Boutros al-Baghdadi

Perseus, The Perseid, Aegis Mineralizer, Perseus of the Holy Aegis, Bearer of God's Aegis, Ladies' Man Perseus, Man-of-Men Lord Perseus, Most Loyal Sellsword

### Other Names

Legacy Perseus
Perseus' Reincarnation
Descendant of Perseus

## Relationships

### Ancestors

**Divine Ancestors**
Zeus (Progenitor)
**Mortal Ancestors**
Perseus, Andromeda, Perses, The Perseides, Achaemenes (Allegedly)

### Parents

Unnamed Parents
Zeus (Spiritual Father)

### Others

Unnamed "Guardian"
Zayna Tadjedin (Cousin)

## Personal Status

### Groups

Team Cao Cao
Swords of Dawn (Formerly)

### Affliations

Hero Faction (Executive)
Team D×D (Reserved)
Brooklyn Academy
Tytanos Faction (Formerly)
Khaos Brigade (Formerly)

### Equipment

Talaria (Formerly)
Aegis Mineralization

## Portrayal

### English VA

Doug Erholtz

**Boutros al-Baghdadi**, also called **Perseus**, is a famous mercenary formerly affiliated with the Swords of Dawn, and an executive of the Hero Faction. He is a divine son of Zeus, being the spirit inheritor and descendant of Perseus.

He participates in the Azazel Cup as a [Knight] of Team Spear of the Heavenly Emperor.

## Appearance

Boutros is generally described as a handsome guy in his late teens with an athletic build and above-average height. He has stylish dark-red hair and striking green eyes. Although he is a man of Middle Eastern descent, his appearance is "white" enough to be perceived as caucasian.

While being a member of the Hero Faction, he wears a Celestial Bronze armor in ancient Greek style with a Japanese *gakuran* underneath, as well as bronze bracers and greaves. While acting as a mercenary, he usually wears a gray mask with black markings to conceal his face and his identity, along with a black mantle with ancient Greek-inspired armor underneath.

## Personality

According to many, Boutros is an anomaly, as although he has sociable manners, is easily moved, and is a gentle-hearted young man, he has the flaw that, once motivated to do something, he will not stop until he gives his all and then some more. Once he decides to stain his hands with wrongdoing, he becomes capable of killing innocents with a gentle manner and smile.

On many occasions, he has shown his acting skills and his two-faced nature. Soon after he enrolled in Brooklyn Academy of the Gifted, he quickly became popular at school for having a modern sort of beauty, getting along well with people, and being gentle with others. He portrays himself as an overall good youth who is polite, emotional, and easily gets teary-eyed. His fault can be said to be that he tends to overindulge in the things that he likes to the point that he consumes them all at once.

In private, however, he has shown to be sarcastic, with a black sense of humor and a pragmatic, amoral philosophy for life. His pragmatism is also the deciding factor in which missions and battles he chooses to involve in as he is said to value his own life over anything else.

Throughout his time working as a mercenary, he adopted an unscrupulous personality and became willing to kill more-or-less anyone for the right price. However, he is neither completely heartless nor is he sadistic. Because of the avarice nature of his past, he is often sneered at by many members of the Hero Faction, especially when considering his inherited spirit and famous ancestor is one of the most legendary heroes in Greek mythology.

While his loyalty is often questioned or looked down upon by many people, he is said to be the person with the most loyalty to Han Zhihao despite of their differing views, with the True Longinus wielder himself even stated that he is the only person in their entire faction who he would actually trusted with his life.

## History

### Early Years

Boutros al-Baghdadi was born in 199X as the fourth and youngest son of a family who descended from Perseus, the Greek hero who decapitated Medusa, through his son Perses. His family were British-Iranians, his great-grandparents immigrated from Iran to Britain in the late 18th-century, and his father was half-white while his mother was a Greek immigrant.

He had three older sisters, the youngest was two years older than him, though he also had a lot of cousins he knew growing up. However, among all of them, he was the closest to Zayna Tadjedin, enough for his grandparents to have wanted the two to be betrothed, but both his and Zayna's parents refused.

### Swords of Dawn

When he was 7 years old, while on a trip to London to visit his maternal family, the bus that his family was on was caught in a deadly accident, one that he only discovered later on to be a terrorist attack from a group of anti-mundane dark wizards. Although he was fortunate enough to escape the wreckage alive, his parents and two of his sisters died in the crash, while his oldest sister died on the way to the hospital.

Not much is known about his past since this point forward as he mysteriously disappeared after several days of hospitalization. Even now, when asked about this current period of time in his past, he would just laugh and give a random answer every time he is asked.

