Arthur Leywin

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Arthur Leywin is the main protagonist of The Beginning After The End. In his previous life, he was a king named Grey before he was reincarnated into a new world, on the continent of Dicathen.

In his former world, he lived as someone who stood on the top of his country in terms of combat and authority, until he was assassinated one day. However after dying as King Grey, he reawoke as Arthur Leywin as if he wasn’t assassinated.

After being reincarnated into the Leywin Family, Grey decided that, unlike his previous life, he would live this life to the fullest. To be loved, and surrounded by the friends and family he was void of in his past life.

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While he initially believes that he died due to poisoning, it is later revealed that the cause of his reincarnation was Agrona Vritra, who used a certain reincarnation method to extract Grey’s soul from his body. Nevertheless, Agrona failed to put in its chosen container due to Sylvie’s interference.

Arthur was the one meant to wield the power of Fate. For one to wield Fate, one has to be able to understand all 3 lesser edicts of Aether; Spatium, Aevum, Vivum. No one can understand all three edicts as a single person can only use one edict of Aether, however, Arthur isn't just one person, but rather three 'minds' in one person. His three minds beings himself, Sylvie and Regis. This allows him to understand all three edicts by having each of his 'minds' understand a different edict. Arthur represents Spatium, Sylvie represents Aevum, and Regis represents Vivum. Together, they come together to understand Fate. The mouth of Fate stated the Arthur will always be, no matter what timeline or future, the one to wield Fate and be the lance that bursts the cyst of the Universe, resetting it to its natural order.

Appearance

As King Grey, Arthur had pale, short blonde hair. He had a large build from extensive training and was seen wearing a pale, yellow robe or tunic with long white pants that end just before his calves, which were paired with brown sandals. During times of war, Grey is seen in a full-body armor suit.

Born as Arthur Leywin, Arthur had short auburn brown hair and large bright azure eyes. He had a small round face and was generally dressed in solid-colored fabrics by his mother. As he grew older, his hair started to grow longer, with short bangs sweeping across his forehead. At the age of eight, Arthur had grown taller and his hair had grown significantly, extending just past his ears, above his neck. Once he had returned from Elenoir to Xyrus City in Sapin, Arthur had a haircut, which left him with short hair with long bangs that swept across his forehead. He often wore solid-colored shorts that are matched with a button-up shirt. His shoes were typically brown and he opted to wear long socks, although this is only on the cover of the Tapas and kakaopage comics. In the comics themselves, he would often wear a white button-up shirt with a string necktie and grey shorts with brown suspenders. As for footwear, he would wear black dress shoes likely without socks.

As an adventurer, Arthur wears a black turtleneck long sleeve, which are paired with black pants and boots. He wears a loose, pale, argyle shirt beneath a hooded, navy blue jacket with grey markings across the sleeves. His face is covered with a white, full-face mask with a blue half note printed alongside his left eye hole. Arthur wears black, spiked aurochs skinned, fingerless gloves with three green, single-use healing spell gems embedded on the knuckles. Along with his gloves, he also wears a silver ring on his ring finger, which matches with his mother's red jeweled ring. He also carries a dark olive hiker's backpack, with a green sleeping bag rolled up beneath it and his two swords strapped on both sides of his waist.

Arthur Leywin, as a teenager, was of above-average height, taller than many of the adults around him, with auburn hair and azure eyes. He has a well-built body due to his continuous training.

Using Realmheart, his eyes turn from their normal azure color to a lavender color, his hair, which turns from auburn to white, has orange tips and grows beyond his neck. Golden runes are also seen to spread throughout his whole body.

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After several battles against various enemies, his body was covered in scars; but the ones on his neck and left hand stood most prominently, which came from his fight against Jagrette.

At the start of Volume 8, however, Arthur has changed physically. He now looks to be in his early 20s and described his traces as sharper, while his skin is now a cream-white tone with no scars and calluses at all and his once auburn hair is wheat-colored. His eyes are now golden tinged with some blue, and although his body is still toned, he is a bit thinner now. According to Kathyln Glayder, he can also be considered more handsome than before. He has runes running down his back that roughly describe his aetheric spells as a rare subtype of pure mana and a black rune running down the inside of his right forearm, which is his Extra-Dimensional Storage Rune. His Godrunes are camouflaged among those pseudo runes, which become only visible when Arthur imbues Aether into them.

