Asuka R. Kreutz

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==Summary==
Asuka R. Kreutz (飛鳥＝Ｒ＝クロイツ, Asuka R. Kuroitsu), typically referred to as That Man and occasionally the Gear Maker, is a prominent character who was originally the central antagonist in the Guilty Gear universe. Formerly a magic researcher at the forefront of his field, and the apprentice of The Original, the discoverer of magic, he was colleagues with two particle physicists named Frederick Bulsara and Aria Hale, who were in a relationship. It was those three whose fateful collaboration produced Gear cells, human cultivars enhanced with magic that were expected to cure human disease and advance the human race into a new era of evolution. Their first test subject was Frederick, but the project went awry thanks to being conducted in secret and without Frederick's consent; it went inactive, with Asuka and Aria reported missing, and Frederick reported dead. However, he was alive as a Gear, under the name of Sol Badguy.
In reality, Asuka had put Aria in cryosleep, as she had a terminal illness that Asuka had hoped was curable with Gear technology. Thirty years later, when the Gear Project was revived, Asuka rejoined it under an alias, and tested Gear cells on Aria. However, during her conversion to a Gear, the operating equipment was hijacked by a malevolent information being called the Universal Will. Aria was converted into its unwitting minion, Justice. Seeing its success, the Universal Will attempted to convert the people of Japan into Gears for Justice to command, and Asuka was forced to override Justice's weapons systems and use her to obliterate Japan. The covert nature of his project meant that he had not kept notes, so the world drew the conclusion that Asuka was a genocidal war criminal who had destroyed Japan on purpose. Many of Happy Chaos' atrocities during the resulting worldwide war were also attributed to Asuka.
After the Universal Will attacked humanity again 100 years later, Asuka took the opportunity to send Jack-O' to rejoin herself with Aria's soul, which was a success. Afterward, he revealed himself to Sol, and the two agreed that they had a score to settle. He then dismissed his servants from their service and turned himself in to the United States government. Asuka revealed to the President of that the reason he turned himself in was that the reemergence of the Universal Will made him realize he was in danger. He guarded the Tome of Origin, a book written by the Original that contains power over the Backyard. With it, I-No could regain her full power and become a god. Soon after, his old mentor, now helping I-No, attacked the White House to steal the Tome. Asuka seemingly defended himself, and in the aftermath, squared off with Sol. Although it seemed that Asuka intended to fight his old partner, he simply removed the Gear cells from his body with magic, "killing Sol Badguy" by returning him to a regular human. He stated that this and Jack-O' were not enough to atone for what he did to them, but Frederick forgave him. Afterward, Asuka went into self-imposed exile on the moon, where he conducts scientific experiments and runs a podcast.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: 
Name: Asuka R. Kreutz, That Man, Gear Maker
Origin: Guilty Gear
Gender: Male
Age: At least 186, but reverses his biological aging process
Classification: Human
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Self-Sustenance (Type 1), Flight, Intangibility, Teleportation, Can summon turrets to attack his opponent, Forcefield Creation (Capable of holding a Dragon Installed Sol at bay), Teleportation, BFR (Can send people to the Backyard), Energy Manipulation, Statistics Amplification (Able to amplify allies' resistances), Duplication (Able to create remote-controlled duplicates of himself with equal power), Status Effect Inducement (Able to bind others), Pocket Reality Manipulation (Able to create fields within the Backyard the and Cube, which is a space within a dimension), Age Manipulation (Able to revert aging process), Magic as Information Manipulation (which entails Fire Manipulation, Water Manipulation, Earth Manipulation, Air Manipulation, and Chi Manipulation), Extrasensory Perception (Ki users can see people's flow of Ki), Non-Physical Interaction (Able to interact with souls and information), Creation (Able to convert energy into matter, or information into living beings), Time Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation, Soul Manipulation (Harvested half of Aria's soul), Preparation, Power Nullification, Portal Creation, Dimensional Travel, Reality Warping, Probability Manipulation, Law Manipulation, Physics Manipulation and Fate Manipulation via Cube (Can warp reality, make the impossible possible, change fundamental truths and laws, and choose whatever fate he wants, all on a universal scale), Resistance to Fire Manipulation, Power Nullification (Due to having magic beyond the Twelve Divine Steps), Extreme Cold and Cosmic Radiation, Massive Resistance to Information Manipulation and Transmutation, Material, Spiritual and Mental attacks (Able to survive in the Backyard, a dimension of information that constantly breaks down and reconstructs fundamental information with catastrophic effects on the physical)
Attack Potency: Dwarf Star level (A consistent rival for Sol throughout the series, casually matching Sol in battle on numerous occasionsGuilty Gear 2: Overture – Demon)
Speed: At least Relativistic+, likely higher (Attacked faster than an untransformed Sol could react)
Lifting Strength: At least Class P (Comparable to Sol, who can match Justice)
Striking Strength: Dwarf Star level
Durability: Dwarf Star level (Comparable to Sol Badguy)
Stamina: Extremely low. Although magic does not seem to require any exertion from him, it is stated that any physically intensive task is exhausting for him, and he usually leaves them to his duplicates.
