Caesar Avalon

**Caesar Avalon** (シーザー・アバロン, *Shīzā Abaron*?) is a Mage of the Swan Hymn guild, having been a student there for both his education and honing his magecraft. Caesar is well known for his usage of the magic known as Guardian, having earned him many victories across various battles and renown for its strength. Due to his powerful usage of Guardian magic, Caesar is feared throughout much of the magic world as the **"Archangel"** (アークエンジェル, *Ākuenjeru*?). Caesar's primary aspiration is to become a member of the Ten Wizard Saints.

## History

### Early Life

Caesar was born in the year of X918 to a small family in a growing community on the outskirts of Fiore in a settlement known as Roma. He was the second child born to his family, the first and only boy. While his parents did much to raise and taker care of them, their relatively poor status left them to working and being away much of the day. As such, much of his childhood was him under the care of his elder sister, Augusta. It was an overall happy childhood, playing with friends and his sister in a calm village. While he didn't spend as much time with his parents, he has fond memories of his father teaching him how to fish and his mother teaching him how to cook a few things. Augusta would also begin to teach him the basics of his magic, Guardian, and tell Caesar of her dreams of becoming a great magic user. She even claimed that she would one day have the position of one of the Ten Wizard Saints. Caesar himself was relatively popular, regarded as a sweet young boy and helpful to all he could aid.

However, tragedy would arise. At the age of 12, Caesar's village would be invaded by a Dark Guild known as Cyclops Maw. The guild sought to use the town as slave labor. Many within the village would rise up against the evil forces, including Augusta and Caesar's parents. Days of combat left both sides with many losses and tired. Caesar's home would be destroyed in the process. Tending to her brother, another member of the dark guild attacked. Augusta used what little magic she had left to protect Caesar, but would succumb to exhaustion and be killed protecting Caesar. However, she took her killer down with her. Her death would devastate and scar Caesar deeply.

Shortly thereafter, more heroic legal guilds came and wiped out the remainder of the Cyclops Maw plague. They would assist in rebuilding the community, but the losses ran deep. The people of the guilds and village sought to help Caesar and others like him, but his despair would find itself manifest as lashing out at those who loved him. Caesar took their sorrow and pity as mocking him, and would begin to withdraw from those he once held dear. His suffering was not over. His father would drink himself into a drunken stupor before succumbing to his alcoholism and his mother ultimately passed from no longer eating due to her own grief, Caesar would flee the village he once called home to escape the severe pain it scorched into his memory. To this day, Caesar has never said the name of the village of Roma again and only refers to it as the "home of tragedy" and other similar monikers.

### Finding a New Home

Upon fleeing the village, Caesar would find himself far from his home city and across the nation of Fiore in a city known as Veni. Miles and miles away, he would find himself as a pity thief in a large city. Caesar would only steal what he absolutely needed, namely that of water and food. However, he would occasionally steal clothes and bandages too should the need arise. Caesar made it a point as well to only take from those with more than enough, he did nott want to bring harm to the average or poor citizen. While he would often be able to sneak in and out without being noticed, Caesar would make usage of his Guardian magic should he be caught to defend himself.

This cycle would continue for many months. Caesar would take what he needed and survived. This often went on without any issues, others would see Caesar beaten to nearly an inch of his life. This would come to a head one day when Caesar found himself stealing from yet another figure. To Caesar, the man appeared as no more than another relatively well-off resident of Fiore. However, Caesar would soon learn he was dealing with a mage from the guild of Swan Hymn. While it would go as any planned heist would in the start, the mage would catch Caesar. This lead to an engagement. Caesar, at this point fairly more skilled in his magic, would intend to fight back to survive. However, the mage would simply overwhelm Caesar with far more experienced usage of magic that the young man had never encountered in all his attempted thefts. Caesar was defeated and he presumed that, yet again, he would be beaten to near death or finally delivered to the afterlife properly.

