Maizen

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Maizen is an active explorer around the Earth and the Otherworlds.

## Background

Maizen is an individual who enjoys simply living his life with the small goal of achieving "The Eye of God". Being an adopted spiritual humanoid, Maizen does not accurately have a past to define who he really is. What he understands however, is beyond conceptual limits, further and faster than the mind can predict or probably even imagine. Being adopted by Bellicose Saint's, at the age of 7, Maizen sets foot on his own preparing for an almost, eternal training session with beings possessing prowess far more nauseatingly complex than the planet he lives on. Gaining Astral vision and a spent childhood on nothing but learning the powers of Higher beings, he had learned enough to be declared a Saint of his own kind, one he would later name the "Ethereal's" due to the amount of celestial ability he had obtained. His fighting capabilities by this point were far beyond an assassins, or combat prodigy, one could even say Maizen had created a level above perfected martial arts at this time. Before reaching adulthood, Maizen had gained a respect over most beings in the Otherworlds, he served a valuable token in the sights of those above him. In return of this, he was given handmade sigils, one from the Seraphim, and the other from the Spectral Saints. Both provided abilities of that fused with transcendence, powers within the comprehension of both fear and devotion. 20 years of age now, Maizen seeks to further see into the abstract existence, daring to sacrifice what could be his own mentality. Though not to be supported, the Saints inform him of "The Eye of God", thus now starting Maizen's Journey. While not possessing any supernatural forms, no unordinary habits, or even a real influence within Earth, it is more and beyond alarming to begin a serious fight with him. He does not wish to engage battles, but he will adhere to a friendly conversation.

## Personality

Maizen is a very wise and introverted individual. He's not exactly casual, but he isn't blind to the idea of being care free to people. More often than not, he is extremely silent and patient with his situations, mostly refusing to interact with most people, specially in conflict. In almost every given battle, he has stayed completely silent and taken leave without ever saying a word or signaling a gesture of anything, making it extremely unclear to the natural eye if there is any real intention or motive behind his character. However, it can be sensed that Maizen tends to get frustrated when interactions are initiated in reckless ways. At worse, Maizen seems to become angry at casted judgement if it's incorrect or impure.

While Maizen on the surface seems unapproachable, he does actually care for company of those with actual curiosities and sometimes even make small talk with those who find interest in him. He tends to enjoy conversations about living conditions and peoples goals for the future as he believes all people have a chance at living their best lives. These conversations seem to be a little uncommon however, as Maizen seems to show signs of strong self consciousness about social interactions. Since he has not interacted with nearly enough people, most interactions he takes into large account.

## Abilities

### *Nigh Absolute Combat:*

* Maizen has near to absolute fighting capability, guaranteeing a victory in hand to hand situations he's placed in. This ability is more a result of attrition and knowledge coming from sources that cannot be found on earth, making it very difficult to figure out counter strategies if they even exist in the first place. Part of this came from training with the Bellicose Saints, and another from Maizen's own extensive intelligence on human flaw, practicing a solution to every known error and every known exchange equivalent.

### *Mystical Martial Arts*:

* This is Maizen's personal martial arts he has created for himself making use of divine intervention and connections. While the combat itself is relative to normal knowledge, the execution is dependent on spiritual prowess, and energy control which up to this point Maizen has mastered.

### *Astral Senses*:

* This is a point of perspective in which Maizen can both view and hear the mortal realm and Otherworlds. As a result of this ability, Maizen can easily foresee, locate, and judge the intention of energy sources or souls. The radius of these senses depend on what Maizen can see and hear physically and can be limited by obstruction.

## Moves

### *Sanctify - Mist Palm*

* A basic move used by Maizen on often occasion in which Maizen will transfuse the essence of a Dominion Angel into his hands, forging it in burning golden light. Anything that makes contact with this light is then immediately neutralized or completed depleted of energy and force, regardless of the source energy or the current level of energy. This move slightly irritates Maizen since each time he uses it, his hands usually feel like they were lightly set aflame for a brief moment.

* ❓ Not much is known about how Maizen got the move, but it's assumed that since his bond with a high ranking angel exists, he is allowed assist from the heavens.

### *Sanctify - Monarch's Hand*

* A move similar to Mist Palm except it does the exact opposite. Monarch's hand is a move in which Maizen cast's an absurd amount of soul essence from Ataraxy into his hands, forging an unstable soul that wraps around them. This soul is overloaded with concentrated essence directly from the Otherworlds, and anything that makes contact with it becomes unstable completely or overloads the amount of energy a vessel is able to take. This doesn't seem to affect Maizen as he was never born with a prime energy source or aura of his own, as all of his abilities up to this point were things handed down to him by higher powers. While his natural essence is affected, it's too small to make a difference or cause pain.

