Damion Halloreen

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* Drawing
* Shadow Form
* Spirit Form

### Allies

Locaster Helios, Kahori, Veena Lu, Hikage Ishuko, Shay Hanamura, Yuna Hanamura, Soul Kawasaki (neutral) Hideko Inazuma, Shizuka Ikami, (neutral) Ashton Khanh (neutral) Cherry Amana, Windflower Amana, Nabi Haluška, Fēng Xu, Lyria Emerith, Shiah Bereng, Colbalt Majmua, Crimson O'Connel

### Enemies

Locaster Helios (formerly), Soul Kawasaki, (formerly) Crow Watanabe, Kingdom Of Leiden, Akuji Hasegawa, Ashton Khanh (formerly), Cassian Packard, Caius Astrada, Shítǐ

**Damion Halloreen** was one of the antagonists and now a major supporting character in *Challenge of The Shadows*. He was apart of the Founding Demons who had formed the government of Runia with the four other Founding Demons after creating a contract with Seléne, the goddess of cosmic's and astrology. Though, after many accused him of killing a man when attempting to defend himself, he killed his council and the second generation to rid of their existence and start anew without having to worry about his previous history.

After moving to Emeraldine, he started a family and began to see life differently, and started to enjoy being a father to his son, Locaster. However, his state was then blown up by a magic beam that had killed his wife, though he was accused of sending the beam due to guarding a port but having to leave due to another order sent to him. With this, he then speculated that someone from an enemy kingdom had done this and begun to kill those in Leiden and Myria for revenge.

Damion would later on act as an antagonistic force due to how he was portrayed back then, but later on improved his behavior and joined Team Strelitzia to reunite the Demon Gems and fix the damage he caused thousands of years ago and also attempting to fix his depleting relationship with his son.

## History

### Early history

Damion was born in Runia, a state in Azuren that was thrown into anarchy thousands of years ago without a proper government because of the untamed chaos that lay on the city's walls. Because of this, it had caused him to become overly paranoid to go outside, making it more difficult to make a living. His parents were murdered after a house invasion when he was eleven, Damion lived alone and became more cautious and had managed to weave his way out of trouble and made sure to not get into any sort of conflict that would anger the individuals living in the district and lived a cautious life that he managed to maintain while being both a destitute child and a young adult.

When outside one day, Damion noticed that the main central was set on fire and was spreading rapidly as soon as it reached the grass: Damion had tried to save people, but the fire was so powerful it had begun burning down trees, where it would be smashing down the homes left and right, and even the people had gotten crushed by the trees and the flames that demolished almost half of the central. Damion began running as trees were beginning to fall at fast rates and was unable to jump over them due to them burning.

When he was about to get out safely, a tree hit him and flung him into a shallow pond with severe burns on his face, legs and back: On the verge of death, Damion was nearly unconscious and had broken many of the bones in his body. After many hours, he would then try to shout for help, but no one was around due to the majority of the citizens perishing in the fire and the survivors were now in a different area from where he was, and after weakly moving towards the middle of the pond, he fell unconscious.

### Becoming a Demon

Upon waking up, he was transported to the Astrologic Realm, where the mysterious Lunar Entity had resided. Upon holding him in her hands, she explained how she made the mistake of turning Runia anarchist by tipping the messenger of the gods that the former dictator, Erothite, had lied about being an ancestor of the fire god, resulting in a fire and had lead to anarchy, now wanting to atone for her mistakes. She requested that he and the other four individuals become demons, all with their unique powers, and form a government, in which all of them would be given one of the five demon powers for the first generation, and if they fall or most of them die, the second five demon powers will pass on to the next generation.

Though hesitant at first due to the public frowning upon demons after the ancient war between humans and demons, Damion was determined to make Runia a more stable environment and reluctantly accepted her offer. As a bright flash came to him, he then transformed into a shadow demon.

