Pandora

Pandora is a character that appeared in Infinity Nado 2. He is a friend of Jin, Dawn, Davis and Cecilia.He owns the balanced Nado Glory Sword in season 2 and the attributeless speed type nado Thunderbolt Horse in season 3, which makes his elements of both light and electricity.

Appearance
Physically Pandora looks 15-16 years old. However his actual age could be older than 10000 due to existing longer as a spirit before taking humanoid form and being asleep for a thousand years. Pandora has long light purple hair and purple eyes with star/diamond-shaped pupils, which resembles the Ancient Group Hunters gemmiferous stone bindings (which were connected to both Chaos and Pandora).

Pandora was probably the character who has the most variety of outfits throughout the series, as she has his original clothes, his modern clothes, his "cute disguise", his Split Family outfit, and his disguise as Dodd.

Personality
Pandora is a cheerful, innocent and energetic person. He is very friendly and cares for his friends and wants to protect them as they protect him. In fact, he had a sense of guilt and embarrassment when thinking that he dragged Jin and his friends into their troubles with the Ancient Hunter God Glory but Jin reinsured him that it wasn't his fault.

After remembering his mission to destroy the earth, he seems more serious as he believed the world was too cruel to exist and wanted to destroy the earth without hesitation and had no problem with the lives of the people. But he was able to regain his hope in humanity again after being reminded of his friends and hopeful is creating a new world where everyone could be themselves again.

As Dodd he is a sneaky and mysterious person, though has his heart in the place of wanting to protect his friends.

Special abilities
Due to Pandora being a humanoid spirit, he has many distinguishing features that make him stand out from humans; such as is the superhuman strength that allowed him to drag a man across town and knock over an iron door in the Eden Temple and also super agility that allowed him to jump from great heights and landing on his feet. As Dodd, Pandora seemed to have the ability to teleport and also is seen to be skilled at throwing cards.

Pandora represents the element light and owns the balanced type nado called Glory Sword. According to Mr. Arthur, due to Pandora's connection to all of Eath's magic, the Earth would end up exploding in anything that if Pandora loses his life. Pandora is also shown to have spiritual powers that were directly connected to the magic stored inside of the Earth that can be transferred through him and fired through the Sky Colosseum to create natural disasters that rip apart the Earth and recreate reality.

Pandora was also said to be able to communicate with the spirit of Thunderbolt Horse; which made him the only main character to own and control an attributeless nado, as its spirit chose him.

Dodd managed to merge Glory Sword's powers with Thunderbolt Horse by sucking its powers out of its fossilized state.

Plot
Pandora originated was created from the spiritual energies of the Earth's rotation which made him the first human on Earth and "the son of the Earth". When human civilization first began, Pandora was able to take human form and was put asleep inside a machine-like bed resembled an incubator and was meant to wake up at the "Earth's destined time of ending".

10000 years later, Pandora was found by Arthur and Dawn in underground temple ruins after waking up an amnesic state. Pandora joins the main cast after they help him find his fossilized Nado, Glory Sword. Together they challenged the Ancient Hunting God Glory as it is part of Pandora's to have them abandon their mission of destroying humanity.

Eventually, Pandora was able to get his memories back after gaining ten hundred thousand points when fending off an angry mob provoked by the Hunters Gods came after him. This caused Pandora to realize that his purpose of existence was to destroy the world and summons the Air Colosseum to meet where the project will be taking place. There Pandora meets his counterpart named Chaos who manipulates into believing that the world must be destroyed to be recreated in their image.

During the final battle after Chaos's defeat, Pandora is shown to care for Jin and his friends and wanted to create a new world where everyone can be themselves and live happily again. When Jin was fading away, Pandora cries and tells him everything has an ending but they will meet again someday. After the world was reset, Pandora had a vision of meeting up with Jin in a valley one year later where they end up holding hands and walking off in the sunset.

In the beginning of season three, Pandora seems to have gone his separate way from the main cast as she ends up disguising himself as a mysterious person under the name of "Dodd" who got a new Nado called Thunderbolt Horse stolen from Dr. Louis's lab and later on absorbed and fused with the spirit of Glory Sword fossil from a museum. Upon seeing Dodd, Jin thought that he was oddly familiar and often find himself helping Dodd on several occasions as he believed that Dodd was good at heart and trying to protect Jin and his friends from something. Dodd's identity got revealed in the 27th episode after being attacked by Dr. Louis was revealed to be Temperance. Jin then helps help heal Pandora who finally rejoins the rest of Jin's friends.

When Jin's friends were all imprisoned in their own dimensions, Jin ends up going to the dimension where Pandora was imprisoned; which appears to be an amusement park where they played in together to find a way out and worked together to defeat Jack (Temperance's evil puppet who guarded the dimension prison). After defeating Jack, Pandora and Jin were found by Justice who takes them to Hurricane Tower in the Spiral World to meet up with the other War Gods.

In the finale of season three, Jin and Pandora are finally reunited with their friends and decide to all go explore the world together.

