Lyserg Diethel

Lyserg Diethel is a male anime and manga character who features in Shaman King.

Biography

Lyserg Diethel (Japanese: リゼルグ・ダイゼル, Hepburn: Rizerugu Daizeru) was born on May 17, 1986 in London, England as the son of Liam Diethel (リアム ダイゼル Riamu Daizeru) and his wife Jane Diethel (ジェーン・ディーセル Jēn Dīseru). Born to shamans, Lyserg inherited the traits of his parents allowing him to see spirits and manipulate Furyoku with him learning to be a dowser like them. He was set to inherit the family's ancestral ghost Morphine (モルフィン Morufin) where he often trained to find objects in the city. When he was 6 years old, he returned home only to find his parents having been killed by Hao Asakura after they refused to join him. Lyserg at first attempted to stop Hao from leaving but his power and inexperience meant he was easily defeated. This saw him being knocked and left behind where he was rescued by local firefighters whereupon he was sent to live with his maternal grandfather. His grandfather eventually died and Lyserg was taken in by the wealthy Oknox where he lived together with a boy named Wat Hudson. Oknox was however revealed to be dealing with human trafficking and after killing Wat attempted to kill Lyserg, though Lyserg survived the shooting while Oknox was killed by Hao. Lyserg then traveled throughout England to find who burned down his house and killed his parents.

Lyserg was qualified by the Patch tribe Officiant Bron and his qualification test took place in the rooftops of Tokyo. It took some doing on Lyserg's part since he could not track Bron, but eventually, Morphine tracked him down and hitting him allowing Lyserg to enter the Shaman Fights. He later began dowsing for others who also sought out to find Patch Village. This had made his Pendulum point to the place, where Yoh Asakura and his friends were staying. When the group prepares to leave the next day, he appears and calls them to wait. Lyserg then gives a full introduction about himself and asks to join the group, to which Yoh politely greets him, much to the shock of the Horohoro and Tao Ren. After a brief debate about him by Horohoro and Ren, Ryu shockingly notes that Ren addresses Lyserg with 'he' and asks if Lyserg is a guy to which Lyserg pulls down his pants and shows them proof, scaring Yoh and the gang. Lyserg then goes on to explain his dowsing abilities and reveals his spirit, Morphine. After a scuffle between him and Horohoro, Horohoro prepares his snowboard for an attack against Lyserg, to which he shows off his oversoul and strikes Horohoro, who dodges. Horohoro reveals his own Over Soul, but the Pendulum Over Soul appears next to him and the pendulum tip is right in his face. Ren prepares to cut the wire with his own fully charged Over Soul, but Lyserg easily incapacitates both Ren and Horohoro by cutting them with the wire and crushing their mediums. Yoh quickly steps in and says that he wants to take his friends to the hospital while stating that he will show no mercy if Lyserg stands in his way. Loosing his calm demeanor, remembering how he came home to find his parents killed by Hao, he quickly strikes Yoh, only to have his pendulum stopped by the tip of Harusame, and later destroyed by a fully Over Souled Amidamaru. Yoh and Ryu then leave to get Horohoro and Ren to the hospital, but Lyserg reveals another Crystal Pendulum and attacks at full force. Attaching his pendulum to a nearby billboard sign, Lyserg jumps above Yoh and creates the Big Ben Wire Frame, threatening to completely tear through Yoh. However, seeing Yoh's face is so similar to that of Hao so many years ago Lyserg loses himself and allows Yoh to cut down the attack. Yoh ends the fight by punching Lyserg in the face but still allows him to join the group.

The group finally arrives at what is supposed to be the Patch village and encounters Team "Tsuki-Gumi" and Team "Kaze-Gumi". Hearing that they are part of Hao's followers, Lyserg moves in to kill them, but Yoh holds him back. After small bickering with Boris Tepes Dracula, that involves Boris killing his own teammate, Boris appears behind Lyserg and bites him, turning him into a vampire. It is later revealed by Amidamaru that he is possessed by Boris' guardian ghost Blamuro the Vampire Hunter. Eventually, they manage to free Boris' guardian ghost and free Lyserg. Ryu defeats Boris and he faints but is saved by Lyserg from falling. The X-Laws then appears to kill Boris leaving Lyserg in awe of their power. When the X-laws leave, Lyserg thinks about how incredible they were. As thanks to Yoh for saving him, Bill Burton leads the group through the underground caves until the presence of the Great Spirit makes them all faint from high amounts of spiritual energy. Lyserg is seen in an empty room, recovering from the Great Spirit. He finds his way outside still crying and runs into Marco Lasso. The X-Laws get Lyserg to join them and together with Marco and Iron Maiden Jeanne, Lyserg forms Team "X-I". The next two months pass uneventfully with Lyserg learning about the X-Laws rules and requirements. He would later join the X-Laws, a group dedicated to destroying Hao. When Lyserg joins them he is unsure about the ways the X-Laws try to eliminate Hao. Though Lyserg holds great hatred for Hao, Yoh's own philosophies and personalities keep him from crossing the line. In the anime, Lyserg abandons his spirit Morphine for an angel spirit called Zeruel, but in the manga they are inseparable. Finally, he rejoins Yoh's team.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Lyserg Diethel was a male human who had a very androgynous appearance leading to him being often being mistaken for a girl by Umemiya Ryunosuke (among others). He has light green hair and lime eyes, which he inherited from his father. He dresses in a similar fashion as his father, and in both cases their outfits were probably a homage to Sherlock Holmes. His clothes consist of a green cloak (similar to the one Sherlock Holmes wears), a white shirt with a white folded handkerchief and black pants and black leather shoes. After Lyserg joined the X-Laws, Marco began training him and after swearing loyalty he was given a classical white uniform similar to the others.[1]. The main difference between his uniform and the others is that his skirt is completely open with nothing beneath but a pair of white short shorts and black sea boots, with bare legs. When not in his X-Laws uniform he wears a white dress shirt, with rolled up sleeves, a tie and suspenders, and a pair of short shorts, with his gun holster on the left side. After training in hell, he discards his X-Laws uniform, and begins wearing clothes similar to his original ones except that he now wears a black cloak with a dark green lining, dark green short shorts. He wears a white dress shirt with rolled up sleeves, a white folded handkerchief and long dark green sea boots.

