Leonas

Originally a highly ranked and extremely powerful archangel from Arcadia, he rebelled against their ways and escaped to the lower world. However, Arcadia's agents relentlessly pursued him, chasing him and wearing him down with battle after battle until eventually he realized that the next one would be his last, he was too exhausted and injured to continue. In a final, desperate gambit, he placed his soul and weapon into the body of a human child, hoping for a continuation of his legacy even as his body was destroyed.

. . . perhaps he could have thought that one through a little better. 

In the process of implanting his own soul he wiped the child's, leaving the body with no memories of its own and an entirely new appearance and personality, by all measures an orphan even though he really, really wasn't. The boy's parents, understandably, were were very upset by the change and refused to acknowledge him as their child, even though their new son was, objectively speaking, incomparably better than the old one. Any ordinary child would be devastated, however for Leo this was much less of a deal than it should be, especially since he didn't recognize them either. His parents, thankfully, were decent enough not to abandon him on the street or sell him for parts in the black market, instead tossing him off to a passing circus. (Not the greatest standard for decency, there.) This was all a great adventure for the amnesiac baby archangel, who took to circus life with great eagerness and enthusiasm.

PERSONALITY

• Happy, cheeky, playful
• Friendly, affectionate, willing-to-please
• Clingy, attached
• Curious, adventurous
• Calm, laid back, happy-go-lucky
• Fearless, outgoing, confident
• Intelligent, perceptive, genius
• Gluttonous, loves candy, hates spicy & bitter foods
• Diva, attention whore, knows he's cute and willing to use it!
• Bitchy, pouty, kinda whiny and gets sulky when upset

POWERS

• Shining Cutter - pierces using blades of light, passive atk/spd buff, further increases atk/spd in bright areas 
  • Sparkle Bomb - sends out fuzzy balls of light that can explode into cutting edges
  • Grater Ray - turns ambient light into cutting edges, AoE
  • Light Flicker - high speed movement almost like teleportation, able to leave a trail of cutting light, able to go through small holes and clear surfaces, only in bright areas
• Shadow Guard - defends using a dark fog, passive def/res buff, further increases def/res in dark/shadowed areas
  • Smoke Shield - manipulates darkness like clouds to shield himself from attacks
  • Dark Jelly - able solidify darkness to slow, trap or block opponents, density depends on the darkness of the area
  • Slip ‘n Slide - increases evasion, able to slip out of traps/holds and perfectly dodge attacks, only in dark areas
• Karmic Seesaw - limited probability manipulation, must be balanced
  • Lucky Star - temporarily increases luck for up to 6 hours, usable on himself or others, however the person using it must later suffer an equivalent amount of . . .
  • Bad Luck Magnet - causes a spate of bad luck of equivalent magnitude to the good, sets in at any point within 24 hours of using Lucky Star. Can also be used as a debuff, same conditions as Lucky Star
• Magic Perception - able to perceive the world around him through an extension of his magic aura, allows him to "see" perfectly clearly no matter the light condition and also gives him 360 degree sensory, requires more mana to expand the range and sensitivity
• Form Shift - able to switch between his human and winged forms, with the human form as default

EQUIPMENT

• Starlight Edge - a high level greatsword passed down to him, soulbound, stored in the marking on his chest, blade is able to freely expand up to 10x in length and/or width
  • Lifetaker - restores to the wielder half of damage dealt to opponent
  • Souleater - steals mana from opponent and stores it in the blade to power its spells or transfer to wielder, usable to absorb mana directly from magic attacks/items. As a result, basically immune to magic
  • Critical Impact - stores excess health/mana to increase the power of the next attack, able to build up/release across up to 3 attacks, short holding period only
  • Plasma Blast - shoots bolts or beams of electricity/plasma, also able to manipulate it to form a shield
• Armor - armor which he can summon on his body at will, must bring own pants

COMBAT STYLE

• A straightforward fighter . . . mostly. Adjusts his technique based on the ambient lighting
• Builds power across multiple attacks to release in a powerful blast

WEAKNESSES

• His abilities are dependent on the ambient light in an area, however he has very limited control over it and so his optimal strategies are out of his control and based on environmental factors
• His defenses are vulnerable mainly to sneak attacks in bright lighting
• Psionic and empathic attacks also work, but only while he's happy (bright). When he's upset (dark) he naturally resists them

NOTES

• Candy fiend! Frequently uses his cute face to beg candy from visitors
• A capable performer of many circus tricks, most notably juggling, balancing and acrobatics. However, due to his tendency to mysteriously disappear from time to time only to return to beg for food, he does not perform any of his own acts and is mostly put to work as an errand boy. He may also occasionally stand in for another performer should they be unable to perform for the day
• Does not know his own history, although he has managed to guess parts of it (not always accurately). Some remnant dread and self-preservation instinct dissuades him from looking to deeply into it, and also from publicly revealing his abilities
• His adult self has greater control over ambient light and shadow, and is also able to use his abilities more extensively and to greater magnitude. However, the basis of their abilities are the same
• Sees himself in his dreams; sometimes when the baby sleeps, the knight wakes up