Peter Johnson

**Peter Johnson**, more commonly known his alias **Perseus**, is a famous sellsword of the Golden Company and an executive of the Hero Faction. He serves as a [Knight] of Team Spear of the Heavenly Emperor in the Azazel Cup.

## Appearance

Peter is generally described as a very good-looking guy in his late teens with an athletic build. He has stylish dark-red hair and striking green eyes. According to Athena, he looks almost exactly like his legendary ancestor, albeit slightly taller and less muscular.

While being a member of the Hero Faction, he wears a Celestial Bronze armor in Ancient Greek style with a Japanese *gakuran* underneath, as well as bronze bracers and greaves. While acting as a sellsword, he usually wears a gray mask with black markings to conceal his face and his identity, along with a black mantle with Ancient Greek steel armor underneath.

## Personality

According to many, Peter is an anomaly, as although he has sociable manners, is easily moved, and is a gentle-hearted young man, he has the flaw that, once motivated to do something, he will not stop until he gives his all and then some more. Once he decided to stain his hands with wrongdoing, he became capable of killing innocents with a gentle manner and smile.

On many occasions, he has shown his acting skill and his two-face nature. Soon after he enrolled in Goode High School, he became the popular guy at school due to having a modern sort of beauty, getting along well with others, and being gentle. He portrays himself as an overall good youth who is polite, emotional, and easily gets teary-eyed. His fault can be said to be that he tends to overindulge in the things that he likes to the point that he consumes them all at once.

In private, he has shown to be sarcastic, with a black sense of humor and a pragmatic, amoral philosophy for life. His pragmatism is also the deciding factor in which missions and battles he chooses to involve in as he is said to value his own life over anything else.

As an unscrupulous sellsword, he is willing to kill more-or-less anyone for the right price. However, he is neither completely heartless nor is he sadistic. Despite that, because of the avarice nature of his line of work, he is often sneered at by many members of the Hero Faction, especially when consider his supposed namesake and famous ancestor is one of the most legendary heroes in Greek mythology.

And while his loyalty is often questioned or looked down upon by many people, he is said to be the person with the most loyalty to Zhihao Han despite of their differing views, with Zhihao himself even stated that he is the only person in their entire faction who he would actually trusted with his life.

## History

### Early Life

Not much about Peter's early life is known due to his dislike of having his history being told to people he doesn't trust, though based on several hints and throwaway lines, a general narrative can be created:

Pater was born into an Iranian-American family in New York City, though because of his parents' line of work, his family had to travel across the world very often so he didn't have many chances to make friends. His family did, however, move back to America permanently when he was 7 after an unnamed accident happened to them and he began to study in a private school in Brooklyn.

When he was 10, his parents were killed in a supposed "terrorist attack" which killed them alongside 11 other people by a group of cultists and he was taken in by his cousin and godfather Daniel Blofis, who was the head of the mercenary guild, the Golden Company.

Afterward, he was trained by Jeremiah both physically and magically to become a sellsword and to investigate the unnatural deaths of his parents, who were revealed to be former members of the company. By the time he was 16 years old, he had built himself a reputation of a merciless and powerful sellsword within the supernatural world under the alias **Perseus**, after his supposed ancestor.

### Meeting Zhihao Han

Peter could arguably be considered Zhihao Han's first official companion and he was one of the founding members of the Hero Faction. Not much is known about how they met and why they are so close, though many people just chalk it up to them being friends with benefits.

Based on Peter's lines about a life-debt, it can be presumed that, at some point, Zhihao saved him from death and he feels an obligation to repay that debt to him. Despite this, however, Zhihao has stated multiple times that he doesn't care much about this debt and that their friendship is born from a myriad of trials and hardships both of them endured through together.

### Hero Faction

Peter was an executive and former second-in-command of the Hero Faction, even noted to have once been in charge of their accounting, though due to disagreements between him and the other executives, mainly because of his disregard for honor, he decided to retire from the Hero Faction, though not before training Georg and Jeanne to take over his duties.

## Equipment

**Talaria** (飛翔靴タラリア, *Tararia*): A pair of winged shoes Peter got from Hermes after doing him a favor. The shoes can transform themselves into any kind or brand of shoes that the user likes and can be activated by the activation word "Maia".

**Hades' Helm** (隠蔽の神聖な外套ハデス・ヘルム, *Hadesu Herumu*): A divine artifact he found in his legendary ancestor's secret grave, given to him by Hermes to help him vanquish Medusa. While it is often portrayed as Hades' Helm of Invisibility, in reality, it is a normal-looking, if not slightly tattered due to the passage of time, black mantle that he regularly wears. It has the ability to hide the user and anyone who touches it from being detected through magical or optical means.

**Sword of Perseus** (ペルセウスの剣ハルペー, *Harupē*): The sword used by the original Perseus to decapitate Medusa and to slay the fearsome sea monster Cetus. It is a Celestial Bronze khopesh-like sword called a *harpe* with glowing hieroglyphs engraved on the blade. It is a divine sword created by Hephaestus, imbued with the power to create wounds that can only be healed through natural means, and is extremely sharp, capable of slicing through meters-thick concrete with ease.

**Aegis Mineralization** (蛇の王妃による死の勅令イージス・ミネラリゼーション, *Ījisu Minerarizēshon*): Peter's Sacred Gear. It takes the form of an ornate Ancient Greek shield imprinted with the fearsome face of a gorgon which can shoot out beam of magical energy capable of turning anything it touches into stone, regardless if it is inanimate objects, living organisms, or even magical attacks.

* **Caput-Medusae and Mineralization Knight**: Aegis Mineralization's original Balance Breaker. When activated, the gorgon's head detaches from the shield, becomes gigantic and floats mid-air, and charges a beam from its eyes that turns anyone but the user within a kilometer-radius into stone, indiscrimated of friends or foes.
* **Perses Eurymedon**: Peter's Abyss Side Balance Breaker. It shielded him in a feathered serpent Scale Mail which increases his physical and magical capabilities to God-class and grants him the legendary petrifying gaze of the infamous Medusa. Those who are petrified by him are also transformed into animated stone Scale Mails and are armed with bronze weapons that can petrify anything and anyone they cut.

## Trivia

* He hasn't been to school since he was 10 and has been taking online courses since then.
* It's rumored that he has already had an illegitimate child with an unknown girl when he was 13.
* Although he is of Middle Eastern descent (Iranian-American), he is pale-skinned enough to be passed off as caucasian by many people, much to his annoyance.
* According to Hermes, he is the *erastes* to Zhihao's *eromenos* in their relationship, implying that he might be older or simply more experienced when it comes to sex than him.
* He thinks that he still has some living family members in Ramadi, Iraq as it was where his grandparents came from, but suspects that they might not know he's alive and believe he has died alongside his parents.
* Dionysus prefers mixing up his and Percy Jackson' names to annoy them.