Post by Heroic Bilby on Sept 24, 2008 12:19:35 GMT -5
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Name: Eldin Desura
Alias: Hero
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alignment: Hero
Origin: Thae: A land of spirits, magic, and with tales of heroes while being devoid of any actual ones.
Appearance
• Five feet, six inches tall
• Blond hair
• Amber-coloured irises
• Thin build with a noticeable muscle mass from constant training.
• Eldin's clothes consist of a few layers. He wears a white undershirt to start and then a long-sleeved red shirt over that. A pair of thin brown gloves over his hands are topped off with a pair of plain metal gauntlets over his forearms. Over his red shirt is a vest of sorts, black on his back but switching to a deeper maroon red on the right front side but a lighter brown on the left. The two sides are buttoned together with the brown in front using three small yellow clasps. The red shirt below the vest shows a little ways down his chest before the vest's central crossing point covers it. Eldin's pants are a very dark brown as well and his heavy-looking boots are a slightly lighter variety of the same dark colour. His belt is black leather with a simple bronze-coloured square clasp that locks it in place. If wearing his sword then a similar strap of leather but one of dark brown will be going from inside his left shoulder to above his right hip on the front as the strap holding it in place on his back with a metallic buckle laying atop the left breast. In addition to this garb Eldin always wears his favourite red scarf, regardless of the weather. It is quite long and worn around his neck and shoulders so that it often hides the bottom part of his face from view at a level angle. The two tails of the scarf easily reach almost all the way down to the floor even when he stands up straight and are of roughly even length with the middle of the scarf being wrapped around Eldin's neck. The scarf is also wider than most, resulting in the previously described partial hiding of the boy's moth area. A brown cowboy hat tops off the ensemble when its not left hanging off his back by the strap around his neck.
Eldin's body doesn't look overly powerful when it's covered in his clothes thanks to his nearly lanky bone structure. (( He would have preferred to be huge like a body-builder since that's “cool” for heroes, but he just didn't have the frame for it. )) Still, if his arms, legs or torso were exposed their muscular development would be undeniable. Eldin's amber-coloured eyes are very adept at portraying his expressions even if his mouth were to be hidden, and are quite bright and honest. His big smiles and confident looks tend to appear over-the-top to most but can also be endearing in a child-like way. In a very unheroic fashion, the boy's short blond hair is quite messy and erratic most of the time, as if he barely combs it at all. The would-be hero swears his hair is just naturally prone to looking unkempt no matter what he does to style it.
Personality
Eldin is a boy with more enthusiasm than an overactive five year-old trapped in a toy store with a sugar high(Exaggeration). Generally speaking, he has only one thing on this mind at any given time: Being a hero. All the old stereotypes and role models that he has loved since childhood are held dear to his heart as an example of how he is supposed to act, and thus he can be both flamboyant and annoying, depending on what light any given person looks at him from. If there's anything he could define as “evil” or “injustice” around then Eldin's recklessness takes over, forcing him to take action against it even if it wouldn't really be a good idea.
He lives for the moment of “triumphing over evil” as he calls it, and tends to treat serious situations like a child who was only reading them in a comic book rather than actually living them as he really is. This causes the teenager to often come off as if he were much younger or even not quite right in the head, which might not be far from the truth. Even in unfortunate situations his belief in the stereotypical depiction of “good” never falters and his childhood teachings about how to handle life and death make it even easier for him to believe in himself and be reckless without worrying too much about little things like consequences.
His life-long goal is to become a legendary hero to people across the universe and nothing takes priority over that. So committed is he to the fantasy that he even treasures the idea of someday having an “apprentice” to train, a “side-kick” to follow him, a “princess” to rescue and even an “arch-rival” villain to foil again and again, all despite his relatively tender age and severe inexperience in the real world.
Unfortunately, Eldin has a severely bad habit of over-thinking the hero thing too much and getting lost in his thoughts, forgetting to actually pay attention to what's happening around him. This can be while he's alone, while somebody is talking to him or even in the middle of trying to foil an “evildoer” and can cause quite a few mess-ups on his part. Luckily he's intelligent enough not to zone out in the face of genuine threats to his well-being.
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History
Eldin Desura was born of a family of psychics. They had the ability to project their thoughts as force in a technique known as telekinesis. Unfortunately for them their family line was one marred by jealousy and fear. This powerful but small group of people were targeted by the short-sighted people of their world and an attempt was made to wipe them out for their superiority. During this period Eldin was a young child just barely three years old. His parents and siblings were all killed in an assault by hunters, their mental strength depleted through sheer exhaustion over time. The final stand occurred when the remaining seven psychics, Eldin's closest relatives, sought shelter in a cave only to be discovered and have the rocky grave collapsed in on them. The next day a group of monks living on the mountain where the cave was located came down to inspect the sight of the tragedy and discovered that the smallest child had miraculously survived. Having not used any psychic powers before in his life the child's fear and survival instincts kicked in at the last moment, fusing his telekinetic powers with his own frail body in order to make it durable enough to withstand the cave-in. The boy, unconscious but still maintaining his personal barrier, was rescued and brought to the temple at the mountain's peak.
