Peru d'Arrest
From The Vermilion Mask
Peru d'Arrest is the main character of The Vermilion Mask, an apprentice mask maker hunting down and destroying his late master's masks. Taihi Kimura voices him in Japanese. No English dub has been announced.
About Peru d'Arrest
Peru d'Arrest was the apprentice of the legendary mask maker Gaston Roux. He picked up the Mask of the Warrior God, lost control, and killed his master and his friends. Now he travels the world to destroy every mask Gaston ever made, before one of them destroys someone else.
Appearance
Peru is a lean young man usually seen with the tools and clothes of a travelling craftsman rather than a warrior. In the second key visual his face is covered in wounds against a vermilion field, an image of where his journey keeps taking him. The masks he carries and wears change his silhouette from fight to fight: spider, chameleon, cat and more.
Personality
Peru is gentle by nature and crushed by guilt by circumstance. He calls himself the worst kind of villain and means it. That guilt does not make him hesitate, though. It makes him relentless: he will walk into any fight, against any mask, because the alternative is letting his master's work kill again.
Background & Story
Peru trained under Gaston Roux, the greatest mask maker alive, learning a craft whose products grant real power. When Peru put on the Mask of the Warrior God, the mask took control of his body, and he killed his friends and Gaston himself. Peru's answer is the journey that drives the series: find every mask Gaston made, scattered across the world, and destroy them all, atoning for a sin he committed with hands that were not fully his.
Powers & Abilities
- Mask fighting: Peru fights by wearing masks, each granting different powers and movement: a spider's agility, a chameleon's reach, a cat's reflexes. Switching masks mid-fight is his answer to enemies stronger than he is.
- A maker's knowledge: Peru was trained by the man who made the masks. He understands how they work, where their power sits, and how to break them, knowledge no other hunter of Gaston's work has.
Key Relationships
- Sonarue Maywood: The former princess of Lisblanc who chooses to join his journey. Sona's steadiness keeps Peru human on a road built out of guilt.
- Mok Sharib: A young man who cannot remove his own mask, travelling with Peru in hope of a way free. Mok is both companion and reminder of what Peru is fighting.
- Gaston Roux: His late master, the legendary mask maker. Peru's whole journey is an apology to a man he killed, carried out one destroyed mask at a time.
Quick Answers
Who voices Peru d'Arrest?
Taihi Kimura voices Peru in Japanese. No English dub of The Vermilion Mask has been announced.
Why does Peru destroy masks?
Peru was controlled by the Mask of the Warrior God and killed his master and friends. He travels to destroy all of Gaston's masks so that no mask can do to anyone else what one did through him.
What powers do the masks give Peru?
Different masks grant different powers and movement styles, such as spider, chameleon and cat forms. Peru switches between them in battle, and his training as a mask maker tells him how each one works.