Hernan Invierno

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**Hernan Invierno** (ヘルナン インビエルノ *Herunan Inbieruno*) is a resident of the Heart Kingdom, a noble from a now fallen noble family and a member of the Spirit Guardians. He uses advanced Ice Magic.

## Backstory

Hernan was raised into the Invierno family which was one of the oldest of the kingdom. From a young age, he was polished to try and become a member of the Spirit Guardians which he himself also wanted due to his admiration of them while his family found him capable of reaching that rank due to his mana reserves while his siblings were distant from him due to the love and attention he was receiving. He was raised to think like a Spirit Guardian and once he got his grimoire, his training only got harsher and one day, he was finally appointed as a new Spirit Guardian. Two years later, Hiernan visited his home and happened to hear his parents planning with other lower noble families to overthrow the crown and once he stepped up and asked the reason, they told him that him becoming a Spirit Guardian was their hope for the family to regain its old glory and status but since things didn't change after all that time, they decided to overthrow the crown and they pleaded for him to backstab the other Guardians so the coup may have a chance to succeed. The shocked Hernan refused and his family along with their allies were about to strike him in their anger caused by the pride and vanity that was clouding their minds, with him smiling with shed tears and using his newfound Mana Method to encase everyone in ice and kill them painlessly, with him then reporting what happened.

After that day, Hernan encased his heart in ice and would destroy enemies and criminals without remorse, ending up gaining the alias Cruel Glacier. At some point in time, he came to train with the prodigious Kai Elio like the other Spirit Guardians did but when he left for the Clover Kingdom, he was shocked and angered like the others.

## Appearance

Hernan has the appearance of a man with brown hair, blue eyes and tan skin. His attire consists of a top with gold shoulder cuffings along with good wrist cuffs, a tan sash around his waist with a dark brown and red cape while he also wears tan pants and brown boots.

## Personality

In his younger years, Hernan was a child filled with kindness, innocence and with a strong sense of justice and immense love for his kingdom and for his family while in the latter's case, he came to treat its history with respect and awe. When it came to his parents, he tried his best to have them be proud of him and never resented them for the hellish training they put him through while when it came to his siblings, he was trying his best to approach them and even allowed them to. Hernan din't have any friends due to not liking how his fellow nobles were acting toward the peasant and commoner classes, however, his parents reinforced that condition due to them setting him up for great things. As he was growing up, he began becoming more cold, beginning to think like a Guardian per his family's wishes and so, he wouldn't mince his words while his fighting style had more intent to harm others.

From the day he killed his family until the present day, Hernan has become a cold and analytic individual that has a heart burning with justice and love for his country at even greater intensity than when he was younger. He has become a man that follows orders to the letter and suppresses any emotion or thought. When he fights, he will use the appropriate force to deal with his enemies no matter how merciless and gruesome the result, something that is partially from him respecting his enemies, while he is always calm. When it comes to the men serving under him, he is quite distant with them and never tries for the opposite but despite that, he cares for them deep inside and them being hurt only fuels his cruelty toward enemies.

Hernan is a man of few words and when he is in meetings with his fellow Spirit Guardians, whom he respects for their power but has some problem with specific individuals for specific reasons, he rarely shares a piece of his mind, needing the Queen's or the Spirit Supreme's own intervention for him to speak. Aside that however, he will easily critisize any Guardian whose actions or words offend him or his ideal Spirit Guardians, with him believing that a Spirit Guardian must be obedient, respect their opponents and not boast in general and specifically not doing so when they defeat weaker opponents.

In his free time, he loves to train to the point of collapsing while he likes to also go in taverns and drink some good beer or other type of drink and while it seems uncharacteristic of him, he is an expert when it comes to drinks and can easily describe their characteristics like a professional tester and can hold his liquor very well but when he drinks, his cold aura prevents others from approaching him, something he likes as he prefers to drink in solitude and the only ones whose company he can tolerate is that of his fellow Spirit Guardians. While no one knows about it, since he never opens up to anyone, Hernan is haunted by the memory of him killing his family and their allies, with him trying to drown that memory with a barrel of liquor or by training his body while anyone that mocks this particular moment of his life will draw out from him profound levels for his usual self wrath and he will lash out violently.

