The Artist

The Artist is an original character and is a supporting antagonist in Final Sunrise. He is a demon affiliated with The Twelve Kizuki, holding the position of Upper Moon Three.

## Personality

The Artist takes it upon themselves to always be more quiet than other upper moons, keeping to themselves and constantly mumbling about something, having the tendency to fidget with their fingers and always having the need to do something, never really speaking unless he’s spoken to first. Around other demons, especially upper rank ones or the ones even higher, he’s constantly wondering if he’s strong enough to be there or if he doesn’t look good enough to be so much as glanced at. When in actual conversation, he asks why the other is talking to him, and they must have better things to do, even if they’re a lower level than he is. In terms of demon slayers, no matter hashira or not, he sees each one as a new ‘opportunity’ to learn more about himself and what he can do, and what his full power is capable of. He sees them all on different levels of learning potential, Mizunoto being the lowest and barely worth fighting, while Hashira are diamonds in the rough that he can grab to become even greater.

## Abilities

WiP

## Fighting Style

Blood Demon Art: Beautiful Demise - The Artist always has two paintbrushes and a canvas with them at all times, said canvas is translucent and does have edges so he can tell how big it is. Upon painting on it, whatever he paints, so long as it fits in the canvas, can be inflicted upon reality. However, he has to be quite specific and draw the title of the effect next to it if it has one. For example, if he drew a flying slash attack, he’d have to draw ‘slash’ beside it after he’s finished painting the slash itself. Then he slams both hands onto the canvas which creates it and sends it into reality. If he were to make an attack with fire or ice or water, he’d have to both draw the element around the object painted, such as flames surrounding a spike, and draw ‘flaming spike’ beside it. This is to warn the opponents of what’s coming at them before it hits, of course they wouldn’t have a lot of time since he’s an Upper Rank, therefore they’d need to attack or respond quickly. If he doesn’t have enough time to write the effect next to it, creating it would result in it being frozen mid-air and would have to be hit for it to be unfrozen. And any special effect wouldn’t take place, such as fire or ice. Although, he has the ability to copy and paste two paintings at a time, for example if he draws a slash attack and sends it out, he can copy that before releasing it, and after it’s release he can paste it and won’t have to draw it again. He can do this with two different attacks at a time, and if he copies a new one, one of the previous is taken away.

Techniques:

Blood Demon Art: Frozen Coffin - The Artist draws a coffin filled with ice and freezing snow which he creates above the opponent, then manipulates it to open up, causing the ice and snow to beam down onto them, most likely causing some level of hypothermia upon contact and even worse level on prolonged exposure. The Artist can change the direction of it and continue the beam as long as he’s solely focused on it, and doesn’t bother on drawing something else, if he does this the only way to get it to stop would be to destroy the coffin or get out of range.

Blood Demon Art: Poisonous Spikes - The Artist draws spikes that emerge from the ground like some kind of booby trap which are coated in poison, he does this by adding the effect next to the spikes and then pointing his canvas toward the ground to cause them to emerge from it, and most likely stab into the opponent.

Blood Demon Art: Destructive Meteor - The Artist draws a small meteor around the size of three small buildings, then draws flames around it to make it ablaze, and summons it in the sky by holding his canvas up and releasing it. The meteor soars towards the ground and burns everything it touches upon hitting it. And it will kill anyone who gets hit dead-on by it.

Blood Demon Art: Fleeting Shards - He creates two slashes of glass shards which he can summon to launch at the opponent, since they’re powered by a blood demon art, they can pierce the skin. The effect of this is “flying; progressing wound” to where it makes any wound taken by the glass shards progressively increase in size over time, however how big the cut is depends on how many times you’re hit by it and how big the shards were. The increase of severity also stops at a certain point depending on previously stated conditions, and will not spread indefinitely.

Blood Demon Art: Artistic Offspring - The Artist draws himself and draws ‘The Artist’ beside it as an effect, this is the only BDA in which this can be applied, because it temporarily applies all of his abilities to a clone which can use them themselves. The clones can only use two BDA’s before dispersing, they cannot make more clones themselves, and they share the same physical attributes as the Artist themselves, the only difference is their eyes have no pupils or iris in them. This is hard to pull off, so he usually keeps this as one of his copy paste techniques, which takes up one slot. And he usually only uses this when he feels threatened.

Blood Demon Art: Lightning Bow - He draws a bow with pure lightning as the arrow with the effect of electricity after being shot next to it. He can shoot a bolt of lightning towards the opponent which burns and electrocutes anything it hits.

Blood Demon Art: Pure Shield - He draws a shield made out of solid energy in front of him, the effect being ‘solid energy’. He can also summon multiple layered on top of each other if he wishes to.  One of his only defensive techniques, although it could be debated other techniques could be used defensively while still being innately offensive.

