Serph
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Serph is the protagonist and player character of Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner, and one of the main protagonists in its sequel, Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2. He is the leader of the Embryon, one of the five core Tribes of the Junkyard. As a general in the war facilitated by the Karma Temple, he is tasked with leading his tribe to victory and reaching Nirvana.
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Serph is the main protagonist of Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner, and the leader of the Embryon tribe. He is known for his calm, measured leadership, and for his generally quiet, expressionless demeanor[1]. While he is capable of making decisions quickly under pressure, Serph tends to weigh and consider the viewpoints of his comrades before acting hastily; he appears to deeply trust Gale, who is responsible for managing the Embryon's strategic and tactical affairs. Though he seemingly has good intentions for those around him, it can be difficult to discern what Serph is thinking at any given time.
Serph's physical appearance matches his cool and subdued personality; he has a slender build and gray eyes that match his neck-length, silvery hair. His Atma Brand is called the Water Crown, depicted as a sharp-toothed, squared head with curved, crown-like protrusions extending from its forehead, branded into his left cheek. His Atma Avatar itself, Varna, is a tall, gray-blue demon with a row of shark-like teeth, gills on its neck, hard protruding fins on both sides of its face, and a spindly build with highly-defined, lean musculature. Its long retractable claws are capable of carving through flesh and bone.
Gameplay
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Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Serph transforms into Varuna at the start of every battle, unless the party is ambushed, in which case he may start the battle as a human, and he may also spend a turn switching between forms during battle. His human form nullifies Expel, is weak to Death and wields a pistol, which deals Gun damage to one target. As Varuna, Serph instead resists Ice and is weak to Fire.
As per series tradition, Serph's stats are determined by the player, where 3 points can be distributed between any of his stats on every level up. As with every party member, his skills must be set outside of battle, where any skill from any Mantra that Serph has mastered can be equipped. Serph starts with 4 skill slots, gaining an additional 2 slots on level 10 and another 2 on level 20.
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2
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Between the ends of the first and second visits to the EGG Installation, Serph is removed from the party, being temporarily replaced by Gale, then Sera as the player character.
Once Serph and Sera's data ascend to the Sun, they fuse into Seraph.
Game Appearances
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Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2
Serph, shortly after leaving the Junkyard, appears in the real world. He joins with Argilla, Gale, a child named Fred and his friend to gather information on Sera's whereabouts. They are led to the Underground City and the Lokapala. The leader of the Lokapala, Roland, reveals the nature of the Junkyard as a virtual world designed to create combat AI to be implanted in soldiers' brains and details surrounding the appearance of real people in the Junkyard. The Embryon agree to cooperate with the Lokapala to find Sera, liberating the Interment Camp and gaining access to the EGG Installation from Jenna Angel, though they discover that Heat, under the pretense of keeping Sera safe, is working for the Karma Society. In the Installation, the Embryon find Sera and Heat wounds Serph against Margot Cuvier's orders. Serph drags Heat with him into the EGG and is presumed dead. Immediately following this, the Sun begins to download the Earth's data.
Later, Serph awakens in the EGG's fluid, having been sustained and healed by it, in the company of Schrödinger. Schrödinger reveals to Serph the details surrounding his existence and the incident that caused the Black Sun five years prior: Serph was based on a researcher, Serph Sheffield, who was in charge of the God Project. In contrast with Serph, Sheffield was a megalomaniac who sought the power of God for himself at the expense of others, chiefly Sera, who created a virtual paradise to escape from the mental stress of the Project with AI duplicates of Sheffield, Heat O'Brian, Cielo and Argilla. This information distressed Serph, but he was comforted by the still lingering data of Heat O'Brian. The data of Sheffield and the AI Serph that existed prior to the Junkyard also manifested themselves, though Serph and O'Brian destroyed both of them, finally putting the latter to rest and letting all of their data join the circulation. Serph then returns to the Embryon by tearing Vritra from the inside, fatally wounding Heat, who dies moments later.
As a last resort against the destruction of Earth, Sera proposes to upload her data to the Sun via the HAARP Facility, to which the Embryon decide to join her. They head to the Airport in search of a plane and run across Jenna Angel. Gale is left alone with her while the remaining Embryon continue, and both ultimately die by each other's arms. On the way to the facility, Cielo also dies defending the airplane. Sera manages to upload herself and Serph's data, killing their bodies in the process. During the travel to the Sun, they fuse into Seraph and are joined by the data of their fallen comrades.
In the future, after humanity recovered from the Black Sun, there is a child bearing Serph's name and likeness under the care of a now adult Fred.
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Nomenclature
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| Language | Name | Meaning |
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サーフ | Serph |
Gallery
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Serph's Atma Avatar Varuna
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Serph's Berserk Mode in Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2
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