Damion knew his first task and had to reunite with the other four demon powers to form the new government of Runia to ensure that he does not make the same mistake as the Lunar Entity had done years before him: He went on a search for the other demon powers, which he eventually had found due to all of them receiving their demon gems that radiate when one of the gem wielders are close. After reuniting, The Founding Demons were formed and all of them took over the Court of Runia and restored it to make the court.

Due to the events of the wildfire, the contaminants had made the water undrinkable and unsafe to use for any purpose. The wildlife that was mainly used as a gatherers spot was scarce as the animals were dead or had migrated into the mountains, where it was incredibly difficult to hunt because of the lack of oxygen in the mountains: Though, after Damion realized demons can live up in the high areas without problems, and had decided to hunt down whatever wild-life was left and had returned them into the town before the flesh Founding Demon, Kahori, took over the job of hunting by going to the high mountains and bringing down some of the animals for the state.

### Life as a Founding Demon

During his time in the government, he had managed to gain the trust of the people and had a fairly good relationship with his council, specifically Ueno who he grew quite fond and had an "unusually good" relationship with her despite their small quarrels and disagreements over small things like theology, or how the world works. Both of them work together well maintaining both dark energy and light energy. According to Shihai, who had a rather neutral relationship with him, he was described to be playful and gentle with his council outside of the court, yet firm and serious whenever he is in court with excellent education on government and a skilled speaker by heart, causing the people to gain a connection with him because of his promises on restoring Runia to be a better place and livable again. With Damion's unique charisma and personality, he was able to win the hearts of the people and showed them nothing else but good intent.

As Runia's stability was restored, The Founding Demons were supported by many people and had gained attention for being proficient at speech and his ideals of reformation and prosperity. He had managed to create more jobs along with the others in his council and this led Runia into having a golden age, as there was both peace and prosperity with innovations and technology had begun advancing. As the Founding Demons' support grew, the people had begun feeling more at ease as their lifestyle began to improve drastically. Damion usually listened to what the people had said and tried to make better jobs, feed the poor, and donated generously to those who needed it most. He had attempted to give the civilians a better place to live, and was appreciated by most of the people for his work and effort to help get Runia into a more stable state: Though, some civilians began holding grudges towards Damion because of his specie due to ancient taboos that see dark magic as dangerous. Despite the council defending Damion, some of the civilians seem to hold some sort of hostility against him, despite his efforts to make Runia a more stable state to live in.

As a result, Damion became rather insecure and began sheltering himself more often, only allowing the council to talk to him from time to time: Having the fear of going through what he had once had before, he mainly stopped appearing in public and sheltered himself for a long time before his council had to convince him to not be a fearful coward and had shown himself in public once more after a long time, still trying to improve Runia for hours on end and trying to gain back support, but some people wanted him out of the court because of his specie.

One day when outside, Damion was picking up some large wood blocks in a rather less populated area to help with repairs when a man had begun to say demeaning words about his species to him, but he had chosen to ignore it due to being used to all the criticisms. Though, as he was going to pick up another block of wood, the man behind him had stabbed Damion in the stomach with a dagger while being pinned against blocks of wood that had coarse skin, and was further getting injured. Out of defense, he managed to turn around and scratched the man across the throat with his claws. Though, his claws had dug into a certain nerve that had popped when he was defending himself, killing the man almost instantly.

Eventually, the public twisted the story about Damion and said he had killed the man without any reason, despite him showing proof that he was stabbed with a knife. His council, who had tried to defend him at first, quickly turned on him due to their perception being warped by the public. Kahori, however, stood by Damion's side and defended him with as much proof to back up that Damion did not kill the man intentionally. Unfortunately, Damion's chances of showing his side of the story were slim, as no one except for Kahori was willing to listen to him, and his council had turned against him because of the public eye.