Despite Caesar's instincts, the man proved to be one of the greatest developments in the young man's life. The man revealed himself to be Nolan Houdini, the Guild Master of Swan Hymn. Part of why we was in the town was due to hearing of a young mage using Guardian magic, a strenuous magic that many find difficult to master. Nolan would attempt to convince Caesar to join Swan Hymn, as the path Caesar was on would only lead to him getting on the bad sad of the wrong family - leading to his imprisonment or death over simple needs. With the guild, Caesar could have all of his needs met, hone his magical prowess, and gain a new family. Caesar was hesitant, feeling like such a move would be like attempted to erase his old family. As much as he felt abandoned by his parents, he loved them and knew they were reeling from Augusta's death as much as he was. Caesar also did not want to feel that pain again should he befriend the members of the guild and watch them die as well. However, Caesar knew Augusta would never want him to live a reclusive, lonely life of petty theft and would want him people he could treasure. Caesar would ultimately agree.

From there, Caesar would be relocated to Delphi, the home city of Swan Hymn. Caesar's nature made it difficult for him to befriend others at the school for awhile, but he eventually formed bonds through training his magic. As other students became impressed by his abilities, this allowed Caesar to open up and begin to make the connections needed to start friendships. However, it has been acknowledged that Caesar still often becomes distant as he often trains. As he became a stronger mage, Caesar would also think over his life up to that point, deciding that he wanted to pursue becoming one of the Ten Wizard Saints in memory of his sister's ambition to do become one.

### Birds of a Feather

As Caesar found his stride at the academy, he continue to grow his abilities. Aside from growing stronger and faster physically, his magic continued to evolve, with his usage of Guardian becoming more complete. Caesar would also begin to learn other forms of magic, such as fire magic to creates flames for various usages. In this time, as the guild functioned as a school as well, Caesar took a strong interest in history. He would dive into the subject to learn as much as he could about the trends of the past and how they might guide the future. He would take on instructor roles for the teaching of history and for teaching ambitious students how to use the power of Guardian, just as his sister did for him so long ago.

Caesar also began to take on more missions, bringing a fair bit of money, treasure, and magical tools back home to the guild as he did so. Caesar's usage of Guardian, especially with the Guardian: Angel spell, he began to be renowned across the magical realm as the **"Archangel"**. When home from missions, Caesar took to music and fishing as hobbies to keep his mind steady. The work he put in allowed for Caesar to be promoted to an A-rank mage in X936 at the age of 18.

## Magic and Abilities

**Guardian** (幻神(ガーディアン), *Gādeian*?, lit. "Phantom Spirit"): Guardian is a powerful type of caster magic that allows the user to give shape and life to their magic into a being around them. This being can take on various stages, forms, and shapes, as well as form tools and non-human appendages to assist and aid the user of the magic. The more advanced the magic is, the user will be suspended within the magical being, aiding as a powerful defense against other types of magic. Caesar can cycle through the various stages of the spell with ease, depending on the situation. The size of the spells make it easy to fight human foes, as it often overwhelms them entirely. However, it also allow Caesar to combat massive foes as well due to the nature of the Guardian.

* **Guardian: Ribcage**: With this simple spell, Caesar forms a magical construct around him that takes on the appearance of a ribcage. This spell is able to be cast incredibly fast, allowing Caesar to use it as a rapid defense against incoming attacks, providing his a powerful shield that moves easily with Caesar as he moves around the battlefield. While it is not a perfect defense, as it can be broken by overwhelming attacks, it can hold back powerful attacks if timed correctly in its usage.

* **Guardian: Arm**: In this, Caesar can form an arm of his guardian. The arm can be formed on its own, but is typically constructed off the side of the Guardian: Ribcage. This is to allow Caesar the defense of the ribcage but the offensive abilities of the arms. While generally on one arm is summoned at a time, Caesar can summon up to four at a time as that is the number of arms Guardian: Colossus has. This allows him extended reach, due to the length of the arm, as well as the enhanced strength of the arms as they are far stronger than Caesar himself, holding back even large beasts with relative ease. They can be used to strike foes or to grapple them into a strong hold, holding Caesar's foe in place for other attacks.

