Adrien L'hereaux

Adrien L'hereaux (アドリン ル ヘローックス, Adorin Ruheroukkusu) also known by several monikers such as The Beast of the East (東の獣, Azuma no Kemono) and The Godfist (神拳, Shinken), the latter also being the name of his unique form of Explosion Magic. Though these are all names Adrien has given himself and the general public are unaware of his identity. He is a mercenary of sorts, using his extraordinary skills as both a fighter and mage to earn a profit for him and his benefactor.

He serves as an antagonist whose clashed with Wings of Archadia on more than one occassion, namely against Johan Hellstrom when he was a member and Roffe Snow. It is unknown where he originates from but given his moniker it can be assumed that he hails from one of the kingdoms east of Fiore.

Appearance
Adrien is known for his wild and unkempt appearance. Sporting medium length spikey blonde hair swept back, Adrien is a tall and muscular man in his mid twenties with yellow eyes, thin eyebrows and tanned skin. Around his forearms are matching black tattoos of diagonal lines contained within two bands.

He has several outfits that he circulates through but it mainly consists of a long sleeve purple shirt rolled up to the elbows, the center unbuttoned exposing his toned chest. The shirt appears to have yellow tribal markings spanning from one shoulder down across the chest and ending on the opposite end. Adrien also wears black boot cut jeans that flare out slightly at the bottom and brown boots.

Adrien also wears an assortment of accessories to finish off his attire. He wears silver earings, a black band around the neck similar to a collar, and another necklace consisting of black cord with several bones and fangs that hand down in front of the chest. Supporting his pants is a brown leather belt and silver buckly with an infinity sign engraved on it. A silver chain connects from the buckle to his back pocket. Also near the bottom of his left leg is a black silver studded band that wrap around the shin. To finish off his outfit is a pain of black gloves that he primarily wears when fighting.

Overall, his general apearance is that of a "bad boy" and matches his wild personality.

Personality
Matching his appearance, Adrien is known for his wild personality and highly energetic attitude. He greatly favors fun before work, and encourages people to do everything possible to enjoy life to the fullest. When outside of battle, he's mainly seen grinning or laughing at his own jokes, even if others don't quite understand them. He overendulges in a lot of things, like food, drink and women, often getting himself in to trouble when he flirts with a woman who's already taken. He's stated as holding the record for most bars thrown out of in Fiore. He's also pretty ill-mannered, as seen when stuffing his face with mounds of food with complete disregard to how inappropriate in may seem.

He can come off as quite arrogant, though he would label it as extreme confidence in his own abilities. In fact, there's seldom a time where Adrien doesn't believe he can't defeat an opponent, no matter how strong they appear. He's fearless in the face of battle, actually taking great joy in participating. His main goals are to find worthy opponents to fight against and test his limits. This is why he serves as a mage for hire and accpets missions that could provide that challenge.

When a challenge presents itself, Adrien can feel his blood boiling and gets extremely excited at the prospect of fighting. He's absolutely fearless and confident, never backing down against an opponent. Although he does love battling, Adrien is also known to hold grudges if defeated or if a battle is interrupted, such as when he first fought against Johan and their battle ended without a clear victor. This battle stemmed from Adrien's desire to prove his fighting style was superior to Johan, since both fought in similar ways. Adrien has since followed the band around in hopes of getting to fight them again.

History
Adrien first appeared during a fight against Johan Hellstrom, a member of Wings of Archadia at the time. The two shared similar fighting styles and Adrien wanted to prove that his was far superior. The battle ended without a clear victor, being interrupted for unknown reasons. Unfortunately, Adrien couldn't leave that alone and followed the band around in hopes for a rematch. When he learned of Johan's demise, Adrien instead challenged Royce, but due to his emotional breakdown, Roffe stepped in battle Adrien in his place.

But once again, Adrien's battle was interrupted, this time by the Silver Guard in Ilmarinen and by the time his sentence was served, the band had left the city on their tour. He tried to keep up with them but everytime he got close, something stood in his way. His desire turned into an obsession but to return to Ilmarinen, he needed to pay off some massive fines from past indiscretions. Adrien turned to mage for hire and has slowly been building his credit to buy his way back into to the city in hopes of meeting the band again.

Plot
Coming Soon.

Magics & Abilities
Godfist (神拳, Shinken) Adrien is known to wield a powerful version of Explosion Magic (爆発の魔法, Bakuhatsu no Mahō) known as the Godfist. When activating this magic, violent yellow and black torrents of energy swirl around him, concentrated around his fists primarily. With this magic, he's able to unleash explosive blasts in the forms of punching techniques that are further enhanced by his great physical strength and fighting style. The energy delivers with tremendous impact, capable of destroying most objects in makes contact with, and explodes with such outward force that its capable of sending his opponents flying away from him. When striking against the ground, Adrien is able to release the blasts as a form of a wave destroying everything in its path. The wave can also appear to erupt from underneath, causing the earth to blow apart and release the energy from the cracks it creates. As with Johan, this form of magic takes advantage of his boxing style of fighting to deliver devastating attacks that primarily focus on close quarter combat, with a few long range spells as support. The surge of power that rushes through his targets is highly destructive, capable of bringing down entire homes in one punch, or send a series of punches to completely overwhelm them. Because of the nature of his magic, he can seemingly overload other magical constructs and cause them explode.

Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Adrien takes great pride in his fighting ability and his style of combat focusing mostly, if not entirely, on punching techniques. His skill is so great that he's able to deliver a single, well placed punch and knock out his opponent. Johan described his fighting style as powerful but fluid at the same time, who combines fast footwork and focused punches to maximize his damage while maintaining his defenses.