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| Full Name |
Yuudai Kazuo (雄大 和夫)
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| Arcana |
VII - The Chariot
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| Nature |
Persona-User
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| Gender |
Male
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| Height |
193 cm (6'4")
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| Date of Birth |
January 31th, 1992 (Aquarius)
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| Age |
17
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| Guardian Dragon |
Blue Dragon
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| Persona |
Sigurd
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| Weapon |
Fists
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| Faction |
None
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| Team |
None
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| Seiyuu |
Speaking Voice: Jurota Kosugi
Singing Voice: Shou Hayami
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| Voice Actor |
Speaking Voice: Keanu Reeves
Singing Voice: Dan Fogelberg
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| Player |
Dari
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| Social Stats
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- Expression: 3 - OMG That Voice
- Knowledge: 2 - Just a High-Schooler
- Courage: 3 - Ain't Skeered
- Understanding: 3 - Tough Oniisan
- Diligence: 5 - “Just Do It!”
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| Contacts
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- Flat Stare: A way of just looking at one that can simultaneously say “I Am Not Amused”, “You're Not Scaring Me At All”, “Don't F**k With Me”, and also on occasion, “You Die Now”. Can result in less dominant-types squirming uncomfortably.
- The Devil's In The Details: Kazuo is very likely to think of almost all the possible ways his requests can be twisted and cover them in discussing such things.
- Encouragements: Despite his 'tough guy' air, he is quick with encouraging words, or at the very least, an encouraging pat on the back.
- Stand With Me!: Kazuo is willing to help when he's needed, and willing to do tasks or favors when requested, provided they don't involve him doing something reprehensible.
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| Trivia
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- Kazuo's Western horoscope pegs him as an Aquarius. His Eastern horoscope pegs him as a Dog, more specifically Wood-elemental. Which is odd because he uses Fire.
- Sizzling rice soup and chinese cabbage are foods recommended to those born in the year of the Dog for maintaining good health.
- The website 'tuvy.com' has things to say about those born in the year of the Dog, and about the Wood-elemental Dog. See the rundown of the Wood Dog's characteristics!
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| Soundtrack
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- “We're Not Gonna Take It” —Twisted Sister
- We've got the right to chose, and
There ain't no way we're losin'!
This is our life, this is our song!
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| Quote
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“You want to change things? Then get off your butt and do something. Things will never change as long as you sit on your butt and do nothing.”
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| History
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| Guilt Comes Young
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Kazuo was a pretty normal kid, relatively speaking, growing up. Born to a pair of normal parents in Inaba, he had as normal a childhood as possible given the circumstances. The only real tragedy to speak of that he experienced during his childhood was the loss of his mother. It was the circumstances of her death that made it especially difficult for Kazuo to deal with. When he was about ten, he ran across a busy street to talk to a friend of his that he had glimpsed on the other side. His mother panicked, following him...and was hit by a delivery truck going too fast down the street. Unfortunately, he was not at the age where he could mask it in the blissful ignorance of youth. He accepted it as a freak accident that could not have been avoided—at least outwardly. Inside, he knew the truth—he had killed her, just as surely as if he had used a weapon in his own hands.
He became a somber and serious young man as he grew up, and there was a difficult adjustment period as he dealt with his feelings of guilt. Kazuo suppressed that guilt as much as he was able, but he was only a young man. He acted out in middle school, getting into trouble and running afoul of school authorities with some frequency. His father tried to mitigate this somewhat by trying to aim his destructive outlets in a more constructive way. What came to mind was martial arts, since they require discipline.
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| Growing Pains
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It worked somewhat, and Kazuo's acting out did indeed decrease. He also found solace in music, finding himself in possession of a reasonably good singing voice (after it stopped cracking due to puberty). But still, by the time he was fifteen, he had become known as something of a punk and a mild troublemaker in Yasogami High School. Those who wished to anger him learned two things. One, the easiest way to do so was to mention his mother in a negative connotation. And two, angering him this way was a very ill-advised venture. Kazuo was never afraid to fight anyone bigger than him.
This reputation attracted some of the tougher students to him, seeking to prove both his mettle and theirs as well. One of these was Jirou Hotaka, a rather fast—and slightly crazy—little brat who fancied himself a champion fighter. He challenged Kazuo, but initially Kazuo declined. It was a careless comment thrown by Jirou—“Maybe I should go fight your 'MOM instead!”—that finally prompted a beatdown. Thankfully, Jirou was contrite after having said it, else Kazuo might have beat him to a pulp! They became friends after that, since Jirou was also a child of a single-parent home.
