who had at the time ordered a full-scale invasion of the Human Realm by the forces of the Monster Army in an event that would come to be known as the 2nd Dark Lord War, reporting that Lexington had been revived and was willing to lend his strength to his cause. Kayblis made no effort to validate this claim, trusting that Lexington would do anything for an opportunity to fight, and agreed to give Nimitz authority over a division of the Monster Army attacking Leazas. Stationing their army in the city of Prettiria, Atlanta began preparations to attack the Leazas Army while Nimitz hid away in her private quarters panicking over her new circumstances.