Cleo Parker

Anime

* Pre-timeskip
* Post-timeskip

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**Cleo Parker** (Japanese: **クレオ羽佳,** *Pākā Kureo*) is the tritagonist of the Haikyū!! series by Haruichi Furudate. For the majority of the series, Cleo was a first-year student at Karasuno High and one of the volleyball team's wing spiker.

Often referred to as **White Tiger** (**白虎** *Shirotora*) by his teammates due to his fierce and loyalty for his team and **Angel** (**天使** *Tenshi*) by his parents, and the childhood best friend of Shōyō Hinata. He wishes to become a successful volleyball player like his older brothers. He had an injured scared left leg with a metal rod form an accident and having to have surgery and making him go to physical therapy seven months prior to the start of Haikyuu!!

In 2018, Cleo became a member of the MSBY Black Jackals, a Division 1 team in the V-League. He became a member of Japan Men's National Volleyball Team during the 2021 Olympics. As of 2022, he is now a member of Asas São Paulo, a professional team in the Brazil Super League.

He is the younger brother of Kentaro Parker and Satoshi Shimura.

He makes an appearance in the upcoming fanfic story White Tiger Among The Crows.

## Appearance

Upon entering first year of high school, Cleo stood at 162.8 cm and grew to 164.2 cm halfway through the school year. He is the third shortest person on his team, next to Nishinoya and Hinata. He is short-statured with a skinny frame. Despite having a boy appearance, he clearly shown to be transgender which, first the boys get him mistaken as a girl, but he doesn't mind too much and its best to keep it a secret until he was ready about his identity being trans. He has unruly, icy blue hair with white tips and bright green eyes and has an angle-like wing birthmark on his right shoulder which he gets his nickname form. Cleo dresses in a Karasuno school uniform with a black jacket and black pants. Beneath his jacket is a grey sweatshirt. In the first episode, he wore the green volleyball uniform from his junior high.

During matches, Cleo wears his volleyball uniform—a black jersey and corresponding shorts with white and orange stripes on the sides. On the back of his jersey is his position number 12 (coincidentally, the same number that was worn by his older brother) and his school's name written in kanji. On the court, he wears knees and elbow pads and white volleyball shoes with electric blue stripes.

Post-timeskip, not much has changed in Cleo despite undergone intensive training in Brazil.

## Personality

Kind, Shy, Compassion and Independent. Cleo is described as a quite boy with the heart of innocence, he's always the adventurous and free-spirited person. he can be, quiet when meeting new people but once you get to know him, he is helpful and friendly. Cleo doesn't take kindly to being offended, nor anyone offending or endangering his friends but is usually playful and even a little teasing. He can get flushed easy when either he's embarrassed.

He can get self-conscious about his skills and abilities sometimes due to his scared leg and he hates being compared to her brothers, being their younger brother and are also known as **The Tiger Brothers** and being compared to his mother who is the famous volleyball player, which made people expect that he'll live up the legacy. It put a lot of pressure on him which makes and causes him to go through stress and suffer a break down, but he usually hides it form others and then cry alone where nobody can hear him. He treats everyone around equally and he can be oblivious at times to things around him, he also often in his own world when he is thinking while being alone and often concentrates on practice or whenever he feels he has a lot in his mind he usually plays his guitar, sings, or goes the ice skating for comfort.

He really hates wearing skirts since, before he found out he was a boy, he was born as a girl and forcing his son to keep his hair long, to being forced to cross-dress due to his mother who always wanted a daughter who can live up to the legacy for the family. He was teased about his girly appearance and always must dress as a boy to avoid more teasing form other students mostly male students. He's serious when comes to volleyball. His intense love for the sport is demonstrated through her impressive display of tenacity stemming from his constant desire to improve his skills. When Cleo feels scared or threatened, he instinctively hides behind the nearest person as Hinata does this too and this often ends with the two clinging onto each other.