It was decided that the boy would have to be raised here in order to protect him from the evil men who would seek his death. They feared the abilities of the boy in that the monks knew not how to teach him how to control his psychic powers and his family's teachings were now lost forever, but it turned out to matter not. Eldin's psychic energy was stuck that way by the trauma, constantly pouring itself into his body to protect it while at a pace that allowed it to refresh again before exhausting itself. He grew up in the temple along with the monks, taught their spiritual ways ever since he had arrived in order to help him make a fresh start of his incredibly young life. Eldin however was filled with rage by the event that would forever scar his life. Once he was old enough he left his surrogate family in order to hunt down the people who killed his original clan and make them pay with their lives.
Just kidding!
Actually Eldin was fine with how things turned out. The spiritual teachings of the monks allowed him to work out his feelings and issues as he grew up without any terrible emotional baggage. He would miss his family of course, but the spiritual connection he gained to the world when the ways of the temple combined with his powerful mind allowed him to communicate with the dead. More specifically, the dead who were also psychic: his lost family. Normally it would take a man over twenty years of training before they could use the temple's teachings to form spiritual bonds and superhuman abilities but thanks to this Eldin was able to cut that time in less than half and merge his spirit with the seven spirits of his deceased kin before the age of fifteen. because of this for Eldin there wasn't much reason to miss them at all for they were now a part of him, always there to make him feel loved and never alone. Because of this special ability however the boy also achieved something thought to be impossible by the leaders of the temple: Bonding one's spirit with a spirit of each of the seven described types. Eldin's family had each taken on a different spiritual property after death, which resulted in this highly difficult bonding known as the Seven Spirit Circle. His father, a Spirit of Power with influence over force, his mother, a Spirit of Life with influence over light, his aunt, a Spirit of Death with influence over darkness, his uncle, a Spirit of Wind with influence over gases, his sister, a Spirit of Water with influence over liquids, his brother, a Spirit of Earth with influence over solids, and his cousin, a Spirit of Fire with influence over energy. Through the Seven Spirit Circle it was believed that the boy would be able to learn all of the temple's techniques, given a lifetime to train of course. Unfortunately, it was also said that the appearance of the Circle meant a great disaster was coming upon the world, believed to be due to the great amount of power it could cause a single human to attain and misuse. Many wondered if it was true, but also knew that Eldin wouldn't misuse his powers so long as they kept a watchful eye on him. They were successful after all, as Eldin had no feelings of vengeance in his heart to lead him astray.
In the meantime, during the years of his training at the temple, Eldin grew up without much in the way of children's entertainment. The temple was previously only for adults, after all. Eldin was too young for much of the literature around so instead a few of the men went out and brought back story books for the lad to both improve his reading and to entertain himself outside of training. Without fellow kids around, and none of the adults truly being parents but just teachers, Eldin immersed himself in the fantasy stories he read, often going out to get more on his own using what small allowance he was permitted due to his special circumstances. Even when he was older and able to read the temple's literature he still read such stories of heroism's battles against villainy, wishing that the real world were more like the stories. The temple monks had various supernatural powers due to their training, as did Eldin himself, but they were merely used as means towards spiritual enlightenment.
When he was sixteen and still a socially unadjusted teenager Eldin's world underwent a drastic change, as if the foretold disaster was truly at hand. More specifically, it disappeared. Someone found out about the survival of the youngest child of the Desura family, most likely because of his trips to acquire the stories he so loved, and before too long a mob had assembled at the temple gates, demanding to be let in or to have the boy sent out. The people and their weapons were no match for the monks and their heightened abilities, but the darkness in the hearts of these men was like a powerful beacon calling out to the plague of the universe: the Heartless. They were drawn to this assembly of dark hearts and suddenly Shadows began to pop up all around the outer yard of the temple, surprising the monks. The mob was attacked and their hearts gave birth to yet more Heartless which turned their collective efforts on the acolytes. The superhuman powers of the men were fought against using numbers and the deceptive abilities of darkness, overwhelming them in time. Soon the temple was literally crawling with the ever-searching black monsters. Eldin scrambled to retrieve a weapon from the temple's armoury, a spear he was well-versed in using, and defended himself alongside others from the dark menace. The larger numbers of warriors inside the temple made the fighting easier for them and they quickly caught on to the tricks of their mysterious foes. Unfortunately for them the temple was also the location of their world's Keyhole. The Heartless managed to discover it in the inner sanctum before they were completely eradicated and made their way down to the Heart of the World. Everything was soon engulfed in chaos, a terrible shadow appearing in the sky and Heartless in far greater numbers popping up all across the land. Eldin fought against the Shadows with his allies until the end but it was already too late to save their home. After waking up in Traverse Town Eldin learned about the Heartless and, with the help of a new Gummi Ship, began his quest to purge the monsters from every world he could find!
Nope! Got you again!
When Eldin really regained consciousness after his world vanished into darkness all around him it was actually rather sudden. There was a loud roaring of hundreds of voices as if from all around him and his mind was suddenly jarred into focus. The last thing he could remember as everything went black was wishing as hard as he could for a hero to appear and save everyone, just like in his favourite stories. A true hero that didn't fear the vanishing world as Eldin had done. Suddenly there was a loud nose like the clashing of great forces and the thunderous cheers roared again, snapping Eldin's train of thought back to the present. He appeared to be in a hallway of stone, a building of some sort not unlike his temple though the differences in colour and design were enough to not make him mistake it for home. He got up and followed the path towards the noise when the open exit appeared before him, revealing a startling sight.
