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 and closed at the front and a long ribbon tied to the waist as a purple belt, 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 changes to a look full of coldness and sometimes mockery.

Personality
Alone is the host of Hades and possesses the qualities of every ideal host of the 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, he thinks of creating a world where there is no war and suffering, seeing "death as salvation".

Even when Alone is possessed by Hades, Alone feels a special affection for his best friend Pegasus Tenma. Alone also ask 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.

Hades's plan is to use Alone to paint The Lost Canvas. Alone himself say that as soon as the Lost Canvas is completed, the Earth will submerge in darkness.

Hypnos overwhelmed Alone and knock Alone down. Alone's personality was erased by Hypnos, so that the rebirth of Hades is complete. However, this would not last long.

Alone assumes control over his body, destroy his Specters in the Castle of Hades. Pandora decided that she must take the same course of Athena's warriors aganist 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, Alone proved to have great control over death. Alone emanates and radiate the powerful divine cosmos of Hades, able to revive Specters in battle. Alone has the ability to kill people using his paintings and being a God he controls the ninth sense. Alone can also uses Hades's Surplice along with his sword.

Background and History
He is an orphan raised alongside Sasha and Tenma, who later become his arch-enemies. Alone believes that everybody has a good side and disapproves the use of violence.

As King Of the Underworld
At first Alone rejected his fate as Hades, king of the Underworld, but he was later convinced by Hypnos, and sealed by Pandora's kiss. Before Tenma left for the Sanctuary, they made a promise that, while Tenma tried to become a Saint of Athena, Alone too must try to become a good artist, so that he can finish the painting of Tenma when they once again reunite. During the next two years, his personality underwent a drastic change, after realizing everything he painted died. Convinced by Hypnos, he started to believe that death is the ultimate salvation. And to bring salvation to the entire world, Alone started to paint the "Lost Canvas", a painting of the Earth viewed from space, so that after he finished it, the entire world would die.

Hades's plan was to use Alone to paint the "Lost Canvas": As soon as the Lost Canvas were completed, the Earth will submerge in darkness, like the Great Eclipse of the 20th century Holy War, to come in the future.



However, it was implied that Alone was not yet completely possessed by Hades even through the changing of his hair color, as the artist drew an image of a childhood Tenma, Sasha, and himself in their childhood in the Lost Canvas, claiming he himself also wanted salvation.

Alone confessed to Pandora that he was never possessed by Hades and that he truly believed in death as the ultimate salvation; hence, he inflicts it on those he holds dear, to spare them the suffering of pain, wars, and poverty. To achieve such goals, he will use all the power of the god of the Underworld. Alone states that once the Stellar Clock, which is visible in the night sky, completes one cycle, the Lost Canvas will be finished, bringing death to the entire world.

Seeing this, Pandora used a seal given by the gods Hypnos and Thanatos to seal him in a dimension, in isolation, in hopes that this would make him continue painting the Lost Canvas without distractions by the other happenings in the Holy War, and to keep him away from those who might influence him. It was here at some point that Hypnos overwhelmed Alone, knocking him down. Alone's personality was erased by the god, so that the rebirth of Hades was complete. However, it wasn't as the god of sleep believed. Alone still had full control over his own body.

As the Holy War neared its climax, Alone encountered Tenma face to face. After a bloody battle, Alone regained his former self, feeling uneasy and uncomfortable due to Hades. Alone begged Tenma to destroy his body to prevent the calamity that neared while the opportunity was fresh. However, as Tenma hesitated, unable to oblige, Alone was overwhelmed by Hades, who took over his body completely, and manifested himself wholly.



Alone's features and hair transformed to match those of Hades's true body, which had rested in Elysion 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 Tenma, Alone and Athena, 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)