Augustine

**Augustine Banning** who often goes by just '**August**' is an up and coming Slayer Candidate for the ***Damatingré* Organization** that specializes in slaying demons and unholy beings. His mother is the well renowned Sigmund Banning, one of the only two 1st Generation Slayers, and is siblings with Alexander Banning who is another Slayer Candidate and Older Brother to him. Augusts dream is to become a Slayer as strong and heroic as his mother and save people all around him from their troubles.

## Appearance

August is a young adult who's somewhat above the average height, he has a somewhat muscular body build and a dark skin tone. He has long black hair that covers the majority of his head, and has a tuft of hair that falls down in front of his face and bright emerald pupils with rounded eyes.

Augusts attire consists of a green short sleeved jacket with a brown fur trim collar, the jacket sits upon a white T-Shirt and is kept from opening up by 3 dark X shaped straps down the middle. He matches with his jacket by wearing green cloth and metal gauntlets on both hands. His pants are black that have a brown leather X pattern down around the knee area, his pants ending at his brown combat boots.

August has a lot of different variations of his original outfit, most of them being different colorations like having a red jacket w/ a black fur trim collar, the same green jacket but instead w/ the black fur trim collar. However his most notable Variation is his Night Slayer outfit which is a uniform handed out from the ***Damatingré* Organization** themselves.

The Night slayer outfit August wears on night-time missions is an all black variation of his Original outfit that sports a silver fur trim collar, gray cloth pants and laced combat boots. His jacket also has a sown in sword sheath weaved into the fabric.

### Gallery

August's Original OutfitAugust's Night Slayer UniformAugust's Night Slayer Uniform w/ a sheathed sword
## Personality

August has always been an approachable person ever since he was born, as a kid he'd befriended all the kids his own age in the village his family stayed in and was naturally accepting of other races without being influenced by anyone's opinion. It's through his nature that August met his first real friend and best friend 'Fang' the orc kid as August called him. He knew little of Fangs origins or his family but that didn't matter August made sure they played together a whole bunch until they parted ways and August started his training.

All though August is shown to be kind to others frequently there are times when he's been known to flip the script and act more like his brother and mother. August isn't kind to those with malicious intent towards others and through his mothers teachings he was taught to be down the ones he deemed evil. This made August quick to anger against anyone who threatened the innocents or betrayed him in anyway, his most notable showcase of this being during the Galveston mission after his second run in with Merin who threatened and killed the low class people.

Through his days traveling August has come to learn what it means for someone to be truly evil and how to differentiate the evil beings from people that can be saved from their ways, his first experience with this was his encounter with an Old Spirit that possessed his body and took over from time to time. At first August was convinced this was an evil entity that had to be exterminated at all costs but as time went by and he learned more and more about this Spirit he learned about its past and came to an understanding with it and thus was released from its control after they reconciled. This taught August that he could save those who have walked a dark path and brought a new meaning to his crusade to being a slayer.

## Abilities

**Crusader Conditioning:** August ever since he was a young was being trained by his mother to perform at a higher physical level then those around him. He and his brother underwent excruciating conditioning that granted them the strength to topple men equipped with armor, lift men twice their size with ease, and were trained in weapon combat that allowed them to be versatile on the battlefield when their own armaments failed them. August has tons of stamina and is able to recover quickly after taking devastating blows from enemies.

**Greatsword Proficiency:** Although August and his brother Alex have been trained to use almost every weapon their mother could think of, August took a liking to the way his mother used her greatsword and took up learning to use it whenever he could. She taught him how to wield it and trained him to swing it with ease making August a proficient greatsword user. This skill is later demonstrated during his first Night Slayer mission when he created a wooden greatsword in the same shape of his mothers and uses it throughout the rest of the mission, and periodically in other fights afterwards.

**Slayer Physiology:** After receiving his Crusader Conditioning August's body had gotten used to its changes and finally started adapting secret traits all trained slayers have. August along with Alex and the other slayers posses the ability to unlock their ***'Irregular Eye'*** transformations and enter their slayer state where they'll gain a massive power boost and perform at twice the capacity they usually would.

**Mana Combat/Tree Tactics:** After being taught how to use mana by his Mother, August found another way to utilize it by using it to enhance his combat such as hand to hand or any other physical attack that could be boosted by his body. A step up from this would be when he taught himself how to use the seeds of his tree magic strategically, placing them where he needed them and growing them when he need them, These skills helped him become a very diverse fighter and widened his avenues when it came to taking down his opponent.

## Magic

**Tree Magic**
***Warrior Bark:*** August gathers mana around any part of his body usually his arms and uses it to grow toughened flexible tree bark on his skin. This enhances his defense and his blunt force damage.

