Ace

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• The Diamond Hearted Demigod (title)

• Dude (Cranium)

• Pa (Rufus)

• Grace Shoryu/Mari (older sister)

• Rufus Nightingale (son)

Logically 60 Years Old

> *"My fate lies in my freaking beliefs and I believe in my will to change the world and the future!"*
>
> - Ace

Ace Shoryu (pronouced "sure-you"), or better known as Ace the Rising Dragon, is one of the titular protagonists of Wowlife, being the protagonist of the current era. He is the son of the earthbending guardian, Boss and the goddess of the earth, Chikyū. While also being the younger brother of Grace. He is also notably the father of Rufus Nightingale, with Huella Nightingale being the mother. He is known for using the 4 main elements using all four of his limbs. He is also known as the Demigod Hero; saving the world from Frewil during the Calamity War era before being frozen for 40 years. Only to come back to face Frewil once again in the new generation. He specialises in having a lot of close combat attacks and even powerful long ranged attacks; with all of them using his elemental attacks.

## **Appearance**

Ace is reasonably short for his age and has a somewhat bulky build; having 4 pack abs near his stomach. He also has thick eyebrows. Something given from his father.

Being a elf, he has pale skin, black pointy irises and pointed ears. He has spikey dark blond hair that sticks up; almost like a quiff. He got this hairstyle from his father albeit less longer. With the colour coming from his mother.

His usual outfit features a orange jacket, a black scarf with orange stripes that is shaped like a collar on the top, a pin resembling the Roman numeral for 4 that’s attached to his scarf, a black upper body spandex which goes around his chest and his right arm with the right arm part having matching orange stripes, a black martial arts belt with a orange cloak underneath, black baggy trousers and matching black boots.

His casual outfit is a simple orange hoodie with the ELOH logo, a orange backwards snapback, black pants and shoes.

When ascended to his Aether State, he looks extremely different. He resembles a divine elemental. Very much like his mother. With addition to his arms and legs being made of what element they represent; being earth, fire, water and air respectfully.

## **Personality**

Ace is shown to be boisterous, exuberant and brave. Like his father, he is quick to the point and willing to put his life on the line to protect the world; giving him a heroic heart but he will go overboard. He is also shown to be very stubborn and tends to spout out curse words every so often, sometimes too much. People joke about him being brooding and edgy but in reality, he's just trying to keep his cool. He is also seen as a somewhat glutton for food, mainly crisps. This is usually how he comforts himself in certain situations besides wanting to fight someone.

He is very much shown to be a chaotic good character. As he is quoted to having a heart of diamond, referring to his will to never give up and doing what is necessary to face all odds, which is something he shares with his father. Either through a dangerous fight or just to be competitive for a lot of things. He wishes to do things his own way and he believes that he can change the future for the better. However, his struggle tends to be his notable bad luck that he shows on multiple occasions, making his goals a rather difficult task to achieve. This bad luck led to his nickname "Ace, The Rising Dragon".

His weakness tends to be how protective he is. He tries so hard to be a hero by protecting others that leads to him being injured badly. He is aware that protecting everyone is a impossible task; even for a demigod such as himself. But he will try everything he can to minimalize casualties. This is all because of him witnessing the death of his father and older sister, noting that he could of saved them if he was there for them since before those events, he had a fallen out with them and he regretted doing so when he confronted Cranium on the matter.

### **Herculean Strength**

Ace is known for being extremely strong. He can lift massive structures and is able to throw them. However it takes him time to do so.

### **Elemental Fist**

The fighting style that he made himself. It involves using his arms and legs to control the four main elements Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Crusader Chad would notably rip-off this fighting ability. He would refine these abilities via the help of the four gods. He personally attacks by punching REALLY hard via fire punches and uppercuts. Which is something that he personally refers to as "decking".

