Arthur Skazuur

Artie

## Background

**Arthur "Artie" Skazuur** is the former king of the Hollow Realm. He was formerly known as King Xaikor Uuran, a very powerful and exalted king before he was assassinated by a rogue Hollow mercenary. The sudden drop of the monarchy with no heir left a power vacuum within the Hollow Realm, and Xaikor was reanimated Arthur Skazuur with a forbidden flow technique with the hope of restoring him to his rightful reign. However, Arthur was reborn without the memories of his previous life and ages at a slightly slower rate. Because of this, he was abandoned and left to die in the white, sandy deserts of the Hollow Realm. For a few years, Arthur roamed the Septisegyai and was soon stumbled upon Kirene Yukira and Gerron Magnes in the Elder Realm. The two assassins allowed him into their group and created a small makeshift family, vowing to protect him.

## Personality

Arthur, even in his previous life, was born mute and only communicates in sign language. However, his personality now greatly differs from his first life as Xaikor. Arthur now is a very timid and cautious bear. He is often times simply watching and listening, very rarely "speaking" unless spoken to. He is also very easily flustered and even signs quite nervously.

As he relearns everything about life and the world around him, he has taken a great liking to Kirene and Gerron as his new family. He also exhibits a slight fear of loneliness, as he often will tag along with the two assassins, regardless if he's actually able to contribute in any way or not. Though it is unbeknownst to him, Arthur has retained his immense power and abilities from his previous life as well.

## Appearance

Arthur is a green bear with a very large and somewhat disproportionate appearing build with a very bulky and strong upper body and rather narrow lower body shape. Standing at an enormous 10'3", Arthur has a very muscular barrel chest with a rather strong mid-section as well. He has very broad shoulders with shapely biceps and forearms. He also has very short spiky hair along with a gap between his two front teeth. He also has a single, hairless brow across his forehead and light red around the outside edges of his gold colored eyes.

Arthur wears a plain white shirt with a black short-sleeved short jacket that ends just below his chest. He also wears silver chain-link suspenders with black pants and a deep brown belt. Additionally, he wears black fingerless gloves that have a red band around the wrist end of them.

## Abilities

### Flow Type

Arthur still possesses the large collection of abilities he learned before and during his reign as king of the Hollow Realm, though he has yet to realize this. Despite this, he has learned that he still retained his natural psychic flow type, granting him abilities that allow him to access the mind of those around him. One of the abilities like this is an unnamed technique, when one is near him, he is able to read their inner most thoughts and emotions, as well as the reasoning behind those emotions. In addition to this, Arthur also has a mastery of variety of cosmic flow techniques as well.

The undead king is not extremely skilled in hand-to-hand combat, however. In close combat, he can primarily use his height and weight as a weapon to overpower or overwhelm his enemy. His fighting style is very unrefined and has more of a kick-boxing feel to it. While he doesn't possess any physical flow type abilities, Arthur is capable of using his psychic and cosmic flow abilities to amplify his close quarter fighting.

### Intelligence

Opposed his appearance and timid demeanor, Arthur is quite an intelligent bear. He isn't talkative or expressive with his knowledge but certainly enjoys learning and exploring the unknown. This is attributed by his reanimation, as he had to relearn just about everything with his re-entry into life, after retaining almost no memories of his previous life. Nonetheless, Arthur is happy with his new life, perhaps it's better that he has no recollection of his past life.

## Trivia

* Arthur was created very late in By the Blade's development and took a while to finalize
	+ His name took the longest to develop, as well as why he's an undead bear.

## Quotes

* (To Gerron) "I'm happy here. You all make me happy. With you guys, I'm home."
* (To Kirene) "You're weird... but funny. I like you."