Kaleb Powers

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> Whether I'm being selfish or selfless, it doesn't matter, they're two sides of the same coin
>
> **Kaleb** to Maggie in In the Dark

## Kaleb

### Alias

The Guilty Rabbit
No. 109
The Wolf of Hamsley

## Physical features

### Species

Human Reacher
God (as *Helios*)

### Age

18 (By the start of Part II)19 (By the start of part IV)

## Character Information

### Affiliations

Guardians of Balsa
Keyholder
Helios

### Relatives

Aisha Wynd (*Biological Mother*) †
Demetrius Wynd (*Biological Father*) †
Elisha Wynd (*Brother*) †
Aidyn Powers (*adoptive younger brother*) †
Robin Powers (*adoptive older brother*) †
Marsha Powers (*adoptive mother*)
Martin Powers (*adoptive father*)

### City Ward

Cadacia, Warren (prior to 1st Arc)
Kumo Town (Base of Operations, Part I)
Wolvesley (Imprisoned, escaped at the turn of *Part III*)

## Abilities and Miscellaneous

### Unique Forms

Keyholder form
Helios

### Threat Level

B+ (As a *human*)
A- (*Part I-II*)
S (*Part III*)
SS+ (*Part IV*)
God (*Helios*)

## Appearances

### Manga Debut

Chapter 1

**Kaleb Powers** is the protagonist of the *Reach(Manga)* series. He is the final member of the *Guardian Corps* and the holder of the collective souls of Bethany Bell and White as the God, **Helios**. Kaleb started out as a regular student, with wealthy and aristocratic parents, who was meant to school at the **University of Ayront** along with his childhood best friends, Maggie and Mack Bell, but his plane crashed while passing through the Balsan Borders. After discovering his connection to the Reach and his Reacher ability, Kaleb joins the Guardians.

## Appearance

As a child, Kaleb had all the same facial characteristics as his adolescent self, prior to the plane crash. He has dark and thick auburn hair and had both eyes as cobalt blue. After the accident, He lost one eye and gained a large vertical-running scar on the right side of his face. His eye was, however, replaced by Dr.Livingstone once he was rescued by Dorian.

### Post-Timeskip (Part III - V)

Kaleb's hair is now longer than previously. His heterochromia is still present, and he appears to be the same height. However, his keyholder mark is now predominant on his chest, and he seems to be more muscular. His tentacles are larger and longer than before.

### Keyholder Form

Kaleb looks like he normally does, but the Keyholder mark is glowing and both eyes are the same color, cancelling out his heterochromia. There are three marks flowing down from his eyes, with a glowing blue color. His tentacles and his back have glowing blue veins growing on them, and his fingers and toes are also glowing.

## Personality

### Part I, II

Kaleb starts off the series as a choleric character, his social skills a direct influence from his best friends, Maggie and Mack. He is inquisitive, impulsive and challenging, and noted by Dorian to be *too loud*. While forcing himself to be open, friendly and likable, he ends up coming off as transparent and this is noticed by both Rhene and Urunes, who on two separate occasions, call him a hypocrite. Despite the obvious signs that his likable facade was becoming thinner every day, Kaleb presses on and eventually he is mentally fractured after his defeat at the hands of Myrion.

While his defeat does bring about a change in his persona, it isn't entirely changed, as he was rescued by Efi and Silas. His bad jokes, coupled with his even poorer timing is still very evident in his day-to-day dealings, and it comes off as his arrogance, even though characters like Rhene and Kassyndor can still tell very easily, cementing the fact that he is a truly transparent individual and it is difficult for him to hide his true feelings. This does change, however, when he is defeated a second time, this time by both Myrion and Sasa Wimmer.

Despite his errors in all these situations, Kaleb's personality remains a vulnerable and fragile thing, cracking at the slightest hint of probing.

### Part III, IV

After his breakout from the Wolvesley dungeons, Kaleb's personality has notably matured. However, his transparency remains in that his true feelings are still very easy to decipher, although not nearly as easy as before. He is now able to see things he otherwise would have ignored before. He is much more challenging and upfront in his dealings, and his countenance inspires fear and or respect.

## Psychological Issues

Kaleb's mental state has mostly been shaped by his childhood experiences. While he tries his hardest to act nice and funny and the very friendly person he was taught to be, Kaleb is still severely mentally ill and suffers from PTSD and Anxiety due to the loss of his older and younger brothers, Robin and Aidyn. Through the influence of Mack and Maggie, Kaleb came to the delusional belief that his siblings' deaths were not his fault, when in fact they were, and he is forced to see the hard truth through Sasa's Illusions.

Following his defeat at the hands of Myrion and Sasa, he was subjected to weeks of torture in Queen Yrana's dungeons and underwent an entirely different change of personality. After his escape from Hamsley, his forced smiles and bad jokes disappeared completely, and he stopped talking for weeks, seeming more docile than someone who was alive, and this personality creeped out even Kassyndor. He eventually returned to normal after the death of Efi Oladeli, who sacrificed himself for him at the lava pools of Kumo Town.

