Lupe

Lupe is the sarcastic and antisocial protagonist of the Combonauts series, an autistic young wizard and adopted son of a retired superheroine, who after a personal tragedy, was forced to use his powers to become a mercenary.

APPEARENCE
Lupe is a tall, thin, pale boy, with dark circles under his eyes, black eyes, a large nose and long brown hair, most of the time he keeps his hair up, and wears a red shirt with blue sleeves and collar, black shorts with pink and cyan accents and black and red slippers. In fights he keeps his shin loose, wearing blue glasses with cyan lenses, and wears a red shirt with blue sleeves and collar with a blue overcoat on top, brown gloves, black shorts with pink and cyan details, red and white sneakers and black socks with blue details

PERSONALITY
Lupe is an introverted guy with little interest in interacting with other people and making friends, having a kind of Lone Wolf complex, his biggest interest is pop culture, movies, series, comics, video games, that's practically what his life is about. Due to events in his childhood, Lupe completely closed himself off from everyone, always avoiding making friends. Lupe is also sarcastic and mocking, not very smart, very lazy, hates exercise and loves to eat and play video games. He is always very calm, carefree and in control of his feelings, with his inner peace unshakable, there are very few things in the world that really make you angry, but despite that, he knows the right time to let go of his zen side and kick some ass, for this reason Lupe is considered by many, mainly by school officials, a problem boy, as being rebellious, troubled, taciturn and a little pedantic, thanks to his hatred of authorities, he is free spirited, he values freedom above all else, no gives a shit about the authorities, hates cops and follows the philosophy of "I do what I want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone".

Early Life:
Lupe Milano is a demon who was born in the MagiWorld, a world moved and made of magic, his mother Anasha was a prostitute demon of the MagiWorld, Lupe was conceived during the service with Lord Monochrom, at the time he was sealed inside the MagiWorld. Because he was born with magical genes, he was sold by his mother to be one of the 12 wizard babies that were sent to Earth to participate in the so-called Runic War. Like all the other 11 babies, a spell was placed on Lupe, that when he was in danger and about to die, a wizard would appear in front of him and give him his Cosmic Rune, which in Lupe's case was the Neon Rune. Lupe was left with former Mega-Knight Clear Milano, who adopted him, and named him Lupe. Lupe's childhood was very complicated, he began to discover his powers little by little, but he used them to cause problems in the neighborhood. When she was 8 years old, Lupe met Dani, at first they didn't get along, until little by little they got closer and became best friends, until Dani met Vinícius and his friends, on Dani's birthday, and he says to Lupe who has nothing planned, so Lupe decides to make a cake together with her brothers, to take it to Dani as a surprise, but when she gets there, Lupe is faced with a huge party, and all the guests are amazed by Lupe's presence, and laugh at the fact that a poor man is at that party, Lupe is devastated and leaves crying, while all the guests laugh about what happened. after that, they gradually drifted apart, until they didn't see each other for almost 2 years, which made Lupe accumulate a grudge against Vinícius and Dani himself.

Origins Special:
On the 24th of May it was supposed to be a day like any other, Lupe goes to school, where he meets Guto for the first time, Guto hands him a leaflet from his Robotics Club, but soon Lupe throws it away, and he sees several other students around the school, so he meets Vinícius, his longtime rival, who starts making fun of Lupe, and Vinícius uses his powers to beat Lupe up in front of the entire school. Then Júlia, one of the Blackstars calls Lupe out, and they arrange to meet in a specific place in the Philadelphia Park of Piracicaba, Lupe goes to the park, waits for a few hours and soon realizes that she stood him up, Roberto, the brother of Lupe goes to pick him up at the park, and on the way home, a giant bat bumps into their car and knocks it off the highway. Lupe's brother is devoured by the bat, but he is seriously injured, with several broken bones, until the mysterious figure that left Lupe at the door of Clear's house appears, scares the giant bat, and goes to Lupe, and draws the Rune Neon on Lupe's chest, and all of Lupe's injuries heal and he passes out. When Lupe wakes up, he is in the hospital intact, without a single scratch, and soon we see a montage showing mourning for the death of Lupe's brother, and after the montage, we see Vinícius sending a message to Lupe making fun of his brother's death. Lupe, obviously revolted, arrives at school the next day and calls Vinícius to a fight, which shakes the entire school, after finishing Vinícius with a special blow, Lupe goes to the highway, and meets the mysterious figure, who tells Lupe that that was the Neon Rune, and then disappears without further explanation. After that he takes the subway and goes to the mall to buy a new game to cool his head, and there he meets a mysterious girl who also wanted to buy the same game, they talk a little, but there is a disagreement, and she runs away leaving the her cap back, Lupe picks up the cap, and sees that there's an address on the back of it, and it goes to that address. Arriving there, he finds a girl named Yelena, and her father named Marquinho, who reluctantly decides to call him inside, and they spend time together, Lupe then decides to sleep there, and during the night he is attacked by 3 mysterious figures, which Lupe later recognizes as being some of his schoolmates, Guto (the pamphlet's nerd), Panzo and Vega, Marquinho then explains that he needed a team of successors, formed by young people who were rejected by Mega's factions -Knights, since only one would not be enough, and also says that tomorrow they already have the first job. The plan is basically to try to circumvent the systems, the place has several different layers, first you have to get the access card from the head of security, then Yelena will hack the place to get the safe password and send it to the cook's cell phone and then get it the key to release the object they came to take, which is with none other than the mayor of Piracicaba, so they begin to put the plan into practice, with Lupe and Guto infiltrating as part of the party, Panzo and Vega infiltrating as security and Yelena hacking the place's computers, Lupe and Guto sit with their classmates from Lupe's school. After the whole process, they go down to the basement of the place to get the thing, there, they find a scientific installation in the village of a strange sword stuck in a stone, which was the object they came to get, until a sleeping gas spreads throughout the place, making all the guests faint, except the four who were underground, then a hole appears in the ceiling of the place, from which Lady Metahexx, her 2 children Arnaldo and Marisa and a few more Legion henchmen come out Mutant, who when they arrived, accidentally impaled Dani, who was at the party, and managed to take the sword, and the great Lord Monochrom and a giant monster came out of the hole, they run after them, a fight begins, until they finally defeat the monster, the gang disappears and the quartet takes the sword, the next day they deliver the sword to the boss, who destroyed her i and frees the monster, then he pays Marquinho, Marquinho then gives 3% of the money to each, and Lupe gets pissed because that wasn't what was agreed, Marquinho then takes Lupe to a charity, where he donates the other 85% of the payment. After that Lupe and her friends go out for ice cream.