Outside under the open sky was a square stone floor upon which took place an amazing feat of combat, no doubt the finishing blow of what had been a great battle. As soon as the victor was established the source of the noise from earlier became quite apparent as it had been the crowd watching the fight who now cheered even greater than before, standing and applauding as well. The young boy slowly walked out farther and lined up along the crowd as one of them, watching as another match soon began in the center of this outdoor arena. Both men and beast did battle here, but whenever victory was announced everyone cheered for the same thing: The triumphant hero. Eldin's eyes were practically sparkling with astonishment as he took in all that the day's events had to offer.
Olympus Coliseum. Eldin wouldn't forget that name for the rest of his life. Even though he'd lost everything he'd ever known it was like his heart had taken him to the place where his childhood fantasies were more real than ever. Actually, not everything was left behind. Bonded to his soul remained the spirits of his family, still able to speak with him and offer their guidance. Their concerns for the fate of the world however were falling on deaf ears. Eldin figured if he was OK then everyone else probably was too and now was no time to be worrying about stuff. He had the chance of a lifetime right in front of him: The opportunity to live his own dream using the training of the monks. There was only one thing standing in his way.
Heroes only.
Foiled by this requirement Eldin found himself ineligible for participation in any games. Still, as the days and weeks and months passed, Eldin absorbed the spirit of this new world like a thirsty sponge. If there was anything needed to become a hero he wanted to know what it was and how to get it. He studied and trained endlessly all for this one thing. His spirits helped guide him in taking his abilities, fairly unique to this world, to higher levels. The new world's techniques and training exercises were excellent for improving his body. He even replaced the spear that he'd trained with for so long and taken with him from his temple with a new sword. He thought that it would be more heroic to use a sword, though the sudden change did cause his skill level to go down compared to his original weapon. Still, a hero must make certain sacrifices in order to be as heroic as possible! Eldin also spent much time exploring the world outside the coliseum itself, learning the heroic legends of this land and also trying to act like a hero wherever he went. He idolized the coliseum's undefeated champion Hercules and tried to learn everything he could from watching the demigod in action, both for in-battle and out-of-battle heroism. Desura tried to get permission to compete in the games every single time there was a new competition and after countless rejections his improvement and diligence was finally enough for him to be allowed entry as a Junior Hero. Unfortunately there was now something new standing in his way.
He was on his original world again.
The day before his debut match Eldin was suddenly spirited away back to his world, completely restored from the darkness by unknown forces. Happy as he was to see his old family of monks once again the only thing on Eldin's mind was that amazing world he'd just left and the things he'd seen there. It was at this point, when recent events combined with his incredibly sheltered upbringing, the boy's mental state could begin to be brought into question. He became convinced that the universe was testing him and his willingness and how far he would go to be a hero. He decided to take this opportunity to become an even greater champion while finding a way, any way, back to that place. For the entirety of the next year Eldin restarted his training at the temple, going further and further into advanced practices and techniques. The others noticed a severe change in his personality from before and many even worried about him and his apparent obsession with heroism, much more so than it had been before. Eldin was definitely far more enthusiastic now and arguably even more child-like than he was even when he was actually younger. Still, that didn't stop him from burning the midnight oil while also looking for clues about other worlds in the universe.
After learning certain high-level techniques a little over a year after returning home Eldin suddenly shut himself up into a period of meditation. He spent days in a solitary room, searching his spiritual connection to the world for the other world... the one he wished to return to. When the monks opened up the chamber again after a full week had passed they would find it empty. The boy had transformed his Body and Heart both temporarily into Soul and transported himself across the Sea of Space as a spirit in the blink of an eye. With this ability he had returned his feet to the sandy ground of the world he longed for. Now only one thing could possibly hold him back from competing in the Olympus Coliseum.
The building had been completely destroyed by a rampaging Hydra.
At this point you could say Eldin underwent a process known as “snapping”. It wasn't anything drastic or even that apparent, really. He didn't suddenly go violently nuts and try to destroy everything in sight, which was a good thing for two reasons. For one the coliseum was already destroyed so there wasn't much more to do about that, and for two this world was still a haven for at least one amazing hero who was more than capable of stopping him. Still, at this point Eldin's mentality went over the edge into a rather unhealthy state. After getting over the incredible shock that had greeted him after a long year of waiting Eldin somehow convinced himself that fate wouldn't allow him to fight here until he was the greatest hero in any legend on any world, a goal that completely consumed him and replaced any other desires or goals that may have still lingered in his heart. To this effect Eldin decided to continue his training here where he left off a year ago. Due to the Coliseum's great off-world popularity Eldin quickly learned about inter-world travel and the transit system that had been established. He worked hard and eventually got himself the munny to buy a simple Gummi Ship. Eldin doubted he could use the same trick he'd done to get back here to visit any world he'd not actually been to himself before. The hero-in-training decided that if there were any more worlds out there like this one then he had to get out there and learn about heroes from everywhere across the universe! He'd travel wherever he could and improve his heroic deeds and philosophy until he could compete in the games again as a true hero. The greatest hero of them all!
In his head, at least.
