Minato Alejandro

**Minatou Alejanrou** (ミナト アレハンドロ *Minatō Alejandrō*) is a third-year student who strived to be great in the soccer category of sports. With this drive in mind, it caused him to join Project Blue Lock and play football with his *ex-lover*.

## Appearance

Minato is a fairly light-skinned man with a semi-tall figure. He possesses feminine facial features similarly to Chigiri Hyoma and Kaiser Natako with thin-narrow eyebrows. His underlashes are more exposed and his hair reaches down his chest and eyes that look to be in the shape of ovals. Due to his feminine appearance, he has hair that twists at he top in which letting the rest of his hair stay. He has a quite slim and athletic figure which makes him more agile and quick.

## Personality

Minato is seen as a total *madman* as his creepy and senseless behavior scares off everyone he comes into contact with. Due to this mistreatment, Minato began to developing *a monster* inside of him. This monster was said to be the only thing that kept Minato from going insane. Due to this, Minato soon linked with the monster inside of him and made an unknown promise with it. Excluding from his monstrous and crazy personality, he seems to be an overall and generally goofy and careless guy, seemingly doing and seeing everything as a gag for his enjoyment and most likely others entertainment.

## Abilities

### Archetype

* **Dribbler:** Dribblers are players known for their close ball control ability that is used to go past defenders by sudden change of direction and acceleration sometimes combined with great pace. The skill is used to create opportunities for other attackers or to score themselves having broken through the opposition's defense using what is sometimes referred to as "trickery". One of the great spectator sights in football is a player going on a "mazy run" with the ball, twisting and turning to avoid opposition tackles, beating a number of players. Minato's ultimate weapon is his footwork and ball control wherein which he can easily break through multiple defenders with his confusing feints and dribble techniques. Due to this, he has adapted a new way of dribbling, he calls it his *Monstrous Dribbling* due to his plays when dribbling are all prioritized by the monster within him, he says. His dribbles are so advanced to the point where he doesn't have to pay attention to what his feet are doing with the ball and just let his body flow in a soothing rhythm.

* ***Libero*:** The libero or sweeper is a more versatile type of defender that sweeps up the ball if the opponent manages to break the defensive line. Their position is rather more fluid than other defenders who mark their designated opponents. Sweepers are usually faster than that of the other players on the team, and are built slightly smaller than the others. The sweeper's ability to read the game is even more vital than for a center-back; they also are usually confident on the ball and possess good passing and vision as they are often responsible for starting plays from the backline. Minato can use his movements and agility when positioned on the defensive line, and, once he gets the ball, Minato is able to freely choose if he either wants to dribble and score or pass to a teammate and let them score.

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### Skills

**Advanced Ball Control:** As a dribbler, Minato has to keep up with his footwork and control over the ball or else he won't be able to perform advanced dribbling techniques. Due to this, he has trained to master his craft by controlling the ball in his own way in order to use his high-level and advanced dribble techniques. After his match with Natako’s national team, Minato has improved his ball control skills tremendously. Minato has shown to focus his vision on his surroundings more than the ball and let his instincts control the way of the ball.

* **First-Touch Pass:** When Minato is given the ball, he can quickly launch an incredible accurate and fast first-touch pass when he is able to and has enough range to pass to a teammate.
* **Hyperspeed Flick:** As Minato continues his footwork, he maintains his vision mainly on his surroundings, keeping his awareness at maximum. Minato attempts to calculate an opening which allows him to release a hyper speed and unpredictable flick pass to teammate, this was enough to easily get pass and break Natako’s defense.

**Creative Dribbling:** Minato's primary weapon is his footwork, ball control, adaptability, dribbling, creativity, and talents all into one weapon. He uses his creativity to the extreme to the point where professional worldwide players like Natako can't predict his dribbles due to their randomization and creativity behind this. Due to this, Minato is able to effortlessly fly across the field and easily get past and break opposing players defense.

