Gerard Fernandez [APPROVED, 0-5+; Magus]

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Basics

Name: Gerard Fernandez
Aliases: Sieglein, True Mage, First of the Divine Magic Knights
True Age: Around 2000 Years
Gender: Male
Element: Gerards Element is unique, and no other Magus has ever obtained it, leading to him being called a 'True Mage' by some. It has many names that try to encompass all of it's limits, but is most commonly called Stellar Constellation Affinity. It allows him to learn all Magecraft that doesn't require a specific element, as per usual, but also grants him 'Heavenly Affinity' and 'Demon Affinity' at the same time, something that is said to be impossible otherwise. This allows for learning all possible elemental Magecraft, the studying of alien magic to a high degree (Kidō, Chaos Energy, and Demon Magic), and possibility of excelling at even the most basic magical task. While lacking a real 'downside', some Magecrafts are still locked out even for Gerard, namely the arts that involve the affinity or power of a certain bloodline or individual.
Personality: Gerard is a very kind and softspoken person. The air around him is noted for being especially peaceful, and many people lose all will to fight simply from his gentle aura. Almost always, a soft smile can be seen on his face. Believing that knowledge and magic are the only true strengths in the worlds, he is often seen as a scholar and teacher, but finding him to actually learn from him is nearly impossible, for he dislikes staying in one place for long. His lifestyle as a wanderer is however also a way to escape capture, so should his name ever be cleared, he might be more inclined to stay in one place longer.
The kind nature shouldn't confuse one about his combat ability, though. He understands full and well that magic is a tool to be used - and is not afraid to raise his fists and energy to defend the innocent and bring injustices to light with his amazing intellect and investigation talent. He prefers not to fight and diplomacy, but is no pacifist. His kind self can make room for a completely serious and determined fighter, if need be.
A deep guilt for his former actions, while still a vessel for the 'evil dweller' Guardian Beast, Roa, haunts him. After Roas plans in his body were thwarted, the influence of the old evil vanished, and he knows fully well that evil is no toy to play with. He thus has a strong dislike for the King of Heroes and the Arrancar Army, as well as the Golden Witch. He is also not compatible with the mage of parallel worlds, finding his usage of power to be too careless, but has shown interest in other great Magicians and those he believes to have 'true magic' in them.
As a 'Divine Magic Knight', even after being exiled and branded a criminal, most Sugiura still consider him a hero, and don't try to openly aprehend him. Shimura, however, has shown a great interest in having him captured for reasons unknown. This is mentioned because even though she is doing that, Gerard greatly respects the godmother of the Sugiura race, and would come to her aid on a moments notice if the divine magic knights were called. As the 'First' of them, he is also the one with the authority and responsibility of recruiting members into the order of knights.

General Appearance

Appearance:

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Animalistic Traits: No traits are directly visible, though he does have slight claw-like fingernails on both hands and feet which grow quite a bit faster than normal, are more durable and sharper. He tries to keep them short, though.
Appearance Age: 19
Height: 1,78 meters
Weight: Average

Natural Abilities

Weaponless Fighting Expert
Having no Sacred to rely on, Gerard is an avid student of weaponless combat, and can easily be considered a black belt in many styles. He mainly favors Kung Fu and freestyle combinations of all fighting styles, though. He lacks the complete training of a true hand-to-hand destroyer.

Master Combat Mage
Being a natural Magus, he has to rely on his magic both up close and far away, thus, he has perfected a special art. He can channel and chant spells while moving, running, and even while fist-fighting. His speed and strength are lowered depending on the strength of the chanted spell, stronger magic makes him weaker. The more he trains in this art, the easier he'll be able to even chant 10 verse spells while going up close against his enemies.
As a side-effect, though, his spell-casting while being completely focused on magic is even higher than normal, making him a more effective spellcaster in any situation.

High Intellect: Magical Knowledge
Simply put, Gerard can be regarded as a genius. He loves to research, but since he focuses his brain solely on magic and the unexplainable, simple things from everyday can actually confuse and irritate him more easily. His intellect does allow him to discern different types of Ceros, Kidō, and Magecraft after only seeing them once (for personal abilities), or already knows them (things like Cero, normal non-forbidden Kidō, the binding spells).

Magic Research
As a highly skilled Magus, Gerard is able to further develop all of his learned Magecraft disciplines with long-term study, training, experiements and discussions with other Mages about the subject matter. If he spends enough time (read: threads) doing this, he can and will develop new spells, both for his overall magic styles as well as independent spells.

