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==Profile== | ==Profile== | ||
===Appearance=== | ===Appearance=== | ||
The hero is a young man with short brown hair and hazel eyes. He wears a red tunic with white piping, tied together by a white waistband. He accompanies this outfit with a yellow | The hero is a young man with short brown hair and hazel eyes. He wears a red tunic with white piping, tied together by a white waistband. He accompanies this outfit with a yellow cloth around his shoulders and brown gloves. This cloth was worn by Genkaku in his youth and was passed down to the hero. | ||
Under his tunic the hero wears calve length black spats and high brown boots. He wears a golden circlet around his forehead, received as a child when [[Genkaku]] bought it for him at the first fair he had ever seen. The hero wields twin wooden tonfa as his weapon of choice, tipped with metal at both ends. | Under his tunic the hero wears calve length black spats and high brown boots. He wears a golden circlet around his forehead, received as a child when [[Genkaku]] bought it for him at the first fair he had ever seen. The hero wields twin wooden tonfa as his weapon of choice, tipped with metal at both ends. | ||
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His special skill is the Twintooth, which allows him to knock bombs and opponents away by spinning his tonfa. | His special skill is the Twintooth, which allows him to knock bombs and opponents away by spinning his tonfa. | ||
==Concept and Design== | |||
[[File:Hero II concept art.png|220px|thumb|left|Hero concept art by [[Ishikawa Fumi]]]]Originally the hero was designed to wield a staff, much like the [[Hero (Suikoden)|hero of the first game]]. However, this was changed during development so as not to create a tradition that all main characters in the series would use staffs. The decision to use tonfa specifically was made after much research into Chinese martial arts books. | |||
Early in development, the hero's circlet was also envisioned as a hachimaki, a Japanese headband, but was eventually changed after [[Ishikawa Fumi]] drew him with a Sun Wukong-type headband after a joking suggestion from a colleague. His red outfit was a deliberate attempt to remind the player of the main character from [[Suikoden]]. | |||
The inclusion of [[Nanami]] as his elder sister was intended to ground the hero as more of a "commoner" in contrast to the "young master" of the first game. His reserved personality was also designed to be overshone by his childhood friends. | |||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
# [[Genso Suikoden II 108 Stars Character Guide]] (ISBN 4-88317-769-6), | # [[Genso Suikoden II 108 Stars Character Guide]] (ISBN 4-88317-769-6), pages 42, 84-5 | ||
# [[Genso Suikoden Genso Shinsho Vol.1]] (ISBN 4-88317-796-3), pages 32-59 | |||
# [[Marugoto! Genso Suikoden Book]] (ISBN 978-4-7577-3673-3), page 40 | # [[Marugoto! Genso Suikoden Book]] (ISBN 978-4-7577-3673-3), page 40 | ||
# [[Genso Suikoden Encyclopaedia]] (ISBN 4-575-16297-3), pages 174-175 | # [[Genso Suikoden Encyclopaedia]] (ISBN 4-575-16297-3), pages 174-175 | ||