Nero Raimondi

**Nero Raimondi** is the Ace of Uriel's Brave Saints. He is a member of Team Trump Card of Heaven and holds the position of a Rook.

## Appearance

Nero is a handsome young man appears in his teens. He has spiky, short golden hair with a cowlick sticking up and blue eyes. He also wears glasses, despite his angelic reincarnation perfecting his eyesight, as he considers it makes him "more attractive".

He wears a tan American military uniform and a brown bomber jacket with a "50" on the back. In his first appearance, he wore the typical uniform of a Catholic priest.

Following his Angelization by Uriel, he wears a red "A" printed on his left hand, symbolizing his position as Uriel's Ace. He also gained a total of six pure-white wings, with each having the wingspan of 3.35 meters (11 feets), and a golden halo above his head.

## Personality

Nero is a cheerful, energetic, yet somewhat conceited young man who is obsessed with heroes and justice. He has shown to be quite boisterous as he wants to compete against the famous Oppai Dragon show.

He is very curious about everything and has the habit of sticking his nose into everyone else's business, which causes him to have difficulty making friends. He is also shown for not being aware of how "the atmosphere" is when he is around others. However, it has been noted by his cousin Eleanor that it is not that he lacks the ability to "assess the situation", he simply chooses not to.

He, like the majority of exorcists from the Vatican, is a battle manic as he faces Xenovia Quarta with great enthusiasm. He also cheerfully says his hobby is exterminating devils and vampires - Two factions that are now allies to the angels and the Abrahamic Factions.

Despite being one of the highest-ranking exorcists of the Catholic Church, even be chosen by the Archangel Uriel because of his immense prowess, he appears to have a fear of ghosts and paranormal activity.

## History

Nero is a Exorcist that specialized in exterminating Devils and Vampires. At some point in the past, he became acquainted with Xenovia Quarta, a fellow exorcist from the Vatican. He was later angelized by Uriel, becoming her Ace.

## Powers and Abilities

**Immense Strength:** Nero is one of the highest-ranking exorcists of the Vatican, being one of the most powerful exorcist under 30 years of age. Following his reincarnation into an angel, his powers were vastly improved to the point where he reaches Ultimate-class, borderlined God-class, in terms of power.

**Angelic Physiology:** Nero possesses all the standard traits and abilities of an Angel.

* **Angelic Power:** Nero possesses the ability to generate and manipulate angelic power. He can radiate an angelic aura that he can cover his weapons and attacks with to increase their overall power.
* **Light Manipulation:** Nero can generate and manipulate the light element without the need to invoke magical energy, summoning it using his angelic power and thus giving it an advantage against devils, demonic creatures, and the creatures of the night.
	+ **Invisibility:** He can render himself unseen by the naked eye and become invisible in the visible spectrum by manipulating the light particles.
	+ **Light Constructs:** He can manipulate photons to solidify the light, with the level of solidity going from loose jelly to metal-like hardness or beyond. By doing so, he can turn light into tools, objects, weapons and other items, and create semi-living constructs of varying permanence. When fighting against Xenovia, he created a great sword from light durable enough to go against Durandal.
* **Emotion Manipulation:** Nero can sense and manipulate the emotions, including feelings, moods and their affects, of himself, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling emotions.
	+ **Tiberius Laurel**: He concentrates his emotional manipulation power and creates a giant barrier of crimson flames around himself. Those around the fiery barriers will have their emotions being amplified to epic proportions to the point where they may even lose their sanity and sense of reasoning. The most common emotions to be amplified by this technique are often wrath, lust, and grief, and the technique is said to be extremely dangerous to those with past traumas.
* **Purification:** Nero can remove the darkness or evil from a person or objects, often including demonic creature possessing it or mind-control affecting it.
* **Blessing:** Nero can bless anytihng including people, places, objects, etc. and produce positive effects. This can include bring good luck to people, or something as little as making people feel happy emotions. The most traditional effects are granting long life, fertility, health, success and wealth or suppressing negative emotions and memories. Most blessings deal with negating/removing misfortune or other negative effects.
* **Immortality:** As an Angel, Nero is an immortal being who can live indefinitely unless he's killed.
	+ **Nigh-Invulnerability:** He cannot be harmed or killed by conventional weapons, aliments, or diseases, as only weapons of supernatural origins are able to harm and/or kill him. He is also immuned to curses, poisons, and diseases that aren't angelic or demonic in origins.
	+ **Regeneration:** He possesses rapid regenerative healing factor, capable of recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs, and limbs in matter of minutes, thus making it incredibly difficult to induce permanent physical damage onto him.
* **Flight:** Nero is capable of flight using his three pairs of wings.

