Kai Magnus

Kai is the Main Antagonist of the first two arcs of Cosmic Breakers, and the leader of the Rising Phoenix army. In universe, he's considered the most dangerous cosmic breaker and the strongest wielder of Maskaitos magic

Kai Magnus is the 12th challenger of the Dream Champ Tournament. Kai is an original character by @NightlyFlare on Twitter

## Personality

Kai is very distant with most people. He tends to not socialize with people he doesn’t know and usually ends up being antagonistic towards them. He for the most part doesn’t choose to speak, very few words are ever said by him. You’re nothing but an obstacle to him. To those outside his ring he's a silent and intimidating presence that burns everything in his wake. What lies behind those eyes is a man with nothing to lose, yet everything to gain

## Appearance

Kai is a Red Avarian Phoenix alien that stands at 7'0, 214cm and is fairly muscular. He is dressed in a black skin tight suit with red outlines across different parts of the body for the main body. His boots are also in similar colors along with the cape he wears. The cape on his body is connected to the shoulder pad armor he keeps on him and both are removed and placed on together.

His attire has a couple special facts about it. His suit is laced with nano tech to give the suit a couple perks. It has mild climate adaptability, breathless movement restrictions, and also can aid his defense to one part of his body at a time. It will detect physical traumas of all kinds and always attempt to lessen the blow or prevent cuts. The suit can be overtaxed and tear like usual, and won't protect him at all from hard enough blows. The way to know if the nano tech has worked to lessen an attacks impact would be to see if the red lines on the suit had flashed. His cape is also a coat that he can wrap around himself. He often takes it off before a fight, in which it gets stored into a virtual pocket. The cape essentially evaporates when he throws it off.

## Maskaitos Magic/Maskaitos Abilities

Maskaitos magic is a genetically infused magical power that is transferred straight to the users DNA and specializes according to who wields it. Kai upon being infused with the magic grew to gain pyrokinesis powers. Kai’s Maskaitos is dubbed “Heat Riser”, a fire based power set that is all about giving him a snowball effect to rise in power. This grants him ways to amplify and enhance his powerset either to make him fly, punch harder, protect his body, etc.. It’s a sliding scale of power where the more he uses his magic, the more the effects will amplify and grow. By charging it in his system he can even increase his bodies overall mass for bigger boosts of strength and durability at the cost of speed and stamina. He doesn’t have an unlimited supply so while amplifying his power is his main method of fighting, it will mean he drains out a lot quicker. If fully drained he’s essentially unable to fight.

His Heat Riser power is separated into three tiers that show the evolution of his power and what effects his body more

### Heat Riser Tier 1: Burning Ember

Kai in this tier grows in strength and durability at the cost of some speed. Hs fire techniques are at their best in this state. His flame-based moves are stronger, bigger, more potent, and most of all, violent. Kai switches up his fighting style to be more focused around his rage. He is at his most violent in tier 1. Due to his Rage, he can tend to throw out move haphazardly and not think ahead as much if he were in base.

### Heat Riser Tier 2: Flame Empower

Kai grows into a large juggernaut, growing in mass and muscle by extreme amounts. His power and defense are drastically increased with his speed taking a massive nosedive. In this form he is immovable and can tank most attacks by simply standing still. In this form, he's often engulfing his hands in fire the entire time with no real care for technique. He is also no stranger to punching the environment to drastically change it through destruction. He may lack many tactics, but he will still find a way to get in close

### Heat Riser Tier 3: Final Phoenix

This form is a last resort, an all or nothing form. He bursts out all his magic into a giant Phoenix bird that is roughly 20 feet tall, where he resides in the center. He lacks emotion in this form, as you can hardly see him inside it. He’s completely silent as all you will hear are the caws of the Phoenix. This form increases his power and speed by ludicrous amounts, while also being unable to take a single hit in return, essentially being the ultimate glass cannon. He will often go for very few attacks if possible in this form, but will make those few hits matter. If this form comes out, the opponent is most likely to die or be severely injured for a long while. However, it also leaves Kai completely drained after short use. If he pushes it past his natural limit, it quickly becomes fatal to use and can kill him if he doesn’t tap out.

