Kielon Holt

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Briefly under the possession of Merga (Pre-Sequel Timeline)

Magical Enforcement Team of Shang-Mu

"*Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom :3.*"
—Kielon

## Appearance

**Kielon Holt** is a greyscaled Mountain Lion/Dragon hybrid standing at the height of an average human. He wears an unhooded jacket with a stitched neckpad. His earpieces were hand designed, greatly enhancing his hearing.

## Personality

Kielon is a cautious character, but he will fight if he has to. In most situations, he will analyze his surroundings before determining whether to attack or not. Even if a situation appears to be going amiss, he will jump into a fight to help his friends.

Kielon suffers from *Post Traumatic Stress Disorder* (PTSD) as well as *Hypochondriasis* (anxiety disorder), which has led him to become very wary of every situation. In almost any given situation, he can become very worried about the surrounding environment even if everything seems to be in order. His anxiety creeps up even into the people he knows very closely, thus causing him to worry about his friends and family getting hurt.

He does not agree with the use of firearms, due to his troubled past. Recently, after being shot following a domestic disturbance investigation, his view on firearms have been impaired greatly.

A side effect of his PTSD is that often during his sleep, he dreams of the moment he lost his brother, thus will go panic attacks causing him to scream loudly. Another side effect of his PTSD is that he suffers from claustrophobia. As he has aged, the nightmares have become rare and when one does happen, he overwrites the nightmare.

Since learning from his father that he is half-dragon, Kielon has become forgiving towards other dragons. Originally, after experiencing the traumatizing loss of his brother, Kielon's trust towards dragons were minimal at best. This behaviour however, did not last long, as the hybrid's father explained Kielon's heritage and who he truly is. That view changed for him very quickly after learning his heritage.

He has quickly became adept with the usage of magic, thus learning to cast and control various spells. After discovering the draconic book that his father kept secret, the hybrid learned the many secrets of the ancient dragons. Now at his prime, he seeks to discover if there are any more secrets within his Dragonblood.

Since mastering his travel to the Astral Realm, he strongly believes in helping those who are lost or in need of help. Upon his travels, he has seen many creatures and souls who have either died or stuck in the Astral Realm. If given the chance, he will go out of his way to help someone in the Astral Realm, even if it the task may put his own life at risk.

## Abilities

### Magical Background

Kielon's magical powers have been passed down in his family since the era of the ancient dragons. Much like the energy of the Three Kingdoms comes from the Kingdom Stone, The Holts' magical knowledge comes from a family heirloom: a book created by the ancient dragons. They wanted to ensure their knowledge was kept from spreading to too many people, so the book is "enchanted" to ensure that only one bloodline is capable of understanding its potential. Any attempts by non-family members to read the book will fail, and the reader will never understand what they have read, no matter the amount times they have attempted to read it.

Without the book, Kielon's entire ancestry would have withered away, like ashes in the wind. His current spells and abilities would remain, but the next generation of Holts would be unable to learn the same magic, even if Kielon himself attempted to teach them. The knowledge can only be obtained from the book itself. Because of this, Holt family members are unable to teach other Avalicians any of their magic. Kielon's family has guarded this book with their lives from the beginning, taking the utmost care that the knowledge within lives on.

### Innate Abilities

* **Hyperacustics:** heightened hearing allows him to hear more than most creatures on Avalice

### Acquired Abilities

* **Frost Armor:** can summon ice armor that covers the legs, waist, chest, and arms. Can now be amplified via Kielon's magical abilities.
* **Sorcerery:** Able to cast a variety of spells at moments notice. He favors to stick with Ice spells.
* **Dragon Boost:** Similar to Lilac's Dragon Boost ability, Kielon is able to boost at rapid speeds. He also uses the boost to manipulate mass, similar to an earthquake.

### Astral Abilities

* **Astral Realm Travel:** With the help of his magical powers, Kielon is able to travel to the Astral Realm and leave his physical form in Avalice. He is able to keep tethered to his physical form while in his Astral form to ensure he doesn't end up permanetly trapped in the Astral Realm.
	+ Kielon is able to send Lilac to the Astral Realm with him, although she has been the only individual that his travel spell works on.
* **Astral Transformation:** With the use of his Astral Energy, he is able to transform into nearly any creature he desires. His most powerful form is an Eastern Dragon from Chinese Mythology. He grows up to four times his normal size while in the Eastern Dragon form, as well as gaining and amplifying abilities.
* **Astral Magic:** Magic in the Astral realm is not applied the same way that magic on Avalice is used, instead it blends with the power of his soul and his Astral energy. He uses Shadow-Ice skills in the Astral Realm.
* **Astral Interaction:** His ability to go to the Astral Realm enables Kielon to interact with creatures from the dead and the Spiritual Realm. This has enabled him to learn the history of many individuals in and outside of Avalice.