Intense Reiatsu
All Sugiura are known to eventually reach high levels of Reiatsu with age, but Gerard always had an amazing adaptability of it even at a relatively young age. Nowadays, it's intense enough to crush the ground under his feet when he is absolutely serious, and it appears in a blue-black aura around him that takes on the shape of a dragon's head.

Synchronizing
A rare trait of the Magus type Sugiuras, Gerard can synchronize his own soul with anothers, allowing them instant telepathy, the passing on of Reiatsu and even knowledge. This comes at a major downside, though: An intense emotional experience is needed that fatigues both mind and body to form a synchronize-contract. In other words: Sex. Simply put, this is an evolution of the normal passing on and recharging of Reiatsu that all Sugiura can do through intercourse.

Other Weapons: While not a weapon by default, his tattoo serves as a special kind of limiter. Gerard is able to turn it on or off to his desire. While on, he has the spiritual power of a normal human, and a body akin to a physical one, and extremely masterful senses are needed to feel any kind of Reiatsu from him. When released, he simply has his full strength of Reiatsu out, even though he can still hide it the usual way by not releasing it completely.

Magic Unleashed

Heavenly Body Magic (天体魔法 Tentai Mahō): It is a powerful Magic based around astronomical objects, such as meteors, stars and black holes. User generates and manipulates the energy of stars from his body and uses it against enemy. Gerard has shown tremendous mastery over this form of Magic. His first and most prominent true magic. The right eye shows a symbol inside of it when the magic is used, looking alike to what his seal would be had it been tattooed right into his eye as well. It draws energy from the stars of the Sugiura Dimension, making it stronger there at night, but it can also draw power from suns or the stars of other worlds. Gerard can call upon the power of minor gravity manipulation and thus telekinesis without speaking a spell, and recharge his energy by using cosmic energy around him.

• Meteor (流星 Ryūsei): Gerard's body is surrounded by Magic, allowing him to move through the air at incredible speeds. Even if someone could detect his trajectory, it is near impossible to catch him. With his speed, Gerard assaults his opponents with quick but powerful melee attacks. Gerard wears a special suit under his robes to better utilize this type of Magic.
  

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• Grand Chariot (七星剣 Shichiseiken lit. Seven Star Sword): Gerard summons seven pillars of light from the sky and strikes the enemy with all of them at once. According to witnesses, this spell's destruction capability rivals a meteor.
  
• Altairis (暗黒の楽園 Ankoku no Rakuen lit. Dark Paradise): Gerard crosses his arms above his head to begin casting the spell. As he prepares to fire the spell, all nearby shadows are drawn towards him. Gerard then unleashes a black orb with small white lights, similar to the night sky. The orb is incredibly dense, and holds a tremendous amount of gravity to crush its opponents. Its power is said to be comparable to the power of an actual meteor.
  
• Impact Sphere: Creating a small, shining 'star' in his hand, Gerard throws a spell that draws in any projectiles in it's path in an attempt to absorb them and grow stronger, before exploding. Should the energy of the projectile be too strong, the sphere will simply explode upon contact with it.
  
• Heavenly Comet: Gerard focuses his Reiatsu to form a gigantic sphere above his head, thrice the size of Altairis. It has enough power stored inside to develop a strong gravitational pull to make dodging harder, but the explosive radius and hard to aim movement of the giant spell makes it dangerous to use.
  
• Heavenly Beams: This is an unnamed spell in which Gerard releases several powerful beams from his hands towards his opponent.
  
• Heavenly Blast: An unnamed spell in which Gerard closes his fist, except for two fingers and swipes them backwards. A big sphere of Heavenly Magic appears and rushes towards the target.
  
• Heaven Palm: An unnamed spell in which Gerard grabs his arm with his other hand, and straightens his palm. A ball of Heavenly Magic appears in his palm, which then is shot at the target to push it as an invisible wall.
  
• Heaven Breakdown: An unnamed spell in which Gerard swipes his hand and the ground in front of him breaks, making everything on top of it fall.
  
• Heavenly Arrows: An unnamed spell in which Gerard swiping his hands releases several Arrows of light towards his target.

Thought Projection (思念体 Shinentai): Gerard is capable of creating a Thought Projection of himself, and is very skilled with it, having been able to fool the Sugiura Kingdom into believing that his projection was actually a separate being from him in the past. His projection is also able to don an attire different from his owner’s.

Darkness Magic (闇の魔法 Yami no Mahō): Gerard is an expert in the use of Darkness Magic. He was known using almost exclusively this form of Magic for all of his fight with the Sugiura army, in which he proved himself capable of creating the ghostly entities characteristic of this form of Magic, using them to hit and immobilize his enemies with great skill.