## Backstory

Before his transformation, Kai Magnus was actually known as Adrian Zanders. Adrian belonged to a missing family where his father went missing when he was only five years old, and his mother the same when Adrian was nine. No answer was ever given nor did Adrian ever find an answer before he was transferred to an orphanage. Adrian during his years growing up there, he wanted to someone who the other kids looked up to for support. He always dreamed to be a leader and a hero for the weak. The problem is, he was never seen as the hero he wanted to be. Adrian treated people as a metric of good or bad, and always tried to establish his rule out of sake of ego and pride for himself. This often made others he was growing up with scared or weary of him by default. With a lack of guidance in his life, Adrian always lived by his own rule and only saw what he did as just, for a just reason no matter the means. Due to his drives and motives, Adrian wanted to join law enforcement when he was old enough. He worked his way to being the strongest in the Galactic Police Agency, hoping to be promoted to head someday. There he met another officer who worked for security named Scarlet. They both would fall in love not long after and eventually got engaged and had a kid. Though one problem that always bumped its head was the fact that Adrian always felt inferior to Scarlet. He was never able to gain a higher standing and was only able to make ends meets while Scarlet was fully able to raise in the ranks and become the head of security during their time together. It ate away at Adrian that no matter what he did to prove himself, he was always pushed to the side, never having control over his life. Despite his remarkable talents and drive to be someone who does nothing but good, he was always proven to be an unremarkable man who was stuck where he always had been. Though as perhaps a desperate attempt to be seen, he tries to look for answers from Scarlet. One day, Scarlet left her computer on a day where she had been sick. Adrian grabbed the computer without her knowledge and decided to look through it to find anything he could. What he found was much worse than he could have imagined. Scarlet had been in conversations with an unknown person in which they discussed the corruptions and plans the Galactic Federation was trying to impose on the people of the Galaxy. The highest form of power and government had plans to control, reduce, and mandate the people who laid under them as well as having a thirst for more power. The very people Adrian wanted to prove to and serve had all along kept him beaten down just to make him give up and be more controllable. Not only that but he found out Scarlet only got with him just to hide her true intentions from the Galactic Federation. Cases of missing people, projects meant to control the masses, anything to boost the power of the government had flown right under his nose. This flipped his entire perspective on its head and vowed that he would take matters into his own hands. His drive to wanting to be a hero of the people and for the weak was tested to the extreme when he started the Rising Phoenix organization. The group was made for the sole purpose of overthrowing the Federation and getting back at those who kept him down. This started his double life where he put on a mask and dawned the name Kai for the Rising Phoenix army, and Adrian for his regular job attending as law enforcement. Through years of building his army, he had established an enormous amount of followers who wanted to stand by his side in the fight to have their freedom and lives stay bright, including Scarlet herself. This naturally made an enemy in the form of the Federation as well as Adrian's double life starting to crumble more. It all came to ahead one day when the Federation eventually found out that Scarlet had been snooping through secret files that incriminated the Federation. Since Scarlet had ties to Rising Phoenix after all, the Federation found an opportunity to snuff out Kai. They succeeded and as a result killed Scarlet and their child, with Adrian having to flea to save himself and the rest of Rising Phoenix. This event was soon followed by the biggest genocide the galaxy ever saw, the solar wipe. An entire Solar system, where Rising Phoenix had been mostly stationed and gathered from, was destroyed by the Galactic Federation. The blame however ended up being directed towards Rising Phoenix and Adrian as the leader for being responsible of the event. The army had been reduced to very few, and Adrian lost everything once again in his life. He was once again alone with nothing to lose, but now everything to gain. That day, Adrian Zanders died, and what was reborn fully was Kai Magnus. Kai would dedicate the rest of his life to make sure the Galactic Federation was gone and dead by any means necessary. He would return years later to the galaxy, armed with a bigger and stronger army, and some new abilities at his disposal. Reborn he was, and a man who from that moment would never yield again.

## Dream Champ Tournament

### “I cannot imagine a world where even one wish for anything can be given to someone who doesn’t deserve such power. The ability to grant anything at any point is terrifying, and I can’t let it fall to the wrong hands. I must secure it!... By any means necessary”

Kai mixes both fire-based amp ups and a rush-down brawler style. Kai has mastered most known fighting techniques, and mixes them in order to suit the combat scenario he finds himself in. As stated though, he prefers to keep his style to rush down. He fights differently depending on the tier of Heat Riser he is in or if he’s in it at all. His stats, physical body, and output all vary. However, a consistent preferred method of fighting is he likes to stick to the air. Even if he’s not far off the ground, he has a lot more maneuverability in the air at all times, and also just prefers it

Due to Kai’s position, he is a tactical genius and a smart fighter, while most faults come from abrasiveness. He knows the battle field in and out, every trick in the book, every dirty move, or underhanded tactic. Kai merely treats it all as pathetic to the might of a Phoenix.

###### Concentrated, motivated, destructive, and very cold. He will not hesitate for a kill

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