Uchan Kim

**Uchan Kim** (김우찬; *Kim Oochan*) is a promising young psyker in Gadam and is the tritagonist of Villain to Kill. He is the eldest son of the Kim psyker family. He goes to Gadam High School and apprentices under Daewung Lee. He lives with his little sister Naeun Kim. As a fellow fire attribute psyker, he greatly admires Cassian Lee, and considers him as his role model.

Uchan has been credited with many of Cassian's victories, and operates as a foil for Cassian.

## Appearance

Uchan is tall and is commonly described as handsome. He has red hair, and wears two earrings: a ring and a dangling black cross. Like his sister, he has blue eyes. He has a mole under his right eye. He rarely smiles, but instead his face is often set in a moue.

He will often have his hands in his pants pockets.
Uchan is usually seen wearing red and black clothing with white accents. His psyker clothes include a red hoodie over a tight black shirt with red lines, and has a Lampas symbol on its back.He wears black gloves with them when on duty.

At school, Uchan wears a tie. A white button-up shirt tucks into dress pants as the standard school uniform. He however doesn't wear the school vest.

In the comfort of his own home, he wears casual outfits, often with long sleeves.

During the raid on the Northern Vilzone, he dons a Power Rangers styled helmet and a leather jacket.

Uchan's school uniform.He's wearing an interesting shirt: there's a black and white stylized logo with WHITE written below.Enter: Red Mask.Uchan as a child psyker trainee.Uchan in school uniform seen from behind.
## Personality

Uchan appears to be cold and unaffected. At school, he ignores admirers, and is disinterested in other people's opinions, resulting in him often acting according to his desires and beliefs. He respects his elders, but can be long-suffering with others' antics.

In the beginning, Uchan carries himself with a strong sense of justice and honour. He regularly denounces villains as uncontrollable nuisances that need to be controlled or exterminated. As a psyker, he sees himself as a protector, as seen by his interfering with Cassian's fight with the bullies, initially going to stop them from hurting Cassian but later fighting Cassian to keep Cassian from brutalising them.

However, when Uchan begins engaging against villains such as Cassian, he begins to realise that villains are not mindless like he had previously thought. Instead, he is challenged by this new evidence. When Naeun describes how Cassian saved her, he is shocked, and becomes unable to focus in the next fights, highlighting his uncertainty regarding his previous views. As Uchan continues to interact with villains, his righteous veneer has begun to crack. He is even frustrated by "Cassian" naming himself Cassian after his role model Cassian Lee.

Uchan also has a great sense of responsibility to his family, perhaps stemming from the death of his father and the responsibility that came with it. He is fiercely protective of his sister, giving her a panic button and promising to immediately come to her aid. Uchan can become single-minded in this, however, as he immediately attacked Cassian, believing him to be Naeun's attacker. He demonstrates this tunnel vision again later, immediately going alone to the Gadam Vilzone to rescue his sister when taunted.

This protectiveness also works socially, as he is offended at Naeun giving another man a gift.

His father's death at the hands of a villain has consumed much of his social skills and life. It enrages him, making him denounce villains as a whole until he meets Cassian.

Aside from Jiho Seo, he doesn't have close friends, even at school. His determination to advance towards the position and power he would hold as Top-Class Psyker stems from it being the only way he could reliably defeat the villains who killed his father. His emotions even scare Daewung, making the older man attempt to relieve Uchan of his worries multiple times and to not get too personal in his stake.

Despite being a promising psyker, Uchan is not arrogant and always does his best to become stronger. He's very humble, refusing to accept the credit given by people and social media for arresting Bloodrain when it was Cassian who defeated the villain. He also knows to be thankfull with people, like when he thanked Cassian for giving him advices to be a better psyker.

Even though he admires the now deceased psyker Cassian Lee, Uchan has slowly become to respect the villain Cassian, although he refuses to admit it openly. After the raid in the Northen Vilzone and succesfully rescuing his sister, Uchan now aims to catch up Cassian and become as strong as he is. He is impressed by the strength of the villain and the way he acts and fights, even thinking that he resembles a psyker, Uchan is also curious about Cassian, wondering who's actually that villain and what does he aims for.

## History

Uchan awakens young and is placed in a Lampas training program for young talented prospects. He's assigned number 45 and meets Cassian Lee there 6 years before the story begins.

While Uchan and Naeun are still children, their father, an S rank psyker dies. They attend his funeral.

As a boy in his late teens, Uchan attends Gadam Highschool as a student, respecting what he believes is his late father's will, including going to an ordinary school instead of a specialized psyker school. But he won't let that hold him back; he's on a mission to become Top-class.

One day, walking down a hallway, he gets a call from Daewung Lee, his mentor, but cuts the call off when he spots four boys on the rooftop of an adjacent building.

When he arrives at the rooftop, he sees Cassian (in his human form as Gangu) has beaten up two of the three bullies, and is in the process of giving the third a very aggressive lesson in violence. Uchan intervenes. Cassian and Uchan scuffle, but after blood is spilt, Uchan deescalates the fight and offers a bandaid. The two part ways, with Uchan's right arm bruised as a result.

Later that day, Uchan is waiting for his Daewung at a petrol station when he gets a call informing him of Blaster's arrival. He arrives with the rest of the police to an unconscious Blaster in a destroyed building. After some investigation, Uchan is surprised to see that another villain fought off Blaster and saved the hostages in the CCTV footage.