• Dark Force: Gerard's first use of Magic as a dark mage, he has proven himself capable of moving a target around in any desired manner. By moving his hand in the direction he wants it to move, he blows the target away as if he were giving them a smack from a short distance. This will seemingly produce an invisible, powerful blunt attack to strike the target; an attack which, if properly aimed, works like a morning star able to crush someone.
  
• Dark Grab: Gerard moves his hands towards the opponent, far away from him. This will prompt a pair of strong, dark-coloured arms to appear from a nearby surface and grab the opponent, immobilizing or choking them according to the movements performed by Gerard himself, who, after grabbing the target, is seemingly capable of controlling the spell with a single hand.
  
• Darkness Cage: Gerard creates a sphere of Darkness Magic in his hand in the form of ghosts that revolve around the center. He then shoots it at the target, releasing several ghosts that wrap around the target, restraining its movement.
  
• Dark Ray: Gerard shoots a powerful ray of darkness from his hand towards the enemy.
  
• Darkness Spike: Gerard summons a spike made out of condensed shadows into his hand and throws it, causing multiple more to shoot at the target from shadows all around it.
  
• Black Fog: Summoning a black fog without any taste or smell, it obstructs the vision of Gerards opponents while giving him perfect vision in darkness.
  
• Black Hole: Creating a gateway into oblivion, Gerard summons forth and fires a sphere of concentrated malice. Upon impact, it creates a dome with a diameter roughly the size of a large bus, which draws anything in close vicinity inwards, into the center, before exploding after a second.
  
• Dark Star: Similiar to Meteor, Gerard coats his body in black light. Instead of speed, he gains incredible defensive capabilites and strength, making it very hard to hurt him.
  
• Supernova: The perfect dark magic spell Gerard has, it draws the enemy close to the fist he is using it with if they don't get away quickly enough, before erupting into a massive explosion upon impact that can shatter almost anything. Using it without having Dark Star active, though, is suicide.
  

Fire Magic (火の魔法 Hi no Mahō): Despite having been shown employing it only rarely in his life, Gerard has proven himself masterful in the use of fire-based spells.

• Flame of Rebuke (咎の炎 Toga no Honoo): This spell, when released, creates golden flames on Gerard's palm, which is said to feel like a 'shard of Etherion', a magic which usually requires many mages to unite their power, showing it to be incredibly powerful. Once used against a target, it'll result in a massive explosion that can melt or vaporize most materials, including reishi, instantly in it's roughly half-mile radius. Releasing it seems to take little energy from Gerard, but a high amount of control and concentration is needed. Should he be hit while preparing the spell, the
  explosion will hit him as well, possibly killing him in the process. This spell has a cooldown period of 3 posts, using it prior to that will only produce a weakened, imperfect version.
  
• Blue Fire (ブリューファイア Burū Faia): A spell in which the user creates blue-colored fire with cold properties. One hand is raised upwards, with all fingers but the index and middlefinger turned into a fist, while the other has the fingers turned halfway inwards, the palm thrusted forward while the wrist is facing up. The flames shoot out of that palm in a magic rune circle as a wide stream which freezes the target and causes frostburns.
  
• Purple Flare (紫の炎 パープルフレア Pāpuru Furea): Purple flare is a Magic which allows its users to create and manipulate purple fire. This fire cannot be put out by wind or water, and can change between burning and freezing the target.
  
• Purple Rain: User creates a Magic seal, from which purple bullets are fired towards the target with the same properties as Purple Flare. It is an unnamed spell.
  
• Molten Core: Gerard coats his body into the flaming energy of active stars themselves, surrounding him with a protective shell of burning hot fire in multiple colors. This enhances his fire magic to very high levels, and makes him nearly immune to other fire attacks. His melee attacks, speed and defense are all somewhat increaed as well.

Ice Magic: Gerard has obtained proficiency in Ice Magic during his time as a dark mage hunter, and learned how to harness the power that lies within the void of space - the cold of the universe that rules all places where no light reaches.

• Ice Ray: Gerard creates a magic rune infront of his hand, and fires out a light blue beam that encases any object it hits with a thick layer of very hard ice.
  
• Void Break: Unleashing a burst of magic energy, Gerard creates a sphere of ice before shattering it towards the enemy, attacking with a hailstorm of small blades and incredibly cold air to freeze them in place.
  
• Sub Zero Circle: The ground underneath the feet becomes the weapon with this spell - starting with Gerard in the center, a cirlce expands rapidly from him, freezing to the ground anyone not strong enough to break free from the instantly forming hardened ice. The air over the circle cools down into the temperatures of almost -100° Celcius, making survival for normal humans impossible.
  
