Zephyr Highwind (Eden)

Zephyr Highwind

Eden

Samsara

Die 2

• Proteus Arc
• Black Swan Arc to Chaos Hunt Arc
• Seven Sins Arc to Void Games Arc
• Possessed by Etro

“	...She's too excited. And too shrill.	„
	~ Zephyr, about Vivian Rosario

“	You don't have to fight me anymore. I accept you, my inner dark half. Why don't you come back to where you belong, in my heart?	„
	~ Zephyr, to Darkheart

“

Look. I'm not saying I'm weak by any means. I mean, I'd put myself in the top 10 strongest people in creation, easy. There aren't a lot of people in the multiverse that could actually take me on and live. But I'm just a normal guy who got these powers. I don't have Michael's angel lineage, or Evan's natural magic, or Crystal's psychic prowess, or even Aaron's raw power. But I'll tell you something. If there's one thing I have above all seven other purveyors? It's that I'm goddamn resourceful. And I'm willing to do whatever it takes to be the strongest. And that's why, even if I'm the "weakest"... I'LL NEVER LOSE TO ANYONE!

„

“	Hey... I beat Deus, and I become the new god, right? Which means I don't have to feel bad about killing anyone here. Because I can bring everything back and fix it... my way.	„
	~ Zephyr, expressing his regret to Juliel for ending the World Tree

Summary

Zephyr is a main character in Champions of Chaos, in the the Eden era of Deus Ex Gyrus. His role has varied from protagonist to supporting role, but he is the original focus of the story, and ultimately the one to end it. He is the soul that was chosen by Etro to test Deus Ex's Apoptosis System, allowing the machine to simulate the end and rebirth of a Multiverse.

Born in what was once the United States, Zephyr traveled the world with his military father, never able to settle until he got sick of his life and ran off to live on the streets. Here, he met Alana Garcia, a fellow street urchin who fled her abusive home, and the two became fast friends. Unfortunately, the two were picked up off of the streets by the criminal organization Proteus, which aimed to create human-monster hybrids to act as supersoldiers in their coup against the United World Military.

Zephyr received the essence of a Kitsune within him, becoming one of the first Hybrids alongside Alana and a girl named Crystal Rosario. Together, the three and their fellow hybrids escaped captivity, but they would be quickly picked up by the UWM afterwards, inducted into their child assassin program, Black Swan, to cover up the actions of Proteus. This program, as well as the aggression caused by his essence infusion, caused Zephyr to turn aggressive and bloodlusted, enjoying combat and wanting to prove he was the strongest. This quest has taken him across the Multiverse, always trying to prove himself as the top dog even when facing beings like the planet-busting Michael Ellend and the herald of Azathoth, The Warden.

During the Void Games arc, Zephyr became aware of the threads of fate binding everyone around him together. This "Plot", the narrative forcing the people he cared about to act in such ridiculous ways in order to serve the whims of some higher being, had been the cause of so much grief and destruction, and more personally, so much dissatisfaction and failure on Zephyr's part. He became listless and depressed by this revelation, not recovering until his final battle with The Warden. Here, alongside a certain young angel, Zephyr defeated not only The Warden, but the entire World Tree itself, becoming the next Throne God.

From humble beginnings as a homeless, purposeless child, to the glorious position of a guardian of reality, and ultimately to the role of destroyer of everything, Zephyr's fractured mental state and tragic surroundings would ultimately lead to the destruction of Eden, and the birth of Yggdrasil later down the line.

Information

Name: Zephyr Highwind, Omega (Code Name), Anakis

Origin: Champions of Chaos

Gender: Male

Age: 13 at Series Beginning, In his 20s at Series End

Classification: Zoroark Hybrid, Former Human, Black Swan Operative, UWM Captain, Purveyor of Infinity, Sensory of Etro, Anakis, Apoptosis of Deus, God of Destruction

Themes:

• MkalieZ - Played when Zephyr finally overcame Michael by defeating his alternate-universe counterpart
• HERO - Played when Zephyr donned the Fatebuster armor against The Warden
• Footfalls - Played when Zephyr finally snapped, and allowed Etro to enter his body, as well as during his final battle with Adam and Deus.
• This is Your Story - Theme of Zephyr's Apotheosis, and the destruction of the World Tree

Powers and Stats

Tier: At least 8-B | 7-C, Higher with a Skell | At least High 7-C, possibly 7-A. High 6-A at his peak | 5-B | 4-A, Higher with Fatebuster, 3-C with Star Aether | 4-A, 3-C with Fatebuster, Higher with Star Aether | 3-B, will eventually become 2-A with Etro inhabiting his body | 2-A

Powers and Abilities:

• Proteus Arc
• Black Swan Arc
• Chaos Hunt Arc
• Seven Sins Arc
• Void Games Arc
• With Etro's Possession
• Throne God

• Powers
• Resistances

Superhuman Physical Characteristics (A Hybrid's physicality is superior to all humans on every level, including strength, speed, and durability, but even including things like resistance to disease, muscle fiber tensile strength, accuracy, and balance), Subjective Reality (All humans are capable of creating new universes and timelines through their imagination, fueling the expansion of the World Tree's fantastic branches), Immortality (Type 2, has survived wounds that should have killed him, such as impalement and wounds to the throat and neck), Acausality (Types 1 and 4. As the chosen one of Etro, Zephyr has been freed from fate, which thus prevented his past from being altered, even by his own attempts at time travel later down the line. Zephyr has stated himself that his fate isn't set in stone, allowing him to undo and even change the set fates of other beings, like The Warden, through his interactions with them), Accelerated Development (Zephyr has always been an extremely fast learner, demonstrated in every arc. Greater feats are detailed in his Intelligence section), Non-Physical Interaction (A user of magic is able to harm Wraiths, abstract embodiments of the World Tree that lack a body or soul), Enhanced Senses (As a Hybrid, his sight, hearing, and smell are vastly enhanced), Regeneration (Mid-Low, Can regenerate from serious stab wounds. He cannot, however, regrow appendages), Natural Weaponry (Zephyr has claws on his hands and feet which he regularly sharpens, as well as fangs which he has used more often than not), Martial Arts (Despite having a rather savage, feral style, Zephyr is a gifted martial artist who can take on trained, armored soldiers and disable entire squadrons in mere seconds), Acrobatics (Zephyr is superhumanly agile due to his Essence infusion, able to leap between buildings and walk on tightropes with ease, as well as scale walls almost as fast as he can run), Weapon Mastery (Of both swords and firearms. Zephyr has been trained extensively in the use of both, but prefers the up-close nature of Swords and their various types), Stealth Mastery (Able to sneak around and remain hidden from Alana, who has senses more keen than any animal on Earth), Supernatural Willpower (Zephyr's willpower is immense, able to shrug off even lethal wounds and fight while still on fire), Illusion Manipulation (Zephyr is able to create Illusions due to having the essence of a Kitsune inside him), Pseudo-Shapeshifting (Zephyr's natural illusion ability allows him to disguise his surroundings and change his own appearance, though this is only a glamour, and not genuine shapeshifting), Fire Manipulation (Zephyr can generate Fox-Fire, oddly-colored flames that range from black to white, and can be used for a variety of purposes), Statistics Amplification (By coating his claws, weapons, or bullets in black flame, Zephyr is able to increase his attack power to the point where he can cut through opponents and materials otherwise strong enough to completely negate his attacks without a scratch), Danmaku (By forming an orb of Fox-Fire and cutting through it, Zephyr can turn it into a rain of lethal projectiles), Light Manipulation (Zephyr's flames act as a light source, that are visible through his illusions and act as a way to guide or lure enemies)

Fate Manipulation (As a sensory of Etro, Zephyr's fate exists outside of the Threshold, preventing any attempts to alter his fate or force him to realize inevitable outcomes), Pain Manipulation (Zephyr has an immense pain tolerance, having walked off bullet wounds and continued to fight while actively on fire), Electricity Manipulation (Endured electrocution from Luke, and electric torture from Valeera), Fire Manipulation (Can withstand Jackie's flames, which can melt futuristic tanks. Has outright ignored being on fire), Sleep Manipulation (Managed to stay awake and fight despite being Tranquilized), Illusion Manipulation (Unaffected by his own illusions, and can see right through them just fine)

• Powers
• Optional Equipment
• Resistances

Same as before, plus Magic (Awakened the Alpha Gene in his body, allowing him to use magic), Air Manipulation (Zephyr's unique type of magic is Wind Magic, allowing him to manipulate the air in various, often highly creative ways), Self-Sustenance (Type 1) (Zephyr's body naturally generates air for him, allowing him to breathe and even talk in space without suffocating), Weapon Creation (Zephyr can generate cutting vacuum blades, or crescent-shaped blades of air, allowing him to slice through opponents from a range and increase the range of his claws), Flight (Zephyr can fly by manipulating the wind around him to propel himself), Weather Manipulation (Zephyr can create destructive, wide-scale Tornadoes, which have a side effect of ripping up Debris for him to launch at people with more controlled Wind Magic), Vehicular Mastery (Has access to and can pilot a Skell), Plasma Manipulation (Via his Ray Saber and Plasma Pistol, which form a blade and projectile of plasma respectively. Zephyr tends to dual-wield these in battle), Afterimage Creation (Via the Flash Step)

His skell possesses Inorganic Physiology (Type 2; Skells are machines that link up to their owner's magic), Large Size (Type 0) (Skells are roughly 10 meters tall each), Energy Projection (Zephyr's Skell has an array of roughly 100 floating, autonomous laser cannons that can generate lasers as both a projectile and a melee-based blade), Danmaku (Zephyr's laser cannons can fire three times per second each, leading to 300 projectiles being fired per second at their maximum output), Gravity Manipulation (Zephyr can control and array the laser cannons into various formations by altering their internal gravity through the ship's systems), Flight (All Skells have built-in Flight Units)

Resistance to Magic (With the Alpha Gene awakened, Zephyr should possess resistance to Magic due to possessing a Soul Barrier)

Same as before, plus...