Rise of Thanaroth's Arc:
To Be Added...

Guto:
At first Lupe had a certain dislike for Guto, but little by little their friendship blossomed, when Lupe needs help studying for tests, or to fix something, Guto is the first person he asks for help. Even making fun of Guto for being a bit of a nerd, Lupe has great admiration for Guto, for his intelligence and humility.

Panzo:
Just like with Guto, Lupe had a certain dislike for Panzo, but little by little their friendship was emerging, among all the other Combonauts, Panzo is the one that Lupe has the biggest disagreements with, because their opinions come into conflict several times, but it never shakes the respect they have for each other. Whenever Lupe needs to vent something to someone, he vents to Panzo, even Lupe is a bit envious of Panzo, because of how confident and fearless Panzo is.

Vega:
As with Guto and Panzo, Lupe had a certain dislike for Vega, but little by little their friendship emerged, as they became closer, but Lupe became Vega's prank partner. They spend a lot of time together, playing video games and causing confusion in Cosmopolis, Lupe sees Vega as his ID, that is, he sees her as the embodiment of all his desires and primitive instincts that he spent his entire life repressing

Yelena:
Ever since they met, Lupe has had a crush on Yelena, something that got better as they got to know each other, Lupe has always been fascinated by Yelena's mysterious and enigmatic aura, he's always had a kind of protective instinct towards her, even though she knew how to defend herself very well, as their friendship evolved, they became the kind of friends who are always making fun of each other in a healthy way

Marquinho:
Marquinho is the closest thing to a father figure that Lupe ever had, Lupe is always learning new things from Marquinho, while Marquinho tries to keep him in line, Lupe always takes Marquinho's advice to heart, and has great respect and admiration by him.

Vinícius:
Lupe considers Vinícius to be his mortal nemesis, Lupe doesn't hate anything in the world more than Vinícius, since they were children, Lupe has always hated Vinícius because of all the bullying he practices with him, and also because he "stole " his best friend and making him turn against Lupe.

Dani:
During childhood, they were extremely close, since Dani was Lupe's only friend, and it was for a long time, until Dani started to get closer to Vinícius, and with that, Lupe, they gradually drifted apart, until not talking to each other for 4 years. During these 4 years, Lupe nurtured an enormous hurt and feeling of betrayal with Dani, always avoiding talking to him and avoiding him as much as possible.

Julia:
Julia is constantly hounding Lupe and the other Combonauts to get some scoop for the school paper, which drives him crazy in the head, but when she's not bugging Lupe, they're good friends who respect each other a lot. Even if he tries to hide it with a very thick layer of indifference and cynicism, he is very fond of Júlia, and always tries hard to protect her and keep her close, Lupe sees her as a very valuable friend despite everything, since Lupe is the only person she trusts to open up about her feelings.

Santana:
In the beginning, the rivalry between Lupe and Santana was something almost deadly, but it got more and more friendly over time. Unlike his relationship with Vinícius, which is something quite toxic, Lupe and Santana respect each other a lot, because they are both magicians, they are constantly testing their skills against each other to see who is the strongest. Lupe even considers Santana an honorary Combonaut thanks to all the support he gives to the group, even though they are still rivals most of the time, Lupe always tries to recruit Santana to the group, but he always refuses, to keep the rivalry standing

TRIVIA

 * His outfit was inspired by in the suit of the character Jubilee, from X-Men, by Marvel Comics
 * In the manga, Lupe's shirt was a PT shirt, a Brazilian political party, but this was changed in the anime to avoid controversy.