Masayoshi

Name	Masayoshi
Designer	Superjustinbros
Gender	Male
Age	23 (Arc 2) 25 (Arc 3) 28 (Arc 4) 30 (Arc 5) 32 (Arc 6)
Nationality	Indonesian-Japanese
Height	6ft, 0.5in

Masayoshi (マサヨッシー, Masayosshī) is a character from the Aozora's Adventure series.

Appearance

Masayoshi sports tan skin, jet-black hair with several strands grown over his left eye, a khaki muscle shirt with a red construction banner pattern in the center, a heavy light grey jacket with six black belts wrapped around it, thick double-layered brown pants, and black leather boots. Both of his eyes consist of only a pupil and no iris, with heavy eye shadow. If one looks closely; the eyes appear to be grey.

Background

When Masayoshi was younger, he was more calm and had developed an interest in dancing and singing, a passion he kept with himself through his life. In his high school years, Masayoshi would meet and soon develop a romantic relationship with a girl named Aikae] whom also enjoyed dancing.

However, a birth defect that Aikae had that only she and her parents knew caused her to become deathly ill and fall into a deep coma during a dance party. She was rushed to the hospital, with Masayoshi there to keep her company, sobbing relentlessly that evening. Once she was hospitalized, she woke up briefly in the hospital bed to try and communicate and share eyesight with Masayoshi, only being able to utter small noises before the signal went blank. Unable to do anything else, Masayoshi's tears intensified as he cried over Aikae's body, unable to stop.

Several days later, Aikae's family held a funeral for her, which Masayoshi attended with a huge bouquet of flowers in tow. He stayed long after the funeral's conclusion to witness the sun falling. The sky was slowly tinting itself red, with a rainfall starting. Masayoshi had fallen asleep in the rain, tired and out of energy from staring at Aikae's tombstone. The strange rainstorm caused Aikae's fiery spirit to rise and partially absorb itself into Masayoshi's body, granting him the pyrokinesis and flight abilities he has kept since.

Years later after leaving his home, depressed and lonely over the loss of his girlfriend and having his own personality worsen over time, Masayoshi was found by Saniko during her travels, who offered Masayoshi to stay with her in her personal hideout deep within the oriental woods, which Masayoshi agreed to.

At the age of 23, Masayoshi engaged in a long, heated battle against Aozora, which ended in a humiliating defeat despite Masayoshi's mystic powers. This resulted in a forced escort out of the arena by Saniko as well as starting Masayoshi's largest and most present grudge yet; one that had changed him mentally through absolute desperation to best Aozora in strength. This resulted in Masayoshi enrolling himself in self-training solo and with Saniko to learn stronger techniques, with some considerable success as years passed.

By the time Masayoshi turned 26, Saniko threw him the idea of the two going into a relationship with each other since they've been together for so long. While Masayoshi's past love for Aikae could never be matched, he took in Saniko's offer and the two declared each other boyfriend and girlfriend.

Throughout all this, the man's passion for dancing was at an all time high. Feeling a second wind, Masayoshi entered several musical and dancing tournaments across the land to make a name for himself, using his fiery powers and ability to levitate to wow and excite the audience and the competition. He was also offered a chance to perform in some music videos for different studios, which he took in with pride and soon found himself turning into a modest hit, seeking to produce a debut CD at some point. Even with all this happiness, he was as quick to anger as ever, and soon found himself only making more rivals on top of his lifelong grudge against Aozora.

Personality

In the present, Masayoshi is rude, cocky, loud, and arrogant. He is very quick to anger and believes most problems can only be solved by fighting, no matter how minuscule they are in the long run. He overreacts to scenarios as seriously as he can and acts out situations dramatically if he is provoked. If defeated in combat, it is likely Masayoshi will develop a grudge against anyone he is beaten by, always determined to have the last stand in the end.

Masayoshi is notable for smiling with a devilish grin when he has- or believes he has the upper hand when picking or engaging fights and executing his most powerful attacks.

Powers and Abilities

In combat, Masayoshi is a pyrokinetic with reddish-gray flames. His techniques include throwing embers from his hands and enclosing himself in a cylinder of fire to ward off enemies and their attacks. Masayoshi can levitate and fly at quick speeds and use it to his advantage for ambush attacks and evasive maneuvers.

Years later, Masayoshi gained the ability to sprout harsh but brief fires from the ground and enclose opponents inside his fire cylinders to trap them, and later on obtained the ability to create makeshift flame breath by blowing a flame ignited in front of his mouth and using friction to light himself on fire and charge into opponents at high speeds while leaving behind a trail if fire.

Gallery

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  Original concept sketch

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  Artwork with flames

Trivia

• Masayoshi was originally designed to use a long black sword named the Black Raven in his earliest concepts. The Black Raven was later removed as no ideas for its use were ever implemented, and Masayoshi would go on to exclusively use physical attacks and magic.

Characters