Ancient Hunter Gods
The Ancient Hunter Gods were a group of people that were from various ancient civilizations that become immortals who wanted to use Pandora as a weapon to destroy humanity. They were given stone bindings by the Split Family which were meant to act as a failsafe for Pandora's memories and Chaos's revival. When Pandora lost his memories, he was quite intimidated by them as they always tried to pursue him to complete an unknown ritual. Though Pandora was able to defeat each of them and break their gemstones to free their bind to the ritual. In the end, the Ancient Hunter Gods were finally able to understand why Pandora was willing to give up the ritual for his new friends.

Jin
Jin is the one character that is closest to Pandora as it was his powers to allowed Pandora's awakening. When they first met, Pandora ended up giving Jin power to heal him and upgrade Jin's nado, Jin ends up making a vow that he and his friends will help Pandora and trained him to become a strong nado player and protect him no matter what. Jin is seen to even go as far as to protect Pandora even if it means losing his own life. When Pandora left the group Jin was devastated but was still able to regain faith in Pandora. In the end, Jin was the one that reminded Pandora to still have hope in the world and they were happy to be reunited again in the season 2 finale and season 3.

Cecilia
Cecilia and Pandora generally have a good relationship with Cecilia was the one that helped Pandora buy some new clothes that were more suitable for the modern society of Wind Wheel Town with her own nado's points. Pandora was also the only one in the group that was willing to try Cecilia's camp soup and enjoy it which pleased Cecilia despite the others disliking her cooking. Cecilia is also seen to have a concern about Pandora's well being when he was weakened by Greek Hunter God and have Jin take him back to the underground ruins.

In many ways, they are quite similar to them both being nonhuman members of the group and originally used to power a superweapon to destroy the world but were freed from that destiny thanks to Jin.

Dawn
Dawn was the first one to discover Pandora when traveling with Arthur and offered to take Pandora back with them. Despite Pandora technically being chronologically being older than all of them, Dawn often treats Pandora like a child due to his naivety from memory loss and adjusting to the modern world. In some ways, Dawn even tried to take advantage of Pandora on some occasions by originally wanting to have brilliant sword god as his treasure and once even tried to trick Pandora into giving him some nado points through his scanner.

Though Dawn is still seen to be generous with helping Pandora gain nado points by taking him to a street tournament and admires Jin's care for him.

Chaos
Chaos was another son of the Earth "born from the darkness of people's hearts" which technically makes him and Pandora brothers and opposite counterparts of each other representing light and darkness in the Split Family. Chaos is seen to shown to be quite manipulative as he false sympathy for Pandora and forces Pandora to leave to another part of the Colosseum while Chaos challenged Jin.

After Chaos was defeated by the hands of Jin, Pandora was finally able to get closure from his original fate of recreating the world for Chaos and decides to recreate the world for Jin and his friends instead.

Trivia

 * Many viewers of the show often mistake him as a girl due to his effeminate face, neutral-sounding voice, along with his noteworthy relationship with Jin. Though there were several instances where it was explicitly stated that he was a boy by the main characters with occasionally uses male- specific pronouns and titles and having to cross-dress when going to the Atlantis Temple with the boys instead of getting accepted by the mermaids aside Cecilia.
 * In some of the international dubs, Pandora gets voiced by a woman in normal form but gets voiced by a man as Phantom Thief Dodd. Some international releases even made Pandora female or even had him be genderless with no pronouns.
 * In the original dubbing of season 2, Pandora's voice range varied originally being sweet and childlike when the first appearing but gets rougher but still neutral while being serious. In season 3, Pandora maintained a rough but neutral voice as he is more mature.
 * Pandora is the only main character that didn't get a name change in any of the foreign dubs, as his name well known and pronounced in almost every language.
 * Pandora's name originates from the Greek myth about "Pandora's box" This fits the nomenclature of the story with of Pandora releasing all the evils into the world with hope being the last thing that remained in the box, which parallels to the world being destroyed being recreated in the end.
 * According to Earth's fate, Pandora woke up a century before he was supposed to due to being awakened by Jin's powerful lifeforce.
 * There was originally going to be three different possibilities to Pandora’s awakening:

1. Pandora will wake up with no memories but will recover them after defeating the Hunter Gods with their gems binds acting as a fail-safe. (which is what happens)

2. Pandora doesn’t recover his memories even after defeating the Hunter Gods yet still be able to revive Chaos through the gems.

3. Pandora ends up waking up with all of his memories and all members of the Hunter God Glory will be sacrificed in order to destroy the world.


 * The tournament of Jin vs Pandora in the season 2 finale became known as one of the only final battles where the protagonist loses but was still successful in achieving their goal; in this case, it helped bring to Pandora back to his senses and have the world being reborn instead of destroyed.


 * The rabbit ears that are part of Dodd's costume was a callback to when Pandora had to disguise himself as a girl with a dress that featured a bunny pin.


 * Despite the fact that Pandora was the first one to recover his memories he was the last one to be reunited with Jin and his friends in season 3.
 * Pandora was the only main character that didn't directly battle Temperance/Shadow Streak in season 3.