Apollo

Apollo is a prophetic Myth of the Awakener Association, the contractor of the living sun Sunshine, and a recurring friend and rival of Neo Hargraves. His Future Visions bring him to Neo, while his determination to protect others repeatedly puts them on opposite sides. He burns away during an altered-history defense against Typhaon, but later revelations identify him as the First or Supreme Sun and establish Percival as a reincarnated continuation whose memories and formal progression remain distinct. (Chapters 215–261, 276–311, 394–459, 768–780, and 826)

Biography

Future visions and Neo's recruitment

Apollo first enters the story arguing with Ares because the Association has suspended its search for Neo. Apollo's Trait showed Neo holding the Child of Mana, yet Gaia cannot locate the Fate of anyone with that name. Ares persuades him that the vision may be symbolic and redirects him toward Arzew, where an allegedly impossible defeat of an Anomaly needs investigation. Apollo accepts, although the accompanying report of a Necromancer visibly revives trauma left by an earlier war. His first pursuit of Neo therefore joins prophetic conviction, institutional duty, and fear rather than simple curiosity. (Chapters 215–216)

In Arzew, Apollo recognizes Neo immediately and insists that the person from his vision is real. He identifies himself as Apollo rather than allowing Emma to finish introducing him as Charles Edward, then invites Neo into the Association after revealing that a prophecy is involved. His conduct quickly makes the invitation personal. Apollo helps residents whenever he is idle, gives Neo a flare to call him during Anomaly #79's attacks, and worries when Neo accepts danger too easily. Neo finds him annoying but sees that the concern is genuine. Admiration and competitiveness thus grow together: Apollo treats Neo as a hero, yet also believes he must stop that hero from wasting his life. (Chapters 221–222 and 226–228)

The Necromancer and the break with the Association

When Jack Hanma appears as the corrupted Necromancer, Apollo plans a combined strike with Sunshine and Athena. He is frightened enough to tremble but completes the invocation, filling the battlefield with Holy light that burns Jack's bone sea. His restraint becomes strategically costly when Jack shields himself with captured souls: Apollo lowers Sunshine rather than burn them, whereas Athena attacks because she judges protecting the living more important. After the first plan fails, Apollo honors his agreement and lets Neo intervene. Neo restores Jack's reason, proving that Apollo's compassion was not weakness even though Apollo himself could not perform the rescue. (Chapters 229–230 and 234)

The alliance fractures when the Association refuses to rescue the Child of Mana for fear of awakening Typhaon. Neo and Jack leave, and Apollo's Future Vision shows Neo striking him down. When they meet in the Savage Expanse, Apollo forces Sunshine into one-hundred-percent synchronization and enters Divine Transformation even though the backlash can kill him. His solar pressure nearly overwhelms Neo, while Neo repeatedly warns that the technique will consume Apollo first. Zeus intervenes, but Apollo becomes alarmed when Zeus's punishment restores Neo's Death. Apollo's final transformed attack fails when Neo kills Sunshine's manifestation and drains him. Their rivalry is violent, yet neither ceases trying to prevent the other's self-destruction. (Chapters 241, 256–261)

The altered Age of Gods and seven-day defense

The Shadow Trial's altered history preserves Apollo after that defeat. Thirty-nine years later, Emma expects him to join her, Jack, and other Awakeners against Typhaon, but Apollo says Neo will handle the enemy and refuses to report. Emma sees a once-disciplined warrior turned unreliable and blames Neo for teaching him to do only what he wants. The judgment captures Apollo's outward change but misses its basis: defeat has made him trust his own reading of events over automatic obedience, and his Future Visions give him information the other defenders lack. His confidence in Neo is no longer the child's admiration from Arzew; it is a choice maintained after losing to him. (Chapters 272 and 276)