**Immense Speed:** Nero has impressive speed, being able to dodge several attacks from Bova and Ouryuu.

**Immense Stamina:** Nero has massive amounts of stamina and endurance. He was durable enough to confront Xenovia at the end of their match even after taking direct hits from Cross Crisis enhanced by Crimson Destruction Dragonar.

**Master Combat Specialist:** As one of the highest-ranking exorcists of the Vatican, Nero is undoubtedly a master combat specialist in spite of his young age. Due to his human origins, he was trained by the Catholic Church to be proficient in fighting against opponents of higher classes and rankings. When fighting against Team Red Dragon Emperor of the Blazing Truth, his fighting prowess was demonstrated with how he could easily counter all of his opponents' attacks. During the invasion of the Evien drakes in Azazel Cup, he was able to easily decapitate the Elder Evie Drake, which was estimated to be at least D-ranked God-class in terms of power, using a common light sword he constructed from his light manipulation.

* **Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Nero is shown to have immense skills in hand-to-hand combat, able to hold his own against a Dragon's Pulse-enhanced Ouryuu and overpowered Bova, who is the strongest amongst Tannin's children. He can fight on-par with Xenovia dual-wielding both Durandal and Excalibur Replica donned in her Crimson Destruction Dragonar. He is considered to be one of Vasco Strada's greatest students in terms of hand-to-hand combat abilities.
	+ **Holy Fist:** A special form of mixed martial art based on the lost fighting style known as Jacob's Limbs, which was created by the biblical prophet and capable of defeating an angel of destruction with 12,000 elite angels under their leadership. By infusing his attack with raw holy power, he gains an immense advantage against devils, demonic creatures, and creatures of the night, without needing holy weapons or artifacts.
* **Attack Prediction:** Nero can interpret and predict enemy attacks and react to the incoming attack, brush off or avoid the incoming attacks even from a dead angle.
* **Combat Perception:** Nero can instantly understand an opponent's method of thinking and fighting, allowing him to anticipate the moves of the opponent. Once he understands his enemies' strategy, he is able to find their flaws and weakness and take them down with little effort.
* **Weapon Proficiency:** While Nero is a master hand-to-hand combatant, he is also proficient in multiple forms of weaponry, such as swords, spears, etc.

## Equipment

**Sturdy Saint** (, *Sutoradi Seinto*): Nero's Sacred Gear. It possesses the power to strengthen his defense every time he receives attack and can potentially make him invulnerable on the battlefield. It is considered to be the defensive counterpart of his cousin's Burning Saint.

* **Sturdy Saint Withstand** (, *Sutādi Seinto U~izusutando*): The Balance Breaker of Sturdy Saint. It allows him to create personal barriers around himself and his allies that can receive energy from their opponents' attacks to further strengthen their defense. These barriers can also reflect magical attacks aimed at them as much greater strength.

## Trivia

* Nero's appearance is based on "America" from **Hetalia: Axis Powers**.
* His first name Nero means "Powerful".
* His last name Raimondi means "King of the World" (Rai = King), (Mond = World) & (Di= Of).
* Nero's hobby is lending help to those in need and exterminating Devils and Vampires.
* He is very popular amongst the children at the Vatican.
* He is one of the "Top 30 Most Powerful Exorcists Under 30".
	+ He ranked 28th and is 18 years old.

* Nero's nickname and his American Superhero suit in international Rating Game is homage to Marvel Superhero, Captain America.