Joshua Lyle O'Brien [Sugiura][APPROVED, 1-1+]

Lyle was born Ulysseus Joshua le Rouge de Loi. According to "The Prophecy of Roberto," he was to be the one that would lead the Sugiura Clan. The le Rouge de Loi family was very religious at the time of Lyle's birth. Lyle's schooling started early because of the prophecy. He had no idea what was going on. All that he knew is that he was being taught how to read and speak the old language. The Old Language was basically a fusion of Russian, Mandarin, and Latin. His ability to be able speak in both languages at the same rate and the same went with him reading.

When he was only six, he began combat training. He was exceptionally skilled in swordsmanship, though his use of the Sugiura magic was quite good for someone only six. When he was seven, he was able to choose a weapon that he would keep as his own. At the armory, Lyle chose something odd. A daishou pair. A sword that was almost as tall as he was and another that was taller than him. This amazed the instructor, but he could not make the boy reconsider his choice.

Lyle's skill with his katana and wazikashi skyrocketed. It was when he was training with the two swords that the instructor learned that Lyle was left-handed. While he trained more with the daishou pair, he was still training with other swords as well. He never could get used to the Rapier, so they discarded that training. By ten, he had only a few types of swords he would use. They were a claymore, a cleaver, and a short sword. All of them were direct contrasts with the quick-strike style of a katana and wazikashi.

Lyle's final ceremony began when he was eighteen. He was led underground and into a large dungeon. Inside of the dungeon were the "holiest" Guardian Beasts. These included humanoid figures, armor, and things of that sort. In order to gain the spirit, he must strike them with his hand. A white and black suit of armor charged at Lyle. Lyle grabbed the suit's fist as it almost punched him. This caused the binding ceremony to enter the final phase.

The area around Lyle stopped. In fact, the area around Lyle went monochrome and time stopped. If one were to walk into the dungeon, they would just see Lyle's body in a meditating position with the other guardian beasts far away from him. All of the monochrome was in his mind. As he started to regain his balance, he noticed that all throughout the room there were grey-handled katanas and wazikashis. These looked exactly alike. Before him stood a single figure. It was the white and black suit of armor from earlier. The suit armor charged at Lyle, and he grabbed a katana. It blocked the attack and stood firm. However, it soon turned into a puddle of silver liquid.

The process continued until there were only two daisho pairs left. Lyle had been cut in several places. The white suit of armor stopped. He spoke "If you choose wrong on this one...you will have failed and will be banished." Lyle brashly grabbed a Katana and charged at the suit of armor. When he hit the armor, the blade broke in half and Lyle regained conciousness. He looked beside him and saw a puddle of the silver liquid. He was brought before the grand court right after that. The grand court immediately banished Lyle out of the Sugiura lands. This caused him to fly into a rage. With so, he slaughtered the grand court with a sabre from one of the guards. He immediately left and disappeared into the Soul Society.

While Lyle was in the Soul Society, he began training. A man known as Hisoka tried to train the boy, but he failed as he wasn't a Shinigami like Hisoka thought he was. Lyle soon ventured deep into the forest that surrounded the Seireitei. There was a temple to Shimura quite deep in there. It had been abandoned for many years. There he saw two statues that resembled the suit of armor he fought. He ran and stabbed through both of them with his wazikashi and katana. From the stab wounds, a large bright light shone. Soon, the monochrome situation began again.

There were only two daishou pairs now. However, there were two suits of armor attacking him now. Instead of being brash, he studied each one of the katanas. As he stared more intently at one, the handle glowed red. He immediately grabbed the one that didn't glow and sliced the chest of both of the suits of armor in one fowl swoop. In the turn he made, he grabbed the non-glowing wazikashi and struck both as well. As soon as he stopped the second turn, the monochrome ended. He didn't have a new weapon either.

This made Lyle wonder what the hell had just happened. He looked and he saw that both of the statues has the marks of where he had cut their chest. He then noticed the katana and wazikashi were there in front of the statues, where they had been laid on the ground neatly. He picked them up and noticed they were lighter than usual yet cut with twice as much force. This made him know that he had gained his Sacred. He smirked at that acomplishment, but he could not return to the Sugiura lands.

He stayed in the temple and killed small animals for food. He drank the river water as well. He was also constantly training. Over the next 8500 years, he learned Joushou, Zenou, Kyuu Kyou, and mastered all of the Sugiura Magic he had learned. He quickly sliced the temple in half as he opened a portal to the world of the living. When he arrived in Seattle, Washington, he was unable to be seen. He spent many years learning the language of the people there. It was when a travelling spirit salesman sold him a Gigai in about the year 2290 that he was finally able to enter society.

