SAINT SEIYA THE LOST CANVAS AU / SPECTER VERSE
BASIC INFORMATION
REAL NAME Kohaku Otomugi
SPECTER'S TITLE Terrestrial Malignant Star, Peryton Kohaku
OCCUPATION Scholar / Specter (Afterlife)
AGE 17
HEIGHT 170 Cm
BORN 24 August
SOCIAL CLASS Noble / Specter (Afterlife)
YEAR 17th Century
NATIONALITY Japan
FACECLAIM Ishikirimaru
SUMMARY
In the Afterlife, Kohaku was serving Hades the King of Underworld while donning a surplice that resembles mythical creature Peryton. His black mirrored feathers are detachables and can perform various technique. One of it's main ability is to look into someone's past and connections with others. Peryton's wings also detachable at Kohaku's own will and can be a dangerous weapon with convenient wide-distant range capacity.
BACKSTORY
The sixth son of the feudal lord in the northern imperial of Kyoto and raised by a single father. He believed in filial piety ideal while he himself was very discipline and delegate his administrative tasks in Imperial Court. His achievement in career was envied by his other six siblings and they ended up mistreated him throughout the remaining years he lived yet Kohaku did not bear any ill will against them and continue to treat them with respect while continue to strive for family's honor.
During one of the Imperial conquest, Kohaku was stationed in a camp together with his oldest brother who were also Samurai warrior under the Imperial order. Kohaku had already deviced a strategy and pleaded to his brother to follow the plan but his brother refused and stormed to the battlefield by himself. Seeing lack reinforcement in the garrison, Kohaku decided to protect the garrison by himself. Kohaku lasted for three days fighting with no supplies, but using his own intellect and skills to hold the garrison. It forces the enemy to retreat few times until the Samurai troops ambushed him from all directions. His brother and his father was caught along. His father was executed but his brother gained the favor of the enemy’s feudal lord and was released on condition that he sided with them. Leaving Kohaku the only remaining prisoner.
Few days before Kohaku can decide his own fate, his brother told the feudal lord about northern villagers are showing demonstration for government didn’t showed up to help after they suffered natural disasters, so the villagers asked for a sacrifice for God’s offering. The feudal lord agreed and ordered his brother to send one of the prisoner to the village to be sacrificed just for a gimmick. His brother used this as an advantage to get rid of Kohaku instead. Kohaku was blinded, knocked and beaten to death for the sake of the ceremony.
RISING AS SPECTER
In the Underworld, Thanatos; God of Death and also advisor to Lord Hades have sought potential on Kohaku to serve under Hades for the upcoming Holy War against Goddess Athena. He then prompted Kohaku with a surplice (Underworld's armor) that resembled mythical Peryton creature and asked him on his opinion if he ever have the power to kill. Kohaku was not fond of answering the question and pleaded to Thanatos to end him completely. Thanatos then insisted by sending him back to the world of living so Kohaku can see the ugly truth behind his uncalled death few days ago. As he reached for the living world realm, Kohaku was already donning the Underworld surplice since Thanatos was eager to observe his progress later on.
Kohaku landed back on the ground, spotted the villagers that killed him now holding up a festival by escorting his older brother's troop as they come to the village with tons of aid supplies. The surplices wing then reflected the past and the truth of his older brother. Kohaku then heard how his brother belittled him in one of the conversation with his guards and claiming the sacrifice was not for any God and it was nothing but only a gimmick. He only wanted to get rid of Kohaku so the feudal lord won't have any second thoughths of wanting to hire him as the army strategist. Should he hire him, his brother will be falling out of favor and he wanted to stop that from happening. Learning the entire truth, Kohaku then suffered from agony.
He fled and hid himself inside the forest in hope for not learning any ugly truth involving him anymore. However, the Surplice wings later whispered the past of Imperial family that he served before. hesitantly, Kohaku pulled one of the mirrored black feather and take a look at the Imperial's past. He suffered the sight when he learnt his mother was brutally 'silenced' by the Imperial family for holding royal's dark secret. At that time, Kohaku was only few months old. The past that he had witnessed from the mirrored feather further enraged him.
