Kray Foresight

### Occupation

Governor and Administrator of PromepolisChief director of the Foresight Foundation

### Powers/Skills:

PyrokinesisFireproof materials that can resist Burnish fire

High Intellect

Leadership

Charisma

Cunning

Strategy

Tactics

### Hobby

Doing experiments on the Burnish.Imprisoning and sucking Burnish hostages with the warp drive.

Threatening to imprison anyone who dare to expose his heinous deeds.

### Goals

Escape from Earth along with a select amount of people using a warp drive powered by Promare while leaving everyone else to die from the rising magma.Kill Galo and Lio (all failed).

### Crimes

Abuse of powerAssault

Attempted genocide

Illegal experimentation

Mass murder

Physical abuse

Kidnapping

Treason

Corruption

Attempted cataclysm (indirectly)

Theft

Attempted mass destruction

Conspiracy

“ There’s like, a 70% chance he'll die. „ ~ Kray Foresight

“ We can no longer stop the Earth's destruction. This ship and its passengers are the only future for mankind. And the one who'll create that future is I, Kray Foresight! „ ~ Kray Foresight's true intentions.

“ Did you really think you'd be able to burn me... with YOUR pathetic flames?! You Burnish really are just a bunch of fools! Ah, indeed. I was cursed with the same mutation, THAT'S why I understand! Yes, I understand how difficult it is to have a strong enough will to control the flames, as well as to control the urge to burn everything to the ground! The Burnish live under the control of the Promare! They're nothing but slaves to their instincts! THAT'S BECAUSE I AM!!! Don't even try, my Burnish power is far greater than yours will ever be! But still, as long as I have you, I can harness your power to restart my Prometech engine. YOU'LL be the engine's core now! I thank you! „ ~ Kray revealing himself as a burnish and plans to use Lio Fotia's power to restart the Prometech engine.

**Kray Foresight** is the main antagonist of the 2019 Studio Trigger film *Promare*. He is the ruthless Burnish administrator of Promepolis and chief director of the Foresight Foundation. He successfully developed and invented materials that can put out Burnish fires. Galo looks up to him, hence being pulled from a fire by Kray when he was young.

He was voiced by Masato Sakai in the Japanese version, and Crispin Freeman in the English dubbed version.

## Appearance

Kray is a toned man who towers over most people and often has a soft expression with closed eyes. His blonde hair is slicked back, his hairline bearing a widow's peak and the raised hair resembling a crown. Kray also has a movable prosthetic that is noir in color. However, it is hidden underneath several layers of clothes. His uniform is white featuring blue segments. Golden metals can be seen at his shoulders and chest. Underneath the cape of his suit, red is visible. When he begins to unravel to his true self, his eyes are wide with small, red irises and pinpoint pupils. His hair becomes unruly, standing up with long waves and down in his face.

After his reveal as a Burnish, Kray's hair is set aflame with yellows and pinks. His complexition occasionally matches, bearing a pink tinge. Dark shadows surround his eyes. Kray's prosthetic is replaced with magma-like flames powerful enough to restrain the likes of Lio. The uniform he wears is torn at the left sleeve

## Biography

### Early life

Not much is known about Kray in the past, but he was known for developing technology that could resist and extinguish fire of the Burnish people, which became known in the public eye when Earth suffered the Great World Blaze, where fires from mass spontaneous human combustions killed many non-Burnish and caused various acts of discrimination. As a college student, he retrieved Galo Thymos out of a nearby fire and gained publicity afterwards. Because of that, Galo was motivated to become a firefighter.

At some point, while cooperating with Deus Prometh, the duo had a disagreement regarding how to proceed with the immigration plan. Deus found Kray's methods to be immoral and to only speed up the Earth's destruction. This resulted in Kray murdering Dr. Prometh and stealing his findings. Kray began to continuously research and capture the Burnish people by founding Burning Rescue, Freeze Force and the Foresight Foundation. This culminated in the foundation of the city of Promepolis, which Kray leads as Governor due to his past success.