## Background

Cleo was born to a mother and a father, with two older siblings and was the youngest out of the three. His parents were an American mother and Japanese father name, Rayla Parker, and Hayate Shimura. Cleo's parents meet when his mother moved to Japan form America due her parents’ jobs and was transferred to Karasuno high, and she joined a girls volleyball club. Rayla was having a practice match when Hayate and his friends decide to come and watch since one of his friend’s girlfriends was there. During a practice match Rayla had accidently hit the ball the wrong way, which hits Hayate in the face making him go unconscious.

Hayate soon wakes up in school’s infirmary, with Rayla sitting beside him. She apologizes for the incident and never meant to hit him and told him that she was still getting used to playing volleyball. Overtime they started to get along with one and other and often seen hanging out, then they started dating during their high school and college days.

His parents died form an accident when he was five years old while they were on their way to home, when drunk driver drove through the wrong lane, causing the accident leaving him the only survivor. He had a bad knee injury that he had to get surgery and get a metal rod, along having him go to physical therapy. He was raised by his grandmother along with his older brothers in Japan.

## Statistics

* Middle School
* High School
* Post-Timeskip

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Despite having a metal rod in her left leg, Cleo is often described as nimble, yet incredibly athletic. Due to his two brother's experience and been a volleyball players, he knows a bit of volleyball and focused only on hitting or spiking. However, with the help of his new teammates, he soon learned the fundamentals and basic techniques. Cleo is an incredibly fast learner who can improve his skills by observing others movements and tactics.

During the Tokyo Expedition Arc, Cleo’s overall skills have improved greatly. His coordination and mobility have increased with his mastery of flying spikes, allowing his to make some near-impossible miss spikes.

**Height and reach, as of mid-November:**

* **April 2012**:

* **November 2012**
* **Post-Timeskip**:
	+ Jumping Reach: 342 cm (spike) / 327 cm (block)

### Skills

 Setting
 Spike
 Technique
 Block

* **Stamina and Speed:** Cleo is shown despite a scared leg with a metal rod, as one of the fastest players on his team and has incredible reflexes and mobility. He also has seemingly unlimited stamina, which he builds up by riding his skateboard or his bike thirty minutes through the mountains to commute to school. Cleo can easily go from the left to the right side of the court before his opponents can even react. However, his speed can be a problem if he goes overboard since too much momentum can cause his to crash into the net or another player.

* **Tiger Spiking:**  File:Cleo 5.png  Cleo is shown to have powerful spikes when he hits the ball. His famous Tiger Spike is when someone tosses the ball to him and he spikes it, earning a point for his team (that's where he gets the name from; "Tiger" as in winning or victory). When someone tosses him the ball he immediately runs to the right side, jumps up high, and spikes the ball with an extremely hard hit, earning a point, as none of his opponents were able to spike back because the ball comes at a hard force.
* **Jumping:** Despite having a metal rod in his left leg, Cleo can jump high but not as high as Hinata and he has no complaints about being short.
* **Angle Receive:** Cleo has struggles at receives, but he has shown drastic improvements to the point of being complimented by other teams. he has mastered flying receives during the Tokyo Expedition, giving him the coordination to make a save and quickly runs back for a counter. During the Miyagi First-Year Intensive Training Camp, like Hinata, Cleo masters the split step and learns to predict the spiking course. He can now react and positions himself to perfectly receive a powerful spike.
* **Full Court Awareness**: Cleo has the ability to fully see the court and can see where spikes are going to land. He can easily see the spikes' destination and use her mobility to know where to stop it.
* **Breaking Point:**

## Relationships

### **Relatives**

**Hayate Shimura**:

**Rayla Parker**: She is Cleo mother, she was known to be the best volleyball player, during her time. Cleo dosen't remember much about her

Akira Shimura:

**Kentaro Parker**: Kentaro 'Ken' Parker is Cleo's old brother who also plays volleyball after being inspired by her brother's many feats in the sport. He is an average player at best who tries his hardest but doesn't get that far. His height is pretty much the only thing he has, his technique, power and pretty much everything else. He and Cleo have a close bond and often seen practice volleyball together. When he learned that his brother had a breakdown after he was pressured and stressed he immediately goes to and comforts him. He is very supportive of him being transgender.

