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About
Spoilers for the entire main game’s story up to chapter 130 ahead. Will add the next story updates eventually.
Gran lives a normal life on Zinkenstill, a remote island in the Phantagrande Skydom, waiting for the day that he’ll be allowed to leave the island in order to search for Estalucia, a fabled island where his father said he was on. After an airship explodes over the skies of Zinkenstill, Gran decides to investigate. He soon meets with a girl named Lyria, who explains that she’s escaped the airship, and only desires freedom. He’s soon attacked by Pommern of the Erste Empire, whose hellbent on taking back Lyria back to the Empire, and decides to run from the fight with Lyria in tow. They are soon cornered, and Gran takes an attack from a Hydra, trying to protect Lyria from certain death. This invokes a power within Lyria, and with a determination to return the favor, she revives Gran with the power of a life link. They eventually defeat Pommern, and meet up with Lyria’s guardian, Katalina. They end up on the run, thanks to Rackam and his ship, the Grandcypher. This target on their backs lasts them a few months until Gran and his crew are able to free some islands from the Empire’s control, and are able to defeat them for the time being.
After the defeat of the Erste Empire, the royal family of the Erste Kingdom regained their power. The crew meets them for the first time, asking them for information on the next Sky Map piece— a piece of the Sky Realm’s main map, and the only clue that can lead them to Gran’s father. They are told multiple clues, such as the islands where they may be, and how Sky Map pieces are only found on islands that have a pact with a primal beast, and Gran and his crew start looking. However, the entire crew is separated at each turn, and on each new island. Gran refuses to lose his head throughout it all, even while Lyria and Vyrn, the ones constantly at his side, are terrified. They manage to gather all the Sky Map pieces for the Phantagrande Skydom, only to be thrown into a battle with the primal beast that protects the very border between the skydoms.
They eventually cross into the Nahelgrande Skydom after a trek through the Grim Basin, the ‘wall’ between the Phantagrande and Nahelgrande skydoms. There, Gran and crew are pulled into the war between Nahelgrande’s kingdoms of Idelva and Rhem, and start tuggging at the underlying strings that are being pulled by the True King, the ruler of the neighboring Oarlyegrande skydom. By using a power-hungry man named Gilbert, the power of the Otherworld, and a weapon flying high in the sky known as the Great Wall, the True King manipulated the truth and pulled all the strings in order to destroy Nahelgrande in a plot to unify the Sky Realm under one banner. The True King failed to see the horrors in his crimes of letting Gilbert fall into madness and using lives to fuel the Grand Wall, and simply retreated back to Istavion Kingdom in the Oarlyegrande Skydom, and leaving the crew to die underneath the power of the Great Wall. The plot was foiled by the crew’s deed of destroying the Wall, which Gilbert and one of the True King’s loyal retainers, the Red Knight, sacrificed their lives for. This win was not without losses, though, as the Grandcypher lost its ability to fly, and started to fall towards the bottom of the skies.
Once they wake up, Gran and his crew find themselves in the Edgelands, a place that borders the bottom of the skies, the Crimson Horizon. There, they are given a choice by a girl named Shitori: either take their only path to escape or help her rescue a girl named Mika after hearing she was kidnapped. Gran, refusing to leave without helping Shitori, ends up meeting up with old enemies Loki and Fenrir, Astrals who wants to use Mika’s power for his own crimes. However, it’s revealed that Mika— or rather, her full name of Mikaboshi, is also an Astral, only amnesiac due to falling from the skies herself with Shitori, who is revealed to be her daughter. When saving Mikaboshi as she regains her memories, Gran finally starts getting hints about his own existence through her. She also reveals how Lyria and Vyrn, known as the Girl in Blue and the Red Dragon to the Astrals, are two halves of a whole who can bring destruction to their entire world, as it is destiny.
