Meliodas' dominant traits are his frankness and his utter fearlessness, shown when

he remains composed seeing the Rust Knight who was later revealed to be Elizabeth
Liones.[5] Due to his horrible cooking, when his customers vomit onto the Boar
Hat's floor, he instructs Hawk to clean up the scraps and scares him by saying
phrases such as "roast pig" if he complains, hinting he may roast the talking pig.
[6] He is also shown to be very bawdy and loves to frequently tell jokes.
Occasionally, he takes advantage of Elizabeth's naivety and gropes her breasts, not
even ashamed of doing so in public or in front of her father. He also has a strong
sense of justice and is willing to help people in distress. Even when he is
severely injured, he tries not to show weakness and stays strong in front of his
companions. He holds resentment for himself, deeming himself a failure as an older
brother to Zeldris due to the suffering he caused him.

Despite his title as the Sin of Wrath, he maintains the facade of a very calm
person. However, if his companions or friends are harmed in any way, he is shown to
be capable of extreme rage. He is also enraged when someone tries to take his
sword, with this rage being capable of scaring even a Holy Knight[7] and causing
him to leave a permanent scar on Ban's neck, despite his regeneration abilities.[8]
It has been hinted that Meliodas is guilt-ridden over the fate of Danafor, saying
that his sin was being unable to save the kingdom. Ban and Cain point out that
Meliodas tends to be soft and naive, due to him never killing anyone, even someone
like Guila, who was a serious threat to the group. Meliodas dislikes killing,
preferring to be merciful.

Despite all of this, however, Meliodas' personality was once much darker and
terrifying, as he was revered to as the vilest and most terrifying demon in
existence and no other demon would dare challenge Meliodas when he was the leader
of the Ten Commandments and heir to the throne. Although not much has been shown of
how he was, Meliodas displays a harsh, arrogant demeanor towards any lesser demon,
coldly telling Bellion to get lost and calling him a hindrance and not even
bothering to give him another thought as he began his battle with Mael. He is not
intimidated by any Goddess except perhaps the Supreme Deity, doing battle with them
relentlessly each day and he also does not fear even the mighty Four Archangels, as
he is aware of his strength dwarfing theirs and rivaling, if not, surpassing even
the mightiest and the fact that even they fear him, as shown by how he does not at
all look fazed at the idea of battling Mael. However, even while in such a state,
Meliodas still had doubts about the war but due to his loyalty to his father, he
never once faltered whenever doing battle with the Goddesses.

His angry reaction when the Demon King called him a destroyer for his plans to make
his true self King of the Demons strongly implies that even in his prime, his
father was still more demonic than he ever was. In the end, it was this aspect that
allowed him to fall in love with Elizabeth and eventually abandon the Demons for
her, choosing to stop the meaningless war. Whenever using his Demon Mark, Meliodas'
personality changes to be similar to that of his old self, becoming cold, quiet,
ruthless, and murderous as he kills and attacks anyone near him without mercy aside
from Elizabeth. Despite being renowned as a pervert, the Seven Deadly Sins reveal
that Meliodas never displayed any interest towards other females before meeting a
grown Elizabeth.

After his time in Purgatory, due to having lost some of his emotions, Meliodas'
personality changes drastically whenever he uses the black mark, becoming far more
ruthless and at times even sadistic in his battles and wasting no time in his
attempts to kill his former demon allies. He states that his outlook has changed
and is merciless in his battle with Monspeet and Derieri. During his fight with
Fraudrin, he sadistically toyed with his historic enemy using a clone with half his
power to give Fraudrin false hope of defeating him, relishing his despair upon
realizing Meliodas' true power. In the aftermath of the battle, Meliodas professes
to Elizabeth that he is genuinely terrified of becoming that person again.
Beneath Meliodas' frank and bawdy demeanor hides immense amounts of emotional pain
from having witnessed Elizabeth die over 106 times. Due to this, Meliodas has no
fear of death and intends to lift his and Elizabeth's Curses, which he calmly
admits will kill him for good, to free himself and Elizabeth from the torment and
so they can be reunited in the afterlife.

Upon releasing his demonic powers in a desperate attempt to escape Melascula's

Antan no Mayu Meliodas fully reverts to his old self as the leader of the Ten
Commandments. With his old personality in control, Meliodas has been seen to be
easily annoyed and angered, being far more brutal, sarcastic, sadistic, and cruel
than ever, showing visible pleasure and clearly mocks Escanor while easily beating
him up. He also looks down on humans like most demons, as evidenced when he called
Escanor a lowly human. He has also been seen to enjoy fighting, as evidenced by the
fact that he toyed with Escanor rather than simply immediately going all out and
killing him. While arrogant, he is not above complimenting his foes if they are
truly powerful, as when he openly praised Escanor for putting up a fight against
him. This arrogance is well-known to the Demons, as shown by how Zeldris stated
that the only reason Escanor was able to defeat Meliodas was because Meliodas had a
bad habit of toying around with opponents to mock them even if they proved to be
very formidable and noted that he deserved his defeat at Escanor's hands due to it.

Upon regaining consciousness after being defeated by Escanor, Meliodas regains his
memories of Elizabeth and the Seven Deadly Sins. However, he had become solely
devoted to breaking Elizabeth's curse and no longer cares about opposing the Demon
Clan, even going as far as to ally with his former enemies and even become Demon
King to accomplish it. With most of his emotions taken, Meliodas has gained a much
calmer and collected attitude with no trace of his old frankness and is also much
harsher and straight-to it, as shown when arriving on Camelot and confronting
Zeldris and Estarossa, where he sternly says that both Elizabeth and the throne of
the Demon King belongs to him alone and had no qualms pinning them down powerfully
to make them submit to him. He does, however, retain some level of mercy towards
the Seven Deadly Sins as rather as simply killing them, he offered them a chance to
stand down and admits that the days he spent with the Sins were not all bad. He
also offered Arthur, who he once acted as a mentor to, a chance to leave Camelot
Castle on his own will, although he did so harshly, ruthlessly telling him that it
is no place for humans like him anymore, and he has left the Sins, and had no
qualms engaging him when he refused.

He is not above making deals with others rather than simply forcing them to do what
he wants or getting rid of them, as he promised Zeldris that he will fulfill
Zeldris' desire if he agrees to help rather than just killing him ruthlessly or
beating him until he submits. He also appears to still have affection and
attraction towards Elizabeth, as he went out of his way to say when Estarossa said
that he wants her that Elizabeth is his alone and patiently tried to make her
understand that becoming the Demon King is the only way to save her, but he can now
easily become rude at her, as he coldly told her that he felt nothing when she
hugged him and had no qualms trying to force her to understand why he must become
Demon King by saying bluntly that the only thing he had left is the promise he made
to her and even told her openly that he considered her love for him to be imprinted
by the Supreme Deity and not by her own will, a fact that he seemed bitter of. He
apologized to Zeldris for being such a bad older brother, proving that his emotions
were not completely gone.

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