**Satoshi Shimura**: is Cleo's old brother who also plays volleyball

### **Karasuno High**

#### **Volleyball Club**

**Shōyō Hinata**: Cleo knew Hinata since childhood, they have a close bond. COMING SOON.

**Tobio Kageyama**: COMING SOON.

**Kei Tsukishima**:

**Tadashi Yamaguchi**:

**Hitoka Yachi**:

**Yū Nishinoya**:

**Ryūnosuke Tanaka**:

**Chikara Ennoshita**:

**Kōushi Sugawara**: Sugawara is very friendly and caring towards Cleo. When they find out about his leg, he can't help but worry about him every time he runs. Despite this, he just can't get angry at him, instead he always hugs him exclaiming something like "don't worry about it!". When this happens, Koushi gets really embarrassed, but he knows it's like having a sister that cares about him and vice versa. Cleo sees Sugawara as one of the nicest people in the world.

**Daichi Sawamura**: Cleo greatly respects Daichi since he's the captain and a third-year. While Cleo greatly admires Daichi's capabilities and stable presence, he does become fearful of the captain when he is angered. Daichi whom he didn't known he was a trans and looked like a girl due to his feminine appearance, believes in Cleo's volleyball abilities and often encourages him. He also takes care of and tries to calm Cleo down whenever he gets intimidated by the opponents or felt pressured, nor about having a panic attack.

**Asahi Azumane**: Everyone seems to be afraid of Azumane when they first meet him because of his appearances, but Cleo seems to immediately notice his gentle and awkward nature, and he's kind of grateful for that. He sometime nicknames him 'The Gentle Giant'.

**Kiyoko Shimizu**: He get along really well with Kiyoko. She was the one who knew that Cleo was trans, was willing keeping a secret until Cleo was ready to tell everybody.

### **Other Schools**

**Kenma Kozume**:

**Kōtarō Bokuto**:

**Lev Haiba**:

**Tōru Oikawa** and **Hajime Iwaizumi**:

**Yukitaka Izumi** and **Kōji Sekimukai**:

**Yūtarō Kindaichi** and **Akira Kunimi**:

## Trivia

* Cleo enjoys watching anime, any various ones.
* Current Concern: He thinks she not good enough because of his leg.
* Cleo's star-sign is a Taurus, as he was born on May the 21st.
* Cleo dislikes when somebody says that he's not strong because he looks like a girl.
* Cleo was originally was a female but decided to make them transgender character.
* When Cleo feels scared or threatened, he instinctively hides behind the nearest person as Hinata does this too and this often ends with the two clinging onto each other.
* His full name is "Cleopatra Parker" but prefer to be called "Leo".
* Cleo can speak both English and Japanese fluently.
* He gets scared easily and will react quickly if some one sneaks up on his thanks to his reflexes.
* Cleo's mother used to play lots of sports when she was in high school.
* Cleo is the Third oldest first year on the team.
* Kenma Kozume thinks he is a very beautiful boy. He calls him pretty one time.
* He's the younger brother of the well known, "The Tiger Brothers", Kentaro Parker and Satoshi Shimura.
* He loves American and Japanese foods.
* He knew Hinata Shōyō since childhood and attended Yukigaoka Junior High along side him.
* He has a band that his mother once owned when she was young before passing. He always kept with him for good luck.
* **Nomenclature**
	+ Cleo (クレオ) can be read as *"Glory"*
	+ Tora (虎) *"Tiger"*
	+ Parker (羽佳) *"Excellent and Beautiful"*