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APPLICANT INFO.
NAME: Wind
CONTACT: shogunsensual
CURRENT CHARACTERS: None

CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: The fairies know him as Fairy King Harlequin, but he goes by King as a knight of Liones.
CANON: Seven Deadly Sins
AGE: 1300+ years, though presumably less than 3000. He looks like a young teenager.
APPEARANCE: King's genuine appearance is that of an impish boy with a stylized bear tattooed on his leg, but occasionally (when under emotional strain or when he wants to appear more "dignified"), he can take on an entirely different form.
CANON POINT: Chapter 135, after Meliodas regains his former power

BACKGROUND: "A Sin shall ask no questions of another member's sin."

PERSONALITY: Funny enough, though King represents the deadly sin of sloth, he sees himself as selfish. Throughout his centuries of life, he's come to cherish too many things, more things than a single person can possibly protect. When asked what his "number one" would be, King refuses to choose. His sister Elaine, his best friend Helbram, the Fairy King's forest, the fairies who live there, the giantess Diane... They're all his number one, and he can't bear to lose any of them. Of course, because he tries to save them all and all on his own, he systematically loses them all. For several hundred years, he even loses himself, amnesia stealing his identify from him. Indecision, hesitation, avoidance, and being too content with the status quo are all reasons King has found not to act because he's afraid of facing those losses. Not acting has only ensured that those losses become reality.

Thus, the Grizzly's Sin of Sloth is born.

First and foremost, it's important to remember that King is not human. He doesn't see the world as humans do. Because they have such long lifespans, fairies don't feel rushed to accomplish anything. Building a family, warring with others, and even leaving behind a legacy are considered human fancies. This leads them to be very lazy and laid back as a whole. King is no exception. Like all fairies, he's content to fly most everywhere, lounging on his levitating pillow and dodging the pointless brawls Meliodas and Ban love so much. With the sloth of his people, however, also comes patience. King is a ranged fighter in many ways, willing to step back and let his opponent make the first move. He's the type of person who can promise to love someone always and keep that promise decades after the one he promised forgets. Unfortunately, due to his circumstances, King has no choice but to operate on a human timeline because he has no choice but to operate with humans.

King's relationship with humanity is difficult at best. He is fascinated with the things they create, but he also knows from experience that while humans create beautiful things, they also destroy them. In essence, humans are interesting to watch. They just can't be trusted. King's default for dealing with humans is "guilty until proven innocent." Every once in a while, people like Princess Elizabeth reach him with their earnest efforts to protect those they love, and despite his own feelings, King remains largely proper and polite when addressing human authority. But when someone wrongs him or the fairy people, he treats them with shameless and prejudiced contempt. An eye for an eye, a human life for a fairy life. He won't hide what's really important to him.

At least, he won't hide it until what's important to him is something that shouldn't be. As the fairy king, it is his duty to protect the fairy king's forest and uphold the peace treaty between fairies and humans. It is not his duty to protect Diane or the humans of Liones, but he has spent centuries doing just that. He may have been arrested for failing to uphold the peace treaty by letting his friend Helbram slaughter so many people, but he recognizes his own sin as his not having been able to do enough (especially for Helbram). Now King can't help but want to protect everyone he can in a battle, even those he feels he should hate. He can't always say as much. Nearly every time he shields a human, he uses the excuse that he only did it under Meliodas' orders or because of Diane. He uses the Seven Deadly Sins as an excuse to stay close to Diane, but even though everyone else knows it, he never says as much to Diane herself. He cares too much though he doesn't want to care at all, hates himself for abandoning his own kingdom and yet can't bring himself to abandon Liones, adores but also despises what humans (and he himself) are capable of.

This wouldn't surprise anyone who knows him well. King is unabashedly emotional, as quick to tears as he is to anger, as transparent in love as he is in war. This is a surprising rarity among the Seven Deadly Sins, which in an ironic twist, turns King into the pragmatic straight man of the group. Compared to the extremely lopsided personalities of his companions, King is both emotionally well-balanced and responsible enough to see the bigger picture and assess their situations accordingly. It also leads him to act on the emotions his companions refuse or are unable to show. Captain Meliodas refers to him as the mascot of the Seven Deadly Sins because he's the kind of person who can cry over Ban stealing stuffed animals from children and then return each and every one of those stuffed animals to their rightful owners like some ridiculous, fairy Santa Claus. But he's also the kind of person who can attack his own captain, the man who saved him from a thousand years in prison, because Diane and Ban trust him too much, and he doesn't want to see them betrayed.

Quite frankly, King has something of a responsibility overload, none of which he asked for. The Sacred Tree chose him as the fairy king, and when he joined the Seven Deadly Sins, it was that or serving a thousand year prison sentence. He's been saddled with so much that it was only a matter of time before he made a crucial mistake. For better or worse though, King is determined to live up to that responsibility. His determination, not only to atone but also to prevent past mistakes from happening again, is what allows him to sacrifice himself so completely for others. He tears his body to shreds in battles that aren't his to fight alone because he also readily accepts the blame that isn't his to carry alone. Many of his "sins" are the result of being forced to make an impossible choice, where no matter which option he takes, he's guaranteed to regret leaving the other behind. King recognizes them as sins nonetheless and recognizes himself as a criminal, a "fool beyond saving."

As Howzer, a holy knight and thus a supposed enemy, contests after King shields him from certain death: "The Seven Deadly Sins are just a bunch of fools that are too kind for their own good."