* **Guardian: Bow**: By conjuring the Guardian: Arm spell to form a pair of arms, Caesar can form a bow and arrow with his magic. The arrow, as it comes from the Guardian arms, is much larger than the average arrow. The arrows are fast and strong, being able to hit targets and leave large puncture wounds with easy. Caesar eventually gains enough skill with this ability to conjure the bow without the arms of guardian and into his own hands. With this, he can rapidly fire arrows without having to worry about actually nocking the arrows as the just form from his magic.

* **Guardian: Sword**: Much like Guardian: Bow, Caesar must first conjure the Guardian: Arm spell. With this, he can summon a massive sword of magical energy. The blade of the weapon is incredibly sharp, capable of cleaving through regular weapons with relative ease on many accounts. The blade's large size and low weight due to its magical makeup make them able to slash and pierce incredibly fast as a result. Caesar can conjure the blade alone to his hands or can summon them with the arms of the other forms of guardian. Further, the magic of the blade moves and vibrates quickly. As a result, while it looks and functions as a sword, in truth it resembles that of a chainsaw in how it mercilessly cuts through anything it crosses.

* **Guardian: Body**: With the spell, Caesar finally conjures a majority of the body of Guardian. It produces the torso, head, and arms of a humanoid being. This gives Caesar a high defense, as he is within the magical construct and able to avoid attacks as a result. The strength of the construct is greater than that of the individually conjured arms and can likewise make usage of the weaponry the spell can produce. It's durability is also increased, as attacked that may have damaged Guardian: Ribs harmlessly bounce off of the Body. However, the mobility of the Guardian: Body is limited to Caesar's own.

* **Guardian: Colossus**: This is the spell that generally marks the master of Guardian magic, to which Caesar is considered. With it, he forms the complete body of the Guardian. This forms a towering being of magic, complete with a head, four arms, a torso, and legs. The magical entity, in this form, is much stronger than the Guardian: Body. Much like the lesser spell, it can still access the weaponry the spell grants. It can deal a great deal of damage and combat even the strongest of foes, but Caesar notes it requires a great deal of magic and puts a great deal of stress and pain on the body to maintain. It is revered for its destructive capability, allowing Caesar to fight powerful beings and groups with it alone. While Caesar would never use it for such a task, it has been said that the full power of the Guardian: Colossus could raze unprotected nations to the ground at a blinding speed.

* **Guardian: Angel**: This is a simple and versatile alteration to the Guardian: Colossus spell. In it, the second set of arms is sacrificed to be transformed into a set of wings, allowing Caesar and the construct the ability to fly. With this, the Guardian and Caesar can move throw the air at great speeds and attack from high up above. Caesar will often mix this spell with the usage of Guardian: Bow to rain arrows down at an overwhelming amount. This spell sacrifices part of the strength and power of the Guardian: Colossus, but more than makes up for it with maneuverability. Caesar eventually grows skilled enough with the ability to summon the wings to his own body as well, allowing him to use the power of flight without the bulky body of the Guardian to worry about. His masterful usage of the spell lead to his moniker of the **"Archangel"**.

* **Guardian: Beast**: In this form, the humanoid shape of the Guardian is lost. Instead, the form takes on a much more caniform-esque body. The form maintains the second set of arms, which sprout from the back of the beast. Much like a canine, it sprouts a tail. However, instead of merely one, it gains nine. Caesar notes that this is the most powerful variant of the Guardian spell he has, at least in terms of the construct of the body. The limbs and tails make the spell capable of dishing out several powerful strikes. Caesar frequently makes the second set of arms hold blades as well, making the form all the more deadly. As a result, Caesar rarely uses this spell as it is not only taxing to use, but is dangerous to everything around him.