The next major event in Eldin's life came quite a while later after traveling far across many worlds and trying to learn more about being a hero on each one of them, as well as acting as heroically as possible as often as possible. He was still getting into a pattern of figuring out just what sort of hero he wanted to be at this point. On a far away world he eventually spotted a remote island temple that reminded him of the one he himself had grown up in. Normally he would have checked it out for curiosity's sake but now was a different matter. The island was under siege from a small fleet of pirate ships bombarding it with cannon fire and sending in raiding parties. Eldin of course immediately leaped into action, appearing at the last possible second to rescue one of the temple's martial artists from a certain death. Eldin was positively ecstatic despite the fact that the people around him were in real danger. He promptly went into action, using his supernatural abilities to catch the pirate groups at the temple grounds off-guard and blow them away.
Eldin quickly returned to the temple gates and the resident martial artists who were recovering there in order to make a heroic and over-enthusiastic speech about how everything would be all right and how he'd take care of everything from here. It felt good to be acting all... heroic like that. Unfortunately the girl he'd just rescued was a little too grateful(That's how Eldin chose to interpret it, at least) and refused to let him do such a dangerous thing alone when there were still entire ship crews of pirates to deal with. Eldin tried to reassure the ninja girl, as he called her, that he was more than capable of taking care of the pirates for them. In fact, he made a very enthusiastic speech about it. For some reason though the girl seemed to believe Eldin was acting too childish to be depended on. Really, who couldn't tell the difference between childish and heroic? Either was she was quite firm in her insistence to aid the boy, saying that she couldn't let a stranger fight alone.
It was then that Eldin got it, or at least convinced himself that he had gotten it. This girl must have wanted to be a hero to her friends and family too! The boy rationalized that great heroes have to work with and help other heroes so he decided to consent to her aid, inquiring as to what kind of superpowers she might have with which to fight evil. Unfortunately the girl just gave him a funny look at that question, which sort of was an answer in itself. Not wanting to take somebody helpless with him Eldin instead used the fact that he could detect a strong spiritual presence in the girl, most likely her temple's training was not unlike his own save for the abilities produced, to their advantage. Eldin used his abilities to link their spirits together, causing the girl to suddenly experience a great change of power within herself. Spiritual energy that was once only dormant within was now at her beck and call, many of them similar to Eldin's thanks to his hand in the awakening but different as they were her own individual gifts.
The girl had not much time to get used to it though because after all this waiting one of the pirate ships had docked, most of it's crew piling out. Eldin pulled his new ally into battle, using his own abilities to help and protect her as much as possible. He encouraged the settling of her nerves during the fight, insisting that she would know her own powers if she calmed down because they were a part of herself. It was an epic encounter and many of the temple's other fighters came out from the safety of the gates to aid as well. In the end Eldin and now the girl's off-world powers were new and confusing to the pirates, causing the tide of battle to turn quickly. Their ship was rendered unable to sail and the remaining vessels retreated, unsure of the strange occurrences happening on land.
After the battle Eldin explained to the girl that since he had jump-started her spiritual energy her new abilities wouldn't last for very long after he'd left and everything would go back to normal. He then accepted their thanks and with great zeal told them that he hoped to be off so he could help even more people just like he had here. Apparently his words had managed to influence the girl because after he left to return to his Gummi Ship he sensed that she had begun to follow him. She explained that she had said goodbye to her friends and that she wanted to travel the worlds like he was, seeing new sights and helping people with the gifts he'd given her. Eldin was flattered but unsure. He did want to make a name for himself as a legendary hero, after all. Two heroes working together would be great too but could either of them claim to be the greatest in those circumstances? Yes, Eldin really was thinking selfish thoughts like that at the time. Still, she was quite sure she wanted to come and Eldin felt like her life must have been not too much unlike his own back before he woke up in the Olympus Coliseum. Eldin decided that this person, who now properly introduced herself as Shyne, could come with him after all so they could train and grow and help each other together. There was only one condition he required.
She would have to be his official side-kick.
With his spot as the “hero” secured in the team Eldin was more than happy to gain a new traveling companion. After all, she could help him practice his heroic poses and catch phrases and stuff. Much better than if he were trying to think of them on his own. Yes, this could be the start of his true legend...
Putting a lot of practice into his heroic poses and catch phrases and stuff over the course of several months, passing even through his eighteenth birthday, Eldin was actually getting a lot of experiences saving people with his spiritual powers. Eldin was confident that he had a head start in this game, because he had already learned what being a true hero was really all about before he even started.
Sadly, Eldin soon had to put that knowledge to the test. When a huge Heartless burst from the wilderness in a world he was visiting a small village was far too unprotected to withstand it's attack. Knowing full well by his sixth sense alone that the creature of darkness possessed far more power than he did. The boy had lost most of his powers from a villain's curse earlier that week and had been separated from his side-kick Shyne when he forced her to flee to safety. His persistence to fight for justice despite losing what he'd always relied on before had earned him the legendary weapon known as the Keyblade and allowed him to survive that day... but his experience without his powers and with the new weapon were too small against this level of opponent. Eldin did calculate though that he could at least use the Keyblade's power to buy the people enough time to escape and for the local heroes and warriors he'd been studying for the past few days to show up and slay the beast... but only at the ultimate cost.
Eldin lost his heart and seemingly became but an ordinary Shadow that quickly disappeared from the scene before the great beast was finally destroyed by the other heroes. His legend had reached its end, cut down in its prime and with his greatest victory unsung.
Or was there yet hope? Was there a way to come back from losing one's heart?
In the words of Desura himself: "A true hero always returns in the nick of time!"
