Yuan Ka-Fai (S-TU)

Yuan Ka-Fai is the leader of the Renegades and an angel of Cruxis in the Student-Teacher Universe, an AU of Tales of Symphonia. Unlike most Angels, Yuan still identifies with his origin race (the half-elves) and searches for a way to save his fellow half-elves from persecution.

Author: KitKatt0430
Race: Half-Elf/Angelic Being
Gender: Male
Age: Well over 4000 years
Date of Birth: Unknown
Place of Origin: Asgard, Sylvarant
Currently Located: Flanoir Base, Tethe'alla
Height: 5 feet, 11 inches
Hair Color: Blue
Eye Color: Blue
Wing Color/Type: Pink/Crystalline
Occupation: Renegade Leader and Flanoir Base Commander
Languages: Angelic, Common, Elvish
Nickname(s): Teach
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Born over 4000 years before the start of the Aselian Calender, Yuan has lived far longer than his original half-elven lifespan of 800 to 1000 years. The source of his longevity can be found in his Cruxis Crystal, which has been fused to his being in order to suspend his aging process and lock him perminantly in his Angelic form.

Born in the nation of Sylvarant in the city of Asgard (though it was not necessarily going by that name at the time), Yuan was raised to be a patriot. He joined the Balacrouf Army, which defended Sylvarant against Tethe'alla, and fought in several battles before coming to the realization that mana levels were no longer replenishing the way they ought to. While attempting to find the cause of the mana shortage, Yuan encountered the Yggdrasill siblings, Mithos and Martel, and their bodyguard, Kratos Aurion.

Though at first believing the trio to be lying about their intentions, Yuan develops feelings for Martel and eventually comes to believe their story that they're searching for a way to heal the Giant Kharlan Tree and put an end to the war. Kratos, however, is a different story. Having faced Kratos in battle a few times before, Yuan was reluctant to trust that the Tethe'allan human. During their battle with the Summon Spirit Volt, however, Kratos saves Yuan's life at great risk to his own and the two finally become friends.

During their journey, the quartet accepted experimental Cruxis Crystals from a Tethe'allan scientist. It quickly becomes apparent, however, that there's more to the crystals than was first let on. Over time they develop wings, their strength radically improves, and their hearing grows hypersensitive, as does their eyesight. While at first these changes seem to be improvements, Martel eventually grows ill from the Cruxis Crystal equipped to her; it seems to be changing her into a crystal.

Desperate to find a cure, Yuan surprises himself with the depth of his emotions and realizes that he's in love with Martel. Once she's cured, Yuan begins courting her, much to her brother's displeasure.

Using their Angelic abilities and Mithos' Summoning Skills as leverage, the quartet staged a meeting between the leaders of Sylvarant and Tethe'alla. While Mithos takes charge of the summit to begin peace talks, Yuan sneaked out with Kratos to purchase an engagement ring for Martel. Once the treaty was signed, the four heroes turned their attention towards healing the Giant Kharlan Tree. In the middle of the healing spell, however, a human who had helped them on their journey attacks and kills Martel.

Martel's Cruxis Crystal fuses to the Giant Kharlan Tree during the attack and became part of the Great Seed. Instead of germinating the seed, however, Mithos declared that it was too soon after the war for the new tree to survive and that the only chance of saving the world was to split it in two for a time and ration the mana from the Great Seed. Yuan reluctantly agreed and helped Mithos found Cruxis, an organization of Angels that would watch over the two worlds until they could be reunited.

At that time, Yuan delved deeply into the powers of his Cruxis Crystal, binding it irrevocably to him and halting his aging. He also formed a Sworn Brother Oath, a magical, familial binding, with Kratos, who had feared how badly Yuan was taking Martel's death. Yuan, Kratos, and Mithos move to the city of Welgaia on Dherris Kharlan and induct a few more Angels to help them run the city and monitor the two worlds. He then designs and oversees the construction of the Tower of Salvation.

After three hundred years of being an Angel, Yuan returns to Sylvarant and meets Spiritua, the Chosen of Regeneration. Though aware of the system Mithos put in place to allow for the 'hourglass' system of keeping one world in decline while allowing the other to prosper, this was the first time Yuan had heard of the Church of Martel or of the Desians. Yuan lends his aid to Spiritua and helps her become the first successful Chosen.

Approximately 3000 years before the Aselian Calender, Yuan learns that Yggdrasill intends to start killing the Chosen who prove unsuccessful in merging with Martel's soul, which has survived in the Great Seed. Until then, Yuan had no idea Mithos had been attempting to revive his sister. Conflicted by the realization that what Yggdrasill is doing is wrong and the desire to see Martel again, Yuan leaves Cruxis, spending the next 500 years traveling the two worlds, often accompanied by Kratos.

