Ellion Apollo

Ellion Apollo was an artist, politician and significant cultural figure in Sunscale. During his mandate as Scallibra of Arts, he was responsible for the foundation of the Apollo-Garrett Theater. Known for his out-of-the-ordinary Musa control, Ellion was able to create a fully functional human fetus/baby out of Musa, which would eventually become his daughter Jeni. In the Grey Revolution, he also played a central role in the defense of the Sunscale regime against Python and the rebels, leading into a direct confrontation between Ellion and Python in which Ellion ended up being killed.

## Background

Ellion was born in the year 778 at the capital Dentropoli. Coming from a very poor background, he and his twin sister Delphi lived by themselves on the street, as their mother had died during labor and their father was nowhere to be found. From a very young age, Ellion showed an uncanny talent for artistic abilities and, specifically, for Musa control. On the other hand, Delphi had an inexplicable power in her vision, the Eye of Apollo, that allowed her to see into the future. With their rare abilities, the two siblings began to perform impressive plays on the street, in hopes of earning enough money to survive. Regularly, a lamplighter in his twenties by the name of Po Soleil, who worked as a lamplighter, would pass by and offer help and support, becoming a friend that Ellion would cherish for his entire life. At some point during this early period of their lives, a young Garrett Sant'ana, away from his family, approached them and began to infiltrate their act as if he was part of the play, until his father Viera Sant'ana came looking for him and, upon noticing he had been interacting with two homeless kids, gave him a look of disapproval paired with a look of disgust at Ellion and Delphi before leaving with his son. Throughout the following years, the Apollo siblings continued performing on the street and, occasionally Garrett showed up and interacted with them. By the time the three of them were 16 years old, the trio was all but official, with Garrett being a consistently planned part of the plays. In these, Ellion and Garrett developed a rivalry with undertones of mutual interest, accidentally pushing Delphi aside. At a certain point, she began performing by herself just a little farther across the street, which, in 794, caught the attention of a passing Cacian Oraculo, son of the Prime Scallibra Audatius Oraculo who was busy with the people in the street that called for him. Infatuated with Delphi, Cacian approached her and the two began talking, but Ellion and Garrett noticed and quickly came over to tell him to leave her alone. Cacian tried to deescalate the situation and show them that he meaned no harm, but to no avail, as Ellion and Garrett very protective of Delphi and took the approach as a threat to her safety. The confrontation eventually turned into the type of confrontation Ellion and Garrett prefered, which was a competition in artistic abilities, however Cacian had no artistic abilities and had no way to respond other than timidly call for their reason. In the middle of this exchange, Audatius Oraculo appeared and questioned Cacian on what was happening, to which Ellion promptly responded by announcing himself and his two partners as professional artists in an artist competition against Cacian, an idea that pleased Audatius, leading him to encourage the competition to continue. With no abilities, Cacian just stood there frozen as Ellion performed his artistic abilities. This left Audatius profoundly disappointed in his own son, while profoundly impressed with Ellion. From this point on, Ellion and Audatius would develop a father-son type dynamic, with Cacian being left behind but also getting to know Delphi better. With these changes, Ellion and Garrett parted ways, as Garrett would focus on his work at the Alcastilho Theater and Ellion would begin to enter the realm of politics.