While Gran doesn’t show it, hearing that hurts him, but declares that he will fight against destiny, no matter what it may bring. But even with all that, they fail to save Mikaboshi, and Gran and his crew are soon lifted out of the Edgelands. They end up stranded on Port Breeze Island, the island that started the entire adventure, as the Grandcypher is too damaged to continue flying for the time being. While the Grandcypher is being repaired, Gran meets a man named Walfried, a man who travelled with him. Walfried expresses how Gran’s father would be proud of him, and that sets off alarm bells in Gran and his entire crew.
Walfried then drops a bomb on them: He once travelled with Gran’s father, and explains how he was tasked to take the power of the primal beasts, with Vyrn at his side. This shocks him both him and Vyrn, as Vyrn has always been by Gran’s side, and not his father’s. Vyrn then expresses how he’s always felt like there was a gap in his memories. Gran also learns that his father helped each primal beast, depending on what the primal themselves wanted, and not what he was tasked to do, and Vyrn’s latent powers assisted him with that goal. Near the end of Gran’s father’s journey, they brought back Lyria to Phantagrande, and the rest is history.
Walfried then drops another bomb: while Gran’s father is one whose power was given to him by the gods, he tried everything to stop a singularity, a being whose will bends the entire world towards, from appearing. In a cruel twist of fate, Gran became that very singularity that he was preventing. This truth throws Gran for a loop, unsure how to answer his final question: would he still go to Estalucia, knowing that his father would possibly be against his entire existence. It took him a moment to reply, but his reply stayed the same: “I want to travel with everyone, no matter what destiny may bring. We’ll reach Estalucia no matter what.”
Walfried wasn’t done yet, as Gran’s mother was brought up as well, but there was even less information about her than there was about Gran’s father. All Walfried knew was that Gran’s parents were childhood friends, and that she was a kind, compassionate woman who came from a line of sky god worshippers. Gran tries to direct all this information, but then trouble hits. The crew receives news that golems started breaking into the Erste Kingdom, clearly sent there by a revived Erste Empire, backed by the Istavion Kingdom and the True King. This ruse ends up being a cover up for the True King to release Otherworld solders into the Sky Realm. In the process of stopping the Otherworld soldiers from entering, Lyria is transported to the Otherworld with half his crew, almost completely severing the connection between Gran and her. Despite knowing that Lyria was alive and the inability to do anything, he presses on to find the four Sky Map pieces needed to continue on into the Oarlyegrande skydom. Gran, for all his efforts, starts feeling weak and sluggish, and he soon realizes that because Lyria is far away, he is slowly, but surely, dying.
Gran pushes on regardless of his body’s deteriorating state, as he knows that if he can just find the pieces, he can save Lyria, as her safety was far more important than his. By the time his half of the crew manage to get the third piece, Gran and his crew are surrounded by Otherworlders. The leader, before they launch an attack, told the truth behind Lyria and Vyrn’s power— they are the two main pieces in the war between the Sky and Astral God, two gods that were split from one. The conduit of primal beast, Lyria, allows the Sky God to gain Astral power while the destroyer of primal beasts, Vyrn, allows the Astral God to gain Sky power. Both gods needed a vessel to store that gained power, and once that vessel—Lyria for the Sky God, and Vyrn for the Astral God—were full, they would be devoured by their respective god and erased forever. This truth ties into Gran’s role as Singularity, as he is “the true victim” of the gods— he is the one to decide where the chips will fall, and the Otherworlder claims he will have to make that choice eventually. Even so, Gran doesn’t give in to their demands of revolting against the gods in general, even as his life is near its end due to the lack of Lyria’s life link.
In that space between life and death, his resolve of traveling with Lyria and Vyrn is brought into question once more by a woman and a large, ethereal dragon. Gran finds himself staying resolute in his desires to travel with them, saying that they will defy any fate that is in store for them. The woman finds herself accepting his answer, and pushes him into white. Before his mind fades away completely in the white space, a warm light leads him forward, and bright blue hair soon graces his vision. Lyria again is determined to save Gran from his certain death, and confesses to him that yes, she is deathly terrified of becoming what fate wants her to be. Despite that, she explains that she won’t be afraid if Gran is by her side, and he openly admits that as well. Lyria soon leads him back to his friends, and he wakes up in the real world. Gran and Lyria are united once more, as Lyria uses her own power to protect Gran and her crewmates, and there they confirm that they won’t be afraid of meeting their maker. After the fight, Lyria and Katalina reveal that they came back with a Sky Map piece that was rumored to be lost. The missing Sky Map piece happened to be harboring in Ares, the primal beast Katalina made a pact with. With that, they managed to get the last piece needed to cross into the next skydom, and they head to Oarlyegrande to face the True King at last.
