Quinn

### Likes

Drinking ketchup, Fynn, spending time with Kida, Targon traditions, Watching World of Fungus on TV

### Dislikes

Metallic chromium (allergy), Friends arguing, Villains in general, anyone flirting with Kida

## Personal Information

### Occupation

{Former} Prince of Targon{Currently} College Student, Rose Knight

### Family

Mother, Father, Older Brother & Younger Sister

## Abilities

### Aria

Chrysí Skóni

Quinn *(クイン*, Quinn) is one of the many deuteragonists of Starry Knights! He holds the title for, "The Indigo Rose of Wrath."

Seeing how he's lacking his own inner strength in order to save those whom he can't without it, needing his true inner wrath.

## Personality

Quinn is very cheerful and sweet, yet somewhat naive and considerably insecure, but his naivete is not to be mistaken for stupidity. An alien and an outsider, he is still rather new to Earth and its customs. (For example, he did not understand what a boy meant when he asked if he was "diggin' the scene" when she was at a party, and stated, confused, "I did not know we were supposed to bring shovels.")

This leads to much confusion for him and others, such as the awkwardness in casually drinking mustard as a beverage, and thinking cotton candy and cotton balls are the same things. Presumably, because English is not his first language, Quinn speaks without contractions and misuses idioms (e.g. "Kick the butt!" as opposed to "Kick butt!" or "The mall of shopping" instead of "shopping mall" as well as "lobstery" instead of "crabby").

Additionally, he uses several Targon nouns, such as "bumgorf" (term of endearment towards one's own child), "K'norfka" (parent or guardian), "clorbag varblernelk" (insulting term), "G'lufnog" (bless you; said after one sneezes), and "shlorvak" (dream). He also insists on sharing his own customs with other members of the Roses (such as providing a crown of raw meat to be worn on one's birthday), but Quinn doesn't generally take offense when they don't understand or refuse him.

In one instance, he lies about a holiday celebrated by destroying drapery and blows up a window to explain an accidentally torn curtain; an act that barely registers as odd behavior by the others.

He takes friendship very seriously and is easily distressed when others, especially the Roses, argue or fight. He is arguably the one of the most social amongst the Roses - along side with Lavi and Eden, regularly meditating with Leo, or lifting weights with Henry. He can also be particularly indignant to the point of snubbing his teammates when he believes they do not care for his friendship or company.

Above all, Quinn wishes to be friends with everyone he meets, and for everyone to get along. This is in part probably, as before coming to Earth, Quinn didn't have real friends apart of his adoptive father, as he mentioned to Kida that "nice" is not a common word in his planet and that no one had been so nice with his apart of her and his own guardian.

His personality changed dramatically from his first meeting with the Roses. He demonstrated his power and strength as he escaped from K11's Mage Hunt. While the others saw rampant destruction without a cause, Lavi saw him trying to free himself from his handcuffs. As mentioned above, Targoneans learn language through lip contact, and kissing Kida in order to learn their language. Quickly mentioning that Kida needs to leave him alone, he flies away knowing full well that the Ghilkoid were still hot on his trail after discovering his whereabouts.

As he fought against the Ghilkoid with Lavi and Kida until Robin, Ikuto, and Tsubasa finds them, his personality calmed dramatically, and he eventually apologized for the destruction he had caused during his escape from both K11 and the Ghilkoid forces. This change in behavior suggests truly was, at heart, a somewhat friendly, kindhearted person. The reckless behavior seen at the beginning might lend some credence to why Targoneans are so feared throughout the galaxy: their strength is not easily matched. It also proves that Quinn, when the time is right, is not afraid to "kick the butt".

He cares about each of his friends, but there is one person whom he cares more than anyone on Earth: Kida.

