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The original plan for Zenius, including his basic history, along with everything else.
Warning, this gets a little creepy.
History: Zenius' origins are in actuality a little more than dubious. As far as everyone knew in his town, in the world of Artemis, he was born normally to both his parents, Terra, and Shion. However, the truth of the matter remains different. In a rainy night, they found a little boy set outside their doorstep in a leaves-made basket, and they decided to take him in. Every day since then they had taken care of him and mostly the general part is history. Another detail about this is that he's unrelated to his parents, and that technically he isn't human. A common feature in the world of Artemis are spirits/elementals, one of which people could make contracts with, and well, he's the result of a mishap between a contract of a spirit/elemental and a human.
Long story short, before his time, some human tried to make a contract/agreement with one but in doing so, became impatient and desired power, trying to use a method that would surrender their fellow forest elemental's sovereignty to this human. He thought that using the body of a baby that had passed would work. There was a flaw in this method, which involved some manner of arcane spell, and instead of passing the sovereignty of many a elemental unto him, it just managed to backfire, killing the human instead. The elementals were forced into one being and that resided, trapped in the body of the young one.
As they were, they couldn't do anything, and despised the human for doing such a thing. However, they knew that as the human body they had been forced into couldn't do anything until a certain age, they had the baby be moved by the power of nature to a quaint little family instead. In time, this new entity would allow themselves to have an identity as a human, but at the same time, plan to cause and wreck havoc on the world by any means possible due to the forceful combination of elementals causing an inner discord on their reason.
As a result, while he was growing up, he would hear voices in his head that he dismissed as his own. And when he became seemingly better from his 'sickness' would often venture into the forest days on end.
Now let's time-skip to Zenius' time in the Federation after he joined, and him being very much willing to follow orders, even if it wound up causing many people to die. Since, after all, he believed it was the Returners' fault that his 'sister' died, and therefore he thought this was the proper way to get vengeance. He met a man named Jin around the time said Returners were staging an infiltration operation and sort of got caught. This is also around the same time he met Subaru, and a certain girl stopped the boys' fight.
Jin calling Zenius 'beautiful' and treating as he did caused him to fall in love with him, although Zenius himself didn't notice it. He always tried his best to make sure that the Jin he came to know saw him in top shape and made a habit of not defying orders, hoping it would make the other continue to look good in his eyes. In fact, Zenius could care less about the leader of the organization, Lycaon. He felt a strong emotional bond with Jin, and so when Subaru was forced to kill his brother, Zenius sort of just went beserk during this time. Around this time (before or after Subaru had did the deed) he fought against Subaru once more, but lost to him, and to his confusion ever to this day was spared.
Although Zenius at one point insisted the man to kill him. Ironically enough, this would come to bite Subaru in the ass, since he wound up attacking Jess 5 years after Federation was dissolved/defeated but met his defeat at Subaru's hands once more. However, as a result Subaru was dispatched as well. Strangely enough, he seems to remember the battle, however if asked he wouldn't remember Subaru dying.
Flash forward 5 or so years and the man is seemingly taken up a peaceful hobby as a singer, and a 'secret' job as well. What is this job? Well, that's a mystery...
Either way, deep down he feels he cannot return home.
Personality: Zenius is on the surface a very vain and selfish man -- he believes himself to be beautiful and knows that he can easily catch the eye of many women as well as a few men. But he doesn't care too much about the latter of those two things and he considers himself to be incredibly important. He doesn't seem to hold stock in the value of other people's lives, unless he considers them to be very precious to him. In that case, he'll go to crazy lengths to protect them and when that fails, he will literally crack and be a hot mess... but definitely the kind anyone will not want to be around. When this happens, his powers go haywire and he loses absolute control and he attempts to kill anyone else around him.
Speaking of losing control, he's had issues with remaining in control whenever it comes to arguments when he feels like he's 'losing' and the same for battles. You could say he's a very sore loser as well, but he also has a terrible temper, even when he tries his best to restrain it. When he was younger, it was definitely much worse, to say the least.
He's not very good at making friends, and definitely keeps people at a distance. Unless, well, your name is Subaru but then again he doesn't consider him a friend and he's a special case in particular. As for anyone else he considers to be an enemy, he won't hesitate to go all out to kill them or do whatever the hell he wants to injure them. He is rather cold to them as well, mercy the last thing on his mind when he's facing them.
When it comes to Subaru, he likes to use a different approach, albeit slightly. For example, if they should be fighting, he'd want them to do it on the 'same level' -- take that as you will. He's absolutely stubborn about it too, and so it can cause him to react/become carelessly/careless.
