Caius Oni

Caius Gotera Oni is a chaotic liliuth, eldest brother of the Oni Brothers, the goat aspect of the Chimera, and mage of Azar Crest. He was once known as Dianthus, the Divine Flower of Rome and the antagonist of the Man in the Talisman arc. 
== Appearance ==
Caius is a middle aged man of relatively tall height with tanned skin. Like his brother Incu Oni, Caius has red eyes, but the pupils of his eyes are rectangular, similar to a goat's eyes. He has shoulder-length, off white hair which is usually styled in a low, short ponytail and strands on the sides of his head, with the former part resembling a little goat tail, and the latter resembling the droopy ears of certain types of goats. His feet are always en point, similar to the structure of a goat's hoof. 
Pre-timeskip, Caius has his hair usually down and free. His body is much more built and sturdy, with pronounced muscles, a result of his training as a knight for a majority of his life and is free of body and facial hair.
After the timeskip, Caius has facial hair styled similar to a goatee that is the same color as his hair, as well as some similarly colored hair littered on certain parts of his body, such as his chest and legs. As a result of lack of physical training, Caius's muscles have softened and he possesses a "dad bod" physique, although he is slightly slimmer than a lot of his male peers. He also grew to be taller as a result of magical training.
For fashion, Caius often dons a shirt and pair of pants that is a light yellow color, with gold on the cuffs and a golden belt, the metal of the belt fashioned with a solar-inspired design. He also tends to wear 16th century inspired clothing, his most recent outfit being such. Due to his unique way of walking "en pointe", Caius often wears shoes with heels, as they are more comfortable than regular shoes for him.
In his Shadow Miasma form, he is much more monstrous and goat like with goat-like legs and feet, a long lion tail, larger hands and long claws, and his facial hair becomes longer, much more like a goat's beard, and also colored black alongside a streak of black and several small dots, shaped like a bloodstain across the bridge of his nose and cheeks.. The sclera of his eyes also turn black, and the tips of his hair are a black ombre. 
== Personality ==
Despite being the oldest brother and appearing much older than he actually is, Caius is quite chaotic and lively, especially in the affairs of love and chivalry. Like his adoptive father, whom he learned much from, Caius is also quite pompous and believes he is better than all human men(although he respects a few), even sneering and dismissing human men and calling them crude and cruel names, often resorting to calling them "man things". However, he is neutral and/or respectful to fellow demons, as their societal structures are far more egalitarian than many human societies, and he is very respectful and chivalrous to women of any species, although there are very rare occasions when he does not respect or like a woman, the most prominent example being his mother, Meriedia. 
Caius also has difficulty in focusing on things not in his interest, often dismissing or refusing to help unless a woman asks for help, especially Jewel Mikoto. Due to his chaotic heritage, Caius also enjoys performing mischief, but since his reformation, he prefers to use it to entertain, especially to prank those he dislikes. Unlike Bakyu, Caius is also very theatrical, often reacting physically and without first thought, which often results in him being injured or humiliated. 
Caius also has great passion for artistic endeavors, with a deep love for cooking and exploration, especially to discover new recipes and indulge in new and exiting cultures, especially his father's culture. Despite his chaotic and silly nature, Caius is actually quite intelligent, although he tends to focus his smarts in being underhanded or to impress others. When not showing off, Caius is actually quite protective, kind, and radical, often defending complete strangers from cruel individuals, and he refuses to back down when he feels his own or someone's culture is insulted, and is aggressively against hatred of immigrants. His stubbornness also extends to his morals and loyalty, as he refuses to reject his morals or bow down to an enemy, unless he feels that those he loves are truly threatened.
In his mature moments, Caius is also very fatherly and responsible, and has great skill in raising and dealing with children. When talking about a woman he is not attracted to, he often refers to them as "daughters", usually referring to how most of his positive relationships with women are from his adoptive daughters. He also refers to them as such to remind other men he does not like that every woman is someone's daughter, an ideal hammered home by his father.
However, despite his attempts to appear chaste and skilled in self control, Caius has his moments of being quite perverted, especially when regarding Jewel. While not directly towards her, Caius often has his fantasies or in-the moment feelings about her, which he tries his best (although fails) to hide and vehemently refuses to admit out of respect for her, often getting angry when someone calls attention to such perversions. He also tends to punish himself when thinking such thoughts, often physically and through ridiculous methods. 