## Skills

* **Highly Perceptive:** able to maintain strict focus when analyzing his surroundings
* **Total Recall:** able to retell any memory from his past
* **Melee Proficiency:** able to effectively use any melee weapon at his disposal with ease
* **Uncanny Dodge:** able to dodge projectile attacks easier
* **Adept/Mastery of Magic:** Learns various magical abilities and spells quickly.

## Campaigns

* FFRP
* Freedom Planet: The Pre-Sequel

## History

### Backstory

Kielon was born as a twin to his brother Jion, and both were raised in a household on the eastern outskirts of Shang Mu. Both Kielon and Jion grew up as best friends, almost to the point of being inseparable. Their similarities went far beyond mere appearance; it’s almost like they shared a mind. Most prominently, they shared a common fascination of Dragons and comics. It showed in everything they did: the games they played with each other, their decorations and choice of apparel, and many other ways. Of course, they desperately wanted to meet a member of the rare species in person. But that wouldn’t happen for a few years.

The closest thing they had was, unsurprisingly, comic books. Their favorite was one called The Dragon Wars of Avalice. As soon as they heard of its first issue, they quickly rushed to the comic store near home and grabbed a copy. About every six months, a new issue of the comic series would be released, prompting the twins to hound the comic store staff until they got it in stock, sometimes for up to a week before an issue’s official release date.The owner of the store eventually started reserving the collector's editions of the comics just for the twins.

At the age of twelve, the twins were finally granted their wish of meeting a dragon when they came across a traveling Wood dragon named Ishti. The dragon didn’t mind their insatiable curiosity; in fact, he thoroughly enjoyed the young company. After spending an extended of period of time with him, the twins began to regard Ishti as a role model. Naturally, after Ishti left Shang Mu to explore the rest of Avalice, the twins became even more obsessed with dragons. Every other month afterwards, Ishti returned to Shang Mu just to see the twins, which never failed to make their week.

Fast-forward to the twins’ eighteenth birthday. As the two are heading towards a local bakery to purchase their birthday cake, they are ambushed by a gang. Before either can protest, the leader of the gang, a dragon, shoots Jion point-blank in the head. Covered in gore and all but petrified by shock, Kielon barely manages to catch his brother as his lifeless body slumps to the pavement. Kielon falls to his knees cradling his brother’s body in his arms.

Alerted by the gunshot, a nearby Shang Mu officer rushes to the scene and incapacitates one gang member, a panda, with a taser. Then the groundhog officer draws his plasma whip and lassoes the fleeing deer, stopping it in its tracks and stunning it besides. Instead of running, the dragon fires two shots at the officer, but they are stopped by his armor. But before the officer can recover and pursue the dragon gangster, he escapes into an alleyway and disappears.

The immediate threat gone, the officer notices the bloodied teenager holding his dead twin. He makes his way over to the sob-racked mountain lion as two other Shang Mu officers arrive on the scene. The groundhog attempts to comfort Kielon, but the grieving teen doesn’t even seem to notice him.

After a few minutes of this, Kielon gently lowers his brother’s corpse to the ground and asks, “how could they do this?”

“Do what?” the officer replies, puzzled.

“Dragons,” Kielon chokes. “Jion loved everything about them, but… but now he’s dead because of one!”

Then the mountain lion rises and starts towards the stunned and now-handcuffed gang members. “How could a dragon do this? WHO IS HE?!”

The unconscious gang members do not reply.

The groundhog attempts to hold Kielon back, but the enraged teen simply shrugs off his grip. Before he can get close to the gang members, however, the other officers intervene. Together, they are able to restrain the mountain lion and call for backup. A medic arrives and sedates the thrashing and now-incomprehensible Kielon.

Kielon soon proceeded to yell in agony, "Why would anyone do this to my brother, especially a DRAGON!!!". Then Kielon preceded to go into a panic attack. As medical professionals arrived, a paramedic rushed over to Kielon and injected him with a knockout serum in order for the authorities to contain the situation.

