Jin

## The Paragon of Torna

"If the Architect does indeed exist, I wish I could ask him... Who am I, truly?"

### Occupation

(Former) Terrorist / Revolutionary

**Jin** is a major antagonist from ***Xenoblade Chronicles 2.*** He is also the deuteragonist of the prequel DLC, ***Torna - The Golden Country.***

## Canon

'It was simple curiosity. The curiosity of a single man who destroyed the universe, and created a new one.'

**In other words, I'm spoiling the ENTIRETY of Xenoblade Chronicles 2. If you have any interest in playing this game (you should), turn back.**

Alrest. The name of the world overrun by a sea of clouds where gigantic lifeforms known as Titans live, circling the World Tree in its' center in an eternal march towards death. A world that, with each passing day, is dying. Yet, there exists a hope - a place atop the world tree known simply by 'Elysium'. In the world of Alrest, living on the backs of these titans exists a separate form of life from humans and Nopon - The Blades. Weaponized life forms linked to a Driver who creates and summons them by resonating with a Core Crystal. While Blades are technically immortal, being able to recover from any injury, they return to their Core Crystal when their Driver dies. When a Blade returns to its' core crystal, it loses all of the memories gained throughout its life. Furthermore, If a Blade's Core Crystal is destroyed, the Blade dies, permanently.

Jin was originally a Blade, passed down through generations of Tornan Royalty. Here, he was known as 'The Paragon of Torna.' Jin's story truly begins with his core, and how it's changed hands over time. The earliest known Driver of Jin was a person named Ornelia. During this life, Jin was a member of a colony defense force. Just before the death of Ornelia, Jin wrote something down in a journal that he possessed. What he wrote was *'A way for Driver and Blade to be carved together in flesh.'*

Later, Jins Core Crystal was stolen by a man known only as Gort with intention of selling it for a high price. Instead, the Core Crystal is resonated with by a ten year old girl known as Lora. When Gort threatened to kill her to take possession of his core once again, Jin would cut Gorts right arm off in order to protect her. The two would then go on the run, where Lora would eventually create a special mask for Jin for him to hide his identity.

Over a decade later, Jin and Lora come across a razed village, finding a young orphaned boy named Mikhail. The two offer to take him in to look after him, but would later end up in conflict with an Artifice known as a Gargoyle. The two manage to fend it off for some time, but are unable to truly defeat it. That is, until they were saved by Addam and his Blade, Mythra. The two briefly came to blows, wherein Addam and Mythra were both shocked and awed by the pairs synergy, due to how their fighting style had them sharing Jins Blade weapon. The group would then be reunited with Lora's second Blade, Haze.

The two groups then decided to group up. The group would then later traveled to Gormott with Lora in hopes of finding Lora's mother. Torigoth, however, had been razed to the ground by rogue Coeian forces. Jin briefly left Lora as she went to honour the dead, but Gort attempted to ambush Lora and kill her to reclaim Jin. At Loras request, Jin didn't kill Gort, instead allowing for him to escape. It was around this time where Jin met Ardanian Emperor, Hugo and his blades - Brighid, and Aegaeon.

While stopping in an old village in Torna, Lora and Jin were approached by a man who claimed to have known Jin and Ornelia when he was young. He told the two that the old house Jin once lived in was still standing in the outskirts. Upon investigating, Jin found his previous self's journal, and read what he had written about joining together the spirits of a Driver and their Blade. He kept this information hidden from Lora, however.

Jin joined the group as they confront Malos at the capital Auresco. After the battle, the Tornan King recognized Lora's heroics, and Addam knighted her the following day. Lora remarked that Jin no longer needs the mask to hide his identity, but he continued to keep it in hopes of remembering Lora once he returns to his Core Crystal.

This group would later then confront Malos, the Aegis responsible for the sinking of several titans and the one responsible for destroying Mikhails village, among other things, at Torna's capital city of Auresco. After the defeat, the Tornan King would still recognize Lora and Jin's heroics, and Addam knighted the woman the following day. Lora would remark that Jin no longer needed the mask to hide his identity, but he continued to keep it in hopes of remembering Lora once he inevitably returned to his Core Crystal. As Jin and the others battled Malos at the Tornan Titan's core, Jin questioned Malos' bloodlust, in which re responded sardonically about how humans are corrupt, destructive beings hellbent on destroying eachother.

The aftermath of this battle was heavy, to say the least. Malos was defeated, however Hugo (and by extension Brighid and Aegaeon) were both killed when Mythra and Malos duelled in Artifices. In extension, the titan known as Torna was killed, and sank beneath the Cloud Sea as Jin watched on in silent horror. In extension, a griefstricken Mythra sealed herself away to become Pyra, a version of herself that was everything she wasn't. Kind, Caring, and most importantly, weaker in every way.

