Aether

**Aether** was originally a member of Arthia prior to its destruction before betraying and leaving the Clan to get back into the original Clan of his family, Elohim. However due to still being degraded and underappreciated in Elohim, he has secretly betrayed them to the Devil Army and is currently undermining Elohim's efforts.

## Physical Appearance

As a member of the Protogenoi Species, Aether was described as being a handsome young man with long red silky hair, pure white, pupiless eyes and pure, unblemished skin. As observed, he greatly physically resembled his twin sister Hemera.

Aether's Devil Army Symbol
## Personality

Aether was shown to be a highly ambitious and driven person due to his upbringing of being constantly harassed, belittled, bullied and insulted by the rest of Elohim due to his bloodline and the actions done by his father. Rendering Aether to become determined to prove his worth and difference from him by showing his skill, talent and power as a ranker and felt immense frustration and bitterness on how he was continuously judged by others due to his family history despite giving his all to prove his worth.

Due to these circumstances and coupled with the typical mindset of those born to Elohim, Aether was shown to have become driven to the point that he had no problems betraying whoever he needed to in order to get ahead. Having been shown to have betrayed Cha Jeong-woo during Arthia's downfall in order to get back into Elohim despite his close friendship with him and his own hesitance of abandoning his friend and had no problem betraying them in turn when he was still discriminated against in Elohim to the Devil Army in order to acquire more power. This bitterness and obsession with power and prestige has even caused him to secretly harbor hate for his own twin sister,Hemera due to her not being facing the same issues despite being siblings and her own progress in climbing up the ranks within Elohim faster than him and her not facing the same amount of criticism or contempt from the their clan mates.

Due to his relationship with Hemera, Aether was noted to have developed a level of contempt for arrogant, pridful and narcisstic women such as the Summer Queen, Hemera and Paneth in general.

Aether's sense of ambition is fully seen where he stated that he had hoped to use both the Devil Army and Elohim to acquire status and power. With him having been hopeful to increase his strength and standing in both clans in the hopes of acquiring the power of the Heavenly Emperor from the Devil Army as his own and gain the immense Holy Powers of Elohim to be considered a position among the Consul.

However despite this highly duplicitous personality, Aether has shown some positive traits to him. With him having been shown to have genuinely cared for Jeong-woo as his close friend and felt immense guilt for having abandoned him only to be treated like dirt by Elohim. Showing that he does indeed somewhat regret his decertation of Arthia, however Aether also revealed that this was mainly due to him feeling dejected by his own current pathetic standing within both the Devil Army and Elohim and him rethinking his choices based solely on its past and current merits. However despite this guilt, Aether has shown to primarily convince himself that his choice was correct by rationalizing that he would have likely been killed alongside Jeong-woo if he did stay by his side. As observed by Jeong-woo himself, this mentality of always weighting things depending on their personal merit and benefits for himself instead of actually caring about others, even those he considered to be his genuine friends, was always one of Aether's more prevailing traits. This is seen where Aether only begun feeling guilty for his betrayal of Jeong-woo and Arthia only after things began becoming terrible for him while in Elohim and the Devil Army.

This is all seen and proven true due to Aether himself showing little to no hesitation of latching on to whoever he could in order to advance himself. With his betrayal and dissertation of Arthia for Elohim, then betraying Elohim for the Devil Army, then betraying the Devil Army for Elohim when he was found out by Paneth and then attempting to beg Cha Jeong-woo to help him when he was in his last rope.

## History

### Background

Arther and his younger twin sister,Hemera was born to an exiled family of Protogenoi that was kicked out from Elohim due to Aether's father attempted to usurp control of the clan for himself as its sole ruler.

Although the exact circumstances were unknown, Aether was stated to have been thrown out and left to fend for himself in the streets, where he was forced to pick from trash or steal in order to have something to eat and survive other harsh circumstances in order to live. These experiences installed in him a bitter drive to rise in power and return to Elohim in triumph and prove those who insulted him and judged him solely on his father's actions wrong.

Although unknown why, its been implied by Aether that his twin sister Hemera did not experience the same hardships Aether went through and she was able to remain in Elohim in comfort.

### Arthia

Although unknown how or when, Aether eventually came into contact with and joined Arthia and developed a friendship with the clan's leader, Cha Jeong-woo. Aether In particular made a point of being particularly difficult to deal with due him feeling spiteful and angry for his situation of being continuously judged, held in contempt and facing prejudice due to his blood relationship with his father and joined Arthia to prove himself different from him and show his worth, causing some friction with his teammates. However, despite this, Aether still non the less developed a friendship with Cha Jeong-woo.

