Alone (LC)

Alone  (アローン, Arōn) is a young painter and also Hades's host in the 18th century, as he possesses the purest soul in that era.

Appearance
Alone is a young man with long blond hair ( in a style similar to his sister, Sasha ) and blue eyes.

Alone wears a long black coat with gold collar close at the front and a long purple ribbon tied to the waist, white pants and black espadrilles.

Alone also has a metal hung on his neck that could be a memory of his childhood or the orphanage.

When Alone is possessed by Hades, Alone's hair change into black and grew longer. Alone wears a longer coat, on the arms and legs as well as ribbon, golden shoulder pads. The expression of his gaze also turns into a look full of coldness and sometimes mockery.

Personality
Alone possessed the qualities of every ideal host of Hades, King of the Underworld : to be a person of pure heart, gentle, kind to everyone. Alone is capable of fighting for justice or not resolving conflicts due to violence.

When he become the host of Hades, Alone become much merciless and morally unstable , as seen in Alone's motte of "death as salvation" , willing to kill many Saints and innocent people for his own sake. The reason behind explain why Alone does this cruel method was creating a world where there is no war and suffering, which happen to be quite irony since Alone never good people that much. This one and only Saint Alone seems to actually hold grudge against the most might indeed been Sattigarius Sisyphus, as seen when the god Hades who take over Alone's body openly claims to sensing Alone holding a grudge against Sisyphus Sattigarius , presumably from what Hades managed to see first-hand from Alone's memories contain Sisyphus taking Sasha away from the orphanage

During his time as Hades's host, Alone is not above showing a softer side to those whose he thinks deserve it such as the Specter Bennu Kagaho , presumably respect Kagaho's loyalty to Alone. Although Alone wasn't present at the time Kagaho's pass-away, Alone express mutual sadness over Kagaho's demise , furthermore acknowledged every thing Kagaho done to help Alone before went on with finishing the grand plan , implying Alone's fondness with Kagaho. Beside Kagaho in Alone's friendly list, Alone was willing to make Wyvern Rhadamanthys a divine being guardian of Saturn's Temple , hinting Alone does trust Rhadamanthys to some extent In the whole series, Alone can be quite hardcore individual when its come to fight back Hades's possession for the sake of his friends's safety , leading to Hades having hard times conquering Alone's body while encountering familiar figures such Pegasus Tenma and Sasha at the same time , as seen when Alone feels a special affection for his best friends Tenma and Sasha , and Alone is seen crying out blood after killing Tenma and say goodbye to Tenma , Sasha and himself as Hades slowly take over him. During the meeting at Sanctuary, Alone even going so far as asking Tenma and Sasha to accompany him to create his world. After Tenma and Sasha refused, Alone decided to cleanse their "souls" looking for a way to kill them. Even when working on the Lost Canvas grand plan, Alone furthermore make sure to draw an image of a childhood Tenma, Sasha, and himself in their childhood pictures in the Lost Canvas. As the Holy War neared its climax, Alone regained take control over Hades after the bloody battle , feeling excruciating painful due to Hades's several almost-winning attempts to take over , and even begged Tenma to destroy his already weakened body to prevent Hades to take over it. When Tenma hesitate to do what Alone want at the very last minutes, Alone was able to sensed Hades's attempt to rendered the last bits of his soul in a eternal-succumb-failure state permanently from the inside out , and warn Tenma and the other Saints to run away before Hades take over Alone's body

Alone's pure soul was erased almost complete by the sleep god Hypnos, thus allows Hades to gain even more control over Alone. After Hades is removed from Alone's body, he would recover his personality before being possessed by Hades.

Power and Abilities


As a host of Hades, the King of the Underworld, Alone is very powerful, possessing a massive amount of Cosmos and being proficient at using it for many different purposes to the level of a god.


 * Art/Drawing/Painting Proficiency: Being an artist, Alone is highly proficient at art, drawing, and painting, and is able to use all listed skills for creating the Lost Canvas.


 * Lost Canvas: Similar to the Great Eclipse, Alone painted a giant screen in the sky that represented the world and everything in it, intended to vanquish all lives on Earth once it reached its completion.