Appearance
height 5’8”
build muscular
hair light brown
eyes brown
first impressions Gran is fairly unassuming, having a simple short hair cut, as well as having a plain looking face. But he’s always got a smile on his face, and his body gives off the aura of a hard worker, unwilling to give up just because a task seems to be too hard. Gran’s soft features, however, indicate a kind heart, and one who’s always open to being a shoulder to cry on. After all, he’s never shy to express his emotions, why should he not let others do the same?
Despite his eyes being filled with almost an unending curiosity, they hide a deep, almost abyssal loneliness due to being (essentially) abandoned by his father when he was young. If mentioned, he’ll act as if it were never there. The smile was once a defense mechanism to avoid being asked such questions, but ever since he’s started his travels with Lyria and the Grandcypher, the smile’s become more and more genuine as time goes on.
Whenever taking a leadership position, he stands up straighter and starts to have a commandeering presence. He knows how to lead, and he will do it well. Gran’s voice even deepens just a smidge when in captain mode, knowing that he holds multiple lives in his hands and never plans to lose anyone due to a careless order or act. It’s this side of him that earns the respect of his crew members.
features Gran’s a plain looking boy, but underneath the baggy hoodie and armor hides a toned body with multiple scars from the countless fights he’s been in. His relic buster outfit shows off his figure much more than his hoodie does, but doesn’t wear it often due to how tight he thinks it feels.
His hair grows a lot faster than one thinks, however. That’s what leads to what Lyria calls “floofy hair”. Gran’s hair is very soft to the touch, and due to the sheer volume of it, he tries to keep it short.
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| name gran | gender male | housing moving |
| canon granblue fantasy | age 18 | magic elemental + alchemy |
| timepoint post ch. 130 | title none | familiar joy |
| crau none | sexuality bi | alignment true neutral |
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About
Spoilers for the entire main game’s story up to chapter 130 ahead. Will add the next story updates eventually.Gran lives a normal life on Zinkenstill, a remote island in the Phantagrande Skydom, waiting for the day that he’ll be allowed to leave the island in order to search for Estalucia, a fabled island where his father said he was on. After an airship explodes over the skies of Zinkenstill, Gran decides to investigate. He soon meets with a girl named Lyria, who explains that she’s escaped the airship, and only desires freedom. He’s soon attacked by Pommern of the Erste Empire, whose hellbent on taking back Lyria back to the Empire, and decides to run from the fight with Lyria in tow. They are soon cornered, and Gran takes an attack from a Hydra, trying to protect Lyria from certain death. This invokes a power within Lyria, and with a determination to return the favor, she revives Gran with the power of a life link. They eventually defeat Pommern, and meet up with Lyria’s guardian, Katalina. They end up on the run, thanks to Rackam and his ship, the Grandcypher. This target on their backs lasts them a few months until Gran and his crew are able to free some islands from the Empire’s control, and are able to defeat them for the time being.
After the defeat of the Erste Empire, the royal family of the Erste Kingdom regained their power. The crew meets them for the first time, asking them for information on the next Sky Map piece— a piece of the Sky Realm’s main map, and the only clue that can lead them to Gran’s father. They are told multiple clues, such as the islands where they may be, and how Sky Map pieces are only found on islands that have a pact with a primal beast, and Gran and his crew start looking. However, the entire crew is separated at each turn, and on each new island. Gran refuses to lose his head throughout it all, even while Lyria and Vyrn, the ones constantly at his side, are terrified. They manage to gather all the Sky Map pieces for the Phantagrande Skydom, only to be thrown into a battle with the primal beast that protects the very border between the skydoms.