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Name: Eldin Desura
Alias: Hero
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alignment: Hero
Origin: Thae: A land of spirits, magic, and with tales of heroes while being devoid of any actual ones.
Appearance
• Five feet, six inches tall
• Blond hair
• Amber-coloured irises
• Thin build with a noticeable muscle mass from constant training.
• Eldin's clothes consist of a few layers. He wears a white undershirt to start and then a long-sleeved red shirt over that. A pair of thin brown gloves over his hands are topped off with a pair of plain metal gauntlets over his forearms. Over his red shirt is a vest of sorts, black on his back but switching to a deeper maroon red on the right front side but a lighter brown on the left. The two sides are buttoned together with the brown in front using three small yellow clasps. The red shirt below the vest shows a little ways down his chest before the vest's central crossing point covers it. Eldin's pants are a very dark brown as well and his heavy-looking boots are a slightly lighter variety of the same dark colour. His belt is black leather with a simple bronze-coloured square clasp that locks it in place. If wearing his sword then a similar strap of leather but one of dark brown will be going from inside his left shoulder to above his right hip on the front as the strap holding it in place on his back with a metallic buckle laying atop the left breast. In addition to this garb Eldin always wears his favourite red scarf, regardless of the weather. It is quite long and worn around his neck and shoulders so that it often hides the bottom part of his face from view at a level angle. The two tails of the scarf easily reach almost all the way down to the floor even when he stands up straight and are of roughly even length with the middle of the scarf being wrapped around Eldin's neck. The scarf is also wider than most, resulting in the previously described partial hiding of the boy's moth area. A brown cowboy hat tops off the ensemble when its not left hanging off his back by the strap around his neck.
Eldin's body doesn't look overly powerful when it's covered in his clothes thanks to his nearly lanky bone structure. (( He would have preferred to be huge like a body-builder since that's “cool” for heroes, but he just didn't have the frame for it. )) Still, if his arms, legs or torso were exposed their muscular development would be undeniable. Eldin's amber-coloured eyes are very adept at portraying his expressions even if his mouth were to be hidden, and are quite bright and honest. His big smiles and confident looks tend to appear over-the-top to most but can also be endearing in a child-like way. In a very unheroic fashion, the boy's short blond hair is quite messy and erratic most of the time, as if he barely combs it at all. The would-be hero swears his hair is just naturally prone to looking unkempt no matter what he does to style it.
Personality
Eldin is a boy with more enthusiasm than an overactive five year-old trapped in a toy store with a sugar high(Exaggeration). Generally speaking, he has only one thing on this mind at any given time: Being a hero. All the old stereotypes and role models that he has loved since childhood are held dear to his heart as an example of how he is supposed to act, and thus he can be both flamboyant and annoying, depending on what light any given person looks at him from. If there's anything he could define as “evil” or “injustice” around then Eldin's recklessness takes over, forcing him to take action against it even if it wouldn't really be a good idea.
He lives for the moment of “triumphing over evil” as he calls it, and tends to treat serious situations like a child who was only reading them in a comic book rather than actually living them as he really is. This causes the teenager to often come off as if he were much younger or even not quite right in the head, which might not be far from the truth. Even in unfortunate situations his belief in the stereotypical depiction of “good” never falters and his childhood teachings about how to handle life and death make it even easier for him to believe in himself and be reckless without worrying too much about little things like consequences.
His life-long goal is to become a legendary hero to people across the universe and nothing takes priority over that. So committed is he to the fantasy that he even treasures the idea of someday having an “apprentice” to train, a “side-kick” to follow him, a “princess” to rescue and even an “arch-rival” villain to foil again and again, all despite his relatively tender age and severe inexperience in the real world.
Unfortunately, Eldin has a severely bad habit of over-thinking the hero thing too much and getting lost in his thoughts, forgetting to actually pay attention to what's happening around him. This can be while he's alone, while somebody is talking to him or even in the middle of trying to foil an “evildoer” and can cause quite a few mess-ups on his part. Luckily he's intelligent enough not to zone out in the face of genuine threats to his well-being.
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History
Eldin Desura was born of a family of psychics. They had the ability to project their thoughts as force in a technique known as telekinesis. Unfortunately for them their family line was one marred by jealousy and fear. This powerful but small group of people were targeted by the short-sighted people of their world and an attempt was made to wipe them out for their superiority. During this period Eldin was a young child just barely three years old. His parents and siblings were all killed in an assault by hunters, their mental strength depleted through sheer exhaustion over time. The final stand occurred when the remaining seven psychics, Eldin's closest relatives, sought shelter in a cave only to be discovered and have the rocky grave collapsed in on them. The next day a group of monks living on the mountain where the cave was located came down to inspect the sight of the tragedy and discovered that the smallest child had miraculously survived. Having not used any psychic powers before in his life the child's fear and survival instincts kicked in at the last moment, fusing his telekinetic powers with his own frail body in order to make it durable enough to withstand the cave-in. The boy, unconscious but still maintaining his personal barrier, was rescued and brought to the temple at the mountain's peak.
