Diethelm Waldseemüller

**Diethelm Waldseemüller** is the Ace of Raphael's Brave Saints. He is a member of Team Trump Card of Heaven and holds the position of Queen.

## Appearance

Diethelm has the appearance of a handsome man in his early to mid-30s, with dark-brown hair and amber-colored eyes. He also has a short beard or stubbles. Tattooed on his back is a stylized version of the Tree of Forbidden Knowledge of Good and Evil.

He wears a grey-colored dress shirt and black dress pants with leader suspenders, a black-and-green tie, and a pair of dragonhide boots. In his first appearance, he wore priest vestments.

Following his Angelization by Raphael, he wears a black "A" printed on his left hand, symbolizing his position as Raphael's Ace. He also gained a total of six pure-white wings, with each having the wingspan of 3.35 meters (11 feets), and a golden halo above his head.

## Personality

Diethelm is shown to be a polite, well-spoken, and gentlemanly person. He is a kind person who thinks of the wellbeing of others before himself and has a tendency to keep his true feelings bottled up in order to avoid troubling others. He is also known as someone who is always there to help a friend and provide support, earning him the respect of his fellow exorcists and Brave Saints.

In private, he has shown to be quite goofy and playful and is somewhat of a klutz. He can be clueless of the feelings of others and can be quite blunt from time to time, though he means well. Despite this, he is generally a proactive and a positive thinker, and even a little naive at times.

However, his personality when fighting can only be described as a fully 180˚. He, like the majority of exorcists from the Vatican, is a battle manic who is thrill at the thought of fighting against powerful opponents and can be extremely cruel and sadistic in battle. He likes to drawn out his battle, personally enjoying beating his opponents little by little until they fully crack and lose bits of their sanity, which he has once described to be "... the most enjoyable feeling ever".

He also doesn't have any mercy toward his opponents, regardless of whether they are truly innocent and defenseless or not, claiming that if he does show mercy toward enemies, it will be cruel toward himself.

He is also known throughout certain circles within the Vatican as a terrifying healer and nurse, with extremely questionable morality. According to Lint Sellzen, there are rumors that he has no problem sadistically beating his patients until they stop acting recklessly and gain unnecessary injuries in battle. Nero claims he will kill someone just to save them.

## History

At some point in the past, Diethelm was angelized by Raphael into his Ace.

## Powers and Abilities

**Immense Strength:** Diethelm is one of the highest-ranking exorcists of the Vatican, being an exceptionally powerful exorcist of the Catholic Church. He is considered to be the most terrifying and dangerous member of Team Trump Card of Heaven due to a combination of his immense strength and his sadistic tendencies. Following his reincarnation into an angel, his powers were vastly improved to the point where he reaches the boundary of godhood.

**Angelic Physiology:** Diethelm possesses all the standard traits and abilities of an Angel.

* **Angelic Power:** Diethelm possesses the ability to generate and manipulate angelic power. He can radiate an angelic aura that he can cover his weapons and attacks with to increase their overall power.
* **Light Manipulation:** Diethelm can generate and manipulate the light element without the need to invoke magical energy, summoning it using his angelic power and thus giving it an advantage against devils, demonic creatures, and the creatures of the night.
	+ **Invisibility:** He can render himself unseen by the naked eye and become invisible in the visible spectrum by manipulating the light particles.
	+ **Light Constructs:** He can manipulate photons to solidify the light, with the level of solidity going from loose jelly to metal-like hardness or beyond. By doing so, he can turn light into tools, objects, weapons and other items, and create semi-living constructs of varying permanence.
* **Emotion Manipulation:** Diethelm can sense and manipulate the emotions, including feelings, moods and their affects, of himself, people, animals and other creatures, whether by increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise channeling emotions.
* **Purification:** Diethelm can remove the darkness or evil from a person or objects, often including demonic creature possessing it or mind-control affecting it.
* **Blessing:** Diethelm can bless anytihng including people, places, objects, etc. and produce positive effects. This can include bring good luck to people, or something as little as making people feel happy emotions. The most traditional effects are granting long life, fertility, health, success and wealth or suppressing negative emotions and memories. Most blessings deal with negating/removing misfortune or other negative effects.
* **Immortality:** As an Angel, Diethelm is an immortal being who can live indefinitely unless he's killed.
	+ **Nigh-Invulnerability:** He cannot be harmed or killed by conventional weapons, aliments, or diseases, as only weapons of supernatural origins are able to harm and/or kill him. He is also immuned to curses, poisons, and diseases that aren't angelic or demonic in origins.
	+ **Regeneration:** He possesses rapid regenerative healing factor, capable of recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs, and limbs in matter of minutes, thus making it incredibly difficult to induce permanent physical damage onto him.
* **Flight:** Diethelm is capable of flight using his three pairs of wings.

**Immense Speed**: Diethelm possesses impressive speed, keeping up with Ouryuu even after he covered himself in Touki.

**Immense Stamina**: Diethelm has massive amounts of stamina and endurance. He was durable enough being able to withstand multiple attacks from Ouryuu, including a direct punches from a Dragon's Pulse-enhanced Ouryuu without sustaining injuries and keep on fighting.

**Master Combat Specialist:** As one of the highest-ranking exorcists of the Vatican, Diethelm is undoubtedly a master combat specialist. Due to his human origins, he was trained by the Catholic Church to be proficient in fighting against opponents of higher classes and rankings. When fighting against Team Red Dragon Emperor of the Blazing Truth, his fighting prowess was demonstrated with how he could easily counter all of his opponents' attacks.

* **Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Despite being a wizard-type fighter, Diethelm has shown to have immense skills in hand-to-hand combat.
* **Attack Prediction:** Diethelm can interpret and predict enemy attacks and react to the incoming attack, brush off or avoid the incoming attacks even from a dead angle.
* **Combat Perception:** Diethelm can instantly understand an opponent's method of thinking and fighting, allowing him to anticipate the moves of the opponent. Once he understands his enemies' strategy, he is able to find their flaws and weakness and take them down with little effort.
* **Weapon Proficiency:** Despite being a wizard-type fighter, he has shown to also be proficient in multiple forms of weaponry, such as swords, spears, etc.

## Equipment

**Holy Resuscitation** (, *Hōrī Rezususaitēshon*): Diethelm's Sacred Gear. It has the ability to imprint a temporary regenerative healing factors onto those affliated with Heaven, i.e. believers of the Abrahamic faiths. The healing aura it generates is also extremely dangerous toward devils and demonic creatures, capable of extinguishing a High-class devil with a single hit. It is one of the most powerful out of all the Recovery-type Sacred Gears, only beneath the Twilight Healing in terms of versatility.

* **Fourteen Holy Salvation** (, *Fōtīn Hōrī Sarubēshon*): The Sub-Species Balance Breaker of Holy Resuscitation. It allows him to generate a healing field of roughly the same size as a football field, in which all allies of Heaven will gain an immense regenerative healing factor, to the point where it is virtually impossible to land a single damage onto them. Depending on the strength of a believer's belief toward God and His angels, Diethelm can even perform more powerful healing feats such as correcting natural-born disabilities and deformities, or even resurrect the recently deceased.

## Trivia

* Diethelm's appearance is based on Kotetsu T. Kaburagi from **Tigers & Bunny**.
* Diethelm's first name translates to "*protector of the people*" in German.
* His last name, Waldseemüller, may refer to Martin Waldseemüller, a German cartographer and humanist scholar.