Gianni Hanraats

**Gianni Hanraats** is a Reincarnated Otherworlder, the founder of Odin's Eye, and the former best friend and indirect cause-of-death of David Petrov.

He serves a minor role in the early chapters of That Time I Got Reincarnated as an Overpowered Elf, but grows into a major antagonist through his manipulation of events from the sidelines.

## Appearance

Gianni is described by many people as an attractive young man with white hair and cyan eyes. His usual outfit is a large, somewhat baggy navy blue jacket with black pants and boots. He has both a holster which holds a Kel-Tec P50 and a sheath holding his usual cutlass hidden underneath his jacket, the former being completely concealed, and the latter poking out from underneath it.

## Personality

Gianni is a strange person, as described by all who knew him, making it nearly impossible to get a read on him. At his core he is a manipulative and calculative person who often acts on his own interests, no matter what that interest may be. He is ruthless and highly intelligent, and is not above taking advantage of those weaker than him, whether physically or mentally.

He is capable of holding conversation with people he finds interesting, however this is usually for some type of gain. He is a highly determined and relentless individual, able to go through processes that would take months or even years to reach his goals, whether it be taking his own life so that he can explore new worlds via reincarnation, or sparking war between kingdoms in order to have them destroy one another.

All in all he has, much like Radriel, whom he considered a good friend in his recent reincarnation, shown to have issues with hyper-fixation, chasing his goals to a point of obsession. Yet, despite this, he prefers to stay unnoticed, preferring to play his hand from the sidelines, however, he is not against making himself known by the public if need-be, though this is usually done under an alias.

## Background

Not much is known about Gianni's several lives prior to that which he lived out in the world David Petrov was born in, aside from bits and pieces of information that he has given out in passing conversations. One of these conversations mentioned that he was, at one point in one of his more recent reincarnations, a pirate during the Age of Exploration (in the early 1400s), largely known by the epithet "The Silence That Walks The World", due to his nature of puppeteering people and events to his liking.

However, what is known is that, due to his powerful soul and strong sense of self, Gianni has managed to keep his memories throughout hundreds of reincarnations. Over his first dozen of reincarnations, he used the knowledge he gathered over his several lifetimes to hasten the advancement of the world in terms of technology, economy and general evolution, and would repeat these actions time and time again after several deaths and reincarnations.

However, at some point, he grew bored of the monotony of the cycle he put himself in, and in the place of his good will and selflessness came curiosity. Because of that, he'd start using his knowledge to gain power in several worlds, whether political, economical, or physical, eventually erecting his organization; Odin's Eye, originally named The Nameless Mist; over several worlds, most of which would eventually become "secret" dictatorial figures in their own rights.

## Trivia

* Due to the fact that he has retained his memories and sense of self throughout so many existences, Gianni has "lost" the fear of death that is instinctual to most living things. Because of this, he has adopted the philosophy of "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" and took it to the extreme, as he does not regard his reincarnations as "true death", thus it hasn't killed him.