Ban (The Seven Deadly Sins)

Ban is a male anime and manga character who features in The Seven Deadly Sins.

Biography

Ban in The Seven Deadly Sins v1 #3.

Ban (Japanese: バン, Hepburn: Ban) was a male human born over 30 years ago in Ravens in the land of Britannia with it being known that he had a young sister named Kilia. The two lived on the streets without their parents where his sister came to pass away from hunger leaving Ban all alone. He came to make a living by stealing from others leading to him being constantly chased and beaten by his victims. This was until one day when he was caught and sent to Aberdeen Prison where a man offered him food that Ban gluttonously accepted by eating it as he was starving. He came to escape prison alongside the man who was called Zhivago where they managed to reach his hideout. At some point, he was kidnapped and told to Lord Roxanu but was saved again by Zhivago who happened to be robbing from the noble's cargo wagon that was there at the scene. It was then that Zhivago decided to teach Ban how to steal and be a thief but warned him that such a lifestyle had many dangers. Despite that, the young boy accepted and was taught how to seal though Ban's initial attempts on his own were failures that led to him being caught. He continued to learn and stayed with Zhivago who became a parental figure to the young boy. In their time together, the older thief told Ban many stories such as the tale of the Fountain of Youth and its guardian saint that resided in the Fairy King's Forest.

When he hears that Meliodas was alive, Ban, wanting to meet his captain, easily escaped from his prison cell, and was immediately confronted by Jericho, who tried to kill him. Ban easily dodged all of Jericho's slashes and even purposely let her cut his hair. When Jericho is shocked that he dodged her attacks despite his severe wounds, Ban shows her that they have already healed, and points to his scar as the only scar he ever received. Ban then took Jericho's armor and clothes in an attempt to find decent armor before leaving.[5] Disappointingly, he discovered the armor to be too small, after which Ban came across a guard looking lustfully at a captive woman. He glanced at her, showing some interest, and proceeded to smash the guard's head into the bars. He then entered the cell by bending the bars, and told the woman that she was his before stealing the dagger that she had hidden in her clothes. He commented on its good quality and tested it out by cutting her chains. She thanked him for releasing her, and requested the dagger back; however, he refused and declared that it belonged to him, which greatly frightened her. Jude arrived, intending to kill him, though Ban merely greeted the Holy Knight in return and asked for the reason he wished to kill him, with Jude answering that he had no more use for him since he had already fulfilled his role as a bait for Meliodas. Engaging Jude in combat, Ban was quickly stabbed in the chest by one of the Holy Knight's thorn-like weapons. He, however, explained that he had actually let himself be captured five years earlier, and the reason for it. After removing the weapon from his chest, he easily stabbed Jude in the chest, expressing his excitement about the Holy Knights declaring war on the Seven Deadly Sins. Together with the frightened Sennett, Ban left the Baste Dungeon and encountered Meliodas, Diane, Hawk, and Elizabeth. He and Meliodas then greeted, high-fived each other, and then started arm wrestling, which resulted in the entire dungeon being destroyed. Afterwards, he told Meliodas that he was glad to see him again. With the dungeon destroyed, he, along with the others and the imprisoned villagers, headed to Dalmary Town, where he went off on his own, stealing a set of red, studded clothes from a random villager. Later that night, Ban was introduced to Elizabeth and noticed that Hawk is a talking pig, which greatly shocked him. During the party, he started drinking and even rode on top of Hawk. Together with the rest of the group, he looked up at the sky to see it filled with crossing shooting stars, falling asleep on Hawk soon after.

