Pillar Men

The **Pillar Men** are powerful humanoid creature featured in *Tackle Tendency.*

## Description

The Pillar Men are from a race of ancient, humanoid, super human beings. These beings are now nearly extinct, but used to live hundreds of thousand of years ago in the Calcono. They are highly intelligent, extremely strong, and able to manipulate their bodies to a very fine degree; however, they are vulnerable to the rays of the Sun and to the Nichirin Blade like demons.

Their physiology is very different from humans, though outwardly they appear very similar. The only visible feature that can differentiate them from humans is the horns on their forehead. An individual being can possess one or several small horns; for them, displaying their horns is a sign of honor. Moreover, these beings are inherently powerful, have athletic physiques exclusively, and have long life spans. Their near immortality causes them to produce only very few children, as there is little need, and sleep for millennia instead of hours, staying awake for comparable periods.

The four remaining representatives of this species in the world are Akras, Essiha, Tisandros, and Maglavoto, in descending order of hierarchy, now called "Pillar Men" since they were discovered sleeping inside stone pillars. Led by Akras, this group awakens in 1938 to continue seeking out the Red Stone of Aja, which, combined with their technology of the Stone Mask, will transform them into "ultimate beings" immune even to the Sun.

## Abilities

**Biokinesis:** The Pillar Men can freely change and manipulate their bodies to a greater degree and speed than any vampire created by the Stone Masks, being able to dislocate or even break their own bones as well as flatten organs in order to achieve any form they desire. With their near-immortality and powers of regeneration, they can survive, endure attacks, and restore their bodies even after being reduced to only their brain.

**Semi-Immortality:** The Pillar Men are immune to age and disease, in which the remaining Pillar Men have lived for thousands of years.

**Advanced Intelligence:** The Pillar Men's most dangerous trait is their superior intellect. They are capable of perfect recall and are able to instantly analyze and understand the mechanics behind anything including complicated things such as languages, machinery, tactics, systems, and people's minds and actions, within a matter of seconds. Santana instantly learned the procedure to dissemble a gun that might have taken a human hours to learn; and Essiha was able to match Kasuke in wits.

**Enhanced Sense:** Pillar Men possess extremely enhanced senses. These are demonstrated a number of times, such as Santana sniffing out the area like a dog, or Kars being able to detect the number of people in a room via heat signatures.

**Biological Absorption:** The Pillar Men's main method of sustenance is absorbing living beings (including Demons) via any form of physical contact. A Pillar Man's body is composed of cells that release a digestive acid, which melt the victim at a cellular level, creating the illusion that the Pillar Man is absorbing a victim into its body. The cells also appear to induce an euphoric enzyme as victims subjected to the process do not feel anything until physical contact is broken. The surviving Pillar Men displayed this ability in creative ways: Maglavoto forced himself into another's body to control their movement while eating them from the inside, Tisandros grafted the hands of multiple targets and absorbed their innards by simply touching one, and Essiha grafted a human limb to himself after losing his original forearm. This ability is ineffective against Demon Slayers as the cells perceive the danger posed by their energy.

**Elemental Battle Mode:** The more experienced Pillar Men each have their own special fighting style, characterized by a specific "element" such as fire, wind, or light. Powers based around these elements are referred to as "Modes", This allow their to manipulate elements without Vision. This ability and their body manipulation appear to only be usable by those associated with Akras and the Stone Masks; the Pillar Men race originally used primitive weapons such as spears before they were massacred.

**Ultimate Being:** A Pillar Man can become an Ultimate Being by activating a Stone Mask affixed with the Red Stone of Aja. So far, only Akras has been seen to become an Ultimate Being. A Pillar Man in this state becomes much more powerful, with a massive enhancement to his overall capabilities and as well as new ones:

* Being unaffected by sunlight
* Complete immortality
* The ability to reshape their body on a cellular level to that of any kind of human, animal or plant