Ghauri "The Prism Master"

Ghauri "The Prism Master" is a member of Eden's "The Seven" possessing the rank of Knight, and one of the antagonists of Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, appearing as the boss of the mission Prism (Prism Highway) in Copen's story route and Crossroads (Prism Highway) in Gunvolt's story route.
A former street dancer with an odd habit of speaking in rhymes, he attempts to combine his Septima with his dance moves to create a true spectacle. He is an Adept with the Septima Prism Cataclysm, which allows him to generate and control crystals at will.
== Website Description ==
==Appearance==
Ghauri is a teenager with cyan eyes and somewhat long purple hair. He wears a white short sleeved shirt, a small white-purple sleeveless jacket, blue jeans with lighter blue knees, and white shoes with purple highlights. He also has two purple straps hooked onto his jeans, a black belt with a silver buckle, a black and silver pair of goggles on his forehead, black wristbands, and a black necklace with a silver spearhead pendant.
In his Grimoired form, Ghauri gains much longer, slightly lighter purple hair, and black eyes with purple irises. He is covered in black and white armor, with purple highlights, with large purple crystals sprouting from his knees. His feet also resemble high heels. Ghauri also becomes noticeably taller.
===Gallery===
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== Personality ==
Compared to some of the more serious and darker members of The Seven, Ghauri is a considerably more light-hearted character, extremely cocky and outgoing. His extreme self-confidence borders on outright arrogance, and, as a result of his days as a street dancer, is a dedicated crowd-pleaser, at one point reversing his Grimoired transformation while being chased by someone out to kill him just so he could show off his true face. However, despite his near obnoxious ego, his upbeat, infectious charm makes it hard to actually hate him.
A former street dancer, his speech is riddled with street slang, and is always rhyming his sentences, which more often than not are more English than Japanese. As a result of this, very little of what he says actually makes sense, though Ghauri doesn't seem to care so long as he can continue a successful rhythm, making it extremely difficult to understand what he actually means, at some points just saying complete nonsense. In battle, he speaks in practically nothing but English phrases and slang, and dances around the battlefield as he tosses prisms everywhere.
Despite his casual, cheerful attitude though, he does show the same hatred towards non-adepts that other Eden members show, describing them as "parasitic", and blaming them for the current chaotic state of the world.
==History==
===Background===
Born in America, Ghauri received professional education in figure skating during his childhood. However, during that time period, a movement against Adepts grew support, preventing him from becoming an official skater.
Instead, making use of his agility, he became a street dancer, and developed a dance squad with other Adepts. Their performances, which often mixed in their septimal powers, became well known, however, mistrust of Adepts grew stronger, until one day, when the team was meant to perform at a tournament, the organizers cancelled their performance.
Despite his team's woes, Ghauri performed them an inspirational, improvised rap, which got his team their confidence back, as well as spawning his current speech pattern. Thus, they once more began expanding their performance scope.
However, they continued to receive discrimination, especially from non-adept dance squads, due to the unique nature of their performance. Eventually, an incident with a rival team resulted in Ghauri's squad leader being seriously injured. Despite Ghauri's efforts to keep the team together, the other members lost their passion, and the team disbanded.
That's when Tenjian, a frequent spectator to the team's performances, approached Ghauri with the offer to join Eden as one of its "knights", an offer he accepted.
His passion for dancing still strong, Ghauri now works without rest to merge his dancing and his Septima, Prism Cataclysm, in order to ascend to a higher plane of dance.
===Eden's Party===
Ghauri is mentioned to be on a mission alongside Milas and Teseo, and is thus absent from the CD's events.
===Azure Striker Gunvolt 2===
====Copen route====
=====Prism (Prism Highway)=====
Some time after Eden obtained the power of the Muse, Ghauri leads a large squad to attack and destroy a highway. In his grimoired form, he speeds ahead, leaving a trail of destruction behind him, but he is soon tracked down by Copen, who catches up with him on a motorcycle driven by his maid Nori. He unsuccessfully tries to shake them off, before dashing ahead to escape.