Three days later, Ban, along with the rest of the party, left Dalmary Town, Elizabeth's recovery having caused their delay. As he and Meliodas decided upon their next destination, they are abruptly stopped by two Holy Knight apprentices. Ban offered to quickly kill them, only for Meliodas to stop him, and trick the apprentices instead. However, the two soon realized the Sins' identity due to Diane. Before they can take action, they were suddenly attacked by a black hound, who quickly killed the two apprentices. Though Ban tried to frighten it, it instead grew bigger, since black hounds are able to change their size depending on how frightened they feel. However, before he could proceed to kill the creature, Meliodas used his broken blade to scare it away, and then declares their next destination to be the Capital of the Dead, in order to search for King, whom Ban expressed disdain for. In the town nearest to the Necropolis, Ban was assigned to cook in the Boar Hat, though he expressed several complaints. After he escaped from work, Ban headed into town and discovered a little girl, Ellen, whom he mistook for his dead lover "Elaine". She suddenly collapsed, leading him to rush by her side. Ellen's brother, Luigi believed that Ban was going to take her away, and attacked him. When he learned of the truth, he apologetically questioned Ban as to how he can "erase his sin". Ban responded that a real sin can never be erased. As soon he finished his statement, Ban was then suddenly stabbed in the chest with a spear by King. Ban questioned his assailant's identity, to which King replied, calling him, "Ban, The Undead", and revealed that Ban had killed the Saint of the Fountain of Youth to gain immortality. The two then engaged in battle, and after it continued tensely for a while, Ban prepared to utilize a special ability, which Meliodas quickly stops. The Sin of Wrath and Diane recognized King immediately, despite his changed appearance, with Ban being completely shocked and unable comprehend how the boy he fought was actually King. Later, after King escaped, Ban cooked a meal for the children inside the Boar Hat, and children informed them that King had tried many times to enter the Capital of the Dead. In regard to entering it, Ellen then recited a riddle, stating that a priceless memory shared with the deceased will open the path to the capital. Ban would thank them, and the group headed to the entrance to the Capital.

At the entrance, the group noticed flowers to have suddenly and mysteriously bloomed; the petals of the flowers then swirl around them in a circular fashion, transporting them to the Capital of the Dead. Ban immediately notices a girl and chases her, with King, in turn, following Ban. As he is chasing the girl, King provokes Ban, leading the latter to attack the former. However, King easily dodges Ban's attacks, convincing Ban of him being King. King narrates how he came to discover his hometown to have been burned to the ground, then trapping Ban by transforming his pillow into a giant stuffed bear, and angrily reveals that the Guardian Saint whom Ban killed was his sister. When Ban, in response, declares that he is immortal, King uses a form of his Sacred Treasure that petrifies all whom it impales. Ban's skin around the impaled area is shown to have petrified. Soon, Ban turns completely into a statue. As King begins to leave, he notices spheres of light approaching Ban, and as he recognizes the spheres to be Elaine, his sister and the Guardian Saint of the Fountain, she kisses Ban in order to break King's curse. They exchange their greetings, when King confusingly yells at them, questioning whether Elaine was still angry at him. The three are distracted by a huge explosion some distance away. Noticing that a Holy Knight has arrived, Ban proceeds to head there, but only before telling Elaine that he will definitely make her his someday. Ban then enters the battle and assists Meliodas and Diane by appearing to immobilize the Holy Knight who follows them to the Capital of Dead, Guila, by using his ability, Snatch, on her rapier. Guila's retaliation heavily wounds him, but he regenerates within a few moments, leading her to comment upon his immortality. As the battle continues, Guila stabs him in the neck while commenting on how weak the three Seven Deadly Sins were. However, King then arrives and attacks Guila by stabbing Ban through his back with his spear. King explains that he has arrived to help the Sins, to which Ban sarcastically thanks him, and adds that this is for Meliodas and Diane, and also due to Elaine's feelings for Ban. Though Ban initially seems to be angered by King wanting to fight Guila alone, he quickly complies. Ban and the two watch as King defeats Guila with ease, and as, when she uses the element of surprise to attack King from behind, Meliodas stops her repels her attack. As soon as she is defeated, everyone's bodies start disintegrating, the Capital of the Dead having begun to reject them due to them being alive and not belonging there. Ban says his final goodbyes to Elaine, before returning to the living world along with the rest. After returning to the living world, they find Guila's real body, with Ban suggesting killing her right then. Later, Ban and King find Ellen and her brother, who reveal themselves as ghosts that guide people who shared priceless memories with the dead, such as them, to the Capital. They both then disappear, but only after telling Ban that his cooking was delicious and thanking them, to which Ban, smiling, also thanks them in return. When King is told that Elizabeth is a princess, and he transforms himself into his older and fatter form, Ban is shown to be extremely surprised. Later, Ban is shown to be drunk when King asks him, Diane and Meliodas as to what happened to their sacred treasures, with which, the three would have been easily able to defeat Guila. Ban drunkenly responds that his was stolen during his imprisonment, much to King's irritation. He then looks on as King explains to Hawk the significant increments in the Seven Deadly Sins' power, wielding a Sacred Treasure can create.

