Louis Yooshi

Louis Yooshi (ゆうしルイーズ, Yūshi ruīzu) is a supporting character in the Grando series. Louis is the mentor/guide for Shinjiro and Mirion.

## Appearance

Louis is a tall slim young man with pale skin and extremely light red hair, almost looking white at times. He has Before the nine-months time skip, Louis's hair was fairly short was very spikey. His bangs would cover most of his face. After the nine months, Louis's hair was much more grown out and was styled in a ponytail. Shinjiro made a reference to as how a samurai would style his hair. Both before and after the timeskip, Louis has several bandages covering his eye, with few strands of the bandage hanging out. Louis's most noticeable feature is his canine teeth that stick out when he smiles. Louis's eyes are typically a gradient black to pinkish-purple but turn bright red when summoning Slasher.

Louis is typically seen wearing a white oversized long neck shirt with short sleeves, along with black loose-fitting pants. Louis wears a utility belt with pouches to help him with missions. During the winter time, Louis wears a dark purple haori.

## Personality

Louis has a easy-going and cheerful personality, and is most of the time cool and composed when near Mirion and Shinjiro. Louis is a very headstrong person and is confident in his abilities as a damupawa user. Louis is also a very independent person and doesn't usually ask for help, making others think he is cocky. Despite seeming to be cocky, Louis is a very modest person and has never boasted about his ability in anything he would exceed at. As a mentor, Louis is a very kind-hearted person. Through Shinjiro's struggles, he reassures him that everything will be fine. Louis demonstrates a great level of personal responsibility and worldly wisdom in his personal interactions.

When growing up, Louis only had his older brother to look up to. The brothers would live a mischievous life, often robbing and stealing from others in order to survive. Louis was a loud and depending boy while growing up. After his brother's death, Louis would vow to himself that he would never ask for anyone's help again. When not fighting, Louis is a very irresponsible person. The only thing Louis keeps tidy and clean-looking is his best friend and damupawa invoke, Slicer. Louis still has childish tendencies and loves to play pranks on his friends. However, Louis's mood may change drastically when he enters battle. Louis is known to be respected by both Shinjiro and Mirion, having respected beliefs and motives.

## Background

Louis grew up in the slums of Freence with his older brother and his pet dog, Slicer. The two Yooshi brothers would be well-known as robbers and good-for-nothing kids with no future. Including Slicer, they would often steal food to supplement their hunger. While robbing a nearby store, Louis's older brother would end up getting stabbed in a vulnerable point in his body. Slicer, would end up getting ran over on the same day. Alone and unable to deal with his grief, Louis would avenge his brother and Slicer by ending the lives of the people that took his brothers and his dog's life. Coincidentally, Uncle Uncle would be looking for someone with a spark that was waiting to be ignited, in which he found Louis. Uncle Uncle had then taken Louis in and trained and took care of him as his own.

## Abilities

Being Uncle Uncle's strongest student, Louis sets the standard for Shinjiro and Mirion. His abilities revolve mostly around his damupawa invoke, Slicer and partially his weapon, Yoosee.

### Physical Abilities

* **Immense Strength:** Louis possesses a large amount of physical strength. Louis's favorite part to train being his upper body, he tends to work out on the biceps and triceps a lot.
* **Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Since childhood, Louis had to learn how to defend himself. Since taught proper forms of martial arts, Louis is extremely capable in all forms of fighting with his fists.
* **Weapon-Specialist:** Before creating a damupawa technique, Louis would use weapons to spar and fight. Before mastering the yoosee, Louis would fight with a katana and with sometimes use a heavy-hitting axe.
* **Immense Speed:** According to his brother, Louis has always been gifted with being able to run extremely fast. Louis is able to run seventy-five meters in a blink of an eye.
* **Enhanced Durability:** Louis is able to several stabs to vital points of his body due to immense training with his time with Uncle Uncle. Once while training, Louis was able to survive a-hundreds pins stabbed at his neck and heart.

### Damupawa Abilities

#### **Yoosee Energy Control**

Using the yoosee, Louis can harness energy around him and reflect the energy to his opponents, causing them to feel much more pain.

## Trivia

* Louis is from France, which is why his name sounds very foreign.

## Quotes

* *"When my brother and Slicer got killed, I was so angry. I wanted to end the lives of their killers. I got what I wanted, but I still ask myself, was it worth it?"* (Louis explaining his past to Grand Gust)
* *"Shinjiro, make me proud."* (Louis's last words)