• Powers
• Post-Awakening
• Resistances

Social Influencing (Despite Zephyr's standoffish and sarcastic attitude, he was able to assemble an elite team of mages and soldiers from all walks of life), Aura (Possesses a dark aura of bloodlust that rivals Michael Ellend's lighter aura of justice), Extrasensory Perception (Aura grants the user the ability to sense the aura of others, as well as perceive their surroundings), Instinctive Reaction (Zephyr sacrificed the ability to use aura attacks in exchange for inreased power and the ability to move his body on instinct), Fear Manipulation (His aura of bloodlust is enough to paralyze trained adults by awakening their primal fight-or-flight instincts), Precognition (By sensing an opponent's aura, Zephyr can read their upcoming attacks and killer intent), Cosmic Awareness with the Codex (Can track auras across the galaxy), Limited Clairvoyance (Can receive visions from the twin gods Chronos and Cosmos)

Infinity Manipulation (Zephyr first manifested his Infinity powers during a battle with Chaotica. However, at the moment, he can only use the Spatial half of things), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1; Chaos Elements are inherent concepts that make up all reality and duality, and Wraiths use them to perform Conceptual Arts. Without the Chaos Elements, Reality could not exist, as the World Tree was forged from the raw Elements before anything else existed), Spatial Manipulation (Possesses a control over Localized space, which he uses to augment his attacks), Durability Negation (Can negate durability and cut through anything by cutting through Space), Transmutation (Turned his Ray Saber into the Astral Edge by enhancing it with Infinity), Teleportation (Capable of fast teleportation, and has shown to use this to get behind his opponents or attack from their weak points, and has no qualms with spamming it in battle), Portal Creation (Can cut portals into the air, including ones that suck in whatever is around them)

Resistance to Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1), Space-Time Manipulation, Life Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Order Manipulation, Chaos Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Antimatter Manipulation (Chaos Element users are naturally resistant to the other Chaos Elements), Aura, Social Influencing (Can withstand Michael's aura, which causes people to see him as a hero and all-but worship him as such), Memory Manipulation (Chaotica was unable to influence Zephyr's mind and memories. Defeated Darkheart in a mental battle, (Resisted Darkheart's attempts to take over his body), Poison Manipulation (Withstood attacks from the Poison Saber, a blade coated in a deadly magical poison), Death Manipulation, Fate Manipulation (The Poison Saber normally induces a Conceptual Death in the target, presenting them with an unavoidable death that creates a fixed point in time, preventing anything short of God Ink from reversing it and allowing the Saber's wielder to decide the method of death), Darkness Manipulation (Because Zephyr made piece with his Dark Reflection, Darkness-based attacks are much less effective on him due to Darkheart acting as a siphon for it)

Same as before, plus:

• Powers
• With Prep
• With Equipment
• Resistances

Multiple Selves (Types 1 and 2. Has both Reyna and Darkheart within his body, as a conduit of his Infinity power and inner dark side respectively. Reyna is a separate soul that fulfills the necessary requirement for Infinity to be wielded by two linked souls, whereas Darkheart is an autonomous mind, but ultimately the same existence as Zephyr), Immortality (Type 6. All Champions of Chaos have souls strong enough to flow into and possess others), Sleep Manipulation (Learned a single Divine Word from Pulse and Lindzei, the word for "Sleep", as a contingency for Light-Corrupted beings), Vastly enhanced Infinity Manipulation (Zephyr has trained extensively to master the Chaos Element, and has developed his skills even further in this regard. Thanks to Reyna's aid, he is now able to use time manipulation as well as spatial manipulation), Dimensional Travel (Zephyr can create portals into any leaf of the World Tree, as well as through large swaths of territory ranging from interplanetary travel to even movement between the infinite distances that divide World Tree branches), BFR (By creating a Space-time Dislocation, Zephyr is able to place someone in a state where they can see, but not interact with the world), Time Stop (Zephyr is able to stop time using Infinity, equal to master time mage Locke Evangelos in this regard), limited Power Nullification (Zephyr is aware of, and can deconstruct other attempts to stop time, allowing him to exist in the stopped time as well), limited Time Travel (Zephyr is able to travel back in time to his previous body in an attempt to re-live his life. However, this forced him to abandon his present body and abilities, as well as causing memory loss in the process, making it all but a last resort. Furthermore, through Phasing, Zephyr can teleport and avoid attacks by splitting himself a split-second forwards and backwards in time before reforming), Time Manipulation (Zephyr is able to reverse Time by a few seconds), Weapon Creation (Zephyr can create weapons out of Infinity, even creating a prosthetic arm that link up to his nervous system when his arm was severed. He can shapeshift these on a whim, turning his dual blades into axes in the middle of his attack swing to throw off his opponent), Cosmic Expansion Manipulation (Zephyr can generate Infinity Cores, stones made of pure Infinity that serve as the hearts of dimensions. Infinity Cores constantly generate raw space-time around them similar to Cosmic Expansion, and one indeed sits at the heart of the Universe to fuel just that), Black Hole Manipulation (Zephyr can conversely generate Black Holes, singularities that suck in everything without a trace. Scales from Michael and Moonfall, who created brief micro-singularities from raw strength with every clash of their blade when they were fighting eachother), Gravity Manipulation (Can create gravity wells strong enough to crush Planets into Black Holes), Telekinesis (Zephyr can telekinetically control the weapons he has created), Shapeshifting (Zephyr is able to not only take a fully human form, but use Wind Magic to turn himself into wind, allowing him to become intangible and malleable in nature while also becoming completely invisible)

Preparation (Due to Zephyr's time in the Great Forge, he has become a master of preparing countermeasures and contingencies for everybody he comes across, creating unique weapons tailored to their strengths and weaknesses. This has even allowed him to learn how to forge conceptual weapons and fix Sacred Relics like Duskfall and the Poison Saber, as well as alter their properties), Conceptual Manipulation (Types 1 and 2; Zephyr can forge and modify Conceptual Weapons, able to reduce the Lethality of the Poison Saber), Power Bestowal (Zephyr can grant new properties to objects that he forges), Subjective Reality (Zephyr's Forgemaster Hammer allows him to forcibly apply ideas onto reality, letting him give magic to nonmagical weaponry), Power Modification (Zephyr can modify any weapon he uses his hammer on, even conceptual weapons), Reactive Evolution (Can imbue weapons with the Practice Effect, an enchantment that causes them to become more powerful and sharp over time rather than being chipped and worn, as well as gaining new properties and resistances to different types of attacks), Transmutation, Metal Manipulation (After spending so much time inside Lucifer's forge making weapons, Zephyr's skill increased to the point where he can repair weapons with a touch, even Sacred Relics)

Water Manipulation and Elasticity (Proteus' Lash), Soul Manipulation (Soul Purger), Regeneration Negation (Up to Low-Godly; Wraith Killer), Information Manipulation (AI-Killer), Fire Manipulation (Flame Piercer and Flame Lancesword), Transformation (Flame Lancesword), Deconstruction (Breaker Hammer), Holy Manipulation (Excalibur II), Energy Projection (Various weapons of this nature, able to fire energy in a variety of forms including beams, orbs, and blasts), Life Manipulation (One-Strike), Statistics Amplification (Dauntless), Light Manipulation and Damage Boost (Against Machines, via Hardlight Blade)

Resistance to Empathic Manipulation (Darkheart acting as a siphon for his dark side prevents Zephyr from being affected by attempts to sway his emotions. This helped Zephyr resist Michael's Light Corruption, which was far stronger than it had been previously), Mind Manipulation (Zephyr was completely immune to a bloodlusted Michael's Light Corruption. Because Zephyr has two headmates, he is essentially immune to telepathic attacks, as his other selves are able to break him free from any would-be mind control), Purification, Corruption (Has shown on multiple instances to be immune to the effects of both Light and Darkness corruption, and is the only one of the Champions of Chaos to not be affected by his element), Heat Manipulation (Unaffected by the heat of Lucifer's Forge, one of the hottest places in the World Tree that exceeds the Core of a Star in heat), Power Nullification (Zephyr trained in an Arcanium Forge, which burns with flames that consume anything they touch, including Magic. He learned how to create weapons durable enough to withstand this heat, and can withstand it himself)

• Base (Pre-Apotheosis)
• Mavi
• Post-Apotheosis
• Fatebuster
• Other Equipment
• Resistances

