Harry Benson

Harry Benson - Just a nice guy

## Personality

In his early stages Harry Benson as a character can be conveyed as a religious, strong willed but blind man, one that was blindly lead into a faith almost too perfect to be true. Harry would become attached to his faith as he grows to appreciate existence with each passing day so when **New Gods** are introduced into the story we see just how caught up in his beliefs Harry is after he kills a **New God** after the **New God** is portrayed like a hero by the masses and thus shifting the lime light away from the **Elder Gods** that Harry believes created The Lesser in an act of benevolence. Our next development in this villain is in the **Set In Stone** story. Harry is presented to be someone so caught up in their religion that nothing would sway them from their beliefs (much like real life religious terrorists), however because King Of Sand is a world with **Gods** proven to be real, this means we are able to see the reaction when one of these religious men's beliefs are disproven. In Harry's case we find that if his ideal beliefs are not what he had believed, he will do what ever he can to make his beliefs true thus driving him to absorb as many souls as he needs to become his ideal God.

As Harry becomes extremely strong in **The Bois 3** we see how he grows to become erratic, vengeful and not at all like the **Gods** he worshipped in his early stages. We see him end up doing whatever he feels like he wants to do and when he becomes The Arena Master this is shown even clearer as he ends up only adopting the goal of personal pleasure, not benevolence when he is gifted full control of reality in The Arena. When coming face to face with his fate at the end of **The Bois 3** we see him finally realise the reality of **The Elder Gods** situation, a situation of being too powerful to care about the well being of those below you. All hatred towards **Bromethius** is lifted in his final moments. He then dies silently seconds after his realisation.

## Abilities

Harry insists to **the Bois** that he is just a weak **Berthan** Man who knows a lot however what **The Bois** don't know is that Harry Benson is a **New God** with the powers of the "Living Artifact", this means Harry can take souls from dead **Gods**, basically absorbing their powers for his own use. At his peak, Harry's abilities consisted of Stealing Powers, emitting heat waves, making stone minions, teleportation, decaying things upon impact, controlling water, controlling fish, shooting lightning, controlling sand, and controlling reality inside the Arena.

### Physical Strength

Because Harry is absorbing souls he gets stronger with each one he takes in, at first only punching with less force than the average human male and after absorbing **Demetrius**' soul he gained enough strength to naturally punch through trees. His reflexes and speed also increase alongside his strength, being able to catch arrows and run as fast as a wild beast.

### Living Artifact

Harry's original ability was gained at the same time as **Florence Palebringer** and Sven Yellor however he received an Anomaly Power meaning it didn't adhere to the normal elemental categories that most other **Gods** did. Harry gained the power of the "Living Artifact" as he would come to call it. This ability means he can steal dead **God's** powers if he stands close to said **God's** body soon after its death.

### Soul of Heat

after killing Sven Yellor, Harry gained the powers of Heat. These powers allow him to direct a wave of heat in a certain direction with the heat varying from a warm breeze to a skin crisping blaze. Harry only found out he had his artifact powers once gaining Yellor's ability. Harry had a bit of time to train to use the power but only managed to improve on the heat output a little, before going on his expedition to The Stone Island.

### Soul of Stone

Harry gained his stone powers after killing Platenos. Upon gaining these powers Harry could only really be able to move and shape stone with his mind however after training in secret when in Mainland Harry managed to be able to create familiars from stone with his powers, this allows him to basically create minions from stone and with enough time and effort even create a grand beast with it like the stone dragon "Defcees".

### Soul of Dimension

After killing Klavicus, Harry gained the power of Dimension. This ability allows Harry to change his hop in and out of his dimension to teleport to another location. Upon gaining the ability Harry could only teleport to places he could see, however with enough training in secret Harry soon learned that he could navigate around outside of his dimension and hop back in if he focuses enough while making a "jump". Harry would never learn to however teleport things that were not touching him. When battling **Demetrius** Harry would learn of his limit while using his Dimension powers. If Harry would become too tired when leaving his dimension (an easy task for him) he would struggle to make his way back into his dimension thus risking his life as he would suffocate from the lack of oxygen when out of his dimension.

### Soul of Decay

After killing Artimus, Harry gained the power of Decay. This ability allows to Harry to increase somethings' physical age upon touching it. Upon gaining this ability Harry could age something 2 days every second. What may sound like Harry's most powerful ability was mostly his least. At Harry's peak he could age something a year every second he would touch it so really armour wouldn't be affected and if actually touching a mortals body he would, for example, turn a 23-year-old man into a 30-year-old man if managing to touch him for approximately 7 consecutive seconds. Harry also never managed to increase the distance at which he could affect an item. The reason Harry never fully trained this power is that he had little time to after gaining it and lost interest in it after soon after becoming The Arena Master.

### Soul of Ocean

After killing **Demetrius** Harry gained all the powers of the **ocean element** however he couldn't use them too well since an **Elder God** already has a more limited power over each one (depending on the God's strength). Harry could control water to the point in which he could flood a small village, Control fish (the largest of which being a Shark), Shoot 40 volts of lightning a second (primarily out of his hands) and control sand to the point in which he can shred a rabbit with a small tornado. The reason all these powers may seem weak is once again due to a lack of time and effort on Harry's part.

### The Arena Master

After convincing the Parasyte inside the last Arena Master to "infect his interesting brain and lend me your interesting powers" Harry obtained the power to control reality inside the Arena. With the parasite in Harry he can do just about anything as long as he's in the area of the Arena. the only downside to these powers really is that with them come a parasyte that changes your personality drastically over time, making the host lose interest in almost anything but seeing mortals fight to the death in the arena. The only thing stopping Harry from easily killing **The Bois** in the arena is the fact that he would get no satisfaction in doing it himself and only getting satisfaction from seeing them fight each other to death (which was extremely unlikely to happen).

## Trivia

On the FORT IDLE member list Harry is noted as "A nice Guy" but it doesn't look like it was written by Sethry Or John.