Chaos

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ケイアス Chaos
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Profile
Name	Chaos ケイアス Kei Asuma 明日真 景
Gender	Male
Birthday	December 5th
Height	174 cm (5'8½")
Weight	57 kg (125 lbs)
Blood Type	A
Affiliations
Alias	Bloodstained Chaos [Bloody Chaos] 血塗れの混沌(「ブラッディ・ケイアス」) Staff Officer (By Enkidu) 参謀 Child of Chaos (By Enkidu) 混沌の者
Organization	Amnesia
Rank	Executive Strategist 作戦参謀
Fighting Style
Ability	The EXS of Illusion: "Umbral"
Weapon	Codex of Disorder: Chaos Code
Character Voice
Japanese	Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Appearances
Games	UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH (Non-playable) UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late (Playable) UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Latest (Playable) UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late cl-r (Playable) UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes (Playable)

"Please... This logic is both basic and primitive.
One must be in the control tower, where
precise decisions lead to victories."

Chaos (ケイアス) is a tactician who works for the organization Amnesia as its de-facto second in command. He manages Amnesia's personnel, plans their group battles, and strategizes ways for them to attain more power and accomplish their other goals. He enjoys doing research and rarely comes out of his own home.

On the battlefield, some know him by his full alias Bloody Chaos or the Bloodstained Chaos (血塗れの混沌(「ブラッディ・ケイアス」)), but despite being the one to come up with the moniker, he himself isn't fond of it. His real name is Kei Asuma (明日真 景).

Chaos is very close friends with Gordeau and wants to help him capture Wagner. He has also been known to do Hilda's bidding.

He was first introduced in Gordeau's Arcade Mode Story and later became playable in the arcade launch of UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late.

Background

Claws of Strategy, "The Bloodstained Chaos"

UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH

The boy who allegedly handles most of the day-to-day operations of Hilda's organization, Amnesia, moving people around like pawns. He has what appears to be a close relationship to Gordeau, who has since left the organization. But now, he has set his eyes on the Licht Kreis, Amnesia's greatest threat. Or, more specifically, he searches for the Crimson Knight, Gordeau's hunter. Now, he sets foot onto the battlefield.

UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II [Sys:Celes]

Chaos is a member of Amnesia who prefers fighting with brains rather than brawn.

He once conspired with Kuon the Aeon in the shadows in exchange for secret information regarding the Night. This conspiracy ended when Kuon suddenly cut ties with him, and Chaos knew exactly why: The Aeon had all the pieces in place to enact his plan. Kuon's actions could only mean one thing: A pit has opened in the Night, heralding the end of the world.

Unable to sit back and watch the world be destroyed, Chaos decides to confront Kuon and learn the truth from his flesh.

Appearance

Chaos is a young man with short unkempt white hair and blue eyes, over which he wears red-rimmed glasses. His attire consists of a dark grey turtleneck sweater, an unzipped greyish-blue jacket, light grey slacks with rolled cuffs, navy blue socks, and greyish-blue and white sneakers. He carries with him a brown book with a bronze clasp called the "Chaos Code", and wears a pendant that is a transparent cylinder with a silver serpent coiling around it.

His more casual clothing consists of a black-brown double-breasted peacoat over a white turtleneck shirt with plaid turquoise-colored pants.

Personality

Chaos appears to have a cool, calm, and calculating attitude under normal circumstances. As a tactician, he tends to over-analyze even the simplest of situations, such as Gordeau's jokes. He frequently insists that he is not a strong warrior and does not enjoy fighting, and as such, hopes he doesn't run into any enemies who will pose a threat to him in battle. He claims to prefer planning other people's battles, and even takes a backseat to Amnesia's fight with Bankikai for this reason.

Despite this, he has displayed moments of fearlessness in approaching strong In-Births, as noted by Carmine, and shown by Chaos when he confronts Merkava alone. Gordeau also mentions a personal belief that Chaos does enjoy fighting "to a certain extent."

Under certain circumstances, Chaos does enjoy making jokes, to the point where he once annoys Seth with his lack of seriousness. He has been shown to crack jokes with either Hilda or Gordeau at the other one's expense. Chaos also shows himself to be exceptionally rude to other In-Births on multiple occasions, most notably taking jabs at their intelligence. He frequently and openly calls Hilda stupid.

Chaos may have something of a superstitious streak. For example, he considers Hilda's luck to be an important part of her skillset, and takes his new shoelaces breaking as such a bad omen for Gordeau's safety that he derails all his plans for the night to find him. Despite his self-proclaimed love for doing things in the most "intelligent" way, he is sometimes motivated to take reckless or brute force actions.