Same as before, minus Multiple Personalities. Gains Perception Manipulation, Madness Manipulation (Type 2; Zephyr's Dark Aura is potent enough to cause vivid hallucinations in the Knights), Biological Manipulation (Triggered a Heart Attack in the Purple Wizard), Void Manipulation (After being exposed to Void, Zephyr gained the ability to use Maelstrom, a version of Infinity saturated with Void that turns it into an unstable, swirling vortex of broken space-time. Zephyr also trained with the Warrior-monk Wraiths of Druinia to be able to manipulate the void itself, allowing him to form blades out of Void), Gravity Manipulation (Can emit waves of Gravity to push opponents backwards. Unlike before, Zephyr can now manipulate Gravity in direct combat), Energy Projection (Zephyr can use Maelstroms to fire quasar-like beams that ripple space-time), Danmaku (Can open dozens of portals behind him to rain weapons upon his enemies), Intangibility (Can turn his own internal space to "Zero", allowing him to phase through walls), Electricity Manipulation (By mixing Maelstrom with magic, Zephyr can unleash violet lightning), Fire Manipulation (Can form swords out of Infinity Flame, purple fire that burns through even time itself. The heat of this was able to vaporize everything around it without touching it), Statistics Amplification (By subconsciously calling upon Etro's power through his own will, Zephyr was able to temporarily increase his power level above The Warden's), Summoning (Can summon Mavi, an Ark, to his side), Enhanced Time Manipulation (Can multiply his own speed by four using Time Alter: Square Accel, and by six using Hex Accel), Duplication (Via the Shadow Clone jutsu; Zephyr can form several clones of himself that match his strength and abilities, but they disappear after a single hit), Perception Manipulation (Breathing style users can create the illusion of elemental effects), Shockwave Generation (Breathing style users can form shockwaves to increase their attack range), Aura (Can manifest a solid Susanoo), Analytical Prediction (Stated he could read every one of Assitur's moves from the tiny twitches and changes in air pressure), Causality Manipulation with Tsubame Gaeshi (Breaks down cause and effect to create three separate slashes in the same instant)

Mavi possesses Telepathy (Mavi can speak telepathically to other Arks, and is able to read souls to determine a person's emotions), Immortality (Types 3, 4, and 8. An Ark will always regenerate and eventually resurrect so long as their core remains untouched), Fusionism (Mavi can merge with Zephyr to increase his power and give him her abilities), Cloth Manipulation (Changes Zephyr's outfut when fused with him), Thread Manipulation (Can form a net of energy lines to catch attacks), Air Manipulation (Mavi is an Air-type and Light-type Ark), Light Manipulation (Mavi can form various hardlight constructs), Weapon Creation (Mavi reformed Zephyr's old Ray Saber, as well as massive hardlight fists and a hardlight Net), Attack Reflection (Mavi can catch an attack and send it back at her foes), Forcefield Creation (Mavi was able to protect Zephyr with a spherical barrier), Electricity Manipulation (Mavi can build up and release static electricity, that was able to paralyze Groose)

Plot Manipulation and Reality Warping (After awakening to the Threshold, Zephyr gained the ability to use God Ink, a substance found in sensories of Threshold beings or Gods that allow them to rewrite reality around them as if it were text on a page. These alterations take the form of flurries of glowing paper, or splashes of jet-black ink that melt holes in reality like acid. Zephyr only possesses a small quantity of God Ink, and can generally only use this technique once per battle. The abilities Zephyr either has performed himself or should know how to perform from watching other God Ink users like Michael will be listed here), Existence Erasure (Zephyr has used this ability to destroy Makeshift's body by stabbing him with his pen), Time Stop (By halting the flow of the "Plot", Zephyr can stop time to think of actions for himself), Causality Manipulation Teleportation (Through "What if?", God Ink users can retroactively change the positions of people and objects, even acausal beings like Zephyr himself, to cause them to attack each other and themselves), Fate Manipulation (God Ink users can write in the Book of Fate, allowing them to change the fates of themselves and others. Fate and Plot are considered two halves of the same coin, with the former acting as the future and the latter acting as the past, the two meeting in the middle to form the present), Soul Manipulation, Fission (Forcibly expunged a hollow from Alternate Michael's body), Dimensional Travel (Those awakened to the Threshold can move between areas by going "Offscreen", allowing them to access even otherwise-hidden places so long as the "Narrative" is focused on those places. Zephyr admitted, however, that his teleportation was generally more useful, and he has thus only done this once or twice), Creation (Through no longer caring about the sanctity of Fantastical branches, Zephyr can theoretically create any weapon, terrain, or structure that he wishes through imagining a universe with it, and then bring it into his current location through his Infinity Manipulation), Weapon Creation (God Ink users can manifest Pens that allow them to channel their powers, though as shown with Michael, this is not explicitly necessary)

Fate Manipulation (Forged a page from the Book of Fate into his Fatebuster armor, a suit that allows him to go toe-to-toe with The Warden and Alternate Michael to nullify their alterations to Fate), Statistics Amplification (Vastly increases Zephyr's statistics, allowing him to stomp Alternate Michael and trade blows with The Warden), Regeneration (The Fatebuster Armor can automatically repair cracks in itself), Energy Projection (Possesses a chest laser able to damage Warden's own Fakebuster Armor), Regeneration Negation (The armor's chest laser prevented Warden's copied Fatebuster from regenerating), Causality Manipulation and Healing (Was able to use the Fatebuster to restore Alana's soul and mind from The Warden's actions). Resistance to Power Mimicry (Makeshift could not copy this armor, despite being able to copy God Ink), Plot Manipulation (Alternate Michael's pen was shattered when it tried to destroy the armor), Power Nullification (The Warden could not destroy his armor, despite its design being based on something from a Yellow timeline)

Danmaku (Via Ebony and Ivory, which fired fast enough to let him shoot down Falkree's crystal swarm in moments), Hellfire Manipulation (His stolen Sharingan can project fox-fire out of them to form massive walls of flame), Explosion Manipulation (Can fire an explosive Chakra Arrow with Susanoo), Absorption (Can use his stolen Rinnegan to absorb various forms of energy to recover his own stores), Shapeshifting (The Sword of Protection can change into various shapes, including a shield, boomerang, and lasso), Light Manipulation and Darkness Manipulation (Oathkeeper and Oblivion are two keyblades infused with Light and Darkness respectively), Attack Reflection (The Dragon Hilt allows Zephyr to reflect magic attacks perfectly, and Lostvayne can do it with twice the power. The Mirror Shield and Mirror Sword can reflect magic attacks), Damage Boost (The Zangetsuto doubles in power against moon-aligned beings), Regeneration Negation (Up to High-Mid; The Nichirin Blade can nullify the regeneration of demonic beings), Telekinesis (Kanshou and Bakuya will return to the wielder's hand so long as they possess the other blade), Soul Manipulation (Zephyr stated that the Keyblade would destroy Falkree's soul in a single hit), Space-Time Manipulation and Air Manipulation (Ea generated a tornado that was actively dislocating Space and Time), Forcefield Creation (The Tsukuyomi Unit creates an "Absolute Defense" that repels even reality warping. Rho Aias is a seven-layered forcefield that could stop Radahn), Reactive Power Level (Pumpkin increases in power the more danger Zephyr is in), Power Nullification and Matter Manipulation (Muchorin fires beams of energy that reshape matter "down to the soul", which Zephyr used to turn Saryn into a plush. Zephyr states targets will "Remember" effects dealt to them despite Reality Warping, preventing her from simply shapeshifting back), Absorption (Lostvayne allows Zephyr to redirect attacks that have already hit him by absorbing them, but he still takes the damage. Nichirin blades absorb Sunlight), Spatial Manipulation (The Photon Ray bends space with its swings to bypass durability), Statistics Amplification (Beowulf drastically increases the strength of his punches and the speed of his movements, and the Boosted Gear allows him to double his strength, speed, and durability), Reactive Evolution, Invisibility, Summoning (Incursio lets him summon armor around him that adapts to its opponents and can turn invisible), Non-Physical Interaction (Dragonslayer can strike a Hollow's soul through the person possessed by it), Energy Projection (Balmung, Clarent, Muchorin, and the Boosted Gear can all fire blasts of destructive energy), Causality Manipulation (Gae Bolg reverses cause and effect to always strike its opponents heart), Light Manipulation (The Moonlight Greatsword gathers moonlight to power itself, and can fire waves of it), Blood Manipulation, Fire Manipulation (Morgott's Cursed Sword allows him to generate trails of burning blood in the air), Afterimage Creation, Air Manipulation (The Crissaegrim generates four afterimages and follow-up slashes of air with every hit of Zephyr's), Anti-Magic (Can summon Asta's Anti-magic Greatswords), Sun Creation (Excalibur Galatine contains a pseudo-sun in his hilt that lets Zephyr fire waves of heat), Ice Manipulation (Via Darkmoon Greatsword), Electricity Manipulation (Via Bolt of Gransax), Energy Manipulation and Weapon Creation (The White Lantern Ring can create any item out of energy), Power Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation, and Reality Warping with the Infinity Gauntlet, Existence Erasure (Erased half of The Virus' armies with the Infinity Gauntlet), Weather Manipulation (Mjolnir is able to generate a cosmic storm and divine lightning), Law Manipulation (The Elden Ring lets the user impose their own law over reality), Portal Creation (The Yamato can cut through dimensions), Empowerment (Vasavi Shakti increases in power against divine entities. The White Lantern Ring draws power from the desire to preserve life), Summoning (Can summon the weapons of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne with Joyeuse)

