Fate Graphite

Fate Barbatos (フェイト バルバトス) formerly known as Fate Graphite (フェイト グラファイト) is the main protagonist of the light novel series Berserk of Gluttony. He is the owner of the Gluttony skill, one of the Mortal sin skills.

Appearance
Fate is a young man with a slim figure, black hair and brown eyes. However, when the glutton skill is is not fed for a period of time the color of his eyes becomes red.

When he is out at night, he is mostly seen wearing an entire set of black clothing with a skull mask. Later, his most recent set of cloths there are also tinges of red sewn in throughout the clothing.

Background
After his father passed away, the villagers kicked him out from the village because they deemed him useless for his Gluttony skill.

After he left the village and arrived at the royal capital, Seyfert, he was not able to get any well paying jobs. After searching for a while he gets picked up by Breric Family and was given the work of a gatekeeper.

Plot
One day, while he was walking home from his shift, he managed to spot a group of bandits climbing over the town walls. Not being able to handle the situation on his own he decides to ask for help from a holy knight named Roxy Heart.

After he heard the sound of battle stop, he saw one of the bandits escaping towards him with a missing arm. Since he had a spear on hand, he decided to stop the bandit from escaping only kill him and thus awakening his Gluttony skill.

Abilities
As the owner of the Gluttony skill, he has the ability to steal the skills and stats of anyone he kills by consuming the its soul. But in exchange for this, the user suffers from a uncontrollable hunger and the only way to ease the pain is to have a constant supply of souls fed to it.

Weapons & Equipment
Greed: a powerful sentient sword with the ability to change form. To unlock it's other form, the user needs to give a certain amount of the stats required. Not only are stats required but for some of the later forms you are required to have a certain mindset in order to unlock them.