* **Airbending:** From his right leg. Learnt from Vincent. He uses it for moving himself around in the air.
	+ **Ventus Updrift:** His airbending attack. He propels himself upwards with a burst of wind to either do a dive kick using his waterbending leg or to latch onto his opponent to throw them.
* **Firebending:** From his right arm. Learnt from Fuego. It's probably his most used elemental ability. He's able to shoot flaming projectiles like balls or flamethrowers. He can also punch hard by igniting his arm in flames.
	+ **Pyrus Blast:** A fireball he can fire out at will. He essentially does a one-inch punch to fire it. He can charge it up to increase it's power. Though it goes rather slow regardless.
	+ **Pyrus Dragon:** A strong punch attack where when he punches, it explodes in the shape of a dragon's head.
	+ **Pyrus Lancer:** A lariat attack where he fire punches his enemy on the cheek, launching them.
* **Earthbending:** From his left arm. This is a natural ability passed down from his father and mother. He mainly uses it for defence since he can create pillars in front of him by punching the ground.
	+ **Rising Terra:** A powerful uppercut attack where his left arm is covered by pieces of the land around him. As a result of him grazing the ground to collect said pieces, he creates a pillar of land in front of him. From there, he can do many things with it. He can use it as a wall or attack it to launch shards of dirt directly towards where he attacked it.
	+ **Terra Wave:** Ace does a chop using his earth covered hand. He mainly does this to attack downed opponents after launching them down to the ground though it can be used to attack the ground to create a wave, making him rupture it and sending a wave of violent earth rushing towards his opponent.
* **Waterbending:** From his left leg. Learnt from Aqua. His many kicks involve using this leg; as he kicks while his leg is covered in a bubble that bursts a rain of water once it hits.
	+ **Aqua Whirlpool:** A low hitting spinning kick attack. As the name implies, it creates a whirlpool around Ace until he stops. It pulls a grounded opponent towards Ace so that he can attack them with a more stronger water kick that sets the whirlpool off; releasing water everywhere.

### **Ascension: Aether State**

Ace's Ascension. It involves him combining his elements to transform into this divine elemental being, looking extremely draconic as a result. He likely got this transformation from her mother's side of the family. It’s a form that most Mortal Beings can’t handle when using lethal attacks when transformed. When transformed, Ace’s heart pumps at maximum speed evident by the heart beating sounds heard when he is about to transform. As a result, he gets a MASSIVE strength boost far beyond the power a mortal can handle. But this comes with a massive risk. His body will continue to take a toll on him the more he uses it to the point of death. He briefly shows this form when fighting Frewil and he did know the risk but knowing Ace's never give up attitude, he is willing to risk his life by using this form.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

Ace was born at his father's guild. He was given birth by Boss and Chikyū. As a result, he is a hybrid of a elf and a god. Being a elven demigod. Upon his birth, Chikyū leaves the Earth to go to the godly realm for the remainder of time. Meaning Ace never met her mother properly but he was given stories about her via his older sister, Grace.

Boss took care of his son a lot but he was rather troublesome growing up. For one, he would randomly fire out flames from his arm, fling himself around using air from his leg and would cause whirlpools while swimming. Clearly this is the result of the genes given by his mother, something that his sister didn't get that much of surprisingly. Ace would later learn to use these abilities effectively when trained under her mother and the three other dragon gods. Due to them possessing the abilities that Ace got from his mother. With his more natural ability of earthbending being taught briefly by his father at first.

At the age of 20, Ace mastered his abilities thanks to being trained by Chikyū, Aqua, Vincent and Fuego. The latter three going incognito to conceal their godly identity; with Ace being the only one who is aware of this during this time. During that time, he befriends a giant named Cranium during his training on the beach. As Cranium was washed out on the beach due to a accident on his side. Ace would eventually be best friends with Cranium and they would form a duo team together. Doing many tasks assigned by his father at his guild. Ace would also meet Crusader Chad, as he literally starts using a knock-off version of Ace's elemental fist. Due to thinking that he considers Ace his rival, Chad would always try to find ways to get near Ace in order to fight him.

