Hiro Watanabe

* Hiro Watanabe
* Shadouhāfu

**Hiro Watanabe**, also known by his split alter, **Shadouhāfu**, is troubled supe with a horrid split identity transformation. Secluded from society for years, he's back an associate with Private Investigator, Diane Davis.

## **Early Life:**

Hiro was to the Watanabe family, a poor family. As he was forming memories, Hiro finds himself getting abused by his uncle. Beating, whips, spanks, isolation, and injected with drugs (including secretly Compound V). But after a certain drug inject in him he was abused even worse.

## Personality:

### As Hiro:

Hiro is kind, gentle, and sweet man. He suffered immense trauma at by his uncle at young age. Despite experimented by Vought for years, he remain a good young man. But when due his "other half" Shadouhāfu, he refuses to touch anyone, fearing for their safety. After as killed a racist cop as Shadouhāfu, fearing he didn't deserve, he quit his surgical career into hiding in the woods. There he went most of his time self-loathing and surviving.

When he found out about Compound V, he figure out the drug that his uncle shot him up with that was it. He felt more like product of the abuse.

After being found by Diane Davis, he was hesitant to interaction, but due his isolation and talking personality, he couldn't talk to her. He couldn't believe that Diane, even if she's hostile to towards if even he turned into Shadouhāfu isn't afraid of him. He felt less alone, when he met Alvin. Together, him and Alvin confronted Diane and got to up with her issues. Hiro was showed alot of empathy towards despite her being mean to him.

While working cases, Hiro still was genius, his intelligent of hacking and medicine with the cases. To with his with self-loathing, he plays his signature harmonica.

Eventually getting info form Alvin and Diane, Hiro decided to with his other half and find a middle ground. He initially started through notes and recalls from the other members.

### **As Shadouhāfu:**

Shadouhāfu is a super violence, hostile, and angry side of Hiro. He's tough, normal use little words, and prone to violenece threatened. He refuses to back into the threaten is gone. After being tortured years, Shadouhāfu refuses the pain get to him. He takes over whenever Hiro feels threatened or endangered. Due viewing his action as self-dense of him and Hiro he has no remorse the people hurts or kills.

Shadouhāfu, really just care protecting Hiro the cruel and flawed world that already harmed them. While living in wilderness, Shadouhāfu hunts animals and kill them so he could feed their body. When Shadouhāfu was to speak more, All he could say is he does for Hiro. Shadouhāfu does compassion to other. At times, he finds hikers injured, he banages before they could regain consciousness. He felt leaves, not to wanting to talk to them.

## **Powers:**

**Form Switching:** Hiro's body could turn as its human form Hiro to it's monster form Shadouhāfu. It allow whatever clothes Hiro turn into Shadouhāfu's clothes. It allows Shadouhāfu's hat too.

* **Energy Conversion:** Eventually during through switching Hiro's sonic attack could become Shadouhāfu's shadow mist powers when he turns takes over. The same happens when Hiro takes over, where Shadouhāfu's shadow into Hiro's sonic powers .

### **As Hiro:**

* **Superhuman Durability:** Hiro could take alot blunt forces. He could metal desk and draw thrown at him. Survive fires and rumble. He managed Sam with a stun stick while he restrainting without knocked out himself, implying electricity doesn't work on him.
* **Sonokinetic-Blasts:** Hiro could blast sonic attacks. Either form his hands, feet or even his harmonica. His blast are so powerful deafen the other supes. He could sent Sam Riordan flying.

### **As Shadouhāfu:**

* **Indestructibility:** Similar to Jordan Li in their male form, Shadouhāfu is Indestructible. He could take bullets and firearm various authorites. He could handle punches even powerful supes like Sam Riordan.
* **Shadow Mist Creation:** Shadouhāfu could shoot out clouds of shadows. He could use blast people down and turn them into razors, and allow people to have safe landings. He could make a shadow mist with this power.

**Superhuman Strength:** Both Hiro and Shadouhāfu possess immense strength. Both could sent grown them flying. They both could punch Sam Riordan by 15 feet. Shadouhāfu hold back Sam to where he barely is able walk. They could estimated to on par Luke Riordan.

