Yuuga Ichirou

Yuuga Ichirou (偸伽一龍) is a professional football player who currently plays as a Midfielder for Manshine City.

He started his journey as a striker through school, until he excelled in regional tournaments and was invited to try out at some clubs in England, to join the youth team. After a few months of holding trials, he managed to join Manshine City Youth.

A few months after that, Manshine City Youth confirmed its participation in phase 2 of the Japanese project known as Blue Lock, where he was able to prove his worth by receiving a professional proposal from Manshine City himself. Furthermore, there he was reunited with his brother Yuuga Touichi. This phase of the project was named Neo Egoist League.

His main goal is to be able to play alongside Chris Prince before his brother, due to a bet they made as children.

## Appearance

Ichirou is a tall, muscular boy with square, sharp, dark red eyes. His hair is short, voluminous, black, but dyed gold, combed back, with many spikes. He almost always has a wide smile on his face, or a confused expression and deep breathing, when paying attention to more serious things.

## Personality

Ichirou is a guy a little more smiling than his brother. He is a more laid back and smiley person, often appearing more immature instead of falling into the big brother stereotype. He's also much more focused on himself and the things he likes, which exudes his confidence, but at the same time puts some people off because he doesn't give much space to what they like. Give him a opportunity and he's already talking about training, historical goal scoring and the injustice of Noel Noa winning the Ballon D'or over Chris Prince.

With his brother he tends to be even more playful, teasing him all the time while making the most childish bets possible. However, despite this immature way, he is a very focused and responsible person, who manages to transmit a confident energy to everyone around him.

## Abilities

### Archetype

* **Box-to-box:** Box-to-box midfielders help with almost every aspect of the game. They need immense stamina as they need to cover most areas of the pitch, as well as some degree of passing skills. They would be up one end of the pitch assisting the attack one moment then back helping to defend around their own penalty area the next. They normally play as central midfielders but any of the midfield players may have this attribute.

Ichirou is an enviable physique player. He is strong, fast, resilient and has a lot of creativity with the ball at his feet. While his vision of the game isn't the best, he makes up for it with his starting power and willingness to dash from box to box, living up to the classic archetype of England's favorite midfielders. And because of that, even if he retreats to help the team's marking, his strength is not the defense, but the quick transition between defense and attack, charging the ball at speed.

* Blue Lock NEL
* Currently

### Skills

**Professional Football Technique:** Ichirou is the perfect archetype of an English box-to-box, a strong, resistant player with the speed to take the ball to the attack. Other Premier League clubs made offers for him, even with better values, but he opted for Manshine City because of his dream, in addition to his whole family being fans of the club.

**Physical Prowess:** Considered Chris Prince's #1 fan by himself, Ichirou has dedicated much of his life to improving his physique. Although he is far from his idol's level, he has become a very strong and resilient player.

* **Draconic Stamina:** Ichirou calls his custom training "dragon training", something that will allow him to get strong, fast, but still elegant. With that he acquired an excellent stamina that allows him to run throughout the match.

* **Eye of the Serpent Dragon:** With a keen eye, he has developed excellent reflexes, just like his younger brother. Becoming able to move instinctively with great reaction speed.

**Serpent Dragon Style:** Ichirou has his own style of play, focused on long runs and techniques that involve a lot of leg crossings and body feints to confuse opponents. Because of this long, seemingly unsteady, zigzag movement, the style became known as the Serpent Dragon Style.

* **Dragon Burst Sprint:** Ichirou starts at speed with the ball at his feet, while performing *quick scissors* with a lot of body play, simulating a dragon snaking across the field at high speed. Although he tends to end his moves by cutting to the left, it's a move that makes him very unpredictable.

* **Dragon Chop Feint:** A sequence of 2 to 3 quick Chop feints, where the player performs quick cuts with the inside of the foot while protecting the ball with the other foot, performing some jumps, to confuse the opponents.

* **Dragon Step Over:** A dribble derived from street soccer where the player steps on the ball with the sole of the foot, then laces it with the outside of the foot, dragging the ball in a cross leg movement, before taking a slight leap to step over with his weak foot, until using the strong foot to cut the ball out past the defender.
	+ **Dragon Step Over Elastico Nutmeg:** In the last step of the dribble, the player suddenly performs a Elastico between the marker's legs. He is also capable of performing a *Cross Elastico* version, from behind his supporting leg.

* **Dragon's Fury Shot**: Ichirou has a powerful left leg kick that he performs after his long run carrying the ball from defense to offense. Your domain is around 25m away from the goal.
	+ **Dragon's Fury Pass:** Ichirou is not a refined passer, but in his quick transitions from defense to attack, he is capable of delivering strong passes that cross the pitch. Only fast players or players with excellent trapping technique are capable of receiving them.

**Flow State (Complete):** Flow, as described by Ego, is the state of "total immersion" or "being in the zone." It is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

In his Flow State, Ichirou becomes a more stubborn player who stops worrying about himself, managing to become even more instinctive and strong in his movements.

## Etymology

* The name **Yuuga** (偸伽) means "Steal" and "Entertainment".
* The name **Ichirou** (一龍) means "One (Ichi)" and "Dragon, Majestic" (Rou).
* **Yuuga Ichirou** can therefore be interpreted as **"The one who majestically steals the limelight"**.

## Trivia

* He started playing football at the age of 5.
* His zodiac sign is Capricorn, and that's why he teases his brother, saying that's why he's the Goat (Greatest of All Time)
* His hometown is Tokyo.
* His favorite color is Sky Blue.
* His character color is Gold.
* His foot size is 26 cm.
* His dominant leg is his left foot.
* His blood type is AB+.
* His favorite players are Chris Prince.
* His family is fanatical about Manshine City, including him.
* His favorite food is watermelon.
* His favorite thing to do is train.
* His favorite animal is the Cats. Because he has a pet cat which he loves to spoil. But if mythological creatures count, he'd say it's Serpent Dragons.
* His favorite season is Summer because it’s the most effective when doing his favourite thing.
* His favorite school subjects are P.E. and Biology and his least favorite subjects are Math and Geography.
* He spends his holidays training.
* If he ever got 100 million yen (~$739,000) He would invest in home training equipment, and the rest would be given to his mother to do whatever she wanted.
* On his last day on Earth he would watch a Manshine City game alongside his mother and younger brother on the sofa.
* He considers his strengths to be his determination to win no matter what. While his weakness is...His obsession with what he likes. Sometimes he gets really into it.
* He has a certain tendency to gamble.
* In his house he has many posters and products related to Chris Prince.

## Editor's Words

Hey guys! Etros here! This OC belongs to @Andreii aka Cold! I'm helping him with character development. The character is still under construction, but it belongs to our fanon canon! If you are interested in participating in the fanon canon, contact me on Discord: Etros#1066