Despite all of this, if anyone does happen to sincerely compliment him, he will make an effort to try to be nice to them, but show signs of being incredibly socially awkward. Aka welcome to frequent pauses and him seeming to look over at something in the scenery. All in all, it's way more easier for him to be insulting and snobbish instead of reasonable.
As for reasonable, that is also a thing that Zenius has an increasing lack of. He doesn't like listening to anyone unless he's already decided he will do so indefinitely. He intends to ignore the reasonable conclusions if he doesn't like them... like when Subaru tried to inform Zenius about the reason he killed his brother. He wanted to be angry at Subaru so he ignored it and said something ridiculous instead just for the sake of fighting him as well. This ties in with him being incredibly stubborn and obstinate like a bull. It's not a very endearing trait.
It's not surprising to figure he lacks a good amount of common sense, and another way he shows that is if he wants a fight he'll pick it with whoever he wants, despite how he caries himself ala 'above them all'. He also tends to treat people as if he were older than him, although he doesn't notice it unless it's pointed out. This even happens if he's speaking to an old man, although this may be due to his situation.
Another thing he can't stand are these things: smoking, drinking, and doing the deed himself. He shies away from doing that and he can't be convinced to do any of those in the slightest.
No one has been around to experience it yet recently, but he likes to eat... a lot. In the past his companions in the Federation became annoyed because he racked up quite the bill for food.
Underneath this all, is the personality he has when his true self takes over, and that's nothing short of systematically murderous. The amount of times this has happened was twice. Once when he was a child and the other time was after he had been brought a third defeat at Subaru's hands. When this also happens, he seems to avoid saying much, leaving his words up to his blade. If anyone can get him to say something when he's in this form besides a spell incantation or a battle cry, that is a miracle.
All in all, he hardly has any redeeming qualities and chances are if he learns the truth about himself, as a result of personalities merging instead of being kept separate, he'd start a campaign to destroy the world or the universe. Not kidding.
Orientation: I'd say demiromantic asexual.
Height/Weight:: 5'5/140 lbs. When he's in his other form, he's 5'10, however.
Age: Technically 27 years old (The spirit makes it about 126).
Birthday: November 11th.
Appearance: He takes on a varying amount of appearances when he becomes older, taken to dying his hair a few blonds, oranges, and whatnot. His hair is generally still long but not as long as when he first made his appearance in Condemned By Lies. His eyes are normally a very light blue, that looks like they should be translucent but for obvious reasons are not. He is a bit on the short side but it never really bothered him much. When the elemental side takes over, however, his hair is turns completely black and long, as well as opposed to the curly way his hair is it becomes more straight and his eyes become an ethereal blue color.
He's always been a bit on the slim side, even when he was a child, up to now. Although he's certainly put on some muscle. He looks pretty much on the pale side, though, and this seems to still be a thing.
Abilities:
-- Basic Movelist --
Magic:
Luminitrium - A blast of light which is extended from his fist, having the same width to counter magic thrown at him.
Ixion - A series of purple Lightning bolts strike once, during the spell, a magnetic field is activated.
Lightning Ball - A ball of electricity forms and is attracted to the opponent. This attraction is inhanced if the target is wearing anything conductable.
Rose - A rose is manifested into Zen's hand (or he picks one up nearby) and he is able to throw it onto the target. Once imbedded anyway on the target, it automatically grows into a rope-like-grasp but in the form of a vine around the target.
Accelerate - Able to speed himself up just a little.
Levitate - Able to lift himself off merely a few inches above ground.
Nature's Call - Able to communicate with the plants and animals.
Flora: Where there is plants, he is able to make them grow at a faster rate.
-- Final Boss Mode --
Tellus excitatus -- He assumes another form, that is not only taller but a bit stockier as well. As a result he has increased endurance on top of the spells he already knows, that are stronger when he executes them in this form. Not to mention he has better control over them if he should use them, i.e., not only is he able to communicate with plants and animals he's able to control them with ease to do his bidding. The seemingly strong Ixion spell in particular calls upon the spirit of thunder himself as a summon to aide him in battle.
The enhancement also goes for his speed. Whenever he swings his blade, a powerful shockwave automatically releases from it, regardless of how hard he's attacking or no when he executes a cut. He effectively becomes a lightning berserker and even his normal punches hit harder.
It typically lasts for about eight hours and when he returns to normal, he faints, and has no recollection of what happened while he was in that form.
