Haruto Higashikata (Earth-2025)

“Yare yare daze (Good grief)... Looks like I’m getting into all sorts of trouble…”

-Haruto Higashikata

Backstory
Born and raised in Japan, Haruto grew up learning all the Japanese traditions and customs. Due to his mother being promoted in her job, the family had to move overseas to America, where they adapted to American culture after a few years. Haruto was only 5 when he had to move, and spent 11 years adapting to his new hometown of Los Angeles, California. In his first few years of school, he befriended a boy named Trey Soniak, and the two grew to be close friends.

During the final years of middle school, he had a huge crush on this one girl in his classes. Despite befriending her and spending lots of quality time with her, the girl revealed she had been messing around at first, but had to keep playing along when Haruto spent a lot of time with her. In short, she had played with his emotions, and her reveal had broken his heart. The last day of middle school was bitter, and he left the school with a cynical and depressed attitude. It was around this time Haruto would go hiking around his house.

When he was 14, he discovered a mysterious belt buckle and a deck of metallic cards on one of his hikes. Wanting them for himself, Haruto took the buckle and cards home with him and played around with it. Placing the buckle on his waist caused a belt to wrap around and secure it in place. After some messing around, he discovered that the cards could be slotted into a section of the buckle, then used to form an armor around him. This discovery lead him to start teaching himself how to fight, and use the armor in his favor. Two years were spent honing his fighting skills and style. Crooks had been plaguing the town for quite some time, so Haruto took it upon himself to fight the criminals as a vigilante.

Now, Haruto is 16. His anti-social behaviors and contemptuous attitude prevent him from truly socializing and developing actual relationships with people. Trey remains his only true friend, but even Haruto's relationship with him isn't as strong as it was in the past. The events of his closest crush have left a sort of trauma on him, leaving him confused and thoroughly questioning his feelings and emotions. Even though he has all this swirling around in his head, Haruto is able to fight on as the anomalous vigilante "Reigai.:

Tarot Buckle
Haruto’s powers and abilities are based around his belt buckle, a technologically-sophisticated device created by an extraterrestrial race that was left behind on Earth as part of an event. This buckle, known simply as the Tarot Buckle, is a device that draws upon the power of cosmic energy via a deck of metallic cards labeled by the Arcana of a Tarot deck. It is currently unknown how many of these buckles exist, but the decks of cards that come with each buckle are able to infinitely recreate themselves and give the user a different power set with each Arcana.
 *  Armor Deck 01721  - Haruto’s deck consists of three Arcana: the Fool, the Star, and the World. Of these three, Haruto can only access the Fool, while the other two Arcana are currently locked and cannot be accessed at the moment. Therefore, their powers, abilities, and parameters are unknown at the moment. After an armor is equipped and used, when Haruto cancels out the transformation, the card will disintegrate into dust. The deck will instantly replenish its card capacity when not in use.
 * 00: The Fool - This armor grants him superhuman speed, strength, and stamina; it’s the perfect all-rounder. This unit changes Haruto’s colored armor to a dark red, with the visor being angular and displaying yellow gleaming eyes underneath. An additional single-edged longsword can also be summoned for melee combat. The Fool’s armor can project concentrated bursts of cosmic energy to act as a projectile for ranged purposes.
 * Fool's Arms: Sword - A single-edged longsword akin to a Chokuto blade, this blade can be used for melee combat when Haruto isn't punching the tar out of his opponents. Cosmic energy can be channeled into the blade to increase cutting power and also as a conduit for cosmic energy projectiles.
 * Supernatural Condition, Expert Level - The armor increases his current condition to superhuman levels, being able to destroy thick steel in several punches, punch several times in rapid succession in one second, enhance his stamina and bodily functions to allow for these superhuman changes, and such abilities. Reflexes are significantly enhanced, and he can withstand the explosion of a rocket-propelled grenade at point-blank range. After prolonged use of this armor, this supernatural condition has been slightly transferred over to Haruto’s normal body, increasing his own natural condition to near-athletic levels.
 * Cosmic Energy Projectile - By holding out his hand in a finger-gun, he can fire small pellets of cosmic energy from his fingertips as a means of ranged combat. This ability is exclusive to his armored forms.
 *  XVII: The Star  - This armor’s abilities and parameters are currently unknown.
 *  XXI: The World  - This armor’s abilities and parameters are currently unknown.