As an act of revenge, Damion snuck into the building and stole all the Demon Gems in the morning and waited for the rest to wake up. As the council found out their gems were missing, they immediately went outside to look for them but only saw Damion. After he had combined them all, the council had tried to convince him to not kill them, even compromising by saying they will take his side

After the incident, Damion was seen as the villain in the entire scenario, with many claiming that he violently attacked the man without a reason, even when he had shown the scar he had gotten from him and the knife the man had brung along to kill him. Unfortunately, his council did not believe him except Kahori, who whole-heartedly believed he did not intend to kill the man that day. Unfortunately, Damion was then banished from the council and was ordered to never return.

Though, in the night he had returned to steal all the demon gems and had a public fight with the council. As a result of his banishment and not being able to tell his side of the story, Damion murdered three of the five Founding Demons, with Kahori surviving but her gem also being separated. Damion, after realizing what he had committed, regretted his actions and sobbed bitterly into the night before making the ultimate decision in scattering the gems to not make the same mistake again.

Damion later on fled the scene and never sought to think of his past again, leaving all traces of his past behind. Though, after thousands of years, the second generation of the Founding Demons emerged after the Lunar Entity had activated after the first generation had died. Out of fear that the same mistake will be made, Damion approached the council and murdered all of them as well, taking their gems and scattering them. This time, he felt little to no remorse for his actions as he did not want them to also have the same fate he had.

### Move to Emeraldine

After the fall of both generations, Damion did not know what else to do in his life; With his new form, he was able to fool others and prey into killing them and resided in the forest for two years before seeking sanction in Elveria. He eventually joins their army and becomes a lieutenant colonel. The next week, Elveria's army was assigned to give aid to Emeraldine, who was recovering from the Blood Moon's tyranny and had major damage done to the buildings. When helping pick up debris, he was introduced to Jezalyn, who was assigned to help move the debris with Damion. He started to socialize with her and the two soon fell in love with each-other after finding out about their similar interests. Eventually, the two would be married years later and had a child together, their son Locaster.

After Locaster's birth, Damion navigated his way through fatherhood and learned how to love a child, being very attentive to Locaster and showered him with affection and love. He would train him and give him what he did not have from when he was a child so he could live a better life and prevent any struggle. Eventually, he would gift Locaster his signature hat before he was deployed on a military duty. Though, despite his new life, he would run into a conflict with his military general, who would continuously threaten his wife and his child out of envy. Though attempting to report this, he was often downplayed due to his rank and attempted to remain strong for his family.

## Appearance

### Shadow Demon Form

Damion is depicted as a tall man with a lean build and off-pale skin, black eyes with two light purple diamonds in them both, and long black, strayed hair that extends to his back tied in a ponytail with white highlights with two horns sticking out of his head in his regular form with two black claws that have purple outlines.

Damion's Shadow demon form's attire is described as being swarthy and dark, consisting of a black suit with a white tie with short sleeves that had purple shoulder armor and pure white pants that had two bright purple kneepads attached with gray military boots.

### Human

As a human, He had all the same characteristics except the diamonds in his eyes, his demon features, and the white highlights in his hair, and wore a brown, long-sleeved collared shirt with dark brown baggy pants and boots.

### Spirit Form

***Note: Damion's Spirit Form i, in no way, a child. Spirits are shorter in stature and have softer faces, though that does not make his spirit form a child.***

Damion's spirit form is shown to be shorter than his original form by four inches with more radiant, pale skin and round, white eyes that have two, off-blue pupils in the center. He has long, blonde hair tied in a ponytail with blue hair highlights in the front a set of light blue wings with purple decals, and two, large deer horns with two fluffs attached to the side of his head.

His attire in contrast is more fair and light compared to the swarthy colors in his shadow demon form as his colors are shown to be more fair and soft: A light blue collared shirt with two small light blue drapes hanging over with dark blue tips with a tan belt having a small charm on the side and dark brown shorts with knee-high socks and tan strapped shoes.