**Superhuman Speed:** Both Hiro and Shadouhāfu possess immense speed. Both could speed miles at time. He could hide from the Vought and police forces very quickly.

**Regenerative Factor Healing:** Both Hiro and Shadouhāfu possess immense healing factor. They're able heal from severe punches done by Sam Riordan.

## Abilities:

### **As Hiro:**

**Skilled Hacker:** As kid, Hiro learned about to hack systems. He was able Vought security when he was in their captivity. Despite being a gone for a long time, He still is a capable hacker.

**Skilled Physician:** Before secluding himself from society, Hiro was a third year surgical resident was top of his class. He could surgery in the fields of cardio, neuro, trauma, and ortho. He had been medical expert to Diane. Even after his seclusion, he still got his skills. He was able to stitch up the wounds of Sam Riordan

**Skilled Driver:** Despite, being secluded from society for long time, he was able still know how drive to a car. He could also drive trucks, boats, and helicopter, despite never learn.

**Bilingualism:** Hiro could his native Japanese along with English.

**Survival Skills:** Hiro managed survive 10 years in the woods, and find enough food and drink live, and a place to live. He could also understand nature and how it works.

**Skilled Musician:** Hiro proficient by playing with musical instruments as such piano, guitar, and his signature harmonica.

### **As Shadouhāfu:**

**Skilled Hand-To-Hand Combatant:** Shadouhāfu how to fight combatively. Shadouhāfu was fight trained supes students at Godolkin. He managed to hitsprecise blows on Sam Riordan.

**Marksmanship:** Shadouhāfu, despite knowing his hands as his primary weapons, Shadouhāfu knows how to shot gun. He was to disarms cops and shoot them with own guns.

**Psychic Resistance:** Shadouhāfu, an unstable, but protective himself and Hiro has the willpower to resistance mind control. He was able fight off the compulsion of Cate Dunlap.

**Skilled Medic:** Shadouhāfu, has shown on occasions to effectively treat and bandage up wounds. It's unknown it he got this from Hiro's knowledge.

## Weaknesses:

### **Psychological:**

#### **As Hiro:**

**PTSD:** Hiro had been for most of his childhood. From his uncle to Vought. He had witnessed of the corpse of death mother, after his half killed her. And with violence of Shadouhāfu does it amplified his fears. He gets flashbacks and nightmare of these traumas, part numbing on his body.

**Dissociative Identity Disorder:** Being one of two alters, Hiro has no control over Shadouhāfu, so he can't stop the violence that he does. He also doesn't have memories of what he does. So whatever he see he comes back is normally horrors he doesn't remember doing. But slowly Hiro is learning to work with Shadouhāfu

**Restraint:** With Shadouhāfu, being a dangerous person, Hiro takes cautious his powers, this makes him look the seeming very weak half of the two of them.

#### **As Shadouhāfu:**

**Dissociative Identity Disorder:** Being one of two alters, Shadouhāfu also to deal with Hiro switches. If Hiro strong emotions forcing Shadouhāfu back into the mind.

**Anger:** Due to Hiro's trauma, Shadouhāfu has immense towards the world. This causes his to perceive almost anything threat. But he's slowly learning how the world really work at times.

### **Biological:**

**Blunt Force/Limited Durability:** Despite having immense durability, especially as Shadouhāfu, it's limiited. Hiro could resist to bullet, but isn't bulletproof. As Shadouhāfu, was able to a bruise by Sam Riordan.

**High Frequencies:** Being a supes, both Hiro and Shadouhāfu has higher hearing than humans. Specific will cause they both pain like the other supes.

## Relationship:

### **Family:**

* Mr. Watanabe (Father, Estranged)
* Mrs. Watanabe (Mother, Deceased)
* Hayami Watanabe (Paternal Uncle, Deceased)

### **Allies:**

#### Reckoners- Friends/Teammates

* Diane Davis- Close Friend, Teammate
* Alvin Pierre- Close Friend, Teammate
* Jesús Ramirez- Frenemy, Teammate
* Dr. Aurora Baker- Close Friend, Teammate

Sam Riordan- Ally, Former Enemy

Cate Dunlap- Ally, Former Enemy

## **Trivia:**

Hiro is based the classic Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hyde. He's also based off Jason Blood and Etrigan the Demon