Kosen Saido

Kosen Saido is the main protagonist of Flicker Of Redemption, starting as a new student at Yukigaoka Junior High as a wing spiker.

He is also the cousin of Generation of Wonders member, Kagami Nami. And though he doesn't like her, but he enjoys her girlfriend Shiki Hiro.

## Appearance.

Kosen is a tall young man with pale skin, and an athletic build. He has short unruly blonde hair, which frames his face, and light brown eyes.

Kosen often wears his typical school uniforms, though when outside of school he often wears an old blue basketball jersey from his uncle, alongside some basketball shorts, even though he hates the sport.

## Personality.

Kosen is a hot-tempered, foul-mouthed and rude teenager, with a chip on his shoulder and way to much confidence. He regularly makes degrading comments about his cousin and her volleyball skills, despite her being far more skilled than him. He notes this is just because he doesn't like Kagami, though despite that he shows an oddly kind, polite, and respectful side to him around Kagami's girlfriend, Shiki Hiro, and is nice to her.

Despite his rudeness, he does posses some level of politeness, as he often gives advice to people about volleyball if their having difficulty, in which Kagami thinks of it this way: Kosen knows he's a natural prodigy and has never had to work hard, but knows others do, and as such wants to push them forward.

Kosen also displays some level of teamwork despite not liking most people, as he understands he would fail at sports if he were alone, citing his cousins fall from grace when her team deserted her, as his motivation to work together with people. Though however much he works with people, he still doesn't like them and hates the idea of working together, but is willing to do it so he wins.

Kagami says it best: Kosen hates losing and loves winning. He gets easily annoyed with slack-offs and laziness, saying that if you have the free time, one should use it for things of useful nature. Kagami's procrastinating is said to drive him insane. Kagami also says she beats him at every board game and video game, and while this greatly annoys Kosen, he never gives up, as he hates losing and won't stop ti'll they at least get a draw.

Despite hating Kagami with a deep seated passion, he does use her ways of refraining from cussing sometimes, such as saying, "bag of bricks," instead of, "dumbass." Though that is what he calls his elder cousin.

Kosen also enjoyed anime and manga when he was younger about an underdog getting strong, but knew this underdog always had some rival or mentor. As such, he seeks out to be this rival and/or mentor to an underdog, and that's why he chose the schools he did. As such, he has a sort of, second-most-important-character, complex. With this, he seeks to find the underdog of his teams, and so far has done a pretty good of doing so.

Likely due to Kagami enjoying it, Kosen hates basketball with a deep-seated passion.

## Statistics.

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Kosen's style of volleyball focuses on speed more than the typical strength or precision of most aces. He focuses on getting a running jump to spike the ball as to build momentum. Lacking a lot of stamina, Kosen focuses on pacing himself throughout the match, and tries to stay stationary for as long as possible to avoid wasting energy.

Kosen has a skilled recieve, alongside block, and has a fairly good set. Despite that, he has a horrible serve unless it's a spike.

 Dig
 Setting
 Spike
 Block

## Trivia.

* The "spike," is actually *Ryota Kise* from *Kuroko No Basket.*
* Favorite Food: Spicy chicken noodle.
* High school Concern: He's starting to feel like Kagami is considering asking, "the question," of Shiki.
* Current Concern: For the past two weeks, someone has been throwing pebbles at his window, and every time he goes to wake Kagami, she's mysterious missing from the house.