| Name
: |
Aiolia
(Aioria) |
| Constellation
: |
Leo
(Leo - the Lion) |
| Age
: |
20 |
| Height
: |
185
cm |
| Weight
: |
85
kg |
| Birtdate
: |
August
16th 1966. |
| Blood
group : |
O |
| Origin
: |
Greece,
Athens |
| Training
grounds : |
Greece,
Sanctuary |
| Fighting
techniques : |
* Raitoningu Purasuma (Lightning Plasma)
* Raitoningu Boruto (Lightning Bolt)
|
Aiolia (old name designating AEOLIAN
ISLANDS - Italian ISOLE EOLIE, Latin INSULAE AEOLIAE, also
called LIPARI ISLANDS - , volcanic group in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the
north coast of Sicily, Italy. Their volcanic activity has been known
since ancient times, and the Greeks believed the islands to be encircled
by the indestructible bronze walls, and the home of Aeolus, king of
the winds, whence their name) Leo Golden Saint and guardian of the 5th
House in Sanctuary, is the younger brother of the Golden
Sagittarius Saint, Aiolos.
During the series, we got to know how Aiolia had been trained by his
older brother, who was very close to him. When Aiolos was declared
a traitor who kidnapped and killed little Athena, his younger brother
was also persecuted and ignored in Sanctuary. As a result, he's become
a loner who has spent the next years in self-merciless training,
with one and single goal - to become the strongest Saint and to erase
the spot his brother had left on their family name. And really, he went
directly from being a trainee to Gold Saint.
In the anime, we first met Aiolia during Shaina's and Marin's
confrontation. He interfered and saved Marin from being beaten to a
pulp. Gentleness he's shown toward her, clearly revealed some deeper
sentiments between him and Seiya's sensai. It was also where we saw
that Aiolia didn't like at all what the Master he had sworn to serve,
was doing. When Marin expressed concern for him compromising himself
in the Pope's eyes by helping her, he replied by openly cursing the
Pope ! Still, without Athena, there was no other he would acknowledge
as a leader, so he followed Pope's orders, without asking questions.
He even offered himself to, instead of Scorpio Milo, personally recover
the Sagittarius Cloth and punish the rebellious bronze Saints , seeing
that as a chance to redeem his family name.
But, when the time came for him to face Seiya, he found himself reluctant
to give a final blow to the Marin's pupil. When Shaina throw herself
to accept Leo's blow instead of Seiya, Aiolia, feeling compunction for
not having aborted the blow in time, decided to postpone his mission
and bring her back to Sanctuary where she could be healed.
When three more Silver Saints arrived,
telling Leo that they were sent by Pope to see that he finished his
mission. Aiolia got angered, but was only standing by with Shaina in
his arms, as they attacked Seiya.To his surprise, they were all blown
away by the tremendous power discharge as the Sagittarius Cloth, that
had suddenly appeared, snapped into place around Seiya who became Sagittarius.
Now Leo had to act, even if he really didn't want to. They clashed,
none of them successful, when Saori arrived. Aiolia was shaken by the
turn of the events, but still insisted she was an imposter. Athena then
told him how his older brother Sagittarius Aiolos had saved her live
when the Pope had been about to kill her. Aiolos had intervened, stopped
the knife aimed at her, took off the Pope's mask and discovered his
true identity, the one of someone trusted in Sanctuary. The Pope had
then responded by attacking Aiolos and sending another Golden Saint
to finish him off. Fatally wounded, Sagittarius however had managed
to escape with both Saori and his Cloth, and to get her to safety.
Aiolia still didn't believe her, but
when he saw his brother's spirit who scolded him for not realizing and
recognizing the truth, he finally accepted that Saori was indeed Athena
and kneeled before her, pledging his service to her. He then picked
up Ophuichus Shaina and returned them to Sanctuary.
After leaving Shaina to Cassios' care, he furiously went to confront
the Master, but ended up fighting Virgo Shaka instead, who stood up
in Pope's defense. Master used a chance when both the fighters were
knocked down, to posses Leo Aiolia, burning his mind with diabolic ray.
When Seiya came to the 5th house that
Leo guarded, instead of an ally, he found a brainwashed assassin
who would have killed him, hadn't Cassios sacrificed himself for Shaina's
sake, knowing that she loved Seiya. With Cassios' death, the spell over
Aiolia was broken, so he healed badly wounded Seiya and forwarded him
to the 6th house.
He then took Cassios' burial on himself, as well as telling Shaina the
unpleasant news. He told her how Cassios had died and that his last
thoughts had been of her. She got desperate over her pupil's death and
determined to go and take on the Pope herself, despite Aiolia's protests,
blaming herself for Cassios' death. The only way Leo found to stop her,
was to knock her out again. As he buried Cassios, he promised the dead
man's spirit that he would take care of Shaina for him.
* * *
Leo Aiolia is noble and honest to a
fault, a fact that drives him into confronting the Pope long before
there was anyone to back him up...which certainly took the Lion's legendary
courage. The fact that in his scenario Kurumada made Aiolia as a man
blinded by the rage that his superior tyrant inflicted upon him, by
analogy to the animal which is guarding the eponymous temple, reveals
the author's intention to especially value the wild aspect and the killing
instinct of the said animal. This is completely understandable and firmly
justified.
Generally speaking, Lion is an animal
which is very often used in various myths and legends, either in the
total morphology, or partially. Therefore, there are many coats of arms
and flags from various countries, bearing this animal.
The Constellation of Leo represents Nemean
(or Cleonian) lion. According to
some sources, this lion was a descendant of the two-headed Dog Ortros
(Kerber's brother) and terrible Echidna (huge snake with one or more human
heads). According to others, it was Selena (the Goddess of Moon ) who
created this lion by Hera's wish, out of the sea foam closed in a spacious
coffin. Irida (the messenger of Gods), then brought it to the Nemean Mountains,
and the beast settled down in the gorge between Cleon and Nemea, in the
lion's cave with two entries, two miles away from the city of Nemea. Nemean
Lion was the huge beast with a skin that couldn't be breached neither
by iron, nor by bronze, nor by stone. However, Heracles killed this lion,
in the first of his famous 12 Labors. When Heracles saw that the beast
was invulnerable to his weapons, he managed to drive the lion into the
cave, whose one entry he previously enclosed, and to strangle it while
they were wrestling.
Aiolia's attacks are Lighting
Plasma and Lighting Bolt.
The sign of Leo, being the most subordinate of all signs to the influence
of the Sun, and announcing the Summer and Sun's reaching its Zenith,
is thus comprehensively and evidently related to the light and power
(obviously, the expression 'Plasma' means the physics version of the
very incendiary gaseous formation, and not the physical fluid) .
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