Cross Marian

Cross Marian is fictional exorcist general in the on going manga and anime series D. Gray Man.

Appearance
Cross always wears a white mask to cover something on his face. He wears explorer type clothing and wears a hat though he has been seen in a kimono. He always carries his weapon on a holster on his leg.

Personality
Cross Marian is a man who loves to gamble, a womanizer, and loves to drink. When he gambles he makes extravagant bets and if he loses he never pays letting either Allen or someone else pay it. When he was training Allen he forced his apprentice into battle with no time to prepare and taunting allen as he fought to "help" him. He only love very few things women and money. When in battle himself he acts very cold and uncaring.

Biography
Cross was not seen in the early manga chapters as it focused on allen. The manga only makes mentions of him and what he has done. Cross went to Alistar Krory the third's castle and gave a strange plant to Krory. The plant bit Krory and gave him the power of his parasitic innocence. He went to china hunting the earl and meet a major ally of the order. He stayed with the ally for a full year while tracking the earl and eradicating the Akuma in the area.

Cross left china for Japan and lands in toyko. Cross goes into hiding to avoid being spotted by the earl and akuma. Cross does what he can to reduce the sheer amount of akuma while in hiding. In the meantime he watches the Earl's movements and knows the ark is nearly ready to be used.

When his apprentice and his team with Tiedoll's team faces off against the noahs cross watches from afar. When the Earl and the Noahs enter the ark cross enters unseen with them. He eventually enters Tyki's and Road's room later. When Allen falls down a bottomless hole Cross saves him.

Cross battles the monstrous Tyki by unleashing The Grave of Maria. Tyki is completely immobilized and cross fires his entire ammunition clip into tyki with lightning speed. Tyki falls from the injuries he just got but before cross can finish the fight the earl stops them. Cross and the Earl exchange a few words before they both leave.

Cross, Tiedoll, and their teams return to order headquarters to take a break. The exorcists are soon assaulted with wave upon wave of akuma. Everyone at headquarters does what they can to stop the hordes until a noah appears. Cross with the generals is ordered to stop the noah from retrieving the akuma egg they found on the ark. Cross quickly enters the room where the egg is housed and finds the lust of noah lulu bell. The generals attack her but she is ready as she turns into a liquid form and captures Miranda. The generals are then ordered to destroy the egg no matter the cost or what takes. They blast the egg with attack after attack not do doing much more than small cracks. Cross manages to land a large hit on the egg severely damaging it. The noah climbs on the egg and changes form blocking all attacks meant for the egg. She drags the egg into a portal but allen is in hot pursuit. Allen destroys the egg and rescues miranda. Cross and allen sense a bigger threat is coming. A level four akuma appears and easily pummels Allen and destroys part of headquarters to the point where it drilled straight to the mantle of the earth itself.

Cross ran from it but reappears ready to fight. Cross puts a entire ammunition clip into the akuma but it has no effect. Allen takes advantage of the attack and impales the akuma. Kanda and Lavi help drive the blade into the akuma. The generals tell the three to back off and they pour fire onto the akuma. The akuma rise again but lenalee's innocence has rebonded to her and she takes it to the akuma. The akuma has trouble keeping up but is able to hold it's own. Lenalee uses the same move that she used on the level three and drills the akuma into the ground. Allen impales the akuma with his sword and lenalee drives the blade deeper into the akuma. The generals seize their chance and pour their full power into their attacks. The akuma finally is no more and everyone breathes a sigh of relief.

Cross retreats to his room after the battle and contemplates himself. Cross then realizes something then proceeds to raise his weapon to his head and pulls the trigger. Some people from the order enter his room thinking cross wants food and find him at the window dead. They quickly run to get the other generals. The one who supports the order come but find no body but find the window smashed, cross's mask, and his weapon lying there in cold blood.

The order takes his weapons and things straight to Helvsa and they find out that the weapons was close to not recognizing Cross as it's master anymore. They come to the conclusion that Cross realized that he was very close to becoming a fallen one. Cross figured that he commit suicide before that happened. Allen overhears this and says nothing but has his own thoughts on what happened.

Anti-AKUMA Weapon
Judgement (断罪者): This equipment-type Innocence takes the form of a large caliber revolver with an undermounted barrel. Cross is able to fire several bullets in rapid succession, often emptying his rounds in a split-second. These bullets will not cease until they hit their target. A symbol in form of a cross can be seen wherever these bullets hit (even on barriers). Cross has also shown an attack ability called 'Arrow Of Original Sin' (原罪の矢), which forms the shape of a demon-like bow around Judgement as a cross symbol appears in front of it. This ability was used by Cross to attack the Akuma Egg during Lulu Bell's attempt to overthrow Headquarters. Recently, Cross has shown the ability to use Judgement at a "purging level," which allows him to launch a large, devastating attack with a cross symbol on it similar to the crosses made by his regular bullets. This attack swelled and bloated the Level 4 Akuma and rendered it unable to defend itself. Grave of Maria (聖母ノ柩): This parasitic-type Innocence doesn't belong to General Cross himself, but to Maria, an Exorcist with a parasite type innocence. It has been remarked by Allen that Cross is able to use magic to control Maria's corpse during a fight therefore allowing him to also use her Innocence. It takes the form of a large, flattened coffin wrapped with a long chain. When the chain is removed, the coffin opens to reveal a beautiful woman in a fancy dress with a large bow tied over her eyes, which makes it slightly reminiscent of a butterfly. This 'woman' is in fact the corpse of Maria. With the defensive ability 'Magdala Curtain' (聖母ノ加護), Maria uses her song to create illusions that can conceal the presence of others. She also has another ability called "Carte Garde" which allows her (or Cross) to control the person's movements by affecting the brain. Lavi has pointed out that Cross Marian's use of the "Grave of Maria" anti-Akuma weapon is unorthodox and forbidden.