That independence ends in coordinated sacrifice rather than withdrawal. Apollo and Ares hide and gather strength, then Apollo unexpectedly contacts Kronos after foreseeing the defenders' plan. He expands Sunshine's radiance across the entire world, attacks Typhaon's monsters, and burns his own life as fuel while Ares and another Awakener occupy separate fronts. The delay lasts seven days and gives Zeus time to complete the world-scale spell, but Apollo's body and life crumble into dust, and Sunshine fades with him. The child who once tried to stop everyone else's sacrifice ultimately chooses one for himself, on terms derived from his own vision rather than an order. (Chapters 291 and 310–311)

Reincarnation as Percival and Tartarus

Apollo's continuity next appears through Percival. Neo finds Apollo's Intent so deeply ingrained in him that an ordinary blessing cannot explain it. Percival believes Apollo was the father of an earlier reincarnation, but Neo reads his Intent and confirms the deeper truth while also recognizing that Percival has no memory of living as Apollo. Their old pattern nonetheless returns. Percival competes with Neo, laughs at his failures, calls Sunshine, uses Apollo's blessing of Might, and finally accepts help after repeated training deaths demonstrate that individual pride will not prepare either of them for Tartarus. These are Percival's actions and ranks, not retroactive achievements of Apollo's original body. (Chapters 394, 399, 409, and 413)

During the Grand Expedition, Percival's Fate of Fortune prevents him from entering the Abyss of Nightmares by pulling him through a violent Space passage. His Core is partially destroyed, and Sunshine keeps him alive until help arrives. He later observes Tartarus's Fate threads for subjective years, realizes its apparent inhabitants are Nightmare-made illusions, and nearly collapses under the horror of lives built on fabricated memories. Sunshine challenges him not to abandon the allies inside. The exchange preserves both continuity and difference: the Spirit remembers a longer history, while the reincarnated person must choose courage without possessing Apollo's memories. Percival continues, carrying Apollo's bond with Sunshine and protective disposition forward through a new existence. (Chapters 456 and 459)

The First Sun, betrayal, and preservation

Memories taken from Xel'thar reveal the older life behind those reincarnations. Apollo is the First or Supreme Sun, one of the Forgotten Suns' three supreme leaders. His two eyes approach omniscience: one reads Fate's possible paths and the other understands Existence. Xel'thar exploits the small gaps those eyes cannot predict, betrays Apollo, tears out the Eye of Existence Watcher, and curses the reincarnator so later lives cannot recover their memories or sealed power. Apollo still denies him complete victory by throwing the Eye of All Fate into the river of time while his body and worlds collapse. The ancient title describes leadership and identity; no supplied chapter gives this Apollo a numeric God stage or Heavenbreaker step. (Chapters 768 and 778)

Neo later travels to the moment Karax obtained the Eye of All Fate. Apollo, then leading as the First Sun during a civil war among the Three Suns, does not recognize him. Neo stops the battlefield, retrieves Apollo's eyes from the Second Sun, returns the Eye of All Watcher to Apollo, and keeps the recovered Fate eye before storing the loyal Forgotten Suns' complete temporal strands in his Cosmos. In the final history, Percival remains inside that Cosmos because Apollyon can use his eye-derived existence to locate others. A golem proxy lets him maintain contact, preserving Apollo's continuation without undoing the distinction between the ancient leader, the dead Association body, and Percival's current life. (Chapters 780 and 826)

Appearance and personality

Apollo first appears as a golden-haired boy whose youth contrasts with his position among the Association's strongest Myths. Emma ruffles his hair and others treat him as the organization's youngest member, but his serious expression and controlled invocations make clear that the childlike body does not imply inexperience. Divine Transformation changes him into a radiant, godlike figure with pupil-less burning eyes, weightless golden hair, white light, and molten-looking cracks across his skin. (Chapters 221, 229–230, and 256)

He is earnest, protective, stubborn, and unusually unable to remain idle when another person may need help. That compassion extends even to souls used as an enemy's shield and repeatedly pushes him to restrain stronger allies. His central flaw is that protection easily becomes self-annihilation: he forces Spirit Fusion to stop Neo and later burns his life for seven days. Defeat also makes him more independent. Emma calls the result undisciplined, but Apollo's later coordination shows that he has replaced obedience with chosen responsibility rather than abandoned duty. (Chapters 222, 229–230, 256–261, 276, and 310–311)

