Haruu Bastion

Haruu Bastion
Biographical Information
Race	Human
Sex	Male
Eye Color	Violet
Hair Color	Pink
Personal Information
Affiliations	Viridian Cathedral Cathedral Knights
Affinities	Lightning Light
Occupation	Cathedral Knight (former) Saint of Viridian

​Haruu Bastion lived in Viridian, he is from the capital Cathedral. Haruu comes from a long lineage of Knights who have served under the past Saints. Son of the Knight Commander, Haruu received the best possible training while growing up, making him a formidable opponent. He left the city in search of the person who killed his father and betrayed Cathedral.

Appearance

Haruu wears mostly black clothing. He wears a black long sleeve shirt and black pants. He wears black bandages that are tied over his pants from his toes to right below his knees. Haruu's left arm is covered in the Cathedral knights armor . The armor is a standard silver color. The black underclothes and silver armor is the classic outfit for a Cathedral Knight, although he doesn't wear all of the armor pieces. He wears a maroon cloth that is tied around his left bicep. The cloth was his father's, as all Knight Commanders are given a maroon headband. He has a leather harness that holds the sheath to his sword on his back. Haruu has pink hair as well as violet eyes. His hair is long and spiky, flowing towards the front. It is shorter on the sides and quite long on the top. He wears part of his hair in a smaller ponytail in the back.

After returning from the Temple of Light, Haruu's appearance is slightly altered. He stopped wearing the Viridian armor, although he keeps the maroon headband tied to his left bicep. He wears a beige cloak that has a black inside. The cloak has extra material around the neck, and held together by a rope that wraps around the neck. He changes the sheath and harness for his sword from his back to his waist, but he stops wearing it once he obtains All Things End magic.

History

Leaving the City

Haruu abandoned Cathedral after he found out that his father, Cero Bastion, was killed. The sword Roku, which was owned by Cero, mysteriously turned up at the gates of Cathedral with his Knight Commander's headband tied to it. Cero had previously left on a mission to discover the whereabouts of Ghost. While it was believed that Ghost had in fact killed Cero Bastion, the incident was kept away from the public. This enraged Haruu, who felt that the city was dragging its feet with the situation and not taking action to find him. He stole the sword and the headband and set out to find Ghost himself. He ends up working as hired muscle for money, and ended up on an expedition to the Northern Continent with a Yusparian trading company. On this trip, he met Raiken Hariko.

Obtaining Hell Reincarnation

Haruu was able to fully awaken his Ruin abilities during his fight with Giramel. Although Haruu had trained in order to control his Hell possession, He still did not have the strength to defeat Giramel. Kai, who had rushed to the battle after defeating Europa, saw a severely beaten and almost dead Haruu and intervened. Haruu could only watch as Giramel quickly killed kai in his weakened state. This filled Haruu with rage and caused an enormous amount of power to swell within his body, bringing him into Hell Reincarnation state and shattering the Devils Pot. This allowed Haruu to gain the upper hand, but the rage was uncontrollable. Right before killing Giramel, Haruu could hear the voice of his mother, bringing him back to his senses. Giramel had also come to his senses, being broken free from Rahzan's curse by his mother's residual magic within Haruu. After this, Haruu begins training to eventually gain control over his Hell Reincarnation.

The Temple of Light

After some time had passed since leaving Cathedral again after the Sirisian War, Haruu arrives at the Temple of Light. From a young age Haruu had only trained his lightning affinity since house Bastion was known for their exceptionally skilled lightning users and ignored his light affinity. Once at the temple, he learned the old Viridi ways of light manipulation, allowing for intricate control over the shape of the affinity. While at the Temple of Light, he also learns calming methods that help him control the rage of his Ruin blood, allowing him to eventually bring the power out as he needs it.

Equipment

Roku

Roku is one of the six Blades of Aren. These blades are ancient weapons that have been known as the strongest weapons in Viridian. Roku has the hilt and guard of a katana, but the blade resembles a broadsword with a hollow middle section. There is a module on top of the guard that, when magical power is applied, generates electricity that fills the middle of the blade as well as shooting two small jets out of each side of it, giving the blade more of a broadsword look. The main ability of Roku is to send lightning slashes with each swing of the blade, with the size and power depending on the skill of the user. It can also shoot a blast of lightning, but this takes time as it has to charge more power in the center of the blade and then release it. Haruu eventually obtains all of the blades of Aren.

Devils Pot

Haruu has an item known as a Devils Pot. It is a small, ancient looking round clay pot with the kanji for "mother" written on it. there is a rope tied around the lip of the pot which Haruu ties to the sheath of Roku. The pot was given to Haruu by his mother, Amy Bastion, who died when Haruu was eight years old. His mother was a Ruin, hence the violet eyes that Haruu has. The pot unlocks the latent Ruin potential within him, releasing it all at once. This causes Haruu to enter Hell Possession, although he does not know the name of his Hell Vision. When released, Haruu can feel a loving presence around him, which keeps the Hell Vision from completely taking over his mind. Later, Haruu is able to control his Hell Vision and call upon it at will without the use of the pot. He still keeps the pot tied to him as a memento from his mother.

Shinigami

Shinigami is the blade that Haruu obtains when he receives All Things End magic. The weapon is a completely black lance. The main body is thin but long, with two long blades that run down opposing sides of the weapon. This weapon seems to emit this pitch black magic constantly from the opening in the weapon where the handle is. The weapon has the ability to send large powerful magic waves with extreme speed and accuracy. These waves of magic can vary in size and speed, but all have the special ability of All Things End magic.