Copen quickly reaches him, and is confused to see Ghauri in his normal form. The latter states that he has to let them see his true face, before using his Grimoire to transform again and engaging Copen in battle. During the fight, Ghauri shows his dislike for the "parasite" that is humanity. Copen counters this by saying only humanity can judge itself, but Ghauri just criticizes him for his lack of "flow". Eventually, Ghauri's rhythms get on Copen's nerves, who promptly defeats and kills him, taking his mirror shard.
In Clockwork Daydream, when Copen retrieves the fifth mirror shard the sirens in Prism Highway can be heard in the background, indicating that in it Ghauri was killed after Tenjian, Desna, and Asroc.
=====Savior (The Garden 3)=====
At some point, a copy of Ghauri, alongside the other members of The Seven, is created by Zonda with her Mirror septima. He, along with Tenjian, Desna, and Asroc, await Copen as he attempts to reach Zonda. When he encounters Ghauri again, the former greets him with even more rhyming, now more confusing than ever, which at this point have begun to drive Copen mad with their absurdity. Despite this, Ghauri's copy is beaten, and Copen carries on to Zonda.
Zonda later summons an illusion of The Seven to assist her in her battle against Copen, Ghauri among them.
====Gunvolt route====
=====Crossroads (Prism Highway)=====
After Gunvolt defeats four members of The Seven, Ghauri and fellow knight Asroc both break into Copen's house and kidnaps Mytyl, destroying a highway on their way out. Copen confronts them, but Asroc refuses to hand her over, saying she has a role to play in their plans. Ghauri then apologizes on behalf of his "wingman" for his arrogance, but reassures him that his sister is in good hands, in rhyme of course, which only infuriates Copen even more.
Asroc then leaves Ghauri to take care of Copen, when Gunvolt suddenly rushes onto the scene, demanding the mirror shard, much to Ghauri's confusion. Copen then leaves to pursue Asroc, leaving Gunvolt to deal with Ghauri, who launches into a rhyming speech before attacking Gunvolt, who quickly becomes annoyed with his speech.
During the fight, Ghauri asks how Gunvolt can "roll his soul with human trolls", stating they made the world hell. Gunvolt replies that he wouldn't let Eden decided his fate, and that people like Ghauri and Eden are even worse. Eventually, Ghauri is killed, and his Mirror shard is taken.
==Other Appearances==
===Mighty Gunvolt Burst===
Desna makes a cameo as collectible pixel sticker #44 in Mighty Gunvolt Burst. One of Aviator's attacks resembles Ghauri's Prism Shoot skill, and coinciding with this, Ghauri's pixel sticker is a Radio Tower stage completion reward.
==Powers and Abilities==
As a human attuned to the Septimal stage of the Lifewave and a member of The Seven, Ghauri is a powerful Adept who can harness the Prism Cataclysm Septima, which allows him to generate and control crystals of various shapes and sizes at will. Ghauri normally does this by generating a light in his hand which forms the crystal. The crystals are extremely tough, far more so than normal crystals, and can withstand all manner of attacks save for Copen's Twintail Bunkers.
In his normal form, it requires a lot of effort for Ghauri to generate crystals bigger than himself or outside of a five meter radius. With the power of a Grimoire however, his radius and size both increase exponentially. The crystals can also refract and condense light into deadly lasers, due to Ghauri's own willpower.
Ghauri can also coat the ground in crystals, allowing him to skate along the ground as if he was on ice. The crystals also seem to have some power over technology as in Copen's stage, he faces a Sumeragi Spyder unit coated in crystals. Upon receiving a Grimoire, his power grows to the point that he's able to completely destroy a highway. Owing to his former career as a street dancer, Ghauri is incredibly agile, combining his powers with his agility for graceful attacks.
===Boss Battle Skills===
====Medium Boss Battle====
Skill 	Description
Tornado Bomb(トルネードボム)4gamer.net article about Teseo and Ghauri 	A spin jump that generates an column of crystal balls which fly at you. The crystal balls can be destroyed via Flashfield or shooting.
Prism Strike(プリズムストライク) 	Ghauri conjures a medium-sized crystal and kicks it forward. The crystal deflects Copen's lasers and blocks Gunvolt's darts.
"Crystal Trail" 	When Ghauri reaches a gap in the highway, he conjures a trail of spiked crystal balls which remain in place. They cannot be destroyed, only dodged by jumping.
