Blond Young Man

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Xia Xiu obtained his human form through ritual conversion from a BIO Species. Adabos, the Flesh Supremacy think tank, consequently granted him Flesh Sculpting, the core technique of the Third Return’s transformation path 5.

He retains knowledge of a previous life. He recalls previously surrendering Heaven’s Angel Key to inherit the Solomon Key and makes the same choice again. His memories also include the large-scale unrest that Ativik, Anut, and Desolation caused across Youyang 137 207.

After graduating early from Deer College, he planned to return to the Unknown Lands. He later stated that, if his remaining material-world business went smoothly, he expected to become a junior researcher in the Central Containment Room the following year; this was a career plan, not a confirmed appointment 155 158.

Appearance

• Hair and eyes: Blond hair and brilliant golden eyes; his pupils narrow into serpentlike vertical slits when using his intimidating gaze 49 105.
• Face and build: Exceptionally handsome, with refined facial contours, a high nose, fair skin, and a toned physique 202.
• Usual clothing: Frequently wears a black trench coat, white shirt, and black formal hat or top hat 169 219.
• Disguise clothing: His Tommy Shelby persona uses a newsboy cap and a Fog City-style three-piece suit 112.
• Supernatural markings: Light Attendant circuits spread across his body, changing between red and blue with different combat modes 106 122.
• Revelation manifestation: Temporarily appears in white flames, with white hair, flame-like eyes, and seven golden stands surrounding him 157.

Personality

Xia Xiu habitually presents himself with radiant smiles, polished manners, and playful conversation. These can accompany sudden violence: after overpowering Lei Si, he heals the gangster’s wound and courteously requests an introduction to Stephen. He likewise questions Bob in an everyday tone while holding a pistol beneath his chin 6 190.

He enjoys misdirection and provoking opponents. He manipulates Bernard into confirming Night’s whereabouts, disguises his position against O’Brien, and constructs elaborate schemes against the Alices. Ahabat considers him thoroughly devious and expects his promised “gifts” to be malicious pranks 150 164 209.

His brutality coexists with deliberate protection of others. He rescues Katherine, arranges emergency measures for Pansy Jane’s personnel, and protects the conference room’s occupants during Ativik’s human-bomb attack. He also argues that supernatural intervention should not become unrestricted interference in worldly affairs 120 136 185 217.

He remains composed under intimidation and injury, but can become visibly exhilarated in combat. Nora’s attacks draw an excited smile before his chainsword counterattack; even bloodied and restrained by Hilde, he stays calm and eventually orders his tormentor to crawl to him 106 226.

Abilities & Skills

Flesh Sculpting and Organ Modification

Manipulates flesh, performs synthesis rituals, and incorporates supernatural biological traits 5 17.

• Healing: Closes Lei Si’s cut cheek almost instantly and seals his own forearm after implanting BIO-006 6 55.
• Shapeshifting: Archives paranormal-species genes and can reproduce their forms and powers. Appropriate rituals and inhibitors are required for the broader transformations he considers theoretically possible 17.
• Organ Shaping: Gains access to an interface displaying internal organs, blood vessels, and meridians after installing his secondary immune system 55.
• Siliconization: Converts parts of his body into indigo silicon-based material and produces crystalline spikes, walls, and columns 85 132 164.
• Adora Explosion: His bone-strengthening organ grants reinforced bones, Ignition, and Arson. Its contaminating flames can cause spontaneous combustion after sufficient exposure 110.

Heavenly Lock Eyes

Uses golden, serpentlike eyes to impose intense fear and enhanced paralysis 105 118.

• Immobilizes Dark Division operatives during their ambush 105.
• Incapacitates Nat through direct eye contact 118.
• Knocks out the crew affected by Ahabat’s Coffin 198.
• Crushes a dream monster with his intimidating pressure 225.

Light Attendant Thaumaturgy

Employs bodily circuits, projected light weapons, and large-scale light constructs 36 122 138.

• Octant Light Wheels: Low-consumption cutting weapons usable as thrown projectiles or handheld blades 36.
• Dilasium Ray: Releases a destructive light stream; a documented 2,000-Spirit attack reduces enemies to dust 122.
• Light Body Transformation: Creates giants of light for combat, demolition, and protection 150 217.
• Resource limit: Light Body Transformation consumes enormous quantities of EVE particles. His Heavenly Lock Lung and Heavenly Lock Wheel breathing method help sustain repeated use 150.