It was decided that the boy would have to be raised here in order to protect him from the evil men who would seek his death. They feared the abilities of the boy in that the monks knew not how to teach him how to control his psychic powers and his family's teachings were now lost forever, but it turned out to matter not. Eldin's psychic energy was stuck that way by the trauma, constantly pouring itself into his body to protect it while at a pace that allowed it to refresh again before exhausting itself. He grew up in the temple along with the monks, taught their spiritual ways ever since he had arrived in order to help him make a fresh start of his incredibly young life. Eldin however was filled with rage by the event that would forever scar his life. Once he was old enough he left his surrogate family in order to hunt down the people who killed his original clan and make them pay with their lives.
Just kidding!
Actually Eldin was fine with how things turned out. The spiritual teachings of the monks allowed him to work out his feelings and issues as he grew up without any terrible emotional baggage. He would miss his family of course, but the spiritual connection he gained to the world when the ways of the temple combined with his powerful mind allowed him to communicate with the dead. More specifically, the dead who were also psychic: his lost family. Normally it would take a man over twenty years of training before they could use the temple's teachings to form spiritual bonds and superhuman abilities but thanks to this Eldin was able to cut that time in less than half and merge his spirit with the seven spirits of his deceased kin before the age of fifteen. because of this for Eldin there wasn't much reason to miss them at all for they were now a part of him, always there to make him feel loved and never alone. Because of this special ability however the boy also achieved something thought to be impossible by the leaders of the temple: Bonding one's spirit with a spirit of each of the seven described types. Eldin's family had each taken on a different spiritual property after death, which resulted in this highly difficult bonding known as the Seven Spirit Circle. His father, a Spirit of Power with influence over force, his mother, a Spirit of Life with influence over light, his aunt, a Spirit of Death with influence over darkness, his uncle, a Spirit of Wind with influence over gases, his sister, a Spirit of Water with influence over liquids, his brother, a Spirit of Earth with influence over solids, and his cousin, a Spirit of Fire with influence over energy. Through the Seven Spirit Circle it was believed that the boy would be able to learn all of the temple's techniques, given a lifetime to train of course. Unfortunately, it was also said that the appearance of the Circle meant a great disaster was coming upon the world, believed to be due to the great amount of power it could cause a single human to attain and misuse. Many wondered if it was true, but also knew that Eldin wouldn't misuse his powers so long as they kept a watchful eye on him. They were successful after all, as Eldin had no feelings of vengeance in his heart to lead him astray.
In the meantime, during the years of his training at the temple, Eldin grew up without much in the way of children's entertainment. The temple was previously only for adults, after all. Eldin was too young for much of the literature around so instead a few of the men went out and brought back story books for the lad to both improve his reading and to entertain himself outside of training. Without fellow kids around, and none of the adults truly being parents but just teachers, Eldin immersed himself in the fantasy stories he read, often going out to get more on his own using what small allowance he was permitted due to his special circumstances. Even when he was older and able to read the temple's literature he still read such stories of heroism's battles against villainy, wishing that the real world were more like the stories. The temple monks had various supernatural powers due to their training, as did Eldin himself, but they were merely used as means towards spiritual enlightenment.
When he was sixteen and still a socially unadjusted teenager Eldin's world underwent a drastic change, as if the foretold disaster was truly at hand. More specifically, it disappeared. Someone found out about the survival of the youngest child of the Desura family, most likely because of his trips to acquire the stories he so loved, and before too long a mob had assembled at the temple gates, demanding to be let in or to have the boy sent out. The people and their weapons were no match for the monks and their heightened abilities, but the darkness in the hearts of these men was like a powerful beacon calling out to the plague of the universe: the Heartless. They were drawn to this assembly of dark hearts and suddenly Shadows began to pop up all around the outer yard of the temple, surprising the monks. The mob was attacked and their hearts gave birth to yet more Heartless which turned their collective efforts on the acolytes. The superhuman powers of the men were fought against using numbers and the deceptive abilities of darkness, overwhelming them in time. Soon the temple was literally crawling with the ever-searching black monsters. Eldin scrambled to retrieve a weapon from the temple's armoury, a spear he was well-versed in using, and defended himself alongside others from the dark menace. The larger numbers of warriors inside the temple made the fighting easier for them and they quickly caught on to the tricks of their mysterious foes. Unfortunately for them the temple was also the location of their world's Keyhole. The Heartless managed to discover it in the inner sanctum before they were completely eradicated and made their way down to the Heart of the World. Everything was soon engulfed in chaos, a terrible shadow appearing in the sky and Heartless in far greater numbers popping up all across the land. Eldin fought against the Shadows with his allies until the end but it was already too late to save their home. After waking up in Traverse Town Eldin learned about the Heartless and, with the help of a new Gummi Ship, began his quest to purge the monsters from every world he could find!
Nope! Got you again!
When Eldin really regained consciousness after his world vanished into darkness all around him it was actually rather sudden. There was a loud roaring of hundreds of voices as if from all around him and his mind was suddenly jarred into focus. The last thing he could remember as everything went black was wishing as hard as he could for a hero to appear and save everyone, just like in his favourite stories. A true hero that didn't fear the vanishing world as Eldin had done. Suddenly there was a loud nose like the clashing of great forces and the thunderous cheers roared again, snapping Eldin's train of thought back to the present. He appeared to be in a hallway of stone, a building of some sort not unlike his temple though the differences in colour and design were enough to not make him mistake it for home. He got up and followed the path towards the noise when the open exit appeared before him, revealing a startling sight.
