Akira Kuryuu (.hack//OC)

Akira Kuryuu is the main protagonist of CHRONO RiSING Trilogy under his player's name as Tokio Kuryuu, and also became protagonist in .hack//Link -ChaosWart- using his real name and his alias as Schwarz. He become central antagonist in .hack//Link 2. .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- and .hack//Link -Final Twilight.

He once again become protagonist in .hack//Link -The Final Game-.

Basic Info
Akira Kuryuu is a long-lost twin brother of Tokio Kuryuu and also Miyuki Kuryuu's older brother who was officially died due to the certain incident, but he survived and become a test subject for Doubleware, and known as Subject No.0001. The government basically hides all information about him who was still alive from his parents due to the incident in Shinjuku Laboratory, in order to continue the research for The Original Doubleware, under watch from few members of Matsunaiga family, MAMA, and Jyotaro Amagi, although he stepped down in order to work for R.A. Plan.

Prior to his officially dead as a Child, he has an excellent grade studies, sports, but he was shy and often listening what his brother say to him. Even though he's a prodigy, his main hobby is also enjoys the gaming same as his twin brother, Tokio, but he's more skillful in anything to beat the game. He has a great admiration toward his brother until he had been betrayed which causing his dead. During the Subjects as he no longer call himself as Akira, he has no sense of taste of food, or even sense of expressing toward objects or any people or being emotionless, only as a Lab rats.

The incident happens as Akira making a contact with Saika Amagi during sessions, which causing backfired at Ultimate VR Akashic World as Akira's body being recreated from her memories data and turning his appearance as his twin brother, Tokio and thus leads to event of Re: Immortal Dusk (CHRONO RISING Trilogy events).

After he got out from Akashic World, he returned to his homeplace and learn how People had move on, especially his parents who had abandoned him, including his brother. Also Saika Amagi who had forgetting her adventures time in Akashic World. Later He join forces with Helos-Pierce's Player, Luis Hoerwick to exterminated The New World Order and MAMA, thus becoming a Legendary PKK and Hackers, Schwarz, The Phantom Pain following his decision to abandoned his identity as Akira Kuryuu as he declared that he's dead, that's goes same for him as Tokio Kuryuu, the name he hated so much, deciding to become Phantom that born from his weakness and failures.

His name as Schwarz was known all over the world through rumors as his mission for assassinated the members higher rank of New World Order, he hunt down one of majority like Celebrity, Government, Doctor and many more occupation and jobs that become target who works among the ranks of NWO, he also known as the one who killed everyone who witnesses the events of assassination, that includes the child as well. He was known for his brutality, ruthless, and merciless when it comes to the mission, even soldiers, and any majority of captain forces are too afraid of him, not because his fighting skills, weaponize, martial arts, shooting, assassination, disguised and even his skills as a hacker, but he was very smartest of all because he planned it all through it's speculation, prediction, and analyze the enemies movement, his skills at battlefield was no longer to be underestimated, even military, FBI, special armies force, and more around the world are totally afraid of him. Even in the online world, his power could even surpassed all gods and Aura, which is how AIs, including Zelkova and Helba feared him after observing the surveillance movements through network online.

Just several years later, and just a year after the Fall of MAMA organization, Akira declared himself as the True Enemy of The World and become the most ultimate and largest criminal on earth who his intent to Destroy the World which is a result of the Tragedy of CC Corp Expo 2028.

Knowledge from Saika Amagi
Akira possess all Saika's Knowledge due to her memories being infused toward him during the events of LINK -RISING- and he possess any kinds of personality, movements, feelings, emotions, and communication, while also possessing all of her knowledges and her experience which he now getting used how she had experience or even copying her skills of analyzing, hacking, programming, and more which people believes that the way how he able to hacking the system or anything is much same as how Saika did, because he's now possessed by her knowledge and mental that she had most. This seems that he's adapting those from her.

Not just possessing anything from her, he also possessed by personality, emotions, and communications from someone that really important to Saika which are Tokio, Jyotaro, and AIKA which seems that what she remembered them and what they liked or was also infused to Akira as well which this is the reason why there's contradiction within Tokio's personality in Akashic World, as how Saika viewed him remind what Jyotaro was with he warmly smiled toward her which is simply due to infused of Saika memories of Jyotaro that resulting that he could show the kindness, smart and gentle which is same as her brother did. While for Tokio cases is how his goofy, braves, ridiculous and more was infused toward him which we can see how he was during CHRONO RISING Trilogy, but major errors was shown after old personality of his true self been mixed due to how much he has seen many tragedies, traumas, and suffering that he had witnessed through someone that precious that had died or being betrayed. This also caused him to have Symptoms for Personality Disorder.

And this manifestation is how negative feelings came from Saika as well due to her suffer and despair she had following AIKA's death begin affecting toward Akira as well during in Akashic World, and this shown that Saika was symptoms with a lot of trauma and tragedy that happen to her, and that's how Akira got from her. Thus begin the resulting that the Saika's self being infused within him along with her memories, knowledges and more. While the real Saika still have self, but the truth, she's empty as whole (But her old personality still there thanks to Akashic World, however, her new personality which her feelings experience in Akashic World is still there inside of her) and during the ending of RISING GEAR, he managed to recover her old memories and erasing her experience in Akashic World, which her memories will be to the point before she participating Memory Psychological session.

