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.

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 but she punished by Alone for giving orders to the Specters without his authorization.

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

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, King of the Underworld , it could be said that Alone is at the level of a god. Alone proved to have great control over death. Alone emanates and radiate the powerful divine cosmos of Hades. Alone is able to revive both Specters and Saints in battle. Alone has the ability to kill people using paintings. Alone has the ability to kill people using paintings. Alone can kills several Athena's troops at a distance. Being a god, Alone can controls the ninth sense. Despite Alone was not trained in handling weapons, Alone demonstrates great skills in combat with Hades's Surplice along with his sword. Alone's ability with such a weapon is enough to fight against a Bronze Saint like Pegasus Tenma and even against a Golden Saint, Libra Dohko.

Alone can absorb a technique of his opponent and then redirects the attack against them. Notable examples are when Alone can redirects Sagittarius Sisyphus's arrows back at the Gold Saint and the arrow digging into Sisyphus's chest which caused the Gold Saint to enter a coma without being able to wake up. Alone can send a powerful burst of cosmos that hits the enemy. He can send a stream of air that repel the enemy when they try to hit him.

Alone can control a person's dead body as if it were a puppet. Notable examples are when he controls Violate's corpse in order to punish Garuda Aiacos .

Childhood
Alone was born in 1743 in a village in Italy, along with 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 pratice 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. But then Tenma arrives and knocks them all back, then returning the ink bottle to Alone. Here was the medium of the friendship of those who would become mortal enemies.

The mysterious priest
It all begins when Alone receives a visit from a mysterious priest. Some time later, Alone will paint in a cathedral, where he comments with the priests from there that he could not find the ideal tone of red. Then one of the priests (Hypnos), the god of eternal sleep , advises Alone to go to the mountains in order to obtain the red that he desires , extracting it from a species of flower.

The 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, he 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 saying "do not touch him", as if his personality had changed. At that moment, he asked : "Tenma, do you feel something inside me?" 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, his personality underwent a drastic change, after realizing everything he painted died.

Pandora reappears and takes him so that both visit the cathedral of the forest, where it is said there is a painting so beautiful that it would make even a criminal cry with emotion. He 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. He accepts his destiny as Hades, the King of the Underworld and mark the beginning of the Holy War.

The Holy War Starts
A few days later, the first battle of this War takes place in the hometown of Tenma, Alone and Sasha. Moments later, Hades who possessed Alone's body appears. Alone destroys a painting of Tenma which causes his death. Libra Dokho tries to avenge Tenma but he is confronted by the Specter Bennu Kagaho and convinced by Shion to retreat.

Hades suspected that something happen and goes to his domains in the Underworld, and that's where he is again with Tenma. The soul of Alone was denoted more than that of Hades, telling Tenma that he has not forgotten, and that they would meet again in the Athena's Sanctuary.

Invasion of Athena's Sanctuary
After what has been said by him becomes reality, he appears in the Athena Statue ready to kill Sasha, however he is arrested by Tenma, (who makes his appearance after the sacrifice of the Virgo Gold Saint, Asmita ) and also by Patriarch Cancer Sage. In the middle of the combat, Sagittarius Sisyphus receives his own golden arrow, due to the Hades's powers. After Pandora appeared, Hades gets upset and reproaches him 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.

Hades's plan was to use Alone to paint the "Lost Canvas": Alone himself says that as soon as the Lost Canvas is completed, the Earth will submerge in darkness. Something like the Great Eclipse of this era.

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 that he also wanted salvation.

Treason
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, they can not do it and Pandora is punished by Alone for giving orders to the Specters without his authorization. Then she, following the orders of Hypnos and Thanatos and using the divine power that these gods granted her, sends Alone to a prison in the depths of the Kingdom of Dreams (ruled by Hypnos). From there Alone continues with his work and is even able to intervene in the dream of Tenma and encourages him to keep fighting, helping him in the fight against Morpheus.

