Silver Dog

**Name**: Silver Dog

**Species**: Dog Daiyōkai

**Homeworld**: Unknown

**Appearance**: Silver Dog appears as a handsome, tall and slender young man. He has fair skin with pointed ears, slanted red eyes with slit pupils, and knee-length silver hair with short bangs. He has a purple crescent moon on his forehead that could be seen beneath his bangs, two magenta stripes on each cheek, and a magenta stripe on each eyelid. When he used his Dakkoso, three magenta stripes appeared on his wrists. His canines are fangs (although they usually weren't visible unless he transformed) and his fingers are tipped with claws and secrete a corrosive poison. Silver Dog's true form is a giant silver dog with markings similar to the ones he had in his human form. His eyes become red with teal irises, the yōkai marks on his body widened and becomes more apparent, the stripes on his cheeks which are usually smooth became jagged and changed into a somewhat fiercer color, and his mokomoko wrapped around his body and extended into his tail. Silver Dog's armor includes a spiked pauldron that covers his left shoulder attached by red ropes to the upper section of his black cuirass with "lotus petal" faulds that possess red trim. When damaged, the armor automatically regenerated itself using yōki. Both his armor and his long black flowing sash with red details have a decided Chinese influence, as opposed to the customary Japanese armor and obi. His clothing consists on a black kimono with a red and black cherry blossom flower crest at the collar and sleeves, showing that he is of royal birth, a black hadagi undershirt, and a black sashinuki hakama which are gather at the ankles, producing a "ballooning" effect. His footwear consists of black ankle-high boots, also reminiscent of Chinese influence. On his right shoulder was his mokomoko-sama, the fur and tail of his true form which he retained in his humanoid form. The Omnitrix is a necklace around his neck.

**Powers and Abilities**:

**Immense Demonic Power**: As a full-blooded Dog Daiyōkai, Silver Dog is overwhelmingly powerful, being a match for any opponent he encounters. In addition to his infamous physical prowess far exceeding that of many demons, Silver Dog also possesses a plethora of powerful techniques at his disposal. Even the arrogant Ivan, who became famous amongst demons through his collection of the Shikon Jewel shards, acknowledged Silver Dog was far more powerful than himself and stated he is the perfect demon. Indeed, even with Ivan's barrier protecting him from Silver Dog's assaults, Silver Dog proved able to easily handle Ivan's attacks to where Ivan acknowledged he couldn't defeat Silver Dog. His power easily surpassed that of Wei, said to be capable of completely controlling Sō'unga whereas Wei could only supress it with great effort and being viable to wield Meidō Zangetsuha due to his immense power able to easily wield the terrible jaki that would have killed Wei until he grew strong enough to withstand it. Indeed, he even overpowers Wei's Backlash Wave and as such exceeded Tessaiga's power with a powerful attack of his own demonic energy, though not without visible struggle. The level of his demonic powers are such that he was able to easily subdue the malevolent demonic aura of Roshi created from Tang's hatred when Debi, the creator of the sword, was possessed and consumed by it. His demonic powers eventually grew to where he was able to manifest his own demonic sword, the blade of vengeance, and Toto commented that Silver Dog's powers had surpassed the Guardians. A few years later, Silver Dog is able to overpower Kim, a qilin daiyōkai that is equally strong as his father in the final battle.

**Superhuman Strength**: Silver Dog possesses Herculean strength, even with one arm. He has repeatedly overpowered and powerfully thrown aside Alma. He can even use his claws to easily tear through solid rock, and through the bodies of most yōkai. His physical strength with only one arm was equal to Alma's maximum strength. Herculean strength, even with one arm. He has repeatedly overpowered and powerfully thrown aside Alma and could easily equal Alma's strength in their later fights even as Alma had grew stronger still with one hand. He can even use his claws to easily tear through solid rock, and through the bodies of most demons. He also matched Vilgax's terrifying strength, which could even dissipate Alma's Backlash Wave and regularly overpower his students and children with ease, capable of clashing with enough force to release massive shockwaves.Silver Dog's physiology gives him intensified physical strength exceeding that of even the strongest human. He was able to uproot trees, lift boulders, break through walls and fortress gates, and was even able to punch through solid steel. In fact, the powerful demon blood inherited from his power gave him greater strength than most low-tier demons. Only powerful aliens (e.g., humungousaur) were ever able to overpower Silver Dog in terms of raw physical strength.

**Superhuman Speed**: Silver Dog can close distances quickly and without warning. His speed far exceeded that of Angel's own considerable speed, as in their fights, Alma was not capable of landing a single hit on Silver Dog even with the Sharingan in hand until she learned the Susanoo, and is fully capable of matching Delsin in speed. He even got behind the cautious Alma with ease. Silver Dog can run and move at speeds that easily exceeded that of a conventional horse, but he was considerably slower XLR8. While not capable of true flight, having learned the basics of this form, Silver Dog could manipulate his own yōki to an extent when he jumped, allowing him to glide over long distances and slow his falls as he lands.

