Kleatus Synestyr

Kleatus Synestyr is the anti-heroic protagonist of the fan-fiction Kingdom Hearts: Sinister. He is a captain in the Black Army, the army of the Northern Kingdoms, and is a powerful fighter. After discovering that the destructive and evil beings called "Heartless" are the result of the blight that has decimated both North and South, he joins forces with his best friend Rafael to rally the Black Army and (albiet unsuccessfully) drive the Heartless out.

Life Before the Invasion
Kleatus was born on what in Sora's continueum would be October 30, in the Northern Calendar year 3562 (measured since the unity of the Kingdoms). At age 2, his family was framed by an old rival for treason and was stripped of all its powers and priviledges. Kleatus grew up no different from any of the other children in the village his family moved to, and this led to him having an especially humble character, although he was constantly reminded of the bloodline he came from. His father caught pnemmonia when Kleatus was 16, and on his deathbed he made Kleatus swear to avenge the family's honor. With his father's death, Kleatus' life became bent on regaining the family's honor at any cost. He joined the Black Army Military Academy at 17, after graduating high school, and graduated at age 20 - one of the youngest to ever make it through the academy. He was quickly promoted during the war with the South, rising rapidly to the rank of captain and using his considerable mental facilities to gain territory for the Northern Kingdoms with minimal loss. As the war came to a close because of several tactical mistakes made by other leaders and stalemate set in, a sudden plague set in down in the South and quickly spread to the north, ending the war as the Southern Kingdom collapsed into anarchy and the North began to disintegrate.

The Invasion
As lawlessness began to spread upward into the Kingdoms from the border, Kleatus and his best friend Rafael Ilyich were able to rally several thousand Black Army soldiers into an organized retreat. As the force fled, a sudden assault by a mysterious enemy revealed that the result of the blight were the mysterious and shadowy HEARTLESS, who take hearts from living beings the reproduce. Regrouping the Black Army remnant, Kleatus and Rafael led a heroic but nonetheless unsuccessful attempt to drive the invader back into the South. During a massive battle within the forest that rings the north-south border, Kleatus and Rafael were seperated and Kleatus was unsuccessful with regrouping with him. Kleatus' force began taking heavy losses, and soon the Heartless were closing in for the kill...

TO BE CONTINUED...