Jay Kidman

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## Jay Kidmanジェイ・キッドマン

* Uniform
* Hero

## Hard-working Legendary Hero苦労多きレジェンドヒーロー

### Substance

**Lord of Million:**
Possesses superhuman-like power

### Color

#B79008

## Actors

### Stage Actor

Juri Aikawa (寿里)

**Jay Kidman** is a mentor in the East Sector.

A veteran superhero who has been one for many years. A cheerful and honest man who prioritizes the wellbeing of New Million's citizens above anything else.
Both his popularity and strength are above any and all, and despite this fact, he prefers being seen as an equal to the next generation rather than being seen as an almighty superior.

He has a 9-year-old son from a previous marriage who he rarely sees as he lives with his ex-wife.
He was also Keith and Brad's ex-mentor.

## Appearance

Jay is a tall, well-built man. He has light brown that touches the back of his neck, with parted bangs and a neatly trimmed goatee. He has thick eyebrows and honey brown eyes. He lost his right arm due to an accident while on the job, and wears a highly advanced metal prosthetic arm from the shoulder down.

He is most often seen wearing the typical uniform for heroes of Helios, a dark gray long-sleeved dress shirt outfitted with breast pockets, a black collar, and a black stripe running down the sides of the arms from the shoulder all the way down to the black cuffs. As a Major Hero, his shoulder straps bear three gold stripes, and he wears a Major Hero medal, a gold rectangular emblem with four stars inside, along with a Helios emblem, a pentagon symbol with three wing-like protrusions on the left and right sides. The uniform also consists of black slacks, with two gray diagonal stripes near the bottom hem of the left leg. Jay wears a black tie, a brown belt with a silver buckle, and dark blue dress shoes with a black outsole and a gray toe cap and heel. He also wears a solid black hand glove over his prosthetic right hand. For his winter uniform, he throws a black bomber jacket over this ensemble.

When he changes into his hero outfit, he wears the Helios training uniform, a black and gray bodysuit, underneath yellow armor pieces around his neck, on his shoulder, his right arm, and over his chest and back. There are glowing blue rectangular accents along the bottom of his breastplate and shoulders, three glowing blue stripes on his right forearm, and glowing blue triangles on the knuckles of his left hand. There is also a glowing blue symbol on his back, bearing the insignia of his Substance, Lord of Million. His prosthetic right hand is in clearer display, with yellow stripes showing between the artificial joints of his knuckles, and a glowing blue circle on the palm of his hand. A thick yellow stripe comes down either side of Jay’s torso, tapering down into a thin line that disappears past his knee-high boots. The boots themselves are solid black, with various symmetrical yellow stripes adorning them. He wears a yellow bracelet on his left arm, as well as a dark gray belt with a yellow and gray buckle.

For his casual wear, Jay puts on a pale blue t-shirt, a yellow jacket, and black knee-length shorts with a white stripe down the side. His shirt displays the words “HAPPY FISH” in a thin dark green font, with a simple and cartoonish outline of a fish underneath. The jacket has a black collar, black trim on the bottom, and a black stripe going from the shoulder to the black cuffs, as well as a diagonal stripe sloping downwards from the trim of the zipper. The trim of the zipper is black, as well as the trim along the outer pockets. He wears black ankle socks and dark green sneakers with black shoelaces. He also wears the same black hand glove over his prosthetic hand in this outfit.

## Personality

Jay, in many ways, embodies the core ideals of a superhero; he is cheerful, courageous, humble, kind, and above all dutiful. To be a hero is everything to Jay, and it is not something he has achieved without sacrifice. He's a man incapable of separating his work and personal lives, which ultimately caused the failure of his marriage.

While he does struggle with his intimate relationships, Jay is a very outgoing person. His personality is bright, bold and endearing. He's talkative, and can easily dominate a conversation without realizing it. He also tends to talk to himself, rambling whenever the mood seems to strike him. He is quite meddlesome, often trying to involve himself in the problems of others even against better judgement. When trying to reach out to people, he is willing to try all sorts of new things to gain their trust. Jay is also quite gullible, and scatterbrained at times. When told something new (often relating to technology and social media, two things he is no good with), he is quick to accept the information at face value. Jay is quite open with his flaws, often to the point of self-deprecation. He is quick to air out his problems, his regrets, his doubts, but ironically rarely asks for the help of others. And while honest with his flaws, Jay is also resigned to them, tending to be much less proactive in fixing his problems than he is in helping other people with theirs.