**Superhuman Durability**: Silver Dog tremendous demonic powers have granted him great resistance to injury. On the fairly rare occasion that he receives serious injuries, Silver Dog can often continue fighting in spite of them, showing tremendous resilience. This was demonstrated when he was able to easily kill an army of human samurai just after losing his left arm and initial battle to Alma. Later on Silver Dog managed to withstand the Kaze no Kizu head-on long enough for Tenseiga to use its barrier ability to protect Silver Dog from the lethal damage level of the attack. Despite being heavily wounded during his battle with Haung, Silver Dog was able to continue fighting until his powers coalesced into Bakusaiga. Silver Dog is also shown to be able to withstand the shock of the Anti-Demon Barrier placed on Tessaiga in order to use occasionally when need be with little reaction, though not without suffering potentially debilitating injuries. Since he holds strong poison in his own body, he is able to resist or nullify most poisonous attacks (e.g. Shōki or Mukotsu's anti-demon poisons). Silver Dog is also shown to be able to withstand the shock of the Anti-Demon Barrier placed on Tessaiga in order to use occasionally when need be with little reaction and minimum injuries, at worst only suffering a burned arm that did little to hinder him. Indeed, he has shown the greatest resistance toward holy and divine powers; he was able to enter Mt. Hakurei's purification barrier, by far the strongest of its type in the series, without being purified, only being slightly weakened. In another instance, Silver Dog catches one of Angel's purification arrows barehanded and to no ill-effect; any other demon would have been severely injured, if not outright purified. When faced with Kimi, he was able to take Kimi demonic energy balls without using his sword and lay silent when Kimi tried to goad him out. Silver Dog has a very sturdy body and can endure a great deal of physical pain, as was once demonstrated in an early battle with a Plumber commando when he continued fighting even after being impaled in the stomach. He was also capable of surviving considerable blunt force trauma, a direct blow from a solid wooden log that broke on contact, falling several stories into a crevasse in his fight with a giant, and being thrown hard enough to shatter solid rock. His skin was thick enough for him to survive being tangled by Yuri's wire-thin hair strands, which were capable of cutting through solid tree trunks.

**Superhuman Stamina**: Silver Dog's stamina far exceeded human standards and most demons, another result of receiving this powerful form. He was able to run and leap vast distances at great speeds and often complained about how his comparatively weaker human companions always slowed him down by needing to rest so much every day.

**Superhuman Agility and Reflexes**: Silver Dog has inhuman reflexes and remarkable reaction time. He has swiped arrows fired at him out the air with his claws. He has also been able to combine his reflexes with his enhanced senses to catch objects thrown at him midair without turning around. Silver Dog's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are similarly enhanced.

**Accelerated Healing**: During his battle with Zaheer, Silver Dog demonstrated the ability to rapidly heal the burns and gashes on his right arm, as well as several large holes stabbed right through his body. This ability seems not to be a passive bodily function however, as he evidently needed to focus his energies in order to heal himself. In the same battle, he also showed regenerative powers, able to fully grow back his left arm, which was cut off by Diamondhead. Silver Dog is capable of rapid recovery from even the most grievous of injuries (i.e., impalement) and can do so without any visible scarring. When Albedo yanked out one of Silver Dog's fangs to run experiments, he mentioned that Silver Dog would grow a replacement canine in just half a day. Regardless, the extent of his healing abilities is not unconditional, and it has been implied he could not regenerate lost limbs.

**Superhuman Olfactory Senses**: Silver Dog has excellent olfaction and is able to determine circumstances by scents on the wind. Even for things far away, he can learn what's going on and obtain information by smell alone. He can discern certain characteristics about an individual through scent alone; for example, the scent of graveyard soil allowed him to identify the undead nature of the Band of Nagas. While not quite as sensitive as those of his other forms, Silver Dog's senses of smell and hearing are nonetheless remarkably acute. He is able to hear what people were whispering from great distances away; as was the case when, while perched on a tree, he overheard Alma hiding in a bush, quietly praising Delsin under his breath. Likewise, his sense of smell is extremely keen; he could smell hints of blood from kilometers away and could detect the presence of people by smell long before they could be seen. His sense of smell was also his method of detecting yōki and thus was used in locating the time chamber, the striking point of the auras, and, once, sniffing out the path of the outside world to pierce a limbo clone. He could catch a whiff of a demon's power from many miles away as soon as he let down his barrier with at least as much accuracy as Koko, despite the latter being a full yōkai.

**Dokkasō** : Silver Dog has claw-like fingernails, and can injure — or even kill — an entire group of thieves using his claws. He can also scratch with his claws and release a potent poison at the same time to melt his enemies. Though he normally applies it through his claw strikes, he can also spray the acid from his claws or transfer it into his punches. His poison is strong enough to melt rock or bone; a mere human will melt in an instant. If his poison is taken in internally, it will remain inside and be in effect for a long period of time — even in those with demonic power.

**Mokomoko-sama**: The rich hair on Silver Dog is a part of his body and can stretch to great lengths, giving him defensive capabilities and some means of attack.

