Máso Giovinco

****Máso Giovinco**** was born with his twin, **Cáso**, left behind by their parents on a Hikkan orphanage doorstep. Máso is a supporting protagonist in "The Final Crusade" and a main protagonist in the Second Crusade. Máso wasn't special in anyway, nothing but a goofy adventurer, until he decided to latch onto the leg of future fellow crusaders, Dez and Marty. After this decision, Máso went on a journey he wasn't expecting, leaving him with a powerful diabolical spirit of his own, along with many more techniques and powers. His exponential growth allowed him to become powerful enough to join "The Final Crusaders," in a last ditch effort to save the universe.

## Appearence

Máso is surprisingly slim and short for being as physically capable as he is, only standing at a little over 5 feet tall and weighing 77.5 lbs. He has long slick feathers, leaving no hint of his skin underneath. Máso has beady, dark eyes that are to the sides of his sharp beak. He wore a combination of broken power armor and a noble's clothing before getting his creatium attire.

### Crusade 2 (Pre-2844)

Máso originally started with scraps and rags for an attempt at clothing. He eventually went on to steal the clothing from a drunken aristocrat and the power armor of a deceased cyborg. He wore this attire for the rest of the Second Crusade, leading into his training with Marty and Dez.

### The Final Crusade (2844-Current)

After training with Dez and Marty, Máso would receive an outfit lined in creatium. This outfit resembles a Victorian-esque pirates suit, with a long tailed coat. His feathers are misplaced and noticeably agitated due to the events right before The Final Crusade causing him immense anxiety for the future of those he loves.

## Personality

Máso starts as a kind-hearted, yet naive, boy who didn't have a great understanding of the world around him. Although knowing how to survival in poverty using charisma, he doesn't know much about people and how they work. He has a vast surplus of combat knowledge, but other than that he can be a bit of a moron. Do to his mental limitations, Máso can often be found confusing things for one another, not even remembering some of the primary antagonists of his life.

After Máso's training with Dez and Marty he shows slightly less value for life, but much more understanding of it. Máso betrays his promise to his brother during this transition, and ends up killing quite a few soldiers unnecessarily.

## History

### Crusade 2

Along with his twin brother and John Francine XIV, Máso joins a small group of adventurers who treated him and his brother kindly. This party was named the "Devoted Desperados" and originally consisted of Máso, Cáso, John, a fish man named Gouble, a hafling named Zemnia, and a mysterious druid named Marrow. John and Máso had ran into a different party while on a grocery trip, leading to the introduction of Metal Skull and Lavaman. Metal Skull and Cáso would go on to have a strong rivalry between each other, trying to find who is the Charon's best thief. Lavaman would eventually leave the other party and join the Devoted Desperados, growing the party.

Metal Skull was a gold-hungry thief that attempted to restrict the amount of money anyone could have by taking the spare money for himself. He controlled this money through a magic that allowed him to be alerted of anyone who had more money than the amount he allowed. It was later found out that Metal Skull was married to a goddess of Charon, and the Devoted Desperados would take advantage of this, getting his wife to control him. From that point forward, Metal Skull was much less of a menace and was treated as a joke.

In between the adventures of the Devoted Desperados, Máso started an attempt to enter a relationship with the acting leader of the Three Rings of Hikka, Clara. Máso was partially successful with this, igniting his crush on Clara, with her showing some resemblance of feeling back.

Following the defeat of Metal Skull, a clockwork army started to rise in political power. This army was lead by an authoritarian clockwork mastermind by the name of Le Malin. Le Malin caused chaos throughout Charon, taking control of every country he could through underhanded means. After taking control of a large chunk of all population, he started eliminating all non-human races by the means of a super bacteria that destroyed your body in a matter of seconds. Le Malin also had a background with Máso's love interest, Clara. He was unable to hurt her in anyway due to his programming, but he was still very capable of threats and borderline torture. The actions of Le Malin towards Clara sent Máso into a rage, making him want nothing but the freedom of Clara. The Devoted Desperados went through a long journey across desert to reach Le Malin, commencing a raid on his primary compound. This raid was an overwhelming success leading the party to a final faceoff with the mechanical overlord. After a long battle, the Devoted Desperados succeeded in defeating Le Malin, with Máso delivering the final shot, ending him temporarily.

Le Malin's defeat peaked the curiosity of a secret mega-organization known as the CKC. The CKC would eventually track down the group, trying to recruit and arm them to face off against threats of the planet. Before the CKC could make it, a previous enemy of the CKC showed up. This enemy was named Servo, a warforged/devil hybrid. The CKC did not recognize Servo, and brought him along to the CKC armory. At this armory, there was a clone of Le Malin, which the member of their CKC tour guide said was completely safe and in no way able to be controlled by the Le Malin the party knew and destroyed. This CKC guide eventually had to leave the party on urgent matters, and within this time Le Malin in fact did take over the body of the clone. Inside of the armory was an ancient robot warriors body named, "Ichor." Le Malin would take over this robots defunct body, and fight the party one final time, with them being successful once and for all. This allowed Máso to be at peace because Clara was finally safe.