Hat Trick and Grand Magic Hour

Enhances escape and deception techniques through module effects 145 150.

• Presence Reduction: Under Magic Hour’s No Saving Throw property, prevents O’Brien’s dolls from detecting him despite his actions 145.
• Body Intangibility: Grand Magic Hour upgrades Partial Body Intangibility into full-body intangibility, allowing attacks to pass through him 150 192.
• Substitute Swap: Exchanges positions with marked targets; he repeatedly swaps with Valente to create openings against Night 125 181.

Meta Field

Moves himself and a touched opponent into an exile space 139 150.

• Requires close-range contact to pull an enemy inside 139.
• Returns him to his original position after phase shifting, leaving that location vulnerable to ambush 139.
• Can contain thaumaturgic impacts, offering a defensive application with a five-second activation time 139.
• Is unsafe for storage: abandoned objects can be banished into the starry expanse 139.

Revelation Word Spirits

Uses bestowed words capable of influencing the Ether Sea and altering rules within their effective range 157.

• Smyrna: Provides forced purification and removes negative effects, including the Floaters impairing his vision 157 173.
• Sword of Judgment: Applies accumulating negative judgment effects to Night 182.
• Application method: Uses a conjured double-edged sword on himself or an ally to deliver purification 157 180.

Temporary Divine Retribution Authority

Receives temporary authority to invoke Heaven’s punishment during the Sea-born crisis 135 136.

• Activates a space-based strike that devastates the Sea-born swarms and burns a road across the water 135 136.
• Operates at a recorded 25% efficiency 135.
• The connection strains his body; prolonged use threatens to exceed his soul’s tolerance 135.

Investigation and Infiltration

Combines observation, fabricated identities, interrogation, and memetic manipulation 105 112 160 212.

• Identifies the Dark Division’s traversal cooldown and appearance cues during combat 105.
• Uses Heaven-prepared identification to infiltrate the Qualified as Tommy Shelby 112.
• Coordinates false memories to conceal a shipment of defective Embers 118.
• Investigates Lina’s death by tracing Hughes Robin’s work history and confronting him with insurance-related evidence 160.
• Uses Targeted Thought Influence to obtain full marks at an idol audition 200.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Gorgon — Azure weapon that transforms between a ring and firearm forms. Its attacks include Stheno, Euryale, and petrification. Adaptive Stage Two unlocks shotgun and sniper modes plus full Meme Contamination release 105 122 172 173.
• Heaven Type I Boltgun — Black pistol measuring 39 centimeters, wielded alongside Gorgon 105.
• Heavenly Armory chainswords — Summoned through the Red Book. One documented chainsword reaches 90,000 revolutions per minute 94 106.
• Zorro’s Z-Swordsmanship — Sword-enhancement Thaumaturgy granting threefold sharpness, a 25% Electric Shock chance per attack, and a 90% Falling Thunder chance after carving a Z on an enemy. Lasts five minutes and severely damages the sword 97.
• Gáe Bolg — His first supernatural armament, obtained after O’Brien’s defeat. Its thirty barbs cause disembowelment, while its concepts grant penetration and saw-like wounds. Heart lock-on requires a Dominion Avatar to unlock 151 153.
• Great Sin Armament: Seven Deadly Sins — Includes the Axe of Pride, which grants powerful physical enhancement and applies Burden, and the Sloth Spear used against Ativik 194 217.
• Pigeon Top Hat — Contains Dimensional Lodging connected to his Familiar space; releases a documented flock of sixty-four Holy Spirit Doves 136.
• Möbius Rings — Uses one in his vow to Ahabat; later wears Möbius Rings on his left ring finger 198 217.
• Gem Pigeon summoning whistle — Controls thirty thousand rented Gem Pigeons, obtained through an Ether Sea-backed agreement costing 500,000 Youyang Banknotes 211.
• The Prank That Can’t Kill — A Glock-shaped Art Installation that produces fake blood without killing, used to stage Rockefeller’s apparent shooting 216.

