Knight Tethys belonging to Sailor_Mimas
Daichi Uehara / Knight Tethys
Many generations ago the Sol System looked very different, including two other giant planets lurking amongst what would become the Asteroid Belt. These were Echidna and Typhon and its senshi were corrupted by Chaos. The ancient Sol Senshi, led by their ancestors, Sailor Blue Moon and Sailor Gaia Earth, could neither heal nor destroy them. All they could do was seal their corrupted starseeds deep in the Earth. Although their spirits slumbered through the ages, their restless souls caused the world to tremble, throwing off the balance of Earth’s Energy Lines.
Sailor Moon is almost twenty one and she knows this is her final challenge before she ascends the throne of Crystal Tokyo. She, Mamoru and the senshi must remain in Tokyo, maintaining what will be the Tokyo Crystal Points fighting to keep Earth’s Energy Lines from breaking free.
But someone must travel deep into the unearthly realm of Tartarus to quell Echidna and Typhon.
Luckily the Satellite Senshi have awakened in their time of need! Sailor Saturn, now sixteen, must lead these rookies and leave the sunlight behind. Together they will arise as Guardians of the Solar System!
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The name Daichi means ‘wise’ or ‘intellectual’ but also means ‘dangerous route over the sea’. Uehara means ‘Divine Plain.’
Daichi was born April 8th which makes him an Aries. He’s sixteen and in tenth grade.
The brothers share the same fine, chestnut hair but Daichi chooses to keep his short cropped and neatly parted to the left. Both are fair skinned but with his active hobbies, Daichi’s figure is far more sculpted and as a part of Mugan’s swimming team, on display.
Daichi is determined to rise within society and while he doesn’t share Machiko’s expensive, flashy style he chooses simple outfits that reflect his practical, straightforward personality. It also puts people in mind of a host at an upscale restaurant.
Whatever preferences Daichi does have he feels they are unimportant. He breaks the hearts of many at Mugan Academy, carelessly discarding anonymous love letters slipped into his desk with all the hassle of junkmail. He’s so goal oriented he thinks love and love interests are a distraction and a waste of time.
To the lazy eye, Daichi is a student obsessed with Olympic gold. He counts calories, timetables every hour and regards anything less than S rank a failure. The world wants to distract him with temptations but he is above them and speaks disdainfully of those who give in. In fact he is driven by love for his brother and his need for them to escape their dying village for a better life.
Daichi speaks like he swallowed a thesaurus and a dictionary of old english etiquette, leaving people feeling small and in awe. He treats others as a means to his goal. His teachers, trainers and teammates are given due respect but dismisses attempts at bonding. The rest of his classmates are deemed unnecessary to his success, rolling his eyes at attempts to ‘bring him out of his shell’ and rejects the endless lovelorn letters as frivolous female daydreams. Even his fellow Guardians will feel the sting of his tongue if he feels they’re wasting time and doesn’t feel any need to contact outside of team meetings.
The only thing that really gets a rise out of the normally chilly teen is an Underworld attack. Nothing ruins his day more than an interruption of his carefully planned schedule. He hates being a Guardian, another obstacle to his goals which he takes personally. He’s determined to end a fight quickly and get back to the surface. He starts off patient and listening to Sailor Saturn but if time drags he gets impatient and will whip out his strongest attacks regardless of who is in the way.
The exception to all of his strict rules is his brother Botan. When their parents died in a mudslide his younger brother was all he had left in the world. They moved in with their mother’s cousin; a family that made them feel unwelcome and he was determined to move them away. His constant nagging and berating to do better is because he refuses to leave Botan behind and in the heat of battle he will sacrifice himself without thought for him.
The hints that Daichi has a life beyond his training and his brother are like a flash glimpse of an animal in hiding. One of his greatest fears is being distracted, and worries that giving in to temptation is the first step to giving up. However when he studies he likes to listen to cool jazz, often slow and melancholy piano pieces.
He also seems to favour spicy foods. When he ‘risks excess calories’ it's usually adding an exotic hot sauce. Not just a dab either. It's a wonder there are any taste buds left alive after the purge.
His favourite food is udon, the few times his wallet can be pried open is sharing a meal with his brother at the Tengoku Noodles. He changes it up but most often chooses spicy tantan udon with sesame broth and peanut paste.
Daichi complains or nags about everything that doesn’t adhere to his schedule or goals.
He hates chocolate, pastries and confectionery. He actively spits out food he thinks is too sweet. It's just excess sugar he has to schedule into his exercise regime, with time he doesn’t have!
He hates backstroke. He hates the lack of control, the lack of visual cues, the way water splashes across his face. There is something about backstroke that feels like drowning.
And the thing he hates the most is being a Guardian. It was never part of his plans to save the world. He hates giving up his time to Tartarus and its creepy denizens. He hates how nothing abides by the laws and figures he knows. Most of all he secretly fears this is all a delusion and he’s slowly going insane.
Daichi’s whole life revolves around the idea of Olympic Gold. While he and Botan both train in triathlon, he also practises for the 100m Freestyle and Butterfly, the Swimming Medley Relay and Water Polo.