## Battle Prowess

### Natural Abilities

**Immense Magic Power**: As a Spirit Guardian and Stage-Zero mage, Hernan possesses immense amounts of magic power and by borrowing the natural mana from the environment, he can perform extremely powerful spells. When exerted, the temperature slowly drops in the area and things gradually freeze while when fully exerted, cold winds blow outward like a small blizzard and those much weaker than him start feeling warmth leaving their bodies and their senses dulling while blocks of ice start emerging beneath his feet.

**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Thanks to his training, Hernan has become an incredible close quarters fighter.

**Expert Swordsman**: Thanks to his training and way he can use his magic, Hernan possesses great skills with the sword.

Mana Method: Hernan uses the country's unique magic technique to increase the size, range and power of his Ice Magic spells as well as to give his spells additional instructions.

### Magic

Ice Magic: Hernan uses this magic attribute to generate and manipulate the element of ice.

* **Ejecución Del Dios Del Hielo [Ice God's Execution]**: With an open grimoire, Hernan slams his hand on the ground, with an eruption of ice spikes covering a certain range seconds later and piercing those inside it.

* **Granizo Del Dios Del Hielo [Ice God's Hail]**: With an open grimoire, Hernan unleashes multiple spheres of ice.

* Creation Magic: Henran uses this form of magic to shape objects and entities from ice.

* **Espada Del Dios Del Hielo [Ice God's Sword]**: With an open grimoire, Hernan creates a broadsword of ice with a wolf headed guard. It is very sharp while it freezes a little anything at the sliced spot. It's his most favourite spell.

* **Colmillos Del Dios Del Hielo [Ice God's Fangs]**: With an open grimoire, Hernan creates up to two disks in each hand that begin to rotate once thrown. They are immensely sharp and freeze the part they strike.

* **Pelo Del Dios Del Hielo [Ice God's Fur]**: With an open grimoire, Hernan generates an amount of ice which covers his body and end up creating an ice armor with a wolf's helmet, epaulettes and knee guards and clawed gauntlets and boots. The spell offers Hernan greatly boosted offense and defense while anything he touches or attacks freezes on the point of impact. He uses it only on opponents that he ends up finding worthy.

* **Proyección Del Dios Del Hielo [Ice God's Projection]**: With an open grimoire, Hernan creates one or multiple wolves of ice that bite one or multiple targets, slowly encasing them in ice the more their bite keeps on.

* Restraining Magic: Henran uses this form of magic to restrain his opponents with ice.

* **Encarcelamiento Del Dios Del Hielo [Ice God's Imprisonment]**: With an open grimoire, Hernan extends his hand and unleashes a chain of ice with a wolf's head on the end that wraps itself around a target.

* + **True Ice Magic**: Hernan uses the Heart Kingdom's magic technique and natural mana to manipulate real ice.

* **Ejecución Celestial Del Dios Del Hielo [Ice God's Heavenly Execution]**: Hernan creates a natural mana array that encompasses a large area from the sky. The array unleashes a rain of ice spikes that fall fast and pierce everything within the magic circle. He claims to be able to use multiple, smaller mana arrays but prefers the original way he uses it.

* **Renacimiento Del Dios Del Hielo [Ice God's Rebirth]**: Hernan creates a natural mana array that spawns a huge three headed dog that he can also use as a mount. The dog severely freezes those it bites with any of its heads as its fangs are very strong and sharp, while thanks to the inputed command "Spread", anyone touching the affected targets are gradually encased in ice the more in touch with them. The three headed dog can also unleash freezing gusts of wind from each of its heads that can rapidly freeze those exposed to them.

