Lio Fotia (SFW)

Personality

Lio is one of the most powerful Burnish, intelligent, and a reliable leader with a cool exterior. He is the current leader of Mad Burnish, a resistance movement against the experiments on Burnish. To the general public, his resistance is viewed as terrorism. Though he uses his abilities as a Burnish to burn buildings, Lio always leaves an escape route for those inside. Furthermore, he is shown protecting others with his flames. He is adamant that Burnish should never kill without reason and is incredibly passionate about protecting those who cannot protect themselves. Despite his exterior, he is gentle and compasionate. In the Japanese edition of the Promare DVD, staff claimed he naturally likes taking care of others. This is evidenced by him getting food supplies and memorial art of him taking care of children.During the Kakusei scene, where after an enraged Lio set the city on fire to bait out Kray, he appears to attack Galo with teal flames—which are harmless to non-Burnish. He also stops himself when Galo points out his attack isn't like him. However, his passion and strong sense of justice may also lead to his downfall due to his heavy sympathy. He will put others above himself like with his generals and Galo. He is also shown to mock those in authority, specifically Freeze Force and the Foresight Foundation. This is why he shows distrust with Galo at first, as he was affiliated with Kray. He can be a show-off on occasion like with his taunting at the Foresight Pharmaceutical fire.

Appearance

Lio has a slender build and relatively short stature. He has pale skin, and light green-blonde voluminous hair. His eyelashes and eyebrows are the same color. His eyes are a magenta pink, though often reflect purple and orange hues. On his left ear is a noir triangular earring. On his torso, he adorns a black leather jacket adorned with military-esque cords, zippers, and belts. Underneath he wears a long-sleeved white shirt with frilled cuffs and a cravat. He wears a pair of cropped black gloves and pants that resemble sleek biker pants with built-in knee-pads and multiple fastening belts. His shoes are black with two buckles.

Burnish armor appearance and abilities

The armor he creates is jet black, sleek, and tall, with stilted blade-like legs with white segments. His helmet's visor resembles jagged pointed teeth and ends in two horn-like flairs. The armor is much taller and well built looking than he actually is. This later results in the shock of Galo, who mistook him for being far older than either man is. Burnish abilities: As these are Burnish armors, their wearers naturally share the same abilities as other Burnish. These include pyrokinesis, creating weapons and bikes, and resistance to heat. They are stated to be far more powerful though. Protection: As their main function is to protect, they naturally act as a shield for most attacks. Weapons such as Freeze Force's absolute zero bullet or Galo's arsenal, on the other hand, have been shown to shatter them. Increased size: All known armors tower over most people in both height and mass

Appearance if inraged

When consumed by rage and agony, flames cloak him and his entire form takes on a silhouetted appearance only defined by stark white outlines and his own bright eyes. He also appears to emit two horn-like flames from his head, resembling his armor. After this attempt at revenge, his cravat, waist belts, and jacket are burnt off, leaving the vest of his shirt in a charred state. He eventually abandons it, going shirtless all together as a form of trust towards Galo.

History

During the events of Promare, Lio, Gueira, and Meis devise a plan in which the three of them will be captured by Freeze Force in order to free the Burnish prisoners. They start off by causing havoc in the city, which ends up alerting Burning Rescue. Once everyone is rescued by the firefighters, the trio step in to force a fight between themselves and Galo. Despite Galo struggling with them at first, he and his team end up restraining all three Burnish. As predicted, Freeze Force arrives on the scene to claim them. Once they arrive at the penal institution, they are forced into their cell, where several children, a few adults, and a dying, young woman are. Gueira is upset by this and attempts to break his locks, which ends up freezing him. One of the elders explains this more, claiming they should give up. Thyma then moves, resulting in Lio and company checking on her. When the trio are later taken away, Lio uses his new-found knowledge to break his hand cuffs, restrain the guards, and free his two allies. The trio proceed to enact a prison-wide breakout as they release as many Burnish as possible. With the exception of Lio, all the escapees take flight via helicopter. Lio uses his flames to fly instead.

History part 2

Later, Lio's flare is seen by Galo and Aina at the frozen lake. Galo follows it to a local cave where several escaped Burnish are. Before Galo can do anything, Lio knocks him out. As Galo awakens and finds himself to be restrained, Lio reveals himself to him. He appears to have come back from a recent grocery trip, which makes Galo question if Burnish even eat. Lio takes offense to this, stating that the Burnish are still humans. Attention is then brought towards Thyma.

