Working since high school, in 1969 — where he got to protege under Go Nagai — Ate got to release a solo series starting in 1980 and has kept with it ever since. He spent years trying to encourage Meiling to do the same, to venture out, but she waited until inspiration found her properly.

Being Zainichi was hard. Being Zainichi to a single mother was damn near impossible. If not for the blessed luck of the Kirin that Ate was born to be, they might not have made it at all. But somehow, the blessings poured, and they avoided the worst of their fates time and time again. Work was steady, if not lavish, and neighbors were trepidous but never outwardly mean.

His father was absent until he wasn't. Odd visits. Strange trips to see brothers overseas. There was power in them all. Might. Strength. Ate didn't care about that very much. The journey was more enticing. The knowledge of new information and growing truths. Rock and roll. Western fashion. Everything that no one else would believe became a value.

Earth is home. Even when Ate learns about Niyarshi, it doesn't feel right. Being converted into another being, another entity, is a hard thing to swallow. But it is his truth, and he does his best to abide by it. Helping others. Fixing things. He is a mired elf in strange kind light.

While Ate is a massive fan of all things Italian, Rock 'n Roll and Fashion, his pop culture tastes have always been wildly eclectic and so, all of the children have grown up within an arm's reach of just about anything they ever wanted to explore and listen to, read or watch.

A faith filled man who yearns for more, always, Ate has done the strange things of taking the family to haunted hotels, or sitting at supposedly haunted riverbanks, to try to meet spirits that fester into culture and stories. He wants always to be the man who can tell a story that you never want to end, even after death of the body has come and gone.

Lyra's harvest crops the horrors of the world and turns them into tangible force. From manifesting terrors to using mental worries to freeze and immobilize victims, she can become horror even against monsters, becoming a weapon and vessel for retribution and destruction.

The Red Apricots are corruption and blessings, either poisoning the land and the roots of a person's soul or uplifting them to wonderous, grand heights. She can snatch even the concept of corruption out of someone to create twisted versions of them to do her bidding.

From fear and corruption can come gifts of moral kindness: the benefic forces and malefic forces that weave through minds, spirits, entities and figures. Lyra can pluck them out like strings and feathers, twist them into solid force and creatures, whole waves of them, that do her bidding.

Like the olden Daughters of Men, powerful semi-giants, Lyra can grow her form just as her own siblings do. She cannot grow as tall as the other but can, however, match any of their physical gifts while sprouting wings with which to fly, as the angels and maidens of celestial skies might.

Their paternal heritage gives the Majou the size, might and capabilities of transcendent giants before their bloodshed transforms them. They can turn massive and, as they do, they earn innate gifts that they cannot control: magic and nature sprouts from their body to heal and repair the world around them, making it so even if they walk into a building, or a car, it isn't destroyed and no one is harmed beneath them. They also, obviously, have exponentially growing physical conditions correlated to the size they take on.

Lyra's batlaq is the most humanoid of the Majou siblings, taking her into a status of angelic-nymph or fairy-muse rather than into a beast. Her face is, typically, covered or missing in her Batlaq form, however, with only the hints of structure remaining upon it — silk over places where a nose, eyes, or mouth should be.

While a Numina is a divine entity that manifests through the power of Shen and Xian in China, they are transient beings whose powers can be lost, given up or traded. Unlike normal Numina, as their mother or grandfather was, Majou have been born of something else and now exist as close to Xian as Earth-Borns can become: they are immortal figures that transition between gods, immortals, shamans, witches, fairy, elves, genie and nymphs. Their gifts are so vast and strange that they seem like any of the mythological forms a Xian can be depending on what they're doing and what gifts they're emulating.

Nura became the sound of the explosions she watched, manifesting the ability to alter, adjust and generate sound anywhere she needs and to any means she chooses. She can negate all sound or amplify the softest whispers to boom into utter devistation. With her Fruit, this means she can shatter reflective materials anywhere, any time.

As a quiet and often lost child, Nura's gifts as a Majou let her fade into a mirror world of her own creation. From this, she learned to manifest through any reflective surface: mirrors, glass, blades, puddles, and even eyeballs. This allows her to strike out from any surface and return to mirrors again.

The seed of Nura's power harvests the awe of her siblings she held and gives her the power of flash-bangs — or, cultivations of sound so strong, reflected over itself again and again, to manifest into explosive force she manipulates the impact and devastation of.

