Saturn

Saturn
Japanese	ザトゥルン
Rōmaji	Zato~urun
Debut	Episode 49
Gender	Male
Status	Deceased
Team	Chess Pieces
Class	Rook (Zonnen)
Affiliation	Zonnen
ÄRMs	Eisenkugel Finsternis
Seiyū (Japanese)	Rikiya Koyama

Saturn (ザトゥルン, Zato~urun) was the leader of the Zonnen, a sect of the Chess Pieces.

Personality

Although bearing the insignia of Rook class, this man actually possessed Knight-ranked magic power, and also the viciousness of one. Limiting extreme sadism to the fiendish Zonnens, Saturn was unparalleled: he took pleasure in turmoil and disturbances, and prided himself on the Zonnens' justly earned notoriety as 'monsters' (化け物, lit. bakemono). Saturn's psychopathy even led him as far as to prolong the deaths of his opponents by torturing them fastidiously instead of just killing them forthwith. He endured Phantom's disfavour with sore, but was by no means despondent, as he found soothing solace in killing like a savage and ungraceful beast.

History

As with the rest of the Zonnen, Saturn enlisted into the Chess Pieces during their heyday of destruction. Unfortunately, the Zonnen committed such acts of violence that even Phantom was disgusted by them. Because of this, despite Saturn's high level of strength, he was viewed as nothing but a mere thug and rather than be promoted, he was sent away to a distant location with the rest of the Zonnen. After the death of Phantom, he managed to eventually break free.

War Games

As the war is indefinitely impeded with Phantom holding the War Games, Saturn seeks to eradicate this hindrance by scheming the collapse of Team MÄR. He besieges their Training Gates, immobilizes Alan (the one in charge of organizing the Gate trainings) outside them and commissions his Zonnens as MÄR's assailants.

When they all fail Saturn turns on Alan, who is significantly weakened under the curse of his Darkness ÄRM, in the hope it will exile Team MÄR to the Training Gate for eternity. Unbeknownst to him, under Alan's instructions Merilo appeals for Team MÄR's accumulated magic power from the Gates, and the deus ex machina ultimately reverses upon Saturn in lieu of Alan. Saturn is metamorphosed into a beast and is destroyed by the combined powers of Dorothy's Flying Leo, Snow's Yuki-chan, Alviss' 13 Totem Poles, Nanashi's Electric Eye, Jack's Earth Beans, and Ginta using Babbo's Gargoyle form.

ÄRM

Saturn's ÄRM are:

• Eisenkugel: A one-ball chain-shot Weapon ÄRM.
• Finsternis: A Darkness ÄRM that paralyzes the opponent in a seemingly painful hold, requiring magic power equivalent to that of a Knight. If others step near the victim of this ÄRM, they will be pushed back and possibly knocked out. The compensation for this ÄRM is that when it is destroyed, the user will be transformed into a one-horned wolf-like beast surrounded in a dark aura.