Quiem McMann

* President
* Fuhrer
* Choujin (Bomber Form)

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**Quiem McMann** (クイーム・マックマン, *Kuīmu Makkuman*?) was the Choujin President of Guelta, and he referred to himself as the **Choujin of War** (戦争の超人, *Sensō no Chōjin*?). He was also one of the past "Choujin X".

## Appearance

Quiem was a light-skinned and light-haired man. When he became President of Guelta his body had already begun to change, reaching over two hundred and eighty centimeters in height while his face had hardened, showing clear signs of an increasingly deep-rooted transformation.

During the Great War, this reached an even higher point, leading him to have seven fingers on each hand, a grayish complexion and an enormous vertically positioned eye instead of a face.

When he was president he wore a simple and white robe, while during the war he wore a long black tunic, with a cloak and a large, finely decorated collar that covered him up to his chin.

## Personality

> "*So long as one person is joined by another, they shall, whether consciously or not, battle to the death.*"
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Quiem was an individual who was strongly determined to achieve the goals he sets himself at any cost, even doing or undergoing experiments on himself to become a Choujin. He is also very intelligent, charismatic and calculating, managing in a few years to take command of a newly formed Choujin corps, lead a coup d'état, assume command of a nation and lead it to expand by absorbing neighboring ones.

However, Quiem was also a deeply paranoid man and tried hard to keep his abilities as a Choujin a secret, killing all who knew about it. He also had a nihilistic and pragmatist view of human relationships, declaring that the only emotion a man is truly endowed with is the ability to perceive when another could be a danger, i.e. fear, and for the mere fact of existing together two people are destined, consciously or not, to fight each other. It is probable this twisted and insane vision of relationships and the world that pushed him to enforce his expansionist ideology without limits that caused a world war and a devastation unparalleled in history.

During the war he showed a lack of consideration for his own Choujin troops, ignoring the morale and health problems that afflicted them, continuing to push them forward and considering retreating only when they reached the point of refusing to come back to life and they let themselves die.

It also became revealed how deep his wickedness could go as, even outside of battles, he personally went into enemy territory and enjoyed killing civilians indiscriminately with his own hands, treating these massacres as hunting for sport. In particular he seemed to target funeral processions, which he perceived as displays of blasphemy instigating his despise for the clergy. Quiem also seemed to deeply hate god.

Quiem was a brilliant engineer and technician, managing to design vehicles, munitions and all kinds of weapons, and then replicating them in minute detail and transforming himself into them, advancing military technology by seventy years with his only existence. Ever since he was only a human and participated in military service he had been addicted to opium.

## Background

At some unknown time, Quiem joined the Guelta army and served as a simple human soldier, before turning into a Choujin through "experiments". During his time in the military and still human, he developed an addiction to opium. In 1918 his country created a group of only Choujin inside the army to support their expansionist ideal of the "Great Guelta" and Quiem, climbing the ranks thanks to his newfound strength, came to become the Captain of the **Gerta Choujin Corps**.

With more than 300 military-trained Choujin under his command, in 1919 Quiem led a rebellion and seized control of the **Gerta Federation**, creating the **Great Gerta Nation** after uniting surrounding countries in just one year. Quiem became the **First Choujin President** and started referring to himself as the **"Choujin of War"**. Wanting to expand his territory furthermore, Quiem declared war against the neighbouring countries, and, with the help of Great East Asia, began an expansionist campaign that resulted in a world war. By 1924 even the other nations involved in the conflict had started using Choujin in their armies, leading to destruction and death on an unprecedented scale.

Sometime before the Great War, Quiem became known as a Choujin X, a being of terrifying powers. He also personally designed vehicles, ammunition and all sorts of weapons to then assumed their form to engage his enemies, pushing with only his existence the advancement of military technologies by 70 years.

During the battle for Greater East Asia, Quiem along with his troops composed of military-trained Choujin, supported by the advanced technologies designed by their leader, manage to report quick successes against the national forces composed of humans and against the ordinary Choujin. However in the battlefield the Choujins of his army had to deal with the experience of death without pause and use **Raise** constantly. Unable to prevent the severe pain, with the continuation of hostilities many chose to die rather than come back to life.

During the war against Greater East Asia, Quiem went personally and even alone on raids into enemy territory, with the sole purpose of massacring innocent civilians, even in funeral processions. He treated these attacks like hunting trips, taking pleasure in them. However, in June 1923 among the corpses of one of these attacks in the region of Nanasu, a young nun called Sora Siruha came back to life as a Choujin and became his bitter enemy, rallying the population of Yamato with her and raising a militia of humans and Choujins to oppose him.

Despite declining morale among Guelta's troops, Quiem continued his warfare by invading the Antoland region. However here he was forced into a difficult battle against the Prince of Antoland Antitis, who had recently awakened as a Choujin. After suffering the counterattack of Antoland's forces and unable to take the enemy stronghold the Guelta army was forced into a deadlock. Quiem's ​​soldiers were exhausted and the plague of those who let themselves die rather than use **Raise'** spread.

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, the leader of Guelta decides to withdraw from Antoland and head towards Yamato, with the aim of taking control of the immense poppy fields. Thanks to this resource he planned to produce opium and have it used by his army to solve the problem of pain and then return to face Antitis. However, his path was once again thwarted, this time by Sora Siruha and her nascent Yamato Mori, her army of Choujin Beasts and the Kagomura Clan. The young nun possessed an enormous amount of powers which caused even Quiem to become agitated during battles and make him realize that the girl was a Choujin X capable of becoming his nemesis.

After 3 years of Yamato's attempted invasion, Quiem fled the region, leading Sora and Antitis to ally against him, forming the Volunteer Allied Forces to continue fighting him. In 1927 Quiem was defeated by Antitis leading to the collapse of Great Guelta but not to the end of the war, that continued for many more years.

## Plot

In the present, Quiem's ​​memory has remained imprinted in the memory of both Choujin and humans as an example of a Choujin X who with his power brought destruction and death on a global scale. Particularly among the ranks of Yamato Mori, aspiring Keepers are directly shown the memories of Sora and the Great War, thanks to Sato's telepathic powers, to remind them of their goal and the risks that come with their power.

## Trivia

* Quiem was the first Choujin in history to become president of a country.
* In his Chouji form, Quiem had seven-fingered hands, a trait that Sora Siruha also seems to have inherited.