Caius is also a very amorous and gallant man, stemming from his training and philosophy of chivalry as a knight. When flirting, he prefers to be theatrical and dramatic, often using his chaos magic to impress those he admires. He is also quite materialistic, but in his more vulnerable and honest moments, he reveals that his true love language is quality time, and often tries, and fails, to truly sound romantic, his true charm mostly originating from his emotional vulnerability, honesty, and selflessness for those he loves. Since his freedom and integration within the guild, Caius had become more mature, loyal, and less prone to jumping to conclusions or relying entirely on his emotions. However, he is still very much vain, catty, and snobby. 
== History ==
Born from the goat part of the Chimera, a legendary being that lives for millennium, Caius was the first of the trio to form after the Chimera split apart into separate entities, a common death for long living beings. Found by Meriedia Kievru and Traego Augustine, he was taken in by the couple and raised in the village of Pulye in Alanatasia. 
Since he first laid eyes on a human at birth, he imprinted and began to regenerate his form to appear humanoid, although there were some features he couldn’t change, like his unique, goat like pupils and preference for walking en pointe, like a goat’s hooves. In his childhood, due to his unique, demonic appearance and chaotic magic, Caius was feared by the kingdom occupying Pulye Village and was supposed to be executed, but his adoptive father Traego had him baptized by the village church, and because of this baptism, Caius was no longer considered “demonic” and was then taken in by the church to learn Solanastian scripture. He was also raised by knights, who taught him the ways of courtly love and knightly chivalry, a way of life he still follows to this day. 
After a couple of years, his younger brother Bakyu was born. The two brothers lived happily with their adoptive parents, with Caius participating in the War for Arth alongside Meriedia and Endanta, until Caius had turned 18, in which he discovered Meriedia was using him and his Chaos Magic to perform cruel magical experiments, and while she created Ars in the process, a powerful and versatile magic class, Caius was deeply hurt that his adoptive mother viewed him as nothing more than a test subject. Soon, after tearfully leaving his brother a special necklace, Caius ran away from his home, going all the way from the tiny village to the southern part of Ishgita, where he began a cult known as the House of Dianthus, and he became known as the Dianthus, Divine Flower of Rome. His followers began as simply three girls he had adopted, but soon grew in numbers. After dabbling in the same dark arts as Meriedia, he vowed to return to kill her, and when he failed, he was trapped in an amulet by his brother for 1,000 years. 
=== Man in the Talisman Arc ===
After a millennium of being trapped in the amulet, he was freed by Jewel Mikoto after speaking to her through the amulet to help him. Since she was the first person he saw since imprisonment, and her beauty and kindness amplified it, Caius fell madly in love with her, but still felt his duty of "saving" the world from Meriedia's false side of the story. After finding out that his adoptive mother had "died" and become Mikki Gioiello, he couldn't find it in his heart to hurt the young girl as revenge as she knew nothing about Meriedia and even acted and looked more like her biological father and his adoptive one). After making a deal with her, Caius took Mikki to his palace to raise as his daughter, so he could teach her the truth and hopefully gain a new daughter in the process. 
Thinking she was kidnapped, Azar Crest went after Caius, causing a large-scale conflict to occur. Tom Seran attempted to infiltrate the palace, but was caught by the incubus and beaten senselessly before being thrown in a cell. Now attempting to rescue Tom, the rest of Azar Crest's members couldn't beat Caius or the followers of his cult. Because Jewel was also imprisoned by one of Caius' daughters, she attempted to seduce Caius into freeing her, and when he did, after a few days of conflict, Jewel stabbed him in the back, forcing him to poof. As he tried fighting his injuries, Jewel apologized for betraying him and knew his intentions came from a place of good, and realizing that he had gone too far, he poofed. 
After his defeat by Jewel Mikoto, he reformed into a much less threatening and calmer form. While he still causes Chaos to some degree, he takes great length to not cause harm, but to cause joy in others using his Chaos. 
