Yu (The Boxer)

Yu is the main protagonist of the webcomic manhwa series, The Boxer. He is the undefeated boxing champion, despite his young age.
==Appearance==
Yu has a very dark and melancholy appearance, with unstyled jet-black hair that drapes down loosely on his head, distinctively coal-black eyes with even darker pupils and a wholly disinterested facial expression painted on his face with an equally 'dead' look in his eyes. He has a very skinny body which belies his deceptively athletic abilities. After being taken under K's wing, the latter re-styles Yu's hair into a spiked style (in a typical shōnen protagonist style). After training with K for two years to become a pro-boxer, Yu has put lean muscle on his skinny frame. Furthermore, after another roughly 2-3 years, Yu has gained much more muscle mass, and seemingly chanaged his physical body structure. Prior to the events of reaching heavyweight, Yu was seemingly an ectomorph, someone who was very slim with a thin body structure. However, with his intense training, he has grown to seem like he has a very muscular mesomorph body structure.
==Personality==
Yu has a startlingly emotionless and disinterested persona, taking little to no interest in anything other than his pet cat. He is shown to be alarmingly apathetic, simply taking hits because he couldn't be bothered to dodge them and giving zero response when threatened by an obviously vicious person. However, after his encounter with K and then seeing Injae trying to fight Ryu Baeksan, he gains an interest in boxing after asking whether hitting people was fun. Yu seems to not understand how to experience the concept of living and what it means to be human.
==Gallery==
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==Powers and Abilities==
Yu is a deceptively athletic individual. It was revealed that he was actually pretty good at sports during PE tests, but he would sit them out because he found it boring. He demonstrate his hidden athletic and reflexes prowess shortly after a conversation with Injae as he nonchalantly catches a ball midair with one hand that Ryu Baeksan had kicked at Injae's head.
===Physical Abilities===
*Inhuman Temporal Perception: Yu's greatest trait is his seemingly superhuman accelerated perception and the kinetic vision that accompanies it. When K first tested him by throwing a one-hit kill punch from behind, not only was Yu able to easily evade the strike in the minimal amount of time but was also able to casually track K's fist with his eyes as he did so; by K's own admission, it is not simply a matter of reaction time but more accurate that Yu lives in his own "dimension of time". 
**Inhuman Eyesight: Yu is able to instantly react to strikes and evade them with minimal effort just by looking at them, even from those of incredible fighting prowess in their own right.
*Enhanced Strength: While he has a slim looking appearance, Yu is able to deliver incredbile powerful punches capable of severe damage in addition to being able to knock out professional boxers with a single blow. He has been shown punching holes into his heavy bags, destroying several in the process.
*Immense Speed & Agility: Like his strength, Yu has superhuman speed and agility to the point that professional boxers aren't able to see his punches approaching and only when they perceive the punch after being hit. Even a world-class boxer like Jean-Pierre Manuel had difficulty in avoiding Yu's speed, only avoiding a few. His agility combined with his inhuman perception makes it almost impossible for anyone to hit him by dodging punches even by world-class boxers.
*Enhanced Stamina: Armed with a great reserve of physical energy, Yu improved it by training his stamina for two whole years in a row to prepare for professional fights, managing to dodge non-stop in a fight and managing to deliver a burst of consecutive punches without showing hints of fatigue.
*Pain Immunity: Through his tragedy, Yu lost his ability to feel pain when his school bullies tried to hurt him but he recovers quickly. When he took Ryu's punches, he doesn't even hurt him either even though he has bruises and blood all over him.
*Intimidation: After his encounter with the young high school student, the grizzled K remarked he could feel the bloodcurdling fear after meetint Yu despite having no formal training in the boxing (or any martial arts) and Ryu being touted as having the world-class boxing potential by K himself.
===Fighting Style===
*Expert Boxer: Yu has raw inhuman boxing talents as he defeated his school's bullies without any efforts, easily defeating Ryu Baeksan without even getting injured. He can catch his opponents' speed effortlessly. And after spending two years doing only physical strengthening training and watching title match videos of boxing champions, Yu was still able to show prodigious skill in his debut boxing match as during his fight with John Taker, he was able to throw a flurry of ridiculously fast jabs so precise that when the ring doctor checked the cuts made on John's face, he was left in awe at how neat the cuts were, despite being made with boxing gloves.
**Parry: Thanks to his perception, Yu has a great habit of dodging, managing to follow the trajectory of his opponents' punches and deflect with relative ease.
**Precision: Thanks to his perception, Yu can punch with incredible precision and dexterity, being able to change the trajectory of his blows while delivering them and ensuring that the hit causes the greatest amount of possible damage, even managing to injure another boxer striking the weakest part of his fist with the strongest part.
==Relationships==
*K (teacher)
*Injae (close friend)
*Carmen 
==Trivia==
*Yu's full name is unknown with him remembering it as "유◯◯" when asked by K.
*He trains under K at the Lions Boxing Club gym.
*Yu may have a mental condition called tachypsychia. Tachypsychia is a neurological condition that distorts the perception of time, usually induced by physical exertion, drug use, or a traumatic event.
*Yu and Riku Azami from Rikudou share various similarities between each other.
**Both are professional boxers.
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