Kieran Haven

Keiichi Haven
**Kieran Haven (Re:E)**

**Kieran Haven** (キーラン・ヘイブン, *Kīran Heibun*) known as **Keiichi Haven** (ケイイチ・ヘイブン, *Keiichi Heibun*) in the original version, is the main protagonist of The Beginnings Arc; he appears prominently in the Sage of Time Arc and briefly in the Regional Adventure Arc in *Re:Evershade?!*. Kieran began as a delinquent living in the woods and bent on gaining power and controlling East City.

Through conflicts with the Chaos Agency, the Alliance, and Zeno, he becomes stronger and redeems himself. Kieran is part of a close-knit group of friends: Chloe Wheeler, Sky Violette, Blane Camus, and Russell Johnson. He became aware of his demon side after the fall of Division X and traveled with Sky to Kingdom Island to find Chloe and Blane, later joined by Regan, but was petrified by a mysterious creature.

After being freed, Kieran completely fused with his demon side, using demon magic to aid Sam, Summer, Axel, and Serena in their journeys.

## Etymology

In the original and main version of the *Evershade* series, his name is **Keiichi Haven**. His given name has various meanings, with the main ones being "respectful, noble, first (son)", which likely reflects him being the eldest between him and Katherine. His surname is a reference to another character from a previous series by Alex Guy.

In the alternate re-telling of the series, *Re:Evershade?!*, he is known as **Kieran Haven**. His given name means "little dark one, dark/black haired", which could reflect his earlier, darker personality and demon side. It also could be an anglicization of his original name.

## Powers/Abilities

### **Overall Abilities**

Kieran possesses similar abilities to his main counterpart.

* **Immense Strength**: Kieran's most distinguishable trait is his unnatural levels of strength. Five punches from Kieran could disorient a rampaging mutant. Despite this, his strength was not overly impressive and gradually increased. However, after awakening his demon powers, Kieran's physical abilities increased dramatically, giving him the strength to completely destroy several blocks from the wind pressure his punches make. Despite becoming weakened when first meeting Axel, Kieran's strength was such that he was able to challenge and overpower even seasoned soldiers such as Reign, who he was able to kill off in their battle.
	+ **Super Jumping/Leaping:**He is able to jump several feet off the ground and leap several stories in a single bound without having to fly.
* **Immense Speed**: In conjunction with his high level of physical strength, Kieran possesses an equally impressive amount of speed. When he arrived at Ultima City, he moved a remarkable distance and simultaneously incapacitated villains in the blink of an eye. Axel and Serena even stated that they were completely unable to track his movements despite the latter being slower than he once was. However, according to Kieran himself, he is slower than he was seventy years ago.
* **Immense Durability:** With his cells enhanced by the Evolutionary's super-soldier serum, Kieran's bodily durability is considerably stronger than even the densest of Earth's metals such as steel. He sustained no life-threatening damage from his battle with Dakera and the Alliance's various mutants and took point-blank, unrestrained explosions from Nitro without so much as slowing down at all.
* **Immense Stamina:**In his prime years, it was noticed that Kieran has never been shown to be tired even when fighting against multiple villains. The only time that Kieran was shown to be panting and out of breath was against his battles with Dakera, demon scientist Demora, and Reign, and that was only due to either being weakened by the Chaos Agency's technology or his advanced age, which also limited Kieran from using the maximum output of his demon abilities.
* **Expert-Master hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist:** Kieran is proven to be a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist, as his combat skills are great enough to be able not only to fight on par against other very physically powerful experts of hand-to-hand combat and martial arts but also to defeat them single-handedly. His combat skills can even be still effectively used while he was in a weakened state or having deep hallucinations that made him not focused and much more brutal. Kieran is also one of the most, if not the deadliest combatant in the entire *Re:Evershade?!* series.

### **Gold Experience**

Kieran and his group first seek Master Scarlet's tutelage in the ways of magic in order to fight the Chaos Agency more effectively. As a result, Kieran learns the art of the Gold Experience, a form of magic passed down from generations.

### **Demon Magic**

As a test subject for the Evolutionary, Kieran was infused with demon-like cells and thus possesses great psychic and demonic power, however, he does not the same aptitude for it as Demora, since Kieran is not a full demon. He also noticeably lacks a few abilities from his original counterpart, Keiichi.

* **Transformation:**Kieran can transform between his human and demon forms at will, provided he has enough energy or magic. When running low, he automatically takes human form. When he regains his energy, Kieran undergoes a drastic change in his physical appearance, gaining an extremely robust body, claws, hooves, and horns.
* **Magical Combat:** He was seen projecting powerful energy blasts and defending with shields against his opponents in the final battle with the Evolutionary. During his fight with the demon Demora, Kieran combined dark magic and his augmented physical strength to perform a nuclear-scale finishing punch.
* **Teleportation**: Kieran is able to teleport with another person in tow, as shown when he used it to help Sam and Summer flee from Demora. The limitation, though, is that he is only able to teleport fifty feet away and continued use will eventually drain energy.
* **Forcefield Generation**: He created one to protect him, Sam and Summer from Demora's barrage of energy bullets. In his demon form, he made individual shields for dozens of people to protect them from falling rubble.
* **Demonic Weaponry:**He can summon various "demon weaponry", with his signature and favored combat weapon being a sword. During his fight with Demora, Kieran was able to transform an ordinary broom into a great demonic sword using magic and used it to slice both Demora's arms in one blow, whilst destroying a quarter of Ocean City in the process.