=== Allegria's Birth Arc ===
During one of the Rank Trials, he was picked by Jewel to be her partner, and when Allegria attacked he was one of the few who managed to escape, although he only escaped the area to attempt to get more reinforcements to fight the massive being. 
Distraught at the supposed death of his comrades, especially Jewel, Caius worked endlessly to carry the guild, trying to keep them from going under, but even then his efforts were miniscule. For his hard work and efforts, Caius gained the nickname of "Big Brother" by the young female members of the guild, and his exertion caused him to physically age much faster than normal, and by the time the trapped members had returned after seven years, Caius was physically 30, seven years older than Jewel. 
== Abilities and Powers ==
Chaos Magic-The magic with the ability to manipulate reality itself through changing or summoning, often through a snapping of fingers. Because of his birth, Caius possesses Chaos Magic, which grants him the ability to manipulate and summon any non-living object he wants. However, he must know how the object is designed and works, otherwise the object cannot be summoned. He often uses this augur for either combat or causing chaos, the latter being the most common. In some instances, it is shown that Caius instinctively or unintentionally performs this magic, such as when his chaotic dreams leaked into reality, or out of reaction, such as when Jewel hugged him from behind and it resulted in him turning into stone. 
Ars Mineralis-A class of Ars magic that allows the user to summon, manipulate, and create minerals. especially crystals. Caius rarely uses this magic in battle, preferring it in moments of theatrics or creation of gifts. 
Teleportation- A magic in which the user is able to teleport to places they recognize and have already been to. However, if a location has changed or the user cannot remember that place, then they are unable to go there. 
Lacrimal Healing- A form of yielding augur which involves the user being able to heal wounds with their tears or other bodily fluids, and is a rare power due to its only form of acquisition originating from the user's own emotions and true desires. Formed from the grief he felt seeing Jewel's nearly lifeless body, Caius developed this power out of a deep desire to keep those he loves safe, especially Jewel. However, unlike Jewel's lacrimal healing, Caius' are colored a shining gold color. 
General Lite Abilities
General Demon Abilities
Chaotic Lilliuth Abilities- Because of his heritage as a chaotic lilliuth, Caius possesses basic abilities of a Chaotic Lilliuth, such as: 
* Utilization of Chaos Magic 
* Abilities of a particular animal (in his case, a goat/unicorn) 
* Ability to siphon or emit life energy from and/or towards a target 
Animal Abilities
Due to his animal aspect being a goat, Caius possesses similar abilities to a goat, such as:
* Enhanced Agility
* Proficient Climbing, especially steep areas
* Enhanced field of view, due to his uniquely shaped pupils, Caius can view the world at 340 degrees. ￼
Swordsmanship-Due to his training as a knight, Caius is proficient in wielding a blade, preferring a sword as his main style of fighting rather than using his body. He also utilizes his magic alongside a blade, treating the blade as an extension of himself and his augur. Utilizing more graceful techniques with his sword, Caius often utilizes precision, speed, and hitting weak points compared to using raw power to attack with his blade. He also possesses the ability to dual wield, as well as use unorthodox methods of holding his swords, such as his feet and mouth.
== Relationships ==
=== Family ===
Bakyu- Loves his younger brother dearly, although he feels a sense of guilt whenever he sees Bakyu show visible signs of exhaustion. As a result of this, he tries to make it up to his brother, but often fails and annoys him. Because of his guilt, Bakyu is one of the few Caius lets insult him, and does not visibly seem to mind when Bakyu calls him "childish" or "idiotic", although in private it is shown he is deeply hurt that his younger brother thinks of him that way. After maturing apart for seven years, the two developed their relationship and Bakyu no longer insults him, and Caius attempts to act less silly around his brother, although he fails at times. The two also sometimes delve into petty sibling bickering, with it often resulting in Caius revealing Bakyu's attempts to hide his emotions and act above it all. 
Incu- Because Caius never knew Incu for a majority of the younger demon's life, both Incu and Caius never had an opinion about the other until they got to know each other. However, once living together, the two became inseparable, the younger of the two finding it refreshing that Caius indulged in chaos unlike Bakyu. However, because of Bakyu influencing Incu, the youngest incubus gets embarrassed by Caius at times, even attempting to lecture his eldest brother on his lack of self-awareness. Caius also possesses a deep soft spot for Incu, especially when Incu appeals to his emotions with tears. 