The weakest of the Majou only because of her varied levels of confidence, she is most associated with the concept of slayers, of those who fought and conquered the beasts of the land. She is quick and devistating, but lacks the versatility of the other Majou.

Their paternal heritage gives the Majou the size, might and capabilities of transcendent giants before their bloodshed transforms them. They can turn massive and, as they do, they earn innate gifts that they cannot control: magic and nature sprouts from their body to heal and repair the world around them, making it so even if they walk into a building, or a car, it isn't destroyed and no one is harmed beneath them. They also, obviously, have exponentially growing physical conditions correlated to the size they take on.

A massive centaur weilding something like a halberd or scythe, Nura's batlaq is a massive hooved beast that can run down the enemies as quickly as it can rip them apart with the slices of its weapon. A foot soldier rather than a general, the Tianma is mighty but requires guidance on tactics and accomplishments. Its light and wings can kick up an energy that heals not only herself, but her allies, within a radius of 100 meters.

While a Numina is a divine entity that manifests through the power of Shen and Xian in China, they are transient beings whose powers can be lost, given up or traded. Unlike normal Numina, as their mother or grandfather was, Majou have been born of something else and now exist as close to Xian as Earth-Borns can become: they are immortal figures that transition between gods, immortals, shamans, witches, fairy, elves, genie and nymphs. Their gifts are so vast and strange that they seem like any of the mythological forms a Xian can be depending on what they're doing and what gifts they're emulating.

Valerian harvests the essence of storms, creating massive storms on a whim. While these mostly never seem to be too terrible, the focus of his storms is simple: to keep the landscape around him fostered in shrouds of darkness, balled lightning, and the heavy sheets of rain or snow he can manifest and exist comfortably within. These storms are accepted and accomodated without detriment to the ecosystem, as reality is subjective to all the Majou children.

While Valerian's destructive fruit is an essence of utter chaos and apocalypse, the power of true death, it works with his storms to truly create unending pain. Valerian can fuse his storms with the essence of destruction, creating rain drops that pelt through flesh like mortar falling from the sky, or turning snow into material that explodes and burns upon any surface it touches. There is no end to the qualities of ruined storms the apple can make.

Valerian's seed is the capture of light through his storms, the moon in the sky even through the clouds. With his moon he can accomplish a great number of lunar tricks the most powerful of which allows his light to act like an inverted spotlight: those who his light touches are free from harm through his storms, allowing him to turn a city-wide storm of destruction into something that only hurts what he does not focus his moonlight on.

The rabbit that pounds the mortar of immortality, the hare that chases the sky and the rabbits that multiply to create the Earth: Valerian is the jade hare in supremity, allowing him to crow into astronomical proportions and shroud out whole segments of the sky with his dark and terrific forms.

Their paternal heritage gives the Majou the size, might and capabilities of transcendent giants before their bloodshed transforms them. They can turn massive and, as they do, they earn innate gifts that they cannot control: magic and nature sprouts from their body to heal and repair the world around them, making it so even if they walk into a building, or a car, it isn't destroyed and no one is harmed beneath them. They also, obviously, have exponentially growing physical conditions correlated to the size they take on.

Valerian cannot write destiny the way other moon rabbits can. But the batlaq can assure the closure of your destiny with a swiftness that makes it seem predestined; just one glance and he can swipe at a life to end, or repair it, making his attacks destructive and restorative in all his varied batlaq forms.

While a Numina is a divine entity that manifests through the power of Shen and Xian in China, they are transient beings whose powers can be lost, given up or traded. Unlike normal Numina, as their mother or grandfather was, Majou have been born of something else and now exist as close to Xian as Earth-Borns can become: they are immortal figures that transition between gods, immortals, shamans, witches, fairy, elves, genie and nymphs. Their gifts are so vast and strange that they seem like any of the mythological forms a Xian can be depending on what they're doing and what gifts they're emulating.

Bentley can alter the landscape of reality and make himself, through magnetism, the new "center of the universe". In his typical human form he can force all materials within ten kilometers to suddenly be drawn toward him, which could theoretically level whole city streets and force everything to crash down into the ground.

Rather than utter destruction, however, Bentley's fruit allows the connection to all that matter to be only necessary for a moment in time — upon becoming the "center of the universe" he can adapt to absorb, adjust, and manifest all talents, traits and abilities in that radius, making him the temporarily superior adaptive core that he imagines himself to be. He can maintain these gifts for, roughly, twenty six minutes.