 * Underworld Lordship : Alone, thanks to Hades's powers , has full authority over the Underworld and its inhabitants, as well as the Underworld Army, including Pandora and the Specters. However, he does not have absolute control over Hypnos (and possibly Thanatos as well), notably seen when Hypnos expels the last part of Alone's human soul to allow Hades to supposedly take over him completely.


 * God-Like Powers: Alone is able to revive both Specters and Saints for battle, can easily overwhelm most Saints in terms of power, can control the ninth sense, and can enter Athena's Sanctuary without any injuries or significant liabilities. He is also able to immobilize and paralyze opponents regardless of power, including Gold Saints.


 * Cosmos User: Alone can manipulate Hades' powerful Cosmos to his will for both offensive and defensive use.


 * Possession Resistance: Alone can resist Hades' possession to some extent, a feat that many hosts of Hades failed to do so, as shown through his special affection for and appeals towards Pegasus Tenma and Sasha even while being possessed by the Underworld King . The extent of control Alone had over Hades is so great that the minor god Hypnos and Pandora considering Alone as a threat to Hades


 * Combat Skills: Despite not being trained in combat and weapon handling, Alone has demonstrated great skills in combat armed with Hades' Surplice and Hades' sword, being able to fight against Gold Saints such as Libra Dohko and kill Hakurei, who had the power of a Gold Saint in his own right.


 * Levitation: Alone is able to float in the air and maintain that status for a long time.


 * Sphere Creation: Alone can create large spheres to launch at his enemies.


 * Attack Absorption & Reflection: Alone can absorb an opponent's attack and then redirect it back to them.


 * Corpse Manipulation: Alone can control a person's dead body as if it were a puppet.

Childhood
Alone was born in 1743 in a village in Italy, along with his best friends Tenma and Sasha , who later become his arch-enemies. He believes that everybody has a good side and disapproves the use of violence. Alone always liked to paint pictures, but he had no money for the materials , so he worked hard to buy paint and practice painting in the church. Alone also had a kind heart. Once, he saved a puppy from the hands of other boys in his village who were Jewish , and to avoid the worst , he offered his bottle of red paint , the only valuable asset he had at that moment. The boys accepted and Alone protect the dog. Tenma arrives and knock them all back, then returning the ink bottle to Alone. Here was the medium of the friendship of those who would become mortal enemies.

Despite his happy childhood at the time, there're undoubtedly one event that would leading to Alone get possesses by Hades in the future. That event happen to be no other than Sattigarius Sisyphus taken Sasha to the Sanctuary, leaving Alone and Tenma grieving for Sasha's departure

The mysterious priest
Some time later, Alone goes to paint in a cathedral where meet a mysterious priest overlook his drawing, further comments with the mysterious priest that Alone couldn't find the ideal color of red for his painting.

Then the mysterious priest, advises Alone to go to the far mountains in order to obtain the red that he desires , extracting it from a species of flower. Took the advice, Alone thanks the mysterious priest before leaving to find the right flower he need to uses for his painting

The fateful encounter with Pandora
Alone then finds a young woman named Pandora. She kisses him, by doing it that way, Hades can finds a new host. Alone obtains a medallion in the shape of a star, with the inscription "Yours Ever".

The next day, Alone wakes up and talks to Tenma and the orphanage children, who tell him that they found him stricken in the mountain, because Tenma felt something had happened to him. Alone dropped the medallion to the ground and Tenma was going to retrieve it.

At that moment, Alone immediately threw himself from the bed , preventing Tenma by warning Tenma not to touch him carelessly , as if his personality had changed. At that moment, he asked Tenma if he feel something inside Alone , which Tenma replied with a no. The next day he says goodbye to his friend Tenma, who leaves for the Sanctuary to train as Pegasus Saint , making the promise that one day they would both reunite again.

Become King of the Underworld
During the next two years, Alone's personality underwent a drastic change ever Tenma's departure, after realizing everything Alone painted ending up dying in the end.

