Kinos Sejren

Kinos Sejren (キノス・セジュレン, Kinosu Sejuren) is Tsuruko Sejren and Marisa Sejren's cousin, and a member of the Magic Council in the Daybreak era. A Rune Knight who is also the Head of Safety, Kinos is known for being brash, perverted, and, well, not too good at his job; as being the one to watch the highly destructive laser cannon known as Etherion, his lazy nature generally leads to countless disasters; this led Alexis Tenjouin to initially replace him with a brick hanging from a lever.

Despite his seeming incompetence and many, many flaws, Kinos, like all members of his family, is terrifyingly strong in combat; though Alexis generally refuses to let him fight, as like his cousin Tsuruko, almost every fight he enters ends in widespread destruction.

Later on in the series, once the Mass-Production Soul Armours begin being rolled out by the Magic Council, Kinos can scan the Change Ring over the Lev Driver Honoo to become Soul Armour Knight Cavalier Commander Unit Kinos Custom (神鎧纏最高戦士 (ソウル・アーマー・ナイト) ・足軽大将・改 (キャバリア・コマンダー・ユニット・キノス・カスタム), Sōru Āmā Naito Kyabaria Komandā Yunitto Kinosu Kasutamu lit. God Armour Clad Supreme Warrior Commander of Foot Soldiers Revision), also referred to as Kinos-Go (キノス・号, Kinosu-gō); and in Daybreak S2, he inherits the Holy Driver from Leanne Rockwell, allowing him to become Soul Armour Knight Saver (神鎧纏最高戦士 (ソウル・アーマー・ナイト) ・炎義侠士 (セイヴァー), Sōru Āmā Naito Seivā lit. God Armour Clad Supreme Warrior Blazing Paladin).

Appearance
Kinos is a rather tall young man, who is shown to have short, messy purple hair that's cut like it's a bother and just left splayed around from all sides. Just the rest of his design, Kinos' tall and handsome figure is meant to contrast other characters in Daybreak. Kinos' purple hair is short and messy, curving out slightly horizontally with several clumps framing his forehead and running down to his nose; he also has matching purple eyes.

In terms of attire, Kinos wears the general Rune Knight uniform, though he is also known for wearing baggy, camouflage-print capri pants, a short, sleeveless, grey vest, and a black muscle shirt.

Personality and Traits
Kinos is a rather loud and boisterous young man; and he is seen as brash, impulsive, emotional, and extremely impatient. He is very prone to letting his emotions overcome his better judgment, which causes him quite a fair bit of trouble in the series. Yet, at the same time, Kinos is shown to be rather fun-loving and mischievous, with great confidence in himself; something that Alexis notes is a very crippling flaw, as since he became the "Etherion Watch" guy, "; which puts him in the position of supervising the cannon and making sure nothing goes wrong- but even so, there have been accidental firings that cause several nations to end up looking like the sordid offspring of an orgy between Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island and the Love Canal. To see how good Kinos is at his job, three times he temporarily leaves his spot at Etherion control station. He is replaced by a firstly, a chicken, secondly, a brick hanging from a lever and thirdly, a "drinking bird" plastic toy that presses the "enter" key on the keyboard on every question asked.

Even so, despite being, for a lack of a better phrase, fucking terrible at his job, Kinos is shown to be a calm, laidback, casual, collected, and respectful individual with a carefree attitude; always trying to be positive to keep the spirits of others up. Deen suspects that this is the reason why Alexis hasn't sacked him, as he's too nice to really lay off. However, Kinos is also relatively blunt, never afraid to give his opinion; indeed, like many of the people in the Magic Council, he calls Alexis "stupid" to her face quite a bit and like Deen, suffers no backlash. He's also very patient and understanding, as when Deen didn't want to tell him about his new "bizarre friendship" with well-known criminal Kirika Hotsuin, he decided to wait around him for nearly two days until Deen told his friend. Despite it sometimes going against orders and putting his job at stake, he's always willing to stick his neck out for his friends, regardless of whether he is asked or not, even if he'd only met them a day ago.

Of course, one of Kinos' most notable traits is that he's a bit of a flirt; he can't stop ogling the ladies- but unlike some who ogle the ladies, he actually cares about them as people; making a clear effort to remember the names of girls he only met for five seconds months ago. Additionally, he has a lot of respect for their own preferences, when Excellen shut him down and told him that she was a lesbian, he immediately backed off; and since Kirika is interested in his best friend, he has never actually put the moves on her mostly due to his incredible respect for Deen, and partly because Kirika has an unrelenting hatred of everyone except Deen. However, he seems only to be successful with Leanne Rockwell, though their relationship becomes strained after she attacks Deen and Kinos refuses to even interact with her afterwards. Kinos has been noted on many occasions to be rather unintelligent, and, at times, just plain stupid. However, as Deen says, he "can be a genius at fighting"; indeed, in battle, Kinos is shown to be much more confident and experienced than Deen. In battle he will do anything to win, as long as it doesn't affect his allies.