* **Guardian: Holy Shield**: Caesar considers this perhaps his most powerful and versatile spell. With it, he can form a large circular shield for the Guardian to use. With it, it absorbs magic. This can be used to redirect magic used at Caesar back at the target, making it the ultimate defense Caesar possesses.

**Fire Magic**: Caesar can conjure fire to use offensively. He can create small fires for light and throw balls of fire at his targets with ease. Caesar can also use fire tactically as to make fires away from his encampment to fool enemies into going away from him and his allies, as well as set fire to important documents or tools with a touch.

* **Three Thousand Ashen Worlds** (三千世灰, *Sanzen Sekai*?, lit. "Three Thousand Ashen World"): With this, Caesar accumulates fire magic to his eyes before releasing them in the forms of beams. These beams can move at a rapid speed, making them hard to counter or dodge. The beams of fire magic can incinerate what they make contact with rapidly. Caesar eventually is able to control the path at which they move and can cause them to detonate in a large explosion when they make contact with the earth.

**Expert Swordsmanship**: Caesar often mights with a magical blade, with which he is able to conjure rapidly and use to dominate his enemies with the power of his blade. Using his speed to maneuver around the enemy, Caesar would take time to cut softer areas to vital areas with blinks of an eye. His precision and speed with the sword allows him to quickly cut down enemies without exerting himself too much. Caesar is also known to strike people with the hilt of his sword too for a more blunt approach. It has been noted his swordplay is rather aggressive compared to some of the others due to the speed at which he mights with a weightless blade. Further, Caesar can fight with two swords at once without further evolutions of Guardian, using flowing moves as though the blades were mere extensions of himself.

**Expert Archer**: With Guardian: Bow, Caesar can conjure a bow and arrows to use in combat. Due to the magical nature of his archery, his bows have great power. Further, Caesar has great accuracy, being able to take the stem off an apple from a great distance away and strike the bullseye of a target multiple times. Further, due to the nature of his archery, he is not slowed down by nocking arrows and can fire them off rapidly. Moreover, he can use this same ability to fire several arrows at a time, ranging from two to a blanket of arrows shadowing the sky.

**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Caesar possesses great skill in hand-to-hand and unarmed combat. Caesar combines his great strength, stamina, and speed to fight in this form of combat. Using his great speed, he has shown a wide range of physical assaults with barrages of strong punches and powerful kicks. He also uses more unorthodox methods, such as slamming his head into foes as a powerful head-butt, despite this proving to hurt him as well. Along with sheer strength, his stamina allows him to maintain powerful strikes, punches, and hits with little to now weakening even after a long period of time. Caesar seems to focus on hitting joints to disable foes, and is not above breaking a foe's bone in an area to defeat them. One of Caesar's punches can easily shatter stone.

**Enhanced Strength**: Caesar possesses a great deal of strength. This is seen in his training as he is able to lift great weights with relative ease. His strikes can create great pressure and crack even large boulders. He can easily throw enemies that are even larger than himself through the air and to the ground. Perhaps his most impressive display is stopping the attack of a large gorilla-like monster living outside the city housing the guild of Swan Hymn. Further, Caesar seems to get stronger once he starts getting angry in battle, likely due to the adrenal rushing in his body.

**Immense Endurance**: Caesar is known to be able to fight for long lengths without tiring, even when using the greater forms of his Guardian magic, which has been noted to be quite taxing on his magic reserves. Caesar can fight large numbers of enemies on his own without tiring, and take powerful attacks and fight on despite the pain he may be feeling. Caesar is noted to have fought through a large group of wizards and sustain multiple injuries that would kill lesser mages and come out on top in battle. Many within his guild respect him in battle for this ability.