### *Promare*

Kray was first seen congratulating Galo, a rookie of Burning Rescue, for handing over the leader of the Mad Burnish group, Lio Fotia, to Freeze Force. Lio soon orchestrates a mass breakout while detained at a prison for Burnish and retreats with the refugees to a frozen lake, where they are discovered by Galo. After being incapacitated, Galo witnesses him attempt to revive a mortally injured Burnish woman using a CPR-like kiss. Lio reveals to Galo that Kray is capturing Burnish to further his evil plans, resulting in conflicted feelings within Galo.

Galo confronts Kray, who informs him that the Earth will soon be destroyed by an uncontrollable rise of magma from the Earth's core. He has also discovered that the abilities of the Burnish can be used to create a warp drive through the promatech engine, which he intends to use to flee Earth with a select portion of humanity, one of which being Aina Ardebit. When Galo opposes the idea, Kray resorts to assaulting and imprisoning him. Freeze Force soon tracks the remaining Burnish, capturing all but Lio. In vengeance for his brethren, Lio returns to Promepolis to confront Kray, though Galo intervenes and retreats with Lio to the frozen lake thanks to Aina's assistance.

Lio accidentally uses his Burnish powers to melt the frozen lake, revealing a laboratory ran by an AI projection of Deus Prometh. He explains that the Burnish are able to communicate with the Promare, interdimensional flame beings that reside in Earth's core; the surging magma is caused by inflicting pain towards them, and Kray's experiments on the Burnish are making it worse. Galo and Lio afterwards return to Promepolis for one final confrontation.

In order to stop Kray's plans, Prometh gives both Galo and Lio a Promare-powered mech named Deus X Machina. After this, both Galo and Lio attempt to destroy Kray's plans once and for all while the latter tries to evacuate from Earth. When one of the scientists asks Kray to wait for her sister, this results in him threatening her with guards.

Kray fights them with his own mech and orders his minions to set the warp drive by maximum while uncaring that the people in Earth die because of him. When his warp drive gets destroyed by Heris in retaliation, Kray then reveals his own true nature by Galo that he was in fact the cause of Galo's house fire, only running into him after. Furthermore, the reason why he motivated Galo into becoming a firefighter was so that he could eventually leave Galo to die. Naturally, this reveals him to also be Burnish. After flinging Galo off the two mechas on the Parnassus ship, he attempts to drain Lio to power the warp drives. Though this nearly kills the young man, Galo arrives, punching Kray and reviving Lio using a Burnish CPR kiss.

When Galo and Lio combine the drive and their mech to protect life on Earth while allowing the Promare to envelop the surface, the Promare vanish completely whereas the remaining Burnish become normal humans, leaving him and his foundation's plan in vain. According to artwork from the memorial book, Kray was finally arrested at the end of the day as he's depicted in jail eating pizza.

## Personality

At first glance, Kray is that of a soft-spoken individual who governs the city of Promepolis. His face can be seen throughout the city, proclaiming himself a hero. Kray's association with Galo began this belief, implying it to have even given him his current position as administrator. Furthermore, in the Japanese dub, his voice is of a quieter tone, befitting of this persona.

However, Kray's benevolent traits were soon revealed to be a complete façade due to his several horrendous experiments involving the Burnish having their powers sucked by the warp drive to the point of death. Kray claims that he did this because the world will end soon thanks to the rising magma levels, making his whole plan ironic when it is revealed that his torture of the Burnish led to the rising magma, and is trying to evacuate the 10,000 people to another planet so that they could repopulate while leaving everyone else to die. Unsurprisingly, Kray doesn't do this out of good will, as he seeks to slake his god complex. Because of this, Galo suggested that Kray travel to the Earth's core and fix the problems. Kray then proceeds to threaten Galo, punch him in the stomach, and throw him in prison. He later accuses the young man of being a terrorist.