Equipment
Lev Driver Honoo (レフ・ドライバ・炎, Refu Doraibā Honō; Flame): The Lev Driver Honoo is a mass-produced Driver Belt designed to work with Mass-Production Model Soul Armours. The Lev Driver Honoo is a steel belt which has runic markings engraved upon the sides and the buckle; along with a Drive Lever on the right. When transforming into the Mass-Production Model Soul Armour, dubbed Soul Armour Knight Cavalier, the user scans the Change Ring over the belt buckle, before revving the Drive Lever once, resulting in a burst of energy engulfing their bodies and manifesting the Armour Parts which solidify over the bodysuit, finishing the transformation.

Ways of Combat
Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Kinos has indeed been shown to be quite competent and deadly when unarmed. He has repeatedly shown great agility and coordination in his attacks. In addition to having powerful punches, Kinos is proficient in counterattacks, takedowns, and body locks. He has, on one occasion, caught an opponent's weapon strike with a single hand; though the opponent was able to overpower him afterwards. When in battle unarmed, Kinos is ruthlessly pragmatic; possessing absolutely no concept of a code of honour; and as such, he will strike females, attack children, hit below the belt, and even pull dirty tactics if those involved have some part in his enemy's plan. Additionally, he is quite inventive—coming up with creative attacks on the spot to launch against his enemies, catching them by surprise. Kinos' favoured manner of offense is that of the way of punching; making use of his powerful arms and fists to take on his foes, with his specialty lying in punching moves where he uses his fists to their fullest. In terms of fighting style, Kinos focuses specially on power, using strong and powerful punches, such as powerpacked jabs or piercing uppercuts, to deal damaging blows to his opponents. Once he catches an opponent in his combos, he keeps them trapped by keeping up his strikes, not allowing his opponents a chance to counterattack. For stronger strikes, Kinos tends to build up momentum with his fists by swinging them around, before hitting his opponent with full force. However, it has been shown that he will use kicks as well to close the distance between him and his opponent. The force and speed that he strikes with often catches many an opponent off-guard, and he is able to apply even more force into his blows, giving his limbs even more power and devastating reach.

Other Styles: While like most members of the Sejren Family, Kinos prefers to devastate his opponents with his incredible hand-to-hand prowess, let it not be said that he isn't skilled in any armed combat. Most notably, he is shown to be incredible dangerous with any sort of rifle, specifically the Magic Council-issued Eternano Rifle, as he possesses several tricks and skills associated with gunplay, such as being able to ricochet his shots against solid surfaces, making them unpredictable, and initiating attacks from otherwise impossible angles, frequently employing this tactic against criminals, using the environment as his weapon to bombard his opponents with attacks from all sides, and then capitalizing when their guard is open. Additionally, he is shown to be capable of matching Deen using their Eternano Sabers in a sparring match, and later on, defend himself against Leanne Rockwell's Nothung High-Frequency Blade.

Other
Sejren Gene (セジュレン・遺伝子, Sejuren Idenshi): The Sejren Gene is a mysterious ability displayed by several members of the Sejren Family; it's described as a "bloodline awakening" not seen in any other family. It's noted to be a power that only manifests when a member of the family experiences an epiphany, reevaluating their life and coming to a conclusion of what exactly needs to be accomplished in order to overcome the turmoil in front of them. Doing so releases the body's natural limiters; granting them a physical prowess far above normal humans and even some other races, like great strength, speed, agility, accuracy and coordination. In consequence, despite the family's innate inability to harness magic, they are acknowledged as extremely powerful warriors, with many of them capable of overpowering strength-enhancing magic and outrunning speed-enhancing magic. However, the power seems to only awaken in a few members—but arises when the person experiences certain moments in their life that awakens it, and remains active for the rest of the user's life.

Soul Armour
Soul Armours (神鎧 (ソウル・アーマー), Sōru Āmā lit. God Armour) are specialized armours worn by various powerful warriors known as Soul Armour Knights (神鎧纏最高戦士 (ソウル・アーマー・ナイト), Sōru Āmā Naito lit. God Armour Clad Supreme Warrior); they are human or humanoid warriors who transforms from a natural human form using a Driver Belt into a superhuman form clad in the armour. The Knights secretly patrol their respective territories to protect civilians from demons. Armed with special equipment, the knights carry an eternal war to maintain the light over the darkness in the realm.

Trivia

 * Kinos was originally a one-shot character; though he got an expanded role due to positive remarks from fans due to being one of the few people in the Magic Council besides Deen to be completely likeable.