About 2500 years before the start of the Aselian Calender, Yuan returns to Cruxis and begins research into robot technology. Over the next 1000 years, he develops highly advanced drones capable of defending Cruxis from the occassional infiltraitor. Often visiting the two worlds when in need of a break, Yuan is appalled to see dumbed down versions of his technology in use in the Desian camps. The last of Yuan's ignorance is stripped away as he realizes that the Desians work for Yggdrasill just like the Church and the Angels do.

1512 years before the worlds are reunited, Yuan begins gathering half-elves and humans dedicated to equality and suspicious of the Church of Martel together. He tells them the truth behind Cruxis and they band together to form the Renegades. Over the next 1500 years, the Renegades expand into a force to be reckoned with while Yuan acts as their leader and main spy.

10 years before the start of the Aselian Calender, Yuan encounters Zelos Wilder, the then current Chosen of Tethe'alla and is struck by how being the Chosen has already harmed the child. Taking an interest in Zelos' welfare and quality of life, Yuan introduces the boy to the Renegades and, though Zelos only stays at the base a few times throughout the year, grows fond of him. Eventually Yuan becomes Zelos' teacher and the two develop relationship similar to that of a father and son.

In the Year of Reunification (0 Aselian Calender), Yuan encounters Lloyd Irving and is one of the first to accurately identify the teen as being Kratos' son, who was thought to be dead. Yuan takes an instant dislike to the brunet, who he views as being Kratos' weakness and a lucky novice. But when Zelos defies Yuan's orders and helps Lloyd defeat Cruxis, Yuan is forced to revaluate his opinion.

During year one of the new Aselian Calender, Yuan finalizes the transfer of Triet Base into Zelos' command and heads up the reconstruction of Ozette in Tethe'alla and Palmacosta in Sylvarant. Yuan also manages to come to an arrangement with Lloyd over the protection of the Yggdrasill Tree.

When Spiritua and the other Chosen awaken from stasis, Yuan is taken by surprise, as he was unaware that the Chosen had not actually been killed. Kratos reluctantly reveals that he placed them in stasis in hopes that, when the world was saved, the Chosen would be allowed to have the lives they'd been previously denied.

Two years after the World Reunification, Yuan manipulates events from behind the scenes in order to ensure that Ratatosk, the protector of the long dead Giant Kharlan Tree, could not usurp Martel's place as the Spirit of the Yggdrasill Tree.

Personality

Yuan's most notable personality trait is his stubborn pride. There are times when he'll make up his mind about something and refuse to change his opinion until long after it has gotten him into trouble. He's fiercely loyal, however, and, once someone has earned that loyalty, there is very little he won't do on their behalf. His somewhat paranoid outlook on strangers tends to make earning his loyalty quite difficult.

His definition of right and wrong are somewhat murky at times. Yuan was willing to go along with Mithos Yggdrasill's plans for Cruxis and overlooked his own objections concerning the treatment of the Chosen because of his own desire to be reunited with his lost love, Martel Yggdrasill. He'll only compromise his morals so far, however; though Yuan was willing to overlook the sacrifices of the Chosen at first, he cannot ignore the way Yggdrasill's schemes exascerbate the prejudices against half-elves and bring the mana levels of the worlds to dangerously low levels.

Aware of his own flaws, Yuan feels great shame about his complicity in the creation of Cruxis and the thousands of years he spent willfully ignoring the crimes being committed around him. He created the Renegades more out of a need to atone than because the people of the two worlds needed someone to save them. His feelings of regret, however, aren't enough to stop him from ditching his paperwork on a regular basis, often forcing his second in command to deal with the overflow.

More than anyone else, Yuan lacks any understanding as to why he 'adopted' Zelos at first. Though he cannot identify his own motives in the act, he quickly becomes attached to Zelos and comes to view the boy as his son. Around Zelos, Yuan's more whimsical and artistic sides show through. When Zelos is older the two often disagree, forcing Yuan to relearn how to make concessions and compromises, which he hasn't been required to do for nearly four thousand years.

Though Angels do not require sleep, Yuan has regained the ability due to a Somnulus Spell cast on him by the first Chief Medical Officer of the Renegades. Yuan has since remembered his great love of sleeping in until noon on the weekends and will only get up before twelve on Saturdays and Sundays if there's an emergency.

Relationships

Martel Yggdrasill: The love of Yuan's life, Martel was as beautiful as she was kind. Unlike the other members of the Kharlan Heroes, Yuan is instantly certain that Martel has pure intentions and quickly becomes willing to do practically anything for her. She's the only person, in 6,000+ years of life that Yuan ever considered proposing to and, though he occassionally dates other women after her death, Martel is the only person Yuan has every truly been in love with.

Martel's death shatters Yuan's spirit, leaving him easily manipulated by her younger brother, Mithos Yggdrasill.

