Code: Paradox

## Pardox

*Codename: Paradox*

*Actual Name: Elias Bernstein*

Elias Bernstein is an Angler that works for the School of the Void and used to work along side his younger brother Psycho. Headmaster Vargas has given him a special mission to tack and hunt down his younger brother and to bring him back to him alive. Elias chose the codename Paradox because he views his life as a Paradox.

## Description

Paradox is a human of Garufa origin unlike his brother who is a human of Dream Weaver origin. This is due to having supposedly a Dream Weaver father and a Garufa mother. He wears a short white jacket of sorts over his black robes. Paradox carries ten daggers on him at all times three on each side and four across his chest. He also has blades at the front of his feet and at the back representing some strange creature's claws. He wears light metallic clawed gauntlets. His most notable feature is what seems to be stitches all over his body.

## Personality

His appearance used to be identical to his younger brother Psycho's, Paradox had a personality quite different from his twin. He often masks his emotions and true intentions behind a charming smile, beguiling others into joining his missions, and treats allies and strangers alike in a docile, polite manner. He is known to be a ruthless, calculating, and dangerous person if crossed. Extremely observant of others, Elias is capable of analyzing a person and manipulating them to get what he wants.
With a clear goal in sight beyond that of his mission given to him by Vargas, Elias will strike down any obstacle or opponent that gets in his way of his goal, even his own brother. Despite this Elias is also shows to be caring and sympathetic to those he cares about. His villainous actions typically have an underlying purpose that he chooses not to share with others. He blames himself for what happened to Psycho before he became a mad Slayer. Elias' incentive to hunt his brother seems to be beyond his orders and seems to be something else entirely. He turns his feelings of guilt into resentment as he is tormented by his younger brother Psycho roaming the world.
Currently Paradox's personality seems to have shifted as perhaps a side effect to the experiments he was apart of as he expresses his emotions inversely for example if he is sad he is happy and vice versa.

## Abilities

Paradox has one of more odder fighting styles as he deals both physical damage but also is skilled at attacking ones mind. His abilities are similar to the psychic powers of some Outsiders and mind flayers alike, preferring to launch dangerous mental assaults on people's minds rather that psychically harming someone. Due to his prowess with psychic abilities he has trained his mind to completely negate mental attacks as well as manipulate the air around him to breath in clean air separating the toxins. Paradox is one of the select few Slayers that are not required to wear a mask as for some odd reason changelings are unable to steal his face however occasionally he wears a mask as an attempt to fit in.

Paradox possess a Slayers art however he rarely uses and when he uses it, it seems as if he is a beginner when using his Slayers art as if it was not his own. His Slayers art is Shadow manipulation an extremely powerful and versatile slayers art that allows its user to manipulate any shadow into a construct of sorts however the drawback to this Slayers art is that it can only be used when Light is present. The problem with that is since the Solar demise the world is locked into eternal night.

## Background

Paradox is currently an Angler who works for the School of the Void and was Psycho's former partner and his younger brother. Paradox suffers from memory loss and cannot remember anything that has happened to him before he became a member of Defiance and started working for the School of the Void. Much like Psycho when Paradox was not hunting mad slayers he took part in some experiments that Head Master Vargas conducted. What these experiments detailed is uncertain however the results of these experiments for Paradox managed to increase his psychic abilities to the point where it amplified his Slayer's Art. When his younger brother became a mad Slayer Paradox volunteered to hunt his own brother down instead of anyone else. As for why he wants to hunt his own brother down is known only to Kannon but many speculate it relates to his memory loss.