But the cost is how leads to her Deja Vu syndrome, with her minds and her instincts become a slave of full-love toward Akira, that's a reason why Saika reject Jyotaro's confession after free from the hospital, even refused for making relationship with other man, especially with Tokio, due to the vision of Akira as Tokio and the feels of guilt still haunting her, which means that her very instinct and love are only for Akira and making her mind think that she's a slave of love to Akira. When Akira learning the truth about this he blaming himself for unable to free her completely even after recovering her memories.

Original Doubleware
The ultimate and true form of it's Doubleware ability, a special abilities that able completely synchronize with data and thus much complete version of it's compatible toward Real Digitalization technology. Same as how it's initial version worked, allows them to be inside in virtual space in freedom without any limitation and suffering a secondary effect, the Outer Dependency Syndrome and no matter how long duration he could lived and walk in the virtual is very freedom without side-effect toward time distortion and absorbing data, it's like an everything is infinite without bounds of rules, limits, and risk. This original doubleware is not just affecting his movement in the virtual spaces, but also affecting toward his movement in the real world as a gift, but no one could ever escape a major side-effect that could happens toward his body for having that ability.


 * Online: As how the original doubleware allows him to freely being inside a Virtual Spaces without any limits, but it's also has another uses that allows him to attained superhuman strength, speed, defense, and more as it's much according to his level PC of his character and experience which his up to more than LV200 due to long experience in Akashic World and long-level up that caused him being deemed as a "overpowered", to control his power on it's level is much needed in order to keep balance during a fight. But another thing that his power is very much surpassed any gods in the online game, even to Aura herself, which it all means that he could potentially become a god as well due to his abilities can go beyond without limitation gravity, rules of psychics, and laws of nature, he's only meant to breaking the rules of the system entirely. Combining with his intelligence, martial arts, keen intellect, and all skills in the real world allows him to be able perform better with his ability as the original doubleware. Even the gods, demon, monsters, and more in highest peak of level can be beaten much easily, thus players and even the pro-players described that defeating him is too pointless.
 * Real World: Although his god strength due to the use of Original Doubleware is not even applicable in the real world. But because of those ability also influencing him in the real world, allows him to use some of his movements and abilities in the online game. People thought that real world has make him weak and unstable, but this was deemed to be untrue, because one things he had from Virtual Space during having those abilities is that his body following the instinct, that allows his body move fast when he sense the danger which is one of his ability. While the other abilities he had in the real world is just a Martial Arts, Intelligence, Keen Intellect, and more which making him much strongest and powerful even not in the real world, but risk is also there as well. But he could able to go beyond limit by train himself to the bone.
 * Major Side-Effect: Major Side-Effect is a very serious thing that needs to look at, and that's how why the research, programmers, and the team developers should not let the players reached those Doubleware abilities into Original Doubleware. Because the step to having those ability is too undergone heavy manipulating psychological, traumas, and lastly that Outer Dependency Syndrome is horribly to be a key in order to reach a final stage to unlocked the Original Doubleware. This however, brought side effects that happens in the real world, even though he became invincible in the virtual world. It caused his body having no ability to reproduce the child, driving sex, taste of food, and the worst, could possibly go on mental breakdown or disease, and Akira is one of those who had a side-effect due to his largest trauma in Akashic World that could leads to major side effect for having a the original doubleware.
 * Unless if he had someone that he really loved so much like Saika Amagi, it could lead an immensely driving him for sexual desire toward her that cause him having a sex with her, or worst he would going berserk without controlling his sanity that could lead accidentally having sex with her or even raping her if his psychological emotions is left unchecked. and that's how that Akira trying to prevent that happen and that's whole reason why his ability as Original Doubleware causing amount of risk not just to him, but to other as well, which is why his ability is a curse.

Martial Arts
His skill of Martial Arts was proven to be something that Military Force, Special Forces, FBI, SWAT and more that around the world would never and ever underestimated with. He learns all Martial arts starting with Karate, Taekwondo, Jujitsu, Kung Fu, Military Technique, CQC, and more, but people though it's impossible to learn all that martial arts in one day or in his age, which is all due to his natural skill to learn and adapt very fast after the Amagi's team programmers messing with his head through psychological manipulation that allows him to unlocked his fully fast adaptation and learn on any kinds of environments, and that includes a Martial Arts, but another fact that he learn this because he was gifted to adapted, but not truly as fast as he was now, he was considered as a fastest learner. But either for that he's still needs to practicing in order to master it completely.

