Zerofuku

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**Zerofuku** is the Gods' representative in the sixth round of Ragnarok, going against Buddha, taking the place of Bishamonten.

Zerofuku is the God of Misfortune. He is also the fusion of the Seven Lucky Gods, being their original form before splitting up in the past. The name "Zerofuku" translates to "zero fortune", but can also be interpreted as "misfortune".

## Appearance

Zerofuku takes the form of a muscular young man with a hole in his chest located where his heart should be. He has long, dark purple hair with a horizontal streak of light hair along the middle of his hair’s length. His irises are bright while his sclera and pupils are pitch black. The symbols on his cheeks are the radicals for the Japanese kanji for fortune (福) and the same symbol is on his tongue as well. He was described by Heimdall to be small and child-like. The seven beads that tie his hair have the Japanese kanji for the seven deadly sins inscribed on them. Ordered from left to right, they read: Envy (嫉), Sloth (怠), Greed (強), Wrath (怒), Lust (色), Pride (傲), and Gluttony (暴).

Before being corrupted by the misfortune absorbed from Humans, Zerofuku used to have a child-like appereance. Being short and thin, having long white hair and skin and without the hole on his chest. He also had the same tatoos for the Japanese kanji for fortune (福) under his cheeks.

Following the fight against Buddha. Zerofuku recovered his original form for a brief period of time, before being absorbed into Hajun.

Zerofuku in the past
## Personality

Zerofuku was originally a kind-hearted deity who bestowed good fortune onto those around him by absorbing all of their misfortune. However, one day, that all changed when Zerofuku witnessed mankind's true depraved and hedonistic nature. This all came to a head when a Human (Buddha) did a better job at spreading happiness than him, filling Zerofuku with jealousy.

At first, he simply ran away and cried over a river from the perceived humiliation from Buddha. Over time, he became angry and hateful of Humanity, and resolved himself to destroy them, but he still seems to care for Humanity to an extent, keeping himself from killing a mother and her child by splitting into the Seven Lucky Gods. It can be inferred that he has a significant amount of bloodlust for individuals that he deems disgusting. Zerofuku is also childish and throws temper tantrums on the things he hates.

After Buddha helped him and told him to love himself, he started returning to his original nature and decided to work again on doing what he used to, helping others. In his last act of kindness, Zerofuku performed Völundr with Buddha and turned himself into a weapon to slay Hajun and himself. Zerofuku and the Seven Lucky Gods made peace with Buddha as they happily faded into nothingness with a smile.

## Abilities

### Physical Abilities

**Godly Strength**: Zerofuku possesses legendary physical strength, being able to sustain the every increasing weight of his divine axe with his bare hands effortlessly. Even when his axe grew to sizes nigh-hundreds of times bigger than himself, he still could lift it as easily as he did with the axe's initial form.

**Godly Speed & Reflexes**: Zerofuku is able to move and attack at blinding speeds, swinging his divine axe faster than the eye can see incessantly.

**Godly Flexibility**: Zerofuku briefly displayed the ability to bend, twist and contort every single part of his body in extreme and impossible ways and positions effortlessly, making it seem like his body is made of rubber.

### Supernatural Abilities

**Divine Physiology:** As a God, Zerofuku possesses physical abilities far greater than any ordinary Human. His body can not be harmed by mortal weapons, however, he can still be harmed by unarmed attacks from individuals with superhuman strength and Divine Weapons.

**Semi-Immortality:** As a God, Zerofuku is incapable of dying due to old age. Zerofuku is at least as old as Buddha (who was born in 563 BCE or 480 BCE), making him over 2500 years old.

**Biokinesis**: Zerofuku briefly displayed the ability to manipulate his biological makeup when he extended his spine, and shaped it, along with his flesh and blood, into a divine battle axe.

**Misfortune Manipulation**: As the God of Misfortune, Zerofuku has absolute control over misfortune, which he uses to constantly absorb misfortune of others and himself. However, the use of this power takes a great toll on both his physical and mental health. He has also seemingly bestowed this ability upon his divine battle axe, "Misery Cleaver", which absorbs his misfortune in the form of his misery and grows bigger and more destructive.

**Sin/Soul Splitting**: After absorbing almost all of Humanity's misfortune, Zerofuku split all of its negativity into seven parts (alongside his own soul), known as the Seven Deadly Sins, with each sin physically manifesting itself as an individual god embodying it. These seven Gods later became the Heaven's Executioners and the Seven Lucky Gods.

**Hajun's seed**: Zerofuku had a parasitic organism implated on his head by Beelzebub. The parasite is made from Hajun's remains and after a few millennia, the seed was able to take over his body, devour him and allow Hajun to resuscitate. Once the transformacion is triggered, Zerofuku's horns will shove themselves into Zerofuku's mouth and hole in his chest. From those two places, two dragons will emerge and proceed to envelop him, creating an egg-like shell. Hajun will then come out of that shell.

**Common Destiny**: The power of "Common Destiny" allows a person to bring out their full potential by entrusting their fate to another. Zerofuku is able to use this ability by entrusting his fate with Buddha, who has access to the power of "Common Destiny" present within the world of Buddhism.

* **Völundr:** The ability to turn into a weapon. Despite not being a Valkyrie, Zerofuku was still able to use this abillity. He became the Great Nirvana Sword - Zero, the ultimate divine weapon which none but those who has attained the great Nirvana in the Pure Lands can create. This weapon takes the form of a Shichishito (seven-branched sword) with bladed protrusions which are each associated with one of the Seven Lucky Gods.

## Trivia

* Unlike most Gods in "*Shuumatsu no Valkyrie: Record of Ragnarok*", Zerofuku has no real life equivalent (making him an original character) but somehow represents the united power of the Seven Lucky Gods in Japanese Mythology. The idea of the fusion is probably inspired by the Eight Immortals from Chinese Mythology.

## Quotes

* (To a young boy) "*Hope you're happy!*"
* (To himself) "*So much...I went through so much...trying to take away their misfortune...why...why...why...can't I make them happy?*"
* (To himself) "*I can't...do anything right...even back then...I saved them...but nobody thanked me for it. Ah...I'm miserable...I'm jealous of that Human[...] I'm miserable![...] It's always the same...only me...only I am miserable.*"
* (To himself) "*Yeah...that's right...He's just some Human, but...he always understands me better than anyone else...I can't go on...I can't go on...I can't go on...I can't go on...I can't keep it up! But...right now...I'm at the peak of...happiness.*"
* (To himself) "*Aah...I can't believe it...I'm happy. I'll try to believe again in what I wanted to do...in the people I wanted to make happy...and I'll try...to love myse--*"

## References

1. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 45 (Page 52).
2. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 45 (Page 53).
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 46.
4. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 46 (Page 39-40).
5. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 45 (Page 1-3).
6. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 45 (Page 3-4).
7. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 45 (Page 20).
8. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 45 (Page 26).
9. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 45 (Page 55-61).
10. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 45 (Page 4).
11. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 46 (Page 14-15).
12. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 46 (Page 17).
13. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 46 (Page 39).
14. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 48 (Page 30-31).
15. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 48 (Page 6).
16. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 48 (Page 15).
17. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 45 (Page 23).
18. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 45 (Page 35-36).
19. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 46 (Page 33-35).
20. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 48 (Page 33-37).
21. ↑ *Shuumatsu no Valkyrie* Manga: Chapter 49 (Page 4-5).