Afterward, Kohaku approached the village and destroyed it within a short amount of time. His older brother begged to not be killed by him and promised to offer him fortunes if it pleases him, but Kohaku killed his brother without mercy. Kohaku didn’t end it there. He massacred the rest of his siblings and even killed the Imperial Court’s family, before putting the head of the royals in front of the castle’s gate for public shows to stir up fear and panic. As soon disorders spreads more through the land, he returned back to the Underworld with no sign of remorse.
Kohaku rose as a Specter to serve Hades. He donned a Peryton’s surplice and bestowed the title of Terrestrial Malignant Star. (The title is originated from one of 72 Earthly Fiends in Water Margin, Huang Xin.)
When Kohaku joined the Underworld, his darker personality also emerged. He has learnt ways to be more manipulative, cunning, pragmatic, and controlling. This also means Peryton Kohaku still have one of his human trait (intelligence) inside him but became less empathy towards another. Kohaku shows no feelings even towards his Underworld comrade when they appeared to be harmed, proving that he has since disregard his empathy trait when he joined Hades. His intelligence makes him able to rely on a rather duplicitous talent to successfully manipulated few of living humans in order to complete Hades's conquest against Athena. This dark trait of him also even makes it difficult for enemies to decipher his movement.
||SHADOW|| Peryton’s wings can generate the shadow of his victim. It can create exact copies of a person and let the victim duel with their own shadow or someone else’s that they familiar with.
||AEGIS & CAMOUFLAGE|| Using the wings to create barrier to either defend from the enemy’s assault or to trap enemy inside by closing the wall. While shielding, it is also useful as an invisible camouflage.
||DISTORT REALITY|| His wings can change environment and reality in any way Kohaku wanted.
||DANCING WINGS|| He can make the mirrored feathers glides through the midair at certain speed to rumble the ground, decreasing enemy's morale. While if it’s not attached to the back, the wings will act as flying knives to search, trap and kill enemies.
||THOUSAND KNIVES|| A method of deploying surreal image of his feather to trick the enemy that was formed by his cosmos before deploying the real feathers to attack. However if the enemy did not dodge this, they would have received injuries as well as it was a projected dark cosmos in a small amount that could be harmful for the living.
||BASIC MARTIAL ART SKILLS|| His own physical defense and strength is quite impressive considering he was also affiliated to military during his human year.
||NECK AND LOWER BACK|| It’s the most vulnerable spot as neck was not covered by surplice and lower back area was not properly guarded due to the extensions of mirrored wings that doesn’t allow him to be more flexible.
||MIRROR|| Kohaku avoid looking at himself through reflections even through his wings. He stopped looking or looked away from the mirror ever since he served Hades. He was subconsciously realizing he was not the one he used to be. With unstable mind, Kohaku could be very self-disruptive and this could led to enemy's advantage on winning the battle if they are quick to defeat him.
PERYTON SURPLICES AND AFFILIATED MYTHOLOGY
||SURPLICES|| The armor (Surplices) that Kohaku wear was made of from Underworld. It is type of armor worn by 108 Specters that serves under Hades. They were made from Underworld's minerals and wearing it would allow Specters to travel to the Underworld without having to burn their cosmos. Each Surplices name are derived from beastly creatures from literally works and also from mythologies.
||PERYTON|| According to the mythology, the Peryton beast is said to have the head, neck, forelegs and antlers of a stag, combined with the plumage, wings and hindquarters of a large bird, although some interpretations portray the Peryton as a deer in all but coloration and bird’s wings. Perytons lived in Atlantis until an earthquake destroyed the civilization and the creatures escaped by flight. A Peryton casts the shadow of a man until it kills one during its lifetime, at which time it starts to cast its own shadow. In the folklore, Perytons also was responsible for the the downfall of Rome. Peryton’s natural predators were the mythical bird Griffons. Like the myth repeating it’s own story, Specter Peryton Kohaku was responsible for the destructions of a faction that lives in Romania’s region.
||ROMANCE|| Kohaku is attracted to both gender. He is bisexual in nature and as long he was given time to grow emotionally and he could see the effort of his partner in building the relationship together with him, he would give all of him back.
||STRENGTH|| Although Kohaku was positioned in lowest rank in the army by having the title "Terrestrial", this does not define his strength in the battlefield. An enemy should not look down upon his rank when it comes to fighting with him.
||MANNERS|| While becoming a Specter, Kohaku still have elegant and noble-like attitude that he have since he was raised along with it.