Warning, this gets a little creepy.
History: Zenius' origins are in actuality a little more than dubious. As far as everyone knew in his town, in the world of Artemis, he was born normally to both his parents, Terra, and Shion. However, the truth of the matter remains different. In a rainy night, they found a little boy set outside their doorstep in a leaves-made basket, and they decided to take him in. Every day since then they had taken care of him and mostly the general part is history. Another detail about this is that he's unrelated to his parents, and that technically he isn't human. A common feature in the world of Artemis are spirits/elementals, one of which people could make contracts with, and well, he's the result of a mishap between a contract of a spirit/elemental and a human.
Long story short, before his time, some human tried to make a contract/agreement with one but in doing so, became impatient and desired power, trying to use a method that would surrender their fellow forest elemental's sovereignty to this human. He thought that using the body of a baby that had passed would work. There was a flaw in this method, which involved some manner of arcane spell, and instead of passing the sovereignty of many a elemental unto him, it just managed to backfire, killing the human instead. The elementals were forced into one being and that resided, trapped in the body of the young one.
As they were, they couldn't do anything, and despised the human for doing such a thing. However, they knew that as the human body they had been forced into couldn't do anything until a certain age, they had the baby be moved by the power of nature to a quaint little family instead. In time, this new entity would allow themselves to have an identity as a human, but at the same time, plan to cause and wreck havoc on the world by any means possible due to the forceful combination of elementals causing an inner discord on their reason.
As a result, while he was growing up, he would hear voices in his head that he dismissed as his own. And when he became seemingly better from his 'sickness' would often venture into the forest days on end.
Now let's time-skip to Zenius' time in the Federation after he joined, and him being very much willing to follow orders, even if it wound up causing many people to die. Since, after all, he believed it was the Returners' fault that his 'sister' died, and therefore he thought this was the proper way to get vengeance. He met a man named Jin around the time said Returners were staging an infiltration operation and sort of got caught. This is also around the same time he met Subaru, and a certain girl stopped the boys' fight.
Jin calling Zenius 'beautiful' and treating as he did caused him to fall in love with him, although Zenius himself didn't notice it. He always tried his best to make sure that the Jin he came to know saw him in top shape and made a habit of not defying orders, hoping it would make the other continue to look good in his eyes. In fact, Zenius could care less about the leader of the organization, Lycaon. He felt a strong emotional bond with Jin, and so when Subaru was forced to kill his brother, Zenius sort of just went beserk during this time. Around this time (before or after Subaru had did the deed) he fought against Subaru once more, but lost to him, and to his confusion ever to this day was spared.
Although Zenius at one point insisted the man to kill him. Ironically enough, this would come to bite Subaru in the ass, since he wound up attacking Jess 5 years after Federation was dissolved/defeated but met his defeat at Subaru's hands once more. However, as a result Subaru was dispatched as well. Strangely enough, he seems to remember the battle, however if asked he wouldn't remember Subaru dying.
Flash forward 5 or so years and the man is seemingly taken up a peaceful hobby as a singer, and a 'secret' job as well. What is this job? Well, that's a mystery...
Either way, deep down he feels he cannot return home.
Personality: Zenius is on the surface a very vain and selfish man -- he believes himself to be beautiful and knows that he can easily catch the eye of many women as well as a few men. But he doesn't care too much about the latter of those two things and he considers himself to be incredibly important. He doesn't seem to hold stock in the value of other people's lives, unless he considers them to be very precious to him. In that case, he'll go to crazy lengths to protect them and when that fails, he will literally crack and be a hot mess... but definitely the kind anyone will not want to be around. When this happens, his powers go haywire and he loses absolute control and he attempts to kill anyone else around him.
Speaking of losing control, he's had issues with remaining in control whenever it comes to arguments when he feels like he's 'losing' and the same for battles. You could say he's a very sore loser as well, but he also has a terrible temper, even when he tries his best to restrain it. When he was younger, it was definitely much worse, to say the least.
He's not very good at making friends, and definitely keeps people at a distance. Unless, well, your name is Subaru but then again he doesn't consider him a friend and he's a special case in particular. As for anyone else he considers to be an enemy, he won't hesitate to go all out to kill them or do whatever the hell he wants to injure them. He is rather cold to them as well, mercy the last thing on his mind when he's facing them.
When it comes to Subaru, he likes to use a different approach, albeit slightly. For example, if they should be fighting, he'd want them to do it on the 'same level' -- take that as you will. He's absolutely stubborn about it too, and so it can cause him to react/become carelessly/careless.
