File:Meet PoH aka Vassago Casals! - An Introduction Sword Art Online Wikia

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Meet the Prince of Hell, Vassago Casals, the founder of Laughing Coffin, the most infamous PKer in Aincrad. The ghost of the past has returned from Aincrad to hunt survivors in Underworld! 🐤 Follow SAO Wikia on twitter for the latest news! - https://twitter.com/sao_wikia 🔔 For more information on Sword Art Online, make sure to visit Sword Art Online Wikia! - https://swordartonline.wikia.com/

Meet Vassago Casals, the self-proclaimed Prince of Hell and the leader of Laughing Coffin, the most infamous PK Guild of Aincrad! Vassago Casals primarily worked behind-the-scenes for the majority of the series since his debut in Aincrad, earning his major antagonist role in the War of Underworld portion of the Alicization Arc.

Vassago was born in San Francisco in the United States after an affair between his Spanish mother and Japanese father. While his mother was keen on an abortion, his father's olderson from his legitimate marriage was born with defective kidneys, thus Vassago was a potential kidney donor in his his father's eyes. As she despised the child she was forced to give birth to, Vassago's mother desired to name his son after the devil. However, since the US birth certificate agency did not allow her to use obviously disparaging names, she chose to name him Vassago after a minor demon known as the «Prince of Hell».

At the age of fifteen, Vassago learnt about his father's plans to use him as a donor; however, since he did not have the choice to refuse his father's demands, Vassago agreed to donate his kidney under a single condition: the chance to move to Japan to start his life anew. However, as Japan's legal procedures for international adoptions were too complicated and Vassago would not be able to receive a status of resident even if he were adopted, the boy had no choice but to turn to the criminal underworld.

Hence, Vassago joined a Korean criminal syndicate, which provided him a counterfeit ID and trained him to become an assassin. By the age of twenty, Vassago had completed nine jobs for the syndicate. The tenth job assigned to him involved infiltrating Sword Art Online, a virtual reality that had trapped nearly ten thousand players in a death game just days prior. Vassago's objective was to kill a specific player from inside the game, as the target was too heavily guarded to kill in the real world and there was no guarantee that he would be killed by the death game he had become trapped in. As such, Vassago was ordered to become trapped in the death game and arrange the target's death in-game without directly attacking the player himself to avoid leaving evidence that it had been a planned assassination, being offered an astronomical sum of money in exchange for completing this obligatory task.

Although nearly all unused NerveGears had been confiscated by the police by then, the syndicate managed to obtain one for Vassago, along with a copy of the game. Upon diving into the death game, Vassago chose to name his avatar PoH, an acronym of Prince of Hell, based on the name his mother had given him. Although PoH was obligated to kill a specific player by his syndicate, his contact with the Japanese players in the game reminded him of his father, making him realise that he loathed all East Asians due to his experience with his father. Hence, PoH began harbouring a desire to kill as many players in the game as he could, rather than just his intended target. He thus founded «Laughing Coffin», the largest player killer guild in the death game that was responsible for a great many player deaths.

Upon not getting properly paid for his job, Vassago killed his boss. With the stolen money, he moved back to the US, where he found employment for a private military contractor. Having distinguished himself during VR exercises thanks to his prior experience he was scouted for a special mission by Gabriel Miller in Japanese territorial waters. As if some sort of fate was guiding him to his life goals, Vassago found himself standing in the middle of a desolate field only a couple of days later, bathed in the blood of multiple armies from multiple nations, once again staring towards his prized prey: a defeated Flash, and a mind-broken Black Swordsman, now nothing more than an empty husk of his former self. After such a long time, PoH had a reason to use his infamous catchphrase: It's showtime!

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