• Cold Mist: Gerard creates a cloud made out of very cold mist in the air, which does no direct damage, but can make the enemy uncomfortable and envelops a large area.
  
• Thousand Year Ice Sphere Prison: This spell releases a stream of liquid ice from the hand of the caster, which upon contact with the enemy encloses them in a small coffin of spiritual ice. The true power, though, is that if it hits moisture - natural one like a cloud or the Cold Mist - it nearly instantly snap-freezes all of it, trapping whoever is inside of the now existing gigantic sphere under multiple strong layers of ice. The prison then roots itself into the ground with big ice pillars. As long as Gerard doesn't let go of the stream that shot from his hand, he can resupply the prison with energy and keep it strong.
  

Abyss Break (深淵休憩 Shin'en Kyūkei): An extremely powerful spell which employs the four main elements to attack the opponents. It can take the form of a beam, bullet, sphere, whip, or anything else the user can think of that might be useful.

Bind Snake (拘束の蛇 Kōsoku no Hebi): This spell appears in the form of a snake tattoo. The snake winds its way around the target's body, tightening and restricting movement.

Self-Destruction Spell (自律崩壊魔法陣 Jiritsu Hōkai Mahōjin): An extremely complex spell which Gerard developed. Sacrificing the users life, this spell is able to destroy virtually anything in the blast radius, and is said to be the only thing able to whipe out the Tower of Paradise. Without knowledge of its cancellation code, it cannot be dispelled, meaning that only Gerard himself can stop the explosion from happening - or an enemy that kills him quicker than he can blow up.

Ritual Magic: A magic not suited for combat. This is the art of performing rituals, using various catalysts, to achieve long term effects, like enchanting an artifact. The cost of catalysts and energy is proportional to the effect one hopes to achieve. Trying to do the impossible will quickly over-exert the user and cause death.

Past

Character Background: Gerard Fernandez is a big name in the Sugiura Dimension, but one that is stained with both the blood of the innocent as well as praised with the glory and honors of a hero. To understand why, we must go back through time. Any Magus can tell you, a story always better starts at the beginning...

The young Gerard was born during the first millenia of the Sugiura Kingdom, in a so far rather normal bloodline - none of his direct relatives were exceptionally powerfull, but they did have a strong blood of magic running through them, producing a few Magi in the last two generations. Gerard should become one as well, as time went on.
But for our current point in the story, he had only just been born. His earliest life was normal - or as normal as it could be for a Sugiura - until around the age of 5 years. At that time, a group of Sugiura undertook an experiment in a land far to the west, even beyond the known borders of the western kingdom of their people - in these unexplored, wild regions with living legends roaming, they tried to obtain a forbidden artifact.
Two of these Sugiura were his parents, and many of his relatives had been involved as well. So while his parents were away on that expedition, an unforseen tragedy struck them.
A happening later known as the 'Warp in the West', which killed most of the expedition members, and drove the others insane. Apparently, the artifact they discovered had been sealed because of it's connection to the 'shadow' of the Guardian Beasts, and was destroyed in the Warp - but with it, a large area became spiritually unstable, and caused multiple timelines to merge. The area is still existing today, although it has retracted a lot and is barely bigger than a small house now.

Two of the Sugiura that died in the Warp in the West were Gerards parents, together with most others of the Fernandez family. In the chaos that came afterwards, though, the boy disappeared - without leaving a single trace. By the time people noticed, it was too late - any kind of trail had already become cold. The boy who had been the first to ever obtain the 'Stellar' affinity was to never reappear in history until much later...

But of course, he had not simply vanished. Instead, he had been abducted by a dark cult that had formed within the Sugiura, their only intent being the resurrection of an unnamed, ancient evil. Since the cult obviously couldn't make itself known, they were secretly searching for children like Gerard - those with amazing spiritual potential that was not yet fully realized.
After a very rocky ride, he was dumped at what would be his own, personal hell for years to come - a construction site of a tower, in the far southern lands. There, beyond any border the Guardian Beasts themselves dare to wander lies a desolte, hostile land, where darkness and light merge into the twilight of the gods.
Now, taking young orphans as slaves to work here was no random act. Gerard and other kids of multiple races were abducted and forced to construct the massive building for a simple reason - each held a massive potential, but had yet to realize it. This land of twilight drove anyone without high potential insane, for it was too close to things nobody should be forced to percieve.

