Kaos

Kaos was one of the main protagonists of the manga series Battle Angel Alita.
==Original Series==
Kaos is among the protagonists in the manga known as Battle Angel Alita. Kaos is a man with a decent heart, although a sad and harsh life, born blind and deaf to the mad scientist known as Desty Nova. Kaos possessed a mysterious mutant power known as psychometry, allowing for him to read data from the minds of people and objects touched by people through mere contact with his skin. His father was very cruel, including explaining to him through the example of his dead pet bird that nothing is allowed to fly beneath the floating city known as Zalem when he was just a child. Kaos also was implied to be subjected to additional child abuse, as shown by a later flashback where his evil alter-ego known as Den manifested himself, and Nova was left lying in his own blood with his son standing over him, in anger. He frequently felt discouraged by his father, as well as by others in the Scrapyard who viewed the mysterious white-haired child as a freak and inhuman.
As a child, Kaos suffered "seizures" where he lost control of his body and couldn't remember what happened. Unknown to Kaos, these "seizures" were manifestations of his alter ego, who would later be named Den. The frequency of these "seizures" seemed to decline as Kaos aged, although as Desty Nova would discover, Kaos had an inner ego much in a similar way that Dr. Jekyll or Bruce Banner did.
When in his teens, Kaos ran away from his father's home with his Nanny, Jasmine, to start a new life away from his father in the wasteland. He met and became worshipped/admired by a group of underground mutants known as the Molemen, who helped him perform archaeological expeditions. Kaos set up a mobile AM Radio Station which broadcast music from both Kaos' mind and musical instruments. It was there, during his time as a radio DJ and Archaeologist, that he met Alita. 
Alita and Koyomi were rescued from a sinkhole, where with both of them drowning and trapped underwater, Alita spent her air supply into Koyomi's lungs to keep her alive, as Alita could survive in a shutdown mode with her TUNED Body for a longer time than Koyomi could in a state of unconsciousness. Alita then asked for Koyomi to find help quickly as she was going into shock. 
==Powers and Abilities==
====Psychometry: ====
Kaos possesses the ability to read data from various inanimate objects and even people by touching them with his skin. Because of this power, he often wears heavy clothing to cover his skin and limit contact with people and his surrounding environments. He can sense electromagnetic signatures left on objects by people, allowing him to mimick the skills of the people who used the object, sometimes even with slight improvements. For instance, he regularly played an electronic keyboard once owned by Alternative Rock Musician Alan Parsons, allowing him to play the various songs played by Alan Parsons himself. Kaos also owned a Katana owned by a skilled Samurai, allowing for him to engage in combat using the techniques used by the ancient Japanese Swordsman over 1,000 years in the past, and even developed techniques for slicing durable cyborgs as well. Kaos touched Alita's mechanical TUNED body and read off Dr. Ido's previous techniques for repairing her, even going so far as to improvise techniques for Alita's TUNED body, which Ido had never operated on before. Kaos power also causes him to assimilate the knowledge and memories of people whom he touches, such as recognizing Ido and Figure Four as the real people and not impostors with a simple handshake for both. With such power also comes weakness, however, as Kaos cannot retain skills long term without keeping the object in his possession, as well as being under strong electromagnetism nullifies his powers, and erases data from objects, such as the reforging of his katana erasing his skill associated with it, since the reforging removed the electromagnetism from the sword in the process due to the heat.
====Senses====
Kaos can perceive radiation outside of the visible spectrum. He also possesses a form of pseudo-telepathy in which he "hears" electromagnetic transmissions from computers radio, television, or even from Alita herself via her digital comlink. Kaos is blind, although he perceives wavelengths of radiation not visible to ordinary humans, such as infrared. Kaos could apparently begin to audibly speak and hear sound following his traumatic ordeal with his father near the end of the original series and into Last Order, but he remained blind.
====Durability====
Possibly due to his father's augmentation of his body, Kaos has withstood serious beatings without severe or lasting injuries. Kaos was slapped in the face with tremendous amounts of force by Alita three different times without any blood or apparent facial swelling, although the first two times he did complain about the pain. he disregarded his third slap by Alita, and happily continued on his way. Kaos also has withstood extensive beatings from Cyborg thugs and having his body run over by a taxi cab without sustaining serious or lasting injury.
====Rage====
Kaos, while apparently a frail and a skinny man, has demonstrated an ability to grow physically stronger with him becoming increasingly enraged. As a teenager he readily overpowered his father's massive Butler and Nova himself in a fit of rage. When enraged, Kaos appears impervious or unnoticing of pain, such as when he took his cane and threw a fit about Alita not just ditching her slave work as an Agent of Zalem to just be free and join him, or when Kaos persisted in trying to free Alita from a Virtual Reality torture session by Desty Nova, refusing to accept even death in spite of visibly suffering numerous blood wounds and burns from electrocution. In earlier times, prior to Kaos and Den being separated to different bodies, the rage of Kaos would cause him to drift into an alter ego known as Den, following his ordeal, however, he is a new man, with both Den and Kaos merged as one, simply able to draw on rage to increase strength while remaining in control. 
==Allies==
Alita (Friend, potential love interest)
Lou Collins (wife, in the original series only, retconned in Last Order)
Daisuke Ido (friend)
Vector (Former Enemy)
Koyomi K. (friend, admiring fan)
Jasmine (Nanny, mother figure)
Mole Men (Servants)
==Enemies==
Desty Nova (father, archnemesis)
Den of Barjack (alter ego)
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