Elyos Aether

"*Brandon and Chen rescued me from a dark place, had they not I might have truly lost my will to live. For their actions, I only have the highest of praises. To me, they are two of my most precious people and I shall protect them no matter the cost.*"

## Elyos Aether

* Student Uniform
* Hero Costume
* Civilian

## Biographical Information

### Alias

* **Achan** (あちゃん, *A-chan*?) (By childhood friends)
* **Eterna** (エテルナ, *Eteruna*?) (Hero Name)
 **Potnia Philomenia** (ポトニア フィロメニア, *Potonia Firomenia*?) (Vtuber Name)
 **Akeldama** (アケルダマ, *Akerudama, lit. "Place of Bloodshed*?) (Assassin Codename)

## Status

### Affiliation

U.A. High School (Thundering of the Mighty)
 Pro Hero Association (Timeskip)

**Elyos Aether** (天族のエーテル, *Ten-zoku no ēteru*?), also known as **Achan** (あちゃん, *A-chan*?) by her childhood friends, and her hero name **Eterna** (エテルナ, *Eteruna*?), is a student in Class 1-A at U.A. High School, training to become a Pro Hero.

She is a Vtuber licensed underneath the Japanese branch of Idol Corp's Maeve with her Youtube handle name being **Potnia Philomenia** (ポトニア フィロメニア, *Potonia Firomenia*?).

She is one of three main protagonists of *Thundering of the Mighty*.

## Appearance

Elyos is a young woman of average height, with a slim, slightly petite but still muscular build, paired with a fair skin complexion. Her hair is far paler than that of her parents' and chin-length except for two locks of shoulder-length hair framing her face. Pinned to the left side of her hair is two pale blue feathers that were crafted from unknown materials.

Her formal dress for her hero costume is the dress of a traditional Japanese shrine maiden consisting of a white *kosode* and red *hakama*, white *tabi* socks, and *okobo* sandals with red straps, though her *okobo* sandals are worn only in formal gatherings and at international conferences rather than for actual battle. In battle, she dons a battle kimono with a sakura flower pattern paired with lace up boots.

In her casual wear, she is usually shown wearing sun-dresses with flower patterns and strap sandals that show off her feet. The two pale blue feathers that she wears pinned on the left side of her head were given to her as a gift (10th birthday) by Brandon, while the handheld folding fan that she carries around in her daily life was given to her as a gift (10th birthday) by Chen Liu.

## Personality

The sole girl amongst her friend group, Elyos is a kindly individual with whimisical tendencies that often leads to minor headaches for everyone involved in her antics. She is gentle but slightly reserved due to her upbringing, having been saved in a moment of true despair by Brandon and Chen Liu, seeing this action as the "turning point" in her horrible childhood that changed how she saw the world. For too long, had she seen the world and despaired at what it truly was for her---a plane of existence from which she could never escape her lonesome origins---a place where she felt abandonment and where she felt that she truly didn't belong. Due to Brandon and Chen's influence, as well as their childhood friendship forged in the flames of abandonment, loss, and despair, Elyos changed what she thought was her inescapable fate to die out on the streets.

Diligent and strong-willed, Elyos keenly understands the problems of Brandon in how he is preceived by other people and offers him a safe space in which to confide with her. Individuals with Quirks deemed to be "villianious-like" were looked down upon, shamed, and misunderstood---Elyos however only saw Brandon's Quirk as one of the factors that saved her life and thought of it as useful as it would allow him to save other people more swiftly or to aid other Heroes at a faster pace---her own Quirk (Eterna's Light) wasn't useful in non-ranged combat and in some cases was seen as a hinderance.

When she had taken in Malleus Aether and other children of the like, Elyos was attempting to compensate for her lack of true family despite having gained two incredibly meaningful friends. Malleus would be the first of these children to come underneath Elyos' care and acted as her enforcer, being an incredibly jealous individual towards those she deemed as outsiders intruding on Elyos, the other children, Brandon, and Chen. To her, Malleus and the other children would grow into her valued family members alongside her childhood friends Brandon and Chen, whom she viewed as her brothers.

During her childhood and even now, Elyos has a darker and much more ruthless alter-ego hidden underneath her usual whimisical, who will come out whenever Elyos or anybody she deeply cares about is threatened by any unsavory elements, her alter-ego willingly engages in ruthless actions in order to protect the interests of her host and goes to horrible lengths in order to fufill her goals. Presumably due to Veliona's influence, Elyos has no qualms with engaging in underhanded actions if it benefits her, Veliona, Brandon, Chen, or any of her family or friends' interests, to the point where she immediately resorted to a far more ruthless action that would inventiably end in bloodshed simply because it was far more fitting. Aspects of her darker and ruthless alter-ego have often appeared in many of Elyos' mannerisms but are often dismissed as her realist attitude taking control.

## History

Born into a wealthy family that fell from favor with all of it's surviving members being murdered in cold blood during a deliberate fire set by their assassins, Elyos would be the only survivor of the incident excluding her maternal grandfather (Basil) and grew up on the streets raised by her maternal grandfather to become a child assassin. Due to her unorthodox upbringing, she was enrolled into online school and quickly advanced through the grades of her online school to become the certified genius of the online school. Amongst the members of the criminal underground, Elyos was regarded as the best child sniper of her generation and was often hired for the most dangerous of criminal operations. She would come to bear the codename of **Akeldama** (アケルダマ, *Akerudama, lit. "Place of Bloodshed"*?) amongst her associates and after the death of Basil (her maternal grandfather), Elyos retired completely. Out of respect for their retired associate, the criminal underground's assassins swore themselves into servitude underneath her family and ever since then, have acted as her legal repersenatives in courts and other legal bodies.