## Synopsis

Quinn is captured by K11 after his escape from Ghilkoid soldiers throughout the Milky Way. Hiding on Earth for a short time, only to be captured by K11 and kept as a trophy since he is not of this world - keeping him bound by Metallic chromium cage above the stadium since he is extremely allergic and makes him extremely weak to it. Kida's radar for tracking the Roses goes crazy, even after finding Lavi and making him into a Knight. Signaling her that there is more than one Rose around her. It wasn't until a stray arrow Lavi fired on "accident" breaks his cage.

Having Quinn crash to the ground, going into a rampage when the other Mages try to attack him and he tries to break his handcuffs. Screaming and shouting in a foreign language while fighting his offenders off. It isn't until he easily defeats K11 and the other villains, Kida and Lavi freeing him of his bounds does Quinn try to warn them of the Ghilkoid soldiers that have been tracking him.

Since they don't understand his language, Quinn has no choice but to kiss Kida - in order for him to learn the human language. Accidently awaking the Rose within Quinn, and summoning Byeol to greet him. It doesn't last long until the ceiling is broken in and Ghilkoid forces arrive to recapture Quinn.

The three struggle until Ikuto, Tsubasa, and Robin come. Joining forces and defeating the soldiers. It isn't until Kida explains to the easy go lucky Quinn what a Rose Knight is and that they have to defeat Cradle before this year's time does Quinn happily agree. Mostly because he said he has nothing else better to do and loves being around her.

## Abilities

### **Targonean Physiology**

* All of Quinn's superpowers are native to his extraterrestrial species of the Targoneans. Though outwardly humanoid in appearance, he has several biological differences, like having nine stomachs, hair that resembles the sun and eyebrows, and very pale blue skin. All of his abilities are tied to his emotional state, and generally can only be triggered when a specific emotion is focused on; because of this, his powers can be weakened or compromised when he is in emotional turmoil, like when he lost his ability to fly due to depression.

#### **Ultraviolet** **Energy Projection (Starlight)**

* As a result of being experimented on, Quinn can project incredibly powerful bright indigo-colored energy from his hands, activated by *righteous fury*. His energy attacks produce both thermal energy and highly explosive results on contact. He can augment the effectiveness of his punches by surrounding his hands in energy, and he can also use this method to weld or carefully burn through obstacles with contact from his hands. A chiming sound is heard when using his star bolts.
	+ **Star bolts**: Quinn mainly discharges circular bolts of pure radioactive energy, which are usually launched as thrown circular projectiles.
		- **Starbolt Waves**: He has also been shown to shoot this energy in the form of waves from his hands.
		- **Starbolt Shields**: He can erect a strong defensive energy barrier and force-field around himself.
	+ **Star blasts**: Quinn is also able to shoot his energy in the form of powerful and large blasts from his hands.​​​​​​
	+ **Laser-Eye Beams**: After going through the Targonean version of puberty, Quinn gained the highly useful ability to emit beams of his bright indigo energy from her eyes. Though not as destructive as his regular star bolts, these beams can be fired continuously in a steady stream, are more precise in direction, and also give him the element of surprise for when his hands are restrained. They seem to be slightly larger than Lars's eye-beams.

#### **Superhuman Strength**

* He is immensely strong. While the true extent is unknown, he is shown over four times stronger than Robin himself; he was seen effortlessly lifting with a single hand twice as much as what Robin struggled to with both hands. According to himself, is able to use his enhanced strength by using a feeling called *boundless confidence*.
* He was once seen throwing Robin through several buildings, both giggling and laughing at the sheer distance and force Robin managed to fly through.
* He breaks the house toilet several times a month because he often forgets how much his own strength is sometimes.

#### **Superhuman Agility & Superhuman Reflexes**

* Quinn possesses highly advanced agility and reflexes. His natural fighting skills are much greater when in conjunction with his superhuman reflexes, durability, and agility. He is able to remain awake and battle endlessly for several hours.
* He dodged K11's rocket from 100 miles away with just a slight movement on his footing.