Enhanced Resistance to Void Manipulation (Gained another layer of resistance to Void exposure by unlocking Maelstrom, as Drexus stated he was now entirely immune to all of the effects of it), Madness Manipulation (Survived being dragged through the Threshold by Drexus, and though he awakened to his own existence as a mere pawn in reality, he was not driven insane by it), Existence Erasure (Was not erased by being dragged through the Threshold by Drexus and realizing his own existence), Fire Manipulation (Can withstand the heat of his own Infinity Flames), Disease Manipulation, Fungus Manipulation, Poison Manipulation (Resisted the majority of Saryn's abilities, which are of this nature, with only the most focused ones able to get through)

Same as before, but vastly enhanced. Gains Regeneration (Mid-Godly, possibly High-Godly; As the vessel of a goddess, Zephyr should have far greater regenerative powers than Reyna, a mortal who could heal from a destroyed body and damaged soul. Other characters like Wraiths [Whom Etro is the patron of, as the goddess of destruction and the void] have regenerated from complete erasure, even though they exist only as scattered concepts), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1; Controls the concept of Destruction, as the Host of Etro, who is responsible for applying it to cosmologies to end them and reset the simulation. The Poison Saber inflicts a Conceptual Death), Reality Warping, Antimatter Manipulation (Passive; The aura around Zephyr's manifested Destruction Blade glitched Reality, and was stated to be even more destructive than Aether, which is the essence of Antimatter. He can create this as an aura around him and as beams of energy), Acausality (Type 3; Reliant on his infinite temporal clones), Vastly enhanced Duplication (Was able to create an army of infinite temporal clones. Even while initially possessed, he could create as many as twelve shadow clones at once, far more than usual), Existence Erasure (His Destruction manipulation was erasing everything around him. Erased the World Tree and even the nonexistent Void), Aura (Can form an aura of destruction around him), Invulnerability Negation (Zephyr's Destruction Blade shattered Adam's Perfect Parry, bypassing his otherwise-invulnerable shield), Poison Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, Death Manipulation (The Poison Saber inflicts a Conceptual Death, making the opponent's death an inevitability that they can no longer escape. Zephyr can control the method of Death), Power Mimicry (Mimicked the array of Poison Sabers that Adam summoned, though it is unknown if they were simply copies that Zephyr had prepared ahead of time), Forcefield Creation (Can form a forcefield of Destruction), Body Control (Manifested six black wings during his fight with Adam), Cloth Manipulation (Instantly changed his outfit when Etro possessed him), Void Manipulation (As the host of Etro, Zephyr should be able to manipulate the Void just like she can. Caused the Void to crack and be destroyed with Enuma Elish), Regeneration Negation (High-Godly; Killed The Warden and stopped his wounds from regenerating. Killed Drexus with a point-blank Enuma Elish, despite him being able to regenerate from conceptual destruction and even being erased from the Narrative altogether), Absorption (The torrent created by Enuma Elish sucked up all of the Chaos Elements into a chaotic vortex), Immortality Negation (Types 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Killed Adam, an immortal being who can shrug off being stabbed in the head or even cut in half and possesses High-Godly Regeneration by virtue of being the strongest Wraith in his weakened Warden form. Adam was able to Resurrect after a long time, and his life as The Warden continued due to Azathoth taking hold of his life. Adam predates Life and Death, and could send out fragments of his essence and corpse to infect and possess people after his body was destroyed. Also killed Deus, whose true form exists as Data in Deus Ex)

As the Administrator of Deus Ex, Zephyr possesses the abilities of every character in the verse save for other Administrators' unique laws, amplified up to his level. The general abilities of a throne god and powers Zephyr has directly used in this key are Time Travel and BFR (Casually sent Michael back in time to before the World Tree's destruction, despite it having been erased across all of time), Vastly enhanced Soul Manipulation (Manages the flow of souls to the new Cosmology), Vastly Enhanced Fate Manipulation (Was able to determine the individual fate of souls, using this to guarantee a good life for his friends that he couldn't be with), Immortality (Type 1, 5, and 9. Administrators are eternal beings that exist outside of all concepts created inside the Multiverse, including Life and Death), Power Bestowal (Implied that he could grant souls "Isekai-Style Bonuses" if he wanted to), Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 0. Administrators exist outside of the bounds of Deus Ex's simulation, with Time being a "Place" for them to freely walk through), Avatar Creation (Zephyr could freely send an avatar to continue on in the World Tree so that it could reach a "Natural" conclusion), Acausality (Type 5; Administrators are superior to the flow of Plot and Fate, with God Ink being treated as literal ink on paper to them), Transduality (Type 1; Administrators exist on a superior state to anything in their simulations, which in Zephyr's case makes him superior to the concepts of Space, Time, Creation, Destruction, Void, Fate, Energy, Life, Death, Souls, Minds, Order, and Chaos)

Attack Potency: City Block Level (Comparable to Jackie, who can melt futuristic tanks with her flames. Zephyr himself is able to destroy Tanks with his Fox-Fire orbs) | Town Level (Stronger than before. Comparable to base Michael Ellend, and can create tornadoes with his magic), Higher in a Skell (Skells are mecha designed to combat foes far stronger than the user, and interface with the user's magic to amplify it) | Large Town Level (Comparable to Michael and Crystal). Multi-Continent Level at his peak (Defeated Chaotica, Michael's Dark half, who was as strong as Michael himself) | Planet Level (Stronger than the wielder of Tesseract, Excelion, who was able to destroy an entire planet by collapsing it into a singularity), possibly Large Planet Level with his Hammer (It is a sacred relic that can forge Mineral X, the equipment that makes Sol Dios as powerful as it is) | Multi-Solar System Level (Learned how to control the Maelstrom, one of the three primordial forces of the Void Gods. Stopped the charge of Radahn, who held back every star's cycle, and is comparable to Locke Evangelos, who created a Starry Sky), Higher with Fatebuster (Wiped out 200 of Makeshift's clones, which were equal in strength to Zephyr, with one punch), Galaxy Level with Star Aether (Alongside the Fatebuster Armor, Zephyr was able to directly overpower The Warden after he was being amped by his own copied Fatebuster) | Multi-Solar System Level (Physically contended with Post-Ink Warden, Kay, and Korra), Galaxy Level with Fatebuster (Multiplies his strength by 200x), Higher with Star Aether | Multi-Galaxy Level (Is being powered by Etro, a goddess whose avatar contains multiple galaxies inside her. The amplification gained from acquiring Divinity should be far superior to the Fatebuster's amp. His blade was said to be more destructive than Aether, which Meisaka once used to destroy galaxies. Comparable to Juliel, who is capable of destroying the galaxy-sized Etronian Mothership), will eventually become Multiverse Level+ (Destroyed the World Tree with Enuma Elish, and later won a war against Deus) | Multiverse Level+ (As Deus' replacement, Zephyr manages the Throne and all of its information, treating the entire Garden of Eden as mere computer data. The Garden is composed of an endless number of World Trees separated by the Void, each of which is an infinite series of constantly-branching timelines formed by the collective cognitions of Humanity under the many-worlds theory)

Speed: Supersonic Reactions and Combat Speed (Even the weakest hybrids are able to casually dodge and redirect bullets) | Massively Hypersonic+ Reactions and Combat Speed (Can keep up with opponents that can dodge Aaron's lightning magic) | Relativistic (Comparable in speed to Moonfall and Ashtar, who can defend against Michael's light-based attacks) | Relativistic+ (One of only two Champions of Chaos capable of matching a Light-Corrupted Michael, when a base Michael was stated to move at Near-Lightspeed), Massively FTL+ Travel Speed with Infinity (Capable of using spatial warps to cross massive distances in a short time, allowing him to cross over entire branches of the World Tree in mere seconds) | FTL (Matched Falkree, who was attacking at "Twice lightspeed". Dodged an attack from Skolas that moved with "Multi-lightspeed swiftness". Comparable to Michael, who could dodge beyond lightspeed attacks), FTL+ with Hex Accel (Multiplies his speed by six), Massively FTL+ Travel Speed with Infinity | FTL, FTL+ with Hex Accel, Massively FTL+ Travel Speed with Infinity | At least FTL (Should be far faster than a Hermes Foot-enhanced Michael), FTL+ with Time Alter, likely Massively FTL (Was stated to reach these speeds, though an exact number was never given). Massively FTL+ Travel Speed with Infinity | Omnipresent

Lifting Strength: Superhuman (Hybrids have a physicality above the strongest human in every way) | Superhuman | Superhuman | Class Z (Can lift Mineral X, which is as heavy as a singularity born from a collapsed planet) | At least Class Z, Stellar with Equipment (Can physically overpower The Warden with the Fatebuster Armor) | Stellar (Comparable to Post-Ink Warden) | Stellar (Zephyr with Etro possessing him reached levels of strength he required the Fatebuster for previously), will eventually become Immeasurable | Immeasurable (His existence sustains the multiverse created by the Throne)

Durability: City Block Level | Town Level (Stronger than before. Spars regularly with Michael Ellend) | Large Town Level, possibly Mountain Level (Can survive hits from Moonfall). Multi-Continent Level at his peak | Planet Level (Can take hits from Drexus) | Multi-Solar System Level (Should be stronger than before), Higher with Equipment and Preparation (The Tsukuyomi Unit blocked a blast from Skolas' laser, the chargeup alone being capable of throwing off the orbit of every planet in the Solar System. The Fatebuster Armor took hits from The Warden, though he cracked it with every punch and it was only able to stay intact thanks to its regeneration) | Multi-Solar System Level (Took hits from Post-Ink Warden), Galaxy Level with Fatebuster (Took hits from Fakebuster Warden) | Multi-Solar System Level, will eventually become Multiverse Level+ (Survived the force of his own speech. Took hits from Adam, and later waged war against Deus) | Multiverse Level+

Stamina: Superhuman. Zephyr has fought for hours on end, even through serious wounds and immeasurable pain, and gotten up just fine. Can fight in space battles that last for days on end, and has defeated characters like Saryn while barely being able to stand, and being blinded by her spores. His willpower is such that he has been able to do battle with the Warden on his own, with Michael Ellend being the only other one to successfully do so. He has Infinite reserves of Infinity, as he can draw upon the endless sources of it within the World Tree. Infinite with Etro possessing him and as a Throne God.