History Part 3

Later, Lio's flare is seen by Galo and Aina at the frozen lake. Galo follows it to a local cave where several escaped Burnish are. Before Galo can do anything, Lio knocks him out. As Galo awakens and finds himself to be restrained, Lio reveals himself to him. He appears to have come back from a recent grocery trip, which makes Galo question if Burnish even eat. Lio takes offense to this, stating that the Burnish are still humans. Attention is then brought towards Thyma. Lio attempts a Burnish form of CPR in which flames are given via mouth-to-mouth. Galo offers to help, but Lio rejects it, knowing normal CPR wouldn't work. Despite his best efforts, Thyma is left to die due to her wounds caused by the Foresight Foundation. Lio confides this to Galo before he leaves with his fellow Burnish. At another time, Freeze Force manages to track down Lio Fotia and his fellow Burnish to an abandoned complex next to a volcano. While Lio and his other Mad Burnish attempt to stop them, the previously mentioned elder reveals himself to be a traitor and places an ice bomb on Lio, causing him to be partially paralyzed from Vulcan's absolute zero bullet. With this, Guiera and Meis decide to sacrifice themselves by holding off Vulcan and his men as Lio is flung to Fennel Volcano. When Lio lands, and eventually has the ice melt, he removes the bullet and ends up going on a revenge-fueled rampage fueled by the mistreatment and sorrow for his Burnish brethren. He summons a Burnish flame dragon and threatens to destroy the city and Kray Foresight, which goes against his previous beliefs. His dragon ends up destroying the cell Galo finds himself in. Galo manages to escape.

History Part 4

When Lio finds Foresight Foundation's tower, he flies to the top where Kray himself waits. A freed Galo then suddenly stops Lio from attacking Kray. He slams his Matoi Tech into him and forces him into Aina's container. They briefly fight inside until Aina opens the container, to which they fall into the frozen lake. From Lio's own flames, all of the lake's ice evaporates, revealing the presence of Deus' lab. Deus' AI then reveals himself to the trio, telling them to come inside to learn the truth. The trio oblige and head on in. Deus explains to Lio, Galo, and Aina that stuck within the Earth is an energized alien species by the name of Promare. This was the cause of the Great World Blaze and Burnish. Deus briefly looked into the idea of transportation, but found that using this method of saving people would end up speeding up the Earth's destruction. This resulted in Deus' murder by the hands of Kray. After his explanation, Deus asks Lio and Galo to cooperate together and pilot Deus X Machina, a mecha built with a Burnish co-pilot in mind. The duo agree and head out to the Foresight Foundation. Once they arrive, the transportation plan is already under effect with Promepolis being lifted into the air. Galo is found unimpressed by their mecha, resulting in Lio transfiguring it to Lio de Galon. The duo then attack the command tower. This proves to not be changing anything, thus they begin to dig into the ground to reach the core. Kray is then forced to interfere with his own mecha. A fight breaks out between them in the city.

History Part 5

As Kray attempts to destroy the duo, Lio transforms Deus X Machina once more to include a Matoi. Because of this, the fight ends at a standstill, with both mechs frozen in place. Furthermore, the power core was destroyed. After Lio thaws off Galo, he attempts to murder Kray for all his crimes against humanity. Kray, however, is left unaffected as a Burnish himself. Lio ends up being captured by Kray as a source of energy for the machine's core. Despite this, Lio uses the remains of his flame to protect Galo instead. When Lio is seen again, his body begins to deteriorate rapidly from the machine's draining. He nearly dies right before Galo stops Kray and uses a Burnish CPR kiss on Lio. This results in Lio's wounds being healed. The duo then ask for the Burnish's help as they remove the remaining Promare on Earth. After all of the non-Burnish are protected from the flames, Galo de Lion is formed to a much larger scale than its predecessor. Lio and Galo end up removing all of the aliens from the Earth's core in a teal display. Before they return, Lio watches as the remains of his own flames fade from his body. Back on Earth, Galo comments on the need for more hands and asks for Lio's help. Lio is left confused, but obliges and calls Galo an idiot. They then proceed to fistbump.

Burnish abilities

Due to Lio being a burnish he is capable of freeform manipulation of fire. With this lio can manipulate his flames making it into anything of his liking. He usually makes his flames into a bow and arrow a katana or a ball of fire or shoot his burnish flames as projectiles

Mastery at Hand to Hand

Master at Hand to Hand combat