But, before their parents' deaths, he used to love camping with his family. He loved being by the lake, lazing in the freshwater and especially kayaking, floating blissfully down river with his family all around him. When with the village children raced ahead, loving the thrill of gliding and hopping down the rapids, laughing wildly as everyone tried to catch up.
But after his parents’ deaths those trips disappeared, and then they got accepted into Mugan Academy he had to let childhood desires fall to the wayside.
Daichi has not expressed interest in anyone, let alone a specific gender. That may change one day when he feels he and his brother have achieved freedom and success but until that day he won’t let himself even fancy the idea.
The brothers were not born in Tokyo, raised in the tiny rural village of Koyagawa of the Wakayama Prefecture. They lived in a state of genkai shuraku, a once thriving village which atrophied after the coal mines closed. It saw no modernisation, no utilities, no internet. It was merely a dot on the mountain highlands on the way to somewhere else.
They lived with their grandparents, mother and father who ran the convenience store by the turnpike, and their mother helped out at the school where a handful of children played. They loved it. They spent their childhood playing in mountain streams, hunting for mushrooms and wandering freely. Occasionally their parents would take them camping high into the mountains and teach them how to live self-sufficiently.
However one day, when he was eleven and Botan was nine, heavy rains stranded them at a friend's house and everything changed in a mudslide. They were rescued, but much of their village gone and their family’s convenience store buried beneath the sludge and stone.
Their family’s lone survivors, they moved in with their mother’s brother who lived on the other side of the mountain in another genkai shuraku. They weren’t neglected, but they were two more mouths to feed in a family of four with another set of twins to be born soon. The boys lived their lives when they were thirteen a strange tutor from Tokyo’s Mugan Academy visited their school. They complimented the boys' rugged, growing bodies and assured them that a sports scholarship was waiting for the purehearted.
With a goal and an escape, he pushed both himself and his brother into athletics. When he turned fifteen he was invited to join the prestigious school but he also pleaded on behalf of his brother. Recognising potential, both Uehara brothers moved to Tokyo, determined never to look back.
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His mother was Wakumi (freshwater spring) and his father Rikuto (land, heavy). They died when the boys were ten, leaving them with many happy memories but also a heavy hearted awareness for what they were missing.
As time goes by, things trickle away. His mother’s joyous cooking; taking days to prepare ramen broth or waking them up early to get the best ingredients from the morning market. His father’s love of nature and how he could mimic the song of any bird they pointed at. His grandfather’s egg collection. His grandmother's herb garden… All gone in a wave of mud.
After the funeral, he and Botan moved in with his mother’s cousin who also already had children already, in the ghost village where employment and advancement was limited. While the brothers weren’t mistreated, they felt like an afterthought after all his cousin's needs had been seen to. Then when strange tutors arrived at their tiny school house trumpeting the wonderful scholarships offered by Tokyo’s new Mugan Academy, a school looking for pure hearted geniuses…
Daichi has no friends. He has his brother and that’s all he needs. He has mentors whom he respects, he has ‘fellow pupils’ whom he tolerates and teammates-ahem- team members- who he is forced to be on manageable terms with. He maintains a respectful relationship with everyone and no more. Those who he feels are beneath him, he ignores and merely suffers everyone else.
Daichi’s attempts at solitude will find his cafeteria table filled quickly; either with his three underclassmen of Botan, Hotaru and Sora, or Machiko’s high class posse.
You would think that with his competitive nature his hackles would rise when challenged but instead he is harshest on himself; one's greatest enemy.
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Knight Tethys, Guardian of Primordial Springs and Forgotten Waters
Daichi is the incarnation of Saturn’s moon, Tethys. It was a moon of island nations, splashed across a vast ocean rich in minerals and fauna. It bustled with trade and export.
Knight Tethys is in tune with the ancient waters of the world; hidden aquifers rich with minerals, churning streams and abyssal depths beneath oceans. Dark, rich pure waters they rarely see the light.
Daichi reluctantly made good on his promise to celebrate with ramen at Tengoku when Botan did well on a popquiz. As they strolled through the twilight evening, they passed Hotaru and Sora peering into a tourist window filled with charms and statues carved in jade. As they drew closer they hear Sora explaining the story of the giant marble minotaur statue outside the door, a half bull half human monstrosity born from the greed of King Minos.
Daichi scoffed at the fanciful musings of girls and walked away but almost immediately they rushed towards the screams. The statue grows, glowing with fiery molten cracks smashing its way through the stalls. Botan sees it on a warpath and roars. “No way! I’m getting my noodles! I studied! I worked hard! You won’t stop me!” He wells with energy and transforms into Knight Titan and attacks. He forces the minotaur to his knees but takes a crushing blow.
Daichi, overwhelmed by his own inner powers, also transforms into Knight Tethys, leaping to defend his brother. Together they tagteam the Minotaur, exploding it into flaming shrapnel. As they look up, they see the silhouettes of Sailor Saturn and Sailor Mimas on a rooftop giving quiet applause. Sailor Saturn used her resurrection powers to restore the street and offered them dinner to explain their destinies.