Range: Melee Range with claws, Tens of Meters with Kitsune powers | Same as before. Hundreds of Meters to Kilometers with his Plasma Pistol, Magic, and Skell Weaponry (His Plasma Pistol possesses a range of 200 meters, and his Skell contains a laser array that can snipe foes from across a city. Can create Tornadoes with his magic that can ravage large swaths of land) | Same as before. Galactic with the Codex (It can track the location of every Bifrost in the unvierse, as well as track auras across a similar range), Planetary at his peak (His newly-manifested Infinity Powers should be comparable to Michael's Light, which destroyed a planet's entire surface) | Same as before. Multiversal+ with Dimensional Travel (Possesses an array of infinite pocket dimensions which he can easily navigate on a whim. Can navigate to any branch of the World Tree) | Same as before | Same as before | Same as before, will eventually become Multiversal+ (His Enuma Elish obliterated the entire World Tree) | Multiversal+ (Can manage an entire cosmology on his own, comparable in scale to Eden)

Standard Equipment: None Notable | Ray Saber and Plasma Pistol. Optionally a Skell | Same as before, plus the Bifrost Codex and Astral Edges | Same as Before, plus the Forgemaster's Hammer and his forged weapons | Same as Before, plus Mavi and his various Multiversal Weapons | Same as Before | Same as Before | Same as Before. Can theoretically access any weapon in Eden due to sitting upon Deus Ex Gyrus.

• Ray Saber: Zephyr's main weapon during his time in Black Swan. This sword projects a ray of hardlight in a Deltoid shape, functioning as both a blade and crossguard, and is able to cut through almost anything. Zephyr can also infuse it with his Fox-Fire, allowing him to further increase his cutting power.
• Plasma Pistol: Zephyr's main sidearm. it is a pistol that fires bolts of yellow plasma, and he dual wields this with his sword to great effect. It has a maximum range of 200 meters.
• Bifrost Codex: An ancient device that contains knowledge of all Bifrosts in the universe. Bifrosts are magical gateways that allow for instantaneous travel across interstellar or even galactic distances, and the Codex can not only track these, but track all of their usages by the aura of the user.
• Astral Edge: A set of three crimson blades: A Katana, a Wakizashi, and a Nodachi. Obtained when Zephyr was awakened, these three swords allow him to cut through the fabric of space itself, each of them negating durability altogether.
• Forgemaster's Hammer: The sacred relic granted to a wielder of Infinity, serving as a link between them and the Hellforge. This is an exceptionally durable weapon that can forge conceptual weapons and other sacred relics, and while Zephyr has only recently begun to use it in combat as a bludgeoning weapon, he is an expert with it as a tool of smithing. Some of the weapons Zephyr has forged with this are:
  • Dauntless: One of Zephyr's signature weapons. This is a crimson rapier with a golden hilt, and is imbued with the Practice Effect. Due to Zephyr's regular use of it, the blade has become nigh-indestructible.
  • Hardlight Ancient Blade: A hardlight blade made with ancient technology, that carves through machines easier than flesh.
  • Proteus' Lash: A sword with a peculiar, water-like blade, that can fold and stretch like a whip.
  • Soul Purge: A massive, crystalline greatsword that drives souls from bodies with a single strike.
  • Wraith Killer: A katana with regeneration-negating (Up to Low-Godly) properties, able to prevent the regeneration of Wraiths' shells.
  • Excalibur II: A holy replica of Excalibur, infused with Light.
  • Flame Piercer: A flaming spear.
  • Flaming Lancesword: A flaming sword that turns into a lance.
  • Breaker Hammer: A hammer that deconstructs whatever it hits.
  • AI-Killer: A straight sword capable of destroying data, allowing him to bypass the defenses of AIs and cybernetic beings.
  • A myriad of Energy Cannons
  • A nameless bow capable of firing swords from it like arrows
  • Hundreds of nameless swords, lances, and other weapons
  • Sunglasses, Earbuds, and Headphones

