Neutral Hero (Kazuya)

Character Synopsis

Kazuya is the main protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei and is a young man living with his mother in Tokyo. In the beginning of the game, the protagonist has a dream featuring the Law Hero, Chaos Hero, heroine and Yuriko as well as an enigmatic prophecy of the future. The protagonist receives a computer program that allows him to communicate with and summon demons from Stephen, who is sending out the program to everyone he can in anticipation for the coming apocalypse. Before the events of Shin Megami Tensei II, the protagonist founded the Valhalla district of Tokyo Millennium and worked to help it expand alongside Pascal-Cerberus and Madam.

Character Statistics

Tiering: 8-C | 2-C | 2-A | 1-A

Verse: Shin Megami Tensei

Name: Hero, Neutral Hero, Kazuya, Futsuo

Gender: Male

Age: Around his late teens

Classification: Messiah, Summoner, Founder of The Valhalla

Special Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Subjective Reality (Humans possess the innate ability of "Observation", which alters reality to match the perception of the user and essentially debase their power. This works on the scale of YHVH, as a result of their connection to The Axiom), Limited Transduality (The eternal souls of humans exist beyond the dichotomy of corporeality and non-corporeality), Summoning (Through his COMP), Weapon Mastery (In the variety of guns and swords), Martial Arts (Capable of sparring with demons physically), Elemental Manipulation (Fire, Ice, Force, Lightning and Earth), Non-Physical Interaction (can harm Non-Corporeal and Abstract beings), Conceptual Manipulation, Nonexistence Erasure (Far stronger than characters capable of destroying and harming pure nothingness, as well as nonexistent beings, with nothing but normal attacks), Negation (Up Mid-godly, up to High-Godly), Absorption, Probability Manipulation, Curse Manipulation

Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Resistance Negation, Power Nullification, Petrification, Durability Negation, Status Effect Inducement, Electricity Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Reality Warping, Spatial Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Life Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Disease Manipulation, Causality Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, Information Manipulation, Law Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, Chaos Manipulation, Void Manipulation and a vast array of other abilities (Capable of doing battle with Demons who are capable of creating and fully manipulating entire Universes with their existences alone, and of reproducing these powers effortlessly, having managed to proceed through them with nothing but brute force)

Destructive Ability: Building Level (Considerably superior to weaker demons such as Jack Frost and Pixie, who should be comparable to Flynn during the tutorial) | Multi-Universe Level (Capable of defeating the likes of Thor and comparable demons such as Surt, who can destroy the nine worlds in Ragnarock, which are entire universes. Fought Belial and Nebiros, albeit, not in their prime and when they were treated as weaker than they usually are) | Multiverse Level+ (Superior to Lilith, as well as singlehandily surpassing the Four Heavenly Kings, who sustain a barrier that seperates The Expanse from the multiverse and can collapse both realms to nothing. Superior to the combined might of Uriel, Raphael, Gabriel and Michael) | Metaverse Level (In The Diamond Realm, treated as comparable to Demi-Fiend in The True Demon Route and Nanashi, who had killed YHVH beforehand)

Speed: Immeasurable (Can keep up with very powerful demons who exist beyond Linear Space-Time) | Immeasurable | Immeasurable | Irrelevant

Lifting Ability: Peak Human | Class 1 | Immeasurable | Irrelevant

Striking Ability: Building Class (Comparable to tutorial Flynn and above fodder demons such as Jack Frost and Pixie) | Multi-Universal (Surpassed Thor and Surt, the latter of which is capable of destroying nine different universes during Ragnarock) | Multiversal+ (Surpassed The Four Heavenly Kings, who sustain a barrier that prevents the the multiverse and The Expanse from collapsing into nothingness) | Metaversal (Comparable to Nanashi and True Demon Route Demi-Fiend)

Durability: Building Level | Multi-Universal |Multiversal+ | Metaversal

Stamina: Very High

Range: Extended melee range with swords and up to several meters with guns and magic | Multi-Universal | Multiversal+ | Metaversal

Intelligence: High

Weaknesses: None notable

Versions: Early-Game | Mid-Game | End-Game | Diamond Realm

Other Attributes

List of Equipment:

Demon Summoning Program - The program, created by the great scientist Stephen to communicate with the demons. Initially, Stephen sent this code to all computers in the world in order to save people from the coming apocalypse by using the forces of demons. Kazuya is one of the few who guessed to transfer the program from laptop to COMP and learned how to use it. In addition to talking with incredible creatures who are not physically able to do this, it has several useful abilities.
COMP - A laptop computer that is built in like a glove. In this alternative Japan it is used as an ordinary pda in a peaceful life.

