Lighter

Real Name: Lighter Gender: Male Height: 6'1" Birthday: December 27th Species: Human Faction: Sons of Calydon Attribute: Fire Specialty: Stun

Lighter is the Champion of the Sons of Calydon, the red-scarf fighter who represents the gang when its strongest member has to face another gang’s champion. Before joining them, he was a mercenary and led a company with comrades he cared for closely. After a disastrous mistake caused their deaths, he took on heavy debt to support the families left behind. Unable to repay it, he was forced into underground fighting, where he kept winning while living more like a man enduring punishment than chasing glory.

Big Daddy eventually paid off Lighter’s debt and brought him into the Sons of Calydon, where Lighter took over the Champion role once held by Billy Kid. At first, he treated the gang like another fighting job, but he gradually came to see the Sons as people he wanted to protect rather than lose. His weapon, the combustion gauntlet Spark, was made through the gang’s combined effort, with Big Daddy ordering it, Lucy helping pay for it, Burnice providing its fuel, Piper handling transport, and Caesar tuning it.

Appearance: Lighter has fair peach skin and a tall, lean athletic build with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs, and a fitted street-combat frame. He has messy dark teal hair with heavy bangs covering one eye, with the visible eye appearing pale green beneath a black eye-mask-like marking. He wears a dark red scarf around his neck, a black layered jacket with pointed lapels, gold spike studs along the shoulders, zipper trim, emblem patches, and a metallic gold badge-like ornament across the chest. One arm is covered by a dark fitted sleeve, while the other has gray armor-like plating and a large gold mechanical gauntlet with angular panels, raised spikes, and a star emblem. His waist has a black belt with a large gold buckle, smaller pouches, hanging straps, and metal hardware. He wears dark fitted pants with thigh straps, buckles, and side attachments, along with heavy black boots featuring gray armored shin guards, layered plates, treaded soles, and small gold accents. A long red scarf-like fabric trails behind him.

Personality: Lighter is quiet, cool, even-tempered, and reserved, but he carries himself with the confidence of someone used to being sent into the hardest fights. He calls himself the undefeated Champion, yet his pride is not simple arrogance. It comes from his role as the Sons of Calydon’s representative in gang challenges and from the guilt he carries over losing his old mercenary company. He tends to speak plainly, acts more serious than most of the gang, and treats strength as something that has to protect people rather than just prove dominance.

His strongest present ties are with the Sons of Calydon. Big Daddy clears his debt and gives him a place in the gang, while Caesar trusts him as the group’s Champion and right-hand fighter. Lighter also inherits the red scarf once associated with Billy Kid, connecting him to the older Calydon legacy and its former Champion. He is not as openly chaotic as the rest of the group, but his loyalty to them is firm because they become the place where he can fight for people again instead of surviving alone.

Combat Overview: Lighter fights as a fast close-range brawler who chains punches, jabs, uppercuts, and evasive shuffle movement without breaking his rhythm. His style mixes physical strikes with fire damage, letting him stay close to enemies, slip around attacks, parry when needed, and flow back into heavy combo pressure. When pushed into his stronger state, he becomes harder to interrupt and can take far less damage while driving through his finishing sequence.

His ultimate, W-Form Crowned Inferno, has Lighter unleash a powerful fire-charged strike across the area around him. It acts as a large-scale finishing blow that catches nearby enemies in a burst of massive Fire damage.

Lore: Proxies are individuals who guide those who enter the Hollows. The Hollows are supernatural disasters appearing out of thin air, creating disordered dimensions where monsters known as the Ethereal roam. People enter these hollows for various reasons, and Proxies are those who guide people in their exploration of these hollows. Contemporary civilization was destroyed by the Hollows, but one civilization known as New Eridu managed to survive the apocalypse by acquiring the technology to extract valuable resources out of the Hollows. The Hollows then became industrialized and monetized under the city's administration, which gradually led to the increasing tension between monopolistic enterprises, gangs, conspirators, and fanatics.

The Ethereals are mysterious monsters that roam the Hollows. Ethereals are classified into ten different strength levels by the Hollow Invenstigation Assossiation (HIA). Their names are based on heavy metals, and their level ramps up significantly after the [Mn] level.

Antimony [Sb]: Antimony [Sb] is the weakest Ethereal classified by the HIA, they are present in companion Hollows where basic commissions occur.

Tin [Sn]: Only a few Tin [Sn] Ethereals are present in companion Hollows.

Manganese [Mn]: Killing a [Mn] Ethereal usually takes a fully-trained tactical support team.

New Eridu is the last surviving city after contemporary civilization was destroyed by the Hollows. New Eridu managed to survive and thrive after the apocalypse by acquiring the technology to be able to extract resources out of the Hollows.

Bangboo are intelligent devices unique to New Eridu. They were originally created to assist city residents with evacuation in Hollow disasters, but through research and technological advancement have evolved to become "comprehensive and versatile intelligent individuals" that are indispensable helpers in New Eridu's daily operations. Most Bangboo are short and stout, only around knee-height. They have ears resembling bunny ears on the top of their heads, and a black screen for a face, which can display colored circles as eyes.