Zombi

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## Physical Information

Zombi is a fighter, participating in the Ministry Succession Tournament. Fighting PG in the 2nd round of the preliminaries.

## Appearance

In his base form, Zombi is a tall, muscular man with yellow eyes. His has medium length black hair as well as a beard, with silver streaks in some areas. When he releases his angelic abilities, a pair of white angel wings appear on his back, and while using Cafziel, Angel of Shape, his hair becomes completely white, his pair of wings increases to 4 pairs and they become wings of energy, and a huge halo forms above his head. Zombi typically wears dark, lightly armored robes.

## Personality

Zombi is a dark, grim individual. He’s aloof and avoids contact with most people, a man of few words. Even in his loyalty to Graff he acts cold and concise. Very few (even among the Ministry higher ups) know of his existence, and even among those who know about him, the ones who have seen his true appearance in person can be counted with one hand.

Despite his stoic initial impression, Zombi deep down harbors a deep hatred and resentment towards Heaven not only for using him as a tool for their wars, but due how they robbed him of his humanity, which he considered the thing that truly made him special in his mediocrity. He resents his angelic powers and would get rid of them if he could (though he’s unable to). For that reason, his main motivation to win the tournament is to take control over the Cube and start a war with Valhalla, knowing perfectly well it’s a suicide mission, but that it will made the ones who robbed him everything pay. However, he doesn’t let his anger surface until pressured enough, keeping his emotionless facade for the most part.

His true name was long forgotten by him, not that it matters to him anymore. He uses the fake name “Zombi” cause he feels he’s dead in life, without having anything that fulfills him anymore except his desire for revenge.

He also has a weird liking to Turkish culture, though it is unknown if it is because he was Turkish before gaining immortality or he came to like it with the time.

## History

Zombi was a peasant born in an ancient, forgotten era, in an unknown place, maybe lost to time, way before the Ministry, Ragnarok, the Modern era or even the Middle Ages, in the mysterious Ancient Age. In a land where lords exploited the common populace for their greedy desires and poor people were fated to die, forgotten by history, Zombi did his best to survive. He lived a boring life, with his average family, his average siblings and an average job as a builder. He lived in a monotonous Hell, doing the same again and again, while being belittled by the nobles of his area for his humble origin. Eventually, he reached a breaking point and started to curse his life, especially the gods that made him born in a miserable world. He kept cursing them again and again in a silent rage, as it was the only way to take out his frustration.

It wasn’t until a certain day where his life changed forever. His prayers of hatred were heard by an angel. The angel, seeing potential in the human, decided to appear to him. Making sure he was alone, she appeared before him while he was returning from work. Announcing herself as the Angel of Shape Cafziel, she told Zombi she chose him for an important mission. Thanks to her partner Jophiel, the Angel of Future, a civil war in Heaven was predicted, going to happen in the late future thanks to gods giving power to random mortals and turning them into “heroes”, using them to act as their tools in Midgard and fulfill their whims. At some point, the overpopulation of heroes would make the interests of many gods conflict, things that would scalate in a heavenly civil war. She needed his help to avoid it, as she saw his great hatred for the gods as a good incentive for him to help. Speechless, Zombi at first distrusted the holy being, but on the other hand he finally saw his chance to not only escape from his boring life, but get back at the gods that made him so miserable, so he accepted after thinking about it for a while. Upon accepting, Cafziel turned his body immortal with her blessing and told him to prepare for his training. Zombi said goodbye to his family and departed on a journey with both Cafziel and Jophiel in a quest to save the world (though Zombi didn’t care about that), leaving his past behind forever.

He trained and trained endlessly. With his only real power being a body that would revive him no matter how many times he would get killed, Zombi polished his skills and developed his senses to the maximum in order to defeat the gods and the heroes he would face. With time, his natural abilities ended up getting better and better, reaching the peak normal humans could achieve. With Jophiel's prediction abilities and Cafziel’s assistance, he started hunting down the heroes through the story. Sometimes he tracked them at a young age (as Jophiel predicted their conversion to heroes before they were born) and easily killed them, while other times he had to face the full-fledged heroes in battles to the death. Thanks to his cunning, trained abilities and immortality, Zombi always managed to win, no matter how strong his enemies were. Sometimes his actions brought terrible consequences on people, as by killing the heroes their more benevolent actions never happened, so the world kept being a terrible place despite Zombi being avoiding its destruction. Eventually he gained the title of “Hero Killer”, and everyone started to fear and loathe him. But he never cared, as his mind was only focused on making the gods pay.