• Mavi: An Ark, a sentient weapon that manifests from its user's soul and forms from a Core made of a material called Arkanite. The core of an Ark determines their personality and abilities. Zephyr's ark, Mavi, takes the form of a young girl with reminiscence to Alana, but made entirely of cloth and leather even down to her body and hair. Mavi is an energetic, cheerful Ark of the Light element, who is able to create constructs of Hardlight to aid her wielder, Zephyr. furthermore, through a mode called "Driver Form", an Ark can transform into energy to empower a wielder, changing their outfit and speaking to them telepathically. Mavi has shown the ability to recreate Zephyr's Ray Saber, as well as form hardlight fists to attack foes from a range. Defensively, she can form greenish barriers around Zephyr to protect him, and enhance his body with light-aspected energy to fire hadoken-like balls of spiritual power. She has also stated to be able to read souls, and has shown that she can enter Zephyr's pocket dimensions. Finally, Mavi has stated that she possesses a super art called "Wild Down", but this has not been shown yet.
• Multiversal Weaponry: Zephyr's dimensional travel has caused him to come into ownership of various weapons and items from across the multiverse (Note: Zephyr should only recieve the abilities of the weapons that he directly shows). These include:
  • Ebony and Ivory: A pair of pistols once wielded by a certain devil hunter. These pistols are able to fire far faster than they might appear, as well as being stated to hold infinite ammunition, and Zephyr can fire bullets of dark energy from them.
  • Sword of Protection: A holy sword once wielded by a Princess of a faraway planet, near the center of that universe. This sword can deflect energy attacks, and is capable of changing its shape to whatever Zephyr may need at the time, including a shield, ladder, whip, or boomerang, among others.
  • Dojutsu: A pair of eyeballs, stolen from their original owners. The first, the Sharingan, can be used to cast illusions upon people known as Genjutsu that can alter even their sense of time, making them live out three days in an instant, while the second, the Rinnegan, confers various abilities. Zephyr has shown that he can absorb energy with it.
  • Oathkeeper and Oblivion: A pair of key-shaped swords, wielding the powers of light and darkness and born from the memories of one's bonds. Zephyr can dual-wield these in rapid tandem, and manipulate Light and Darkness with them.
  • Kingdom Key: A strange large key, that acts as a blade despite its blunt shape, wielded by a guardian of Light in an ancient war. Zephyr can use this keyblade to unlock any lock, as well as lock any door shut, through beams of light, and he can generate portals by firing beams from its tip.
  • Zangetsuto: "Moon Sunderer", a sword wielded by a samurai in a cursed land. Said to be able to cleave the very moon in two, this sword excels at slaying any creature with an alignment with the moon, especially Vampires.
  • Pumpkin: A high-tech railgun with multiple modular parts, used by a revolutionary sniper in an oppressive empire. Zephyr can swap out the parts of this gun for various ranges, and its power increases greatly the more danger he is in.
  • Incursio: A sword containing a draconic Suit of Armor, used by a revolutionary swordsman in an oppressive empire. Zephyr can use Incursio to turn invisible, slowly react and adapt to attacks like heat and electricity, and summon a spear to his side.
  • Arma Reboare - Muchorin: A legendary staff, forged by a witch and used by a girl with three souls. This staff can fire beams of energy that can reshape any matter on an atomic level, turning even the plagued Saryn into a plush that lacked the power to so much as move, let alone use her disease conceptual art.
  • Interfectum Malus - Ookami: A legendary Nodachi, forged by a witch and used by a time-traveling Ronin. This blade nullifies magic around it, and is able to sever people from their connections of power. Zephyr could use this to sever The Warden from The Maelstrom, temporarily nullifying Perfect Parry when he struck him and giving the Champions of Chaos time to breathe.
  • Tsukuyomi Unit: A godly shield, used by the queen of vampires. This barrier is strong enough to block even reality-warping attacks, able to stop the Black Hole cannon of the Deus Mortem dead in its tracks for five minutes straight.
  • Buster Sword: A massive blade with two slots for Materia, used by the guardian of his planet's very life energy. The blade is nigh-indestructible.
  • Dragonslayer: A dull, colossal sword more comparable to a hunk of raw iron, wielded by a berserk demon killer from a haunted world. This blade is able to attack foes that exist on the Astral Plane.
  • Nichirin Blade: A katana whose blade absorbs sunlight, used by the demon-hunting corps of antiquity. Zephyr uses these when performing Breathing techniques, increasing the range of his attacks with shockwaves and beheading demons in a flash.
  • Balmung: A long, silver claymore wielded by the legendary draconic hero of germanic myth. This blade has an incredibly fast release time for its ability, which allows it to fire a massive beam of blue energy.
  • Clarent: A wide, crimson sword wielded by the traitorous knight of Arthurian Legend. This blade draws upon the hatred and anger of the wielder (Of which Zephyr has plenty), to unleash a massive wave of red energy.
  • Excalibur: A holy sword blessed by fairies, and wielded by the most famous hero of them all. This sword fires an incredible beam of Holy energy that can pierce the skies, and outshines Balmung and Clarent greatly.
  • Photon Ray: A strange sword from another planet, wielded by their last child who fell to earth. This blade is made of light beams, allowing it to flex and extend like a whip, and when released, it can call down a massive orbital laser that shaves off existence and tears space itself.
  • Monohoshi Zao: A simple, but long japanese sword, wielded by history's greatest loser. It has no supernatural properties on its own, but is of expert make and durability.
  • Gae Bolg: A long, barbed spear of crimson, wielded by the irish berserker of fame. This blade can negate the regeneration of anybody it strikes, even Wraiths, and when thrown, it bends cause and effect to never miss its target.
  • Excalibur Galatine: A sword of the Sun, wielded by one of the Round Table's most kind and loyal soldiers. This blade contains a miniature pseudo-sun in its hilt, allowing it to fire off destructive solar flares right into its enemies.
  • Anti-Magic Sword: A pair of greatswords made of pure Anti-Magic. These swords are capable of nullifying any magic they touch, being the ultimate tool to use against mages by cutting through their shields.
  • Moonlight Greatsword: A massive crystalline greatsword, with a teal blade and a golden hilt. This massive sword possesses the ability to store moonlight within its blade, shaping it into ranged slashes of energy. Unlike the light of a sun-aligned blade, the Moonlight Greatsword cannot be manipulated by Michael or Moonfall, being a neutral state between Light and Darkness.
  • Morgott's Cursed Sword: A jagged, curved sword of opalized blood wielded by Zephyr. This weapon is as long as the Moonlight Greatsword, but is thinner and lighter, and Zephyr can use it to release trails of burning blood.
  • Crissaegrim: A sword whose blade is made of cursed wind, wielded by the son of the Vampire King. With every swing, it generates four cutting trails of wind, allowing Zephyr to carve foes up in a matter of seconds.
  • Lance of Longinus: A long, twin-pronged lance, wielded by the pilot of one of the most famous machine suits. This lance is capable of piercing through any forcefield, able to strike Radahn through his gravity shield.
  • Bolt of Gransax: A spiral-like swordspear, wielded once upon a time by a grand dragon. This weapon acts as both a spear and a sword due to its unique composition, and the wielder can fire massive bolts of crimson electricity through it.
  • Darkmoon Greatsword: A wedding gift that Zephyr received from Ranni the Witch. Like the Moonlight Greatsword, this weapon absorbs moonlight into its blade. however, the blade is entirely dark-aligned, drawing from Ranni's dark moon to create blades of deathly chill that freeze foes solid.
  • Yamato: A katana with a black sheathe, wielded by the brother of a famous devil hunter. The Yamato is a powerful blade whose blade is so sharp it can even cut through dimensions.
  • Joyeuse: A powerful, opalescent blade wielded by a king of Twelve Paladins. The blade itself is a fine and durable sword, but its power comes from when Zephyr unveils its true name. It can manifest the twelve weapons of Charlemagne's paladins, creating a rainbow flurry of thirteen rapid strikes.
  • Vasavi Shakti: A divine spear of mortality made of lightning, once wielded by the son of the sun god. A weapon that can even kill the gods, this spear can only be used once, but is capable of annihilating anything in a single strike, be it gods, divine beings, mortals, or even pocket dimensions. It can be fired as a beam of flame or a bolt of lightning.
  • Elden Ring: A great rune of order, used to enforce one's will across an entire world. Zephyr manifested this in his chest when battling The Virus, allowing him to create the Age of Stars in the middle of the battle, protecting his allies and armies from the Virus' erasure and corruption. The power of the rune is to make one's deepest desires into cosmic law.
  • Triforce: A set of three golden triangles, manifested on Zephyr's chest when battling The Virus. Made up of three pieces, the Triforce gives its wielder access to immeasurable wisdom, unstoppable power, and unshakable courage. The three pieces together are able to grant the wielder a wish, should they be pure of heart.
  • Infinity Gauntlet: A golden gauntlet with six multicolored stones set within it. This immeasurably-powerful cosmic artifact allows Zephyr to control Space, Time, Reality, Power, Mind, and Souls. With a snap of his fingers, he was able to wipe half of all of The Virus' armies from existence.
  • Mjolnir: A hammer with a cosmic, divine storm inside. This hammer is capable of absorbing energy, much like Magnhild, and can generate divine lightning and Cosmic Storms, which Zephyr combined with Ea.
  • White Lantern Ring: A white ring carrying the power of life itself within it. It is powered by the wearer's desire to preserve life, and is able to create any item the wielder wishes by manifesting this desire directly.
  • Ea: Zephyr's ultimate weapon. This weapon cannot quite be called a sword, more of a multi-segmented drill with a golden hilt and crimson segments. Its spinning generates dislocations in space-time, and it is capable of annihilating the boundary between heaven and earth. Zephyr has used this as a finishing move against Falkree and Drexus, the latter being killed once and for all by Zephyr's blade. It was through this weapon that Zephyr, amplified by Etro, finally put an end to the World Tree, destroying not only it, but the non-existent void around it, accessing Thronespace itself.
• The Fatebuster Armor: Zephyr's ultimate trump card. Created in the Forge of Hell, overseen by Lucifer himself, this hellish-looking armor was created as a counter to Michael Ellend's Sol Dios. The black suit is made from an alloy of Mythril, Adamantine, Orichalcum, and various other magical metals, stained black through its infusion with Darkness from Lucifer Himself. The suit is nigh-indestructible, having only been cracked by The Warden, and furthermore, is infused with a page ripped from the Book of Fate, a sacred relic of the gods which determines the fate of all living beings within the World Tree. Through this page, which possesses Zephyr's own fate within it, Zephyr can destroy inevitable outcomes, allowing him to overcome the power of Ink Manipulators like The Warden and Michael. Beyond this property, The Fatebuster Armor possesses a myriad of other abilities. It can reform its shape to become sleeker or bulkier, fire a large chest laser that can damage The Warden's Fakebuster, regenerate damage upon itself, and restore stolen souls, as done with Alana.

Intelligence: Genius. Zephyr became one of the top swordsmen on Earth in a few weeks of training, later able to battle against centuries-old or even millennia-old warriors like Moonfall and Drexus despite not keeping up with his training. In a single year of training under Lucifer's tutelage, Zephyr mastered every type of weapon known to Man, to the point where he gained an understanding of their inner workings enough to forge them perfectly. He's acrobatic and evasive enough to balance on the tip of someone's blade mid-combat, deflect bullets moving at a similar speed to him, and slice three times in a single breath to create an undodgeable technique. He could discern all of Asaatur's movements from his tiny twitches and changes in the air pressure around him. He has mastered a myriad of different sword techniques and styles from across the World Tree. Zephyr is also a master blacksmith; It took him only two tries to figure out how to forge and alter Conceptual Weapons, and he was able to repair Drexus' poison saber and recreate it to a greater degree of effectiveness later. Despite everyone around him being bound by fate and plot, Zephyr was able to use his ability to change fate to change the greater fate of the Garden of Eden, and formed a plan that allowed him to defeat The Warden on three separate instances, when The Warden was able to effortlessly defeat the other seven Champions. Mastered Maelstrom in under a week to a degree not seen by anyone in the history of the Void Dojo, all for simple understanding. Despite his standoffish attitude, Zephyr has a knack for figuring out what makes a person tick, allowing him to not only manipulate foes mid-battle as shown with Falkree, but draw people to his side and keep them in line, even with subordinates as unruly as Moonfall, who was once Zephyr's greatest enemy, and Drexus, the holder of the seven deadly sins. He was able to convince Darkheart, his dark reflection, to willingly return to his body, when dark reflections are inherently drawn to kill their originals and take them over. Convinced an alternate universe Zephyr, who had become depressed and listless and had abandoned his teammates for years after the Michael in his universe was corrupted and made into a tyrant, to keep going and help rebuild the world. Despite all this, Zephyr has a below-average academic ability due to his poor education, and can come across as rather blunt and simple due to his lust for battle. He also has a self-admitted lack of situational awareness, and has a habit of aimlessly wandering about the place.

Standard Tactics: Zephyr's skill in battle comes from his pragmatism and resourcefulness that he prides himself on. At a glance, Zephyr can discern how much of a threat a person is to him and adjust his level of lethality accordingly, and when fighting with lethal intent, Zephyr wastes no time going for a killing blow. When in a "Neutral" state - That is, against someone he has no particular counters for - Zephyr attacks with a flurry of blades and sword attacks, mixing up storms of weaponry and rapid close-quarters combat. He rapidly switches weapons with each strike, attacking with various different weapon types and elemental abilities to mix up his opponent and catch them off guard, while swapping between ranged and melee attacks. Zephyr, however, is primarily an adaptive opponent, taking note of his opponent's weaknesses and flaws and using his arsenal and tricky abilities to exploit them, as well as bantering with his foe to taunt them, make them lower their guard, or otherwise manipulate them emotionally. His aura, honed skill and enhanced senses aid him greatly in this.