Because of all that power, Bentley's seed expels from him all the excess of imagination and qualities that he's taken on. In this way, he can maintain control over himself, as these thoughts no longer exist inside of him but on a battle field instead. His Bitter Truths, like his Center Of The Universe time, does not last long — but he has been able to manifest other's imaginations into reality for upwards of three hours at a shot.

The Hanging Gardens and the towers of knowledge, Bentley is mythological and worth orbiting, making his supremity the nature of the Babylonians, the founders of stories larger than life. He turns into sizes of gods as they imagined, with heads that hover over clouds and bodies that could turn into continents, when he does start to increase his size.

Their paternal heritage gives the Majou the size, might and capabilities of transcendent giants before their bloodshed transforms them. They can turn massive and, as they do, they earn innate gifts that they cannot control: magic and nature sprouts from their body to heal and repair the world around them, making it so even if they walk into a building, or a car, it isn't destroyed and no one is harmed beneath them. They also, obviously, have exponentially growing physical conditions correlated to the size they take on.

The Baku is the dreameater, the way that dreamcatchers can save one from nightmares, or succubi can infiltrate the dreamscape, so too can Bentley in his batlaq form. A beast always on four legs, his elongated nose (or sometimes, tusks) pierce without pain into a body to enter and take from their dreams, only to drag the pieces it captures out into reality.

While a Numina is a divine entity that manifests through the power of Shen and Xian in China, they are transient beings whose powers can be lost, given up or traded. Unlike normal Numina, as their mother or grandfather was, Majou have been born of something else and now exist as close to Xian as Earth-Borns can become: they are immortal figures that transition between gods, immortals, shamans, witches, fairy, elves, genie and nymphs. Their gifts are so vast and strange that they seem like any of the mythological forms a Xian can be depending on what they're doing and what gifts they're emulating.

Aaron harvests the power of the soul, manifesting any appendages he wishes from his own body, from materials around him, or even from another person. A thousand hands that crawl out from all around to touch and drag at a living vessel is a simple and common technique. As his "soul parts" touch a living body, the body is drained. Of its essence, of its structure, of what makes it real. So, though he does not harvest a killing, he harvests a destruction all the same: the ability to leave any living thing as little more than a puddle of organic matter with no thought, or essence, or ability to be.

His fruit is the gifts of death that are denied from his harvest. He takes the souls he's captured, or the whole body, and traps it into death loops until they are broken and guilt ridden enough to be merged with his essence; in this way, he can then release the essence unto the afterlife and reanimate the puddle of organic matter into a servant of death from the haunted forests he creates.

Because he can impact the body and soul directly, Aaron's seed is a gift of pleasure: he can release a soul with kindness, or give glee to the spirits he's touching. He can also utilize this to connect without draining. If Aaron gives pleasure to a body, he is connected to that soul — not in a way that gives him better information on them, but in a way that allows him to manipulate, and draw from, the vessel itself. If he makes you cum, he can generate replicas of you, or fill vessels with parts of your knowledge base, your memories, your powers, to do his bidding. Because of overpleasured soul replications inside of him, Aaron manifests as a kind of manifestation of both masculine and feminine aspects the way Ziven, Valerian and Ranida can, making them kind of sex manifestations.

All the sex beings of souls and dreamscapes were giant, ladden with lust and beauty and size. Aaron's supremity then makes it more obvious that he is not exactly human and requires two or three glances for understanding, often making him look larger, older, or more devistatingly handsome as he adjusts his stature.

Their paternal heritage gives the Majou the size, might and capabilities of transcendent giants before their bloodshed transforms them. They can turn massive and, as they do, they earn innate gifts that they cannot control: magic and nature sprouts from their body to heal and repair the world around them, making it so even if they walk into a building, or a car, it isn't destroyed and no one is harmed beneath them. They also, obviously, have exponentially growing physical conditions correlated to the size they take on.

Although Aaron typically looks more humanoid than the other Batlaq, as a massive looming man with horns and hellfire, he can take on the different traits of animals in his large stance as well — he only retains human touches from the excessive shards of souls he has within him from the pleasure he's given others.

While a Numina is a divine entity that manifests through the power of Shen and Xian in China, they are transient beings whose powers can be lost, given up or traded. Unlike normal Numina, as their mother or grandfather was, Majou have been born of something else and now exist as close to Xian as Earth-Borns can become: they are immortal figures that transition between gods, immortals, shamans, witches, fairy, elves, genie and nymphs. Their gifts are so vast and strange that they seem like any of the mythological forms a Xian can be depending on what they're doing and what gifts they're emulating.