However, Zombi realized he only took down heroes and wasn’t killing any gods. Impatient, he asked Cafziel to let him kill a god. The angel, with a visible sadness in her face, told him his immortal skills and body weren’t enough to face a god, and that the only way to kill one involved a certain dangerous ritual. She then attacked him out of nowhere and said he needed to kill her in order to achieve the power to slay deities. Zombi, who grew fond of the angel in their travels together, couldn’t allow him to strike her. For the first time in his life, he hesitated to kill someone. The battle lasted a week, but Zombi still didn’t find the courage to kill her friend. Zombi managed to defeat the angel, with the intention to spare her life and escape at the slight chance he had. However, when he was about to knock her out with a sword, Cafziel jumped into him and let herself be fatally stabbed in the heart with the weapon. As she vanished into light, Cafziel told him it was the only way for him to succeed against the gods, and said farewell to Zombi, disappearing and dying. Horrified, Zombi could only see how the only genuine friend he made in his life died before his eyes.

But his tragedy didn’t end there. Suddenly, the light in which Cafziel had become turned into chains which tied him, leaving him immovable. Despite his efforts, the chains didn’t yield, and, to further his horror, they entered inside his body. Little by little, he felt how the chains were changing him, his DNA, appearance, aura, his whole being. He cried for help, and suddenly, Jophiel (who had been missing for the entirety of his fight with Cafziel) appeared before him. But instead of help, he only fought a mocking laugh and a cruel revelation. Jophiel explained to him that by killing Cafziel, he triggered a mechanism in which he would inherit her powers and become a hybrid between human and angel. The process would give him great power, but would turn him into a tool of Jophiel and his faction, being completely bound to their wishes and orders without having the choice to refuse them. The future seeing angel then confessed he saw potential in him due to his hatred on gods, and wanted to turn him into his personal weapon so he could win the civil in war in Heaven, admitting the war was going to happen either way, so he manipulated him with the lie about saving the world so he could eliminate the heroes that would become a nuisance for him and eventually kill Cafziel, then becoming the tool he needed. Zombi cursed him, and his anger made him resist the process more, however, a certain fact Jophiel mentioned broke his resolve. The male angel mentioned Cafziel was aware of the whole thing and that she willingly let herself be killed so Zombi would become a living weapon for him. This took Zombi completely by surprise. His only friend, the person he trusted the most in his long life, manipulated him all the time. Finally giving up, the Angelification process became complete and Zombi, with a haunting scream that could be heard everywhere, lost his humanity. A pair of huge angelic wings and a halo appeared in him. He finally became the tool Jophiel desired.

From that point on, Zombi became no better than a weapon. With the coming of the Apocalypse, the civil war in Heaven finally started, and Jophiel made sure to use him as best as possible. With his new angelic powers mixed with his old abilities, Zombi became a terrifying fighter, as well as a magnificent spy. He massacred anyone who stood in his way; gods, humans, heroes, demons, beasts, angels… No one could surpass him, and he finally had the chance to destroy the gods he always loathed. But he didn’t find happiness, only misery. Unable to break free from Jophiel’s chains, he obeyed everyone of the wishes of his faction. He killed, and killed, and killed, unable to do anything else. With time, Jophiel’s faction won the civil war, and with peace, Zombi wasn’t needed anymore. But even with that, he was a weapon too valuable to be disposed of, so they instead decided to trap him in a holy cell until they would need him again. In his solitude, Zombi realized how much he screwed up. In his pursuit of vengeance against the gods, he left behind everything: his family, his home, his humanity, his freedom, and his identity. Now being a slave from Valhalla, he lost what he considered made him special. With all the abilities he developed as a human ironically tainted by the angelic aura from Cafziel, now he wasn’t unique anymore, but another weapon for the gods to use freely. This realization made his hatred increase even more, and he made a silent vow that, if one day he would be freed, he would make the Heavens pay personally.

An unspecified amount later, someone visited his quiet cell. He was a man named Graff, who heard rumors about a powerful weapon hidden in Valhalla and came to check it. Belonging to an organization known as the Ministry, Graff told Zombi he came to rescue him and add him to his organization. Zombi at first refused the offer, distrusting people after Jophiel’s betrayal, but then Graff explained the full conditions: due to fear of getting into a war with the now powerful Ministry, Jophiel and his faction agreed to hand Zombi to Graff in exchange for being spared of a war they would likely lose. When Zombi asked Graff why he was freeing him, the leader of the Ministry said he heard from his infiltration abilities and that he wanted a spymaster for operations regarding the intelligence agency of his organization, as well as someone who would inform him and only of the most important information he would find. Seeing this as the chance to finally escape Valhalla, Zombi accepted, once again leaving his past behind, now as something beyond the realm of the humans. Unknown by practically everyone inside the Cube, he became Graff’s shadow, gathering information for him and sometimes eliminating those inside the Ministry he wanted dead. He was involved again in violence, but he didn’t mind, as what he wanted was for a chance to strike the Heavens and fulfill his revenge for good…

## Abilities

**Strength**: High. As a human he was already stronger than many other humans, but as an angelic hybrid his strength surpassed the limits of mortals, being able to easily decimate gods with his bare hands.