Tammuz- Knowing Tammuz when he was just 16 (And Caius being 18 at the time), the two were comrades and the few chaotic lilliuth participating in the War for Arth, being one of the few who recognized and remembered Tammuz when he returned. Caius respects Tammuz, finding the other's form of chivalry, while somewhat crude, admirable. Hypocritically, Caius sometimes gets annoyed at Tammuz's emotional outbursts, which is quickly commented on it's hypocrisy by Incu or Bakyu. After Tammuz's reformation, Caius immediately accepted Tammuz into his family as one of his brothers, and the two get along quite well due to their similar amorous natures, and the two comfort each other in times of sadness or reminiscing on their respective trauma.
Traego- The only human man Caius deeply respects to the point of modeling his way of life after him. Because the man was his adoptive father, Caius learned a large amount from Traego and still practices his teachings to this day. In fact, Caius often wishes more human men were like Traego, and when reunited with his father during the Colu de Mano arc, he was reduced to the point of tears, crying in happiness and embracing his father for the first time in centuries. Caius also developed his love of cooking from Traego, and his style of such as well. 
Meriedia- The only woman Caius hates with absolute vitriol. Because of her abusive treatment and nature towards him and Bakyu, Caius wishes he could kill Meriedia, but since she had "died" before he could, he instead resorts to insulting her legacy, constantly trying to convince those who know of her knowledge that she is a "hack" and is the only woman Caius will call cruel names, even calling her a "bitch" at one point. However, his hatred originates from a deep feeling of betrayal, as well as her attempts to hurt his only family (Traego and Bakyu), because Caius once believed she was a loving and kind mother to him. 
Mikki Gioiello- At first, after learning she was the daughter of Meriedia, he at first hated Mikki, but after learning that she was nothing like Meriedia, Caius immediately softened towards her and even felt deep pity for her. He then vowed to make sure Mikki was nothing like his mother, even offering her to become one of his daughters, which she politely declined. After his reformation, Caius is still fatherly and protective over Mikki, and he tries to act cool around her, often failing. Mikki is also one of the few close human friends he has, and constantly offers her food he had made to eat, which Mikki appreciates. 
=== Friends ===
Jewel Mikoto- Caius is madly in love with Jewel, often resulting in him making a fool of himself in front of her, which Jewel finds charming. Because she freed him from the amulet, combined with her good looks and kind nature, Caius believes that she is a "goddess" of some sorts, always willing to do things for her when she asks and always referring to her with several honorifics or titles, usually either "Darling", "Ma'am", "Miss Mikoto" (he ceased using this one), and "Jewel-san". However, when he was still new to the guild, he hesitated revealing his complete and honest feelings about her, out of fear that she would take advantage of them. Fortunately, Jewel has never done such and even admitted to feeling guilty when asking for his help out of fear that he would think she was using him, which made him fall in love with her even more. Combined with his possessive nature, Caius acts as some kind of bodyguard for her, often yelling at and threatening men who Jewel is seen being bothered by or uncomfortable with, and this behavior has other male members of the guild refer to him as her "guard dog", and try to tease him for it which he easily ignores. However, when confronted with a woman bothering Jewel, Caius refuses to act, which results in Jewel having to deal with it herself. He is also easily prone to jealousy when he sees a man positively interact with Jewel, even his own brothers, although he grew out of that habit towards his brothers quickly. However, despite his jealous and possessive nature, he understands Jewel's love for freedom and refuses to let his feelings dominate her will and happiness, believing to rather have her be happy and not with him, rather than unhappy and with him. 
When in private, Caius has quite obsessive and perverted fantasies about Jewel, which he often promptly afterwards feels great shame about it. However, he is proud to gush about Jewel to anyone who will listen, which is rare, and deeply admires her strength, will, and kindness, especially towards his brothers. While away from Jewel, he is easily able to admit his feelings, but when given the opportunities to in front of her, he becomes quite shy and flustered, unable to speak properly and often just running away (a habit he has in common with Jewel). 
Guliani D. Montoro- One of the first human friends Caius had made. 
== Trivia ==