Icarus

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* Post-TS
* True Tao Mori

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## Overview

**Icarus**, or **Rei**, is the protagonist of the graphic novel/manga series. Icarus is a member of the Gray Kindred, one of the few militant Nephilim groups in the story and is the eventual leader after the death of Rhaemon. Having no real goal in the start besides survival for him and his younger sister, Tomika, Icarus' early coercion to join the Gray Kindred began to force him into caring for others, and eventually, he gained a reason to live past 'just survival.'

Born on Xim, a planet in E.L.O, Icarus wasn't raised by either Hikkerio, his father, or Marya, his mother, as Hikkerio was forced to leave Marya with her plans to return to earth after an absence of nearly 10,000 years. Marya was eventually killed by the Blessed humans in a raid operation, leaving Icarus and his baby sister, Tomika, to fend for themselves.

While most of Icarus' ultimate moves are emotion-based, Icarus is a competent fighter. Being the son of Hikkerio, He is a natural at learning fighting techniques and can easily grasp the concepts of the fighting styles he is up against and devise counters for them.

## Appearance

### Pre-Gray Kindred

Icarus is tall, his semi-roundish face is framed by a voluminous mess of fluffy greyish-white hair which sticks up at odd angles around his head, casting noticeably dark shadows onto itself. His eyes are medium-sized and somewhat circular, their irises violet with what seems to be a cross as the pupils, and are usually stretched quite wide, giving him an innocent, energized appearance. His Mark, as a marked Neph, is a large, inverted cross at the top of his forehead.

### Gray Kindred

As a member of the Kindred, he wears the standard GK jacket, with his own personalized stickers on it, as well as a somewhat greyish inner shirt, along with the standard cargo pants all members wear. Instead of the plain brown shoes worn by the majority of the members, he wears his signature pair of red high tops with white soles and black laces.

## Personality

In contrast with Tyrann's laid-back and occasionally nonchalant attitude, Icarus is a more serious, sardonic and somewhat antisocial person. He is a choleric character whose emotions can get the better of him, especially when his loved ones are involved. Icarus also has a short-temper and prone to be impulsive, although by the events of The Devilman Saga he has notably mellowed out somewhat, which he attributed to caring for the orphans with the Librarians.

However, he is also like Rhaemon, his idea of a teacher, in that he has a rebellious nature: His rebellious nature leads to the Kindred having him work alone on "special jobs" like his *best friend*, Tyrann. In fact, Icarus actually prefers to act as a lone wolf. However, he shows great loyalty to people he cares about, especially to his sister Tomika and whom he grew up with.

Like Rhaemon and Annatar, two teachers of his, Icarus is a somewhat arrogant and cocky person. He shares Rhaemon's habit of casually mouthing off to even the most powerful of his enemies, making taunts and sarcastic jokes on the battlefield. He also taunts in a similar, sarcastic fashion to Rhaemon: one taunt involves him bowing mockingly and asking, "Shall we dance?"; and another has him applaud his enemies. Despite that, Icarus shows an underlying insecurity about his own ability to protect those he loves, a fear propagated by the loss of his mother. Therefore, he takes comments about his own abilities to heart, which is seen when he is deeply offended by Aemon and Yuyawe's passive comments about his lack of ability, calling him a "waste of an ultimate power". He does eventually make up for his insecurities and goes even further by choosing not to kill Haýü when he finds out his relation to him.

Icarus is one of the few characters in the series to actually swear and showcase offensive and crude behavior to others.

## Powers and Abilities

### Natural Abilities

**Expert Brawler:** Icarus' biggest strength prior to any formal training, is his expert brawling ability, possessing the innate knowledge of street fighting techniques, and being forced to learn to defend himself at a very young age, as his mother was killed in the town where he was being raised along with his baby sister, Tomika. Icarus is very versatile in his attacks, even before learning Neph Techniques. Reien also discloses later on that Icarus' early fighting ability was a manifestation of his will to live.

**Keen Intellect:** Icarus has been identified by Annatar, Katrya, Rhaemon and even Cienne as having a gifted mind. Icarus' incredibly fast processing and analytical ability allow him to deduce details obscure even to the trained eye. He is able to notice the slightest changes in the way Elemental Nephs use their abilities, as well as gear himself up to contend with said changes. Icarus' intelligence is also evident in his craftsmanship ability, as he was able to recreate Reien's childhood sword, *Zione*, from breaking of one of his horns, and Kikimei's (the previous Black Martyr) *Ragnir*, from *Surgor* ores in Corinth. He is a gifted and skilled swordsman who was trained under the guidance of the Librarians and his mentor, Annatar.

**Adaptability:** Icarus' intellect allows him to adapt quickly, and most times, easily, to various challenges. After travelling into the Eastern 500, he was able to adapt to the **Ilagorr** species of Lost Souls after two nights. Despite being prone to anger, Icarus' quick thinking pushes him to form different ways to adapt and mimic others, growing strong enough to copy his father's divine ability, Gravity, and combine it with his darkness using **Uthgardt**.

### Innate and Neph Abilities

#### Flight

A base Nephilim ability achievable by Nephilim of over 13+ years. This is mostly used in travelling short-mid distances and isn't a reliable ability when crossing Inhabitable Areas, as it signals other flight-capable Lost Souls.