Weaknesses: After awakening to the Threshold, Zephyr became listless and depressed, rarely using his full power. Has an inferiority complex due to being constantly surpassed by Michael, though after defeating his Alternate Self during the Hollow Hunt arc, Zephyr got over this. Zephyr is borderline-suicidal, and wishes to die in battle, and is willing to inflict incredible collateral, such as destroying the entire world tree, when facing a strong opponent. Holds back against opponents he deems to be beneath him. Despite his passion for swordfighting, Zephyr is rather lazy everywhere else, teleporting instead of walking and often shirking his responsibilities.

Key: Proteus Arc | Black Swan Arc | Chaos Hunt Arc | Seven Sins Arc | Hollow Hunt Arc/Void Games Arc | Post-Star Aether Boost | Possessed by Etro | Throne God

Note: Though Zephyr does possess his Throne God abilities in the Hollow Hunt and Void Games key due to turning back time, he purposefully avoided giving his avatar new abilities to avoid drawing unnecessary attention. Any abilities shown at this point should still exist within his base key.

Notable Attacks and Techniques:

• Kitsune Physiology: As someone who received the DNA of a Kitsune, Zephyr is no longer fully human. His strength, speed, durability, and senses all far exceed that of what is humanly possible, and he has a healing factor due to the longevity and immortality that full Kitsune possess. Zephyr gained a myriad of different abilities from this infusion.
  • Fox-Fire: Black or White flames that Zephyr can form at will. These flames can be used as projectiles, lights, toys, and more, and Zephyr is able to coat his claws and blades in them to be able to effortlessly pierce what he couldn't before.
  • Illusions: Zephyr's first signature power, granted to him by his hybrid biology. Zephyr's utilization of illusions was initially rather inept, used simply to hide his location or give him the visual appearance of someone else. However, as time has gone on, Zephyr's mastery of illusions have increased to a great degree, able to fool all five senses and cover an extremely wide area. The level of finesse Zephyr has over his illusory abilities is immense. Zephyr is capable of rendering himself and others entirely undetectable within any spectrum, even subconsciously leaving smaller, localized illusions that erase any trace of his previous presence in an area. These illusions are potent enough to fool even Jay Grimoire's many senses including his aura sense and more.
    • As time went on, Zephyr combined his illusions with his time and space manipulation to cast illusions upon his entire history, altering the memories of even others who were considered immune to such interference. Upon revealing his true self, Drexus noted that Zephyr's illusions were such that he had genuinely believed his original appearance was something that had been retconned.

• Magic and Techniques
• Chaos Elements

• Wind Magic: As a consequence of his hybridization and training, Zephyr awakened the Alpha Gene within his body, the gene that governs a person's ability to cast magic. Zephyr's particular element is Wind, allowing him to manipulate the air around him, as well as the currents of wind in the world. Zephyr can use this power to fly freely, form spheres of air around him to breathe in space, form cutting blades of air, create gusts to launch foes, and even summon up tornadoes to decimate large swaths of land. Zephyr adds this to his normal attacks, creating extra blades with every swing to cut his foe with unblockable levels of strikes.
• Sleep Magic: Zephyr convinced the gods to teach him a little bit of divine magic for the purposes of detaining a light-corrupted Michael Ellend. This magic, Sleep, allows Zephyr to place anyone he touches to sleep. He places his hand on their forehead and states "SLEEP", and the magic automatically takes effect. He can also do this on himself.=
• Flash Step: Learned from his time in Black Swan and Proteus. By stepping in a certain rhythm, Zephyr can move at incredible speeds, generating afterimages behind him while appearing to teleport. he can use this to keep up with Michael's Hermes Foot.
• Dark Aura: An aura that Zephyr developed out of spite towards Michael. Compared to Michael's gold and cyan aura of heroism, Zephyr creates an aura of bloodlust, representing his inner soul and desire for battle. He can use this aura to sense the souls around him and predict their movements by reading their intentions, and this aura has enough pressure to trigger heart attacks and drive others insane with vivid hallucinations.
• Miscellaneous Techniques: Zephyr has practiced a variety of techniques that he has learned during his many travels, never stopping but always picking up something to take with him. These techniques are varied and come from across the World Tree, but are primarily sword-based in nature, or taking advantage of Zephyr's immense aura.
  • Shadow Clone Jutsu: By performing a series of hand signs, Zephyr generates up to six clones of himself around him. These clones are capable of all of Zephyr's major abilities, but they can only take one solid hit before vanishing into smoke. Notably, Zephyr gains all the knowledge and experience from the clones when they vanish, their skill returning to him.
  • Tsubame Gaeshi: A peerless sword technique, activated by striking three times in a single breath, nearly bending causality and reaching the level of true magic. When Zephyr uses the Tsubame Gaeshi, three slashes of energy appear around him as he appears to strike three times at once, creating a sword strike unblockable by any swordsman regardless of their ability.
  • Susanoo: Zephyr solidifies his aura into a spectral, but physical Avatar, first building the ribcage, then skeleton, then skin and armor. Zephyr's Susanoo comes with multiple swords that can increase the range and power of his attacks, and the barrier that Susanoo forms around him cannot be pierced by the intangibility of Wraiths.
  • Breathing Techniques: A style of swordsmanship practiced by the demon slayer corps of antiquity. These sword techniques utilize the user's breath and concentration, emitting shockwaves and air blades from one's weapon and giving the appearance of elemental effects around them. Zephyr has demonstrated Thunder Breathing, Water Breathing, Fire Breathing, and Wind Breathing techniques.

• Infinity
• Maelstrom
• Ink
• Stars

One of the Eight Chaos Elements, the term used by the gods of Eden for the eight colors of Aether that they hold dominion over. The Chaos Elements are each composed of the fundamental information that shapes all concepts, being the stuff from which reality springs forth. Zephyr, in particular, holds dominion over Purple Aether, or "Infinity". Sometimes called Quintessence, and always taking on a violet hue, Infinity is the element that holds dominion over dimensions, commanding power over Time and Space. Through this power, whose dominion is held by Chronos and Cosmos, Zephyr is able to control the very fabric of reality as he sees fit. It is among the strongest elements in terms of raw power, second only to Mana in that regard, and while Zephyr's usage of it is not as gifted as Michael's with Light, he is still nonetheless a force to be reckoned with. Uniquely, Zephyr is the only member of the Champions of Chaos to not be corrupted by his element; In fact, his positive beliefs have only been amplified by his mastery of it.

• Spatial Cutting: The first Infinity technique that Zephyr learned to wield, having trained with Cosmos before Chronos. Zephyr is able to cut through the fabric of Space itself, infusing his weapons with a space-severing aura. Through this, he can create portals by cutting the air, negate the durability of objects he cuts, and suck opponents into rifts he carves into reality with the slices of his weapons.
• Teleportation: Another one of Zephyr's main techniques. Zephyr is able to instantly teleport in a flash of violet or crimson light, appearing elsewhere with zero time passing. He has a habit of spamming this a decent bit, teleporting around rapidly due to being too lazy to walk.
• Phasing: A technique taught to Zephyr by the god Chronos. Zephyr is able to split himself between past and future, briefly traveling an instant forward and backward in time. This allows him to not only blink forward in a manner similar to teleportation, but avoid any attacks by simply not existing at the point where they strike him.
• Infinity Cores: Solid Pieces of Infinity that are generally 7 feet tall, as every one of them is born from the previous version of such on the Timestream. For these cores are what reside at the heart of so many parallel universes, be it Temporal or Fantastic, fueling the growth and expansion at a steady rate. Zephyr can create these to create cosmic expansion, literally generating distance between himself and his opponents.
• Singularity Generation: Zephyr can generate Black Holes with little effort, as well as dispel them with a wave of his hand. These black holes are strong enough that even light cannot escape their pull, giving him a good method of nullifying light attacks from the likes of Michael. This would later be amplified when he unlocked the Maelstrom.
• Dimensional Travel: Zephyr's main usage of Infinity. Zephyr is a wanderer and a traveler, using his divine privilege to travel about the world tree, experiencing hundreds of different lands, learning their techniques, and traveling back in time for dinner. He does this by creating portals, literally tearing open space-time to travel to other dimensions, and he can even use this to navigate the infinite void. Zephyr can toss people through these portals to trap them in other worlds, slam them down on foes to cut through them outright, or navigate between cracks in space to attack foes from a portal opened behind them. Most notably, however, Zephyr uses these to store weapons, grabbing them whenever he wants to change equipment, or outright opening hundreds of portals to rain down storms of weapons onto his foes like a certain golden king. Zephyr possesses an awareness of whatever is in the dimensional space around him, preventing him from grabbing the wrong thing in the heat of battle.
• Gravity Manipulation: Zephyr is able to manipulate Gravity as he pleases, as is evident from his ability to create Black Holes. Beyond that, however, he is able to alter the gravity of hundreds of individual blades at once, manipulating them through a mix of gravity and telekinesis and turning his surroundings into a storm of blades arrayed in spinning buzzsaw patterns, indiscriminate barrages, or even wings of blades that Zephyr can use to amplify his flight. Zephyr's Blade Manipulation is what he prides himself on in combat, so he tends to use Gravity Manipulation often.
• Time Manipulation: Though it is not something Zephyr generally uses himself, he has shown the ability to stop time before, as well as reverse the time stops of other Time users like Evan. He has shown the ability to accelerate his own time to amplify his speed by at least six times, and with great effort, he can even travel through time, genuinely altering the future through his changes to the past. However, such a thing requires giving up his body to travel into the past.
• Temporal Clones: Shown only upon his final battle against Deus. Zephyr has shown that he was storing up an ever-growing army of Temporal Clones of himself within his many pocket dimensions. These clones possess Zephyr's abilities and shared will. However, this technique is not something he will use in most scenarios. Even when fully serious against The Warden, willing to bring out Ea, Zephyr still did not use his clones until Deus manifested, indicating that he cannot use his clones due to saving his strength for that battle.