### The Pre-Beginning (Pre-Sequel Timeline)

Kielon is currently sleeping in a tent within a Shuigang camp. While he was sleeping, he began to relive the moment of his friend being shot in front of him, causing him to cry out. This has lead to his group worrying about the severity of the unfortunate event.

### Astral Realm Troubles (Pre Sequel Timeline)

While in Thermal Base with The Pre-Sequel team, Jing Hai told the group of the heightened amount of robot activity. Kielon wanting to ensure the safety of his team, attempted travel to the Astral Realm via magic, much to his surprise and the group's, he was able to leave his physical form. In order for him to travel, Kielon lost consciousness of his physical form with no harm done to it. But unknown to the group, they thought that either Kielon was a robot or died, but Clyde was able to confirm to the group that he was still alive and breathing. Kuu Sydan was able to see Kielon floating in the air and was able to communicate to her of his intentions and to signal to the group of his intentions.

Traveling around the inner workings of Thermal base, he discovered the truth about all the clones running around Avalice, as well as a more horrifying truth. Among all the clones being produced, there was a chamber labeled,

"Merga"

- Only organic, no metal or mechanical parts allowed

Shocked by all this information, Kielon rushed immediately to his physical form. While traveling back he was rapidly trailed by a dragon with the intent of harming Kielon. Unable to reach his body before being caught by the dragon, regained consciousness in the physical world. Much to the group's surprise, he told the group about the inner workings of the base and that it needs to be destroyed immediately. In a panicked matter, he told the group that an Astral Dragon was able to follow him back to his mind and that he is unsure about the possession. As soon as Kielon stated that information to the group, against Kielon's will, he shot a spell that triggered all the alarms of the base. Wanting to ensure that he doesn't cause harm to the group, panickly asks the group to either stun him, or knock him out. Quinn quickly reacts to the request by giving a non-lethal blow to Kielon's head, thus knocking him out.

In Kielon's sub-consciousness, he made contact with the Astral dragon in question, whose name happened to be Merga.

She asks Kielon,

"You and your group seem to be very worthy of helping my cause, and taking over your mind will make doing my work easy.

Kielon regretfully asks, "I do not want any harm to my friends/group, what proposal do you have for me?"

"Well here is what I have for you," Merga silently laughs. "for the duration of my control, you get 15 days of physical and mental control of your body, and you can do anything you need to with your group." *While Merga is making the deal with Kielon, he is thinking about a way upon when he regains consciousness of his physical form, how he can rid of the possession.* "But, when those 15 days are over, I gain control of your physically and mentally and your group must help me and my cause without question."

*Kielon shortly thinks of an idea of how to rid of Merga, although the idea he had may not leave him breathing afterwards.* He regretfully accepts the offer and asks Merga, "is it okay if I may get the first fifteen days?"

*Merga sighs slowly and pauses*, "I will allow that, but just remember..... fifteen days." She snaps her fingers and Kielon regains consciousness again outside of a drowned Thermal Base. He looks at the group panting slowly, with the group rapidly asking him what just happened. He pauses to the group, knowing the next series of events will terrify the group. He deactivates his fire shield and tells the group of the 15 days he has control over his body. He pauses again but with a saddened and intent tone, "I don't know what is going to happen when I tell you guys this, but when I do, you must do it quickly." He grabs his face with his left hand, he sighs and looks at every member of the group including the main trio. "I need you guys to kill me... Trust me I will be fine." Everyone except for Quinn reacts negatively to the request and denies it. He quickly rushes over to Quinn who specializes in killing people to do the job. She accepts and Kielon looks at the group and quickly closes his eyes before being lethaly stabbed in the chest by Quinn. As his body falls to the ground and blood gushing from it, He and Merga were released from Kielon's body. With Merga unable to reach back to his body, Kielon's Astral form returns to his body, thus reviving him. After a few minutes of Kielon's lifeless body laying on the ground, he finally gasps for air with the stab wound gone. He immediately thanks Quinn for accepting the request and apologizes to the group for the sudden and gruesome events. After explaining everything that happened to him in detail, he decides that it is the best course of action if he and Lilac alone report the incident to the magister, hoping that he will be able to know more about Merga and hopefully able to confirm that she no longer has possession of Kielon.

While sleeping at his house, he dreams of Merga silently laughing and saying, "Fourteen days...."