Pan

Pan (牧神,) was a French ability user researcher and the only member of the rebel group May Uprising. He created the artificial ability Black No. 12, who would later be named as Paul Verlaine.

Personality
Since he established a rebel group against France, Pan was possibly discontented with the country. He was also crafty for being able to design a hidden cellar for his scientific endeavors and quite intelligent for having successfully created an ability-derived life-form known as Black No. 12 on his own. Pan was slyly resourceful to hold control over Black No. 12 by using a special metal powder despite the latter's dangerous ability, leading him to use Black No. 12 as his guard dog.

Ability
Pan possessed a supernatural ability which Arthur Rimbaud described to be quite strong.

Skills

 * Intelligence: Pan discovered the method on how to create artificial abilities, a feat that would eventually serve as a breakthrough for other countries like Japan to turn abilities into weapons.
 * Physical Prowess: With the help of his ability, Pan was apparently strong, even able to fight almost on equal footing against Rimbaud, a Transcendent-level ability user.

Background
Pan was a researcher who discovered how to create artificial abilities by using a cloned body combined with a persona model to make the ability think it had a human soul. This method, which he recorded in his manual as The Secret of the Gentle Forest, resulted to the creation of Black No. 12, a gravity-manipulation ability user and Pan's personal guard under his control.

At some point, Pan encountered and fought Rimbaud, a DGSS Operations Division undercover agent, in his hidden cellar. From knowledge obtained by DGSS's intelligence bureau, Rimbaud destroyed the machine emitting the ability metal powder into Black No. 12, ridding him from Pan's control. Pan and the cellar were immediately attacked by Black No. 12, instantly killing him.

Legacy
Shortly after Pan's death, Rimbaud took Black No. 12 under his wing and, naming him Paul Verlaine, trained him as a spy as ordered by his superiors. Pan's research would be obtained by Japan a few years later, which would serve as the bedrock of Project Arahabaki in making an artificial ability using the same method that created Verlaine.

Etymology

 * The name Pan means "pasture god" (牧神,), and the may also refer to the Greek god Pan. In ancient Greek mythology,  is the god of the wild as well as of shepherds and flocks among others.
 * Pan's name may also be a reference to 's poem "Le Faune" in his poetry collection Fêtes Galantes. In Greek and Roman mythology, the  is a half-human and half-goat creature, and the ancient god  serves as the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Pan.