Kentaro Sakai

**Kentaro Sakai** is a highly successful but somewhat reluctant professional superhero under the name of **Armory**, who can conjure armor and weapons. He was initially pressured into the field by his parents but has learned to make the best of it.

## General Information

### Quick Stats

Gender: cis male

Sexuality: questioning/asexual homoromantic

Age: 24

Alignment: lawful good

Likes: training, helping people, long walks, introspection, politics, Ockross

Dislikes: failure, dishonesty, taking risks, anything loud and rowdy, himself

### Physical Appearance

Kentaro has close-cropped and neatly combed black hair, and brown eyes. He stands at slightly above average height, which is rather tall given his Japanese descent (though not as freakishly tall as Rei). He's no bodybuilder, but he isn't frail either, and has some muscles. He typically dresses rather formally, with a white collared shirt, black turtleneck sweater, gray slacks, and brown dress shoes.

As Armory, he wears a black bodysuit with maroon and gold highlights, with white gloves and black boots. Most of the weapons and armor he summons will have a similar red and gold color scheme.

### Personality

Kentaro is quiet and easygoing by nature, a calm and thoughtful person that has longed for stability and contentment. Though he can be a little reserved and awkward, he's a genuinely kind and caring person that tries to get along with everybody. He is an intellectual at heart, and interested in government and politics. He has little natural sense of ambition and can act passively at times; however, years of self-discipline and pressure from his family and himself have caused him to internalize a desire for perfection and become more competitive and driven.

Kentaro is extremely harsh on himself, having high expectations of his abilities and being quick to notice when he makes a mistake. He tends to have low self-esteem and avoids taking risks for fear of failure. He cares a lot for the people close to them, and will do anything to help them and make them proud, to assuage the (usually irrational) fears of him being a burden and them not liking him back.

As Armory, he takes on another level of intensity. He's determined, concentrated, and calculating yet unrelenting. Though he is easily more emotionally stable than his sister, his fearlessness and assertive fighting style can be eerily similar to Ronin's. Outside of combat, Armory's persona can be more confident, even cocky, and always has an upbeat attitude around civilians.

### History

Kentaro was born in Japan, but remembers little of the country as his family immigrated to America when he was around a year old. Both of his parents were powerless and considered metahumans a novelty, so as soon as he discovered that he had the power to summon weapons and armor, his family was all over him. He was the golden boy of his family, and at first he reveled in the power, but the more they celebrated and boasted about him, the more pressure he began to feel to do well.

By the time he was in middle school, his parents were completely bent on him becoming a professional hero, and started pushing him to prepare and train more. The family moved to Ockross so that he could attend the prestigious Xepshire High, the school for aspiring superheroes. It was all a grand and bright future for his parents, the true immigrant dream, and Kentaro tried his best to make them proud.

Throughout this entire ordeal, tensions were rising in the family. Mr. Sakai was beginning to become concerned about Kentaro's mental state, while Mrs. Sakai was just caught up in the idea of her boy becoming a hero. While Kentaro's parents were bickering, his grandmother was sick with cancer, and his sister Rei was practically invisible to him. She wanted nothing to do with him and would lash out whenever he tried to approach. Kentaro ended up just keeping his distance, which made the situation worse.

And then it happened. The divorce, following the death of his grandmother, occurred when he was fourteen and finishing his freshman year at Xepshire, and ended with Mr. Sakai taking full custody of him and Rei. But after the divorce, he wasn't the same. He suffered from impostor syndrome, thinking that he was only at Xepshire because of his parents pushing him, and he didn't actually want to become a hero or think he would be good at it. He never shared this with his parents for fear of disappointing them, and continued to push himself to study and train to take advantage of the opportunity he had been given. He also became more withdrawn, refusing to talk about anything remotely personal with his father.

Since then, Kentaro has been able to play with the hand he was dealt, graduating Xepshire High with top marks and becoming a somewhat renowned professional hero working with the Ockross police. He actually finds the job fulfilling at times, and appreciates the opportunity to build his skills while meeting and helping all sorts of different folks. However, he is still haunted by the path that led him to heroism, and feels discontent with being a pro hero at times. Meanwhile, he is completely oblivious of another path, the one his younger sister had taken…

### Abilities

**Weapon and armor summoning:** He can create weapons and armor. Armor will usually be summoned directly over his body. The larger and more complex the weapon, the more energy it takes to summon.

**Weapon mastery:** Armory has a supernatural instinct when fighting with weapons of any kind, even those he's never seen or handled before. (This doesn't extend to improvised weapons though.)

### Weaknesses

**Time limit:** Any summoned weapons, including thrown or launched projectiles, usually dissipate within an hour, if not dismissed by that time.

**Physical condition:** Despite his versatility and knowledge, Kentaro is still on the physical level of a normal human, and the weapons themselves have no supernatural powers.

**Working under pressure:** He has always been good at suppressing his emotions and dealing with pressure, but it wears on him emotionally and there's no telling when he's going to snap.

**Overexertion:** Kentaro has a tendency to overwork himself, which can lead to injury.

## Heroes of Ockross

### Relationships

* Family
	+ Rei Sakai/Ronin (younger sister)- Kentaro is distant from his sister, who has a one-sided feud against him. He feels some guilt and remorse that she always seemed to be angry and he couldn't help her, but mostly believes he should just give her space. He doesn't know her hero identity, and Ronin actively avoids Armory so the two are yet to have a confrontation
	+ His father- they have a good relationship and Mr. Sakai cares for Kentaro, but Kentaro doesn't always open up to him
	+ His mother- he reveres her and feels a lot of pressure from her to do well