Apollo Sasuke

* Current
* Wyvlan
* Ascended
* Debut

**Apollo Sasuke** is the True Guardian of World 4. Initially born a Wyvlan to king Kazir Sasuke and the unwilling selected mother Astra Sasuke, he was born prince of the Calyblanc kingdom in Quharr, Yaftu. Pressured under his father's expectations, he became the cold tyrant ruler he was expected to be. When challenged by long-time imprisoned Mina Alexandra, Apollo knowingly sips Mina's poisoned drink in an act of defiance against his father and defeat. He spends the last of his days beside Mina, who decides to stay with him, moved by his story and bravery.

Upon his newly acquired life in World 8, entering Series 1, Apollo defensively reverts back to his old behavior. He blindly trusts Orizon's word that he'll bring back his kingdom, should he kill the True Guardian of World 8, Holly Sarah France. During his attempt to murder Holly, he falls back upon Orizon revealing he lied and only wanted him as an ally. Through the series, he learns compassion and slowly reverses his cold front, allowing himself the freedom to be his true self. He becomes close with King Parker, and settles with Kincaney France Sasuke, becoming the father of Inola and Inari Sasuke.

In Series 2: Destiny's Traitor, Apollo returns with the rest of the True Guardians to World 4 via the Umberbug's reconstruction of stardust. He confronts his oppressive father, and allows his kingdom a chance at rebellion against their oppressor. There he accepts his true nature and ascends into the Guardian of Deceit.

## Appearance

### Guardian

Apollo is a pure white, sleek coated Guardian born into perfect condition. His body is lithe, with a long chest fan and tufts of fluff sprouting from the back of his ankles. He is known for his long, elegant mane that roots along the top center of his head. His mane is parted in two, held into straight pony-tails with a linear golden clasp which mirror on both sides of his body. Another golden clasp, identical to the ones worn to hold his mane, grasps around the parting section where the end of his tail grows into the tuft of fur that tips his Guardian tail. He has a pale gold nose and hooves, and striking bright, golden eyes.

During his birthday in Chapter 19, he is gifted a golden ring with the words "Happy 18th, Apollo" engraved into it. He now consistently wears it on his front right dew-thumb. After Chapter 39, he gains a small scar across the left side of his muzzle after being nicked in the face with King's dew-claw.

### Wyvlan

In his original body, he retains all of the same features as his Guardian form. As a Wyvlan, he sports another set of two golden clasps to hold the luscious mane across his spine in the same fashion as his front pair. The clasp around his tail is no longer present. His underbelly and forearm scales are a familiar pale yellow. With the same color, his horns protrude from his head, straight and slightly indent closer together in the middle. He has the traditional long fangs of a Wyvlan that stick out of his mouth. His birthday ring remains worn on his right thumb.

### Ascended

As the Guardian of Deceit, Apollo gains massive height and length of over 100'00"ft., able to stretch his body as long as he likes. His body morphs more akin to his Wyvlan body, maintaining a thin, elongated shape. Two sets of small wings hang unfolded on both sides of his body, the frontal wings being larger than the back set. His head is covered completely by a golden face mask, now fused with his mane hair-bands. His eyes, now obscured through the mask appear black with a golden ring pupil. His face remains akin to a Guardian, now with soft blue coloring his nose and the skin inside his ears. His Wyvlan fangs appear much smaller and rounded, still protruding from his mouth. His long horns round outwards behind his head, decorated with a cross-hatch of chains held up with golden clasps. In the center of these four chains is a ball with an even smaller stardust plate shaped charm hanging from it. Three sets of golden clasps cling onto the forward half of his elongated body, with a few dangling chaining attached. His small, Guardian-like legs all wear a golden, clasp-like shin-guard, tied behind his ankles with chains.

## Personality

Though on the outside at times he can still appear cold and stuck-up, deep down Apollo only longs for the acceptance and love he could never reach in his past life. Despite being in the process of healing, he often still resorts to putting up walls and shutting off when he’s unsure of how else to act, Apollo is cautious and suspicious of kindness from anyone he isn’t already close with, hindering his ability to form new relationships. Regardless of how this appears to outsiders though, underneath and to his family he’s delicate and scared, unsure of himself and how to respond to difficult situations, and requires a lot of reassurance that he is reacting right. Apollo knows his small frame would never hold him in physical conflict, so if angered relies on verbally retaliating instead, he has a tendency to say a lot he doesn’t necessarily mean if mentally cornered and finds himself afraid at how easily he can still resort to his old ways in a panic.

## Relationships

### King Parker

Though their relationship started out less than ideal, almost the entirety of which recorded through series 1 with King’s revival only being a month prior, this duo have fought against every odd to build a bond that will last a lifetime. Apollo’s initial hostility to the group often pinpointing on King for his vulnerability and crave to win him over, coming to a peak on June 6th 2020 when King would scratch Apollo’s face out of frustration and finally find his voice, also leading to Apollo’s final change of heart. The two would begin to find solace in their similar pasts, and grow closer finding comfort in each other through their less than ideal lives, with King beginning to feel unsure if he would actually ever want a serious relationship with Apollo in future were he to ever overcome the grief he still held for Arvak and Leon. Though at the dawn of the final fight on September 5th 2020, fearing they may not survive the day, the duo do agree to some degree of a ‘friends with benefits’ style relationship until they can properly think clear enough to decide where they actually stand, and where they continue to remain, now happily content with whatever they are even if they’re still unsure how to describe it.