After returning from this armory, Dez, who had trained helped in the beginning training of Máso up to this point, had dropped his daughter, Vi, off at the group for them to babysit. The group took this child to eat at their local meetup place, a small restaurant owned by a rat man. The group ate their food peacefully before falling unconscious, the food had been poisoned. The group slowly awoke to a group of low class CKC soldiers and "Space Ninjas" which Máso was unable to help fight. This failure was due to his full succumbing to the poison used on the group, leaving him a useless mess temporarily. Although the group had won the fight, the space ninjas had successfully taken Dez's daughter to their leader, High General Steel. Steel was a direct follower of Chromus, the biggest threat to the multiverse as a whole.

Feeling weak after his defeat, Maso decided he would join Dez and Marty on the trek to get his daughter back. Máso saw this as an opportunity to get strong enough to protect the people he loves, and the people who can't protect themselves. This hero complex motivated him to train extremely hard alongside Dez and Marty for a few years in the mini-dimension, Arizona. Although he didn't catch up fully, Máso got extremely powerful in a pretty short amount of time compared to his masters, Dez and Marty. The leader of Arizona, a powerful Multiversal being, participated in a challenge against the trio. This led to Máso receiving the ability of a spirit to have semi-control over the pull of reality. After his training, Máso, Dez and Marty all went to a meeting of the Charon gods, leading to Dez's wife, Yara, joining the party. The 4 attempted to break into a prison where they believed Vi to be held, leading to them all being captured in a trap. While questioning Dez, alongside Yara and Marty, Máso successfully broke out of his cell. They freed Dez from his questioning and escaped.

After this failure, the group recruited Eva and Lucy, 2 goddesses of Charon, and went on a raid of the primary base of Steel and his underlings. This led to the downfall of a significant portion of Steel's army and a destructive 4 vs 6 battle between Steel and Dez's parties. Dez's party won, but not without a massive strike of bad news. Not even Máso's controlling abilities could remove the corruption on Vi's mind. Trying to recover from this fight, the group had a battle against Angel Halberd to prove their value. They won this battle and returned to Charon, only to see the destruction caused by the Omega Force and return of Chromus. Máso fought his best to keep his friends safe, and alongside them, managed to temporarily drive Chromus off. During this battle, Clara was slaughtered and Máso didn't know the current state of his significantly weaker brother. This sent him into a panic, needing Dez to hold him back and calm him down.

## Abilties

### Natural Abilities

* **Godlike Reflexes:** Due to the training of Eva, Máso has mastered his mind, allowing him to react to multiple, split second actions.
* **Godlike Speed:** Eva's training also allowed Máso mastery of his body, giving him enough swiftness to surpass the gods.
* **Perfect Marksmen:** After years with nothing but his trusty rifle, Máso has unrivaled accuracy and eyesight.
* **Godlike Durability:** Withstanding years of the harsh environment of Arizona, Máso has gained the ability to take a beating and continue to stand.
* **Godlike Strength:** Training alongside the likes of Marty and Dez, Máso had to break beyond human bounds to keep up in strength. This allowed him an evolution in power beyond that of a mortal.
* **Perfect Mimicry:** From a combination of his Kenku blood and physical control of himself, Máso can recreate any noise or voice he has heard in his life with complete accuracy.
* **Perfect Recreation:** Alongside mimicry, Kenkus also have a proficiency in recreation and forgery. This forgery stacked on his well-trained hands and mind allow for the perfect recreation of any object, with the given resources to make it. This excludes magic, only being able to create the base form without enchantments.

### Gear

* **Creatium Rifle:** A custom made Creatium Bolt-Action rifle, based off of Máso's original rifle however with significant augmentations to allow it to stay efficient no matter the range.
* **Creatium Suit:** Has the major buff of durability caused by creatium, with the special quality of folding up into itself to compensate for Máso changing into the matter of his Diabolical Spirit.

### Magical Abilities

* **Revival:** His deep connection with the universe allows Máso to return from death once every week.
* **Preacher:** Being taught by John Francine XIV, Máso has a strong capability in divine magics.
* **Surge:** Although having a much weaker version of Surge in comparison to Dez, Máso has perfected the 30x form of Surge.
* **Magical Talent:** Maso shows some form of casting intermediate to advanced magical spells

### Supernatural Abilities

* **Null Forces 「Eternal Vortex, Spirit Sever, Kantoku」:** After succeeding in the President of Arizona’s challenge, Máso was gifted the Diabolical Spirit: Eternal Vortex. Eternal Vortex was capable of manipulating forces of push and pull. Using this power, a secret technique was created to steal the powers of his fellow Devious Spirits by ripping their supernatural abilities from their souls and consuming them. Máso is also capable of this technique, passed onto him by the spirit. Using this technique Máso has obtained the powers Spirit Sever and Kantoku. Spirit Sever boosts the powers of Eternal Vortex abilities by allowing him to manipulate souls themselves with his pushing and pulling. Kantoku let’s Máso redirect damage itself onto allies or from his allies to himself. When an attempt is made to redirect damage to something that doesn’t match these conditions, Kantoku will instead make the damage continue on its original path with the effect of a perfect hit.
* **Vortex Matter:** As a result of his diabolical spirit, Máso’s bodily structure is made up of a dark material that controls the push and pull forces of his ability. Máso can also produce this substance from his body, covering people and surfaces in a thick blanket of restriction and compression. This material acts as a sponge for all magical abilities held within it, leading to it being sucked directly to the core of the Vortex Matter. If this attack is on Máso himself, it directly attacks the central part of whatever part of the body the attack lands on.