Peta

Peta
Japanese	ペタ
Rōmaji	Peta
Gender	Male
Age	29
Status	Deceased
Birthday	October 2nd
Team	Chess Pieces
Class	Knight
ÄRMs	Sickle Death Magic Mirror Ring Dark Reflector Blood Body Garnet Claw Blood Syringe Abyss Cannon Chain Soldier Body Eye
Seiyū (Japanese)	Kōichi Tōchika
Voice Actor (English)	Kyle Hebert

Peta (ペタ, Peta) is a fictional character in the manga and anime series MÄR. He is a member of the Chess Pieces, the main antagonists, belonging to the high rank of Knight, of which he was the second strongest and strategic officer, and the first Chess Piece to be introduced.

Personality

Peta masked

Peta is one of MÄR-Heaven's darkest and most mysterious figures. Usually calm and intelligent, Peta knows just the right amount of effort needed to put into anything, and is also sly and cunning. Peta is, literally, a very bloodthirsty figure, and has a habit of drinking the blood of others in a skull-emblazed wine glass. Like Phantom and many other Chess Pieces, Peta shares the view that humans are worthless beings.

Peta is Phantom's most loyal follower and has been with him the longest, since the time Phantom was still human. He is subject to any of Phantom's beliefs, and they once promised to achieve immortality together. Phantom himself admits that he considers Peta his friend; he even cries for him when he dies at Nanashi's hands in the Final Battles.

History

Very little is known about Peta's early background. At some point he would befriend Phantom, a Caldean outlaw and eventually the strongest Knight, some point before Phantom received the Zombie Tattoo. Shortly before that Peta witnessed the breakup of Phantom and his lover, the Vestrian Alma. At some point, apparently after Alviss, Peta would receive Phantom's Zombie Tattoo, wishing to walk the path of destruction together for all eternity. After the formation of the Chess Piece army, Peta quickly gained Knighthood and became the Knights' strategic officer. Peta, however, did not fight in the previous War Games, choosing instead to broadcast the battles throughout MÄR Heaven.

After Phantom's death in his fight with Danna, Peta was initiated as the Chess army's leader until Phantom's eventual resurrection, as he explained to the Cross Guard. At some point during his leadership, Peta would meet Eileen, a woman ripped to shreds from torture, and accepted her into the Chess Pieces, granting her forbidden Ghost ÄRM to make this task easier. Under Peta's tutelage, Eileen, from then on known as Chimera, would one day rise to the rank of Knight. It is also known that Peta would commonly send in thieves to the Cave of Babbo, locked inside of which was Phantom's former ÄRM, in an attempt to gain possession of Babbo and resurrect Phantom.

Second Great MÄR Heaven War

In the manga, Peta is first introduced during Jack's fight with the Rogelu Brothers, two vegetarian werewolf thieves, informing the brothers on the newly founded search for Babbo. Before seeing to the other thieve groups in the area, Ginta Toramizu, who had freed Babbo, appears to help fight the Rogelu Brothers. Peta, although having no interest in fighting, uses his Dimension ÄRM, Magic Mirror Ring, to take a picture of Babbo.

Peta forwards a message to the Thieves' Guild of Luberia, putting a 100 million pewter bounty on Babbo and giving permission to killer the owner.

Shortly after Phantom's resurrection, Peta visits the Luberia Fortress, calling off the hunt for Babbo. Angry, the thieves attack Peta, but he easily kills them and uses the opportunity to slaughter as many Luberians at the fort as he could find. With his Unique ÄRM, Blood Syringe, he murdered many thieves and civilians by sucking out both their blood and magic power. Once he was satisfied, he casually walked out of the fortress and left. Two Luberians, Mock and Chap, witnessed Peta leaving the fort and ran inside and found many of their people dead, as well as a card bearing the emblem of the Chess Pieces pinned into a wooden beam with a dagger.

Nanashi, Luberia's leader, is quick to be informed, and decides to end Luberia's neutrality and defeat Peta. During the Chess Pieces' war campaign, Peta sends a message throughout all of MÄR Heaven, explaining to them how they got too spoiled with peace, and how the Chess Pieces, with their goals based around war and destruction, will be the inevitable victor in the war. It is also Peta who announced the upcoming War Games to all of MÄR Heaven.

War Games

During the War Games, Peta uses his Dimension ÄRM to broadcast the War Game battles on both the Moon and Sun for those unable to watch the fights. During the second round, Peta and Phantom visit Diana the Chess Queen, and review the progress of the war. While doing so, Peta watches as Nanashi explains to Loco that the only Chess Piece he wants to kill is Peta. During the night of the same day, Phantom toys with Ginta by, disguised as Tom, having Peta "kill" him, much to Ginta's anger.

After the fifth round, the Knights are called into Phantom's room for a meeting. Phantom then specified that the only Knight who needed to be punished was Rapunzel, for her senseless murder spree of Chess teammates during the fourth round. Phantom offered her a chance to save herself by dueling against a Rook named Ian.

Peta and his fellow Knights go outside to the surface below where the castle floated to observe the duel between Rapunzel and Ian. Ian effortlessly brushes off Rapunzel's attacks and immediately kills her with one attack. Phantom promotes Ian to the Knight class, taking Rapunzel's position, and hands him the Knight pierce. Ian turns to the other Knights and announces his intentions as a new Knight to kill whichever one of them hurt his beloved.