Blood Demon Art: Opposites Attract // Repel - He draws a small orb with the effect ‘controllable attraction/repulsion’ and then launches it outward, the effect either pulling things towards it or repelling everything in its vicinity depending on its strength level.

Blood Demon Art: Magma Slash - He draws a flying slash attack with ‘flying; burning magma’ as the effect, making the slash fly through the air and be coated in burning magma. It will cut through solid objects and flesh, the only thing it cannot cut through is the body of a Hashira, although it will leave a sizable cut in the body, along with immense burning sensations. The Artist can manipulate the size and pattern of these slashes as long as it fits within his canvas and he summons it correctly with said canvas.

Weaknesses: These are the actual blood demon arts, but he can always make unnamed attacks or defense objects, such as stone walls or flame energy balls, but those will not be nearly as strong as his blood demon arts.

He has to point his canvas in the direction of which he summons the drawing, this is used in the meteor attack and the poisonous spikes, so if he points it in a different direction, it will work differently, such as the spikes raining down instead of emerging from the ground, but also, if the slayer or opponent realizes this, they can move it to where it won’t hit them. Although the canvas itself cannot be broken, it can be redirected and knocked out of his hand. Of course this is hard since all upper ranks have superhuman strength.

After it is knocked from his hand, after three seconds he can resummon it.

He is not very good in terms of physical combat, while he does know how to fight, he wouldn’t be able to handle multiple hashira level people on him at once. But those on the lower levels, he can handle just because of the sheer strength and speed difference. But that’d apply to everyone in the top 3 most likely. Except maybe 1.

## History

(TW: Self-Harm, Abuse, Murder): The Artist wasn’t always known as that, they grew up in a small town in Japan, and when they were about 6 years old they discovered their love for drawing and painting, and started doing it all the time. When he ran out of canvas’, he used the walls of his own room as one to make it look pretty. He did this constantly to try and forget and ignore the bad tendencies of his parents, who would constantly argue and yell all the time. He found peace in drawing, and when he ran out of wall to use he began painting his own face, however that didn’t last long. Because when his mother found out she got angry he’d ‘ruined’ the walls of the place, even though they did look absolutely fabulous in his opinion, and she got even more upset that he was painting himself, and said he shouldn’t bother with things like this, and should instead work on archery or becoming a warrior. But he didn’t want to do those things, and expressed his concern to his mother that he had dreams of becoming a famous artist who would draw paintings for people and get money off of it so he could provide for his family too! But his mother said that wasn’t possible and they didn’t need help from a 6 year old. This caused his normal attitude of being happy with his paintings and proud of them, to be extremely anxious all the time, avoiding conversation with anyone and working on his paintings in secret. However, the paint on his face never came off, since his mom said it was a reminder for him to give this up and show him how bad of an idea it was. But instead he looked at it as a trophy, to go through his mom’s bad attitude and do whatever he wanted to do anyway. However, when he turned 13, his father died. His father wasn’t mean to him like his mother was, so he actually cared for him a lot. So he was hurt deeply when he died, he never knew the cause of it, since his mom told him he’d gotten in an accident. He worried that she’d found his paint since there was red stuff all over her face and body, but she didn’t say anything so he stopped worrying about it. His entire life changed after that day though, since later his mother did locate his work, and burned all of it and then started beating him every day to remind him to become an archer or a warrior, not something as useless as a painter. So he got even more anxiety, as if it’d doubled. He now didn’t want anyone to do so much as speak to him, and questioned why they would when there’s so many better options and he wasn’t very social. He began growing more and more insane, doing so much as hurting himself and then using the blood from it to paint with that instead since his tools were taken away. He knew he couldn’t use a canvas anymore, and harming himself for it was such a bother to him, so instead he had to…improvise. He started thinking of what he could do to keep going, and one day an idea popped into his head. But that wasn’t until he was 16, when he finally gathered the courage to do it. He broke the brush off of his old painting tool, and began sharpening the edge, maybe this would work instead! And once his mom saw it, she’d be happy too! So the next time his mother tried to hit him, he stopped her and explained that he had a piece to show her. He ended up murdering his own mother and using her blood to paint a picture of her and his father on the wall, their eyes being scratched out since he knew they didn’t like it, and his father was already dead. So he wanted to show his mother how far he’d come, but by the time he finished it was nightfall and his mom was killed. Maybe he would’ve had more time if he didn’t start from the neck.

That’s when he saw it, a demon. It walked through his front door and had the words ‘Upper Rank’ in its eyes. It seemed proud of his painting, and what he did to paint said work, and said it could give him more paint to work with, this time being an infinite source. And the boy obviously got excited and wanted whatever it was, that’s when the demon poured its own blood into the boy's hands, and told him if he drank it he could paint forever, and when he did, the rest was history.