Not one but two starseeds were born to a noble Saturn family. As eldest, Tethys knew that before him was a duty, to protect the dormant Guardian of Saturn and he must uphold the ideals of the Silver Millenium Court.
His brother, Guardian of Titan, did not feel the same way. On the night of Princess Serenity’s Cotillion Ball he snuck away to join the party, and Tethys snuck after him to drag him back by his ear. Little did he know the Princess of Dione would follow, and that Tethys would never see his home again.
The Dark Kingdom attacked. In the wake of its destruction awoke the one he was sworn to protect, the Messiah of Death and Rebirth, Sailor Saturn’s Glaive fell and all he knew vanished in silence.
The team is led by the psychopomp sparrow, Athana, through the dying lands of Tartarus. However in their travels they are met by a two headed dog guarding giant golden cattle and responding to the names Orthus and Amydros, names meaning shade and gloom. It followed them deeper into the depths, helping Athana with their keen sense of smell.
The dogs resemble shoulder high black shepherds with orange eyebrows, chest and thick fluffy tail tip that looks like a flaming torch. Orthus seems silly, constantly grinning and panting and always has something in his mouth ready to play, and Amydros seems serious, his nose down and pushing the group forward towards their goal. The similarities of the pups and brothers are not lost on the team.
Hotaru Tomoe aka Sailor Saturn
Daichi has no memories of his past but he knows that it is in one's best interest to defer to experience. He respects Hotaru, not just for her genius knowledge and serene confidence, but there is something deeper. When things overwhelm he loses control, and he feels the frantic panic rise, a calm word and a glance from those starry eyes can quell the fear.
Sora Yoru aka Sailor Mimas
Sora is the perfect teammate; she stays on target, isn’t distracted and listens to his contributions. Although she frowns slightly at his condescending tone, the two get on quite well.
Botan Uehara aka Knight Titan
He and his brother are constantly arguing. His brother, silly and ridiculous, always has wild and outlandish ideas that never work out, put people in danger and it’s always his job to get him out of the messes he makes for them.
Machiko Goto aka Sailor Dione
Machiko is a conundrum. He can feel him constantly trying to impress him, rising to unbelievable heights of grace and beauty but she’s constantly wrestling with Sailor Saturn to seize power, slowing them down and distracting them. He wishes he could tell her she has her own inner strength he admires.
Daichi’s token is a golden circular locket, a medallion kept on a bracelet, glossed with a dark navy plate and embedded with the symbol of Tethys. He keeps it hidden either under his sleeves, around his ankle or inside the pocket of his school blazer.
Daichi tosses the medallion in the air and shouts his phrase, “Tethys Saturn Power!” Out of the locket churns three powerful water spouts, frothing and foaming, splashing waves of energy across his body as they spin around him.
Tentacles of water coil up his legs forming his boots, pants, sleeves and cuffs. Foaming waves crests his hips to form silvery hip guards. More shining waves splash across his chest forming his pearly white armour and shoulderguards before hardening into an aquamarine jewel that seems to slosh with mystical water inside it. The three spinning water spouts combine, twirling around his body before turning into his turquoise and navy cape and his gleaming Okeanos Trident.
The camera continues to rise where his forehead blazes with the symbol of Tethys before erupting into his winged face mask. From there he poses ready to finish the fight as quickly as possible.
“Servant of Saturn, I am the powerful guardian of mysterious depths! In the name of Tethys, I will drown your sorrows!”
The male guardian fuku is much akin to Mamoru’s armour. Tethys bears a pearly white chest plate, trimmed in silver with angular shoulder guards. At the centre of his chest is an oval aquamarine jewel that has a rippling, liquid sheen. His body suit is navy with aquamarine cuffs and shin guards also adorned in silver. Billowing behind him his cloak a brilliant aquamarine with the inner lining a dark satiny navy. Hiding his face is an aquamarine mask, white eyes and navy metal wings sweep behind his ears and along his cheekbones.
Tethys dexterously wields the Okeanus Trident; a silvery trident with wickedly hooked tines to stab and slash at his enemy.
Tethys throws his arms wide, seemingly to grab a handful of air and yank it back. As he does, a hammering wave of water spills across the distances, crashing into the enemies and then pulling back with the force of a riptide.
Tethys throws his arms above his head and grabs the air and yanks it back to his chest. Rather than race along the ground, these waves seem to rise up and up, before crashing down on the enemy, pounding, rolling and ragdolling the enemy again and again, not allowing them time to breath. It needs his utmost concentration to keep the rolling waves coming.
Using his trident, he uses it to direct a pillar of water surging around a midpoint at the tip of his trident. It takes time, it builds and builds before firing a pressured beam of water directly at the enemy. Unlike his other attacks, it is pinpoint and can only affect one enemy at a time.
His ultimate attack is often used in tandem with Dione to add strength. He stands with his trident vertically planted in front of him as he starts to glow. Slowly water forms spirals at his feet, building into several towering water spouts that rip the earth, picking up everything in its path and drowning them in unfathomable water forces.
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The many ways water flows and ebbs.
Chariots of Fire by Vangelos
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