Hardner

==Summary==
Hardner is the Captain of the Blue Guardians, and the main antagonist of the Blue Guardians arc. During his days in the original Blue Guardians, Hardner used to be a friendly and cheerful individual, a happy-go-lucky air pirate racing across the sky, searching for treasures every day with his comrades and wife, Sophia. However, the sudden crashland of the Liberal Familia that tragically killed all his friends (minus Yuma) heavily brought him into deep despair after seeing his wife dead and to his presumption, his unborn child. This resulted in his solo journey as desperateness to run away and forget everything of that tragic day. As the Captain of the refounded Blue Guardians, Hardner changed to be ruthless and cruel tyrant, brutalizing and insulting subordinates of him as close as Lunar, and being willing to make people suffer to achieve his goals, such as when he forced Belnika to do as he wished by torturing Jerry Bourne, even going on to make sadistic remarks and rejoice at Belnika's despair. He was also willing to shoot his best friend from the old days, Yuma Ansect, in the head, subsequently going on to gloat about the seeming killing.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: 
Name: Hardner
Origin: RAVE 
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Classification: Human, Leader of the Blue Guardians
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Master Swordsman, Regeneration (Mid), Healing, Plant Manipulation, Earth Manipulation, Pain Manipulation
Attack Potency: Mountain level (Fought and matched Post-Doryu Fight Haru)
Speed: At least Supersonic+ (Kept up with Post-Doryu Fight Haru)
Lifting Strength: At least Superhuman (Comparable to Post-Doryu Fight Haru)
Striking Strength: Mountain level (Fought and damaged Post-Doryu Fight Haru)
Durability: Mountain level (Took many hits from Post-Doryu Fight Haru)
Stamina: Superhuman (Can fight for long periods of time despite sustaining severe injuries)
Range: Standard Melee Range to Extended Melee Range. Several Hundreds of Meters with ranged attacks.
Standard Equipment:
*Prosthetic Gun
*Executioner Sword
*Anastasis
Intelligence: Gifted (A very skilled combatant and leader)
Weaknesses: His regeneration has a limit and can be worn down
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Anastasis: This harnesses a power which the Captain referred to as "regeneration": Anastasis allows him to revert both living and non-living things from their current state to a previous one, no matter the lapse of time which separates the two of them; a capability which can be used from a variety of purposes, being particularly effective when employed in battle. He has proven himself capable of altering the state of buildings, plants, air and even humans, as well as his own body. When employed on himself, Anastasis provides Hardner with one of its most valuable assets: it grants him the ability to almost instantaneously heal whatever injury he may receive, no matter its graveness. Hardner was shown healing himself from small bruises and grievous holes in his body with the very same ease; not even instant-kill attacks are effective against him, as shown when Let Dahaka pierced through his heart with a punch, and the Captain stood back on his feet unscathed in mere moments. He made claim that, even if his head was to be severed, the few seconds of life left to him would be enough for him to regenerate. Anastasis can also heal injuries which the user received prior to obtaining it, as shown when Hardner used it to regrow his missing left arm, which he had lost before coming across the Dark Bring; this also demonstrated that its regenerative powers aren't passive and can be activated at will, not "forcing" healing upon the user. While offering great advantages, Anastasis does suffer a weakness, as all the power is based on the user's energy: if the user becomes exhausted, the Dark Bring's powers will similarly get weaker, with the user not managing to completely heal himself or to totally restore things.
*Air Resurrection: Hardner extends one of his arms outwards and then uses Anastasis to restore the air in the area surrounding him to a clean state. This move was used to get rid of the smokescreen which Haru Glory generated with his Explosion sword.
*Forest Resurrection: A technique which allows Hardner to restore the life of plants in a given area, something which also grants him control over the "resurrected" vegetation, controllable remotely as he wishes. Such plants can be grown at an extreme speed, enough to cover even wide spaces in thick vegetation in mere seconds, generating extremely large trees, which could easily be judged as being centuries-old due to their mass. Hardner can employ such vegetation at his advantage, prompting lianas to sprout from the ground to entangle his foes or grab objects away from him, and similarly using branches of various sizes to restrain, crush or strike them.
*Myth Rejuvenation: Hardner uses Anastasis to completely restore a wrecked building to its former glory. The whole process takes place in mere seconds even if the structure being restored is a gigantic one; all the parts are gathered, generated anew if missing, and the vegetation stemming from years of disuse is removed. This technique was employed by the Captain to reconstruct the Altar of Birth in the Mystic Realm, following its partial destruction and partial sealing. The Mother Dark Bring is shown to emit intense rays of light in every direction when Mass Restoration is being utilized. A smaller-scale version of this move, which didn't require its name to be called out, was shown performed when Hardner only recreated part of the Altar, following its destruction at Haru Glory's hands.
*Ultimate Pain: A powerful offensive technique which Hardner initiates by grabbing the target and proceeds to restore all the wounds inflicted from the beginning of the target's life. Depending on how much damage received on the target's life, this move is shown to be extremely damaging, causing random excruciating pain which prevents the target from standing back. The damage can be reduced depending on 3 factors: the target's amount of infliction, their durability to resist the pain, and from the user's lack of strength in which not all the wounds can be reopened.
Hardner using Anastasis.jpg|Regeneration
Hardner Air Resurection.jpeg|Air Resurrection
Hardner Forest Resurection.jpeg|Forrest Resurrection
Hardner Myth Rejuvenation2.jpeg|Myth Rejuvenation
Hardner Ultimate Pain.jpeg|Ultimate Pain
Executioner Sword: Hardner wields an Executioner Sword that he uses in combat with great efficiency.
Hardner Executioner Sword.jpeg|Executioner Sword
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
Category:RAVE
Category:Characters
Category:Male Characters
Category:Manga Characters
Category:Antagonists
Category:Weapon Masters
Category:Sword Users
Category:Regeneration Users
Category:Healers
Category:Plant Users
Category:Earth Users
Category:Pain Users