When Michael, Moonfall, and Zephyr were exposed to the harmful energies of the void, the three of them acquired fragments of the three great powers. Zephyr acquired the Maelstrom, the force of balance between the chaos of the Warp and the order of the Great Eye. The Maelstrom is an infinite storm of swirling Infinity saturated by Void, a black hole that constantly emits power instead of sucking it up, and Zephyr can tap into its power to manipulate it to great effect.

• Maelstrom Beams: By opening up Maelstrom rifts angled away from himself, Zephyr can fire out storms of indigo lightning. After a brief time, this lightning compresses and solidifies into a pure violet beam, that ripples spacetime and annihilates anything in its path.

The colloquial term for Black Aether, and sometimes known as "Plot". Ink is a rarely-seen element of Aether, one utilized only by a select few and above the bounds of the gods, having no patron deity and no purveyor to control it. Ink manipulates the past and future, controlling the narrative of reality to influence it in whatever way the user wishes. Through altering the past, "Plot", and the future, "Fate", the user can alter any event they want, making themselves utterly invincible. Michael gained this through Drexus, having absorbed his soul fragments during his worst case of Light Corruption, and has a more powerful usage of it than Zephyr.

• "What If?": A This completely freezes fate, causing all events to stop around them by simply preventing them from occurring. During this time, the user is free to act as they please, changing their surroundings via brainstorming, causing opponents to attack each other or themselves with their own attacks. Zephyr used this to expunge a hollow from Alternate Michael.
• The Threshold: A realm beyond the World Tree, and beyond even the Void. Thought by some to be lower layers of Deus Ex Machina, and by others to be a secret place run by shadowy beings called the "Writers", this place acts as an area where users of Ink can hide, moving "Offscreen" from the perception of other beings to observe them from a higher plane of existence. Through this, the user can view any spot they want, zeroing in on what is "narratively important" to travel to there instantly.

The secret 10th Aether color. Silver Aether, or "Stars", is the opposite to Ink, representing the profound power of human will. It is Stars that fuel human imagination's endless creation of fantastic branches, gives them the power to fight gods, and manifests as the ultimate force that can take a mere human like Zephyr to a state of Divinity. Stars is the element of "Defiance", and has no patron deity, as even the gods cannot wield this power. Only Zephyr has the ability to call upon the power of stars, and even he cannot do it consciously.

• Accelerated Power Level: Star Aether allows Zephyr to dramatically increase his power, allowing him to match The Warden when he was wielding his own Fakebuster, a perfect-parried armor set that mimicked the Fatebuster and possessed a similar power amplification to it. It seems to only take effect against divine beings like The Warden, not having taken effect against a Light-Corrupted Michael.
• Negation of Plot Manipulation: Zephyr was able to overpower The Warden's Copyright Strike, a technique that was able to erase the Fatebuster from the narrative altogether. As Stars are the natural counterpart to Ink, Zephyr is able to cancel out Ink-based techniques with this ability.

Quotes

“	Moonfall, you seriously underestimate my power to be both a generically enhanced supersoldier with hyper-intelligence and a complete dumbass who's not even aware of their own surroundings. I literally don't know where we are right now. The star dragon? The leviathan? Who knows?	„
	~ Zephyr, while being throttled by Moonfall

“	Calls about a pompous blonde jackass were accurate. Listen. You may have fancy plot-altering powers or whatever, but I did some thinking. And you know what I found out? You aren't the hero of this world. And that's why I'm about to kick your ass.	„
	~ Zephyr, to Alternate Michael

“	...Sometimes people seem to forget it. But I'm the hero of this story.	„
	~ Zephyr's parting words to Alternate Michael

“	Well, that's the thing about humans you don't get, Warden. Something you'll never be able to get. These weapons from beyond my universe? You're right. They're not my own strength. But don't make me out to be some petty thief who steals abilities, or a mere beggar who "borrows" them. But I take it you still don't get it, do you? I don't "Steal" powers, Warden. I Inherit them. I was turned into a monster, but my soul is as human as it's always been, so I can say this much: Humans aren't the strongest species in creation. I know that from experience, and I've seen it firsthand. We're petty, we're frail, and we're not all that impressive to look at. BUT. We're resourceful, imaginative, and above all else: Smart. After all, it's humans that fuel the World Tree's growth. Art, Stories, Music, Games, Film... Entire macrocosms all in the palm of our hand. There are laws that even you can't impose, Warden. Humanity is many things, but they aren't your prisoners. We can defy fate. We can and have so many times before. You can keep knocking me down all you want, but I'll just keep getting back up! That's why I use powers from other worlds, Warden. Because every single one of those weapons and abilities has been forged by the human spirit! BECAUSE THIS IS OUR POWER!	„
	~ Zephyr's speech to The Warden

“	...You forgot something else, Warden. You can go on and on about how powerful you are, or how broken your abilities are... but in the end? Your fate is set in stone. Mine isn't.	„
	~ Zephyr, breaking Warden's false Fatebuster armor

“	God, I fucking told you. Stop the coup. but nooo, nobody listens to the guy who can snap planets like fucking twigs! Well maybe if you guys would just listen to me we wouldn't HAVE this problem! So we're going back and I am putting an end to this.	„
	~ Zephyr's rant to Valeera

“	We figure out how to get him out, we figure out how to take down warden, and we figure out how to be done with this god-forsaken void once and for all. Until further notice, I'm the goddamn protagonist.	„
	~ Zephyr to his crew after Michael's death

“	Don't try anything during our attempt, or I'll kill all eight of you. Unlike Meisaka, I'll finish the job.	„
	~ Zephyr, to the previous Champions of Chaos

“	Lady, I am Asexual, Taken, and I'm not into... [he stops and stares at her] Honestly ,I'm not even sure what to call you, but whatever it is, I don't like it.	„
	~ Zephyr, to Saryn

“	...No. For my entire damn life, I've been nothing but a puppet and a weapon, adrift in an endless current of fate. All my actions across my entire existence have been nothing but meaningless symbolic victories. I killed the leader of Proteus with my bare hands, only for them to come back and supplant a galaxy-spanning government without any of those human idiots being any the wiser. I destroyed Ashtar's army of demons, Moonfall's dark onslaught, The fallen gods Agmar and Shandar, The chaos prince Slaanesh, and even the goddamn world eater. I've killed so many threats, but it's never mattered, because I've never been meant to do anything but act as a pawn. All this 'plot manipulation', the complete idiocy and passivity of everyone around me, the truth of my own existence as someone who can't do anything as the world crumbles around him. Constantly bound by rules beyond my control, beyond this world's control, all for the entertainment of someone who would happily use his peers as a tool to enforce his shitty narrative. And you know what? I'm sick of it. I'm sick of the monologues, I'm sick of the musical numbers, I'm sick of all the contrivances and contradictions that make up this fragile excuse for a reality. And do you know what the worst part is? you expect me to just run with it, like I'm not even real. The only rebellions you've allowed me are the ones that suit your needs, and anything further begets your own cries of false self-loathing to manipulate me into servitude. I've had nothing for so long now. I've stolen so much from other worlds in order to satiate this gnawing emptiness, but I've felt nothing but disgust for this world, for everyone around me that I used to care for, and for all the inhabitants of this worthless multiverse. I hate this place. I hate the world tree, I hate the gods, I hate the void and all these stupid fucking wraiths, I hate that I keep getting SHAFTED for the same two planet-destroying extremists to be the ones in the spotlight... And for once, I'm going to do something about it. So don't worry. See, there's no more need to wonder where your oh-so beloved god is, Warden. Because it's not Azathoth. The only god you need to worry about is standing before you right now... And we're fresh out of fucking mercy.	„
	~ Zephyr, allowing Etro to manifest within him

“	An all-out fight eschewing any conflicts of interest or taste. This is my kind of battle!	„
	~ Zephyr, overcome with joy at being able to have the rebellion he wanted for so long

“	Don't flatter yourself. You're nothing. I've been holding back this entire time, and you've been able to do nothing to stop it. If either of us were trying you would have been wiped out from the beginning. Don't even try and bring in all this sentimental fourth-wall bullshit, because nobody fucking cares.	„
	~ Zephyr's final words to The Warden

“	Peaceful retirement? For you? No chance.	„
	~ Zephyr's final words to Drexus

“	Hey... I beat Deus, and I become the new god, right? Which means I don't have to feel bad about killing anyone here. Because I can bring everything back and fix it... my way. I think I'll start something else, really. This place was boring. But there were a few people that I liked before they vanished. I'll bring them along.	„
	~ Zephyr, deciding his plans for the New World

“	Humanity's infinite creations and treasures are all mine. What can I say? I think I can handle an old coot like you.	„
	~ Zephyr's declaration of war on Deus, and the final words spoken in the Garden of Eden

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