Series From: Deus Machina Demonbane
Name: Daijuji Kuzaku
Gender/Sex: Male
Species: Human/Grimoire Hybrid
Personality: A self-proclaimed "knight in shining armor," Kuzaku envisions himself as a hero of justice and a protector of the innocent, and lots of other, similar-sounding descriptions. He has a rather juvenile and underdeveloped moral code, but he clings to it with stubborn determination none the less. Quite sure of his status a powerful sorcerer and warrior, he tends to get disproportionately angry when it is suggested that he is less powerful than his predecessors. Despite his immaturity, Kuzaku does genuinely wish to help people, and make the multiverse a safer and happier place. He pushes himself hard to become stronger to better achieve his lofty goals, and his stubbornness is simply a sheen over his steely willpower.
Powers/Abilities: Kuzaku is a strange and admittedly sort of disturbing hybrid: half human, and half grimoire. Son of the world's most powerful sorcerer, Daijuji Kurou, and the most powerful grimoire, Al Azif, Kuzaku is a fusion of the two that is both at once. As a grimoire has spells written in letters on its pages, Kuzaku has spells written in his DNA. As such, he functions with all of the power of a sorcerer without the need to wield a grimoire.
As a living "copy" of Al Azif, Kuzaku is less powerful as a grimoire than his mother, but still quite powerful all the same. He possesses superhuman strength and speed of a realized sorcerer without the need for any sort of transformation, but he lacks the additional benefits of his father's Magius Style form. Among the many spells within his body are the abilities to summon the twin spell canons, Cthugha and Ithaqua, harness the powers of Atlach-Nacha, cast illusions using the Mirror of Nitocris, shield himself with the Elder Sign, conjure the sorcerous Scimitar of Barzai, and manifest the dual sabres, Lloigor and Zhar. In addition, he is skilled in the art of blood sorcery, which can be applied to such ends as healing and rejuvenation, raising the dead, or manifesting one's nightmares. One spell written within him continues to elude him: the Shining Trapezohedron. Despite his inability to summon this ultimate artifact, he continues to work at it, practicing to channel its unspeakable power.
Finally, he is the master of the Deus Machina Demonbane Two Sword, the successor to the almighty god of artifice piloted by his parents. As sorcerer and grimoire both, he can both power and pilot his Deus Machina, a benefit bestowed by his unique lineage. When piloting the tremendous war machine, Kuzaku can cast the same spells that he could on foot, only amplified to a colossal scale by the Deus Machina's Cor Leonis drive. He can also manifest the mecha's unique abilities, the Lemuria Impact, the spell drives Timaeus and Critias, and the Shantak Wing flight system.
Weapon(s): Kuzaku's signature weapons are the twin stiletto blades, Lloigor and Zhar. Sorcerous blades of solid Azoth, the they can transform at Kuzaku's will to nearly any shape or size, or can combine to form a huge glaive. As magical weapons, they are practically unbreakable and are sharp enough to break through relativistic bonds. The other pair of weapons Kuzaku is best known for are the spell cannons Cthugha and Ithaqua. Cthugha most often takes the form of a heavy, dark machine pistol, and Ithaqua usually resembles an elegant semi-automatic revolver. Cthugha fires explosive rounds forged from magical starfire, whereas Ithaqua's bullets home in on the weak points of enemies with the ferocity of the northern wind. As spell cannons, they draw their ammunition from Kuzaku's magical prowess, and never need to be reloaded or maintained. Kuzaku can summon several other magical weapons, such as the flaming Scimitar of Barzai, but his dual-wielding style most often demands his two swords or two guns.
A far more formidible weapon is the Deus Machina Demonbane Two-Sword. The successor of the original Demonbnane, his mecha stands fifty meters tall, is forged of adamantium, and is powered by a "Cor Leonis" Azoth/Phlogiston Grimoir drive. The vast majority of Demonbane Two-Swords' armaments are derived from Kuzaku's magical abilities, which are projected to Demonbane's scale. However, its unique abilities include its SHANTAK WING flight system, the timespace-manipulating spell engines Timaeus and Critias, and its special attack, the Lemuria Impact.
