Post by Mirai Tempestus on Jun 11, 2015 19:53:54 GMT
Zanza Makaze
Dark Windmill
October 19, x900
23
5'10"
150 lbs
Lamia Scale
Male
Pansexual
Guild Mage/ Monster Hunter
appearance
Zanza is a tall lightly tanned male standing at roughly average height for his age, with deep purple hair and light green eyes. His choice of clothing is, extravagant to say the least. He dresses in a large white trench coat that flays out behind him dramatically with even subtle movements and underneath that is another white coat, this one reaching his shins in length. The collar of the trench coat he wears is very high, reaching his ears at its highest point behind his head.
He is also always seen with a trident on his person at all times, ornate looking yet still deadly at the same time. It has a long aqua blue shaft with blue fur acting as the guard between the shaft and the head. The trident is forged with a lacrima implanted in it to prevent it from ever being destroyed
personality
Zanza is a warm and kind person, always willing to listen to other people and tries his best to help everybody, going out of his way to please them. He has a positive outlook on life and wants nothing more than for everybody to enjoy themselves. He has a healthy sense of humour and a keen sense of honesty, preferring to tell the truth in all situations, exceptions being the things he is bound to secrecy about.
Though kind, Zanza is not without his anger. Underneath the kind exterior and nice guy attitude lies a dormant volcano awaiting eruption once again. His temper hasn’t often gotten the best of him, but when it does it refuses to let go until something is dead. His kindness is also a weakness in and of itself, making him unhesitant to put himself at risk and too merciful to kill a surrendered enemy. His willingness to die for his friends has led many to believe that he is suicidal, which isn’t too far from the truth. What he really seeks is a warrior’s death, leading him to fight beings far stronger than himself. He also closes up completely when asked about his training, even though he is open about the fact that he is a devil slayer.
It is said that heroes are made, not born. For Devil Slayers, it is both. They are both born and made into Devil Slayers as their lives continue. Only those born with an affinity for evil can become Devil Slayers. Becoming a Devil Slayer is a journey that defies fate, turning would be villains into strong and capable hunters that either strive to protect the populace or only seek the destruction of the beasts they hunt.
For Zanza it is the former, born in an old village on an island off the coast of Fiore that was attacked and destroyed in a matter of minutes by these creatures. Zanza was rescued by one of the order, barely minutes after birth, and was raised as her apprentice and adoptive son.
His life in the order was not unpleasant. That doesn’t mean it was perfect either. The order were a minimalistic people, isolated from the rest of society whilst training their own child warriors. Children of the order were raised as warriors and moulded into killing machines, with those at the top of the classes vanishing mysteriously.
It was because of this that Zanza was accepted into the order despite not being born into it. Finishing his warrior training at the top of his class he woke up not in his bed as he’d thought but on a cold stone tablet with strange tribal markings carved into it. He quickly found that he was unable to move, covered in immobilising tags and being watched by 5 people of varying heights and gender, though he was unable to recognize any of them.
It was then that the ceremony started. A long, agonizing ceremony that physically manifested the darkness in his heart, giving it life and flesh of its own. It was pitch black with seemingly no eyes, looking like a silhouette of his twelve year old self with one hey difference: It had horns. Long, sharp horns attached to its temple pointed at him menacingly.
After the ceremony, both of them were immobilised again and were sent to an arena, only leaving Zanza with a fleeting message: Defeat the darkness within. In a strength of strength, speed and willpower he fought to overcome his own personal darkness and succeeded. Upon defeat his darkness slammed back into him, changing from black to light blue as it did so. He had proven he had strength, so he’d been rewarded with power.
Specifically, power over wind. Perfect control only ever seen in the Dragon Slayers of old was awakened inside of Zanza. He’d been taught strength, he’d conquered his darkness and turned it into power. But he lacked technique. He lacked true control. He lacked the ability to save lives, only to take them away. That was what he trained in for years, isolating himself from the order so he could train without putting them at risk.
His control became so immense that he could disguise himself as a civilian even amongst the greatest of sensors. He became the equivalent of the Devils he was raised to slay, only to have the majority of his strength ripped away from him in x922, during the incident with the dragons in which he’d fought to protect the populace of Fiore. He’d quickly found that although he could easily hold his own against the dragons one on one there were simply too many for him to fight and protect the civilians at the same time.
So he’d taken the only other option available: A forbidden technique he’d created that collapsed the air around a certain point, creating a vacuum that drew in and crushed all kinds of matter indiscriminately. However, the reason it was forbidden was because of the drawback that casting it had on the user: It shredded their magic container, usually preventing the caster from ever casting magic again.
Only two types of people were able to escape this downside: Devil Slayers and Dragon Slayers. But even those immune to their own element wasn’t out of danger. Zanza found himself unable to cast spells afterwards for roughly 5 months and when his magic container had healed he found his control SEVERLY lacking. He’d ruined his training and was now only at his best a C-Class mage.
The order had been displeased when they’d discovered this, demanding that he regain his old power in order to combat the coming darkness. For another two years he’d isolated himself once again, somehow avoiding the slight fame he’d amassed by literally jumping in front of attacks the dragons had launched at civilians, before returning to Fiore an S-Class mage in order to prepare not only himself but the entire continent for the storm on the horizon.
Clouds were gathering in the future of Fiore and her people, enshrouding the world in darkness. But Zanza would be the one whose wind blew the clouds away to reveal the sun, with or without the help of the people. The only people he could rely on at the moment were The Order and Lamia Scale, who had contacted and recruited him upon his return to Fiore, which really wasn’t enough.
The advice given to him during the ritual: Defeat the darkness within didn’t just mean his own. No, his mission was to defeat the darkness within mankind itself or die trying.
Primary Magic
Name: Wind Devil Slayer Magic Description: Zanza’s magic hits fast and hard, unpredictable in nature and malleable in usage. The power of wind is his to command, whether he wishes for its cutting power or its destructive blunt force. He is immune to the power of wind, which recognizes him as its own and is able to create his own wind storms or manipulate the wind already present around them, agitating and empowering it. Easily considered one of the greatest masters of wind magic to exist, Zanza has even taken steps towards solidifying wind too, able to create solid platforms beneath his feet to mimic flight by “running on air”
Alongside all of this he has his standard improved senses and empowe5red physical capabilities gifted to him by being a Devil Slayer.
Signature Ability
Name: Carrying Step Element: Wind Description: Zanza gains control over the wind around his feet, suing it to pull himself around and essentially skate on thin air. He can control the amount of force he pulls himself with at a moment’s notice and can easily focus on something else whilst using this ability. The problem with it is that it makes him vulnerable to fire, since the air currents will fan the flames and cause him to ignite.