====Boss Battle====
Skill 	Description
Tornado Bomb(トルネードボム) 	Similar to the medium boss version, except Ghauri will dash off-screen and then return to perform the attack, jumping in the air while halfway across the arena to create an arc of crystal balls.
Prism Shoot(プリズムシュート) 	An attack where a small prism is shot by a kick. The prism itself can also block your shots, and sticks to the air in front of you if it hits.
*Phase 2 onward, Ghauri may dash around and hold on to the prism before launching it.
Prism Strike(プリズムストライク) 	Same as the medium boss attack, except Ghauri will stop using it from phase 2 onwards.
Prism Break(プリズムブレイク) 	Ghauri starts using this attack phase 2 onwards. He summons a massive prism and smashes it with a kick, causing the pieces to rain down. The smashed fragments are pretty hard to dodge.
Poetry Slam(プリズムプリズマプリズン, Prism Prisma Prison) 	Ghauri’s Special Skill. It's an attack that drops 3 prismatic pillars and traps the player within them. The prism pillars launch lasers that become refracted diagonally upwards or downwards. The pillars themselves become vulnerable where they launch lasers, so a good volley there can crumble them. Alternatively, while playing as Copen, the player can use the Broad Circuit Special Weapon at the right time to easily break all three pillars at once. If any pillars are still standing, Ghauri smashes them in a pair of flying kicks, then followed by a spin to smash it's lower part.
==Boss Battle Voices==
Event 	English	Romaji 	Japanese
Transform 	 	 	
Tornado Bomb 	 	 	
Prism Shoot 	 	 	
Prism Strike 	 	 	
Prism Break 	 	 	
Poetry Slam 	 	 	
1st Phase Down	 	VIBES agete kuze! 	VIBES上げてくぜ！
2nd Phase Down	 	THUG na RESPONSE da... 	THUGなRESPONSEだ……
Defeated 	 	Itaaa! Mahou ga… tokeru…	痛ッツ！ 魔法が……解ける……
==Special Skill Chants==
Poetry Slam:
==Quotes==
==Designer Comments==
Source: Armed Blue: Gunvolt Official Complete Works
==Musical Themes==
Title 	Context 	Composer 	Audio
The Glowing Prism, the Collapsing Rhythm(煌めく, 崩落の) 	Prism (Prism Highway) stage theme	Ryo Kawakami	
The theme's melody is intended to express Ghauri's "rap-speak and very high mood" traits.Gunvolt 2 OST, sound designer Ryo Kawakami's comment
==Trivia==
*As part of the Eden top members being based on classical fairy tales, Ghauri is based on Cinderella.
**Ghauri's death phrase "The magic...it's vanishing..." is a reference to the story, as is Gunvolt's line "Oversurge! Azure Striker! Let the clock strike twelve" said when fighting Ghauri.
*As a callback to earlier story drafts, The Seven are all named after missiles.Gunvolt Official Complete Works staff interview Ghauri is named after the Hatf-5 Ghauri-I, a Pakistani ballistic missile.
*In the Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 Halloween wallpaper, Ghauri dressed in pop superstar Michael Jackson's famous Thriller attire.
*The "certain reasons" the concept of Ghauri having a time Septima was scrapped have never been disclosed, but it is often speculated by fans that one reason may be that it was decided to give Xiao a time-related ability (unconfirmed) based on Xiao's prominent time motifs.
**In Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX 2, Hail is a time-stopping figure skater. When Copen defeats her and gains the time-slowing and -stopping EX Weapon Cryo-Flash, the concept of a time Adept potentially existing in the iX1 world is discussed, but he claims he's never heard of one.
*In the English script, Teseo mentions Ghauri in a hashtag when the former makes a rhyme during his boss fight.
*In the Japanese version, Ghauri has a habit of randomly inserting English into his Japanese speech, especially in his rhymes, usually speaking at least one English word per sentence.
**This has the unintentional effect of making the localization changes in the game's script extremely noticeable, especially when Ghauri speaks full sentences in English.
==References==
* Japanese tweet regarding Ghauri #1
* Japanese tweet regarding Ghauri #2
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