**Speed & Agility**: Above average as a human (faster and more agile than the average human but not matching the fastest of the gods). As an angelic hybrid, his speed increases a lot, now being incredibly fast, while he can maneuver in both land and sky.

**Durability**: Very high as a human as a result of his immortal body and his training, being able to resist bullets and stab wounds. As an angelic hybrid, his durability has improved and can withstand stronger attacks.

**Stamina**: Unlimited both as a human and as an angelic hybrid. His immortal body and the train he underwent makes him able to fight without rest, only faltering after suffering powerful blows that his body can’t keep with. His angelic conversion improved this aspect of him a bit more, but his stamina level was good to begin with, so the boost wasn’t so severe.

**Immortality and Regeneration**: Thanks to the blessing of Cafziel, Zombi gained an immortal body able to regenerate all kinds of injuries he suffers thanks to a magic that lets him have total control of his body cells (that also avoids aging). Though he can live eternally if left alone, he can be killed in the right circumstances. In his human state, he could regenerate his body as long as he didn’t suffer multiple, fatal injuries. In his angelic state he can regenerate everything as long as his heart and brain are not damaged. If he cannot keep with the damages he suffers, this ability will be hindered.

**Weapon Master**: In his quest to counterattack the weapons of the heroes he slayed, Zombi studied a lot of weaponry and learned to dominate them to know how to counter them in his fights. Though he fights barehanded, in case of need he can take a weapon and use it with masterful skill.

**Great Analyst**: As a human, Zombi’s greatest asset was his highly analytical mind. He has a fast thinking and can deduce things from what he sees in seconds.

**Ultimate Counter**: The peak of Zombi’s training as a human. Using his great analysis ability, he can perfectly determine the fighting style of his opponents by things as small as their breathing, way of walking, sight or body shape, to the minimal details. With this, he can imagine ways to bring down his rivals based on the information he gets. As he has trained in diverse combat methods to defeat all kinds of enemies, he can fight in a myriad of styles, picking the most fitting depending on the enemy. The weakness of this technique is that plans tend to be useless with opponents that far surpass him.

**Angelic Physiology**: As an angelic hybrid, Zombi can use abilities employed by angels. He can manipulate light, shoot energy blasts, sprout wings from his back to fly, his basic stats augment and his regeneration becomes even faster.

## Techniques

**Cafziel, Angel of Shape**: A technique that allows Zombi to release the true power of Cafziel, the angel he slew and bound him to Heaven forever. By using this, Zombi’s body changes. His hair becomes completely white, his pair of wings increases to 4 pairs and they become wings of energy, and a huge halo forms above his head. This makes the power of Zombi to increase 10 times. Now he can generate energy shields to protect himself, shoot energy projectiles from his wings, and hit harder than before

But the main ability in this state is the one to change his form at will. He can assume the form of anything he wishes, from humanoids, to animals, to monsters, or even elements. He uses this both to act as a spy or to overwhelm his opponents by changing form quickly. While he can transform into beings stronger than him, he cannot copy magical abilities or their stats (physical ones may be emulated thanks to having a similar physiology) . The time he can stay transformed depends on what he becomes. For humanoid beings, he can stay transformed indefinitely, but to keep elemental forms such as water (that requires a more drastic transformation), he has a limit of 4 minutes before returning to his default form.

**Adaptation**: A technique derived from Cafziel’s abilities. Thanks to this, Zombi can adapt his body to counter any technique that hits him. Thanks to his regeneration, he can recover from the attack and let his body assume a shape that will negate that attack the next time the enemy attempts to harm him with it (like turning into a liquid form if someone tries to shoot or cut him). The limitation of this ability (along with the ones of the normal transformation) is that if Zombi is attacked by two different attacks at the same time, he won’t be able to keep with them both and will be harmed by the attack that hits him later.

## Trivia

* One of most troublesome fighters in tournament, the longer the fight goes the lower probability of victory is for Zombi's opponent. There are 2 main ways to defeat him, quick knockout before he's able to adapt or versatile move-set which negates his adaptation ability.