Yuma Suou

Yuma Suou (, Suō Yūma), born Yuma Aramaki (, Aramaki Yūma), is a character featured in Lost Judgment. He is a third-year student at Seiryo High School and the leader of the daredevil motorcycle gang, Made in Heaven.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Suou is a tall young man who changes his appearance drastically depending on who he's with. While at home or at school, he wears his regulation Seiryo High School uniform in a tidy way and he keeps his short, black hair very neatly combed. When he's hanging out with the members of his motorcycle gang, he puts on a long, blonde wig and wears a stark white jacket and pants combo, where the jacket is emblazoned with golden pegasus images at the shoulders; overall, his disguise makes him resemble Reiji Murasaki, the former leader of Made in Heaven.
=== Personality ===
Suou is a born thrill-seeker who took up motocross competitions since his early teens, under the stewardship of his father. However, due to the hatred of extreme sports his mother acquired after her divorce from Suou's father, Suou has given up on motocross and adopted a strict, rule-abiding persona in order to please his mother, whom he loves very dearly. His rule enforcement was so strict that he would even target the most delinquent students that others feared.
After a couple of years of pretending to be a stickler for the rules, however, his love for daredevil stunts prompted him to join a motorcycle gang in secret. Despite this, his strict adherence to rules from his public persona seems to have taken root within him, since even while leading his motorcycle gang, he is still insistent on its members following the one rule the group had: "Whoever rules the road, writes the rules".
Suou is noted to be a good student and sharp-witted, quickly catching on a connection between the disappearance of Kotoko Itokura and nearly all the the students Takayuki Yagami called in for help to find her are linked to their former festival committee and to his investigation on the "Professor".
== Background ==
In his early teens, Yuma Aramaki started participating in amateur motocross competitions under the tutelage of his father, a professional motocross champion. The extreme sport quickly became his biggest passion, but his participation in it was short-lived. His parents had a messy divorce after his father cheated on his mother, after which he went to live with his mother and took her maiden name to be known as Yuma Suou. As she hated everything to do with her former husband so much, she forbade Suou from participating in motocross competitions. Out of love for his emotionally vulnerable mother, Suou agreed.
Afterwards, in order to distance himself from the sport, Suou became an incredibly strict, rule-abiding person. He joined his school's Student Discipline Committee and he rigorously imposed the school's code of conduct on other students, seeking to deny them the fun that he couldn't have himself. Because of this strict personality, it made him a liability for Kotoko Itokura when she was organizing the school festival which led it being a total disaster.
During his senior year of high school, Suou received a letter from an anonymous source that some of the school's students had joined a motorcycle gang called Made in Heaven. Despite the temptation that confronting this gang represented, Suou went to confront the gang members to get them to throw out the Seiryo students who'd joined the gang. After speaking with the gang's leaders, he decided to race against them, demanding that they expel the students from the gang if he won. Much to the surprise of the bikers, Suou easily defeated all of them. However, after this new brush with extreme motorsports, Suou could not return to his façade of being a disciplinarian anymore and instead of following through with his original demands, he opted to join the gang as their new leader, having performed his ascension in a single night.
== Involvement ==
=== Lost Judgment: 2021 ===
Kyoko Amasawa of Seiryo High's Mystery Research Club started investigating a sinister criminal mastermind known as "The Professor", who'd been encouraging several of the school's students to participate in various illegal activities. One of those students is Suou, since the anonymous source who'd told him about the Seiryo students in Made in heaven had likely been the Professor. To save Suou before he gets into trouble or got killed, Amasawa asks her club's advisor, Takayuki Yagami, to infiltrate the gang and convince Suou to leave.
Yagami infiltrates the gang, where he learns that the only way he could get Suou to leave would be to challenge him for the gang's leadership and then dissolve it. However, challenging the leader requires him to beat the leaders of all of the gang's factions. Yagami goes on to achieve this, gradually beating Suou's lieutenants, Junpei Hanasaki, Rina Minagawa and Ghost, to get the opportunity to challenge Made in Heaven's leader.
Yagami and Suou compete against each other in a long and difficult race, which ends with Yagami as the victor. After Yagami announces his intention to dissolve the gang, Suou attacks him, since he refuses to go back to his life as a boring, rule-abiding student. However, Kotaro Seyama intervenes and convinces Suou that his participation in gang-life was dangerous and that he should instead be honest with his mother about his dreams to get her to let him do motocross again. Suou agrees and, with help from Yagami, Seyama, and all his friends from the biker gang, he has an honest talk with his mother, who eventually agrees to let him do motocross once more. No longer having the need for dangerous street racing, Suou agrees to disband Made in Heaven. He then informs Amasawa of the letter informing him of the student bikers.
When Yagami calls several students to find Itokura, Suou notices a potential connection between her and the Professor, causing him to realize the former committee members are facing the consequences of their actions. He gathers Made in Heaven once more to assist in finding her, and to stop Koga from calling in reinforcements. After Koga is defeated, Made in Heaven gather to stop him from escaping, but he escapes by jumping into the sea.
The students all return to campus, and Itokura apologizes what she did as the Professor. She intends to drop out of Seiryo High to atone, but Suou states she is to thank for him being able to race again, and that he is also responsible for her actions, as he was one of the members who abandoned her. The other students saying their part persuades Itokura to stay.
==Gallery==
LJ - Headshot - Yuma Suou.jpg|Suou's headshot in Lost Judgment
LJ - Headshot - Yuma Suou (Student).png|Suou's headshot as a student
== See also ==
*Biker Gang
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Made in Heaven
Category:Seiryo High School
Category:Lost Judgment Characters