As a hero, Jay lives by the philosophy of justice versus force; "justice without force is powerless, and force without justice is tyrannical." To him, finding the right balance between these is what a true hero should strive to achieve. However, despite his preaching, justice and force are two things he struggles to find balance with the most. He has too much of both, and it has caused him to deal with a great deal of isolation growing up. That isolation didn't bother him, he was used to working alone, but because of it he tends to doubt his own ability to teach others the importance of teamwork. While he has mellowed out after many years of being a hero, Jay still has a tendency to not only be too forceful, but also too harsh in his justice. He is unforgiving of any wrongdoing, and is willing to butt heads with his own allies if he believes they are committing misdeeds or harming innocent people. Yet, his sense of justice tends to waver when it comes to the people closest to him, and he is willing to show forgiveness and compassion to those he believes are good at heart.

## History

Jay came to HELIOS as part of the 7th Generation eighteen years ago, becoming a rookie when he was nineteen years old. Before then, Jay had dreamed of becoming a hero his entire life, and as a child often invited his friends to “play hero” with him. However, because of his overzealous sense of justice, he often persecuted his friends over what he perceived as the slightest wrongdoings, causing them to cut off ties with Jay and leave him friendless, playing hero by himself.

Even before being a hero, Jay had possessed remarkable strength for as long as he could remember. That combined with his overwhelming sense of justice had left him isolated from others starting from his childhood, throughout his years at the Academy, and even into his early years at Helios. Because of this, despite teamwork being the status quo of the current HELIOS, Jay primarily acted alone as a hero. It was during this time, when he was around twenty years old, that a substance caused an earthquake and subsequent collapse of a building in Central. Jay went to help the trapped and injured when a second earthquake got his right arm trapped under some rubble. Choosing to save those in need first, Jay sacrificed his own arm to rescue the remaining citizens, including the boss of a local mafia organization, whom he later became friendly acquaintances with.

Nine years after first joining HELIOS, with the recent emergence of Eclipse setting a new precedent for teamwork between heroes, Jay became the mentor of three 10th Generation rookies; Brad, Keith, and Dino. Somewhere before this he had gotten married to his (now ex) wife, and his son had recently been born. Despite this, Jay spent most of his time at work taking care of his rookies, neglecting personal and family time to the point Keith himself felt weighted down with the guilt of being responsible for Jay spending so little time with his family. A few years later, tired of this behavior, Jay’s wife left him and took custody of their son.

After mentoring the Miracle Trio, Jay continued on as a hero for Red South. When the 13th Generation rolled around, Jay found himself assigned as a mentor for the second time in his life, this time under the Green East banner, along with Asch, and their rookies Billy and Gray.

## Trivia

* Jay is currently the oldest active hero at HELIOS.
* Jay highly values personal hygiene, and often preaches a clean appearance as one of the core essentials of being a hero.
	+ Despite this, Jay is notoriously bad with household chores, often leaving his laundry all over the place.
* Jay's casual wear t-shirt is likely a reference to Happy Element's debut game, *Happy Fish*, a fish-raising Facebook game released in 2009. A big success, it was one of the top 10 social games on Facebook, reaching nearly 2.4 million daily active users worldwide.
* He becomes affectionate and clingy when intoxicated.
* Junior’s father, a now-retired 1st Generation hero, was a mentoring figure to Jay during his youth at Helios.
* According to himself, Jay's signature (and only) dish is curry.
* During his rookie days, firearm training was mandatory within Helios, so he has skills when it comes to using guns.
* At one point, HELIOS conducted anti-brainwashing training, but discontinued it once it proved to be too difficult to continue. Jay was one of the only heroes able to endure that training with any results, and later uses it to undo his brainwashing that occurs in Wondrous Christmas Carol.
* Akira mistakenly identifies Jay as the hero that saved him from a burning building when he was fourteen, a fact Jay himself later dispels.
* In The hero is a detective!? it is revealed that a civilian, a former comedian and current circus clown, that looks exactly like Jay lives in New Million. While that man is unfortunately weak and cowardly, causing problems for Jay’s reputation, up to and including arrest, he is also shown to have quite a few similarities to Jay, including having a young son.
* Jay has a fear of dogs, stemming from when he was bit by a chihuahua as a child. Despite this, he often tries to be friendly with Gray’s dog, Buddy, even offering to walk him despite his nerves.
	+ Ironically, in Jay’s 1st Anniversary story, Jay’s son becomes interested in getting a dogーa chihuahuaーand Jay blames it on some sort of divine punishment for neglecting his family.