#### **Superhuman Stamina**

* Starfire can remain awake for long days at a time before tiring out.
* Quinn and Karna like to stay up and watch TV for hours on end, sometimes, seeing how they both really need to sleep.

#### **Superhuman Endurance**

* He has supreme physical endurance; capable of surviving the most severe snowstorms but eventually wear down his endurance.
	+ Quinn cannot stand extreme cold and will faint if exposed for too long.
* Quinn has proven himself to be a very durable fighter, as he took a Bankai-enhanced Getsuga Tenshō from Light and only sustained a scuff on his chest. Later, despite having only one arm, he was able to take 2 direct hits from Light in his Hollow-enhanced state and emerged with only minor injuries and continued fighting.

#### **Semi-Invulnerability**

* Like all of his kind, he is immune to most physical harm; capable of surviving a massively powerful explosion without taking much damage; as such he has bulletproof skin.
* Quinn is also naturally immune to high levels of radiation.

#### **Language Assimilation**

* As a Taragonean, Quinn can replicate all the acquired spoken knowledge of languages from other life-forms via lip contact; a process known as "the transfer of knowledge". To which, he gains as much fluency in the dialect and idioms as the target, but he still retains his natural accent grammar. Her current known languages are Tamaranean (native), English, Japanese, Spanish, and French.

#### **Weakness**

* ​​​​​Quinn, like many Targonneans, is allergic to metallic chromium. It gives him flu-like symptoms, and when he sneezes, he unleashes explosive star bolts out of her nose and mouth. Also, his powers are largely affected by how he feels, as Kida learns; if he is feeling down or confused, his abilities become severely diminished.
* Like all Targoneans, he is not immune to his own energy blasts. Using his self-sustenance and resistance to extreme temperatures takes a lot of energy so he can't survive forever in space. He also does need to breathe through his self-sustenance can delay that for a while.
* Because he is so naive, it is easy for several people to take advantage of or betray Quinn, as seen before, where is lured into a trap and almost eaten by a hungry alien. Although few have exploited it, Quinn's relationship with Kida can be counted sometimes as a weakness. As Kida was kidnapped by the Vatican, Quinn flew into an angry rage.
* Like all Targonneans, Quinn's powers are controlled by emotion. If he has certain feelings, he can't use his powers. For example, when he was mad at Sasori for offending him, he was unable to fly temporarily. Also, as Karna, he was unable to use star bolts or fly for a while because he couldn't feel the joy or anger needed to use them
* It is also shown when Valentine tried to capture him, that despite being able to survive in the cold vacuum of space, Quinn is vulnerable to snowy climates and will succumb to their bitter temperatures over time.

### *Star Dust (星屑,  Hoshikuzu)*

* Star Dust is the vessel equipped and gifted to him by Okita after he formed a vow with Kida.
* Since Quinn is unable to use Reiatsu, Star Dust is a pair of black gloves that enhance his ability to use his Starlight abilities.
* The only ability Quinn is able to use with Star Dust is disappearing and teleporting short distances for a short period of time. He mostly uses it to get away from getting hit by Robin or Senri.

### *Chrysí Skóni (金色埃, Golden Dust)*

* Quinn's Aria granted to him from his vow with Kida and Okita, it's Light Magic.
* Unlike most of the Knight where they can only use their Aria in one way, Quinn is allowed to use his in various ways.
	+ The downside though, even though one of the strongest Knights Aria wise, Quinn has the lowest amount of Reiatsu compared to everyone else. Thus, he must use it carefully.
* Like Leo, Quinn uses his Light Magic to be able to move faster than the normal eye can follow, though, this is Quinn manipulating one's ability to see Light correctly which makes it look like he's teleportation.
* As well as manipulating the structures of Light, Quinn is able to make multiple versions of himself to use as his clones.
* Because of the abilities, Light Magic possesses, Quinn has the ability to use shields of light to protect himself, as well as healing others inside a protective shield.

