Shain

* Current
* Transformed

Sydonis (Childhood Friend)

* Tobiaz (Somewhat)
* Jaguarians

Shain is the son of Shimy and Gryf, as well as a friend of Cochino. He owns a trailer with the latter, pulled by Chokbo. He deeply hates his father, whom he considers a coward. He is also a childhood friend of Sydonis.

He appears in volumes 1, 2 and 3 of Resistance, where he is 17 years old.

### Physical appearance

Shain is a young man with tousled red and turquoise blue hair. His eyes are golden. To his ears, slightly pointed, are attached earrings. He also wears an elven key around his neck, which he inherits from his mother. He wears leather boots and gray blue pants.

It used to have a Jaguarian tail. Today, only a scar remains attesting to its former presence.

### Personality

Shain is selfish, arrogant and crafty, but when it comes to his friends he deeply care for them and is really cheerfull. For reasons still unknown, he hates his father Gryf very much, even getting angry at the slightest mention of him. However, Shain adores his mother and believes in loyalty and friendship, proving that he is loyal to his loved ones.

### Abilities

Shain possesses Jaguarian super-strength, comparable to Gryf's.

### Childhood

Four years after the Battle of Oroban and the end of the Jovenia effects, Shimy gives birth to Shain.

His parents eventually separated when he was only 5 years old. At some point in his life, he develops a deep hatred towards his father Gryf and views him as a coward. During his childhood, Shain befriended in particular Sydonis, a young girl of his age who would later become High Priestess of the Church of Infinity.

### Teenage life

When he was 12, a tragedy occurred between Gryf and Shimy, leaving Shain's house completely devastated. Shain develops a deep hatred towards his father Gryf and considers him a coward. He goes so far as to remove his Jaguarian tail, leaving only a scar on his lower back.

Shain at one point meets Nadia and Aidan, the twins of the Legendaries Jadina and Danaël.

Shain withdrew his Jaguarian tail, only to end up with a scar on his lower back.

### 19 years after the end of Jovénia

Three years later, the gods return to Alysia, and cause the Great Cataclysm, during which the two moons collide. The Apostles, the generals of the deities, sow terror. The Legendaries reunite once again to face one of them, Sokatar. They are all defeated.

### Resistance: Gods Are Love

Two years later, in a village, Shain and his friend Cochino, a Tooweeto, present their very strong elixir, Megacosto, to the crowd. The villagers fear that it is magic, they explain that it is science. The young man drinks it and immediately lifts one of the villagers with one hand. Impressed, the locals buy all the stock. Going back on their cart, the two friends count their money and laugh at the credulity of the villagers: the young man, Shain, has a natural strength thanks to his Jaguarian side. The Magicosto is only tinted water. When the Tooweeto, Cochino, brings up Shain's father, he immediately asks him to stop because it ruins their moment. Shortly after, the villagers, realizing the scam, follow them. Cochino drops soporifics from the cart to put them to sleep.

A few days later, Cochino and Shain discuss the possibility of sleeping in a hostel that evening, believing that they are financially well off. Suddenly, Shain's Elven Key begins to glow intensely, scorching its wielder. He falls backwards in the cart, seized with pain, then a blinding flash occurs. When they get up, they notice the presence of an unconscious Elf. Intriguing detail: she has a tattoo on her stomach representing the same symbol as on Shain's key.

Shain then decides to tie her up, and throws a bucket of water at her head to wake her up. This one is angry, and tries to grab Shain's elven key when she sees it. He blocks it with his foot. The Elf says that this elven key belongs to the "Salvarh" and asks where it is, but Shain doesn't see what she is talking about. Suddenly, he hears a cry outside: it's Cochino. He does not have time to react when a powerful hand pulls him out of the trailer and starts hitting him: it is the villagers he has ripped off. When they demand to be repaid with interest, Shain mocks them by claiming not to remember their village. He is violently thrown against a stone and his assailants rush at him. Suddenly, a gigantic wooden hand seizes him and throws him into the trailer, with Cochino: the young Elf uses her powers. Shain also reminds that Chokbo is missing, she grabs it immediately.

She drives the caravan, with its wooden limbs, over a bridge, which breaks. However, she manages to climb up the other side. Cochino asks how she did that, she replies that it's elemental magic. Shain contradicts her, his mother being Elemental Elf, he can identify this type of magic and wood is not among the elements that can be mastered. The young girl then understands that he is the son of the one she calls "Salvarh": Shimy from Koleana.

### Resistance: Exmakina

At a campfire, Am'lyn tells Shain and Cochino about her past. She is a hybrid formed by Maginetics from Elf and a seed of the Arbore Elementa, and was rescued by the Elemental Elf Solaris who raised her with Regen. Thanks to these first revelations, Shain better understands Am'lyn's powers but still wishes to know how she arrived on Alysia despite the broken contact by the gods and through her mother's elven key. She explains that the Elves realized that only beings of flesh could no longer pass. Having been tattooed with Shimy's elven key symbol, Am'lyn was able to cross over and end up with Shain and Cochino. Having told him of the death of Shimy and his companions, the Legendaries, Shain declares that she only has to return to Astria but Am'lyn asks if the Alysians are fighting against the gods, to which the Tooweeto replies. that there is no one except the Resistance. So Am'lyn asks to get in touch with them. Shain reluctantly agrees.

### Resistance: The Shrine of Death

Shain and Cochino decide to bring Am'lyn to the Church of Infinity headquarters because they know that Shain's childhood friend Sydonis is secretly a member of the resistance. Shain, however, intends to leave Am'lyn there. They sneak into Sydonis's apartments, who becomes enraged when she sees them. They are interrupted by the Apostle Tobiaz, who decides to welcome them there. He tells them in particular that during the great parade, the Apostle Obscuria will be present, the latter having finally defeated the Silver Falcons and their general Shamira. This makes Shain's blood run cold, Shamira having been his grandmother in a way.

The next day, Shain and Cochino argue because Shain should have fed Chokbo. Suddenly, Shain smells an odor: explosives left under their trailer. Shortly after, in the square, a divine statue falls, Am'lyn is forced to use her powers to catch it. Apostle Tesoura arrives, and throws the statue at Shain who is forced to use his super strength to lift it. Tobiaz interrupts the start of the fight, Tésoura only wanted to test them.

During the night, Shain spies Tesoura and the faithful Zoltaran discussing a plan to expose Tobiaz's treachery, and later hears Tobiaz say that he plans to have the Apostle Obscuria assassinated by putting the blame on Am'lyn, Shain and Cochino. Shortly after, he joins his two friends and explains to them what he has just heard.

The next day, the parade takes place. Ships descend from the sky but do not deposit Obscuria as planned, but korozaks which face Tobiaz: it was a trap by Zoltaran and Tesoura. Sydonis reveals himself as a member of the resistance, a fight begins. Cochino and Am'lyn engage against Tésoura, Shain attacks the korozaks and ends up transforming to help Tobiaz by destroying the machines. He tells himself that he could kill him because he planned to accuse him of the attack on Obscuria, but decides to trust him as Sydonis was able to do. Tésoura, for his part, is killed.

Zoltaran attempts to escape aboard the ship, but it is taken down by a small fleet going down. From this descended Jaguarian soldiers, as well as their king... Whom Shain thinks is his father, the resemblance is so striking. Samaël is also present.

## Trivia

* Shain's name may come from Shaina, from the Saint Seiya manga. It can also come from the Shein brand.

* Initially, Patrick Sobral imagined Shain as having much more marked Jaguarian features from his Father, but eventually abandoned the idea to retain a much closer appearance to his mother.