***Knuckle Wood:*** This is the first move that utilizes the seed’s that August cultivates and uses for most of his techniques, in which he imbues a seed with mana to accelerate its growth process. With this move August grows a small tree into the shape of a fist that grows out towards his opponent to deliver a huge punch.

***Evergreen:*** This move has 2 different variants. First August can toss a seed imbued with mana to grow out a tree shaped like a twisting pillar. The second variant requires August to throw out two seeds in two different directions and grow them out towards each other crushing the enemy in between two wooden pillars.

***Woodland Forest Beast:*** One of August’s strongest moves, he gathers two seeds in his clasped palms and imbues them with an abundance of mana for a prolonged period of time, afterward he opens his hands and grows a tree out forward in the shape of a snake-like monster with monster like features in the face and sharp teeth. The attack can home on the target but only for a certain amount of time.

***Yaggo:*** This is the most versatile technique within August's arsenal but not the strongest initially. It requires a great amount of mana to be used as August has to take a seed and plant it in the ground and grow it into a true giant elder tree that can be used to amplify all of August’s techniques.

***Base mode:*** August’s base mode consists of him using his regular tree growth techniques, and Hand-To-Hand mana fighting style.

***Full-Body Technique:*** August figured out that he could use the Full-Arm Technique around his entire body for a small temporary boost in power so that he could compete with superhuman enemies briefly. August also used this technique before he learned magic.

***Star Irregular Eyes:*** The star-shaped Irregular eyes were the first time the slayer state activated in August’s body. He can only awaken the Star when he’s feeling optimistic in an intense situation which gives him enhanced physical performance for as long as the slayer state is active.

***X Irregular Eyes:*** The X-shaped Irregular eyes are the second set of eyes August can unlock when in his slayer state. He gets the X’s when he's feeling extremely protective over other people.

***Woodland King:*** The woodland king transformation is a technique created by the Spectre possessing August’s body for a short period of time. This transformation pushes August's body to the utmost limit by constantly siphoning off his mana that feeds his magic abilities, while also giving him a more Demon/Crusader-based appearance with having branch horns on his head.

***Woodland King X:*** This is a combination of the Woodland king transformation paired with the innate Slayer State that August has usually the X eyes, making this his strongest transformation.

 **Woodland King's Technique's:**
***Woodland King:*** Woodland king isn’t a technique or transformation that was cultivated by August himself, it was created by a ghost possessing August’s body at the time due to August’s own ‘lack of power’. In this form, August has warrior bark that constantly siphons mana from him on his arms and legs up to his elbows and knees, and he grows branches on the top of his head, making him look somewhat demonic looking.

***Daemon Wood:*** Daemon Wood is a technique specific to the Woodland King transformation, giving the wood that August grows the ability to siphon life out of the things its co'nnected or rooted into to make the bark itself stronger.

***Yaggo: Horde Orchard:*** This is a combination technique that August made by combining the moves Yaggo and Woodland Forest Beast. This move requires August to grow the Yaggo tree while replacing the branches of the trees with many different Forest Beast heads that attack the enemy in a frenzy. This is one of the variations of Yaggo moves.

***Timber Fist:*** This was a technique first created and utilized by Spectre when in control of August’s body, and then later by August. The move consists of using a massive reserve of mana to grow a giant tree shaped like a fist that pounds or smashes the opponent.

***Yaggo: Grandpa Tree:*** This is yet another variation of the Yaggo technique where August pours tons of mana into the seed to grow a Yaggo tree 4x its size. Each branch responds to August’s will and the technique itself acts as a platform for August to use creatively.

***Thunderstruck:*** Contrary to the name of the technique, the move is based on the damage a lightning strike can do to a tree. August takes inspiration from this and uses the physical enhancement of the transformation to perform a devastating chop that carves through most solid surfaces with August’s own sheer strength.

***Thunderstruck + Oak Sword:*** This is a variation of the Thunderstruck move but instead of August chopping his enemy with his hand he instead cuts through someone or something with the Momento Oak Sword.

**Tree Magic:** August's tree magic is the ability to imbue seeds with mana and grow them however August feels he wants to use the seed, this makes his magic extremely versatile and gives him a wide array of techniques that he can use to subdue, trap, slow down enemies or travel, craft and experiment with his tree's. August discovered the ability to use this ability by complete accident after releasing a bunch of his own mana throughout a forest in a last ditch effort to defeat one of his strongest enemies. Tree magic will forever be apart of Augusts main fighting style, and sometimes reminds him of his mother, a strong tall force of nature.