Yuan Bast

Yuan Bast (ユウアン バスット Yuuan Basutto) is a minor antagonist of Shift Star and is the third character to reveal his star. At the beginning of the series, he is 25 years old.

BACKGROUND
Little is known about Yuan's past, but it's been hinted that he has been to prison and has been a criminal for quite some time now. He is now a former member of the Nan Brothers, a three-man street gang that mugged people in the Nan Street alleys of Inno City. He seems to have a long history with Frei as well. It's unknown what has happened to him and Frei since the end of the prologue arc.

PERSONALITY
Yuan is arrogant and flirtatious, but also easily flustered and taken aback. He puts on a tough front and has a great amount of skill, but he lacks the nerve and quick reflexes to utilize his star in close-quarters. He's afraid of many things like spiders and snakes, and describes himself as "a lover, not a fighter".

APPEARANCE
Yuan is a relatively handsome man with dark skin and short, black hair parted down the middle. He has drooping, crimson eyes that appear black, and he has a predominate upper lip resembling a woman's mouth. He has feminine features and elegant posture.

He wears a white muffler and a light pink-beige cardigan. Underneath he sports a black t-shirt and gray jeans with black dress shoes. His star is located under his left arm, partway down his rib cage.

SHIFT STAR ABILITIES
Yuan's star is dubbed "TerraPillar", as his star allows him to create pillars from the earth in any direction and quantity he swipes his fingers. He can only use a maximum of ten in one swipe because of his finger limit. For example, if he swiped three fingers swiftly to the left, three pillars would shoot out from whatever earth or metal was to that direction and would extend leftward.

Frei Deline
Frei and Yuan seem to share a history, as they both share a distaste for their "leader" when they were part of the Nan brothers. It's likely they were in prison at the same time as well, and perhaps have known each other longer. Despite being in the "Nan Brothers", Frei and Yuan don't appear to be related by blood.

Nan Brothers Leader
Yuan doesn't seem to have respect for the leader, and only follows him out of necessity.

Maki Seo
Aside from being possessed by Maki, Yuan's only interaction with her was him mocking her by calling her an idiot and "chère".

TRIVIA

 * If Shift Star were to be occurring in our world, Yuan would be Black-Japanese.
 * Yuan is named after and inspired by the Tales of Symphonia character Yuan Ka-Fei. His surname "Bast" is a shrinkage of "Bastet", the cat-headed Egyptian goddess. Arc did this because he really likes cats.
 * Arc imagines Yuan would have a slightly higher-pitched voice resembling Johnny Yong Bosch's voice.
 * Yuan is bisexual with a preference for females, but he's actually terrible with both men and women.
 * His favorite color is pink.
 * Yuan actually doesn't like violence. He just puts up a tough front for Frei.