Personality

King Grey's reincarnation into the new world as Arthur allowed his personality and memories to be carried over, influencing how his new personality developed. This led to him having an astoundingly mature personality all throughout his early life and adolescence, often thinking of the big picture and accurately understanding the events and the impact of such events that are occurring around him. Although his logical maturity was very high due to him having lived more than 35 years already, because of how he lived his previous life with an emotional "shell" around his mind, which prevented him from connecting to anyone closely, his emotional maturity does leave a lot to be desired, as he is seen to struggle constantly when dealing with the emotions his newfound loved ones give him. This can lead to him sometimes reacting excessively and explosively when they are threatened or at risk.

After the war was lost and Sylvie sacrificed her physical body to save him from dying because of his overuse of the third phase of his beast will, he became cold and detached again, just like in his past life, almost losing his sanity and empathy in the process. Moreover, his hatred for the Alacryans increased tremendously after Sylvie’s "death" but was smothered by Regis, who prevented him from falling into despair and insanity. Caera was another reason that helped him to retain his empathy, as his encounter with her, an Alacryan noble who took pity on him when he was at his weakest, had a big impact on him. Moreover, as she later also befriended him and spent a year together with him in Alacrya, his hatred towards the Alacryans slowly faded. In fact, he let go of his hatred toward the Alacryans and instead pinned the blame for everything that happened on Agrona Vritra and Kezess Indrath because of the atrocities both parties committed.

After returning to Dicathen, he returns to his normal self, and the armor of coldness and detachment in his Grey persona crumbles. Thanks to Sylvie's sacrifice, he ultimately becomes more clear-headed so that he does not lose anyone he loves anymore, and after spending a year in Alacrya, his goal shifts from protecting only his friends and loved ones to protecting and saving the world so that no one will suffer from the Asura-Vritra conflict anymore.

When Arthur activates his King's Gambit godrune, he becomes coldly logical, removing all of the emotions that makes his thoughts and solutions ineffective.

Background

In his previous life, Arthur lived by the name Grey. He lived on a dystopian, futuristic Earth, Born as an orphan in Etharia, He lived in an orphanage alongside his childhood friends Nico Sever and Cecilia. Due to the somewhat impoverished nature of the orphanage he lived in, Grey and Nico resorted to criminal activities (predominantly burglary of the rich) to assist their orphanage. He lived like this until the day he met a young Cecilia who had an attack and her ki got out of control, Grey saved her and from that day a friendship began between Nico, Grey and Cecilia. Everything was at peace until one day when Cecilia was almost kidnapped by a man who referred to her as the "Legacy". She was rescued by Grey and Nico, however upon their return to the orphanage they found it to be engulfed in flames, killing the headmaster.

Following the death of his motherly figure, who was the Headmaster Wilbeck of the orphanage, Grey's mind was consumed by revenge and in a bid to gain more power, he enrolled in cadet school, despite it’s risks, to become strong enough to take revenge. His friends Nico and Cecilia followed him even though he tried to stop them. The group's relationship started well in the academy setting but increasingly became more strained since Grey no longer met with them as much (he also gave up his personal feelings for Cecilia for the benefit of his friend Nico, who had the same feelings) because of the training, there he met a woman named Vera who became his teacher and a second mother figure for him.

Increasingly more distant with Cecilia and Nico, Grey continued with his training to become king. The climax came when Cecilla was kidnapped by the organization that was looking for the Legacy. Nico and Grey went out to look for her. Although Nico wanted to continue searching, Grey considered that if it was really the government that kidnapped her, there was nothing that could be done, which caused a big fight between them and their friendship never healed.

Months passed and a contest began to elect the new king. Although Grey continued trying to contact Nico and make peace again, this could not be achieved. At the contest, Grey saw Cecilia and, relieved. As the competition progresses, Cecilia and Grey advance and reach the final.

Before the final, Nico escapes and explains where he was during the months he was missing. He explains that he was held captive and that they were using Cecilia. He also explains that Vera belongs to that organization and what their objective was. in addition, he explained that Vera alone chose Grey only because he was a naive orphan and that he was only used for their schemes. Added to that, he explains that he has a plan to rescue Cecilia.

A dismayed Grey cannot believe any of this, believing that Nico is rambling and that his evidence was not very convincing before heading to the combat stadium for his final fight against Cecilia. Unfortunately for Grey, it turned out that everything Nico said was true and as a consequence, everything ended in the death of Cecilia, who, seeking freedom and not being treated as a weapon, let Grey's sword kill her.