For his character, Lyserg is rather unstable when it comes to parent-child situations. He has a generally kind heart, although he becomes a bit of an anti-hero. Lyserg's dreams are to take revenge on Hao and to become a great detective much like his father. He is very passionate in his hatred for Hao, and will snap at the sight or sometimes even the mention of him. He is the most intelligent of the five warriors. The main antagonist Asakura Hao, killed his parents while he was young and since then he has sought out revenge on Hao. In the anime he also tends to use stereotypical British phrases and words, such as "seen it on the telly" when referring to dowsing.

Asakura Hao killed Lyserg's parents when he was young and since then he has sought revenge against Hao. He generally has a kind heart, although he has the qualities of an antihero. His goal is to take revenge on Hao and to become a great detective, much like his late father. Lyserg has a very deep-seated and passionate hatred towards Hao and will snap at the sight or even the mention of him.

At first, Lyserg joins with Asakura Yoh and the others, but later joins the X-Laws, a group dedicated to destroying Hao. When Lyserg joins them he is unsure about the ways the X-Laws try to eliminate Hao. Though Lyserg holds great hatred for Hao, Yoh's own philosophies and personalities keep him from crossing the line. In the anime, Lyserg abandons his spirit Morphine for an angel spirit called Zeruel, but in the manga they are inseparable.

Powers and abilities

Lyserg Diethel was a shaman who was able to Furyoku (巫力, Furyoku, "shamanic power") that he could use to achieve a number of feats. He came to specialise as a dowser allowing him to find a target by using his special abilities. He did this by using a Crystal Pendulum as a medium for dowsing and even for spirit control. He channelled his Over Soul (オーバーソウル Ōbā Souru) into his dowsing pendulum, allowing it to become a rope dart. His method of fighting with it consisted of using high speed attacks that come out too fast for his opponent to react against his attack. It was said that he had a Furyoku of 170,000. He went through hell training which in turn, gave him the power necessary for conquering Hao.

His guardian ghost was Morphine (モルフィン Morufin) who was an ancestral spirit of the Diethel family who took the form of a Poppy flower. Morphine is the spirit that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Diethel family. It is known that she is the spirit of a poppy flower, which is a spirit of the Earth. When Lyserg was only six years old, he was given a test for his dowsing skills. He had to find the key to the cage, which was holding Morphine inside. In order for Morphine to be Lyserg's guardian ghost, he had to unlock her cage. Although the task of finding the key was quite difficult, he managed to find it within Big Ben, the famous clock tower clock.

Among the techniques known to him included:

• Homing Pendulum (ホーミングペンデュラム, Hōmingu Pendyuramu) :
• Big Ben Wire Frame (ビッグベンワイヤーフレーム, Biggu Ben Waiyā Furēmu) :

Afterwards, he took on a new guardian spirit when he joined the X-Laws with this one being named O.S. Archangel Zelel (O.S. アークエンジェル・ゼルエル Ākuenjeru Zerueru). A mechanical Archangel that runs on the Angel Engine. The Archangels were modeled after sports cars, with Zelel being a Lotus Elise.

Lyserg would later fuse both Morphine and Zelel together to form his armor Over Soul, Mastema Dolkeem, and attuning his Furyoku to that of the element of fire. According to Lyserg, Mastema Dolkeem was created to prevent his hatred grudge from taking over his life, and not to fight Hao.

Lyserg is also one of the five warriors chosen by Sati Saigan. After Hao began uniting with the Great Spirit, he sent the spirit of Redseb Munzer, with the Spirit of Fire, to Lyserg and his friends, thus finally giving Lyserg the Spirit of Fire.

Notes

• Lyserg Diethel was created by Hiroyuki Takei where he featured in the setting of the Shaman King universe.
• His name was a reference to lysergic acid diethylamide. The name of his spirit, Morphine, is obviously a drug reference as well and had to be changed to Chloe and Morphea for the English anime and manga, due to US law

Appearances

• Shaman King:

External Links

• Shaman King Wiki Entry

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