Kray despised the fact that the Burnish wanted to exist peacefully, to where Kray arrested a Burnish man who works as a pizza maker and left him to be drained by his goons. The governor then has a sanctuary Lio established for the Burnish refugees to be attacked with Lio the only escapee. He later captures him to fuel the promatech engine. Fortunately however, he escapes from harms way thanks to Galo. After lighting a nearby building ablaze, Kray retrieves Galo in front of the small population as a way of gaining good publicity. His experiments only made things worse as the Promare had to be in pain to cause the magma level to surge, a decision Dr. Prometh questioned the morality of.

All in all, contrary to his soft-spoken and gentle persona, Kray is actually a ruthless and easily angered tyrant who desires nothing more but to be seen as a savior and hero by humanity, and to this end is willing to do whatever and sacrifice whoever he believes necessary to achieve his goals.

## Relationships

### Galo

Galo met Kray after his home was set aflame by him. Oblivious to this, he rushes into his arms in tears. Seeing this as an opportunity to distance himself from suspicion, Kray carries the boy to a growing crowd. The older man was then recognized as a local hero, causing Galo to idolize him. It is implied his "rescue" of Galo helped him reach his role as governor, as he finds Galo to be useless after. Furthermore, it fueled the popularity of his stolen research. Kray finds Galo to be a nuisance who only gets in his way. With Galo still following him as an adult, he assigns him to Burning Rescue to eventually kill him. This changes nothing.

After Galo's capture of Lio Fotia, Governor Foresight awards him with a medal during a ceremony, implied to be that of propaganda favoring himself. In said ceremony, he introduces Galo with "your Galo Thymos" to imply his distain of him. This results in the younger man bragging about his award up until Lio reveals the truth to him. With this, Galo later attempts to return it, claiming neither of them deserve it, which ends up having Kray explain his plans with Promepolis. After confirming Galo doesn't support said plans, he soon physically assaults him with a punch to the stomach and sends him to a jail cell to eventually be executed as a 'terrorist' who attacked Kray. This results in Galo losing all trust in Kray and crying to himself.

At the Parnassus' launch, Kray later attempts to fight off Galo and Lio in his mecha Krazor-X, resulting in heavy destruction to the city inside. After Lio tries and fails to kill Kray, the govenor then reveals to Galo he was the one to set his house aflame. He then attempts to kill him twice more. Despite this, Galo ends up punching him in the face later and saves the world with Lio. He comments that he would even save someone as despicable as Kray.

### Lio

As the leader of Mad Burnish, Lio finds Kray to be detestable for his history of torturing Burnish and using them as fuel sources. Kray, on the other hand, frames all Burnish as terrorists who function on impulse. Both find the other abhorrent and have attempted to kill each other in several instances.

After Lio takes out Freeze Forces' bullet, Kray was his main target. Lio threatens to destroy the city and Kray if he refuses to release the imprisoned Burnish underneath the city. Kray merely appears atop the tower, waiting for him. If Galo had not intervened, Lio and Kray would of likely began to fight, as evidenced by Kray's glowing hand. After the mecha fight with Krazor-X and Lio de Galon, Kray begins to mock Lio, resulting in Lio attempting to kill him. He fails. As Kray is also Burnish, Lio is captured while Galo's flung off. Thinking Galo died, Lio calls Kray a monster. He is later turned into the promatech engine's core as a fuel source. Lio is almost killed from the machine up until Galo's rescue.

After the world is saved and all of the Promare flames are removed from Earth, Lio and Kray are briefly seen talking. Kray comments Lio's actions to be "uncalled for."

### Biar

Biar is Kray's assistant both politically and at the Foresight Foundation. As such, she follows him where ever he goes and completes various tasks for him. She may occasionally put herself in charge of the scientists aboard. Her specific thoughts on Kray are that of indifference as she doesn't react to Kray's anger nor feelings in general. She is only briefly surprised from him reacting to Deus X Machina during the Parnassus' launch. So long as they both benefit, neither care for the repercussions.