## Personality

As a human, Damion was described as being kind and hardworking, trying his best to support his family during the anarchy in Runia, and was always over-working himself until he did not have any more energy to spare for other activities or basic things. Despite never attending school after most of them were broken down or burned, Damion was a bright and intelligent man and always took a keen interest in government and was seen as a bit obstinate when discussing his political views and morals with one of his only friends and wanting the better for his home state. When living in a dangerous area, He was described as being extremely wary and exceedingly cautious of his surroundings, not wanting to get killed at any given moment, and usually trying to stay out of trouble even when he was not causing any: Though after the death of his parents, he had fell into a depression and lived by himself, becoming mentally weak and had stopped working as a merchant for a while despite struggling to make ends meet with himself and his way of life in an extremely impoverished district.

When he became a demon after his deal with the Lunar Entity, His personality began to drastically shift from being depressed and isolated from others into a playful, gentle, and confident, yet intelligent man who sought to bring Runia back to a peaceful state without being in anarchy or having others living in fear and has shown to be well-liked among his council and the people of Runia. Despite usually being playful and gentle, when representing Runia in the court he has demonstrated to be very serious, firm, and an extremely fluent speaker that was able to gain the trust of the people within a short time and had managed to fulfill all of his promises he had made to the people of Runia by bringing back peace and restoring the state from its anarchist state.

His leadership skills combined with his members in court made him an extremely devoted leader to Runia, sometimes staying in the court for late hours, discussing what else they could do to improve the ailing state: According to Arlo, Damion never takes breaks and refuses to take one, sometimes even sleeping in the court in case he does not get something done on time, constantly overworking himself to a point where he does not feed himself right or even feed himself at all because of the immense pressure he put himself under to make the state a more stable area to live into a point where the council will overwork themselves alongside Damion and aid him into ruling Runia for the better.

Damion would be seen isolating himself from his council most of the time whenever he works due to him trying to listen to what the citizens are saying so he could improve the lifestyle of Runia, and was shown to be an extremely thoughtful individual, donating generously to those who needed it and tried making better jobs that paid well while being somewhat disliked by some civilians due to his demon specie. Despite this, he attempted to remain polite and positive for his supporters and the council so no one would have to worry about him. After his "mistake," Damion started to become unsure of himself as a whole, thinking that all this hard work he had put in was a waste because of an accusation after he accidentally slashed a man's throat open out of defense due to getting stabbed in the stomach and nearly had died, but it was all seen as him killing a man with ill intent and the people had begun to show extreme dislike to him that was not only because of his specie, resulting in his banishment and his eventual plan to murder his council.

After he had killed off his council and the second generation of Founding Demons, his kind, yet playful demeanor turned into a rather cold and deceptive one. Being a demon that had lived for thousands of years, he has demonstrated to be highly intelligent, being able to kill many people in the kingdoms of Leiden and Myria while going undetected. With his intelligence, Damion is an exceptional trickster, using his spirit form to deceive others and eventually kill them. His spring of murders started in both those kingdoms after his home of Emeraldine was destroyed, killing his wife, Jezalyn, and presumably his child, leading him to become blood-thirsty and out for revenge in Leiden, as they were Elveria's enemy at the time. With his cold and deceptive personality, Damion is morally ambiguous and questions his morals on if he is doing what would be considered right, not having the heart to murder Locaster after realizing he was his son after nearly forgetting about him.

In his spirit form, his personality shifts into a more cheerful and peppy demeanor, speaking in a much softer and quieter tone. He has a higher pitched voice, unlike his rather moderate voice in his shadow demon form, and acts extroverted and energetic, yet coy and naive to assume a more innocent demeanor that can easily fool the naked eye. He often uses his abilities to trick others into assisting him before using his shadow demon form to ultimately murder them. His spirit form, despite not being shown much, is seen as a separate entity from him and is implied to be a different person inside of Damion, seen with them not sharing similar interests in order to keep the demeanor up and how his spirit form talks in a profusely different manner.