- Contract - The DSP user can conclude a "contract", bind the daemon to his COMP, write down his information in his code.
- Summon - Actually for which the program was created, the ability to call a demon from another world and force to fight on the side of the user DSP, even against his will. The demon instantly materializes near the user.
Army of Demons - Kazuya gathered many demons under his leadership, the code of DSP Kazuya includes: Beelzebub, Kali, Shiva, avatar Brahman a, Baal, Indra and others.
Merging Swords - The strongest blades of Kazuya are spiritual, and he is able to unite them into one more powerful spirit in the form of a sword.

List of Swords

Great Warrior - During his travels, Kazuya turned into a strong warrior who compensates for his inability to magic with sword craftsmanship and the magical power of swords. He also spent a long time in the Diamond Dimension of the Buddha, where he ate Soma, the energy that increased all his powers to the level of the strongest archangels and some gods.
Futsu Sword - The spiritual sword, consisting of the ancient blade of Kusanagi and the soul of the wind. Allows you to deal damage to all enemies simultaneously.
Murakumo - Fusion of Futsu Sword with the soul of water, which greatly increases the damage.
Kagutsuchi - The last stage of the development of the ordinary sword, containing in itself the soul of fire (the salamander). In addition to inflicting damage to all enemies simultaneously, it is dealt multiple times for random targets.
Fujinken - A sword from a special spiritual blade and the soul of the Tengu. Inflicts two to four strikes at the same time on the same goal.
Masakado - Katana of Masakado himself, apparently identical to that of Flin a. Increases all characteristics.
Light Sword - The sword of the spirit of Order in the Diamond Dimension, inflicts tremendous damage on demons and other mystical beings.
Headsman Ax - Sword of the spirit of Chaos in the Diamond Dimension, increased damage to angels and other divine beings.

List of Armor

Protection in the form of armor, given by spirits.

Armor of Jesus - Complete set of armor of the Order. Increases the characteristics, has a good protection and resistance to magic light and fire.
Armor of Demon - Armor of the Chaos Warrior, has resistance to the magic of ice, fire and electricity.
Armor of Masakado - Own armor of the great warrior Masakado, protects from all types of magic and physical damage at a high level, which allows you to fight with powerful gods.

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

Akasha Arts - Causes small damage to the fist to all opponents.
Spiral Sword - Deals a small amount of damage to a sword with 2 or 3 enemies.
Sexy Dance - Imposes an effect that entices the target to his side.
Critical Strike - Deals critical damage for one target.
Shibaboo - Blinds from 1 to 3 opponents.
Lightspeed Slash - Inflicts medium physical damage to one target bypassing defense, weakens random resistance to elements.
Crescent Slice - Twice inflicts average physical damage to opponents and reduces their speed and dexterity.
Mist Rush - Inflicts average physical damage from 2 to 4 times to multiple enemies and causes a stun effect.
Charge - Increases the damage of the next physical attack by 2.5 times.
Morale Boost - Increases all the characteristics of all allies.
Soul of Hero - In one of the timelines, the Hero died during the nuclear bombing of Japan before his travels. Stephen took his soul and moved him to the Diamond Dimension, where, with the help of the remaining protagonists, the SMT activated their Observation force, which led to the rebirth of the Hero in a new form, probably superior to that of the Law and Chaos line. In this version, the Hero has resistance to physical attacks, nullifies the light and darkness, and is not inferior in strength to Nanashi and Flynn in the form of the Messiah.

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