Round 7

Peta makes his reappearance during the War Games' final round, going up against Nanashi. Nanashi finds much difficulty in the battle, being unable to harm Peta with physical attacks and having any lightning-based attack reflected back at him thanks to his Blood Body and Dark Reflector ÄRMs. Nanashi then frantically tries to slice Peta up and immediately follow it with an electric attack to prevent him from using his Dark Reflector while in a free-form liquid state, however Peta merely morphs his body around Nanashi to squeeze him. Using his hand, he summons back his Griffin Lance to break free, but fatigue takes its toll on his body. Peta uses his Garnet Claw to slash at Nanashi, knocking him to the ground. Peta explains to Nanashi that he devotedly serves Phantom and follows any of his wishes, though Nanashi shows no interest in this, caring more about avenging Luberia. With Peta being annoyed that Nanashi is wasting human emotions on nothing but revenge. The former activates his Blood Syringe, attaching to Nanashi to drain him of his blood, magic power, and energy. Nanashi, becoming faint and pale, uses what scarce amount of magic power he has left to cause the full orbs to shatter, but Peta then uses the magic-blood solution to reform into a crystal and drop it, impaling Nanashi through his back. He continues to struggle, using his last remaining magic power to shatter the crystal sticking out from his back and physically pulling out the remaining crystal piece from his gut. He tries to stand, but Peta attacks again with his Garnet Claw, cutting him up even more until he falls again on his back. Peta summons his Sickle Death back to use to finish Nanashi off.

Just as Peta swings his Sickle Death down, the scythe breaks in two upon impacting a barrier that formed around Nanashi. Pirun's spirit appears above him praying, as her ÄRM, the Legendary Holy ÄRM - Aegis, activates in response to the threat to his critical condition. The ÄRM not only protected him from further harm, but also restored Nanashi to full health and replenished all of his magical energy that was previously lost in the battle. Nanashi stands up again, fully healed and with a full tank of magic power, whereas Peta used up a great deal with his own ÄRMs. Peta attempts to use Blood Syringe once more, but Aegis manifests itself into a larger form to block the attack, and hiding Nanashi from his sight. Out of frustration, Peta summons his Guardian, Body Eye, to destroy the shield. Despite being successful, he lost sight of Nanashi, who had jumped in the air with his lance when the shield shattered and thrusted the lance downward, shattering Peta's Blood Body ÄRM. Nanashi then summons Gymnote, using it to destroy Peta's Guardian and restrain Peta. Nanashi enacts his revenge against Peta, incapacitating him using a combination of his Electric Eye followed by a single deep slash with his Griffin Lance, killing Peta instantly. Peta's death reaches Phantom when his wraith, smiling, appears before the latter for a few moments before vanishing. The crowd speechless, Nanashi puts away his lance as Pozun rushes up to Peta's body to inspect. With Peta's corpse dissolving, Pozun declares Nanashi the winner. Phantom arrives at Peta's side, obliterates his corpse and thanks Peta for everything he's done for his sake, saying from then on he will be lonely without him. As he bids Peta farewell, Ginta and Babbo are the only ones to notice Phantom had shed tears.

ÄRMs

Peta's is the second strongest Chess Piece Knight and their strategic officer, making him a dangerous enemy. As the anime goes on to explain, Peta's ÄRMs themselves aren't very strong, though he uses his intelligence to find many other uses of them. His ÄRMs are:

• Sickle Death: Weapon ÄRM, a scythe engraved with a gory vulture's head.
• Magic Mirror Ring: A Dimension ÄRM, used to record something then allow him to broadcast it over any/multiple reflective surfaces (even the moon and Sun) or through other communication type dimension ÄRMs. This is how people watch the War Games when the fighting takes place somewhere else. Strangely, even after Peta's demise the battles are broadcasted throughout MÄR-Heaven.
• Dark Reflector: Dimension ÄRM. In the manga, a round mirror which bounces attacks back away from the user, while the anime pictures it as a portal which absorbs the attack and then blasts it back in the caster's direction.
• Blood Body: Nature ÄRM which recreates the body of the user into blood, thus immunizes it against all physical attacks.
• Garnet Claw: Ghost ÄRM, a set of razor-sharp blood-colored claws that are made from the users fingernails.
• Blood Syringe: Unique ÄRM, spiked glass orbs are created and launched at the victim(s). If they hit they will drain blood from the target until they burst, at which point the blood flows at the master of the ÄRM. The user can then Coagulate the blood into different weapons, including bladed stones to throw at the living enemies.
• Abyss Cannon: Ghost ÄRM, tortured souls are called from hell and fired at the enemy as a mouthed cannonball.
• Chain Soldier (anime): A Guardian ÄRM that summons several armored soldiers linked together with chains used to ensnare Peta's enemies. However, the soldiers are useless without their chains.
• Body Eye: Peta's opera necklace Guardian ÄRM which calls forth upon earth a wingless Diablo with runic bonds sealing its lower half. However the demon doesn't possess any satanic extraordinary; its power manifests in a myriad of bats while Body Eye itself wrecks massive destruction with its hands.