However despite Jeong-woo's generosity and assistance in advancing his power and development as they climbed the Floors and Jeong-woo giving him his and the clan's hidden pieces to help in his evolution , Aether had no hesitation to betray and abandon the clan when he was offered a place back into Elohim after they offered to pardon him of his father's crimes and be welcomed back to the clan as a Senator by betraying Arthia. Eager to return to Elohim, Aether accepted.

### Elohim/Devil Army

After getting back into Elohim for his "contribution" of assisting in Arthia's destruction, Aether was stated to have not received the warm welcome he expected. With many of his clanmates having stated to still see and view him in the same contempt he received previously if not more so due to him having betrayed Arthia so easily and without hesitation.

Eventually Aether contempt and anger for his clan and their treatment of him eventually lead him to seek out and join up with Elohim's rival clan of the Devil Army and willingly betray them to acquire more power for himself and establish himself as superior to his clan mates by acquiring both Holy and Demonic Energy. Aether in particular being placed under the direct subordination to the Army's second Bishop Kindred.

Aether in turn would begin leaking information to the Devil Army on Elohim's operations and covertly assisting them however he can in secret while sabotaging Elohim's own operation.

Later Aether would face numerous failures in both Elohim and the Devil Army and putting himself in a highly precarious position where he was barely able to maintain his positions in both clans. Eventually his activities would be found out by Paneth and he would be permanently forced to side with Elohim and assist her.

### Tartarus

He would then be brought along with Panth's party to the hidden stage of Tartarus, where he assisted her in the quest given to her by Poseidon, Hera, Demeter and Hestia to assassinate the "Hoarder". He and his party would then join Hades's forces of Dis Pluto and help in the war effort to fight off the Titans and Giants who were attempted to escape Tartarus.

Aether in particular would help Paneth in successfully assassinating Magera.

Later upon Paneth making her move to assassinate Cain while in their operation to retake Hades's divine territory, Aether would fight against Jeong-woo's visage. Where after being defeated and reduced to a bloody mess, Aether would attempt to beg his way back to Jeong-woo's good graces due to things not working out as he thought after betraying Arthia, Elohim and the Devil Army and begged for a second chance from his "friend". Jeong-woo, disgusted by this shameless display and stating that he was truly stupid to ever consider someone like him to be his "friend", chopped his head off.

After his death, his soul was collected by Yeon-woo. It was noted by him that Aether's soul was badly traumatized by his death and has completely forgotten his identity in life as it made pathetic noises within Yeon-woo's soul collection.

## Abilities & Skills

As a Protogenoi and a former member of Arthia, Aether is a incredibly powerful Ranker and was shown to primarily have a strong natural affinity for the Holy Element due to his race. Aether in particular was given the Glands of Gods and Demons by Cha Jeong-woo during his time in Arthia that allowed him to boost his innate holy power immensely.

### Holy Power

As a member of the Protogenoi Race who were once divine Gods, Aether has a natural affinity for the Holy Element and was naturally born with a strong physical constitution for it and has possessed Holy Energy within him since birth.

Due to this Aether has a natural affinity for creating, developing and acquiring powerful Holy Elemental Skills. As seen during his fight against Galliard, Aether could manipulate and mold his Holy Power into weapons to fight, with him having been shown to create arrows of light to fire at his intended target.

### Skills

* **Punishment of Light:** Aether can shape his holy power into several arrows of light in order to rain down a blitz of light arrows at his target. Aether could also make these arrows explode at will. This skill being noted to being Aether's signature skill.
	+ **Brilliant Divine Punishment:**Aether showcased the ability to create various swords, spears, axes and daggers of light, possibly as a much stronger version of his initial skill **Punishment of Light**.

* **White Light:** A Powerful Holy Type Skill that is hereditary to Aether's family, having first belonged to his father before it was passed on to his sister Hemera before Aether stole it from her. The Skill itself allows its user to create a large area of effect that disintegrates users targets within the radius of its user with its holy type element making it highly effective against Demons, Undead and other darkness aligned beings/monsters.

### Demonic Energy

Due to his allegiance to the Devil Army Aether has also begun to primarily utilize Demonic Energy and Techniques as part of his arsenal due to him now being trained and taken in by the Devil Army, who primarily use this energy as their main offense.

### Arts

* **72 Bian:**Like many members of of the Devil Army, Aether has also been given usage of the *72 Bian* Arts of the Monkey King and granted access to its techniques, with him having been shown to have become skilled in its use to be deemed worthy enough to be given the position as the 9th Bishop of the Army.

### Items

* **Piece of Ryu-Bang (1x):** After joining and later being accepted as the 9th Bishop of the Devil Army, Aether was given one of the many fragments of Ryu-Bang, one of many shards of the Monkey King's weapon created from divine iron.

## Trivia

* *Aether* is the Greek God of the Upper Atmosphere and Light.

1. ↑ Chapter 375 - Cha Jeong-woo cut his head off.