Battle in Hades's Castle
Hypnos, the god of eternal sleep goes to see him and reproaches him for why he has been using the power that the Hades , King of the Underworld has granted him to perform his "sacred work" of killing people by providing them with salvation, in addition to manipulating the army of Specters. He tells him that he is a human with great evil. Hypnos expels from Alone's body the last thing that remained of his human soul, giving place to Hades thus allows Hades to takes complete control over him. Hades then says that death is a condemnation and not a salvation and prepares to cover the earth with the darkness of the night.

Then 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, Hades arrives and kills him. Then, Hades is attacked by the Stardust Revolution of Shion but gets rid of the attack easily attacking it with meteorites, but it rises is tries to attack it with the Athena's Sword but Hades to the break is paralyzed Crane Yuriziha and planning to attack her but Shion stays in front of the attack as it is takes the blow, but suddenly Dohko of Libra, Yato of Unicorn and Tenma of Pegasus appears. They come to fight against Hades.

Tenma asks why Alone did that and he replies that he is not Alone, but Hades, King of the Underworld. Soon Tenma becomes so indignant that he attacked Hades but he defends and reflects the attack only that with the dark color in the same way that did with Shion.

After attacking Tenma, Hades 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 Hades with all their forces they use the Hundred Dragons's Force and Pegasus Meteor Fist but the attack is easily annihilated by the sword of Hades is his sword was so powerful that was able to still attacks the Saints who were behind Dohko.

Soon Athena appears next to Tenma and Hades attacks and infuriating Tenma, turning him into divine mode but still does not go so far as to defeat Hades and is defeated again. After that Hades uses his armor and destroys his castle thus going to live in the castle made by Pandora in the sky, thus making Tenma talk that he will still train more.

The plan worked after all, they were waiting for that brief moment to be able to escape with teleportation. The Saints have teleported outside the Castle leaving only Dohko. The castle of Hades has begun to be destroyed, Alone has dissolved the barrier and removed its cosmos from the place. Inside, in the living room, lie the dead bodies of Dohko and Hakurei. Alone went to Lost Canvas, from where he established his new strength and finish his painting, the Lost Canvas.

Suikyō
After the defeat of Garuda Aiacos, Hades descends to earth to punish him for his defeat, manipulating Violate's inert body. However, the action is interrupted by Tenma, who shows him his new determination by counteracting God's power and exploding it along with his cosmos. But all that power barely hurts him. Hades is willing to kill him when Athena appears.

Thus begins the battle between both Gods ( Athena and Hades ). But Sasha uses her own blood, and Alone is 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 help him. Alone reacts and orders Pandora to stop.

The Guardians of the Temple
At some point, 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, he heals Rhadamanthys's wounds, after Rhadamanthys showed him his loyalty by tearing his heart, appoints Rhadamanthys as Saturn's Temple guardian and heals him with a little of his blood making Rhadamanthys a divine being.

The arrival of Yōma
Aspros goes to Alone to defeat him and although the young man tries to take away his 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 Deuteros technique. Aspros is one step away from killing Alone but is stopped by Mephistopheles Yōma.

Kagaho's Death
After Bennu Kagaho's death, Alone thanks him for everything and says he can return to his "true color".

The Hidden Truth
Moments later, it is discovered that Rhadamanthys did not really die, due to the power of his armor, so he decides to go face Alone on his own, since he realizes that he is not really Hades, that Alone has taken control about him. On the way he meets a badly wounded Shion, but after a short fight decides to leave him alone to go to face Alone. Arriving with him, he discovers that Pandora tries to do the same, and Alone decides to destroy their 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 his "Maximum Punishment" against the mural of Alone, freeing Athena and the other Saints converted into stone of their curse. Moments later, Pandora holds the inert body of Rhadamanthys, honoring his loyalty to Hades, and revealing that it was he who gave him enough courage to lead the Underworld army, even Alone himself recognizes his boldness in facing the god of Hell.

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

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 Hades resurrects while the opportunity was fresh. Unfortunately, as Tenma hesitated and 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.

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