After retiring from the life of an assassin, Elyos experienced emotional turmoil and had growing mental problems with the bloodshed that she experienced during her job. Eventually her life began losing worth in her eyes until her alter-ego was taking complete control of her body to protect them both from harm. In a moment of true despair, Elyos was rescued by Brandon and Chen Liu and formed a friendship with them. Oiwa Sakamoto became Elyos' sole legal guardian when the knowledge of her "homelessness" was made public knowledge and would be the first person to know of her alter-ego residing deep within Elyos' mental mindscape. Instead of discouraging the blending of the two personalities, Oiwa encouraged it and even set up a system to allow the alter-ego to share direct control of the body with Elyos herself. She would also name the alter-ego Veliona in honor of her late assassin teacher Veliona Suijin. By the time that Brandon and Chen met Elyos, she had been living with Oiwa for several months with her mental state rapidly deteriorating to the point where she was regarded as mentally unstable.

## Synopsis

### Entrance Exam Arc

Elyos is first introduced in the series proper, as one of three new classmates transferring into Aldera Junior High alongside Brandon hiroshi and Chen Liu, in the middle months of their Junior High years. After having just been introduced to the class, Elyos is swarmed by her male classmates who clamor to get her number, Chen becomes visibly annoyed and eventually utilizes his Quirk in an attempt to keep his new classmates away from one of his close childhood friends. Katsuki is unimpressed by any of his new classmates and calls them canon fodder, causing an irritable Veliona to request complete control from her host.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities**: Elyos has proven to be one of the strongest students in Class 1-A, earning fifth place in the Quirk Apprehension Test, while placing fifth in the U.A. Entrance Exam, having the fifth-highest amount of villain points, and the U.A. Sports Festival. Elyos' fighting style, which doesn't usually rely on her Quirk is a fluid hybrid mix between offense, defense, and different types of combat at different ranges. Having physically trained her body to it's strongest peak as a result of having to fight for her life on the streets, Elyos is abnormally strong and flexible as noted by Chen and Brandon. However, as a result of her Quirk being completely unsuited for battle in terms of close-quarters combat, Elyos's battle prowess falls short of the prowess of Chen or Brandon. Ultimately her kindness prevents her from allowing her to access her true potential, as noted by her alter-ego Veliona.

* **Enhanced Strength**:
* **Immense Reflexes**:
* **Immense Flexibility**:
	+ **Immense Acrobatic Skill**:
* **Enhanced Durability**:
* **Enhanced Stamina**:
* **Master Sniping**:

**Keen Intellect**:

* **Leadership Skills**: Though not as skilled as Brandon, Elyos has shown impressive leadership skills, to the point where she was capable of commanding a bunch of rouge assassins without losing a single one of them to enemy fire.
* **Cooking Skill**: Growing up on the streets as she did, Elyos was forced to learn how to cook for herself from a young age, if she wanted to eat. In the present time, her knowledge of culinary practice has left her able to cut vegetables very quickly and with ease, as well as multitask on multiple things at once in the kitchen. Conversely, she has memorized the exact measurements that she needs for her cooking, as well as how to best maximize her time to produce the needed amount of a certain food.
* **Musical Skill**: Elyos is able to play the piano and violin, which are two of her preferred instruments. Her singing voice is described as "soft, but angelic".
* **Technical Skill**: Elyos possesses a high degree of technical skill. Brandon has noted her high technical coding skills and calls her the "fastest" coder amongst the Class of 1-A as a result of this.

### Quirk

**Eterna's Light** (エテルナの光, *Eteruna no hikari*?): Elyos' Quirk allows her to generate a condensed beam of dim light with a mere clicking sound. The more that Elyos clicks her tongue, the brighter and more warmer the condensed beam becomes. While it usually manifests as a condensed beam, it is not just confined to that form and can actually manifest as a horde of hovering swords, a variety of physical constructs and even as a small floating ball of light energy. If Elyos overuses this power, she will experience sensory overload in the form of near blindness for a couple of seconds.

Elyos has a strong grasp of knowledge on the applications, durability, and general battle usability of her Quirk, something that many of her classmates also have. However as a result of being forced onto the streets as a byproduct of her parents' deaths, she has through knowledge of the consequences of utilizing her Quirk in high stress situations amongst other possible situations in which she finds herself.

## Trivia

* Elyos is the second-eldest of the three main protagonists of *Thundering of the Mighty*.
* Elyos is a hafu (half Greek/half Japanese) due to her maternal grandmother being Greek (Anastasia of the Resurrection).
* She is a Vtuber by the name of **Potnia Philomenia** (ポトニア フィロメニア, *Potonia Firomenia*?) and is part of the Vtuber group Maeve's Japanese branch.
* Her theme song when Veliona takes control is Hushh by AViVA, reflecting the uneasiness when people are faced with her darker and ruthless alter-ego.
* When in control, Elyos' eyes appear as a bright silver-white while they appear as a bloodred red when Veliona is in control. They are further differenated with the fact that they have different appearances but share the same voice, as well as wielding similar weapons. Most notable, is the fact is that they wield different Quirks despite Veliona only being a alter-ego and derived second self of Elyos.
* By the end of the main series, Elyos is implied to be in her late teenager years presumably around the 16-18 age range, making her one of the older first-year students.

## Quotes

* (To Brandon and Chen) "*Both of you saved my life during one of my darkest moments and for that, I am deeply thankful for your friendship.*"
* (To Malleus Aether) "*Even if my noble heritage is the only thing preventing us from forming a true relationship like real blood-related sisters, then I reject it! You, are my darling little sister Malleus and I love you with all of your imperfections. We are born of Greece's fury and Japan's ruthlessness, that is the truth of our bond as siblings!*"