Pandora reappears and takes Alone so that both visit the cathedral, where it is said there is such a beautiful painting that would make a criminal cry with emotion. When he arrived there, Alone was surpise to see two priests welcoming him , one of which Alone recognized during his time in the cathedral. Alone enters desperate to see the painting and can not believe when he sees that the "Saint" found in the painting is none other than Alone himself, dressed in Hades's Surplice. Believing the picture to be God-sent, Alone agree to hold hands with Hades , King of the Underworld and accept being the god's host. After becoming the god's host, Alone's status cause dractically changes around the area which making Sasha recognizes the Lord of Underworld had awaken

The Holy War Starts
A few days later, the first battle of this War takes place in Tenma, Alone and Sasha's hometown. Moments later, Hades who possessed Alone's body appears with a unknown Specter accompanied him from behind. Alone destroys a painting of Tenma which causes his death. Alone viewing Tenma's death is salvation, much to the Gold Saints's anger

Libra Dohko tries to attack Alone in order to avenge Tenma but Alone is protected by Bennu Kagaho, who uses Corona Blast to cancel the effect of Dohko's Rozan Hyakuryū Ha, although being slightly hurt by the latter technique. Aries Shion eventually stop Dohko from attempting attack Alone and the Specters even further, stating they had no time to win nor to lose. Back to Alone leading armies of Specters, Kagaho is praised by Alone and retreats along with the whole army , as the objective was completed Alone build Hades's Castle (not to be confused with Heinstein Castle) along with a high, rocky hill, as his base of operation. Alone used his power to revived all 108 Specter in a matter of seconds, before gather all of the Specters and Pandora into his throne room. In a throne room full of specters surrounding Alone, the presence of Alone marked the moment Hades completely awaken , and a constellation full of stars were present to the Specters , which are in fact the Saint's lives. The Specters noticed a constellation is fallen down from the starry sky, and Pandora explains the collapsed constellation was actually the Pegasus , and Alone had defeat Pegasus with his own hand. Alone asked the Specters to mixing all colour in this world to makes a color of darkness for Alone as that is a calm and peaceful color of salvation. Alone want the Specters to take Athena's life, and that the world must be tinted with peaceful color of salvation

Alone secretly sent his first battalion to hit the Athena's Sanctuary, led by Griffin Minos (who is renowned for being one of the three judges and the strongest among the Specters). Minos promise to present the best color of darkness to Alone, and Minos quickly went off to gather his soldiers Alone stay in Hades's quarters, and Kagaho entered Hades's quarters shortly afterwards. Alone questioned Kagaho about his whereabouts during the reunion, and Kagaho states that such occasions didn't suit him, to which the Alone agrees. After being asked the reason to be there, Kagaho asks Alone to pull his right sleeve, as Kagaho wanted to confirm something. Alone pull his right sleeve up at Kagaho's request, thus revealing the wound cause by Libra Dohko's Rozan Hyakuryū Ha on Alone's hands for Kagaho to see. The sight of Alone's wound fueling Kagaho's wraithful behavior on Libra Gold Saint for what he done to his master

Alone was drawing in his room, and Pandora comes in to deliver news. Alone wondered what news it is, and Pandora revealed that the one who has tied with Alone has been caught. Alone was surpised and just smiled, and Alone took care of Pegasus personally so it must be a mistake. Alone and Pandora looked up into the ceiling, and the Pegasus is nowhere to be seen. Alone asked if there is any Specters heading for the Sanctuary, and Pandora telling Alone that he do not need to worry and that Sanctuary is Minos's playground. Alone and Pandora notice something strange in the ceiling, and Alone guess something had begun Pandora later come in to Alone's room, and Pandora gives Alone report. Pandora tell Alone that Pisces had vanished from the ceiling, and Alone notices Minos and his subordinates vanished from the ceiling , leaving a wondering thought if this is a serious blow to Alone's side. Alone will ask the Specters to feel the pain of the call of life, although Alone never like it. Alone thinks that it only bring the Specters more suffering. Alone used his Powers to resurrect even more Specters to prepare for the battle. The Specters obey Alone's command without second thought, and Alone claimed that the Sanctuary had no chance of winning from the start