It's the first time he sees Cassian in villain form, whom has no reason to recognize. It's also the first time he's seen a villain act compassionately, and it's the first crack in his worldview.

Uchan's conclusion to this information is that the obvious villain must surely be an outer, because villains can't do good things. Fortunately, his mentor Daewung Lee gently sorts Uchan out of the worst of his delusions.

The following week spirals into a series of events where Uchan's sister is repeatedly caught up in villain attacks, and he always arrives just on time to miss the action. Every single time, it's Cassian who saves Naeun. And every single time, it's the timely arrival of psykers credited for saving the day.

Bit by bit, Uchan’s world crashes around him.

## Abilities

Uchan is a trained psyker apprentice, initially able to overwhelm Cassian in his human form in their first fight, outspeeding him and giving him a cut on his face with a mere graze, while having gotten his bruised arm as a result of Cassian slamming his elbow backwards. His physical abilities may be above those of his mentor Daewung Lee, as he was able to last longer against Bloodrain at Club Red Juice and the subsequently on its rooptop. He was able to knock out Toymaker with a few blows however it should be noted that Toymaker wasn't a gifted or experienced fighter and he was already rendered defenceless by Cassian's skills. After training hard, and seeing Cassian's rapidly improving powers for himself, he is able to easily overwhelm Seongtae, who was considered to be of the most promising Psyker prospects. He feels an overwhelming chilling pressure from Cassian's presence that awakens his instincts and senses.

Uchan is strong enough to stop an advancing stone pillar and crack it with his palms.

### Magic Points

Uchan's magic points are unknown but he is shown to be able to create multiple flames in quick succession without stopping.

### Mental

Uchan is prone to losing his temper and focus in fights however as evidenced by his lost focus when facing Cassian at the hospital carpark and his relative impatience at Bloodrain's dodging of his attacks and taunting, especially about Naeun.

He is able to coordinate well with Daewung Lee to face their opponents as seen by how they move in sync to overwhelm and corner Cassian, but his inexperience over using his flames in a hostage situation allows Bloodrain to take advantage of their gap in coordinating to knock Daewung unconscious. He is even ironically told off by Cassian as he wasn't calm and rational as a Psyker and almost harmed a civilian. His single mindedness to save his sister by charging into the Gadam Vilzone makes him easily vulnerable to traps as he falls into a large pit that was not even meant for him. After practice, he is able to control his rage from Seongtae's insults better and is much calmer in a real fight than when he lost his temper frequently before at the slightest provation of his family.

### Skills

* Skill: Flare (플레어).
* Skill: Flame (발화).
* Flame creates a cycling torrent of fire. However, it's ineffective against Bloodrain.
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#### Flare (플레어)

Uchan has a flare ignition skill, the basis of his pyrokinesis, able to quickly spark fires at will. He usually does this by igniting them at his hands and sending them in a direction he specifies. He is able to quickly do this to fill an entire room with flames. He uses it as either a projectile or as an enhanced form of his melee strikes against his opponents. Notably, after using a flame based technique Uchan's arms seem to have sparks coming off them.

#### Flame (발화)

Uchan ignites his flare and summons a vicious whirl of fire with a range of several metres towards his opponent. It has a diameter bigger than Bloodrain's height.

#### Blaze Kick (블레이즈킥)

Uchan learns to throw fire with his feet, not just his hands with his foot arcing in a way that maximises damage dealt through a jumping spin kick.

#### Hellfire (헬파이어)

Uchan successfully recreates his role model, Cassian Lee's iconic skill, and uses it as a finisher. Hellfire is a massive fiery explosion that persists for a few seconds in a wide area, and with it's short duration aims to quickly finish his opponent. He manages to use it with Cassian's advice and seems to be instinctive as he uses it in a pinch when Naeun was threatened. However he may have practiced it before in trying to emulate Cassian Lee.

#### Flame Gust (플레임 거스트)

Uchan refines his fire into a faster technique after seeing what Cassian had so easily demonstrated to him with his Dark Flames shortly before the Northern Vilzone raid. Uchan swirls the fire and releases it into a more focused point in the air to strike his target, wanting to surpass Cassian's skills and speed in doing so. This skill is able to crack Seongtae's stone shield and push him back.

#### Flame Spear ()

Uchan generates and gathers flames into his arms then propels it towards a single point like a spear for maximum piercing potential. It was capable of piercing the stone pillars from Seongtae and knocking him down.

## Trivia

* Uchan's phone is still operational after Naeun uses it to brick Toymaker. The screen's cracked. But it works!

* Uchan's role as Cassian's fold even extends to the little things such as living with their respective sisters and taking an interest in cooking at the same time.

* Uchan has an iPad.

* He calls Daewung "seonbae", a word that is usually used to address seniors or colleagues at school, work, or mentor figures they look up to. Uchan's use of this term is also preserved in the English Webtoon.

* Hellfire is the first named instance of two different characters using the same skill.

## References

1. ↑ Episode 9
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Episode 16
3. ↑ Episode 44
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Episode 45
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Episode 42
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Episode 3
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Episode 5
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Episode 4
9. ↑ Episode 22
10. ↑ Episode 41
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Episode 21
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Episode 36
13. ↑ Episode 6
14. ↑ Episode 7
15. ↑ Episode 14
16. ↑ Episode 25
17. ↑ Episode 39
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Episode 23
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Episode 49
20. ↑ Episode 58