**Immense Durability**: While many of Caesar's abilities allow him to avoid close-range combat and being struck by damaging attacks, Caesar's many scars indicate he is capable of receiving many blows and still being able to get back up and fight. Caesar does go on to show he was still capable of fighting after receiving a large wound to his stomach by a monster and still be able to defeat it. Caesar tolerance for pain is also high, as in training for Guardian: Colossus, he would be struck by members of his guild several times and hardly react.

**Enhanced Speed & Reflexes**: Even without assistance from magic, Caesar possesses great speed. This allowed him to move about as a child with ease from one edge of his village to the other for various adventures and games. His speed would only grow as he aged, showing him capable of keeping up with those who focus on enhancing their speed. His agility further allows him to quickly change the speed he moves at the suit his needs and the direction he is moving in without first slowing down. This extends to his reflexes, allowing Caesar to quickly move his body to evade incoming attacks. This is to the point that Caesar was able to evade a point blank fire spell from a rival Mae before just as quickly countering them with a blow from the fist of his Guardian magic.

**Immense Magic Power**: Caesar possesses an intense amount of magical power. When allowing it to run unrestrained, Caesar's presence can be sensed from a great distance. His magical power alone can cause certain people to waver in his mere presence. Caesar can control the release of his magic. This can be used and manipulated in a number of ways. Caesar's magical pressure can instill panic in others. This same power can also momentarily paralyze those Caesar directs it at, making them stop moving entirely. In this state, Caesar claims his targets are easier to kill than a caged animal. Caesar can also make others experience phantom pains, such as making one opponent feel like a wound was being cut into their back when Caesar was nowhere near them. Inexperienced magic users and random civilians may outright pass out due to his intense spiritual pressure or be forced to their knees.

## Trivia

* Caesar's name is derived from the title of the same name, used a an imperial title for Roman emperors for much of the empire. His surname, Avalon, is derived from a mystical island in the Arthurian legends.
* Caesar shares his birthday, November 2nd, with his author.
* Caesar's author has stated that his ideal Japanese voice actor would be Hideo Ishikawa and that his ideal English voice actor would be Jensen Ackles.
* Caesar enjoys training, music, history, and fishing.
* Caesar enjoys singing. He does so both for himself and as a performance for others. He possesses a strong baritone voice and has a fairly large range of notes he can hit. Most who hear him sing note that he sounds quite good. However, he has zero talent for instruments, which hinders his ability as a musician.
* Caesar's favorite foods are steak and grilled lobster tails, usually together as a meal. He also enjoys potatoes and mushrooms, both on their own and as accompaniments to any meal. As for sweets, Caesar has a strong fondness of cheesecake, either plain or with raspberry. In terms of drinking, Caesar prefers cognac and, to a slightly lesser extent, whiskey. Caesar notes he likes the oak flavor these spirits provide. However, Caesar happily notes that he would eat or drink just about anything.
* While not often, Caesar will sometimes smoke cigars.
* Caesar fears centipedes, comically using his magical abilities to kill them should he find one.

## Quotes

* *"I have heard it said that to grieve deeply is a sign that one has loved fully."*
* *"Fate only gets one so far, once you get there you must make the rest yourself."*
* *"Righteousness alone will not save the world, it requires action."*
* *"When you try to master something, you will either succeed or fail. However, in the attempt, you will find your true value."*
* *"Quitting out of fear of failing is in itself failure. Failure is only a beginning, you must try again. However, this time you know where to improve."*
* *"The only purpose life has is the one you give it yourself."*
* *"Grow to truly understand something and not just merely admire."*
* *"My story is just one of many, the world will not suffer if it ends too soon."*

## References

1. ↑ Whispers of the Unknown: Caesar mentions this is the type of magic he uses to Mack Malloy.
2. ↑ Kiss of God: Briola mentions Caesar becoming distant in their friendship due to his frequent training alone.
3. ↑ Kiss of God: Caesar tells Briola he wishes to become a Wizard Saint to carry out his sister's will.
4. ↑ Kiss of God: Caesar says this quote to Briola.