With his cold-hearted demeanor, Damion shows an immense amount of regret for killing the Founding Demons, weeping bitterly at the sight he caused and often wishing he never had done it due to his banishment, but felt an immense amount of rage when his council, who were his friends, had refused to listen to what had happened to him after nearly being killed because of his specie. According to Jezalyn, Damion tends to hold onto actions he regrets and apologizes profusely, despite having a more stoic demeanor around his colleagues, apologizing to her constantly for breaking a vase unintentionally when rushing to the military base. Though Jezalyn forgave him, she points out that Damion often takes things to heart and is easily hurt.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** As the shadow founding demon, It is noted that Damion is an extraordinarily powerful demon. After his contract with the Lunar Entity, he has shown to have great power after transforming into a demon with enhanced magic that is significantly stronger than Locaster or any demon of his king: It is noted that when he switches his forms, It had overwhelmed many bounty hunters due to his tactics of deception, as he was also serving in the army for Elveria, one of the most powerful armies at the time. His skills mixed with his previous background and military combined further exemplifies his strength, being able to go one-on-one with Crow, the infamous shard thief after he had killed off most remaining shard users and was able to stay up for a decent amount of time before fainting due to the overload of moon mist injected in his system.

**Immense Speed & Reflexes:** As a demon, Damion has demonstrated to be incredibly fast, being able to outrun Shay and his son by a long shot. His speed has said to be so immense he was able to keep up with Shítǐ while holding back and had the capability to keep up with Crow while he was fighting him after the ambush the group had been surprised with, suggesting that he is faster than the both of them and, If not, every member in the group due to being a founding demon. To add to his speed, his reflexes are equally as fast, being able to dodge most of Locaster's spells before the main story, even his most powerful spells could not outmatch him because of his speed.

**Unlimited Stamina & Endurance:** Damion has demonstrated to have nigh-high endurance, higher than his son and the rest of the group due to him being one of the earliest demons in existence. He can withstand extreme wounds that were inflicted on him by Shítǐ and injuries from Ashton after he had tried engaging in a fight with him after a heated argument the both of them had. Due to being a former naval officer in the Elverian Navy, Damion has demonstrated to have extreme endurance after taking fatal hits from other battleships and remained to stay in optimal shape both mentally and physically.

**Immortality:** As a Founding Demon, Damion is one of the few demons with the ability of immortality, thus he can live for an extensive amount of time while remaining the same. He has also been the same age for many years and has been chronologically aging for a long time, but never physically aged.

**Immense Agility:** Damion has shown to be incredibly agile and swift with his movements, being able to cross many of Myria's forests without difficulty, despite many hunters having a hard time trying to pass the forest. He was able to evade many attacks from the soldiers of Lyakon and many of Cassian's attacks and explosives. When fighting, Damion relies on his speed and agility, along with acrobatic movements to confuse his opponent by using all three abilities at once.

**Tactical Intellect:** Living for thousands of years, Damion has demonstrated to be incredibly intelligent, possessing knowledge that was never accessible at the time, and is incredibly strategic because of his past military career as a lieutenant colonel. His intelligence is further exemplified when he committed multiple murders in Leiden and Myria without having to get caught by soldiers.

**Separate Forms:** Being both shadow demon and spirit, Damion possesses the unique ability to have two separate forms, one being his regular demon form and the other one being his spirit form. He can switch between these two forms freely, gaining a new personality, appearance, and separate magic abilities that have proven to be of use to him, his spirit form specifically; He uses his spirit form as a way to deceive people to kill or confront them, or to simply use his powers if needed in any situation.

**Ink Claws:** On his arms, Damion wields two ink claws that are placed on his hands. With his claws, he can scratch and land attacks on people from long distances because of the nails and ink-like properties it holds. He is also able to detach his claws from his arms and reattach them whenever needed, as seen when Cassian attempts to cut off his arms but detaches his claws quickly enough before he can lay an indent on his actual arms.

