This here is Athis. An odd critter that keeps himself cloaked and masked, hiding away deep in a dark forest mountain in solitude, where old ruins of a old abandoned village lay, only occasionally emerging to be spotted rarely, never in big populated areas, and often at night. He seems to disappear and cannot be found when people go looking for him. Most encounters with him end with him trying to ignore or avoid interaction, leading some to think he's from an isolated society that avoids the outside contact or just an odd hermit. Some think he's a ghost that haunts the forest because of his completely covered figure. Many rumors and tall tales of encounters with him have spread, making it harder for him to stay hidden away.

Gameplay wise, he's a TANK. A big, slow, defensive monster. While being a tank, he'll actually have the lowest lifebar amount, but with a unique defense multiplier, which he can increase with EX-installs if he has the meter to do so, which will make him the tankiest critter of the roster. The defense buffs last based on damage, causing the buff to break once a certain amount of damage is taken. On top of this, he'll have a command grab that life-steals (and a super version of it).

He's very slow and kinda clumsy though. His frame data generally wont be great, but some armored moves are certainly on the table for him to counteract his slowness. A reflect/blowback special move is also planned.

He is basically my Q (Street Fighter 3), but with more gimmicks to really play into the outlasting factor. I do want to give him THAT Q combo though. Command grab, to wall bounce dash punch, to heavy kick, (then buff). Too awesome not to sneak in there as a fun reference.

This animation technically isn't finished. There's a lil bit of polish and cleaning I want to do in a few areas on it, but it's good enough to show as is.

There is also another from of him, which I'm just calling Athis EX. There is some older art of that form on here. That form is a "glass canon" version of him. I'll be treating that form of him as a separate character. I was considering make him a dual-character sort of thing, but I felt like it might be a bit much. I'll instead keep them separate but make a special tag-team gimmick for both forms being used together. I feel like this is the simplest way to go about it.

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