Mithos Yggdrasill: Though initially suspicious of Mithos' intentions, Yuan eventually comes to respect the young teen and believe in Mithos' ideals. Yuan enjoys annoying Mithos who, in turn, takes a great deal of joy in tormenting Yuan about his feelings for Martel. When Yuan decided to propose to Martel, he asked Mithos' permission first and recieved it because Mithos knew that Yuan made Martel happy.

After Martel's death, Mithos begins to develop sociopathic behavior and manipulates the entire population of the world, including Yuan, in his scheme to bring his sister back to life. As Yggdrasill grows further from his younger personality, Yuan grows increasingly suspicious of Yggdrasill's true intentions. While Yuan stays willfully blind to Yggdrasill's worst qualities for over 2,000 years out of lingering hope of regaining Martel, Yuan eventually breaks away from Yggdrasill's control and loses all respect for him.

Kratos Aurion: During much of the Kharlan War, Kratos and Yuan were on opposite sides of the conflict since Yuan was Sylvaranti and Kratos Tethe'allan. Because of Kratos' seemingly cold outward behavior, Yuan distrusted Kratos during their travels together with the Yggdrasill siblings. When Kratos risks his life to save Yuan's, the bluonde changes his mind about Kratos and the two eventually become close friends. Kratos even goes with Yuan to procure an engagement ring for Martel.

When Martel is murdered by a human, a strain is put on their friendship. Kratos, however, refuses to leave Yuan alone and the two become Sworn Brothers. Despite the magic binding them as family, their friendship tends to be rocky, often coming close to ending only for one of them to finally make the necessary effort to fix things. No matter how bad things get between them, however, neither is willing to let the other die if they can help it, such as when Yuan stopped Kratos from killing himself at Origin's Seal and, hours later, Kratos saves Yuan from being killed by Zelos, who was possessed by Yggdrasill at the time.

The only thing Yuan regrets when he dies is that Kratos will be all alone in the world.

Zelos Wilder: Yuan considers Zelos to be the son that he and Martel should have had. Similar to Yuan personality wise, Zelos has picked up on many of Yuan's quirks over the years. While they usually get along very well, there are times when their equally stubborn natures cause them to butt heads.

Zelos has suffered a number of tragedies in his life, but Yuan provided Zelos with the stability he needed not to grow stronger for his losses instead of breaking apart the way Yuan did when Martel died. Because of this Yuan trusts Zelos' judgement even in the middle of painful crises.

After Zelos dies of old age, Yuan continues to watch over Zelos' descendents in the Renegades, occassionally adopting one into his family the way he did with Zelos.

Skills and Abilities

• Fighting Skills: Yuan's primary weapon is a Swallow, a large weapon that is sharp on both ends but smooth in the center. Though Yuan has access to his Angelic, light-based magic at all times, Yuan prefers to use non-Angelic magic, particularly lightning magic, which is his element. He's a well-balanced fighter and does well in groups of two to four, but excels in single combat. His skills in unarmed combat are somewhat lacking, however, and he will become somewhat overly dependent on magic when he loses his weapon in battle.
• Angelic Transformation: Because his Cruxis Crystal is fused to him in order to keep him from aging, Yuan is always, technically, in his Angelic Form. He can make his wings appear and disappear at will, however, which mimics the transformation of non-fused Angels.
• Magic: Yuan is a lightning elemental and has difficulty utilizing non-lightning based magic. His human side is far stronger than his more diluted elvish heritage because he's a fourth generation half-elf. Yuan can use powerful light-magic thanks to his status as an Angel, which also accounts for his ability to use some mid-level healing arts. He cannot spell cast, which requires a talent for using different types of magic at the same times.

Special Items

• Cruxis Crystal: Yuan's blue Cruxis Crystal is fused to his hand in order to constantly suppress his aging process. Despite the many boons of his Angelic Form, Yuan often wishes he could remove the Crystal and become mortal once more.
• Wing Pack: Similar to backpacks in their function and appearance, Wing Packs are capable of storing objects much larger than them while remain light and easily transported. The items within Yuan's Wing Pack often vary, but he always keeps his Swallow in there since the weapon is awkward to carry around.
• Rheaird: A Rheaird is capable of low-level flight and is typically associated with the Renegades. Yuan has modified his Rheaird several times and has lately been experimenting with the engine in an attempt to cut down on the mana the device requires to run properly.

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Yuan maintains the Renegades, watching over the Wilder familiy members who remain with the organization, until his death in the year 2014. He dies during the Samier meteor strike while protecting the Yggdrassill tree from destruction. His adopted daughter, Naomi Wilder, then dismantles the Renegades and helps to found the nation of Alvanista in the lands that once comprised Tethe'alla.

He never marries, but has adopted children on several occasions. His first child is Zelos Wilder and his second is Seles, Zelos' sister. The last child he adopts before his death is Naomi Wilder, who is a direct descendant of Zelos Wilder and Rain Sage, as well as the ancestor of Chester Burklight.

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