#hero's work

Me: Actually, now you hallucinate that eyes are looking at you and hands are trying to strangle you because you're trying to hold your human form together while your paranoia grows of being caught.

Sou: ...What the fuck? Wasn't this supposed to be a comedy?

“It’s not that I want to kill you, but I can’t trust that you’ll stay quiet as long as I can.”

Kosaku is one of the main protagonists in More Than Just. His motivation in Corona Academy is known to be someone who can stop whatever comes to them, attacking both villains and heroes alike if they impede his day... but because that obviously won’t get him any praises, he simply says it’s just to say he went to the school for colleges. His appearance is always pointed out as resembling an adult due to his facial structure and his style of wearing only suits no matter what.

Due to his vindictive and almost sadistic nature from dealing with enemies or just simple revenge at times (The only time happening was the incident seen in the Prologue), he became deemed as a villain and only drove those that antagonized him into an obsessive point after unintentionally causing three of his classmates (a minor group of antagonists) to be demoted a class down.

Backstory

Kosaku’s never really been a big fan of heroes as other kids his age were, but nonetheless, he was generally nice and friendly and noticeably a hard worker that always did just a little extra in whatever he did from cleaning the classroom by himself when no one volunteered or cleaning his own room so his mom doesn’t. In school, he wasn’t very noticeable but he had one friend by the name of Iwa, a small and meek Granitosian with the Ability to have chains extend his fists from his wrists and as they grew closer, Kosaku was always impressed by Iwa’s Ability and further down (as in a week), Kosaku was nicknamed as “Yen” by him due to his fascination with money and business. However, when he was four and no signs of Abilities coming from his mom or dad were present, he was diagnosed with Inability. Kosaku accepted this fact of life and decided to be a salaryman like his father... or that's what it seemed like.

Some time through his isolation, he developed an Action Figure (or Figure, for short) that was the closest thing that he called a friend. It didn’t have an Ability like him but it started to develop its own through Kosaku’s interest in business suits, money, and vengeance.

A unique trait of him is his naturally blond hair and purplish eyes. When diagnosed by a doctor, it’s mysteriously unrelated to an Ability but neither of his parents has that hair or eye color. When he gets more serious than people think he can be, his hair and eyes darken.

Personality

Kosaku is commonly cold and calculative, especially when it comes to revenge or just to oppose heroes in general. His very motivation of becoming a villain is to bring the heroes “down a peg”, pointing out their superiority complex and their mindset of unopposable force. He always has a plan in mind when doing things, but however, he’s the person to think everything is set in stone. Whenever something goes wrong for him, he gets stressed and his nose can slowly bleed with the only way he finds comforting is eating cheap fast food, commonly in large amounts. A flaw Kosaku has is his twisted but blunt philosophy, he hates dealing with things that cause him unnecessary stress or can ruin his day or plans, and so he erases the source from the start similar to nipping it at the bud, which makes him think that the only way out is to get an upper hand on other people. He has a large distrust to most people unless he has a hunch that tells him otherwise, resulting him in driving opponents he’s already “defeated” into a corner and killing them off as he can’t trust anybody to keep a secret of how powerful he is.

Outside of fighting, Kosaku is generally friendly and acts relatively normal, working on his schoolwork at a regular rate and sometimes being the best in his class with his grades being C to A. His friends, Rohan and Tenmei enjoy being around him and they feel somewhat safer around him due to being the only new years of class A-1

He’s described as someone you forgot ever existed or remember until the day you died.

Living Nightmare - Sheer Power

Living Nightmare is an Action Figure belonging to Kosaku. It has a unique Ability known as “Inner Hero”, it allows Kosaku to emit a dark light full of energy out of his hands and fingertips and whatever person they make with someone from a slap or a strike, the energy inside will instantly transfer in their body and the immense energy will destroy them from the inside without leaving any external injuries.

Trivia:

He’s heavily based off Yoshikage Kira from Diamond is Unbreakable.

His Action Figure is based off the Stand, C-Moon in terms of appearance.

Sou Senotakai is the main protagonist of Hero’s Work: Less Than Super, the first novel of the Hero’s Work series. He is a student of Corona Academy who has a very materialistic philosophy without any regard for true justice. He bears the Action Figure, Octo Blues which allows him to grow at least a total of eight additional limbs in combination with his previous Ability of four additional arms or legs.

Backstory

Sou has a very mixed history regarding his origin, he’s the half-brother of the Senotakai’s and it’s unknown what his mother’s maiden name was. Sou only mentions that his mother is sick and hospitalized and that is why he lives with his father and his half-brothers. He says that he was primarily raised by his mother for a large amount of his childhood until he became thirteen where he manifested an Ability and he soon had to start living by himself but due to his mother’s extreme wealth he soon grew up to have a very unrestricted and self-spoiled life.

It’s implied that his mother is a rare fictional arctic albino octopus that his dad actually had sex with. Sou hints it with his skewed phrase: “Money’s like water to me, I practically live in it.” along with him saying only one of his ears have an indent in them while the other is completely smooth like an octopus’s fin. A possible source of his wealth could be the grant money given to him from the researchers who study his mom when Sou was found in the northern regions of Taiyoza.

Personality

Sou’s personality can be described as being the very living example of Material Girl by Madonna. His living makes him treat money like water: he has to live in it and he has to always use it. Most of the times he can come off as insensitive when he doesn’t listen to others when he literally buys something they’ve always wanted in their life or just when his face is always stuck in that “apathetic” look on him. However, he isn’t a bad guy, he cares for his friends, especially with Anai and Naomi (platonically and romantically, respectively) and doesn’t even care how much A-1 or B-1 brag about them being the supposed better class to them as he could easily break their jaws with his signature “Triple Sucker Punch”. It’s shown that he has a very avoidant personality as due to his own richness and the advice from his father and mother, he became distrusting of those who know of his true wealth which brought him into the interest of wearing high end fashion lines that merely look like street clothes to the untrained eye like tank tops, flip hats, and surgical masks.

Interestingly, Sou has a common habit of starting his sentences with words that rhyme with his name (commonly, “So...”, “Yo...”, “Oh...”, “Bro...”)

Octo Blues - Living DJ-ing Machine

Octo Blues is Sou’s Action Figure, it was manifested when Sou was turning six out of the combination of his mom’s octopus body and his dad’s shapeshifting Ability and his wish to always protect his mom. The Figure turned Sou into a humanoid form and allowed him to change the number of limbs he had and even shoot out ink from his nose or mouth. It takes the appearance of a black mannequin-like body with several arms, a pair of shutter shades with clothes similar to Sou’s and “hair” consisting of four long and curled brown tentacles with a cross-like scar on the one covering its right “eye”.

Trivia

He’s based off Mezo Shoji in terms of appearance from My Hero Academia

He never told any adults about his dad’s bestiality.

He simply wears a mask to hide his silver grill from his dad, nothing else to hide but that.

He was born on October 8th, 1980.

Anai and Takanori are probably the only characters I actually originally came up with, I always had a soft spot for cynical and straight-laced characters that had their own type of comedy to them.