Powers and limitations

Future Visions and solar eyes

Apollo's Trait shows possible futures, including Neo holding the Child of Mana and Neo defeating him in the Savage Expanse. The future can change after a vision is known, and the Trait does not explain its images, so even Apollo and Ares debate whether a scene is literal or symbolic. In his older Supreme Sun identity, Apollo possesses the Eye of All Fate and Eye of Existence Watcher. Their combined knowledge borders on omniscience but retains gaps that Xel'thar exploits. (Chapters 215–216, 241, 311, and 768)

Sunshine, Holy power, and Spirit Fusion

Sunshine is a sentient living sun once classified as Anomaly #55. Through their contract, Apollo can summon it, project Holy and Light power over enormous ranges, locate minute Darkness surges, purify dark constructs, and intensify its output through synchronization. Holy radiance is particularly effective against Darkness, but it can also damage Neo and captured souls indiscriminately, forcing Apollo to choose between maximum force and protecting bystanders. (Chapters 226 and 229–230)

Divine Transformation is the public name for Spirit Fusion, achieved through one-hundred-percent synchronization with a Spirit. It lets Apollo use Sunshine's full power and multiplies his physical and elemental output. Forced synchronization is suicidal: cracks spread across his body, the Spirit's power exceeds what he can contain, deactivation can release lethal backlash, and continued use consumes body and life. Sunshine can revive from a surviving Spirit Seed if fed enough Divine Energy, but that recovery is not immortality for Apollo himself. (Chapters 230 and 256–261)

Combat and limits

Apollo uses incantations, Holy flames, Light weapons and beams, aerial radiance, and the raw strength supplied by Sunshine. His restraint and predictive awareness make him more than a destructive caster, yet his strongest techniques depend on a contracted Spirit whose manifestation can be killed. Neo's Death removes Sunshine and collapses Apollo's transformed strength immediately. The corpus gives Apollo no explicit elemental mastery tier, God-existence stage, Soul Hunter rank, Heavenbreaker step, or Realm Divinity rank. (Chapters 229–230 and 256–261)

Power progression

Relationships

Neo Hargraves

Apollo finds Neo through prophecy and quickly treats him as both a hero worth recruiting and a reckless person who needs restraint. Their clashes never become simple hatred: Apollo tries to save Neo from Jack's death, Neo tries to stop Apollo's lethal transformation, and Apollo later trusts Neo to handle Typhaon. Percival's teasing competition with Neo continues the bond despite missing memories, while Neo's temporal intervention eventually restores one of the ancient Apollo's eyes and preserves his strand. (Chapters 215–261, 276, 394–413, and 780)

Sunshine

Sunshine is Apollo's contracted Spirit, power source, guardian, and memory keeper across reincarnations. Apollo can force their synchronization, but the Spirit's output repeatedly exceeds what a human body can safely contain. Sunshine's continued bond with Percival is one of the clearest forms of identity continuity, even as the Spirit remembers histories that the reincarnated person does not. (Chapters 226, 229–230, 256–261, and 394–459)

Emma, Athena, Ares, and Zeus

The Association treats Apollo as its youngest family member. Emma indulges him while also manipulating threats he wants to protect; Athena shares missions but accepts harsher sacrifices; Ares redirects his visions and later dies fighting alongside his final plan; Zeus rescues him during the duel with Neo and completes the spell Apollo's last stand enables. Their relationships explain both his institutional loyalty and why independence from the Association is emotionally costly. (Chapters 215–230, 256–276, and 310–311)

Percival

Percival is Apollo's reincarnated continuation, not an interchangeable body or a mere blessing holder. Apollo's Intent, Sunshine, competitive disposition, and later recovered Supreme Sun history connect them. Percival initially remembers none of Apollo's life and believes Apollo was an ancestor or father, so Percival's personal actions, Exalted rank, Fateweaving, and Class progression remain documented in his own article. (Chapters 394, 413, 456–459, 768, and 826)