Alone meet again with Tenma in the Underworld. Crane Yuzuriha attempt to attack Alone, and Alone repel Yuzuriha's attack. Alone warned that no one should get between Alone and Pegasus's reunion with such nonsense, and Alone knocking Yuzuriha away , which resulting in Yuzuriha slammed right into Unicorn Yato who was happen to be nearby. Alone tell that he come because of Tenma, and Alone claim that Tenma is his favorite. Alone attempt to lure Tenma into joining his army, which Tenma eventually refuses. As the last farewell, Alone telling Tenma that he has not forgotten about the promise , and Alone stating that they would meet again in the Athena's Sanctuary

Invasion of Athena's Sanctuary
After what has been said by Alone becomes reality, Alone invaded the Sanctuary, and teleport himself to Athena Statue ready to kill Sasha. Libra Dokho, Aries Shion , Sagittarius Sisyphus , and Taurus Rasgado gather to defend Athena after sensing a powerful cosmos appeared by Sanctuary's clock tower, in proximity of the Athena Parthenos statue.

Alone immediately paralyzed all four Gold Saints with his cosmos, disabling them. With the Gold Saints rendered unable to move, Alone move in to comforted Athena In the middle of the combat, one of the Gold Saint , Sagittarius Sisyphus , surprisingly able to resist the paralyzing technique , surpise Alone and the other Gold Saints in the process. As Sisyphus struggles with whatever Hades's power that Alone got, one thing Sisyphus claims that he regret taking Sasha from Alone and the orphanage , believing that event was the main reason Alone let Hades possessing him. In return for Sisyphus's confession on the thing he regret, Alone did indeed hate Sisyphus for what he done to Sasha , to the point that the god Hades who inhabit Alone's body able to feel his host having large amount of negative emotions against Sisyphus.

The conversation between Alone and Sisyphus ending with the Gold Saint fires the Arrow of Sagittarius at Alone in attempt to defend Athena. Alone effortlessly absorbs the arrow with the palm of his hand and redirects the arrow back at Sisyphus, resulting in Sisyphus getting badly injured in the process.

It wouldn't be long before the Alone is arrested by Tenma (who makes his appearance after the sacrifice of Virgo Asmita ) and also by Pope Sage. Alone then summoned Cerberus and attempt to attacked both Tenma and Sasha, and Tenma quickly managed protected Sasha from Cerberus. The Pope later use his Talisman Cage, he managed to secure the receptacle of Hades's soul. Nevertheless, the pope and Athena have little time to seal Hades's soul as they had expected, because Pandora interrupts their ritual. After Pandora appeared, Alone gets upset and reproaches her for not letting him act alone, to which after a brief discussion they both leave, but not before creating the "Lost Canvas" , a painting that goes through the sky , which , when it is finished it will be the end of the world. Tenma, the Gold Saints and Sasha were all shocked to discover that Hades's plan was to use Alone to paint the "Lost Canvas" , that giant painting screen indeed to submerge the whole Earth in darkness once Alone complete its. Alone's Lost Canvas is somewhat like the Great Eclipse of this era.

After showing the Saints the grand plan, Alone went back to his horses-carriage along with Pandora , preparing to leaves only to found Tenma attempt to prevent Alone from departing , leading Pandora to command the only female-Specter Behemoth Violate to blocking Tenma from messing with Alone's leaving-plan

Secure prison depth inside Dream Kingdom
Days later, Pandora's suspicions come true, Alone's soul is excelling more than Hades's will, so she sends out Specters to assassinate Tenma, the cause of all this. However, the troops failed to killed Alone, and Pandora is punished by Alone for giving orders to the Specters without his authorization.

Pandora, following the orders of Hypnos and Thanatos and using the divine power that these gods granted her, sends Alone to a secure prison in the depths of the Kingdom of Dreams. From inside the secure prison, Alone continues with his Lost Canvas , where Alone even able to intervene in the dream of Tenma and encourages him to keep fighting. During the fight against Morpheus, Alone is shown assisting Tenma in defeat Morpheus from inside

Intense battle in Hades's Castle
The sleep god Hypnos goes to see Alone and reproaches him for why he has been using all those significant powers that the Hades has granted him to perform his "sacred work" of killing people by providing them with salvation, in addition to manipulating the army of Specters. Alone then tells Hypnos that he is a human with great evil.