Once, he said that Zeus took him away to be trained by the Hesperides. Another time, he said that he remembered his past life as Perseus because of the trauma and escaped back to Greece to train himself. And when asked by Sadie and Carter, he told her he was kidnapped by a shadowy organization and was trained by them to become their killing machine.

Regardless, by the time he was 10 years old, Boutros emerged in the criminal world as a professional mercenary, and was dubbed as **Perseus** by many for his signature gorgon-embedded shield, much for his surprise and amusement. And after 5 years of work, he had built himself a reputation as a powerful and merciless mercenary affiliated with the Swords of Dawn, a small mercenary group whose members went by the names of different mythical figures or legendary heroes.

### Meeting Han Zhihao

Boutros could arguably be considered Han Zhihao's first actual companion and a founding member of the Hero Faction. However, not much is known about how they met and why they are so close, though many people just chalk it up to them being friends with benefits/amicable exes.

Based on his belief in the importance of life-debts, it can be presumed that, at some point, Han Zhihao saved him from death and he feels an obligation to repay that debt to him. Despite this, however, Han Zhihao has stated multiple times that he doesn't care much about this debt and that their friendship is born from a myriad of trials and hardships both of them endured together.

### Hero Faction

Boutros was an executive and former second-in-command of the Hero Faction, even noted to have once been in charge of their accounting. However, due to disagreements between him and the other executives, mainly because of his disregard for honor, he decided to retire from the Hero Faction, though not before training Georg and Jeanne to take over his duties.

## Equipment

**Talaria**: A pair of winged shoes Boutros got from Hermes as reward after doing him a favor. The shoes could transform themselves into any kind or brand of shoes that the user likes, which were leather boots in his case, and could be activated by the activation word "Maia". It was destroyed, however, during his fight with the Titan Iapetus.

**Hades' Helm(Mantle of Invisibility)**: A divine artifact Boutros found in his legendary ancestor's secret grave. It was given to the original Perseus by Hermes to help him vanquish Medusa. While it is often portrayed as Hades' Helm of Invisibility, in reality, it is a normal-looking, if not slightly tattered due to the passage of time, black mantle that he regularly wears. It has the ability to hide the user and anyone who touches it from being detected through magical or optical means for a certain amount of time.

**Harpe(Sword of Perseus)**: The sword used by the original Perseus to decapitate Medusa and to slay the fearsome sea monster Cetus. It is a Celestial Bronze *khopesh*-like sword called a *harpe* with glowing hieroglyphs engraved on the blade. It is a divine sword created by Hephaestus, imbued with the power to create wounds that can only be healed through natural means, and is extremely sharp, capable of slicing through meters-thick concrete with ease.

**Aegis Mineralization**: Boutros' Sacred Gear and his preferred weapon of choice. It takes the form of an ornate Ancient Greek shield imprinted with the fearsome face of a gorgon which can shoot out beams of magical energy capable of transforming anything it touches into stone, regardless if it is inanimate objects, living organisms, or even magical attacks.

* **Caput-Medusae and Mineralization Knight**: Aegis Mineralization's original Balance Breaker. When activated, the gorgon's head detaches from the shield, becomes gigantic and floats mid-air, and charges a beam from its eyes that turns anyone but him within a kilometer-radius into stone, indiscrimated of friends or foes.
* **Perses Eurymedon**: Boutros' Abyss Side Balance Breaker. It shielded him in a feathered serpent-like Scale Mail which increases his physical and magical capabilities to God-class and grants him the legendary petrifying gaze of the infamous Medusa. Those who are petrified by him are also transformed into animated stone Scale Mails and are armed with bronze weapons that can petrify anything and anyone they cut will also turn into new Scale Mail.

## Trivia

* His name "Boutros" is the Arabic form of "Peter", which means "rock, stone".
* Boutros is bisexual with a preference to women, especially "older sister"-type of girls.
	+ Han Zhihao is the first and, by far, the only long-term relationship he has with a guy.
* Between breasts and arse, Boutros would choose arse, though he finds thighs the most attractive part of the body, men and women alike.
* While attending Brooklyn Academy, Boutros stays with a "guardian" who takes care of his legal paperwork and meet the teachers whenever it's required.
* Allegedly, in addition to descending from Perseus and Andromeda through the Perseides, Boutros is also the descendant of Achaemenes, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty of rulers of Persia.
	+ According to Greek writers, both Achaemenes and Heracles were sons of Perseus.
		- In the "First Alcibiades", Achaemenes and Perseus' son Perses were the same individual, though many historians disagreed with this idea.
* According to Hermes, in their relationship, Boutros is the *erastes* to Han Zhihao's *eromenos*, implying that he might be older than Han Zhihao, have more experienced with sex than Han Zhihao, or simply he was the top in their relationship.