## Equipment

* Grimoire: Hernan possesses a heart grimoire that contains various ice-based magic spells. It has the symbol of a wolf's face on it.

## Relationships

* His family: When he was little, Hernan loved his parents greatly, enduring the harsh training they put him in order to please them because he felt that they loved him and were expecting things from him. When it came to his siblings, he was always trying to come close to them, even though he knew that they despised him but he never knew why. Also, he generally had feelings of immense respect for his family's history, something that his parents also drilled into him, and was another source for him to seek to become stronger. After he learned of their intent to betray the kingdom however, he ended up being conflicted and ended up choosing to execute them for the greater good of the kingdom. While he says to himself that he despises them now, the truth is that he retains still love for them, albeit not as great as before, as the memory of him killing them haunts him to the present day, with him feeling remorse, bitterness and sadness.

* Lucia Alanis: Hernan has immense respect toward the Queen, with her being the only one aside the Spirit Supreme that can make him share his opinion during meetings and reign him in when he elegantly insults or when he gives hard critisism at others, specifically Leonardo most of the times. When her opinion is criticized by others or feels she isn't respected, he will jump to remind the other members in cold fury who she is and that they must respect her. While Hernan respects her due to both being the Queen and a member of the Spirit Guardians, what he respects more is her kindness toward her subjects which is something unsual for royalty.

* Dante Esposito: Aside the Queen herself, Hernan respects greatly Dante, not simply because he is the Spirit Supreme that is above the Spirit Guardians in authority, but because of his skills as a leader while him possessing phenomenal power is a plus in Herman's eyes. Dante is the only one aside Queen Lucia herself that can make him share his opinion during meetings and reign him in when he elegantly insults or when he gives hard critisism at others, specifically Leonardo most of the times.

* Barbara Giglio: Hernan respects Barbara for her power and mostly for her intelligence as a Spirit Guardian along with the vital role her division of research has in general. However, when it comes to her position as a woman, he feels pity for her due to her feelings of love being one sided, the latter being an opinion he keeps to himself.

* Kai Elio: Hernan considers Kai to be the worst criminal and traitor in the Heart Kingdom's history due to leaving and pledhing his allegiance to another kingdom, all while using the power the Heart Kingdom helped him hone in the path of becoming what he is today. While he would love to execute him in his righteous as he calls it but also burning fury, he trusts the Queen's and the Spirit Supreme's judgement and he too believes that Kai can be the ultimate weapon in the hands of the Heart Kingdom. While he is content with his presence upon his forceful return, he made it his personal goal to supervise him so he can never escape again and vowed to kill him if tries to do so, regardless of the consequences it will have, the chances of him succeding in doing that or even if he will survive or not.

* Leonardo Fiamme: Hernan considers and treats Leonardo as a bratty child that knows only how to boast and have way too much confidence, with most of the times having nothing to show for it while he believes that his jealousy for Kai Elio, if not controlled, will end up destroying him and will sometimes compare Leonardo with him just to spite him, not caring about how the young man will react. He considers his confidence and boasting an annoyance, with his boasts of defeating along with Shinzui the Black Bulls being considered disgraceful due to a Spirit Guardian not needing to boast and if they do so, then it should be for defeating a Captain and not low members. He believes that should he learn to restrain his feelings a little, he could become much stronger and capable.

* Shinzui: Hernan has great respect for Shinzui when it comes to his power, with him considering him a prodigy among the current line of Spirit Guardians. Despite that however, Shinzui's personality unnerves him due to every word and action coming from him having multiple intents and meanings than what he himself lets out to be seen as the obvious and intended, like an innocent looking smile and tone for example that may hide anger, that's how at least how he treats Shinzui's every type of action. Regardless, he tries to enjoy his friendly demeanor while he respects his calmness under most circumstances.

## Trivia

* Hernan Invierno's appearance is based on Trevor Belmost from *Castlevania* TV series.
* His surname Invierno is spanish for winter, a reference to his magic.