Hypnos expels from Alone's body the last remained of his human soul, and thus allows Hades to gain even more control over Alone. Hades then says that death is a condemnation and not a salvation and prepares to use Alone's drawing skills to cover the earth with the darkness of the night.

Then Altair Hakurei invades the Castle of Hades to break with the barrier of the Specters (which let the Saints use only 10% of their power) then Hakurei defeats all the Specters who fought against him then Hypnos doesn't let him place the Athena's Sword to break the barrier. Later, Hakurei defeat and sealing the Hypnos in the Pandora's box

When Hakurei was about to break the barrier, Alone arrives and brutally kills him. Then, Alone is attacked by Shion's Stardust Revolution but Alone gets rid of the attack , and easily attacking Shion with meteorites, but Shion rises and tries to attack it with the Athena's Sword , and Alone break the sword and attack Shion. Alone then paralyzed Crane Yuzuriha and planning to attack her but Shion stays in front of the attack as it is takes the blow, but suddenly the back-up trio Libra Dohko, Unicorn Yato and Pegasus Tenma appears. They come to fight against Alone.

Tenma asks why Alone did that and he replies that he is not Alone, but Hades. Soon Tenma becomes so indignant that he attacked Alone but he defends and reflects the attack only that with the dark color in the same way Alone did with Shion. After attacking Tenma, Alone brings his sword to him to destroy Pegasus's life.

When he is about to kill the Pegasus, Dohko appears and stops his attack using his shield thus defending the life of his pupil, but consequently his shield breaks. Dohko and Tenma unite to attack Alone with all their forces they use the Hundred Dragons's Force and Pegasus Meteor Fist but the attack is easily annihilated by Hades's sword. Hades's sword was so powerful that it was able to still attacks the Saints who were behind Dohko.

Soon Athena appears next to Tenma and Alone attacks and infuriating Tenma, turning him into divine mode but still does not go so far as to defeat Alone and is defeated again. Dohko stays behind and distracts Alone long enough to ensure his comrades escape, seemingly sacrificing himself in the process. The plan worked after all, the Saints were waiting for that brief moment to be able to escape with teleportation. The Saints have teleported outside the Castle leaving only Dohko. Hades's Castle has begun to be destroyed, Alone has dissolved the barrier and removed his cosmos from the place. Inside, in the living room, lie the dead bodies of Dohko and Hakurei. Alone went to the new castle made by Pandora in the sky, from where he established his new strength and finish his painting , the Lost Canvas , thus making Tenma talk that he will still train even more in order to save Alone from Hades's grasp.

The Ship of Hope
After the defeat of Garuda Aiacos, Alone descends to earth to punish him for his defeat, manipulating the already dead body of Behemoth Violate. However, the action is interrupted by Violate, who manage to stop mid-blow and began crying.

Tenma shows him his new determination, and counteracting Alone's power and exploding it along with his cosmos. But all that power barely hurts Alone. Alone is willing to kill him when Athena appears.

Thus begins the battle between both Gods ( Athena and Hades respectively). But Sasha uses her own blood, resulting in Alone getting hurt by the divine power of it. It seemed that the soul of Hades, King of the Underworld was going to be expelled from Alone's body, when Pandora arrives to assist him. After recovering completely, Alone reacts and orders Pandora to stop.

The Guardians of the Temple
At some point, Gemini Aspros is revived by Alone in exchange for telling him the secret of the blood and Athena's Cloth with the promise of becoming the Patriarch and thus govern the earth, becoming one of the guardians of the 9 Temples of the Lost Canvas

Already in his Atelier, Alone heals Wyvern Rhadamanthys's wounds with a little of his blood making Rhadamanthys a divine being, after Rhadamanthys showed Alone his loyalty by tearing his heart, and Alone appoints Rhadamanthys as Saturn's Temple guardian

The arrival of Yōma
Aspros goes to Alone to defeat him and although Alone tries to take away Aspros's temporary life but he can not because that is not the life he had given him. Aspros reveals that this is his brother's life after defending himself with the Defteros technique. Aspros is one step away from killing Alone but is stopped by Mephistopheles Yōma.