Relationships

• Jam — White-furred, red-eyed hound companion and combat partner. Accompanies his investigations, fights Hansa, and is introduced as “John Watson” during the Sherlock Holmes impersonation 158 169 173.
• Holy Spirit Doves — Familiar flock used for reconnaissance, distraction, combat, and swapping techniques. He reassures them that rented Gem Pigeons are only temporary workers and that they remain irreplaceable 125 132 136 211.
• Fosis Tucker — Senior collaborator in Pansy Jane’s capture and the containment operation against the Flame Beast Interface 120.
• Pansy Jane — Infiltration target who knows him as Tommy Shelby. He arrests her with Fosis Tucker’s assistance 112 120.
• Nat / Eleven — Qualified associate whose memories he falsifies to conceal sabotage of the Ember shipment 118.
• Katherine — Abyssal Hunter he initially fights during the time-loop crisis and later rescues from the pillar of flesh 132 136.
• Wendell — Thirteenth Department collaborator who supplies information on Eliyan and O’Brien; both recognize the other’s attempts to steer their cooperation 141 142.
• Valente Bernard — Trusted friend and Dragon Slayer partner. Accepts the risks of working with him, helps kill Night, and challenges him on Heaven’s place in worldly affairs 168 175 182 185.
• Ahabat / Hope — Alice Game partner. He places a Möbius Ring on her finger and vows to cherish and support her until the Performance ends; they subsequently hunt rival Alices together 198 207 217.
• Rockefeller — Student recruited to distribute memetic leaflets against Ativik’s school regime. Xia Xiu promises payment and points him toward supernatural recruitment 212 217.
• Deli — Prospective contractor offered one million base assets to answer several questions using Sphinx 300.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Amsterdam: Qualified Infiltration

• Survives the Dark Division ambush near Love Paradise and counters Nora’s flame manifestation with gunfire and chainsword attacks 105 106.
• Establishes the Tommy Shelby persona by publicly causing trouble and displaying Adora Explosion flames, drawing the Qualified’s attention 112.
• Arranges delivery of defective Ember ingots and ash, using implanted memories to make Nat believe he inspected the cargo 118.
• Captures Pansy Jane with Fosis Tucker and helps prepare containment measures 120.

Time Loops and the Sea-born Assault

• Determines how Amelia’s pocket watch restores memories, kills her during one loop, and later approaches Gaul and Blupp under a Church of the Flesh identity 132.
• Invokes Divine Retribution, rescues Katherine, and uses Holy Spirit Doves to occupy Blup Gula while Akulos drains the divinity from Amelia’s heart 135 136.

Berlin: Red Branch Investigation

• Joins the investigation into Thorn’s death and identifies Rat King O’Brien as his principal target 141 142.
• Obtains access to Moles Instant Messenger and monitors reports of arrests, censorship, and pressure on anomalous communities 147.
• Destroys O’Brien’s EVE Extraction Engine, defeats him in an exile space, and acquires Gáe Bolg afterward 150 151.

Reprise Performance: Dragon Slayer Campaign

• Follows chance to Stockholm while seeking admission to Reprise Performance, then takes Henry’s detective commission as Sherlock Holmes 158.
• Joins the white-side campaign and works with Valente, arranging publicity for his plague cure and planning Night’s assassination 162 168.
• Uses Parc Saint-Nicolas and Eternity’s suppression field to trap Night; he and Valente defeat him and destroy his remains to counter possible survival measures 179 180 182.
• Exposes Jim’s false testimony during Paul Colin’s trial, helping secure an acquittal 185.
• Activates Song of Eternity against the dragons, locates the Evil Dragon, and fights Fafnir before receiving the Seven Deadly Sins armament 190 192 194.

Alice Game

• Retrieves Ahabat’s Coffin and selects the Savior card, accepting restrictions on his existing powers 198.
• Enters the Youyang Star Audition as Franklin to interfere with Desolation’s media influence, then kills Desolation after obtaining information about Ativik and Anut 200 207.
• Prepares Gem Pigeons and memetic leaflets against the forces controlling Rhinefield Middle School 211 212.
• Eliminates Ativik, allowing Hope to absorb Dominion and gain her pistols 217.
• Travels to Mareta Psychiatric Hospital in Milan to find someone hiding in people’s dreams; his attempt to question Hayden Kent ends with Hayden being sedated 224.
• Confronts a dream monster and later reverses his position against the abusive Hilde despite being bloodied and restrained 225 226.

Notable Quotes

“Let the supernatural belong to Heaven, and the worldly belong to the world.” 185

“I'm just an Angel passing through.” 187

“Don't worry. They're just temporary workers. You're the irreplaceable ones.”
— Reassuring his Holy Spirit Doves about the rented Gem Pigeons 211