ABILITIES: King is physically weaker than even the average human. Without his powers and sacred treasure, he has no chance of fighting back against anyone. His magical abilities, however, often allow him to hide this glaring weakness.

• Levitation/Flight: King's most utilized ability. He is able to move himself and other objects through the air, from something as small as tipping a tea cup off a table to something as large scale as sending hundreds of knives careening toward his opponents. This is seen as strange by some because unlike most fairies King has no wings.

• Sensing Energy: Many warriors are able to sense the power of others even when they're a fair distance away. King is one of them. This ability has vague results when not coupled with the magical item Balor's Eye, which allows a person to see exact power levels. For example, if the power is far enough away, King can only sense that there is power, not what kind of power or how many people are exuding that power. The closer he gets to the source, the better he can discern these details.

• Memory Erasure: This ability has yet to be elaborated on, but it is fact that King erases hundreds of years from Diane's memories in order to ensure she forgets about him. He does this by pricking her with an unidentified flower.

• Transformation: King is able to change his appearance, taking on a "human" form. Despite how greatly his height and weight shifts during this transformation, he is able to fashion new clothing or resize his signature outfit whenever he changes form. It's also implied that faeries have the ability to transform plants into clothing, which might be related.

• Disaster: King's innate power as the lord of fairies. It allows him to manipulate the natural properties of organic matter. As Merlin sums it up, "A mere scratch becomes a grave wound, a normal poison can become a fatal toxin, and a small tumor can grow to a massive size. The power allows him, as the fairy king, to manage and rule over the plants and forests by exercising complete control over life and death." This power is shown in canon when King turns the small cut he's given Meliodas into a large gash and then condenses all of the water within Meliodas' baton into a single drop, turning it into a would-be bullet for him to control. He also uses it in conjunction with his sacred treasure, which was forged from the wood of the sacred tree in the fairy realm.

King's sacred treasure is the Spirit Spear Chastiefol, and as a sacred treasure, there's no way a normal person could hope to wield it. Because he is so much more dependent on his weapon than the other Sins, he always has it with him in the form of a green pillow. It is stronger than steel and capable of regeneration (perhaps due to King's Disaster ability). The weapon itself has many forms, each displaying a different aspect of the sacred tree.

• Form One, Spear: A heavy spear with no particular aspects other than speed and power. King levitates the spear and directs it to unrelentingly pursue his opponents.

• Form Two, Guardian: A giant stuffed bear formed by shape-shifting the moss that grows on the sacred tree (and thus on Chastiefol). The moss has a high water content, meaning it's resistant to flames and heat but weak to cold. King can order it to immobilize enemies or catch allies as well as fight.

• Form Three, Fossilization: A more organic spear that resembles a crustacean's claw and armor. Once King stabs someone with it, he can petrify them, a technique that's useful against people like Ban who are technically immortal. If the stabbed body part is cut off before the petrification spreads, it can be stopped. It's also implied that King can reverse the effects if he chooses.

• Form Four, Sunflower: A large flower that towers buildings with its size. When King summons this form, a flower bud forces its way out of the earth and grows to maturity in an instant. The moment it blooms, the flower releases a barrage of projectiles like rays of the sun.

• Form Five, Increase: A variable number of smaller blades that act much the same way as Chastiefol's first form. In this form, King can control each blade individually, turning them into a literal swarm of knives. The density of this swarm allows him to use it both offensively and defensively.

• Form Six, ???: If there is a sixth form, it hasn't been revealed yet.

• Form Seven, Luminosity: A ringed ball of light shaped much like Saturn. King uses it as a lantern.

• Form Eight, Pollen Garden: A barrier formed with the pollen of the sacred tree. King uses it to protect others in destructive battles. The pollen also has healing properties. While it doesn't heal wounds fast enough to be of any use in battle, it does take away the pain of those wounds.

• True Spirit Spear Chastiefol: The true form of Chastiefol which King normally can't handle. It's implied that he's only summoned it successfully once, in Chapter 118. When he did, it took so much energy that his fingernails were blown off his fingers and he was rendered unconscious in midair. The spear is so powerful, however, that it was able to one-hit K.O. one of the demon weapons known as Albion, a feat only matched by Meliodas.

INVENTORY: Chastiefol, one pair of pants

WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE: [King idly twirls his brand new pinky ring once, twice, three times before he finally activates it as instructed. The username king is more than sufficient, all things considered, seeing as he's feeling particularly condescending right now. He has more important things to be doing. (Like saving Diane, dammit! How much longer is that mission going to be delayed by things going wrong? He's delayed it too long on his own already.)

The sight that greets the network is a boy with tousled red-brown hair and a tight frown. Also, he's floating a good five feet off the ground on a fluffy, green pillow. No need to pay attention to that part. It's the frown that's important!]

So I heard something about a giant serpent eating old recruits. Honestly, I feel bad for the serpent. It probably got indigestion.

[King snorts. What is it with humans and deciding that "giant" must be equivalent to "evil"?]

Can anybody here tell me why ALASTAIR thought it'd be a good idea to militarize a bunch of people who dropped in at random for a job as important as protecting time? Maybe then I'd feel more motivated to fight their battles for them.

Maybe.

Unlike some people, I don't make a habit of promising things without proof I can keep them.

[You know, just as long as you ignore the fact that he does.]

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