Outside under the open sky was a square stone floor upon which took place an amazing feat of combat, no doubt the finishing blow of what had been a great battle. As soon as the victor was established the source of the noise from earlier became quite apparent as it had been the crowd watching the fight who now cheered even greater than before, standing and applauding as well. The young boy slowly walked out farther and lined up along the crowd as one of them, watching as another match soon began in the center of this outdoor arena. Both men and beast did battle here, but whenever victory was announced everyone cheered for the same thing: The triumphant hero. Eldin's eyes were practically sparkling with astonishment as he took in all that the day's events had to offer.
Olympus Coliseum. Eldin wouldn't forget that name for the rest of his life. Even though he'd lost everything he'd ever known it was like his heart had taken him to the place where his childhood fantasies were more real than ever. Actually, not everything was left behind. Bonded to his soul remained the spirits of his family, still able to speak with him and offer their guidance. Their concerns for the fate of the world however were falling on deaf ears. Eldin figured if he was OK then everyone else probably was too and now was no time to be worrying about stuff. He had the chance of a lifetime right in front of him: The opportunity to live his own dream using the training of the monks. There was only one thing standing in his way.
Heroes only.
Foiled by this requirement Eldin found himself ineligible for participation in any games. Still, as the days and weeks and months passed, Eldin absorbed the spirit of this new world like a thirsty sponge. If there was anything needed to become a hero he wanted to know what it was and how to get it. He studied and trained endlessly all for this one thing. His spirits helped guide him in taking his abilities, fairly unique to this world, to higher levels. The new world's techniques and training exercises were excellent for improving his body. He even replaced the spear that he'd trained with for so long and taken with him from his temple with a new sword. He thought that it would be more heroic to use a sword, though the sudden change did cause his skill level to go down compared to his original weapon. Still, a hero must make certain sacrifices in order to be as heroic as possible! Eldin also spent much time exploring the world outside the coliseum itself, learning the heroic legends of this land and also trying to act like a hero wherever he went. He idolized the coliseum's undefeated champion Hercules and tried to learn everything he could from watching the demigod in action, both for in-battle and out-of-battle heroism. Desura tried to get permission to compete in the games every single time there was a new competition and after countless rejections his improvement and diligence was finally enough for him to be allowed entry as a Junior Hero. Unfortunately there was now something new standing in his way.
He was on his original world again.
The day before his debut match Eldin was suddenly spirited away back to his world, completely restored from the darkness by unknown forces. Happy as he was to see his old family of monks once again the only thing on Eldin's mind was that amazing world he'd just left and the things he'd seen there. It was at this point, when recent events combined with his incredibly sheltered upbringing, the boy's mental state could begin to be brought into question. He became convinced that the universe was testing him and his willingness and how far he would go to be a hero. He decided to take this opportunity to become an even greater champion while finding a way, any way, back to that place. For the entirety of the next year Eldin restarted his training at the temple, going further and further into advanced practices and techniques. The others noticed a severe change in his personality from before and many even worried about him and his apparent obsession with heroism, much more so than it had been before. Eldin was definitely far more enthusiastic now and arguably even more child-like than he was even when he was actually younger. Still, that didn't stop him from burning the midnight oil while also looking for clues about other worlds in the universe.
After learning certain high-level techniques a little over a year after returning home Eldin suddenly shut himself up into a period of meditation. He spent days in a solitary room, searching his spiritual connection to the world for the other world... the one he wished to return to. When the monks opened up the chamber again after a full week had passed they would find it empty. The boy had transformed his Body and Heart both temporarily into Soul and transported himself across the Sea of Space as a spirit in the blink of an eye. With this ability he had returned his feet to the sandy ground of the world he longed for. Now only one thing could possibly hold him back from competing in the Olympus Coliseum.
The building had been completely destroyed by a rampaging Hydra.
At this point you could say Eldin underwent a process known as “snapping”. It wasn't anything drastic or even that apparent, really. He didn't suddenly go violently nuts and try to destroy everything in sight, which was a good thing for two reasons. For one the coliseum was already destroyed so there wasn't much more to do about that, and for two this world was still a haven for at least one amazing hero who was more than capable of stopping him. Still, at this point Eldin's mentality went over the edge into a rather unhealthy state. After getting over the incredible shock that had greeted him after a long year of waiting Eldin somehow convinced himself that fate wouldn't allow him to fight here until he was the greatest hero in any legend on any world, a goal that completely consumed him and replaced any other desires or goals that may have still lingered in his heart. To this effect Eldin decided to continue his training here where he left off a year ago. Due to the Coliseum's great off-world popularity Eldin quickly learned about inter-world travel and the transit system that had been established. He worked hard and eventually got himself the munny to buy a simple Gummi Ship. Eldin doubted he could use the same trick he'd done to get back here to visit any world he'd not actually been to himself before. The hero-in-training decided that if there were any more worlds out there like this one then he had to get out there and learn about heroes from everywhere across the universe! He'd travel wherever he could and improve his heroic deeds and philosophy until he could compete in the games again as a true hero. The greatest hero of them all!
In his head, at least.