The next day, Ban is shown to still be drunk at the Boar Hat. He is later left behind along with Diane while Meliodas, Elizabeth, King and Hawk go to Byron because of his wanted poster's image's accuracy and her size as a giant. Later, Ban accompanies Meliodas, Hawk, and King into Vaizel, while wearing an apron due to his shirt having been destroyed in the Capital of the Dead, since Meliodas speculates a sacred treasure of the three Sins to be among the objects sold in the annual flea market of the town. There, a drunk elderly man directs them to the annual fighting tournament, whose reward is the weapon 'that no one can use', which is revealed to be Diane's Sacred Treasure, Gideon. Ban and Meliodas eagerly join the tournament; Ban enters the names of the three, including King, under false names, and against King's will. During the preliminaries, Ban, while commenting the battles to be boring, easily defeats many other fighters and stole a new shirt similar to his previous one from an unfortunate man he just met. After preliminary ends, he is shown to be among the eight fighters who have advanced to the main tournament, along with Meliodas and King. As their advancing is announced, he mocks King for winning in a cheap fashion by using his flight abilities. During the determination of the match-ups, he is revealed to have entered King, himself, and Meliodas under the names of 'Old Fart', much to King's annoyance, 'Baan', and 'Meliodafu'. Howzer, a Holy Knight almost discovers the identities of the latter two from their physical traits, but in his naivety and stupidity, does not see through the obvious aliases.

Ban, standing among the audience, watches the battle between Griamore and Matrona. After the latter defeats the former, causing her hat to fall off and revealed her face, which is identical to Diane, Ban looks on bewilderingly. Ban similarly looks on while Howzer and Taizoo fight, and also explains to Meliodas and King about Taizoo losing against the Holy Knight. After the third battle of the main tournament, between Cain, the elderly man who directed the four to the tournament, and King ends with the latter losing, Ban finally readies himself for his battle against Meliodas. As their battle begins, Meliodas compares the ring, and the tournament's rules of a fighter being disqualified if he is pushed out of the ring, to 'something' long ago. Telling Ban that he will remember soon, Meliodas punches him with great strength in his face. This reminds him of the mentioned episode: Meliodas and Ban's first meeting when the latter was still imprisoned, for supposedly burning the Fairy King's Forest and killing its guardian, that led to him joining Meliodas. Ban seems to have been pushed out of the ring, but regains his balance, and proceeds to exchange a series of attacks with Meliodas. One of Meliodas' retaliations sends Ban crashing into the ring, and even breaks the Great Vaizel Rock, on which the ring is located. Ban heals himself instantly, much to the audience's surprise, and continues to fight. As their battle continues, Meliodas punches Ban again; however, he then falls down to his knees, due to Ban having used his ability, Snatch. Ban immediately heals himself, and attacks Meliodas again. When the latter tries to retaliate, he appears to have weakened. As Ban displays his increased speed, Meliodas attacks him again, but as before, is easily defeated, and seems to be continuously losing his stamina and the battle as the fight continues. This leads King to explain that Ban's ability, Snatch, enabled him to 'rob' not only physical objects, but also physical abilities such as speed and stamina; the reason why Meliodas was on his knees without receiving any damage was that Ban had 'robbed' him of his physical abilities. As the battle continues in Ban's favor, Meliodas, lifting Ban with one hand, smashes him repeatedly on the ground. Ban, however, is then revealed to have stolen Meliodas' physical strength during the attack. Ban, wanting to test his strength now, punches Meliodas, but is stopped by a single punch. Ban stops himself from being pushed out of the ring, and wonders how bottomless his captain's powers were in scope.

