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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Peace
Contact: ashitaka
Age: 21
Current Characters: n/a


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Hazama Masayoshi (Last, First)
Age: 20
Canon: Samurai Flamenco
Canon Point: Post series.

Background: Here is a wiki link for the series.

Personality: Everything in the end comes back to justice. When he’s off the clock he’s a pretty shy person, easily steamrolled by people with stronger wills than this, but as Samurai Flamenco he pretty much does a 180 and has one of the strongest in the show. Justice above all! No matter who it is, what it is, if it’s hurting others then it’s gotta go. That kind of black and white thinking was all he had at first, though the series itself is his entire character arc as he grows to learn to empathize with others and try to understand why this or that is accepted, why people can do bad things but not be bad and want to help them through that. To the point where he can even try to understand the final antagonist in the show and help them because he cares.

This entire thing - the lack of empathy towards others, the strong tendency towards justice, the black and white that melts into grey - was due mostly in part of his upbringing. His mother and father died when he was too young to remember them due to a mugger and he grew up under his vengeful grandfather, who hated the system that didn’t protect those whom he cared for. His grandfather created the fictional superhero Samurai Flamenco and taught Masayoshi all there was to know about “good” and “evil” through stories of this man to where Masayoshi literally grew up wanting to be the Samurai Flamenco he’d heard so much about. Just as his grandfather planned. Masayoshi felt nothing for people because, as a hero, he needed to be able to treat them equally when it came to justice. So he couldn’t learn their stories or their lives or get all that emotionally close and attached.

That stopped when he got to meet Hidenori Goto at the first episode and, by mid-point in the series, he had gained not one, not two, but eight people he’d want to save out of the five he could take with him. Eight people (one of which he’d never met but knew was important to the other regardless), when at the beginning he’d choose no one because heroes can’t decide who lives and who dies, they have to look at all people equally. Past that, Masayoshi continued to grow and learn to empathize with others, thinking more as a person over a superhero. Until his breaking point in the final arc of the series, a very short one all things considered, where this knowledge cumilates into his big final and he passes with flying colors.

When Haiji Sawada wants to become Samurai Flamenco’s nemesis, he goes out and hurts the people connected to him. Starting off with the outer edges and closing it. Haiji makes for an excellent end foil for Masayoshi, because neither of them really under empathy or what it means to love something that’s not an idea, what love has to do with anything really (and how it can strengthen someone and comes in so many different forms), and where Masayoshi has become surrounded by people who love him not as Samurai Flamenco, but as Masayoshi Hazama, Haiji never felt like he belonged all that much. Just like how Masayoshi used to be with the other boys his age as they grew and lost their love of superheroes and the idea of true justice. Therefore, when challenged to rise to become a “dark hero” (something Haiji said he’d be more than happy to give his own life for, to be remembered in that way as someone who changed Samurai Flamenco to the next stage of a cynic) Masayoshi refused to change into Samurai Flamenco and confronted him as Masayoshi Hazama, a person just like Haiji, someone who was learning to embrace whatever love might encompass even if he didn’t really get it at the time and wanted to understand Haiji.

Despite that though Haiji’s not the final villain. Goto is, and the whole thing wraps up into a ball when Masayoshi shows and tells that he wants to help Goto and protect him and keep him happy and oh that’s what love is, it’s wanting to protect the people you care about, it’s wanting them to be happy and to be in the future with them, and Masayoshi gets that in a spark of nude realization as he protects his nemesis from his best friend. So he’s on the right track.

So, all in all, Masayoshi’s dedication to justice is unmatched. He still has a lot to learn still about love and all its forms, though he’s got a better grasp on empathy and compassion towards all. He has a strong drive to do what’s right and a stronger will to see it through, at his core he is a cheerful, friendly kind of person who looks at tomorrow with shining eyes and hope dripping from his pores. Though shy and easily stepped on by others, he won’t ever do something that’s wrong and can stand up for himself when needed. Another lesson that he’s had that’s well and hard learned was to depend on others because even heroes have people they can lean on, though Masayoshi doesn’t like to bother others all that much about it since he feels like he depends too much on them. It’s a fault but it’s not entirely bad. His willingness to trust the good of others and so eagerly hope that they have the same compass he does is a naivety that isn’t going to go away anytime soon. But he understands that if he really, really needs help, he can trust them and lean a little more on them.

And that mob mentality sucks. Having been on the end of it that’s like a pointed arrow.

Speaking of that, actually, Masayoshi’s a pretty humble guy despite being a gorgeous male model and a national icon of justice for his Japan (as well as being the prime candidate and might as well be the President of the World’s Government). He doesn’t like leadership positions that much because he doesn’t connect well with others, and even if that’s changing a little and he’s got the kind of passion people look for Masayoshi still doesn’t accept the role easily. But he will for the good of all.

Abilities: Masayoshi’s actually surprisingly normal, though over the course of the series he’s gained access to a number of amazing (legal, defensive) weapons and has learned to use hand to hand combat (also mostly defensive). He won’t have the weapons though. Just the natural grace of a SUPERHERO. And a pretty face.

Alignment: Peromei. He’s a strikingly optimistic, hopeful person, one of the best examples of it in his canon and it’s even commented about by other characters. He’s very much a “it’ll be okay” kind of guy. Mostly because he’ll make it okay.

Other: Nothing!


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
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Questions: None~.