### Heris

Heris is the head scientist in charge of the Burnish experiments and the transportation plan using the Burnish as a fuel source. She agrees to work with Kray at the promise of her sister being on board. From this, the Parnassus plan and formation of the promatech engine result in Kray nearly succeeding. As it would later turn out though, Kray ignores her pleas to wait for Aina and cares more for his appearance of a hero. He resolves to threaten her with guards. After Aina contacts her, she would eventually betray Kray herself by overloading the ship's machinery and destroying the core. Kray blames her love for her sister for her actions. This would eventually result in Kray's downfall.

### Deus

Kray cooperated with Dr. Deus Prometh for Burnish research. However, the elderly man questioned the morality of transporting Promepolis only and the treatment of both the Burnish and Promare. From these concerns, Deus would later be murdered by Kray and have his research stolen. However, Dr. Prometh predicted this, resulting in him putting his conscious into AI and hiding his blueprints for Deus X Machina from the scientist. The latter would later be used by Galo and Lio. When Kray sees Deus X Machina in the film, he recognizes the mech, implying he saw blueprints before they were properly hidden away.

### Freeze Force

Freeze Force is in charge of collecting Burnish prisoners and test subjects for the Foresight Foundation to use. This is why they will even capture non-Mad Burnish members for quantity. Foresight provides them their gear, such as their guns and cuffs. This trade allows for both parties to benefit. With Vulcan specifically, the captain is shown enforcing the governor's laws onto the innocent. No matter who is hurt, neither party fully cares so long as things go according to plan.

### Mad Burnish

Kray finds Mad Burnish to be nothing more than a terrorist group who wrecks havoc in the city of Promepolis. Multiple security measures surround the tower, acting as an indication of the previous statement. According to the prequel shorts and movie, Mad Burnish has a tendency to target the foundation's pharmaceutical buildings. Like all Burnish besides himself, they are considered a fuel source.

### Aina

Aina was one of ten thousand listees for the Parnassus' launch. This was in thanks to a deal struck by Heris and Kray: so long as Aina is aboard, Heris will conduct various inhumane experiments on the Burnish and control the engine. However, Aina does not appear, resulting in the deal being broken and Heris being threatened. At the last minute, Aina arrives in Sky Ms. to reveal Kray's involvement in Deus' murder and the dangers of the migration plan. Kray immediately terminates her communication signal as damage control. After Heris' betrayal, Kray blames her love for her sister for his downfall.

### Burning Rescue

During *Galo-hen*, Kray is briefly shown coordinating with Burning Rescue to find new applicants. Governor Foresight insists on having Galo join. Reluctantly, Ignis and Remi agree. When Galo goes missing and is thrown into jail, his co-workers find themselves doubting what happened, but going against Kray would do nothing at this point. They later assist in the defeat of Freeze Force and the Foresight Foundation.

### Burnish

Despite being Burnish himself, Kray appears to have distain towards them, claiming that the suppression of pyrokinesis is possible and that he himself is an example of this. With the assistance of Dr. Ardebit and Freeze Force, he observes several experiments on fellow Burnish such as Thyma and the pizzeria cook. Kray claims this to be necessary. However, as pointed out by Galo, Lio, and Deus, alternative means were possible which did not allow for immorality. Furthermore, while the Parnassus' launch has no confirmed deaths, Thyma and others were shown to have died from Kray's experiment conductions with Heris. In the event this hypocrisy is pointed out to him, he resolves to ignore, claim it improbable or become enraged to the point of physical assault.

The means of fueling the promatech engine was designed by Kray during his partnership with Dr. Prometh. This method uses the Burnish as that of a fuel source. With said means, both the Burnish and Promare flames are harmed, resulting in the magma below rising evermore. His pure hatred is what nearly caused the destruction of the entire planet. His goal of becoming a hero to those contained in the Parnassus outweighs his care.

## Trivia

* The name Kray comes from Kratos, the god of power and might.
* Kray resembles the Winter Soldier and Ira Gamagori in appearance.