Tess Raynoldus (Lucifer's Pride)

"The only way I can convey my conviction is through my fists."

- - Tess's conviction to Vincent during their fight. Tess Raynoldus is one of the members of famous band of pirates, The Sea Wyverns, who are known for their notorious reputation for their chivalrous and daring acts where they attacked the nobilities and high-ranking officials to robbed their wealths and distributing to the poor people in the slums. He is also known as "Iron Fist Tess" and "Tess the Reaper" for his immense fighting skills and strengths. He is a Human Magician/Elder Dryad Hybrid who was both famous individuals and inherited their abilities.

While he and his crew was in the contract of protecting supplies and cargos for the people in a remote city, governed by a c orrupted lord, he met Vincent and both fought each other in the battle for their own goals. After in a intense battle and talk between the two, Tess took interests in Vincent, and offered to become his peerage. He accepted the offer, and warned him that he'll be watching him closely and see how he is different from the people he have met.

Appearance:
Tess is recognised as both "Iron Fist" and "Reaper", therefore, he portrayed in dark clothing and facial expression. Tess is a very tall, lean-muscular, handsome young man with piercing, blue-green eyes with bright, blonde short-cut hair. Under his eyes he has black markings around his eye-bags. Tess's facial expression is usually cold, distant, and stoic which caused some misunderstanding from the others.

His attires consists of tailored black trousers tightened with two belts and brown boots and fingerless gloves. He also wears an orange shirt, a loose white shirt and a black waistcoat, finished off by the long-dark business type jacket.

Personality:
Due to his infamous rumors, Tess said to possess dark personalities, which it refers to his physical traits and clothing appearance. However, in truth he is a calm, sincere, and caring person. He treats his crew members and orphaned kids like family, due to his parent's sudden and tragic passing.

Power & Abilities:
Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Tess is immensely skilled hand-to-hand combatant, having practiced various types of martial arts and pugilistic combats for a long time.

Immense/Enhanced Strength : One of Tess's greatest feature are his destructive power. Tess has shown time and time again that he could break even the hardest defence simply using the pure power of his fist. During his fight with Vincent, Tess used his power of combined Touki and Earth Magic, and increased to the point that he was able to create a massive earthquake that devastated multiple blocks in the city. After reincarnated into devil, his destructive power increased to the point where he was able to destroy a building simply with the aftershock from his punches.

Immense Durability: One of Tess's greatest feature are his durability that greatly surpasses that of common sense. Due to his inherited abilities as Dryad, Tess has trained his body to the extreme, gaining a body with great durability that matches his Dyrad heritage. He was able to take on several Vincent's bullets and demonic-powered attacks and Raven's Berseri & Seraphine head on with minor injuries only. After reincarnated into devil, his durability increased to the point where he was able to withstand Abyssal's shots.

Enhanced Speed: Due to his extreme training, Tess has attained considerable speed that is equivalent if not faster than that of Reincarnated Mid-Class to High-Class Knight.

Touki (闘気): The years of intense training and fighting done by Tess, allowed him to gain control of his base of life, granting him an enormous amount of Touki to further strengthen his power. When Tess uses his Touki, his speed, power and defense increase drastically. In fact, his life force is so powerful that even after his right hand was cut down by Berseri and Seraphine, it remained with minor injuries despite its violent scorching flames.

Expert Magician: In addition to his physical prowess, Tess also possesses superb magical ability due to being half magician from his mother's side. In the battle, he uses Earth, Plant, and Water Magic for both offensive and defensive spells and techniques.

Equipment:
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Quotes:
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Trivia:

 * Tess's appearance and personality are based off of Eizen, one of the playable characters from upcoming video game, Tales of Berseria.
 * Tess's power and abilities are based off of Eizen and Jura Neekis from Fairy Tail.