However, this place was an incarnation of hell in itself. The slaves had to work and live in horrible conditions, and even the slightest action out-of-line was punished harshly. Gerard, still very young, and one of the few who had just then lost his parents, was expected to break very quickly.
But he didn't. Gerard, for lack of a better word, was defiant in his own way. In an inspiring way. His will and mind refused to break under the pressure and hard work, and so, after two years in the tower of paradise, he already had a small 'group' of close friends, and one of them was a girl with red hair.
Gerard called her 'Scarlet', for he had a bad memory of names, and gave similliar nicknames to his other friends. Being together made being in the tower bearable, which was not even halfway finished yet, but also gave them hope. Hope that one day, they would be able to escape.

This hope should not be fulfilled for more years to come, however. Gerard, the 'leader' of the small group, did his best to make sure that none of his team ever got punished for any kind of action they did, and was thus often the one getting tortured. One of the tortures was the seal placed over his face and eye, surpressing his Reiatsu, thus making his stay in the tower all the more horrible. It was not this torture that eventually lead to a desperate act, though.
It was torture done to another that made Gerard lose his mind. The girl, 'Scarlet', had been wrongly accused of stealing from the guards, and was to be beaten to death in a cruel display infront of everyone. At that moment, the young Sugiura lost his mind. He finally snapped, broke, and unleashed something that was thought to be surpessed in the slaves.
Raw potential. The potential for a Magecraft unknown to anyone before him, and anyone after him. A power so great that it reflected the stars itself when it awoke - bursting his chains, the seal on his face burning red like it had just been carved in anew, Gerard became something more. He became a true Wizard.

And with that, his time as a slave ended - for a short time, at least. After rescuing the girl, his power was drained, and he was captured while the rest of the slaves hid in the secret rooms they had carved into the tower while building it. There, in the darkness of torture and lost, something came to him as he was at his weakest. A whispering voice in his head took form, and as the serpent dripped poison into his soul, the last hour of the slavers rang. With knowledge of great darkness, his new power grew far enough to completely obliterate the evil cult this time around - and the slaves were freed. But something had changed in him - and his friends were the only ones able to notice. His silver-tongued new self quickly convinced the former slaves - by finishing this tower, they could reach the root of all magic, and grant themselves all of their desires. Only Scarlet escaped - as Gerard searched for her, weeks and months, she was able to finally see what he had become - a host for something evil and old.

News of the evil tower growing in the south finally reached the Sugiura kingdoms, but there another man quickly calmed any thoughts of attacking it - his name was Sieglein, the twin brother of Gerard, or so he claimed. He was 'conversing with his brother' already to give the tower to the order of Magi of the Sugiura, allowing them entrace into Akasha, or so he claimed - Sieglein was influential and a true diplomat, yet still loved as a great magician amongst even normal Sugiura.
However, this fell apart when one of Gerard's old friends managed to escape and tell them the truth. Sieglein was revealed to be nothing but a thought projection of the real Gerard and was chased out of the city - however, his power was still immense. In the southern lands, the great battle of the Tower of Paradise scarred the land, as he used darkness magic to effectively defend himself against a nearly limitless amount of attackers - but the spirit that controlled him could not access the full power of Gerard's magic. As he was driven back to the peak of the tower, the strongest magic - Etherion - hit the tower - activating it before finishing it first, the gate to Akasha and Cubia was destroyed, and Gerard killed. Roa abandonned his body on that very day, as Gerard was falling from the top of the breaking crystal tower. As magic of unmeasureable quanitites circled around him during this eternity of falling, a single wish was in his mind.

Atonement.

That was when a miracle happened. To open the gates to Akasha, one would've had to sacrifice a life - and to bring someone back to life with it, the same price had to be paid. With his own life gone, the force of the Roa-controlled Gerard filled the breaking crystal tower, and unleashed the power of resurrection, true revival from the dead, only to hit the body that the evil spirit had left behind.
When Gerard opened his eyes after multiple days of simply drifting in a gigantic ocean, Roa had departed his body for good, but left behind most of his knowledge. Adapting it, not much effort was required for Gerard to grasp his own magic, years after it had awakened, with full potential, and even obtained control over the darkness magic used by the evil Guardian Beast. Reaching solid ground was the easiest of the tasks before him with that newfound power, though... And so his journey began.

Under the name of Mystogan, he studied in the great libraries of the Sugiura. With old Guardian Beasts he conversed on the power of stars and elements. With the elementals he danced, and with the gods he consulted - becoming the prophecised Archmage that people had always whispered about. Some might say, the greatest since the father of magic and the master of the Kaleidoscope, but if that was actually true, nobody knew - just one thing was known, that those that used magic for evil were quickly stomped in by him. Even after his cover as Mystogan got blown away, the general public continued to support him...

the Archmage Gerard Fernandez, last of his name.

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