He, again, instantly heals his wounds, Ban states that since the battle would not end by stealing of speed and strength in small doses, he will now rob all of Meliodas' abilities. Meliodas attacks Ban with a barrage of punches, and the latter continues stealing the former's abilities. In the end, all of Meliodas' abilities are shown to have been stolen before he is able to defeat Ban, as the Sin of Greed smirks while standing over his collapsed and weakened captain. Ban tests the strength he has stolen by swinging his hand, the mere resulting air pressure creating a crater on the ground. Ban questions Meliodas if he will give up, or be utterly defeated; Diane yells at him that if he further harms Meliodas, she will not forgive him and will cut off their ties. The Sin of Wrath refuses to give up, and states that he will win. Diane then states her hypothesis that Meliodas is baiting Ban to delivering his most powerful blow, and will then reflect the blow with Full Counter back at Ban. King, however, explains that doing so would be impossible - Full Counter can only reflect 'power' attacks, and is useless against indirect attacks such as Ban's Physical Hunt, or an ordinary punch. Despite Elizabeth's pleading, Ban punches Meliodas. In the midst of the resulting dust and debris, Meliodas, who now mysteriously has a strange black colored mark on his forehead, and his eyes colored black, crushes Ban's hand, then proceeding to send him flying out of the ring with a single punch, thus defeating him. Ban lamented his defeat, and his having forgotten about what, he calls, his captain's 'trump card'. Hawk then unwittingly carries Ban to the ring due to him feeling his body to be very heavy after using 'Physical Hunt' Ban, still laying on Hawk, watches Diane and Howzer's battle. During Meliodas and Cain's battle, when King and Diane wonder as to Meliodas and Cain's relationship, Ban instructs them to stop, citing the third law of the Seven Deadly Sins, which states that a Sin shall not question of the sin of an another member. Sometime afterwards, during the beginning of the final battle of the tournament between Meliodas and Diane, Ban is shown to have paid some women to cheer for Meliodas flirtatiously and erotically, which would enrage Diane into fighting him seriously. This was since the two fighters were intending to end their fight quickly by Diane letting herself be defeated.

Ban enthusiastically watches Meliodas and the enraged Diane fight. Some time afterward, Meliodas, stopping the fight, declares his identity, and that he will now be taking over Vaizel. Ban and King enter the stage and are immediately recognized due to their appearances. Meliodas continues, ordering everyone to leave Vaizel in one minute, lest they be massacred. A few brief moments later, several gigantic, and explosive flares rain down on the town. The attackers are shown to be Guila, Jericho, and another Holy Knight, Marmas. Elizabeth then understands the Sins' actions: the four had threatened the civilians to leave to have then evacuate. Meliodas notes that the attackers are now much stronger than before, instructs the other three to separate. While the attacks continue, Ban, is sent crashing onto a building by a surprise attack from Jericho. He expresses his enthusiasm to fight, but questions Jericho whether they have met before, and she declares that she will carve her name into his heart. Jericho's subsequent introduction reminds Ban of her. He, believing that she is male from their previous encounter, questions whether she cross dresses, and kicks her away. Much to his surprise, his wound does not heal despite his regeneration abilities. Jericho, stating that the Deadly Sins are no match for the 'reactors', attacks Ban as he dodges. Walking towards Ban, she states that she no longer has to pretend to be a man, since she was now powerful. She kicked him on his chest, and spreads a drop of his blood, which spurted on near her lips, as a substitute for lipstick, she states that Ban has made her into a woman. Sometime later, after Veronica, Elizabeth's older sister seals Meliodas with Goddess Amber, and tries to forcibly bring Elizabeth back to the capital, Ban wakes, and quickly takes Veronica hostage. Griamore demands for him to let her go, in return to which Ban asks for the spell on Meliodas to be undone, and for Elizabeth to be released. However, he is abruptly slashed from behind by Jericho, which allows Veronica to escape.

