Ajal Ruoc

### Personality Traits:

* **Easy-Going**: Ajal's normal and boring life leads him to take chances on anything, including accepting the role of Death
* **Empathetic**: Despite his grim duties, he maintains a deep sense of empathy for those he encounters.
* **Resilient**: Over time, he develops a strong resolve to fulfill his duties while upholding his moral principles.

### Role in the Story:

* **Protagonist**
* **Grim Reaper Figure**: Tasked with the role of ushering souls and maintaining the balance between life and death.
* **Inheritor of Death**: His role as an Inheritor leads him to take on the challenge of uniting with the oher Inheritors in order to save the Universe from its destructive fate.

### Character Arc:

* **Acceptance**: Ajal moves from reluctance and fear to accepting and embracing his role.
* **Moral Dilemmas**: Faces challenging situations that test his ethics and understanding of life and death.
* **Betrayal and Revenge**: Deals with betrayal by a close friend, leading to a complex path of revenge and redemption.

### Relationships:

* **Complex Friendship**: With Kael, marked by betrayal.
* **Allies**: Forms bonds with other inheritors and his classmates, especially Jean/Arc, Yumiko, and Ezekial
* **Mentor Figure**: He is a personal student of Kaito and the student of the teachers while attending Arkphis Institute.

### Vulnerabilities:

* **Emotional Struggle**: His empathy and human emotions often conflict with his duties.
* **Mortal Origin**: Despite his powers, he retains some human vulnerabilities.

### Powers and Abilities:

1. **Soul Perception**: Ability to see and communicate with souls, both living and departed.
2. **Ethereal Transition**: Can phase between the physical and spiritual realms.
3. **Life-Death Manipulation**: While not typically used to harm, Ajal can manipulate life force, primarily to ease the passing of souls.
4. **Teleportation**: Can teleport to any nearby location where death is imminent or has occurred.
5. **Chronokinesis (Limited)**: Can manipulate time on a small scale, particularly in moments of death.
6. **Soul Whisper**: Ajal can communicate with souls, offering guidance or extracting information.
7. **Soul Bond**: Temporarily binds his soul with another, gaining insights into their emotions and memories.
8. **Ethereal Chains**: Summons chains that can bind or manipulate souls, particularly effective against spectral entities.
9. **Grim Presence**: His mere presence can induce fear or even knock unconscious those who aren't strong enough to resist.
10. **Decay Touch**: Accelerates the decay of inanimate objects, symbolizing the inevitable march of time and death.
11. **Ephemeral Glimpse**: Gains fleeting visions of potential futures at moments of significant death.

**Scythe Mastery**:

* **Spectral Slash**: Unleashes energy waves from his scythe that can sever the ethereal ties of souls and slice through most physical objects.
* **Shadow Step**: Uses the scythe to tear open temporary portals, allowing for swift, shadowy movements across short distances.
* **Reaper's Whirlwind**: A spinning attack that creates a vortex, drawing in and disorienting adversaries.
* **Rift Slash**: By channeling his death energies, Ajal can extend the reach of his scythe's blade, creating a rift of dark energy that slashes at enemies from a distance. This attack combines physical prowess with his supernatural control over death.
* **Spectral Vortex**: Spinning his scythe rapidly, Ajal generates a vortex of spectral energy that can pull in and slice through multiple adversaries, acting like a tornado of deadly force. This move is particularly useful in crowd control or against swarming enemies.
* **Eclipse Strike**: A signature move where Ajal imbues his scythe with dark energy, causing it to glow ominously before unleashing a massive, crescent-shaped wave of energy. This wave can cut through large groups of enemies or cause significant damage to larger foes.
* **Phantom Edge**: Ajal can make his scythe momentarily intangible, allowing it to pass through shields or armor before solidifying to strike its target. This technique symbolizes the inevitable reach of death.
* **Soul Reaver**: A precise, calculated strike aimed at the vital points of an opponent. When this move connects, it not only causes physical damage but also momentarily weakens the connection between the target's body and soul, disorienting them.
* **Gravekeeper’s Sweep**: A ground-based attack where Ajal swings his scythe low, creating a wave of dark energy along the ground. This move can trip up enemies or disrupt their footing, setting them up for follow-up attacks.

### Requiem: "Eclipse of the Endless Night"

* When activated, Ajal becomes the embodiment of death's inevitability. His scythe glows with a ghostly light, and he gains the ability to phase through physical attacks, representing the intangible nature of death. In this state, he gains ehavily increased speed and strength as well allowing his scythe strikes to disrupt the very essence of life, forcing living beings to confront their mortality. This power is used sparingly, as it takes a significant toll on Ajal and those around him.

### Divine Dominion: "Realm of the Final Sunset"

* Ajal can summon or transport others to a spectral realm that represents the transitional state between life and death. In this realm, Ajal has enhanced control over souls and can bend the reality to reflect the fears or desires of those within it. This dominion is a place of reflection, revelation, and sometimes reconciliation, where the truths of the soul are laid bare.