During that time, Ace would meet Huella Nightingale. Who is apparently the daughter of Talin, the first chosen hero of legend and was a friend of Boss. The two would of had a rough start that eventually lead them to falling in love. At several points, Ace and Huella would spend some time together after Ace was done with certain missions and Huella was done finding artefacts for her museum. Which would lead to Huella becoming pregnant and given birth to Rufus. However, the two wouldn't see each other more often as one day during the completion of one of their missions, Ace and Cranium find that Grace was sick and was immediately yelled at by Boss to stay away due to being a contagious illness. Ace would later learn that this was due to the Grimdark Virus made by Frewil. Cranium was especially worried too due to being romantically involved with Grace. Knowing that this was Frewil's doing, Boss declared war against Frewil on the 5th of November and ordered Ace and Cranium to take a huge break from their missions.

When half of Grace's soul was taken by Frewil, Ace asks his father to take part in the war; to wish he and Grace decline his offer. This maddens Ace and he has a argument with the two of them. After the argument that ended on a dreadful note, Ace angrily goes to Cranium's home. He asks Cranium if he could stay here for now since he couldn't be asked with his family right now. Cranium, being the word of advice, tells Ace that he shouldn't be this mad towards his family because he will regret it afterwards. Ace willingly takes the advice and decides to go out and apologise. Cranium says that he's crazy because everyone is supposed to stay at home for lockdown during the Calamity War. Obviously, Ace still storms off and Cranium goes after him.

When he arrives to where his father would be found, he is shocked to see his father lying on the floor bleeding heavily. Ace tries to wake his father up and that when Boss wakes up to see his son during his dying breath. Ace starts crying, apologising for his previous actions and says that he can't die now, to which Boss says to his son that he can be a hero and gives him a very important quote that he will remember to the rest of time. Before he dies, he says that Frewil did this and he asks his son to pursuit him since he is going after Grace. He then finally says that he loves Ace and dies peacefully in Ace's arms.

Ace returns back to his home in the guild and takes his father's body to safety. He then storms out with Cranium to pursuit Frewil. Upon arriving to the mythical mines, which is where Frewil is located, Grace yells at his brother for arriving here; still angry over the argument they had. Grace was in the middle of fighting her evil counterpart, Mari and is killed by her when she stabs her in the stomach. Cranium rages and goes to lash out at Mari but she dodges and runs away. Cranium was about to go after her but is stopped by Ace, who is next to Grace, who is slowly dying. After Ace apologises and Grace gives Cranium her alterarge, Ace says that he should take the body away while he deals with Frewil and Mari, Cranium does so and evacuates out of the mines.

Ace goes into a fight with Frewil while Gregory, who helped Ace from near death, dealt with Mari. Ace thinks he finished off Frewil but is met with him freezing him in ice and is teleported away. Ace would stay frozen for 40 years until he was found by Alex and Tiff during one of their honeymoons. He would be thawed out by the Aranea Dracos and he falls unconscious. When he wakes up a few hours later on a hospital bed, he is met with a gigantic skeleton. Who is revealed to be Cranium, who is currently undead. With the help of Cranium and even King Ander, they update on Ace on what has happened since then; revealing that many guardians have died or in Gregory's case, completely vanished. They also say that Frewil has returned. Ace becomes determined and willing to take him on once again.

During this time, Ace lives with Cranium at his house in the jungle.

## **Relationships**

### **Boss Shoryu**

Ace has a very loving relationship with his father. Although very strict towards him, Boss cares for his son and his safety; seeing him as a chosen one due to his passed over abilities given by Chikyū.

### **Chikyū**

According to Boss, she loves her son very much and wishes to talk to him more if she wasn't a busy goddess. During the return of Ace in the current generation, Chikyū would talk to his son via telepathy. Though this is very rare. Back then, Ace was trained under her and the three other gods for many years.

### **Grace Shoryu**

Ace has a love-hate relationship with his sister. They act like they don't like each other on the outside due to having fights on a regular basis during their youth and having different interests and hobbies, but they still loved each other as siblings deep inside. She is older than him by 11 years.