He prizes the concepts of intellect and research, and wants to solve all sorts of mysteries through his own effort, particularly those pertaining to the Hollow Night, such that he takes a risky leap of faith to see if he can become an In-Birth during his first time in the Hollow Night. He also loves books, to the extent that he disdains the idea of using the internet for research.

Story

Episode: The Sage Cometh in the Night (賢者は深き夜に)
Before he joined Amnesia officially, Chaos used to go solo on researching the mysterious rumors of the Hollow Night, which he initially believed to be merely foolish rabble. However, Chaos soon developed a curiosity for the Night after hearing in on conversations at the library. Chaos expresses his frustration on not being able to proceed on a report focusing on the Night and heads off to a bookstore to see if he can find anything else regarding the Night there. By the time Chaos leaves, night has already fallen and he finds himself suddenly overcome with a strange chill. When it wears off, Chaos notices the red-tinted mist in the suddenly heavy air and realizes that he has entered the Hollow Night and the sickness he felt earlier is from entering. Chaos decides to go and look around, which goes on for about an hour. After a while, Chaos comes across a group of Voids. He tries to run, but finds himself unable to move. Realizing that this is the only way to leave the Night, Chaos voluntarily lets the Voids attack him and collapses from the pain, not before swearing to uncover every mystery that the Night has to offer. Chaos awakes soon after this and decides to investigate the Hollow Night further.

After gaining some experience in the more minor nights that occurred afterwards, Chaos manages to hone his abilities to a rather weak yet plausible level and had a run in with a particularly violent In-Birth. However, he comes across two strange individuals who he learns are called Hilda and Gordeau. The one called Gordeau notices Chaos listening in on their conversation but calls bluff, sparing him from Hilda's wrath. After their mention of their planned "attack" on Licht Kreis, the two soon leave without spotting Chaos; Chaos soon decides that in order to gain the information on the Hollow Night that he himself wanted, he decides to use Amnesia's attack as a diversion to sneak into the Licht Kreis HQ to get what he is looking for.

Chaos was offered by Gordeau to join Amnesia, after gaining an ancient book known as the Chaos Code from an abandoned Licht Kreis library and escaping from a brief scuffle with the Licht Kreis Executor, Orie Ballardiae; Gordeau himself states that he was already well-aware of Chaos' presence, and decided to ask him to join out of the fact that they themselves were fairly disorganized and needed someone to help plan their operations more effectively. Despite Chaos not wanting to involve himself in such matters, Gordeau's charisma soon gets to Chaos and he then decides to join, and the two ended up being very close friends ever since.

Episode: Amnesia vs Bankikai (『忘却の螺旋』ｖｓ『万鬼会』)
After joining Amnesia, Chaos took control of operating behind the scenes. He rarely appeared before the other members and not many knew about him. Once during an operation Chaos personally appeared under the alias of "Bloody Chaos" and ever since people kept calling him by that nickname - Chaos personally doesn't like to be called by that name. At Gordeau's bar, Chaos briefs him, Hilda and Roger, another friend of Gordeau, on the details behind the new faction Bankikai and their upcoming battle with them. Chaos turns up with them but decides not to fight.

Episode: Festival Flames (祭りの後火)
After Roger turned into a fallen Void due to the presence of the Abyss and died at the hands of the Crimson Knight Erika Wagner, which caused Gordeau to leave Amnesia to hunt her down and make up for his past mistakes, Chaos devises a new rule to the rest of the members that only Hilda should be the only one who can obtain the power of Re-Birth, due to not only being a leader of Amnesia herself, it was also because her vessel happens to be strong enough to resist the Abyss’ influence.

Chaos also mentions that he has been studying a new recruit of Amnesia who called herself the "Black Monger" and took note of her unusually powerful abilities, He also states that he wouldn't really do well with people like her and tells Hilda that the two might get along well.

Episode: Chained Soul (魂縛の枷鎖)
At some point, Chaos somehow acquired the Eliminators without him knowing what the blades truly are until they were revealed upon first meeting Seth of the Night Blade. Wishing to co-operate with him peacefully, Chaos gave him the Eliminators in exchange for his services as an assassin.

Episode: Road to the Under Night...
Chaos goes to meet up with Hilda within the Altar of Light And Darkness, tired after getting everything prepared. The two have a brief chat before Hilda dismisses him.

Even after Gordeau left Amnesia, Chaos and he have been in contact and working together to track down the Licht Kreis and find the Crimson Knight responsible for killing Roger, instead of a mercy kill by Gordeau. Chaos personally is aiming to stand against Aion, Amnesia and the Licht Kreis with the allies he seeks to gain.

Arcade Mode (アーケードモード)