* ❓ Since Ataraxy is Maizen's home world, he is extremely familiar with the behavior of souls and their existence there as well as the essence of Ataraxy. Since the world repurposes soul energy, Maizen uses this as an advantage for power if need be.

### *Divination - Seraph's Barrier*

* This is a move which has only ever been seen demonstrated by Maizen in which he can cast an indestructible golden plated wall that he can manipulate and manifest at will. This wall has never been destroyed by anything or anyone else despite power differences in supernatural ability and sheer power, making it an ultimate defense in battle. It has however been unexpectedly shattered by Maizen on numerous occasions as a strategy to confuse opponents since they themselves don't seem to have any real affect on the obstruction. This is most likely due to the binding sigil that Maizen is a part of. Since these sigils are a permanent part of the ability and Maizen, the manifestation itself is obedient towards the laws that Maizen set for it prior to being manifested. This includes damaging the barrier. It has been demonstrated by Jaden however that it's movement can be stopped or forcibly halted.

* ❓ The origin of this ability was a reward for Maizen upon being promoted to the status of a Saint, in which a Seraphim Angel granted him a piece of God's throne, which happens to be the barrier. This transaction happened through a sigil forged by the angel, thus permanently sealing the ability within Maizen's spirit. While Maizen doesn't exactly demonstrate to be a Light User in any capacity, it is theorized that Light User's have the capability to learn this move through other means but it is extremely unlikely that it will achieve the same capability like Maizen's barrier since it would not be handed down from a higher power. Ironically, despite being an absolute defense, Maizen is very inexperienced using this move and is the only move he uses to a rudimentary degree.

#### *Divination - Seraph's Barrier | sub moves*

* **Harden**
* **Forge**
* **Sharpen**

### *Divination - Eldritch Siege*

* This move is the manifestation of Maizen's Saint status and otherworld connections in which he can suppress all natural world laws and create his own in a given space. This internal space can both manipulate reality and physical existence for some time, making it an ultimate offensive play. The move itself is used sparingly, as this strains Maizen's mental capacity for focus and ultimately causes eventual head trauma if used for too long. This was seen demonstrated only once towards Jaden where Maizen had trapped him in a form of stasis in a white void that Maizen had complete universal rule over. From a touch of his finger, Jaden experienced a divine smite, immediately sending him away with great force out of the void. This is the only example of this move being used so far.

* ❓ The origin of this ability was a reward for Maizen by the Spectral Saint's, for being promoted to a Saint status. This is a hand crafted move from the Spectral Saint's themselves that was given to Maizen via a Sigil similar to the Seraphim Barrier's Sigil. They believe Maizen to be an eventual overseer of the spiritual essence that creates the Astral world perception, the thing that grants Maizen the same capability for Astral senses, as Maizen was born a eidolon in a field of souls. Considering that this move manipulates existence itself to a degree, it is unclear how far the extents of this ability can reach as this move could just be making use of phantom pains. Maizen seems to show a competent idealization of this move, thus granting him more control of it than normal. With this in mind, it is theorized that Maizen could possibly have the potential of becoming a god of his own realm.

## Trivia

* Maizen is usually sleeping or meditating a lot in the plains thinking about portrayals of an ideal family.
* Maizen doesn't actually live anywhere and instead seems to roam forests, often enjoying fruits found along the way.
* Maizen is a born Eidolon for souls, but he himself does not know this.
* While Maizen still clearly demonstrates he acts like a basic human, on extremely rare instances he can be spotted acting like a cat, the most common sighting being him curling up while he sleeps on walls or in trees.
* Maizen declared himself an Ethereal Saint because of his soft nature with children who on very rare occasions will play with Maizen. Despite saying it was because of celestial capability, this is usually just an excuse for Maizen to cover up private life things.
* The instance of Maizen using Eldritch Siege on Jaden for the first time is a reference to his first interaction upon viewing Terminus, a forbidden realm in the Otherworlds.
* Maizen's white/silver eyes seem to have correlation with Jaden's and Princess Rose's Eye powers, as White eye's seem to loosely relate to godhood and Silver eye's relating to immense speed, both of which Maizen seems to be capable of achieving with some ease.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 ***Tournament Arc: Maizen vs Jaden***