Ethan Polter

Ethan Polter
Biographical Information
Alias	Eat Pant
Personal Description
Species	Human
Birthday	09/16/2003
Age	20
Gender	Male
Height	5'9
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Hazel
Professional Status
Status	Alive
Occupation	Graduate
Affiliation	Buzzutsu Sorcerer
Grade	Semi-Special Grade

Ethan Polter, also known as Eat Pant, is a side character of the Buzzutsu Kaisen series. He is a graduate of Buzzutsu Academy and is the current Chess Master.

Appearance

Ethan has a compact, sturdy build and wears a red and yellow yamaka. He has brown hair, glasses, hazel eyes, and a brown beard.

Personality

Ethan is fairly confident in all of his abilities, citing his past successes as justification for this outlook. He can come across as condescending at times, but he truly has his peers' best interests at heart.

Abilities and Powers

Buzzutsu

Ethan possesses the “Checkmate” technique, the history of which spans over 2,000 years. This technique is not inherited by bloodline, rather, the previous user of this technique must be defeated in chess for the technique to be passed on. The Chess Master tournament is held every few decades to determine the next wielder of the Checkmate technique, with the final match pitting the final contestant against the current Checkmate user. Ethan was one such contestant who became the youngest ever to defeat a Checkmate user, beating him at age 9. Since then, Ethan has proven to be perhaps the most powerful Checkmate user in generations.

Ethan’s technique allows him to summon the chess piece shikigami: King, Queen, 2 Bishops, 2 Knights, 2 Rooks, and 8 Pawns. These shikigami move and attack in the same way as they do on the chess board. Ethan is among the few users of this technique who can summon all 16 shikigami in combat simultaneously. He uses this technique much like a chess game: carefully manipulating the board to place his opponent in check. When his opponent has nowhere to go—checkmate.

Ethan’s domain expansion, “King’s Gambit,” initiates a chess match between himself and his opponent. Should Ethan beat his opponent, his opponent is killed immediately. However, should his opponent win, much like in the Chess Master tournament, Ethan must relinquish control of the Checkmate technique and the technique is inherited by his opponent.

Before Ethan inherited the Checkmate technique, previous bearers of the technique could simply collapse their domain to avoid the consequence of a defeat. Additionally, other sorcerers caught in the domain were able to construct simple domains or other protections to avoid participating in the match altogether. Some time ago, Ethan decided to make a binding vow that would reinforce the domain’s sure-hit effect, impairing any attempt to escape or protect against it. To do this, Ethan agreed to surrender the Checkmate technique to his opponent in the event of a loss.

Quotes

"Eat my shorts!" -Ethan Polter, after checkmating an opponent in chess