## Time as Scallibra

In 796, Ellion was chosen for the role of Scallibra of Arts. From the moment he attained that post, he began attempting to change the artistic landscape of Sunscale, which he was very unhappy with. One of the first significant proposals he put forward at the Parliament of Scales were the expansion of the quality road work program from the rich areas of Sunscale to the impoverished suburbs, as well as the construction of a government funded theater with free education for the artists. Given the nature of the the two affairs, it was mostly up to the Scallibra of Territory, Viera Sant'ana, and the Scallibra of Society, Infeliciano Alcastilho, to have the last word, with the road work program expansion being begrudgingly approved and the theater being vehemently disapproved. Unsatisfied with the results, Ellion decided to approach Garrett by attending one of his performances at the Alcastilho Theater. After not seeing each other for two years, the two discovered that the true nature of their mutual interest was romantic and had an intimate moment inside the theater. With the rekindling of their relationship, they got to discussing the idea of creating a theater of their own, when Ludwig Beckford, who had attended the show, appeared, catching them off guard and hearing their idea. An avid defendant of progressiveness in art, blessed with an expansive family heritage, Ludwig offered to contribute with their theater's funding. With the new allies behind the cause, Ellion returned to the Parliament of Scales with a much more solid version of the theater project, which resulted in approval by the Scallibra of Finance, Rossorbino Banksingham, the Scallibra of Trade, Joga Guomundsson, as well as the Prime Scallibra, Audatius Oraculo. In spite of the continued disapproval by Viera and Infeliciano, the project was finally approved and the theater began construction. In 798, the Apollo-Garrett Theater was founded, with Garrett being appointed president of the Head Committee, through which the instructors were selected. Soon the theater began to flourish, becoming extremely popular amongst all social classes, particularly the lower ones. This increased the already palpable tensions between Ellion and the conservatives, such as Viera and Infeliciano. Later in 798, Cacian and Delphi announced their marriage and Delphi's pregnancy. During the marriage, tensions began to rise as Ellion involuntarily stole the spotlight of the ceremony by just being himself, which was especially noticeable with Delphi and Audatius along with the way they gravitated towards Ellion. Filled with jealousy and anger, Cacian snapped and confronted Ellion, accusing him of wanting to take everything from him, including his wife and his already negligent father. In the face of this lunatic behaviour, Delphi and Audatius felt offended by Cacian's attitude, as they deemed it as possessive, and argued against it, while the rest of the people in the ceremony pled for Cacian to calm down and be reasonable. Frustrated with everyone's inability to understand him and his own inability to establish his reasoning by force, Cacian stormed out, never to be seen in the same form again. Following this event, the pregnant Delphi moved in with Ellion and Garrett, as they themselves looked for a way to have a child of their own. The answer would not come until 9 months before the Grey Revolution, when Ellion managed to create a human embryo from nothing but concentrated Musa, which the couple proceeded to incubate in a lighbulb shaped machine.

## Grey Revolution

Two years after Cacian's disappearance and the founding of the Apollo-Garrett Theater, the Grey Revolution of 800 happened. After setting fire to the Apollo-Garrett, the rebel forces began wreaking havoc on the capital. Meanwhile, Python attacked the Apollo household, killing Delphi and stealing their child, Cyra, who Delphi had predicted with her abilities to one day awaken the power to assimilate herself into any physical object. Soon after, Ellion arrived and found his dying sister, who begged him in her dying wish to save Cyra. After she passed, Ellion burst out of the house at full speed in the direction of the Parliament of Scales, but by the time he got there, Python had already filled it with smoke, and killed all of the Pebulla. As Audatius laid in the middle of the room, completely frozen in shock, Ellion attempted to save him, only to see him get killed by Python right in front of him. Snapping completely, Ellion entered his Epiphanea mode, despite the suffocating smoke-filled air around him vastly undermining his power, and got into an all out battle with Python, which concluded with Ellion getting fatally injured, as his diminished power wasn't enough to defeat the smoke powered cyborg. Python then proceeded to leave the Parliament and the dying Ellion inside, heading for the nearest connection to the train tunnels. As Ellion was about to lose consciousness, Po entered the Parliament and attempted to help him. However, knowing it was hopeless, Ellion entrusted Po with going into his home, taking his child, Jeni, that was about to be born, and raising her as his own. Right as Po left to do so, a flying train with Cyra assimilated into it emerged from the ground and started to twist itself around the Musa Tree, sealing it from the outside and trapping Ellion inside. As he was about to die, Ellion crawled towards the tree and transferred all his remaining Musa into the tree as a form of conserving it, before finally dying.