After the war, Jin, Lora, Haze, and Mikhail parted ways with Addam as he and Pyra traveled to Leftheria. Here, Addam sealed away Pyra and the Aegis's power deep underneath the Cloud Sea. The group of 4 spent some time in Gormott before later traveling to Spessia to meet up with the remnants of Addam's militia. One night, Gort, transformed into soem sort of Titan/Human hybrid by the Indoline Praetorium attacked the group. Gort had since gone completely insane, and Lora was able to kill Gort once and for all using Jins sword.

A man known as Amalthus - Malos's Driver, had now promoted to Praetor of the Indoline Praetorium. His first order would be to then issue an attack on the surviving Tornans' new home of Spessia in hopes of destroying the Aegis, Mythra. In this attack, Lora and Jin ran from the onslaught of Indoline warrior monks, Titan battleships, and Drivers.

The two managed to escape from the firefight briefly, but Lora had been fatally wounded in the attack. As Jin slowly began to return to his Core Crystal, she'd tell him that for humans, being forgotten is a fate worse than death. Though Jin assured her that he would not forget her, they both knew that the nature of Blades would not allow his memories to be passed down. With the knowledge he'd written in his Journal when he was Ornelia's Blade Jin was able to join Lora's spirit with his own, by tearing open his chest and quite literally inserting Lora's Heart into his Chest. This act would turn Jin into a Flesh Eater, ensuring that he could live on without a Driver and retain the memories they had made together. Newfound power in hand, Jin preserve Loras body in Ice, and was then able to single handedly force a retreat of the Indoline invaders, only to find that he was the sole survivor. Mikhail's body wasn't ever found, Haze's core crystal was missing, and there had been nobody left. Nobody but him.

Flesh Eaters are a special kind of Blade, a product of the lost kingdom of Judicium. Flesh Eaters are Blades that have been merged with Human Cells, often through consumption of their Flesh. (Hence, the name.) They are able to wield their own Blades, are able to stay manifested after the deaths of their own Drivers, and can gain a tremendous amount of Power from the process. However, the process of creating a Flesh Eater is rarely successful. Most Flesh Eaters are identifiable by having red 'stains' on their Core Crystals, but Jin is an exception. Due to Jin's method, his core crystal is entirely blood red. When becoming a Flesh Eater, Blades lose their immortality, but yet still possess incredibly long lifespans.

Decades passed. Jin lived on in suffering, but unable to die. A dejected Jin sitting in tattered robes in an alleyway in Alba Cavanish, the capital city of Mor Ardain, would meet Malos once again. Malos had survived his battle with Mythra, but in a greatly weakened state. The two would then soon form the new organization named 'Torna', after the fallen titan, with the goal of going to Elysium and killing the Architect. Using the a large black ship known as the Monoceros, Jin would eventually end up finding Ornelia's house drifting in the Cloud Sea after it fell off of the Tornan Titan all those years ago. Though long since desecrated, it still stood. Jin would then burn the house down, with the photographs of the Aegis War party and Ornelia inside. He would then also place Lora's body, still frozen after all this time, aboard the Monoceros as a reminder to never have faith in the Architect.

The two would later rescue Mikhail from the Indoline Praetorium after Mikhail was turned into a Blade Eater - a human merged with the Core Crystal of a Blade. For a while, it was just the three of them. Eventually though, he found Akhos and Patroka, two other Flesh Eaters of who had been imprisoned. The two were in the process of being transferred from Tantal to Indol. He asked them to join him, and they agreed. Jin would then become the de facto leader of the group. He then much later breaks Nia and Dromarch out of Indoline custody, and Nia joins him as well.

At this point, 500 years had passed, and their plans could finally be put in motion. The first step would be to find and revive Pyra, the second Aegis.

The organisation known as Torna had put out a request for a team of salvagers. A small team of elites from the Leftherian Archipelago. This would put Rex, a plucky 15 year old with a lot of talent and deciation, under their employ. The job was successful, with the Salvagers able to raise the intentionally sunken ship from the depths of the cloud sea. Once inside, Jin and Malos find their target - Pyra, long since asleep. However, Rex accidentally resonated with the Aegis, prompting Jin to immediately stab Rex through the heart in an attempt to save him. However, Pyra ends up sharing half of her life force with Rex, reviving him. With the help of a titan known as Azurda and the now-deserted Nia, Rex & Pyra escape, leaving Jin empty handed.

Some time later... (and by that, I mean 4 entire chapters.)

Jin travels to the ruins of Judicium on the Titan named Temperantia. There, he takes control of a Titan weapon that was being excavated by the Empire of Mor Ardain. With it, he fires on the Kingdom of Uraya's forces, making it seem as if the Empire had illegally attacked them in an attempt to spark a full on war between the two superpowers. The party, now consisting of Rex & the reawakened Mythra, Nia and her Blade Dromarch, Tora, an inventor and his artifical Blade Poppi, Morag & her blade, Brighid, and Zeke and his blade Pandoria. With them was a Praetorium Blade known as Fan La Norne. The group fights him atop the Titan, where he reveals his nature as a Blade. Even with his powers limited by Fan la Norne, the groups came out petty much dead even, but Jin was being pushed back.