Abilities

Monkung

Monkung is a sword fighting style that was made famous by Viridian royalty. This fighting style has a specific stance, where the user hold the blade horizontally in front of their chest, with one hand right beneath the guard of the blade and one hand pressed on the back of the blade. Haruu is an especially proficient user of this technique.

Lightning Manipulation

Haruu has the power of lightning which is common for where he lives. Although having a common power, he is quite proficient in its uses. He uses his powers to make lightning constructs for combat and miscellaneous uses. The unique way in which lightning is used by Haruu is from a technique taught exclusively in Goldspire, the palace in Cathedral. All children labeled with elite element control and who posses lightning affinities are taught this method from a young age. His lightning has a pale yellow color to it.

Light Manipulation

Haruu is later able to apply light to his lightning techniques. This gives him better construct control, as he is able to make more intricate structures that have much more defensive and offensive capabilities. His lightning and light combination structures are heavenly white in color, with some pieces being his normal pale yellow lightning color. These constructs appear to almost glow with a holy aura. He wasn't able to use his light abilities very well until after he visited the Temple of Light.

Hell Vision

Being of Ruin blood, Haruu is able to call upon a Hell Vision. Haruu is a special Ruin known as an Angel, who's powers come from the mythical Heaven Vision, the difference being that his possession is an enhancement possession rather than a weapon possession. Once he is able to access his latent Ruin power, he learns the name of Barter, his Heaven Vision. Barter is a possession that takes control of the lower half of Haruu's face and his chest, making the iconic ruin armor, except in white. This possession also gives him a thin white cloak. Barter mainly provides an increase to speed and strength, but also developed healing properties. Due to his mother's strong devotion to protect him even after she died, Haruu is able to constantly heal small cuts and wounds, as well as raise his pain tolerance while Barter possesses him. When in Heaven Reincarnation state, Haruu's regenerative abilities triple, along with his speed, strength, and magical power.

All Things End Magic

A very powerful magic that is one half of the Magic of Balance, with the other being All Things Begin magic. This extremely powerful magic gives the recipient full knowledge of teleportation magic as well as the Black Lance, Shinigami. This magic is one of the most destructive forces, being able to destroy anything. When utilizing this magic, his left eye glows with a pitch black aura and a trail, with the kanji for "end" appearing in his eye. This magic is pitch black in color. Also grants user with the ability to fuse with a user of All Things Begin magic, creating Archangel.

Teleportation Magic

After obtaining All Things End Magic, Haruu is able to fully understand teleportation magic and can fully utilize its properties. With full control over his All Things End magic he can teleport himself over long distances. He can also teleport things to him, as he often will switch which blade his is using depending on an opponent. When teleporting himself and others, pitch black aura surrounds the targets and then collapses in on itself. When transporting items, Haruu usually reaches his hand over his opposite shoulder and pulls the item out of a swirl of pitch black aura.

Hand of Theos

Haruu obtains the Hand of Theos by coming in contact with the statue. He is judged worthy by it and gained the ability to discern the abilities of someones magic just by touching them or their magic.

Techniques

• Lightning Form - This is Haruu's ability to craft objects out of his lightning. He can use these lightning constructs during the course of battle. Eventually, he is able to imbue these constructs with his light affinity as well.
  • Lightning Form: Weapon Creation - Haruu emits lightning from a certain part of his body, usually his palms, and the lightning created forms into the shape of a weapon. He usually shapes his lightning into the form of a scythe the length of his body or a katana, but he can form any weapon to fit the circumstance. The creation acts as if it were made out of a solid material. Haruu also uses this ability to create shields and other barriers to protect himself.
  • Lightning Form: Cloud Cannon - Haruu charges lightning magic into his arms, and shoots the lightning forward. As he charges, lightning bounces around on his arms, and when he fires the lighting on his arms takes shape for a couple seconds, forming a lightning cannon. He can also use one arm to fire off this technique, but it isn't quite as strong.
  • Lightning Form: Barrier - Haruu forms a large barrier that takes the form of an lightning wall. This barrier can protect from most magical abilities.
  • Lightning Form: Lance of Light - Haruu creates a lance made out of his lightning magic and fuses his light magic with it and throws it, causing for a large damaging explosion on impact.
• Heaven's Strike - Haruu uses his lightning magic (and later his light magic) to shoot energy into the air that then rains down on the opponent as arrows.
• Heavenly Brahma Gates: Binding - Haruu clasps his hands together and an ornate tori gate made of his light and lightning magic comes down around the neck of the person it is cast on. Once the gate is on the neck of the target, chains shoot out from it and wrap the target, effectively binding them.
  • Heavenly Brahma Gates: Massive Binding - A variation of the Heavenly Brahma Gate: Binding technique that is used for larger targets or those with immense magical power.
• Heavenly Brahma Gates: Opening - Haruu calls down a large ornate tori gate behind him by clasping his hands together. This gate then generates a ball of light in the center of the gate. The ball then shoots light in the form of a lance at supersonic speed towards the target, exploding on impact. The explosion is not a fiery explosion, but a light explosion said to "banish all evil".
  • Heavenly Brahma Gates: Five Gate Opening - A variation of the Heavenly Brahma Gate: Opening that utilizes five gates instead of one to rain down ultimate destructive power.
• Magatama Rosary - Haruu creates a ring of lightning and then creates magatama beads made of light on it. This technique is used to block extremely powerful attacks.