Golden Knight

## Golden Knight

### Affiliation

Demonic Courts
Court of Instrumentality

## Physical description

### Gender

Male (He/Him)

The **Golden Knight** is a character in Reflection. He is played by Jay. Following Fio's removal from her position as the Archdemon of the Demonic Court of Instrumentality, he has assumed that role in her stead. He acts as both a commander of the Codan forces as well as a double agent embedded within OPIA.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

The Golden Knight keeps his appearance concealed beneath a full body metallic suit embedded with tubes of glowing golden Flame. The suit's helmet is shaped like a medieval knight's. Unlike the other Archdemons, the Golden Knight's hooded cloak is white rather than dark gray.

### Personality

When in the presence of his superiors, the Golden Knight is polite and speaks matter-of-factly. His tactics against OPIA, however, show an underhanded, pragmatic side, willing to use ambush and sabotage to further his ends. Despite his underhandedness, the Golden Knight is ultimately very empathatic, and is primarily motivated by a desire to save his close ones from the apocalypse by convincing them to join his side. His perspective of the world is one of quiet acceptance that he is not strong enough to overcome the forces of the Cycle, yet he is still bitter towards that fact.

The Golden Knight has a tendency to break out into monologues.

Fio refers to him as a "playboy".

## History

The Golden Knight was born within the bounds of the Cycle, unlike his fellow Pyromancers. It is unclear when exactly he became allied with the Demonic Courts, but he was quickly installed as Fio's replacement following her actions in aiding FLOW against the Court of Death. One of his first major actions in this role was to ambush Ace Galatine, posessing him and ripping the flame from his body. In doing so, he inadvertently activated the true nature of the Formless Style, fleeing from Ace's animate body. Some time later, he properly introduced himself to the other Pyromancers during the Hunter of Mortals' funeral. He revealed that he was intimately familiar with the workings of OPIA and FLOW, and that he was in fact working with the organization under an alter ego. He had also masterminded a plan to seize control of Upwind. He took part in a strategy meeting with his fellow Pyromancers for this attack. Meanwhile, FLOW prepared a defence based on using environment-altering probes to make Upwind inhospitable to the demons. At some point in this process, the Golden Knight sabotaged one of these probes by disrupting a sigil of power in the desert.Some time later, while contemplating Ace's flame on the third layer of the Coda, he was contacted by Nectar, who informed him that Ace's body somehow still remained animate. He looked back at Ace's Flame and saw that it had assumed the shape of a lattice of eye-like sigils. He then delivered his Flame to Compulsion. After she was unable to properly manipulate it, the Golden Knight had Ace's Flame put into a spare body. He then took Ace to a cell, where he attempted to convince him to his side. Ace ignored this and insulted the Knight as he was locked away. The Golden Knight flipped him off and walked away. Some hours later, the Golden Knight approached Ace and Fio on his floor of the Derelict, where he insults Ace by telling him that his faith in his colleagues is holding him back from seeing the real picture, and that Ace's stasis has allowed himself to only grow stronger. He then takes Ace to the Queen's throne room, where he is shocked to see the Queen offer Ace a position as the seventh Pyromancer.

The next day, the Golden Knight informed Ace, now the Pyromancer of Laughter, that he was to join him on a mission to the Old World. Soon after, he, Laughter, Stephano, and Laughter's new Stranger Sei Miscellany journeyed to a desert island out on the Sea of Ash, where he and Laughter were challenged by Vinter. After being defeated by Vinter, Laughter was told to stop hiding in the "shadow of his own cowardice", which prompted him to try to stab Vinter in the neck before being interrupted by Sei and Stephano. The Golden Knight then followed Sei to a mysterious vault, which Sei revealed to be a previous Coda. The realization of the ever-presentness of the Cycle deeply upset the Golden Knight. After Laughter returned to the Derelict, the Golden Knight remained on the island with Stephano and Vinter, and briefly had a discussion about the nature of life in the desolated Old World after noticing some weeds growing amidst the ash. He continued exploring the destroyed city and found a still-intact library. While looking for a history book within it, he spoke to Stephano about the feeling of futility he felt regarding the Cycle.

The Golden Knight assisted Compulsion in attacking the surface by helping her create one dual-Element Demon and one quad-Element demon. He also physically aided in the assault alongside Stephano, where he trapped Helena and Danger in an illusion. After they escaped the illusion and drove away, they ended up hitting the Golden Knight's physical body with their truck. He took the opportunity and transported both of them to the Derelict, but allowed Helena to escape to the Old World as he decided having a teleporter the other Pyromancers didn't know about would be helpful in the future.

## Abilities

As a Pyromancer, the Golden Knight has the ability to manipulate Flame in a variety of ways. He is capable of creating incredibly complex illusions. When fighting, he wields a sword-like weapon made of magical glass filled with golden Flame.

## References

1. ↑ Crossing Threads
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Dying Flame
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Lock And Key
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Through The Gate
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 No Options
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Crossing Threads
7. ↑ Take Your Time
8. ↑ Lost Blade
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Strong Enough