Ainosuke Shindo

## Media

**Ainosuke Shindo** is a queer character from *SK8 the Infinity*.

## Biography

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## Appearance

Adam has a fair pale complexion, azure blue hair (slicked back by gel in normal wear, however he later on styles it spiky with a long fringe cascading down the right side of his face whenever he transfers to his skating outfit) and bat winged dark blue narrowed eyebrows right above ruby red irises. He also holds a tall broad build with a relatively thin waist and wears a royal blue suit accompanied by a pocket square stuffed in the outer left breast pocket. He also dons a pink tie wrapped around the collar of a white dress shirt, brown dress shoes and what appears to be a black watch on his left wrist.

His skating outfit however consists of a red cropped jacket with gold accents (horn like patters at the chest opening) and an eccentric yellow design on his back. He also sports a red vest with three 'x' shaped golden strings in the center, an elegant crimson cape, a red belt with a golden rectangular buckle; its length bent inwards and a small red 'v' shaped design in the middle. Wrapped around the collar of his dress shirt is a blue necktie, complementing his outlandish hair color. His leggings are also red, comprising of a wide black strip starting from his hips and halting right above his knee along with three royal blue hearts in a symmetrical design on both legs. For his footwear, he holds black shield-like knee pad boots, the out-souls of his shoe colored red and matching colored hearts on his toe box. He also dons other accessories on his body like black diamond formed elbow pads (an outline of yellow around it) with a black round shell (a spike coming out at the very top), a pair of bulky ornamental shoulder pieces that par with a black horn shaped decorative, the imprint of a heart vertically underneath it. Black gloves with red padded finger tips, knuckles and palms snugly fit on his hands, large red cuffs at the lower end of his sleeve wrap around his wrist, accented with gold at the very end.

On his face, he acquires a white winged domino mask accompanied by a peculiar design at its left edge. On the left end of his mask there's a unique swirling pattern toned gold and red. The right side of his mask is covered up by his long fringe and is hidden slightly from the audience. However, you can catch a glimpse of the concealed side and confirm that it is indeed unembellished and blank.

During his final beef with Langa, Adam wears a different "funeral" outfit. The suit is black and reaches his up to neck, skin-tight, large-shouldered and patterned with blue and white decorative lines, looser black gloves with blue guards are worn on his hands, and white gemstone-like protrusions are fixed onto his knees and elbows. The back of his suit is left open in a heart-shaped hole to expose his back, and stripes of black material attach to the center of the gap where a spiked bone-like shape runs along his spine, resembling the bare bones of an actual human spine. He wears a mask that is seemingly also made of bones, the gaps in it both shadowing his face and allowing him to see past them.

## Personality

While skating, Adam is very confident in his own skills and ruthless towards his opponents, with no concern if he causes injuries indirectly or personally using physical violence. He's very flamboyant with his actions, creating an over-dramatized persona for the audience of "S". He views skating as a "ritual of love" which goes hand in hand with his theme and persona. He is prone to making grand entrances for himself such as rolling out a red carpet to skate down or parachuting out of a helicopter. Adam's racing style involves him getting up close to and physical with his opponents, locking their boards together to incite fear and crush the other's will to continue the race, all the while demonstrating mastery of difficult techniques such as the Casper Slide to further demoralize his opponent. He has no qualms with inflicting violence on his opponents, especially ones that he has a personal vendetta against, even to the point of possibly causing death.

Adam shows disregard and disrespect for anyone that doesn't interest him personally at "S", including founders like Cherry and Joe, who he previously was friends with. People that fall out of his favor, such as Miya, receive the same harsh treatment and even insults. He has a history of crushing and injuring all of his favorite skaters in his search for an "Eve," someone who can skate on his level, a trend which started sometime in his youth and caused friction with and a split from his former friends. At some point in the past, Adam's father burned his skateboard and ordered him to stop skating, an event which may have caused the beginning of his harsh treatment of Tadashi, given Adam's remark about Tadashi always having no opinion, and spurred Adam into adopting a more cruel and solitary personality. Due to abuse from his aunts in his childhood, Adam associates love with pain, further twisting his psych. His strict childhood and upbringing was implied to be heavily focused on winning and losing, with losing being absolutely unacceptable for him, which carries over into his skating and view on love, believing that he must win to be loved.

Ainosuke maintains a calm and collected appearance outside of "S" and has a career in politics. To the public eye they see him as a well-liked man with strong morals. But, in the private eye he is involved in shady and corrupt dealings under the advice of his aunts, who appear to run his life for him. Adam's persona from "S" occasionally leaks into his public political life, as he's seen tapping his feet in excitement when thinking of a good idea for his "S" life. He prioritizes what interests at "S" him over other concerns even if his career is under threat. He shows no hesitation at ordering Tadashi to take the fall for him if he gets in trouble politically, although he did not follow through with that threat. The only time he has shown anger is when Tadashi disobeys or stands up to him. After suffering humiliation at S at the hands of Reki, Adam changed his outfit to a costume that resembles a grim reaper in accordance with his negative mood and bad state of mind.

Adam is extremely fixated on skating against Langa, who he thinks is the same type of a person he is after Langa was able to keep pace with Adam during their race. He showed interest in Langa from the first race against Shadow, and used Miya to lure Langa back to "S" so he could meet Langa in person, during which time he provoked Reki by insulting Miya and took the opportunity to set up a beef with Reki with a race against Langa as the prize. He becomes even more eccentric in his actions when racing Langa, including dancing on his board and forcing Langa into some very dangerous maneuvers while their boards are locked together. After their race ends abruptly from police intervention, Adam sets up a tournament for the sole purpose of making his rematch against Langa even better, and appears to become more obsessed with Langa when he spies on Langa skating with Reki. Adam views "S" as a place where he can be free and do anything and everything he wants, and as an escape from his public life where he has to deal with expectations and burdens from his family and career. After his board was burned, Adam viewed himself as totally alone, the only one in his own world, and it caused him to lose his former joy in skating until Langa reminded him of the feeling that skating should be fun, especially because it's something to do with friends, and it doesn't truly matter if he wins or loses because the friendship and fun are what is important. Adam seems to have taken the lesson from Langa to heart as he's seen taking a step to mend his friendship with Tadashi afterwards.

Adam shows affection through aggression as a consequence of the abuse he suffered by his aunts by growing up in his own house, hence he says he likes to show affection, but doesn't like receiving it, **because it hurts him.**

## Sexuality

Ainosuke's sexuality isn't specified, however his skateboarding mannerisms have clear sexual tones, as his theme is love and his feelings for Langa borders on more than just admiration, and he also has a very suggestive conversation with him in the preview for episode 5. Then there's the fact that he repeatedly calls him his "EVE", and how he even has multiple screens that *specifically* monitor Langa's *every move* at S.

### Reaction

*This section is about fan reaction to the characters sexuality/gender identity. NOT THE IN UNIVERSE REACTION. In universe reactions would belong under sexuality/gender.*
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## Relationships

### Langa Hasegawa

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## Tropes

* Depraved Homosexual - Or Bisexual due to his sexuality being unknown.
* Stalker with a Crush