Asura (Asura's Wrath)

**Asura** appeared in the 2012 videogame called *Asura's Wrath*. Asura (アスラ, *Asura*) is the main protagonist and titular character of the action beat 'em up game *Asura's Wrath*. He is a Demigod and the husband of Durga, father of Mithra, and brother-in-law of Yasha. His Mantra Affinity is **Wrath**. He was formerly one of the Eight Guardian Generals and former Guardian General of Wrath, who served the Army of Shinkoku and the Emperor to fight against the Gohma.

He was framed and betrayed by his seven comrades, who kidnapped his daughter, murdered his wife, and killed and banished him to Earth. But even in death, he was filled with an indelible rage that led him back to the world of the living, to get his revenge and save his daughter.

Asura is a humanoid demigod in appearance, aside from the markings on his body as well as his eyes and arms. Asura normally has spiky hair that is white in color, and his skin is of tanned complexion. He is also heavily built and muscular. Asura's eyes are white and emit a white glow that sometimes is red, and although he has somewhat faint irises, he does not have pupils. During his time as one of the Eight Guardian Generals however, he had red eyes and pupils, which returned just prior to his death. His age of appearance is stated to be 28. Asura wears a torn black hakama trousers with a red flame pattern and a torn golden waist sash hanging. He also wears golden ceremonial greaves with one leg of his trousers tucked into the greave of his right leg and the other leg covering his left leg.

As a member of the Eight Guardian Generals, Asura wore a white and red flame patterned hakama neatly tucked into his golden ceremonial greaves and epaulets on his shoulders. He also wore a white sash.

During his time in training with Augus he wore a brown gi, black hakama, fingerless gloves and wraps on his ankles.

In the epilogue, Asura looks more human and wears a green muscle shirt and pants.

Asura is a hot-tempered, stubborn, and reckless demigod by nature and is known for charging head on at the enemy without a second thought. A powerful combatant and warrior, Asura displays both a strong will and an absence of fear in less-than-positive situations and will fight his adversaries relentlessly until he is victorious. Due to his stubborn nature, Asura rarely accepts the aid of others and prefers to remain self-reliant, preferring to get out of messes on his own. Asura is also shown to be quite ruthless, since he had no qualms about killing former demigod allies and slaughtering countless members of his own former forces in his crusade to rescue his daughter.

Asura's most defining psychological trait is his extreme, unbridled wrath and anger, which is mostly linked to his Mantra of Wrath. Due to this, he is also shown to have immense anger management issues. Throughout the story Asura showcased a godly portrayal of wrath, as if he was wrath incarnate. It is further suggested that Asura is the God of Wrath.

However, despite his negative faults, Asura is a good-hearted warrior with a strong moral code and gets angered when he sees an act that goes against his morals. Asura values the lives of the innocent (be they mortal or demigod) and does not believe in sacrificing the innocent for ANY reason (good or evil) as he greatly disapproves of the Gohma's attacks on Gaea, Deus' plan for the world and the Seven Deities' method of collecting Mantra by slaughtering humans. Asura even stated that, "there is no need for gods that only take", and was horrified and angered to discover how many human lives his ex-partners had taken in order to get more Mantra to fight the Gohma. Asura was often shown to hate those who value themselves over others, as he is against Augus' philosophy about fighting and one's own pleasure being all that matters in life. Asura is capable of developing strong bonds and perceiving others as friends, despite his wrath. This is proven by his friendship with the mortal girl who accompanies him after his second return from Naraka and by his companionship with Yasha and Augus. Even when subjected to the mindless rage of his **Wrath form**, Asura possessed enough control over himself to avoid attacking innocent mortals and civilian demigods, instead focusing his rage on the Gohma and the Shinkoku military.

Asura is also a caring family man whether it is outside or within the battlefield. In Episode 7: A Father's Duty, Yasha states that perhaps Asura keeps his rage active to protect his family from the ongoing Gohma attacks. Finally, Asura cares deeply for his wife and daughter; Durga and Mithra. He shares a very close bond with his daughter Mithra. Such a bond is so great that upon learning that the Deities had made her suffer after they orchestrated his downfall, Asura killed everyone standing in his way, including the very armies that once revered him. Asura is shown to be in intense pain when he hears his daughter crying. His only real weakness is seeing his daughter cry and wants nothing more than to see her happy and smiling. However despite his parental love, Asura also showed great discomfort, anxiety and shyness around his family due to lacking more amicable social graces and parenting skills. He sadly recounted that the only thing he knows how to do is "punch anything that makes Mithra cry".

He also bears an uncannily strong sense of morality beyond simply helping the innocent and punishing the wicked. So much so that he was not one who flexed his divinity in order to garner worship and power for himself like his fellow deities, in point of fact, this facet of his godhood irritated him to no end. So much so that he was visibly repulsed at the mortals he saved from a Gohma attack for bowing down and worshipping him, showcasing a much more humble and down to earth persona than other gods who haughtily used their holy status as a means of getting their way and slaughtering mortals for more power. Asura simply viewed himself as an individual who was above any sense of self-debasing praise, seeing as his only real motivation was wanting his family to be happy, healthy and safe. Not becoming an all-powerful cosmological entity with a severe god complex like Deus, the other Seven Deities and Chakravartin, whom were all entitled to having everything go their way due to their sense of supremacy.

Individuals like these, beings who with absolute power yet bare extraordinary laziness and domineering character, constantly forcing others to do what they cannot do for themselves particularly peak his anger. It is for this reason he never prays to any higher power but at the same time, refuses to ever be worshiped nor prayed to by others. It is this ideology that makes him resent his status as a Demigod/God, so much so he visibly expressed his ire when the dark fighter Akuma addressed him as such. Showcasing an intensely misotheistic side to his persona, specifically, around the time he fought the Seven Deities. Like with Wyzen who constantly boasted about how Asura should kneel before him if he wanted anything, growing madder and madder at his blustering. Again with Kalrow when he non-nonchalantly slaughtered innocent villagers by getting them to sacrifice themselves for him, or Olga when she cruelly massacred countless innocent mortals calling her "a god who only takes", culminating in her pushing him over the edge of maddening fury. And finally with Deus and Chakravartin, whose lust for power, scheming and domination proved every reason as to why Asura hated his former comrades and status as a deity.