All of this caused his friendship with Nico to break for good and caused an existential void within him. After that, he started a war that destroyed an entire country (although it is not known what role Grey played in this).^{[Citation needed]}

Throughout his later life as King Grey, he eschewed any and all long-term attachments; seeing them as weaknesses that others could exploit and in doing so hardened his heart and closed off his emotions. He lived like this until the moment of his death, and when he thought everything was over, he had been reincarnated as Arthur Leywin, at which point he decided to live a completely different life than the one he had lived in his previous life.

Quotes

• (To Elijah) “A king never betrays the people who trust him. And... I promised someone very important to become a better person and to cherish the people around me.”
• (To Elijah) “I’m a quadra-elemental augmenter with two deviances: ice and lightning. I’m also a beast tamer.”
• (To Windsom) "Meh, I prefer the mutual benefit over questionable acts of altruism anyhow."
• (To Lucas) “I thought of you as nothing more than a mere wasp I deemed unnecessary to kill. But even the holiest of saints would swat it down, without hesitation, if said wasp so much as dared to sting him.”
• (To Lucas) “Downforce."
• (To Wren Kain IV) "Is this good enough, or would you like to study my family jewels as well?"
• (To Vanesy Glory) "There's an old saying that a wise man appears weak when he is strong and strong when he is weak."
• (To Agrona)"You are insane."
• (To Tess) “A promise to stay alive...so that we can have a beautiful relationship and a family that our entire country can come celebrate.”
• (To Trodius Flamesworth) "Killing you here would be showing mercy. Instead, I'll let you stew in the consequences of your actions here by taking what you value most."
• (To Barion Wykes) "And General Bairon? If one of the requirements to have this role was to 'keep your iwn family alive', then I might argue that you're in no position to be up on that podium"
• (To Regis) “For being eaten and expelled from the giant beast's rectum, your master bestows upon you a five percent raise.”
• (To The First Djinn Remnant) “You’re right. Ever since being thrown into this godforsaken dungeon, it felt like all I’ve had to do is face trials.” The edge of my mouth curled into a smirk as anger leaked through my voice. “At least, unlike the other monstrosities this place whipped up, you have the sentience to at least tell me some answers.”
• (To The First Djinn Remnant) “Prove your worth, my ass.”
• (To himself) “This was only the beginning of my journey now . With aether, I could rewrite reality itself, it was only a matter of learning how . Then these gods would see what I was really capable of.”
• (To Petras) "We shed so much blood, sweat, and your tears together that I'm almost going to miss you."
• (To Elijah) "Like what? That I didn’t kill Cecilia? That I never meant to abandon the two of you? Would you even listen if I told you the truth? And what would it change, Nico? Certainly not the fact that you’ve killed thousands of innocents, that you took Tessia out of pure selfishness—" (interrupted)
• (To Cadell) "This is for Sylvia."
• (To Sylvias portrait) "You opened my eyes to a life I had yet to live. Saved me twice from a death come far too soon. Trusted me with a vision of the future you wouldn’t live to see. And most important of all, welcomed me into your family in name and act."

Notes & Trivia

• Arthur's name was chosen after his great-grandfather, from the days when the Leywin house was far more powerful.
• Arthur is ranked 2^nd in the comic's character popularity poll, receiving over 3500 votes.
• Arthurs lifespan is much longer than a humans.
• Sylvie doesn't give Arthur her body; she gives up her body so that his can be rebuilt. Because her body contains so much more mana than his, the rebuilt body ends up being more powerful. Almost draconic. And I'm pretty sure I describe it as "draconic" not that he has the body of a dragon. Just that it is like an asura's body. Stronger, etc. So it is something unique to him, not specifically asuran or the body of a dragon but of that nature if we HAD to compare.
• Arthur is a terrible cook who burns almost everything he cooks and mixes oil with water.
• Agrona has commented that he and Arthur think so much alike when Arthur was hiding for the 4th keystone.
• Arthur has been called "princess" by Regis due to being mistaken as a woman when he first met Caera in the Relictombs.
• Ellie notes that Arthur makes a specific facial expression whenever he telepathically talks with Sylvie or Regis.
• Arthur is the only person in existence to have an aether core.
• Arthur himself states that Agrona likely would've given up fighting to take Dicathen, but Arthur's aether core makes him a target that Agrona just can't pass up on.
• Arthur added a handguard to his aether sword design due to his hand getting cut from a sword maneuver by The Second Djinn Remnant, during their training on aether weapons.
• Arthur would later find Dawn's Ballad, shattered. He decides not to fix it with Aroa's Requiem since he doesn't need it anymore and doesn't want to look back to the past.
• Arthur has had a natural instinct for fighting, as shown by his first life as king Grey where he had reflexes that made him an outstanding opponent.

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