### **Celeste**

Being the Guardian's divine noble steed that was given to them by his mother, Ace has a great relationship with Celeste. She mainly helps Ace with getting to one place to another due to being a Pegasus. Even nowadays she is around and is still able to be give Ace a ride. She can be called by him from anywhere by just whistling a certain tune that Grace would use to befriend her.

### **The Guardians**

Besides his father and sister, Ace has a decent relationship with the other guardians. With Diesel, Ragnaro and Gregory being his mentors to enhance his firebending, airbending and waterbending respectfully. After Ace returns after being thawed out for 40 years, he was upset that most of them died but thankfully it was due to natural causes. All except Gregory, who vanished during his fight alongside Ace 40 years ago. He was also aware that they have had children and even grandchildren since then. With the only one he's acquainted with being Teapot.

### **Sir Cranium**

Cranium is Ace's best friend and partner. They have a very strong bond together and they act like they are brothers. They both call each other "dude" every time and get competitive with each other on occasion. When Grace dies in Cranium's arms, Ace points out that he would make a great brother-in-law since Grace was planning to marry Cranium. These were the last words he said to his BFF before he gets frozen for years. After the time skip 40 years later, Ace at first gets weirded out that Cranium is now a elderly skeleton but they still act the same as they were 40 years ago. Cranium also happily let Ace move in with him at his house in the jungle; which shows that he trusts his best friend.

### **Crusader Chad**

Ace first met the dwarf when he heard that he was literally coping him in terms of the elemental fist. Chad quotes saying that Ace is the reason why he was determined to achieve better, despite how pathetic he is. This is also why he would also fight Huella, due to her involvement with Ace. Ace can see Chad as a annoyance with his constant challenges and duels. Mainly because most of his attacks are similar to Ace's; making Chad seem like a weaker clone to Ace. And still to this day, Ace doesn't even know that Chad is a alien going through a disguise to blend into society and is currently training his son to quote “use wooden weapons to achieve greatness”.

### **Huella Nightingale**

Ace and Huella are lovers. As during the time of the Calamity War, the two would become separated. Especially because of Ace being frozen for several years. But during the early portions, they clearly loved each other. Huella even references Ace during the Bloodstained Era as a joke about being in a relationship. They mostly kept their relationship a secret, with Huella never revealing Rufus's father to her friends besides Rufus himself.

### **Rufus Nightingale**

Rufus is Ace's future illegitimate son, hence his last name is still Nightingale and the fact he was raised mainly by his mother, Huella. Although they never interacted, Rufus does reference his father in his usual cocky attitude. Saying things like his father will take him hunting soon and boasting that he can take big creatures down like a mammoth, even though Mammoth are extinct. Which kind of shows he has his father's stubborn personality and his mother’s barbaric hunting instincts but Ace will likely not like the idea of Rufus being trained by Crusader Chad.

### **Alex Pastel**

Ace was saved by Alex during his vacation with Tiff. The two are merely acquaintances due to Alex not having time to know Ace. All he knows is that he is the Demigod Hero.

### **King Ander Pastel**

Ander was the one that updated Ace on what has happened when he was frozen in ice. Like with Alex, they are merely acquaintances but Ander at least interacted with him more.

### **Mari**

Although technically being Ace's sister due to being a corrupted Grace, Ace despises Mari for killing the true half of her actual sister. Mari states that she loves her brother but this was merely sarcasm due to her wanting to murder Ace. Eventually, Mari realised that he is her brother and even if she is very different, she is still the same Grace who respects her baby brother.

### **Frewil**

Ace and Frewil are sworn enemies and rivals. They are both willing to settle the score with each other once and for all. They first met each other during the day of Frewil's creation. Back when Frewil didn't have the mindset of being evil. They were decent friends when Ace was giving Frewil a tour around the area. This is where Frewil discovers a tuxedo and replicates it on himself using his shapeshifting powers. Ace says that it looks good on him. Frewil, nowadays would remind Ace of that day and says that the tuxedo he wears is a bare reminder of how much he wants to defeat Ace.