### Himmlische Blumen Sonne  (*天の草花寸', Heavenly Flower Sun)*

* Quinn's signature ability he can only use for a short amount of time because he takes too much Reiatsu, so he only uses it in extreme measures.
	+ Since Quinn posses little to no Reiatsu, he must borrow it from someone nearby in order to use it by a mere touch.
* Upon activating Heavenly Flower Sun, a pillar of Reiatsu shoots into the air before fading. Its appearance is that of a gold armor missile launcher base that encases Quinn's right arm and comes all the way above his shoulder to form a face shield that he uses to cover the right side of his face.
* Heavenly Flower Sun is made up of a large pointed gold cylinder with black markings, twice the size of Quinn himself. Before he activated, Quinn uses his Aria to wrapped a heavy light sash around the whatever can hold him down, in preparation for the attack's massive recoil and the resulting powerful explosion.
* Being a ranged weapon of the artillery sort, Heavenly Flower Sun has the ability to launch the missile attached to its base. To do so, Quinn must first raise and aim the huge missile, using the slits present in his face guard to be able to see while doing so. Once targeted, small fins extend from numerous points along with the missile, before it is fired. It then tracks its target for a precision strike. After a successful hit, the missile creates a powerful and massive explosion. Strong enough to crack Robin's Luckiest Lady, something Ikuto notes to be impressive and manages to harm Zero when he's fused with Katla when they go berserk.

## Trivia

* Starlight is Quinn's real name on Targon.
* Of all the main characters, Quinn's personality has probably undergone the most dramatic change from his original incarnation. He is much more arrogant, aggressive, and hot-tempered, a sharp contrast from his naive and modest portrayal later on.
* Quinn can survive in the endless vacuum of outer space without the need of a spacesuit, as he can breathe and move normally in space.
* He is 156 years old in Tamaran years.
* He and Karna is the most gullible out of the Rose Knights since their knowledge is very limited.
* Although he was freed from the clutches of the Jordanians and the Citadel, his memories of his imprisonment still haunt him: upon seeing The Creature from Jones Lake, he screams in terror—possibly due to its resemblance to a Citadelian.
* Quinn's powers, like Karna's, are fueled by his emotions. As such, his power is determined by his emotional state. But the difference is that freely expresses himself to gain the power, while Karna needs to keep her emotions in check without completely suppressing them.
* Quinn is allergic to metallic chromium, (allergies to chromium are very common in Tamaran). It could be possible that Lars is allergic to it as well.
	+ His main weakness is cold temptress.
* Quinn loves to help people out, no matter the problem.
	+ Because of his gentle kindness, often gets taken advantage of by Eden, Robin, and Senri.
	+ Robin once convinced him to rob a bank, to which Quinn succeded. Robin told him they were harboring all the lettuce and they needed it for dinner.
		- Ikuto made him return it soon after and left Robin in a jail cell for a night,
* Quinn stated he has 9 stomachs, which may explain why he eats so much.
	+ Both he and Eden are the biggest eaters in the house, along with Henry.
	+ Thus they all work partime jobs in order to help around the house.
* There have been times where Quinn uses his lack of understanding of Earth's customs and strange habits to his advantage. For example, when Quinn was hiding Silkie, Sasori and Oz came to call him, Sasori saw that one of Quinn's curtains was torn. When Sasori asked about it, Quinn lied and said it was his people's festival of berating drapery and proceeded to destroy the rest of his curtains. Quinn was looking for Silkie and ran into Kida, who asked him if he had seen the sofa, which had been eaten by Silkie. Fortunately for Quinn, he was able to act like he didn't know what a sofa was and left.
* He created a poem of gratitude that consists of 6000 verses.
* He can't eat spicy foods, or he’ll easily start crying.
* He’s one of the easier targets amongst the Roses because of his “amusing” reactions.
	+ The other Roses knows when to back off when he starts to swear with a smile.
* According to Quinn, Targon's folk song consists mostly of screaming, which annoys Senri and Alucard to no end.