Hyde Kido

**Hyde Kido** (城戸 灰都), also known as the **Unknown Actor** (不明なる共演者アンノウンアクター), is

## Appearance

Hyde is a young boy of average height with strange, dual-toned, messy hair, being bleach blonde at the front and black at the back end. His eyes are a dark red and have cat slit pupils.

He is commonly seen wearing his school uniform in a rather sloppy manner. His apparel consists of an black, unzipped blazer with gold rims on the lapels, collar and pockets. He has a small belt with a golden buckle each wrapped around the sleeves of the blazer and the right arm is embellished with the emblem of his school. He wears two more normal sized belts around his waist, the top one is done up but not buckled while the bottom one hangs loosely.

Underneath his uniform, Hyde wears a white, long sleeved polo shirt with the topmost button undone, revealing a red shirt underneath. Hyde loosely wears a red tie with two black and red stripes on the back of it. His legwear consists of black pants with two zippers going up to below the knee and black, leather shoes with a gold stripe going across the front.

## Personality

Hyde is a straight-forward and strong-willed individual who gives his all to any challenge before him and doesn't back down from a fight. Although normally cool-headed, he has a cocky and reckless side to him and tends to head into extremely dangerous situations without a second thought. Despite this, he is shown to be understanding the responsibility of his role as the Insulator's wielder, as well as being well-aware of his life being on the line. Hyde himself has stated that he has no desire for power and only wants to live his life like a normal person.

Hyde is someone who greatly values his friends and comrades. Although he is capable of using Insulator to kill Linne, he decides to postpone doing so as he feels that she has much more to teach him. He was also hesitant to fight Orie due to the positive relationship they have and offers Vatista a place to stay until she completes her mission.

## Trivia

* In the localized version, Hyde's title "Unknown Actor" is translated as "The Wild Card".
* Despite his name being written in kanji, his character select name is written in katakana instead.
* The black section on the hair antennae (ahoge) in Hyde's SD art is missing, leaving it entirely blonde.
* Hyde has the hair-style of Ragna the Bloodedge, the fighting stance of Yu Narukami, and his sword general fighting style brings to mind Ichigo Kurosaki.
* Hyde's hair is possibly bleached; he has small black streaks on some corners of his hair, and it is often common for high school boys his age to bleach their hair as such.
* Hyde is the only character who's normals inflict chip damage, despite them not being classified as special moves, though other-yet-very-few characters in past fighting games also have had this trait.
	+ Hyde's case is due to the powers of darkness emanating from his weapon. Past cases used to be due to weapon fighters having chip damage universal for normals, or certain normals or command normals acting like special moves.
		- Because of Hyde's case, his 2A, 2C and Dash B, which are kick-based moves, are the only normals of his that do not inflict chip damage.