**Light Whip Generation**: Silver Dog can generate a thin, whip-like strand of yellow-green energy from his fingertips to aid him in place of his missing arm. It has shown to be able to puncture armor and flesh with ease and can burn flesh upon contact, similar to his poison. He appears to be capable of manifesting this energy without its destructive properties, allowing him to use it to catch falling allies or yank someone out of danger without damaging them.

**Blood Solidification**: By using his power, Silver Dog can harden his own blood and throw them like bladed projectiles in an attack. While he typically used blood from an already open wound, Silver Dog could draw the necessary blood to use the attack by digging his nails into his palms. He would often use this tactic as a surprise counterattack after being wounded when his opponents would assume he was weakened by his wounds and lower their guard.

**Longevity**: As a Dog Daiyōkai, Silver Dog has supernatural longevity and can live for hundreds, even thousands of years.

**Flight**: Silver Dog is capable of independent flight in his humanoid form and giant dog demon form, and can also hover motionlessly above the ground. He occasionally permits other individuals to accompany him by carrying them on his mokomoko-sama. While in this light orb form, Silver Dog can fly even faster than either his human or true form, and this can be used for a quick escape or quick pursuit.

**Levitation**: Through the evolution of his full demonic strength, Silver Dog was shown to be capable of hovering about eleven inches with a crimson red aura surrounding his body.

**Spiritual Sight**: Like every members of the Dog Daiyōkai, Silver Dog has the unique ability to see the spirit of the Windmill of Time, Akuru.

**Transformation**: As a Dog Daiyōkai, Silver Dog possesses the ability to transform into either an orb of light or a huge silver furred dog anytime he wants, and although he possesses tremendous destructive power in the latter form, he rarely uses it. While his gigantic dog form appears to grant him a great deal of physical strength, it seems to lack the agility of his humanoid form. Additionally, it was speculated by Marcus that Silver Dog loses some of his reasoning abilities while in dog form; there is no substantial evidence to support this theory however. When transforming back and forth, his clothing, weapons, and other accoutrements seem to simply vanish and then re-appear on his person. While in his giant dog form, the toxins of Silver Dog's poison claws are transferred into his fangs. This caused his bite to have extremely caustic effects, an ability which is also transferred to his saliva. Additionally, his saliva can be turned into a poisonous, mist-like gas. Silver Dog's orb of light form gives him the ability to quickly teleport away if necessary, as seen when Silver Dog morphed into a ball of energy to escape a grave. He later used this form to pursue a fleeing Warship, materializing upon impacting with the ground and producing an explosion. Despite the large size of his true form, Silver Dog possesses astounding speed for an enormous dog where Alma had a hard time dodging some his attacks during their first battle over Ozai despite being more agile. When he transformed in order to fight against a demon, Silver Dog was able to bite off and decapitate the demon spirit's physical form's head before he could react when the dog demon took him by surprise.

**Cold Immunity**: Silver Dog can stand in low temperatures where not affected by the icy cold in the mountains, and valleys.

**Demonic Aura Sensitivity**: Silver Dog can feel demonic energies. When he met Sonya, he immediately noticed that she was a hanyō. He later recognized Marko as a hanyō, too. Alma also told Silver Dog that Marko was telling the truth when he claims to be her sister because their two auras were very similar. Silver Dog also realized that they must both be the daughters of a powerful demon.

**Demonic Energy Barriers**: Silver Dog was somehow capable of creating barriers of immense power as he was able to put a powerful barrier on Negav, which was powerful enough that not even Raven, a half blooded demon son and a powerful mage herself can withstand.

**Demonic Energy Projection**: Silver Dog can strike silently at a distance with thin projections from his fingers. His demonic aura takes on the form of his true form. When he gets angry from his bloodlust, his demonic aura takes on the form of his true form. Even when not engulfed by her rage, his paternal grandfather's spirit still appears such as when she summons the sword to his skeleton.

**Weakness**:

**Physical Trauma**: Major physical injuries such as stab wounds and dismemberment can cause Silver Dog pain and also slow him down. However, this is more or less momentary as he can rapidly recover from most injuries so long as he hasn't been weakened by other means such as spiritual power or purification methods.

**Poison**: While normally able to nullify most poisons because of his own brand of poison, Silver Dog can be incapacitated with extremely powerful posion; for example, it was able to severely burn Silver Dog on contact.

**Sensory Overload**: Silver Dog's sense of smell is so acute that he is vulnerable to sensory overload. His taste buds are also highly sensitive to spicy foods; Chun sarcastically points out that during battle, Silver Dog will blow off "a gaping hole in his gut", but can't even come near a plate of curry.

**Spiritual Powers**: Silver Dog is susceptible to the effects of spiritual power, seeing as how Alma were able to subdue him with various spells. This is inclusive of mystical objects such as the sacred arrows, sacred sutra, and the beads of subjugation. The powerful purifying barrier surrounding Mount Hakurei was also able to forcibly transform Silver Dog into his human form; beforehand, the barrier did cause him noticeable discomfort and weakened his demonic abilities.