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| What A Weird Game
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It was during the year that he turned fifteen that his other only real friend in high school, a kind of nerdy fellow he'd rescued from a jock shaking him down for homework assistance (Naoki Tezuka), approached him with an idea. He had heard of this ‘totally cool’ game—the Persona game. Despite his misgivings—and complete lack of belief—Kazuo played the game with this friend during a sleepover. Nothing overt happened, and the game dissolved into laughter and declarations of stupidity and falseness. But it did not end there. Kazuo had a strange dream that night. A man came to him and asked him a very interesting question.
“Who are you?”
He answered.
It was all a very odd dream, rather frightening. But in the end, just a dream. Until one day.
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| Did I Do That?
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Some of the local bullies around his neighborhood had grown tired of his attitude, and banded together. They intended to teach him a lesson about messing around in “their” neighborhood. It was a surprisingly clever plan for a group of people whose total IQ together probably equalled about that of a goldfish. They would contact him, supposedly to make apologies for the trouble they had caused, and then they would gang up and beat him to a bloody pulp. And it almost worked, except for one thing they had not counted on. Of course, neither had Kazuo. During the fight, a voice in his head introduced itself to him, and then appeared before him. Just the sight of the thing was enough to scare the punks away. However, who—or what—was this...thing he had been saddled with?
Kazuo came to think of it as...something like a personal demon. One he had to learn to live with, and to police carefully. The thing was too powerful to let it have free reign. He began to explore it in more detail, and by the time he was seventeen, he had gained a fair amount of control over it. Of course he had no idea of its true nature. But it did not matter. It was something he could use for good, whether he believed it to be inherently evil or not.
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| Profile and Skills
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Profile: Kazuo Yuudai is, by all outward appearances, just a typical rebellious teenage boy who lost his mother at a young age. Quiet and solemn, there isn't much about him that seems memorable, aside from his scars, and perhaps his looks (if one likes that sort of thing). He tends to come across as just another punk, if a generally good-hearted one. He doesn't seem to go out of his way to make friends, and it's possible that this is reflected in that his pool of “real friends” equals exactly two. And his intimidating appearance and the fact that he almost always has his “fanclub” with him—Jirou and Naoki—may lead many to peg him as the typical, full-of-himself snob. Though he is quick with an encouraging word, even for those he doesn't know. Kazuo tends to be a very direct, go-getter kind of fellow, preferring directly confronting a problem than beating around the bush. His singing voice is something of a secret shame, and tends to embarrass him when discovered. To that end, those who know him well do not speak openly of it.
Skills: Allergic To Bulls**t, Black Velvet Voice, Cool As A Cucumber, Don't Take No Flak, DON'T TALK ABOUT MY MOM!, How Can He Be So NORMAL?!, Just Another Punk, Mommy Issues, Not Afraid To Scrap, Scars Are Sexy, Secret Shame—Yes I Can Sing, Stonewall, Tall Dark Handsome Stranger, The STARE, Totally Not Interested, Well At Least His Heart's In The Right Place...
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| Combat Information
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Having learned to be something of a juvenile deliquent, Kazuo has become quite good at using his fists and feet to deliver beatdowns. Add that to the martial arts training that he received in his early years, and you have a pretty effective combination. At least, effective against the common street trash....
Special: Dragon Punch—In a move straight out of a fighting game, Kazuo channels his strength—and possibly some of Sigurd's—into a super-stong leaping uppercut to his opponent.
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| Persona Information and Resonance
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“I am thou...thou art I. I am Sigurd the Fearless, he who braved flame and Fafnir's dreadful gaze. Take heart and employ thy wits, for not every challenge can be overcome through force of arms alone!”
Kazuo's persona is based on the Norse hero Sigurd. According to the 'Volsunga Saga', he is the son of Sigmund and Hiordis, his second wife. Sigmund died when he attacked a disguised Odin, and bequeathed the fragments of his broken sword to Sigurd. Hiordis decided to send Sigurd to a foster, a man named Regin. Regin did little to raise Sigurd properly, but instead tempted him to greed and violence. Sigurd, however, was of stouter moral stuff than that. Regin made for Sigurd two swords with which he intended Sigurd to kill Fafnir with, but neither were strong enough. It was only the sword made from the fragments of Sigmund's sword—this sword came to be known as “Gram”—that proved strong enough. In fact, when Sigurd proofed this sword's edge against the anvil, it split the anvil!
Resonance:
- SENSE: Determination, grit, clever plans, anticipation, 'I love it when a plan comes together', the feeling of waiting on a deadly enemy.
- SOUND: Flames, the bright 'ting!' of a hammer striking an anvil, growling from somewhere vaguely below him, the scraping and clashing of metal-on-metal.
- SMELL: Burning coke (as in a coke boiler), hot metal, brimstone, the coppery scent of blood.
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