## **Trivia**

* Ace is named after the noun used for a person who excels in a particular activity. For Ace, it's excelling in mastering the four elements and using martial arts. Ace could also refer to a Ace card in Poker. As it means high quality, excellence. Due to the fact he enjoys "decking" enemies in the face, this could also be seen as a pun to a "deck" of cards in poker.
	+ His last name, Shoryu, translates to “Rising Dragon” in Japanese kanji. It comes from one of Con Air's old usernames before Con Air. It also relates to a popular tattoo design that represents the overcoming of adversity. The reason why it's Japanese is because his family are very much styled after East Asian culture, plus it could refer to his birthplace being very East Asian themed. Also like in Japan, China and Korea, his last name is sometimes said as his first name.
		- The name also serves as a reference to the Shoryuken from the Street Fighter series. Which in of itself, translates to "Rising Dragon Fist".
		- His nickname "Ace the Rising Dragon" is just a translated version of his full name with the added "the" in-between.
* Ace was made during when Con Air was making a new story for the original Wowlife that would be a prequel to the previous stories. He originally had a goatee that’s similar to Alex’s but less longer and more messy. He also wore a scarf that was eventually given to Nano and all the black parts in his palette were originally green minus his scarf. He was also more humanlike instead of a elf. He shares this change with his sister. Eventually, Ace became a character who would instead be frozen for many years until he eventually thaws out in the new generation.
	+ His younger self was originally a idea where he started out at that age before a time skip. This was changed so that this never happens. Like Cranium, his younger self is never seen in the lore besides his toddler self when he discovers his powers.
* His likes consists of:
	+ Crisps
	+ Coffee
	+ Fighting
	+ Teaming up with Cranium in combat
* His dislikes consists of:
	+ Losing a Fight
	+ Lies
	+ Being bored

* He seems to reference the number 4 a lot.
	+ The obvious one is the 4 main elements he’s mastered. Earth, Fire, Wind & Water.
	+ His outfit has a pin that shows the Greek numeral of the number 4. It also serves as his logo.
	+ His right hand glove has 4 orange stripes. One of them being covered by his sleeve.
	+ He has 4 buttons on his jacket. One being covered by his scarf.
	+ He is arguably the 4th hero of history, timeline wise. The other 3 before him, in order, being Terios, Gregory/Mirai and Huella.
	+ Probably the most obscure reference. Ace mentions that he likes coffee. In fact, it’s his favourite drink. When he asks for one, he specifically asks for “4 spoonfuls of sugar” since it’s his rather unusual yet preferred amount. No wonder he's that energetic.
* He was inspired by a common stereotype used for popular Shonen protagonists due to being very energetic, always being hungry and being somewhat dumb. The main examples being Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto and Son Goku from Dragon Ball. This might also explain his Japanese-esque style.
	+ If Ace and Chad were fighting game characters, they would be clones of each other but are given some different moves to make them unique. Very much like with Ryu and Ken. However, since Chad uses a weaker knock-off version of the elemental fist and the fact he is purely a joke character, he seems more like Dan Hibiki. So Chad's attacks will sometimes be "accidental" moves like failing to do a Rising Terra and slamming his body onto the ground as a result.
* There was difficulty giving him a last name. He originally didn't have one alongside his family, with "Ace the Rising Dragon" being just a nickname for him. Next was Noboriryū, which, according to many sources, means rising dragon as well. However, the name was too complicated for Con Air to pronounce. So he decided to give him, and his family, the last name of "Shoryu". Which, as previously mentioned, Is a translation to Rising Dragon in Japanese Kanji and serves as a reference to the shoryuken from the Street Fighter series.
	+ Ace would be able to do a uppercut attack similar to the shoryuken to take this reference home. Mainly when he uses Rising Terra.

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