### Kincaney France Sasuke

During Chapter 27, the two meet abruptly in New Cross City by crashing into one another unintentionally. While Apollo is on the ground, Kinca yells at him for not paying attention and promptly leaves. Despite her rudeness, Apollo can't help but find himself attracted to her straightforward nature, as he seems to attempt to win her over despite his previous less than stellar reputation on the island, though after seeing some evidence of his bid to improve himself, she ends up getting set up on a date by Damaen as payback for him hiding her job from Mica for her. The two proceed to a week of dates as part of their deal, and soon find themselves to be much more similar than first expected, agreeing to try a relationship by the end of the week as Apollo plans to help her raise money elsewhere so she can quit her job. The duo make it through the rest of the season together only getting closer as they face the world together, and on the dawn of the new year Kinca unexpectedly gives birth to their twin fawns Inola and Inari. They retain an admirably strong relationship as they continue to watch the pair grow, finding new work together in photographing the Custos skies at night to sell for profit, since no humans could ever get such images. Despite their difficult place in the world, the future looks bright for the pair, prepared to face it head-on together.

### Inola and Inari Sasuke

The twin fawns of Apollo and Kinca born January 1st 2021. Inola is a combination of her parents sarcasm and sass, headstrong and stubborn with a tendency to pick on her sweeter brother Inari, while he himself features more of a sweet and cautious nature in stark contrast. Though the two often clash heads, deep down their bond is still strong when it needs to be, and even moreso with their parents whom they care for deeply, and who despite trying to be more independent as of late, they always come running back to.

## History

### Pre-Series

Originally born a Wyvlan in the kingdom of Quharr, Yaftu, to father Kazir Sasuke and unwilling mother Astra, he was selectively bred by Kazir to have what he deemed to be near perfect genetics. Kazir chose for him to be born to expect his son to become the future ruler of the newly established kingdom Calyblanc so Kazir could expand his empire. He anticipated his son to become a tyrannical and cold oppressive ruler akin to himself. Astra was imprisoned in a room in the palace he would frequently visit, initially trying desperately to earn her love. After being rejected for so long he settles for simply taking her wisdom that he should never become heartless like his father, and told him that if he should become a kind ruler, he could change the world.

On a stormy night as a young adult, Apollo accidentally stumbles upon Kazir and Astra inside her cell. Engaged in a heated argument about Astra's quality of life since coming to the palace, Apollo witnesses Kazir kill Astra in a fit of rage. The room was lit by a bolt of lightning, revealing his mother's body laying in her own blood on the floor. Apollo ran back to his room and intensely cried in hysteria, leading to a lifelong dire fear of storms. He was eventually chosen as True Guardian by Ecalypse and transformed into a Guardian, able to transform freely into either bodies. Soon after, Kazir shipped Apollo away to the kingdom of Calyblanc for him to govern and begin managing trades and wares.

Living in fear of his father’s looming power over him with threats to kill him, should he rebel or disobey, Apollo ruled the kingdom as the cold tyrant he was expected to be. The people of Calyblanc lived in fear of their prince, who scarcely ever showed himself in public, instead mostly existing as their faceless oppressor. The kingdom was inhabited solely by red, white, and yellow coated variants of Guardians, all others being refused access into it. As Kazir did with the Wyvlans of Quharr, he had the most genetically idealistic females rounded up and imprisoned in the palace there to exist as potential mothers to Apollo’s offspring. Despite his outwardly heartless appearance, Apollo refused to ever bring himself to hurt them after they were rejected, instead having them be brought to his quarters then aiding them in their escape from the kingdom. A rumor spread of how unsuitable or non-compliant partners were ‘disposed of’, only helping in keeping up the façade to his father.

On the routine cycle of bringing a woman to Apollo, long term captive Mina Alexandra volunteers herself to be the one taken in place of her friend Amelia, concealing poison with intent to kill the prince even if she should die herself in the process. Mina succeeds in poisoning Apollo’s drink on her way into the room. However, overcome with rage at the man she presumes to have had her friends executed, she attacks Apollo assuming she’ll end up dead either way and wounds the back of his neck. Shaken by the prince’s unwillingness to fight back, Mina backs off as Apollo explains his escape system to her, and that he did in fact notice her spike the drink. However, fully understanding her cause and bravery, the defeated Apollo drinks the poison regardless in order to continue her plan and free the captives. He was unaware that his death would end the world. He insists Mina escape before the guards find him dead, though she was touched by his story and instead chose to stay with him for his last few days alive until the poison kills him. The pair enjoy a taste of freedom before Apollo inevitably died in Mina’s arms as his organs fully shut down, thus causing all life on World 4 to end.

On May 19th, 2019, he was miraculously revived, brought to World 8 by Orizon and awakened in New Cross City. In self-defense, he reverted to his cold-front in wake of this mysterious new world to him. He had found himself in a club, and was adored and swooned by multiple Guardians. A little while had passed, and two Guardians, Holly and Tommy, had arrived at the club and approached him. They asked for Apollo to come with them, offering him a place to stay and explaining everything. Outright refusing and distrusting them, Apollo was instead forcibly dragged out of the building by Tommy, kicking and yelling. Taken away to Holly's house, he had eventually accepted this new status quo and begrudgingly began to live there with the rest of the True Guardians.

### Series 1: Means to an End

Despite his change of tone at the end of his previous life, upon gaining his new life Apollo snaps back to his old defensive ways, being heavily untrustworthy and disrespectful of others. He rejects any kindness given to him, despite Holly tolerating him.

### Series 2: Destiny's Traitor

During Part 12, Apollo returns with the rest of the True Guardians to World 4 via the Umberbug's reconstruction of stardust.

## Trivia

* Apollo would be approximately 20 years old if he was human.
* Apollo is one of only two True Guardians that weren't originally born a guardian (the other being Holly).
	+ Likewise, Apollo is the only Guardian thus far to ascend as a mixture of two species.