Despite all of this, if anyone does happen to sincerely compliment him, he will make an effort to try to be nice to them, but show signs of being incredibly socially awkward. Aka welcome to frequent pauses and him seeming to look over at something in the scenery. All in all, it's way more easier for him to be insulting and snobbish instead of reasonable.
As for reasonable, that is also a thing that Zenius has an increasing lack of. He doesn't like listening to anyone unless he's already decided he will do so indefinitely. He intends to ignore the reasonable conclusions if he doesn't like them... like when Subaru tried to inform Zenius about the reason he killed his brother. He wanted to be angry at Subaru so he ignored it and said something ridiculous instead just for the sake of fighting him as well. This ties in with him being incredibly stubborn and obstinate like a bull. It's not a very endearing trait.
It's not surprising to figure he lacks a good amount of common sense, and another way he shows that is if he wants a fight he'll pick it with whoever he wants, despite how he caries himself ala 'above them all'. He also tends to treat people as if he were older than him, although he doesn't notice it unless it's pointed out. This even happens if he's speaking to an old man, although this may be due to his situation.
Another thing he can't stand are these things: smoking, drinking, and doing the deed himself. He shies away from doing that and he can't be convinced to do any of those in the slightest.
No one has been around to experience it yet recently, but he likes to eat... a lot. In the past his companions in the Federation became annoyed because he racked up quite the bill for food.
Underneath this all, is the personality he has when his true self takes over, and that's nothing short of systematically murderous. The amount of times this has happened was twice. Once when he was a child and the other time was after he had been brought a third defeat at Subaru's hands. When this also happens, he seems to avoid saying much, leaving his words up to his blade. If anyone can get him to say something when he's in this form besides a spell incantation or a battle cry, that is a miracle.
All in all, he hardly has any redeeming qualities and chances are if he learns the truth about himself, as a result of personalities merging instead of being kept separate, he'd start a campaign to destroy the world or the universe. Not kidding.
Orientation: I'd say demiromantic asexual.
Height/Weight:: 5'5/140 lbs. When he's in his other form, he's 5'10, however.
Age: Technically 27 years old (The spirit makes it about 126).
Birthday: November 11th.
Appearance: He takes on a varying amount of appearances when he becomes older, taken to dying his hair a few blonds, oranges, and whatnot. His hair is generally still long but not as long as when he first made his appearance in Condemned By Lies. His eyes are normally a very light blue, that looks like they should be translucent but for obvious reasons are not. He is a bit on the short side but it never really bothered him much. When the elemental side takes over, however, his hair is turns completely black and long, as well as opposed to the curly way his hair is it becomes more straight and his eyes become an ethereal blue color.
He's always been a bit on the slim side, even when he was a child, up to now. Although he's certainly put on some muscle. He looks pretty much on the pale side, though, and this seems to still be a thing.
Abilities:
-- Basic Movelist --
Magic:
Luminitrium - A blast of light which is extended from his fist, having the same width to counter magic thrown at him.
Ixion - A series of purple Lightning bolts strike once, during the spell, a magnetic field is activated.
Lightning Ball - A ball of electricity forms and is attracted to the opponent. This attraction is inhanced if the target is wearing anything conductable.
Rose - A rose is manifested into Zen's hand (or he picks one up nearby) and he is able to throw it onto the target. Once imbedded anyway on the target, it automatically grows into a rope-like-grasp but in the form of a vine around the target.
Accelerate - Able to speed himself up just a little.
Levitate - Able to lift himself off merely a few inches above ground.
Nature's Call - Able to communicate with the plants and animals.
Flora: Where there is plants, he is able to make them grow at a faster rate.
-- Final Boss Mode --
Tellus excitatus -- He assumes another form, that is not only taller but a bit stockier as well. As a result he has increased endurance on top of the spells he already knows, that are stronger when he executes them in this form. Not to mention he has better control over them if he should use them, i.e., not only is he able to communicate with plants and animals he's able to control them with ease to do his bidding. The seemingly strong Ixion spell in particular calls upon the spirit of thunder himself as a summon to aide him in battle.
The enhancement also goes for his speed. Whenever he swings his blade, a powerful shockwave automatically releases from it, regardless of how hard he's attacking or no when he executes a cut. He effectively becomes a lightning berserker and even his normal punches hit harder.
It typically lasts for about eight hours and when he returns to normal, he faints, and has no recollection of what happened while he was in that form.