Kaleb's internal battles with himself only continued further during his arrest on Pangea, where, in his mind, he is confronted by his two brothers and is questioned on why he would endanger the life of another innocent child in Bethany. Kaleb is forced to work out his issues with his 'brothers' and makes a truce to only allow them to torment him after his escape and rescue of Bethany. Unfortunately, that would not be the case, as he arrived hours after Bethany and White's defeat to Silas, and both were close to death. Taken to his limit mentally, Kaleb chooses to take their lives into his hands and take responsibility for their deaths, leading him to merge their souls with his and form the planar deity Helios.

## Relationships

### Family

#### The Wynd Family

The Wynd family are Kaleb's birth family. His parents were Aisha and Demetrius Wynd. His brother was Elisha Wynd, his favorite person in the world. They all met a terrible fate as they were all burnt to a cinder by an unknown enemy that was using superhuman abilities.

#### The Powers Family

Kaleb's Adoptive family, an aristocratic family of four who adopted Kaleb as a way to boost their public image. They sent him to school, dressed him up and branded him as a starlet in the eyes of the public, but maltreated him severely in private. The treatment would only get worse as Kaleb was directly involved in the death of his two adoptive brothers, Robin and Aidyn. His relationship with his adoptive parents was very poor.

### Friends

#### Non-Guardians

##### White

White first met Kaleb in the deserts of Harley during the events of the Coven arc. After proving to be someone worth fighting, White challenges him to get stronger and he would be his rival until he became an opponent of similar strength. An opponent he could term his friend. White, aside from Dorian and Mack, is one of Kaleb's closest friends, despite being official *rivals.*

#### Pangean Sirens

##### Jyr

Jyr is Kaleb's jailer during the arrival of the Balsans on Pangea in the later parts of the Disaster Complex arc. She is initially weary of his presence, as even though he is a keyholder, his aura would give an entirely different reading. She eventually comes to accept him, even falling for him, as he rescues Cyrene from the clutches of a goliath-class specter. Jyr would later express her feelings in the aftermath of the final arc, which Kaleb would turn down.

##### Cyrene

Cyrene, Jyr's younger sister is a friend of Bethany and a major bargaining chip during the arrival of the Balsans. She was rescued multiple times by Kaleb, and looks up to him as an elder brother, the same way Bethany perceives him.

## Powers and Abilities

### Natural Abilities

#### Pre-Timeskip

* **Keen Intellect:** Kaleb is naturally inquisitive and a curious person. His quest to know sometimes gets on the nerves of others, but his ability to use the collected information to its maximum is his strong point. While he's been showered with insults from Rhene about his fake personality, the vice-commander has praised his deductive ability as a top-notch act for looking into things and finding a cause. His analytical abilities are well-honed, and he is able to predict fighting patterns in his enemies and react accordingly.

* **Novice Martial Artist:** Kaleb had a little knowledge of Martial Arts before arriving on Balsa. While he has the knowledge, he is slow to actualize the processes and forms and can be easily taken down by anyone with slightly formal training.

* **Novice Reach Energy Manipulation:** Kaleb, while capable of using his Reacher Ability, is barely able to keep up with expert and even regular Reach manipulators like Urunes and Natti.

#### Post-Timeskip

* **Genius Intellect:** After spending over a year in Wolvesley, studying books provided to him by Sasa Wimmer, His spatial awareness, logical and analytical skills have all taken a huge leap up. He is able to outthink Yuto and can beat Dr. Livingstone in a chess match.
* **Expert Martial Artist:** Thanks to a consistent training regiment, Kaleb can fight blow-for-blow against some of the best martial artists, can easily defeat a martial arts champion in Windon, and can fight on par with White.
* **Expert Reach Energy Manipulation:** After getting some leeway from Quentino, he had access to the Bright Room, a top-secret area of Wolvesley reserved for only Reachers. As of his return to Guardian duties, he is able to create high-level energy blasts, enough to level a Goliath, impose his will through his energy aura, and create powerful energy barriers that are strong enough to cancel out Reacher abilities.

### Helix

Kaleb's Reacher ability allows him to create and manipulate large tentacles from his lower and sometimes upper back for various uses. His tentacles are usually reddish black. Helix also grants him the ability to transmute practically anything along with the ink produced from his tentacles.

## Trivia

* Kaleb is a light eater, probably thanks to the years of poor treatment in the Powers' household.
* His tentacles are quite heavy, somewhere close to 500lbs.

## Quotes

* (To Myrion, when asked of his name)*"I am no one. just a bystander watching the world turn. A cog in the ever-spinning wheel that is life."*
* (To Urunes) *"I don't need help. I'd rather help someone than to ask for help myself. Even if it means risking myself."*
* (To White) *"Selflessness is a sorry excuse for people who want to be heroes but are too weak to do so. I'm not selfless anymore. I want to be a hero everyone can be proud of. I want to save everyone."*

## References

1. ↑ *Chapter 1*
2. ↑ *Chapter 12*
3. ↑ *Chapter 21*
4. ↑ *Chapter 116*
5. ↑ *Chapter 136*
6. ↑ *Chapter 137*
7. ↑ *Chapter 108*
8. ↑ *Chapter 119*
9. ↑ *Chapter 105*