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Lyle in 2299

After settling in a house in northern Seattle, he learned of a prototype type of plane known as a "Flag." It was able to slightly transform into a mecha. However, it needed test pilots. Due to his enhanced tolerance to the elements, Lyle took the job. Over the next year, the Flag was given limited production status. He met two men on the job. One was Daryl Dodge, an African-American man who had been selected for the job to get out of a white-collar crime charge. The other was the son of the man who had designed the Flag. His name was Howard Mason. Both of them enjoyed their time with Lyle. In 2301, the second design for the Flag, the complete Military Issue, known as the "GN Flag" was created. This led to the creation of a special operations unit known as "Over Flags." Lyle was to lead the unit.

OverFlags in June 2301

While leading Over Flags, Lyle met a man known as Andrew Waltfield. He was a Lieutenant in the US Air Force when he was selected to be a part of Over Flags. Andrew despised Lyle, as he thought himself better than Lyle. However, during a conflict with Canada, most of Over Flags was shot down because Andrew and Lyle were giving out conflicting orders. Only Andrew, Lyle, Howard, and Daryl continued flying after the mission out of the 15-man team. 5 of the pilots were killed, 3 were severely injured and couldn't fly again, 1 is in a coma, and the other two were captured and executed.

Over Flags and Professor Billy Katagiri in March 2302

Lyle was given the rank of Commander and Andrew was left at his rank. This would separate their command authority completely. Soon after that, Russia launched an all-out attack on the USA. The Russians had their own version of the Flag, known as the Hellion. Hellions were basically Flags with a different exterior. Over Flags was put in charge of taking out their carriers. Within one month, the entire Russian carrier fleet was destroyed, as well as over half of their entire Hellion count. On a mission to destroy a Russian ICBM cruiser, Andrew broke formation and charged the cruiser, only to be shot down by a submerged submarine's SAM.

Over Flags in May 2302, with Lyle's GN Flag in the background. Note the rifle is on the left arm.

Near the Amero-Russo War's end, the Russians launched all of their Hellions towards the USA. The limited number of the superior Flag was quite a hinderance to the USAF. Over Flags was deploye first and destroyed most of the first wave on their own. However, on their return, a pack of SAMs fired from the Russian fleet beneath them. Daryl turned around and sacrificed himself for Howard and Lyle to return to base alive. It turned out that they had focused most of their Hellions into the first wave, so that was a plus to the situation. The war was stopped soon after that with the transfer of power from Col. Gobolski to Maestro Dio Elceara.

Lyle and Howard, the only two survivors of Over Flags about to take off from Seattle Base

In 2306, Dio Elceara was assassinated and his sister, Delphine, took over. Delphine immediately redeclared war on the USA. The rebuilt Hellion fleet was assembled and took off. Quickly, the coastal Air Force and their Flags were assembled. This included Over Flags. Only two GN Flags and about 150 regular Flags against about 400 Hellions. For three hours, the battle went on. The Flags were taking a slight beating but the Hellions were being pounded. Delphine herself deployed in an enhanced Hellion colored white. When she arrived in the battlezone, Howard immediately charged at Delphine. This caused him to undershoot her, and she shot him down. Afterwards, the battle went south for the Russians, who pulled back within an hour.

Lyle standing over Daryl, Howard, and Andrew's respective memorials.

After Howard's death, Lyle stole his GN Flag and crashed it into Delphine's carrier. He ejected himself from his Gigai and went towards the bridge. It was when Delphine's guards could attack and harm him that he knew something was up. Their bodies exploded, revealing they too were gigais. Inside were numeros-level Arrancar. They attacked Lyle, who used both of his blades to take all four of them out. When Delphine stepped down from her throne and in front of Lyle, he knew she wasn't just a human. She was an Arrancar with abilities that allowed her to break glass, then control it. Her demonstration of this was when she broke the light above Lyle and gave him the scar over his right eye. The fight was over quickly, with Lyle releasing his Zenou. After that, Lyle sank the carrier and donned the guise of "Mister Bushido."

Mister Bushido. Approximately 2376.

Lyle used the Bushido guise to appear back in the Sugiura Lands. He checked up on his family (all of which was dead other than Odysseus, his younger brother) and the royal family. He did not tell Misaiko or his brother the truth behind the mask. He soon left and disappeared into North Rukongai. While there, he decided to start reading the old texts again. While doing so, he was able to find out that Odysseus was actually in violation of many laws, but he did not speak a word of it and decided to keep it as leverage against his sibling. It was well after that when Lyle decided to become the Gotei's unofficial ambassador to the world of the living, which is where he is today.