##### Lyris (*Wing Techniques*)

These are techniques that involve usage of the wings in martial and melee combat. These techniques, like most techniques in the series, are named in Celestico, and range from defensive to offensive capabilities. Icarus can use all Lyris Techniques, learning from Morryann, and then Rhaemon, a Lyris Master.

* **Jěngänoǔ** (*Bleed*): By beating one's wings violently, air currents are generated that, depending on the force applied, can generate anything from makeshift hurricanes to precise wind blades.

* **Hyökken** (*Boost*): A common movement technique among high-ranking Nephilim, semi-intelligible Lost Souls like **Fisher** and the **Muncieros**. It is achieved by moving according to the beating of one's wings, and the advanced form of this, *Hyökkaio*(*2nd Boost*), is taking it a step further, by synchronizing one's movements with their heartbeat, and moving at an even greater speed than that of lightning manipulators like Andalis and Rhaemon. Icarus is a master of both, the latter coming in his defeat to Chromandi at the Devilman Summit.

#### Exceptional Strength

Nephilim have their regular strength at a far higher level than humans. This, coupled with their immense flying speed, makes Nephilim increasingly deadly, and a growing threat for the humans. Icarus' possesses this base strength, although, through training, as well as his battles, Icarus can dish out colossal levels of damage with his strength alone.

#### Unnatural Durability

Due in part to his hellish childhood, Icarus' body and wings can sustain enormous amounts of damage, coupled with his knowledge of Divine Reinforcement, a defensive version of Divine Aura Release, can survive blows that would be fatal or otherwise obliterate other beings entirely.

### Neph Ability

Icarus is the reincarnation of the very first Martyr, Reien, and so possesses the power to manipulate the Darkness, a Neph ability so rare that the only other user of this ability is not even a Nephilim, but a human, in Rikyr Vulstein, the older brother of Katrya. Icarus' ability is so strange to the modern Nephs, that the only Nephilim to have information on it, are Chromandi and Annatar.

#### Ultimate Abilities

Icarus' base ultimate abilities using his Darkness are:

* **Ranwir: Blue:** Icarus uses the power of attraction to draw in everything around a point in his chosen space. He can move this point around himself to attract everything to that point.
* **Furo: Red:** Icarus reverses the power of Blue, violently ejecting everything touching a void with the divergence of infinity with twice the strength of Blue.
* **Diperro: Purple:** Icarus combines Red and Blue, filling a void with imaginary mass to expunge everything along its path from existence.

#### Go-To Techniques

* **Black Curtain**:Icarus' go to ability. Using a myriad of darkness, Icarus forms a small, half-dome-shaped barrier around himself.
* **Swap**: Using his shadows, Icarus can teleport between memorized locations as far as there is some form of shadow in said area.
* **Blink**: Icarus uses a short-distance version of 'Swap' to move in short bursts.
* **Jin**: Icarus creates dark, metallic spikes that can cut through and impale Nephilim and other beings.

### Divinity

*Main Article: Tao Mori and Renko Mori*

Icarus' Divinity is called ***Tao Mori*** (*lit. Dark King*), and the Dark Divinity, appearing when he became a Devilman, is called ***Renko Mori***(*lit. Greater Dark Presence*).

Icarus is one of the few characters to have two seperate divine forms, besides Cienne Von Bargen, Hikkerio and Haýü. In his divine forms, Icarus' additional abilities range from Madness inducement to his father's Gravity manipulation, to Spatial manipulation.

#### Tao Mori

Tao Mori (*lit. Dark King/King of Darkness*) is Icarus' first and original Divine form, prior to his Devilman transformation, being an Environment-type Divinity until he unlocked the true form of this Divinity by his connection to The Source and Reien.

##### 1st Level: Soulkiller

* **Inqlan:** An area around Icarus is reduced to pitch blackness. He absorbs the surrounding light and uses it in boosting his speed, strength and durability, as well as creating beams of energy to raze the target.

* **Phantom Sight:** Staring at his Divine form will temporarily cause the target to lose hold of reality and limit the perception of said target.

* **Hyogarri:** Icarus, as long as the target is within range, can tap into the target's mind, and temporarily induce madness.

#### True Tao Mori

This was bestowed to Icarus by Reien after the timeskip and his training with Katrya. This is Icarus' most powerful Divine state, and has three levels, as well as an Apollyosis state, due to his Source connection, **E** (Evolution).

**1st Level:** Antithesis

**2nd Level:** Qinroi

**3rd Level:** Man and Spirit - Symbiosis

**Apollyosis:** Chained King

#### Renko Mori

Renko Mori (*lit. Greater Dark Presence*) is the Divinity resulting from Icarus' Devilman side, as well as a side effect to Gugnir's self-evolution. This form is arguably one of the strongest elemental divinities in existence, as it uses even concepts not related to darkness as well.

**1st Level**: Devilman Divine

**2nd Level**: Devilman Fusion

**3rd Level**: Devilman Ultimate

## References

1. ↑ *Chapter 245*
2. ↑ *Chapter 90, Chapter 313*
3. ↑ *Chapter 59*
4. ↑ *Chapter 247*
5. ↑ *Chapter 671*
6. ↑ *Chapter 1,390*
7. ↑ *Chapter 484*
8. ↑ *Chapter 500*
9. ↑ *Chapter 283*
10. ↑ *Chapter 220*
11. ↑ *Chapter 88*
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 *Chapter 246*
13. ↑ *Chapter 415*
14. ↑ *Chapter 504*
15. ↑ *Chapter 230*