This state didn't last for long, though. Jin flash-stepped forwards and stabebd Fan La Norne directly through her core crystal, remarking that she was no slave, and that she was free now. Fan La Norne was Haze, Lora's second Blade all those years ago. Her core crystal had been taken during the initial raid of Spessia, and had been resonated with by Praetor Amalthus with the intent to use her power for his own goals. Her death caused Jin to have a severe episode of PTSD, wherein he soon had to be rescued by Akhos. It is revealed not too later that Jin's core crystal is damaged.

A chapter or so later, the group meets Jin once again at Genbu Crown, the head of the Tanalese Titan, wherein he demands the party hand over the Omega Fetter and the Aegis to Torna, despite the fact that they had defeated Akhos, Mikhail, and Patroka already. When they refuse, Jin reveals his "true form", a form actually gained due to his status as a Flesh Eater.

In this form, Jin is able to control all elementary particles and accelerate his body past the speed of light. Even with Mythra's Foresight ability, it became impossible to dodge his attacks, let alone guard. He was also capable of withstanding a blast from Siren, the Artifice responsible for destroying several titans in the past. He is able to restrain the entire party with help of the other members of Torna and their new army of Artificial Blades. Pyra threatens to destroy herself with Siren's targetting ray to protect the lives of the party, Jin spares them. However, he leaves with Pyra and the Omega Fetter, wholly defeating the party.

Two chapters later, both Jin and a newly restored Malos fight with the party once again. During their fight, Jin was shocked when Rex expresses his understanding on what it means to be Driver and Blade, and, through attaining the state of Master Driver, is able to keep up with Jin blow for blow. As Jin is soon defeated, Rex noticed the sadness in Jin, and refused to kill him. After a heated battle between Artifices Ophion and Siren, he, along with Rex and his companions, falls through the Cloud Sea to the Land of Morytha below.

During their time in the Land of Morytha, Mythra discovers that Jin is a Flesh Eater. He temporarily joins the party to escape Morytha, where the Monoceros comes to retrieve him. However, before he left, he reveals that Amalthus was the one who massacred the remaining Tornan citizens on Spessia and that he implanted Lora's heart into his body to carry on her memory. He convinces Malos, Akhos, Mikhail, and Patroka not to attack the group as they leave for the World Tree.

He and Malos leave the other members and climb the World Tree. Despite their significant head start, Jin stays behind to meet the party again, letting Malos go to meet the Architect alone, telling them that 'he wants to see for himself if the world will choose Rex or Malos, but that he cannot let them pass without a fight', saying that he made a promise to see through Malos' will, even if it means his death.

Jin can't understand Rex and his dream to open up Elysium to humanity, believing that they will eventually destroy it as they did with Morytha and Torna. However, Rex is able to defeat him, knocking his sword out of his hand and convincing Jin that 'Blades are supposed to keep humans in check.' As they talk, Akhos and Patroka arrive to help him, but Jin immediately orders them to stand down, saying that they have done all they have needed. Patroka asks Nia to heal Jin; she agrees and Patroka goes to prepare him for treatment. As she goes, however, she is killed by Amalthus, who has used all of the Core Crystals he "cleansed" to gain immense power, digging through the World Tree with said power.

## Pre-Paradise

Amalthus also rips out Akhos' Core Crystal, killing him and enraging Jin, but he is far too weak to fight. Instead, Rex & Co. battle Amalthus, defeating him. Still intent on meeting the Architect and erasing everything in the world himself, he sends out his tendrils of energy to try and destroy the World Tree from the inside. Jin, however, had one final request to Rex: Stop Malos.

Jin then releases every droplet of power still remaining in his being in one final, triumphant attack. As Amalthus's body is impaled by several dozen spears of Ice, whilst also being blasted by a blizzard at Absolute Zero, Jin's Core Crystal finally cracks and shatters. Amalthus's entire being had been thoroughly frozen, to such a point where when Jin's attack ceased, his very body began to fade away into nothingness. Jin then falls to his knees and dissolves in a white light, now finally at peace.

Except, when he wakes, he's in an empty white room. The only thing he can see is a small hint of Brass against the wall. Curious, Jin walks over to it, and pushed it. Jin then looked out to see the Multiverse Paradise Hotel, bustling with people. Jin closed the door, and went into effective isolation, with only a phone to keep him company.

## Plot Involvement

Nothing. Jin hasn't done anything. The most he's done is be in agreement to Takuto Maruki's ideals.

## Trivia

* Jin was the first character to be classified as an Anti-Villain on this wiki.
* Jin was also the first character from the Xenoblade Chronicles series to be submitted as a muse.
* Jin was designed by Tetsuya Nomura, who is well known for designing characters for the franchises *Final Fantasy* and *Kingdom Hearts*. This can be particularly obvious, due to his similarities in his appearance to Sephiroth.