Nikolaos Xifias

Fanart by AizakkuKun, April 11 2022

Nikolaos Xifias (more commonly known as Nikos) is the protagonist of the series The Abyssal Expanse, and the subject of The Library of Thoth Prophecy.

### Appearance:

Nikos is a twelve year old boy of average stature and thin frame. He has mid-brown hair that is perpetually windswept to the right, with hair on the left across his face. He has deep blue eyes. His most distinguishing feature is the long scar that runs from just below his right eye to his chin, that he got from a shark during a fishing accident.

His most common outfit is his striped blue and white polo shirt, paired with khaki Bermuda cut shorts. He wears a shark tooth necklace that he got from the accident that gave him his scar, and a pair of wooden ball bracelets, traditional for the scholars or artists of Kos. He wears sandals, and always has his fisher hat that he got from Alexandros.

### Personality:

Nikos is quiet and rather soft spoken, but he is also mature for his age, and values duty and honor. He idolizes the codes of chivalry, and believes in serving his community over himself. However, as he is a kid, he also enjoys play and can be shortsighted and lack the discipline to carry his ideals through.

While he is typically quiet, that is more due to his naturally quiet nature, and he can subvert that nature when needed and become quite confident when need be. He cares for his friends and family very much and will protect them with his life, due to his codes of chivalry he values the lives of his loved ones more than his own sometimes.

### Synopsis:

#### The Path to Tripoli:

Nikos hears The Prophecy of Thoth when he is twelve, and his community quickly decides he must go to the school on Tripoli, to gain knowledge of his magical ability. He's scared by the prophecy, which states he will choose to destroy Greece, and decides he doesn't want to go to Tripoli. However, on the day that he needs to leave, he hides in his room, not wanting to face the future, but his mother coaxes him out and he decides to go in the end.

### Relationships:

#### Relatives:

* Maria Xifias:
	+ His relationship with his mother is quite cordial, he knows she wants what's best for him, he trusts her and loves her very much. He does however stay more childish when around her, hugging more and expecting her to solve his problems.

### Abilities, Fighting Style and Equipment:

#### Abilities:

Life Creation: Nikos has the ability to take part of his own soul energy, and manipulate the DNA in it to create different types of life. However, he is not yet proficient in the skill and can only make simple animals, such as ants or bees. More complex animals simply die immediately and break apart. Nikos can only create animals he has seen.

Animal Manipulation: Nikos has some amount of sentience shared with the animals he creates. They are separate beings, but he can sense their position, intentions and rough emotions. He can also give them commands, but they do not necessarily need to obey, they just tend to. The more soul energy he puts into the animal, the more he has understanding and control over them, and if he uses enough, he can begin to see through their eyes. Finally, the animals he creates can hurt him, but as they are somewhat the same being, the same breaks that apply when you try to hurt yourself apply here too.

Animal Shapeshifting: Any animal Nikos can create with Life Creation he can also turn into, through instead of breaking off a small portion of his soul energy, migrating most of it to a new host, leaving his original body to die. However, he currently cannot use this power and only used it once in panic and turned into a Blue Whale.

#### Fighting Style:

Nikos is not proficient in fighting and has no unique abilities above regular human level.

#### Equipment:

* Fishing Pole
* Shark Tooth
* Fisher Hat