Lionet Sōma

**Lionet Sōma** (*Lionet Souma* in the English Dub) is the Bronze Saint of the constellation Leo Minor in *Saint Seiya Omega*, and the best friend of Pegasus Kōga. Sōma can use the element of Fire.

## Profile and Stats

**Attack Potency**: **Town level**

**Speed**: **High Hypersonic+**

**Lifting Strength**: **Class 100+**

**Striking Strength**: At least **Class PJ+**

**Durability**: **Superhuman** without Cloth, **Town level+** to **Large Mountain level+** with Lionet Bronze Cloth

## Physical Appearance

Sōma is a lean-built young boy of average height with spiky orange hair, orange eyes, and tan skin. When he isn't wearing his cloth, he wears a black, V-necked T-shirt with light-colored pants, a pair of black wristbands around his wrists, and dark brown shoes with thick black soles.

## Personality

Sōma is Kōga's best friend and a very lively pron with good communication skills, even being charismatic in conversations. He is playful, gentle and cheerful in nature, and has a good sense of humor even in the most difficult situations; which along with Kōga makes him the comedic relief of the group. However, when he becomes angry, he gets obsessed with defeating his opponents at all costs and cannot be controlled, making him more merciless and dangerous to everything around him, including his friends and comrades.

## Powers and Abilities

**Fire Manipulation**: As with his elemental Cosmo, Sōma can create, shape and manipulate the element of fire.

* **Extreme Heat Resistance**:

**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**:

**Immense Speed**:

**Enhanced Strength**:

**Enhanced Reflexes**:

**Enhanced Durability**:

**Enhanced Endurance**:

**Keen Intellect**:

**Immense Cosmo Power**:

* **Intuition**:
* **Miraculosity**:
* **Omega Cosmo**:

### Techniques

**Flame Desperado**: Attack clearly prepared with English words, translated as "*Bandido of Flames*". "*Desperado*" can be confused with "*Desperate*" in Spanish, and although the root word is the same, "*Desperado*" in English is used to refer to the outlaws of the Wild West. Sōma charges his fist with his flame Cosmo and hits the opponent with a devastating punch that scorches his adversary and sends them flying.

**Lionet Burning Fire**: Gathering a large amount of flames into his fist, Sōma unleashes a steady stream of fire at his opponent from a distance. Sōma developed this technique during the Saint Fight and debuted it during his match with Kōga.

**Lionet Bomber**: Sōma covers his whole body with flames and then uses his shoulder to tackled his opponent with tremendous force. Aside from the head-on impact, the fire that surrounds Sōma is able to pass onto the opponent and consume their body and injure them with severe burns. Originally a technique of the previous Lionet Saint, Ban, it was taught to Sōma by the former Unicorn Saint, Jabu, after he found and saved the young Lionet Saint in the desert. Sōma has commented that this is his strongest technique.

**Lionet Explosion**: Sōma creates a fireball in front of him, then starts turning on itself, dragging the field with it, it grows and grows to be higher than a person. After giving several twists and gain momentum, Sōma sends the ball against its target, destroying it completely.

**Lionet Rising Flare Fang**:

## Equipment

**Lionet Bronze Cloth**: One of the 48 Bronze Cloths worn by Athena's Bronze Saints. The cloth consists of red orange armored platting over a black, sleeveless outfit. The arms and forearm protectors are "simple" and overlapping each other, with a kind of "sphere" on the elbows like pads, with the same thing occurring to the leg platting, and a belt around his waist. Similar colored armor appears on the waist and stomach, with a orange-red tiara that bares the Leo Minor's face on it, but the back has no protection. The armored platting on the cloth's fists shows "claws" similar to that of a lion's; similar claws appear on his feet. When not in use, Sōma stores it in a Pandora Lionet Box. During the crossover series, he added a long red tattered scarf around the cloth's neckline that reaches down to his waist.

**Lionet New Cloth**:

**Lionet Omega Cloth**: The ultimate cloth born from Sōma's Omega Cosmo during his battle with Holy Sword Hyperion. With it, Sōma's Omega Cosmo covers almost 100% of his body, still leaving his stomach exposed, with the upper chest still being protected, a pair of wings have sprouted from his back, golden inlays being added to the Cloth, the Cloth's shoulder platting have changed shape, and a Leo Minor symbol has appeared on his chest.

## Relationships

### Family

* Southern Cross Kazuma (Father; Deceased)