They eventually cross into the Nahelgrande Skydom after a trek through the Grim Basin, the ‘wall’ between the Phantagrande and Nahelgrande skydoms. There, Gran and crew are pulled into the war between Nahelgrande’s kingdoms of Idelva and Rhem, and start tuggging at the underlying strings that are being pulled by the True King, the ruler of the neighboring Oarlyegrande skydom. By using a power-hungry man named Gilbert, the power of the Otherworld, and a weapon flying high in the sky known as the Great Wall, the True King manipulated the truth and pulled all the strings in order to destroy Nahelgrande in a plot to unify the Sky Realm under one banner. The True King failed to see the horrors in his crimes of letting Gilbert fall into madness and using lives to fuel the Grand Wall, and simply retreated back to Istavion Kingdom in the Oarlyegrande Skydom, and leaving the crew to die underneath the power of the Great Wall. The plot was foiled by the crew’s deed of destroying the Wall, which Gilbert and one of the True King’s loyal retainers, the Red Knight, sacrificed their lives for. This win was not without losses, though, as the Grandcypher lost its ability to fly, and started to fall towards the bottom of the skies.
Once they wake up, Gran and his crew find themselves in the Edgelands, a place that borders the bottom of the skies, the Crimson Horizon. There, they are given a choice by a girl named Shitori: either take their only path to escape or help her rescue a girl named Mika after hearing she was kidnapped. Gran, refusing to leave without helping Shitori, ends up meeting up with old enemies Loki and Fenrir, Astrals who wants to use Mika’s power for his own crimes. However, it’s revealed that Mika— or rather, her full name of Mikaboshi, is also an Astral, only amnesiac due to falling from the skies herself with Shitori, who is revealed to be her daughter. When saving Mikaboshi as she regains her memories, Gran finally starts getting hints about his own existence through her. She also reveals how Lyria and Vyrn, known as the Girl in Blue and the Red Dragon to the Astrals, are two halves of a whole who can bring destruction to their entire world, as it is destiny.
While Gran doesn’t show it, hearing that hurts him, but declares that he will fight against destiny, no matter what it may bring. But even with all that, they fail to save Mikaboshi, and Gran and his crew are soon lifted out of the Edgelands. They end up stranded on Port Breeze Island, the island that started the entire adventure, as the Grandcypher is too damaged to continue flying for the time being. While the Grandcypher is being repaired, Gran meets a man named Walfried, a man who travelled with him. Walfried expresses how Gran’s father would be proud of him, and that sets off alarm bells in Gran and his entire crew.
Walfried then drops a bomb on them: He once travelled with Gran’s father, and explains how he was tasked to take the power of the primal beasts, with Vyrn at his side. This shocks him both him and Vyrn, as Vyrn has always been by Gran’s side, and not his father’s. Vyrn then expresses how he’s always felt like there was a gap in his memories. Gran also learns that his father helped each primal beast, depending on what the primal themselves wanted, and not what he was tasked to do, and Vyrn’s latent powers assisted him with that goal. Near the end of Gran’s father’s journey, they brought back Lyria to Phantagrande, and the rest is history.
Walfried then drops another bomb: while Gran’s father is one whose power was given to him by the gods, he tried everything to stop a singularity, a being whose will bends the entire world towards, from appearing. In a cruel twist of fate, Gran became that very singularity that he was preventing. This truth throws Gran for a loop, unsure how to answer his final question: would he still go to Estalucia, knowing that his father would possibly be against his entire existence. It took him a moment to reply, but his reply stayed the same: “I want to travel with everyone, no matter what destiny may bring. We’ll reach Estalucia no matter what.”
