Alejandro Joaquin

Yong Yea (English)

Somporn Auamjaiboon (Thai)

**Alejandro Joaquin** is the main antagonist of *Thunder Stone*.

A loyal follower and friend of KAZEHARA, he implements a plan long formulated by KAZEHARA to "achieve heaven". Alejandro is a Vision User and manipulates the mind and soul through his Cyro Vision.‎

## Apperance

Alejandro is a tall and slender man with pale skin, red eyes, He has wavy, black hair, His bangs fall over his left eyes in an uneven fringe and wide. His expression usually makes him appear stern, exasperated, or unimpressed.

Alejandro wears a slim, black gown, in the style of a priest's vestment, closely resembling a cassock, or a soutane. A gold cross is printed on top, spanning his chest and running his length, with two golden double crosses at the wrists of his sleeves. The gown is accompanied with an $800 pair of pants and some loafers. He later added a belt over his gown.

After he fuses with the Black Baby, Alejandro's appearance takes a number of changes. Strands of hair join to his eyebrows, forming a five-pointed star on his forehead and his right sideburn join with it. He grows ponytails or dreadlocks, which thread through the holes of his collar. He also gains the Windmill Birthmark on his shoulder. In his early design, like the Black Baby, his eyelashes grow into spikes and his skin has lines going over it and he replaces his previous belt with a larger double belt, and his wrists have golden bands. He has five ponytails, his sideburn has 4 lines going to his eyebrows with one going to the left eyebrow and the shaved lines follow the top of his scalp. Later on he has only 3 ponytails, 3 lines joining his sideburn to his right eyebrow and the shaved lines following his left temple.

## Personality

Alejandro became a radical believer after frequenting KAZEHARA, whose principal credo was that humans were helpless before many forces that ruled the Universe. Among these forces, God's will and Fate -which Alejandro dubs "Gravity"- were the most brought up. Alejandro's backstory, full of near-impossible coincidences and twists of fate, and Kayla's death whose responsibility couldn't be pinned on anybody, in particular, were the probable inceptions of this belief. Prone to chitchat, a lingering effect of his many discussions with KAZEHARA, Alejandro often brings multiple random trivia to drive his point: observing Hana try to steal a golden cross, Alejandro explained how Hana couldn't escape her nature; similarly, Alejandro explained to Tamako how a certain species of reckless swallows died young because they didn't realize their limits, and used this as a metaphor for the Kushihara bloodline.

## Abilities

**Immense Stamina & Endurance**: Due to extremely harsh training, Alejandro has attained incredible stamina and endurance. In his battle against Tatsuma and Tamako, he managed to continue fighting even after sustaining dozens of injuries all over his body, severely weakening him.

**Immense Strength**: Alejandro has honed his physical strength to superhuman levels. Even since the first encounter, he has displayed impressive feats, such as swinging his spear with so much force that he caused an enormous gust of wind that knocked Tamako, Tatsuma, and Muryou back a far distance.

**Swordsmanship**: Alejandro was one of the most powerful and skilled swordsmen in the entire the series. Alejandro makes use of a unique swordsmanship style that utilizes slithering motions to bending his sword and attacks in impossible ways.

**Cryokinesis**: As a Cryo Vision user, Alejandro can manipulate ice, such as lowering the temperature of the surrounding air until solid ice forms or by freezing nearby water sources. They could release and channel this ice in the form of ice beams that freeze whatever it comes into contact with, or extremely rigid and durable ice walls and domes that can be used offensively and defensively. There's also the capacity to use ice in order to freeze one's opponents to death by trapping in ice that slowly kills their cells or shattering them to pieces once frozen.

* **Blizzard Shifter**: Blizzard Shifter is first Elemental Shifting form of Alejandro, It possesses the ability to create illusions and manipulate a person's psyche into two types of Discs, from which can be mainly extracted from and then inserted into someone else's head, allowing them to either see the Disc owner's memories or use their Vision.
	+ **Disc Creation**: Alejandro Elemental Ability can first and foremost extract a portion or the entirety of a person's psyche out of their bodies in the form of tangible DISCS and then put them into people. To do so, Alejandro must touch its victim and take the time to physically "extract" the disc from them; as such, partial extraction is ineffective. There are two ma in types of DISCS: Memory Discs contain a person's memory and Vision Discs contain a person's Vision. Discs may be inserted into another person's head, allowing them to either freely consult the memories inside or use the corresponding Vision, much like the original user.

**Anemokinesis**: As an Anemo User, Alejandro can manipulate powerful torrents of air and whirlwinds, and replicates it with his movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve purely offensive attacks, most of which utilizing rotating movements to generate swift whirlwind-like slashes that greatly increase the wielder's striking range or utilizing the air around them to deliver sharp sickle-shaped attacks.

* **Tornado Shifter**: Tornado Shifter is second Elemental Shifting From of Alejandro, It possesses the ability to manipulate gravity by altering the direction of the gravitational pull around it. It can also turn things inside-out by reversing the gravitational pull on anything it attacks.
	+ **Gravity Shift**: Alejandro's second Elemental Ability makes him the center of a reverse gravitational phenomenon. Within a radius of 3 kilometres around him, the gravity shifts so that people and objects are repelled from him. Thus, any unfixed object will fall away from him as if the Earth was a giant cliff but then return to normal once they fall sufficiently away.

**Vision Merged**: Alejandro finally develops Vision Merged ability with further instructions in IKAZUCHI's diary, which steadily accelerates the speed of time by manipulating the universe's gravity. Unlike his Gravity Shift Elemental Ability, the effect has no range limitation and affects the whole universe.

* **Hecho en el Cielo** **(Made in Heaven)**: Hecho en el Cielo is final and ultimate Elemental Shifting form of Alejandro, It is the final evolution of Alejandro's Visions, preceded by Alejandro's Cryo and Anemo Vision, with the ability to accelerate time using gravitational forces for everything except living things. It was considered by KAZEHARA to be the ultimate Elemental Ability and the key to achieving "heaven."
	+ **Time Acceleration**: Alejandro's third Elemental Ability is power is to speed up the flow of time dramatically; achieved through its ability to control the gravitational forces of the earth, moon, and seemingly the entire universe, The delay between people's perceptions and the actual flow of time causes everyone to see all non-biological events as being sped up, which is considerably dangerous to living beings. Objects sped up like vehicles and other moving objects become uncontrollable and dangerous. At a certain point, objects will appear so fast that they can produce after images such as the sun rotating at higher and higher speeds in the sky until it becomes a strip of light. Phenomena like melting, freezing, and drying will accelerate until people can no longer react to them. Over time, long term effects such as the erosion of rocks and the decay of objects and corpses will occur as well.

## Etymology

* His name **Alejandro** means "Defender of Mankind"
* His surname **Joaquin** means "Established by God"