The next major event in Eldin's life came quite a while later after traveling far across many worlds and trying to learn more about being a hero on each one of them, as well as acting as heroically as possible as often as possible. He was still getting into a pattern of figuring out just what sort of hero he wanted to be at this point. On a far away world he eventually spotted a remote island temple that reminded him of the one he himself had grown up in. Normally he would have checked it out for curiosity's sake but now was a different matter. The island was under siege from a small fleet of pirate ships bombarding it with cannon fire and sending in raiding parties. Eldin of course immediately leaped into action, appearing at the last possible second to rescue one of the temple's martial artists from a certain death. Eldin was positively ecstatic despite the fact that the people around him were in real danger. He promptly went into action, using his supernatural abilities to catch the pirate groups at the temple grounds off-guard and blow them away.
Eldin quickly returned to the temple gates and the resident martial artists who were recovering there in order to make a heroic and over-enthusiastic speech about how everything would be all right and how he'd take care of everything from here. It felt good to be acting all... heroic like that. Unfortunately the girl he'd just rescued was a little too grateful(That's how Eldin chose to interpret it, at least) and refused to let him do such a dangerous thing alone when there were still entire ship crews of pirates to deal with. Eldin tried to reassure the ninja girl, as he called her, that he was more than capable of taking care of the pirates for them. In fact, he made a very enthusiastic speech about it. For some reason though the girl seemed to believe Eldin was acting too childish to be depended on. Really, who couldn't tell the difference between childish and heroic? Either was she was quite firm in her insistence to aid the boy, saying that she couldn't let a stranger fight alone.
It was then that Eldin got it, or at least convinced himself that he had gotten it. This girl must have wanted to be a hero to her friends and family too! The boy rationalized that great heroes have to work with and help other heroes so he decided to consent to her aid, inquiring as to what kind of superpowers she might have with which to fight evil. Unfortunately the girl just gave him a funny look at that question, which sort of was an answer in itself. Not wanting to take somebody helpless with him Eldin instead used the fact that he could detect a strong spiritual presence in the girl, most likely her temple's training was not unlike his own save for the abilities produced, to their advantage. Eldin used his abilities to link their spirits together, causing the girl to suddenly experience a great change of power within herself. Spiritual energy that was once only dormant within was now at her beck and call, many of them similar to Eldin's thanks to his hand in the awakening but different as they were her own individual gifts.
The girl had not much time to get used to it though because after all this waiting one of the pirate ships had docked, most of it's crew piling out. Eldin pulled his new ally into battle, using his own abilities to help and protect her as much as possible. He encouraged the settling of her nerves during the fight, insisting that she would know her own powers if she calmed down because they were a part of herself. It was an epic encounter and many of the temple's other fighters came out from the safety of the gates to aid as well. In the end Eldin and now the girl's off-world powers were new and confusing to the pirates, causing the tide of battle to turn quickly. Their ship was rendered unable to sail and the remaining vessels retreated, unsure of the strange occurrences happening on land.
After the battle Eldin explained to the girl that since he had jump-started her spiritual energy her new abilities wouldn't last for very long after he'd left and everything would go back to normal. He then accepted their thanks and with great zeal told them that he hoped to be off so he could help even more people just like he had here. Apparently his words had managed to influence the girl because after he left to return to his Gummi Ship he sensed that she had begun to follow him. She explained that she had said goodbye to her friends and that she wanted to travel the worlds like he was, seeing new sights and helping people with the gifts he'd given her. Eldin was flattered but unsure. He did want to make a name for himself as a legendary hero, after all. Two heroes working together would be great too but could either of them claim to be the greatest in those circumstances? Yes, Eldin really was thinking selfish thoughts like that at the time. Still, she was quite sure she wanted to come and Eldin felt like her life must have been not too much unlike his own back before he woke up in the Olympus Coliseum. Eldin decided that this person, who now properly introduced herself as Shyne, could come with him after all so they could train and grow and help each other together. There was only one condition he required.
She would have to be his official side-kick.
With his spot as the “hero” secured in the team Eldin was more than happy to gain a new traveling companion. After all, she could help him practice his heroic poses and catch phrases and stuff. Much better than if he were trying to think of them on his own. Yes, this could be the start of his true legend...
Putting a lot of practice into his heroic poses and catch phrases and stuff over the course of several months, passing even through his eighteenth birthday, Eldin was actually getting a lot of experiences saving people with his spiritual powers. Eldin was confident that he had a head start in this game, because he had already learned what being a true hero was really all about before he even started.
Sadly, Eldin soon had to put that knowledge to the test. When a huge Heartless burst from the wilderness in a world he was visiting a small village was far too unprotected to withstand it's attack. Knowing full well by his sixth sense alone that the creature of darkness possessed far more power than he did. The boy had lost most of his powers from a villain's curse earlier that week and had been separated from his side-kick Shyne when he forced her to flee to safety. His persistence to fight for justice despite losing what he'd always relied on before had earned him the legendary weapon known as the Keyblade and allowed him to survive that day... but his experience without his powers and with the new weapon were too small against this level of opponent. Eldin did calculate though that he could at least use the Keyblade's power to buy the people enough time to escape and for the local heroes and warriors he'd been studying for the past few days to show up and slay the beast... but only at the ultimate cost.
Eldin lost his heart and seemingly became but an ordinary Shadow that quickly disappeared from the scene before the great beast was finally destroyed by the other heroes. His legend had reached its end, cut down in its prime and with his greatest victory unsung.
Or was there yet hope? Was there a way to come back from losing one's heart?
In the words of Desura himself: "A true hero always returns in the nick of time!"
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I did post in shades of grey if anyone even remembers that lmao