Walfried wasn’t done yet, as Gran’s mother was brought up as well, but there was even less information about her than there was about Gran’s father. All Walfried knew was that Gran’s parents were childhood friends, and that she was a kind, compassionate woman who came from a line of sky god worshippers. Gran tries to direct all this information, but then trouble hits. The crew receives news that golems started breaking into the Erste Kingdom, clearly sent there by a revived Erste Empire, backed by the Istavion Kingdom and the True King. This ruse ends up being a cover up for the True King to release Otherworld solders into the Sky Realm. In the process of stopping the Otherworld soldiers from entering, Lyria is transported to the Otherworld with half his crew, almost completely severing the connection between Gran and her. Despite knowing that Lyria was alive and the inability to do anything, he presses on to find the four Sky Map pieces needed to continue on into the Oarlyegrande skydom. Gran, for all his efforts, starts feeling weak and sluggish, and he soon realizes that because Lyria is far away, he is slowly, but surely, dying.
Gran pushes on regardless of his body’s deteriorating state, as he knows that if he can just find the pieces, he can save Lyria, as her safety was far more important than his. By the time his half of the crew manage to get the third piece, Gran and his crew are surrounded by Otherworlders. The leader, before they launch an attack, told the truth behind Lyria and Vyrn’s power— they are the two main pieces in the war between the Sky and Astral God, two gods that were split from one. The conduit of primal beast, Lyria, allows the Sky God to gain Astral power while the destroyer of primal beasts, Vyrn, allows the Astral God to gain Sky power. Both gods needed a vessel to store that gained power, and once that vessel—Lyria for the Sky God, and Vyrn for the Astral God—were full, they would be devoured by their respective god and erased forever. This truth ties into Gran’s role as Singularity, as he is “the true victim” of the gods— he is the one to decide where the chips will fall, and the Otherworlder claims he will have to make that choice eventually. Even so, Gran doesn’t give in to their demands of revolting against the gods in general, even as his life is near its end due to the lack of Lyria’s life link.
In that space between life and death, his resolve of traveling with Lyria and Vyrn is brought into question once more by a woman and a large, ethereal dragon. Gran finds himself staying resolute in his desires to travel with them, saying that they will defy any fate that is in store for them. The woman finds herself accepting his answer, and pushes him into white. Before his mind fades away completely in the white space, a warm light leads him forward, and bright blue hair soon graces his vision. Lyria again is determined to save Gran from his certain death, and confesses to him that yes, she is deathly terrified of becoming what fate wants her to be. Despite that, she explains that she won’t be afraid if Gran is by her side, and he openly admits that as well. Lyria soon leads him back to his friends, and he wakes up in the real world. Gran and Lyria are united once more, as Lyria uses her own power to protect Gran and her crewmates, and there they confirm that they won’t be afraid of meeting their maker. After the fight, Lyria and Katalina reveal that they came back with a Sky Map piece that was rumored to be lost. The missing Sky Map piece happened to be harboring in Ares, the primal beast Katalina made a pact with. With that, they managed to get the last piece needed to cross into the next skydom, and they head to Oarlyegrande to face the True King at last.
Appearance
build muscular
hair light brown
eyes brown
Despite his eyes being filled with almost an unending curiosity, they hide a deep, almost abyssal loneliness due to being (essentially) abandoned by his father when he was young. If mentioned, he’ll act as if it were never there. The smile was once a defense mechanism to avoid being asked such questions, but ever since he’s started his travels with Lyria and the Grandcypher, the smile’s become more and more genuine as time goes on.
Whenever taking a leadership position, he stands up straighter and starts to have a commandeering presence. He knows how to lead, and he will do it well. Gran’s voice even deepens just a smidge when in captain mode, knowing that he holds multiple lives in his hands and never plans to lose anyone due to a careless order or act. It’s this side of him that earns the respect of his crew members.
features Gran’s a plain looking boy, but underneath the baggy hoodie and armor hides a toned body with multiple scars from the countless fights he’s been in. His relic buster outfit shows off his figure much more than his hoodie does, but doesn’t wear it often due to how tight he thinks it feels.
His hair grows a lot faster than one thinks, however. That’s what leads to what Lyria calls “floofy hair”. Gran’s hair is very soft to the touch, and due to the sheer volume of it, he tries to keep it short.
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