Within that realm, time passed differently causing Ban to experience countless years whilst wandering the desolate landscape. Numerous times, he fell to his baser instincts causing him to transform into a demonic fox-like form that battled the other denizens in that land. Each time, he managed to snap himself back to normal and continued his search for Meliodas's soul though had no idea what form this would take in this dimension.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Ban was a very tall muscular man with tanned skin who had well-developed abdominal muscles and he usually walked with a slouch. He also had short, spiky, pale blue hair and shin black eyebrows whilst he had scarlet-red eyes. By adulthood, he became a noted outlaw and was referred to as Bandit Ban. Among the Deadly Sins, he was known as the Fox's Sin of Greed.

It was shown that he was easily excitable and became interested in unusual things. An example of this was encountering Hawks for the first time where he was not scared at meeting a talking pig but fascinated by the encounter.

He had a younger sister by the name of Kilia who always followed him when they were children. According to Ban, she passed away from starvation when she was only 4 years old leaving him without any family.

As a child, he lived on the streets as a thief where he came under the wing of Zhivago who became his adoptive father. The man taught him everything he knew about being a thief and avoiding getting caught by people. In that time, Ban came to consider Zhivago to be the only person he ever trusted.

Ban later came to marry Elaine with the two of them having a son together named Lancelot.

Powers and abilities

Originally, Ban was an ordinary human being who had no special talent at first but came to be taught to be a thief.

Within the Fairy Forest, he came to drink from the Fountain of Youth (生命の泉, Inochi no Izumi) that was a sacred treasure of the Fairy Clan. This liquid was noted to had made Ban immortal where he was capable of regenerating from nearly any wound or injury on his body. Typical magical effects were said to disperse after the death of their host but the waters healed Ban even after his head was destroyed. Thus, it was said to be a magical attribute that effectively made Ban immortal. He was shown as capable of surviving many centuries within Purgatory where his body allowed him to adapt, live, hunt and fight in the hellish landscape.

He came to be a wielder of the special ability of Snatch (強奪スナッチ, Sunacchi). This allowed Ban to rob physical objects either by grabbing them or stealing their physical abilities for him whereby he weakened them whilst gaining in strength as well as speed. However, it was revealed that this ability had a limit as there was only so much strength Ban could rob from a person before its power began to overwhelm him and damage him as a result. He was known to use this power to steal body parts from a person such as a heart or an army that he did so in the blink of an eye. Ban was known to use this as a means of fatally injuring his opponents such as using Snatch to cause their hearts to emerge in the air whereupon he destroyed them with a physical strike.

Among his abilities and techniques included:

• Physical Hunt (身体狩りフィジカルハント Fijikaru Hanto; literally meaning "Body Hunt") :
• Fox Hunt (獲物狩りフォックスハント Fokkusu Hanto; literally meaning "Game Hunt") :
• Hunter Fest (狩りの祭典ハンターフェス Hantā Fesu; literally meaning "Festival of Hunting") : a technique that allowed the user to steal the physical strength of every living creature within a hundred foot radius of himself. However, there was a limit to how much strength that could be robbed from a person. Upon reaching the limit, Ban was incapable of robbing any more power from others as it would put his own body in danger. Using this ability to its limit resulted in Ban becoming heavily fatigued to the point that he was incapable of even accomplishing the most basic of tasks such as walking.
• Zero Sign (絶気配ゼロサイン Zero Sain; literally meaning "Suppressed Presence") :
• Crazy Hunt (乱獲クレイジーハント, Kureijī Hanto; literally meaning "Over-hunting") :
• Gift (贈与ギフト, Gifuto) :
• Crazy Rush (クレイジー・ラッシュ, Kureijī Rasshu) :

He came to wield a Sacred Treasure that was known as the Holy Staff Courechouse (聖棍 クレシューズ, Seikon Kureshūzu) that was an ornate four section-staff.

Due to his skill and ability, he came to be a member of Meliodas's band of knights who were known as the Seven Deadly Sins.

Notes

• Ban was created by Nakaba Suzuki where he featured in the setting of The Seven Deadly Sins universe.
• The character was based on King Ban of Arthurian Legend.

Appearances

• The Seven Deadly Sins:

External Links

• The Seven Deadly Sins Wiki Entry
• Comicvine Entry

This article is a stub. You can help Multiversal Omnipedia by expanding it.