Range: Standard Melee Range, Thousands of Kilometers with attacks, Low Complex Multiversal with teleportation (Retrieved Sol from the Backyard after his fight with Valentine, seemingly from his own private realm)
Standard Equipment: His outfit, the Tome of Origin.
* Optional Equipment: The Cube, a reality-bending structure located in the Backyard.
Intelligence: Supergenius. A pioneer in the complex fields of magic and Gear research, and one of only five people the Original considered smart enough to be one of his disciples. Created the Cube, which can manipulate the higher-dimensional Backyard.
Weaknesses: He is in very bad physical shape, and any physical task tires him out. If he runs out of magic, he cannot sustain the force fields that he uses to protect himself. 
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
* R#: Asuka creates an identical duplicate of himself.
* Howling Metron: Asuka attacks with a projectile made from water magic.
* Howling Metron MS Processing: Asuka fires three small projectiles made from wind magic.
* Terra Metron: Asuka causes stones to erupt violently forth from the ground.
* Accipiter Metron: Asuka drops a crushing ball of energy on his opponent's head.
* Metron Screamer 808: Asuka creates a gigantic orb of fire magic that explodes immediately.
* Metron Arpeggio: Asuka creates a rift in space that fires two volleys of five small projectiles.
* Delayed Tardus Metron: Asuka combines magical forces to fire a large cube of elemental energy.
* Aquila Metron: Asuka creates a huge icicle that grows from the ground ahead of himself.
* Bit Shift Metron: Asuka fires a variable number of magma projectiles.
* RMS Boost Metron: Asuka conjures pages of the Tome of Origin, which surround the opponent and fire spikes.
* Go to Marker: Asuka instantly teleports some distance.
* Pass Filter Gravity: Asuka intensifies or reduces gravity in his surroundings.
* Shooting Time Stretch: Asuka intensifies or reduces the momentum of projectiles in his surroundings.
* Gravity Rod: Asuka draws projectiles toward his staff.
* Repulsive Rod: Asuka creates a field that repels objects from his staff.
Overdrives:
* Absolute Defense: Felion: Asuka summons a nigh-impenetrable force field.
* High-Compression Submicron Particle Sphere: Asuka attacks with a magical ultradense particle field.
==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
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Category:Guilty Gear
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Category:Game Bosses
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Category:Statistics Amplification Users
Category:Status Effect Users
Category:Pocket Reality Users
Category:Age Users
Category:Fire Users
Category:Water Users
Category:Earth Users
Category:Air Users
Category:Chi Users
Category:Extrasensory Perception Users
Category:Information Users
Category:Non-Physical Interaction Users
Category:Creation Users
Category:Space Users
Category:Soul Users
Category:Preparation Users
Category:Power Nullification Users
Category:Element Users
Category:Matter Users
Category:Self-Sustenance Users
Category:Dimensional Travel Users
Category:Portal Users
Category:Reality Warpers
Category:Probability Users
Category:Fate Users
Category:Law Users
Category:Physics Users
Category:Durability Negation Users