**Flight:** Being half spirit, Damion can soar up to high altitudes but is hindered when having to fly back down steeper altitudes due to the bones in his wings being frail. He is seen doing this when flying off with Locaster during their escape from the Lyakonian soldiers.

## Magic Abilities

**Umbrakinesis:** Damion has proven to possess powerful umbrakinesis due to his former history as a Founding Demon. He can control large masses of dark magic around him and has the strongest dark magic out of all the characters, right beside Locaster. His umbrakinesis is strong enough to wipe out entire armies and defeat even the strongest demon hunters. With his Demon Gem reunited, his umbrakinesis shows a drastic increase in strength that nearly hit Shítǐ in his heart and stomach.

**Hydrokinesis:** Being a part spirit, Damion possesses enhanced hydrokinesis and partial cryokinesis. He is capable of making powerful water whips and at times freezing the water to make large walls, along with large water waves that can push many buildings down with ease. With his hydrokinesis, he is also able to heal with water by placing it over someone's wound and focusing immensely.

**Spirit Magic:** Similar to that of the Spirit Demon, Damion possesses strong spirit powers, being able to create light blue blasts of energy when he desires. However, he is not able to directly manipulate spirits, but he can create them and launch attacks with them effortlessly.

## Weaknesses

**Overuse:** Despite being a Founding Demon, Damion too is prone to overusing his magic. When he overuses his magic, it will cause him to cough up blood or experience fatigue-like symptoms. His overuse can further be proven if he is glitching between his two forms if he transforms from them too quickly or too frequently.

**Moon Mist:** Because of the toxic fumes, Damion has a severe weakness to them. Though he can withstand some of the toxins, he is mostly sensitive to the mist and it causes him to faint because of how the toxins react to his body. If assimilated in his body for too long, he can potentially die if the fumes are not removed within an hour's time window.

## Relationships

### Jezalyn Helios

Jezalyn is Damion's late wife. They both had met when assessing damages after they were declared independence. At first, Damion was, as described, "over the moon" for Jezalyn the moment he saw her. The both of them shared similar interests and started to talk with one another frequently before he eventually proposed to her and got married after five years of knowing each other and having a somewhat romantic relationship. Two years into their marriage, they eventually had Locaster.

It is noted by his admiral that Damion enjoyed talking about his wife and cherished her frequently because of his immense love for his family. Jezalyn has shown to reciprocate the same feelings towards Damion, caring for him and concerning about his occupation as a lieutenant. When Jezalyn was pregnant with Locaster, Damion went as far into taking the domestic sphere and helping her tidy things up, despite them sharing household duties, further proving his love for his wife. Jezalyn found him sweet for helping her and in turn helped him with his emotional struggles, turning his cold persona around into a sweet and caring one.

However, when having to separate from her temporarily for her and Locaster's safety, Damion was saddened due to the fact he wouldn't be able to see his son frequently unless he had time to himself. He had a hard time staying separated from his family and yearned to see them again. When finding out about her death, Damion was immediately thrown into a fit of both rage and grief, saddened that he lost his wife and potentially his son.

### Locaster Helios

Locaster is Damion's son and only child. At first, Locaster idolized him and spent more of his time with him than with his mother, though he still maintained a good relationship with her. Damion often gave Locaster incredible amounts of love and affection, attempting to navigate his way through fatherhood and teaching him some forms of combat. It is noted by Jezalyn that Locaster and his father had a close relationship, spending time with one another while training and often talking with his father. However, after Emeraldine's invasion, Damion believed that Locaster had died due to the explosion and realized that his wife too had died, Damion became vengeful and started murdering those in Leiden, one of Elveria's many enemies. Unbeknownst to him, Locaster settled in Leiden a few years into his many murders: When meeting with him in the sacred meadows, he actively attempted to kill him.