* **Crossing Feint:** Minato puts his vision onto an opponent as if he were to pass, but, at the last second, he will feint out of the opposing players vision which gives him enough time to whip a cross to a teammate.

* **Hyperspeed Scissors:** Minato performs a scissor feint at incredible speed, making it hard to follow.

* **Marseille Turn:** Minato stops the ball with the outside of his foot, shielding the ball from his opponent, before performing a roulette to turn past them.

* **Rainbow Flick:** Minato places the ball right between his feet, so that it's centered with the middle of his body, then he uses his dominant foot to roll the ball up his opposite leg, causing the ball to land on his dominant foot as he then kicks the ball with his heel which allows it to fling over a defenders head, breaking their defense

* **Nutmeg:** Minato dribbles the ball directly between an opposing players legs, easily getting past them and their defense.
	+ **Cross Elastico Nutmeg:** Minato performs an elastico but by crossing the ball behind his dominant leg before knocking it between his opponent's legs using his non-dominant foot.
	+ **Elastico Nutmeg:** Minato performs a regular elastico to nutmeg a defender and go past them.

* **Drag Scissors:** Minato performs a scissor feint to shift his opponent's center of gravity, before explosively rushing forward to break past them.

**Off-the-Ball Movements:** Minato is able to use his movements both defensively and offensively; through using his movements he can position himself to intercept a pass or block a shot, or, he can use his movements to receive passes and use his surroundings as an advantage.

* **Stealthy Steps:** By combining his off the ball motion with his great agility, Minato is able to swiftly move around opponents without them knowing, allowing him to move without detection and create a play with a teammate.

**Flow State:** Flow, as described by Ego, is the state of "total immersion" or "being in the zone". It is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. Minato's flow is more 'monstrous' or 'fear inducing' due to his flow state triggering his monster within and fueling its drive to go crazy with little to no consequences or drawbacks, meaning, Minato is able to combine his creativity, imagination, and his monster within to completely demolish the opposing team with his more aggressive playstyle and his creativity going beyond what he could normally do.

* **Monstrous Flick:** Minato can perform a audacious heel-flick to the ball which gives the ball enough airtime for Minato to trap it with his foot.

* **Egoistical Style:** Similarly to Bachira, Minato refuses to pass the ball and chooses to dynamically pass through defenders on his own. If his team won't rise to his imagination and expectations, then he'll have no reasoning to have them in his plays and be worth of his passes until they do so. Minato has shown to have evolved to a new level in terms of teamwork and dribbling. Minato’s dribbling is more oppressive as his teammates have to adapt to how his dribbling works out and how he’ll play. He showed his growth by seeming as if he were to pass alone before he managed to pass via nutmegging an opposing player blocking him and allowing his teammate to follow up with a assisted shot.
	+ **2-Stage Double-Feint:** Minato gets into positioning as if he were to pass or shoot, but, if his teammates aren't going beyond his imagination and expectations, he'll act as if he were to shoot before he feints the ball. But, if his teammates do live up to his imagination he'll make it seem as if he were to cross the ball to a teammate before he feints the ball. After his first feint, Minato can follow up with a second-feint which'll allow him to get in the open and away from opposing players and create a play if needed.
	+ **Dance of the Monster:** When dribbling, Minato relies on his imagination and monster take control of his actions. With this, Minato says the experience when in Flow State feels like as if he were at a dance and letting off a great performance in which is his monster and imagination going wild and doing the performance for him.

## Etymology

* His given name, **Minato** (みなと) means "port, harbor" which reflects his main positioning which is his side of the field.
* surname **Alejandro** (アレハンドロ) carries the meaning of "defender of humankind" due to him being mainly defense until he gets the ball.

## Trivia

* Majority of this information is from the official Egoist Bible.
	+ Before blue lock, he has had only one relationship, which was with Natako.
	+ His ancestors were all German, but, his mother being Japanese and Hispanic, he is of German, Hispanic, and Japanese descent.

## Editor's Note

He's still WIP, I just had to get the stuff I feel like doing out for later when I'm done resting