Weaknesses

 *  Sufficient Enough Damage  - If Haruto sustains enough damage in his armor, the system will automatically eject him from the armor and dissipate away so that he can equip a new armor from a new card. Each card also disintegrates into dust after each use.
 *  Social Interaction  - This is his greatest weakness, as he usually talks to people with biting satire and gets straight to the point without hesitation. Social interaction with girls is even worse for him, though he tries his best to be a gentleman around women. His lack of social interaction also leads him to not understand many jokes people make.
 *  Slight fear of Love  - Due to an event in his past, Haruto has a slight fear of falling in love. The effects of this fear have been deeply embedded in his mind, to the point where he doesn't know what the point of love is or if he'll remain alone or not.

Personality
Haruto is a quiet individual who prefers to not go noticed by people. He’s usually the one in the back of the class who keeps to himself and doesn’t make trouble for anyone. When he does socialize, he’s sardonic and very satirical, often making fun of people’s flaws or using sarcasm heavily to some extent. Cynical and blunt, Haruto expresses himself freely when conversing with others and will openly tell people their flaws or if he dislikes them.

However, if you’re able to get past that, you’ll see that Haruto is a kind, caring individual who has been hurt deeply in the past by one of his closest friends. Deep down, he wants to make friends and enjoy their company, but is too scared of losing them that he shuts himself away to prevent people from getting hurt because of him. Though not prone to violence, he will fight back if threatened sufficiently. When he fights, he’s very calm and calculating, confident in his own abilities. In fact, he’s confident enough in his abilities to taunt his opponents openly with casual remarks and side comments. He knows when to cut the taunting and get serious, when to back off, and what his own limits are. His interactions with women are shy and polite, often helping a girl in need or politely telling her if something lewd has happened while turning away so that the lady in question can fix herself without his attention on her. He tends to avoid talking to girls for fear that he’ll say something weird and embarrass himself.

He enjoys Asian food and culture, anime, manga, drawing, weapons, music, motorcycles, food, and being alone. Dislikes include Being in crowds, having to fight a more powerful opponent, not using his motorcycle, and not being able to listen to music. Some of his habits include pre-fight catchphrases, overdoing his fights, pummeling opponents to near-death sometimes. A few of his fears are losing a friend, getting a girlfriend, and embarrassing himself. However, he is very much talented at drawing, fighting, maintaining motorcycles, and living on the internet.

Appearance
Haruto is slightly pale, but has a well-toned, slightly muscular body. His hair is a darker shade of brown than you see in the picture above, almost to the point of having black hair; his hair is unkempt, but he will sometimes comb his hair up, then comb some down to form with a fringe.

His casual clothes consist of a black jacket with thumb-hole sleeves and a high collar that can button up; t-shirts of assorted colors; and faded, dark-colored jeans. He does exchange his high-collar jacket for a motorcycle jacket with a dark red border and assorted details in the same dark red as well as a black, red, and white motorcycle helmet when he rides his motorcycle.

When using the Tarot Buckle, Haruto is equipped with a black bodysuit with white-pixelated details; black boots with gold and white trim; lightweight gold armor on the shins and knees; a gold belt with ornate buckle used for transformation; a gold chest-harness with shoulder armor that has varying colors depending on the card used for transformation; lightly-armored gauntlets with armored gloves that also have card-dependent coloring; and a black helmet with a silver front and a visor design that depends on the card used in his transformation.

Trivia

 * Haruto is an avid fan of motorcycles, with a few bikes of his own at home. He has a Hyosung GD250R, a Honda CBR650F in red and white, and a Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade in black and red. Each of his bikes have been colored in a unique type of paint developed by the company his mother works at, which is embedded with color-changing nanites that allow Haruto to change each of their colors with an app on his phone.
 * Because these bikes are the only way he gets around, he has preset color schemes on his phone to let him change the color near-instantly so that he can maintain the illusion that Haruto and Reigai are two different people. To further this illusion, Haruto uses the CBR650F on a day-to-day basis while reserving the CBR1000RR for his activities as Reigai.
 * Haruto's interest in weapons is a result of a few childhood memories involving visits to his mother's workplace before and after moving, though they primarily involved firearms.
 * Drawing helps him calm down, especially when listening to music at the same time.
 * His favorite animes/manga of all time are Bleach, followed by Stardust Crusaders and Diamond is Unbreakable from JoJo's Bizarre Adventures.
 * If he were to pick a theme song for himself, he'd choose the main theme to the Diamond is Unbreakable anime adaption. He actually likes to listen to this song whenever he fights as Reigai and times his attacks and such so that they're in beat with the song whenever he can.