After Yōma and Aspros's dual, Yoma picks his top hat, dropped, and told Alone that it is now time to move on to the main act of the play. Alone understands that Yoma is referring to his son, Tenma.

Kagaho's Death
After Bennu Kagaho's death, Alone expressed genuine upset and thanks Kagaho for everything before returning to his "true color".

The Hidden Truth
After the brutal fight against Owl Partita, Pandora decided to face Alone. Upon Pandora's arrival, Alone reveals his grand plan of use the paintings to Pandora. Alone openly claims that Hades wasn't capable of ultimate salvation which caused Pandora attempting to destroy Alone, but stop mid-blow after seeing Alone's limpid eyes. Pandora feel like she is being stuck in, and Pandora eventually see the sadness in Alone's heart

After seeing sadness in Alone's heart, Pandora collapsed , unable to endure Alone's sadness further. Alone asked if his sadness was too much for Pandora, and all of those sadness daze Pandora away from answer Alone's question. As a result of this, Alone decides to kill Pandora by bouncing her off the stairs. Much to the Alone's surpise, Rhadamanthys come to rescue Pandora (who decides to go face Alone on his own) , since he realizes that Alone has taken control over Hades

Alone decides to destroy Pandora and Rhadamanthys's souls forever so he launches a devastating attack, but Rhadamanthys pushes Pandora out of the way and takes full charge of Alone's attack and finally dies, but not before launching the attack Maximum Punishment against Alone's murals, freeing Athena and the other Saints converted into stone of their curse. Moments later, Pandora holds the inert body of Rhadamanthys, honoring Rhadamanthys's loyalty to Hades, revealing that it was Rhadamanthys who gave Pandora enough courage to lead the Underworld army , and even Alone himself recognizes his boldness in facing Hades

Friends Reunion
As the Holy War neared its climax, Alone encountered Tenma face to face. After this, Athena and other Saints appears thus the final battle begins. After several failed attacks, the souls of the dead are stacked to reveal the Hades's Surplice with which Alone decides to use to confort Tenma and Sasha

After a bloody battle, Alone was left weakened and have to be carried by Tenma, quickly regained control over Hades , feeling excruciating painful due to Hades's several almost-winning attempts to take over. Alone begged Tenma to destroy his body as quickly as possible to prevent Hades resurrects while the opportunity was fresh

Unfortunately, Tenma hesitated and unable to oblige at the very last minutes , leaving the poor Alone once more at the mercy of Hades himself. Alone undoubtedly able to sense Hades was about to gain control again, and make attempts to warned Tenma and the other Saints were told to run away from Alone , resulting in the Saints start to prepared when they heard Alone's words. When Tenma hesitate to run not wanting left Alone behind, Hades managed to rendered an already weakened Alone into eternal-succumb-failure state permanently. A violent wave of darkness hit all the Saints in the vicinity marking the point where Hades completely take over Alone's body

Alone's features and hair transformed to match those of Hades's true body, which had rested in Elysium since the ages of myth, and the power of the god of the Underworld finally revealed itself in all its splendor. However, with the work of the Saints, Hades was forced to retreat and abandoned Alone's body, and flees, later encountering Alone, Tenma and Sasha , who manage to banish him from the Earth with a combined effort, at the cost of their absence

In Saint Seiya: Next Dimension
Main Article: Alone (ND)

Trivia

 * Alone bore a striking resemblance to Sui, Bennu Kagaho's younger brother
 * Alone have similar hair color and dress in similar clothes as Host of Hades (XVI Century), so it's possible that Alone and the previous host may have been related
 * Alone who is the host of Hades in the 18th century at times has similar attitudes to Andromeda Shun who is the host of Hades in the 20th century
 * Alone was the first person to resist Hades's possession to some extent, with Andromeda Shun being the second one to achieve the feat in the future
 * Alone is the only person who had to go through great stress to accept his destiny as Hades's host