He learned all Martial Arts and moves through Movies, Kenpo's Training, Tournament Boxing, Military and more, along with several hardest and ruthless training made him more invincible, it could defeat over 1000 or even 10.000 peoples or groups of yakuza who wants to defeat him, people though he was a superhuman, but he learned all because of his way of adapt and learning much faster. But another truth that one martial arts, Boxing was came learned from Seventy-Seven or his uncle in Akashic World version, which he could mastered it during RISING GEAR events due to him using Gear Knuckle and the Boxing Martial Arts that he taught Akira, which is why Boxing is the only Martial Arts he use, while all martial arts was just a sub moves for his combination because he needs to practicing it more.

But during his travel around the world for his mission to assassinate the members high ranking of New World Order as Schwarz, the Military Forces described his fighting skills is ultimately flawless, but can also totally deadly for those who tried to fight him, causing them feared him even though they try to fight against him. And it was totally meaningless for them to defeat him, because of his fighting skill was totally brutal.

This martial arts skills is also usable in the online game, but his strength, speed, and accuracy is severely increased due to influenced of Original Doubleware and God Power due to he specifically has power that surpassed the god and even Aura.

Intelligence
Even before participating Akashic Line beta test and Original Doubleware Program Trials, he's IQ was deemed to be lot higher around IQ 200-300 and he was the most promising honor student with his great study exams score, sports, and more. But unfortunately that he thought that he wouldn't even use it ever since the incident, and ever since the trials experiments he didn't bother to use it, until he met with Saika. His gifted highest IQ and smartest intelligence was only he thought as a cursed that brought to his mess, but thanks to her support and advice, he begin slowly starting to use that again.

His highest peak of intelligence with additional power of C.A.S (Creator Administrator System) and the knowledge from Saika, had brought to utilize those with his own intelligence skill, thanks to that during Assassination NWO Worldwide Mission, he able breakthrough system through his hacking and breaking the codes puzzles that no one could ever solved that, and it seems he tries to ties all things together through code which is the reason why he could able to control surveillance network system and it's administrator program that benefits him as a key to succeeded the mission. While he can also allow him to read enemies mind through facial expression, hand gestures, and body gestures which allows him to find whether the enemies lied something or not. One thing is that his detective skills and hunch skill that allows to think smartly and carefully what the enemies had planned and guessing something that leads to the trap, that's the reason that the enemies plan is always failed.

He's good at planning something very carefully, without any failures and as the military forces, and highest intelligence force are very difficult to analyze his movements and reading his plan which is why it's difficult to guessing his plan whether it's trap or not, or no one could ever predict his next move is a reason why they always been tricked by him. But even his powerful intelligence can predict the enemies movements and plans, sometimes there's a chance his prediction might had gone miscalculated without enough proofs or analyze or just being carried away, that's why he still learning through.

But even so, ever since that, he didn't have any certificates of schools because he didn't go through middle and high school, but even so he could writing the hardest exams and got a perfect scores which leads him to get scholarship, that's the reason how he could attend the University same with Saika easily. He's potentially had leadership skills, and organize skill, but he declined that offer, because he didn't want to relied his intelligence and IQ way too much, as he want to be just a normal student following his resigned from his job as a Assassin and using the name of Akihiko Hozuki to live a normal life.

Keen Intellect
When facing adversaries, Akira used his intellect and careful planning to quickly and efficiently take out his foe. As he able to analyze the enemies movements, he planning all this skills he want to use very quickly, even in a dangerous adversaries situation. Although sometimes he might gonna miscalculated it for sure which possibly causing him failed to land an attack so he rely on his martial arts or even his swordsmanship, this also how he able to do that in the online game as well, while he did not want to released his power at 100% and so using Martial Arts, Swordsmanship and Keen Intellect is very helpful to facing the enemies.

Real World
In the real world during the mission, even he had a power of the original doubleware and C.A.S. even his strength is deemed too powerful, however, it's too impossible to charge the enemies on the line at once, that's why he relying on his intelligence, keen intellect, martial arts, Gun shooting, and swordsmanship. However, his assassination mission is really deepest crucial of all without security notice, and he cannot do much risk to charge ahead against them, so he had few skills he had in order perfecting his blind cover to infiltrated the enemies base and succeed the assassination. He can also used this in online game as well.


 * Stealth: Akira as Schwarz can be able to infiltrated the enemies bases, HQ, or even their places without the security notice, he hides plain in sight and using CQC, shooting guns, or stabbing their necks in order to avoid the contact with other security for the hostiles. He planning this very carefully to avoid arises any suspicious or any damages, and do it silently to avoid enemies sight of him. According to the military's forces that no one ever saw how he able to get pass through security even thought they already arise a tight security, even they already maximize their security very tightly, and it's very considered that he able go through all security level system by also means that kill any witnesses in order to get through.
 * Parkour: He can jump through building or in any obstacle with his Parkour skill, but sometimes he could fall in any minutes if there's not enough concentration and training, so he went through harsh training from building to building in order to perfecting his skill. He can also climb through building with his gauntlet or by through some object that allow him to climb and he jump or carefully walk through rope as part of stealth style he prefer due to watching Parkour videos and playing Assassin's Creed Games that he be able to learn it fast, but to perfect those skills needs few months in order to do that with several harsher training he had. It is much benefitted useful for him during mission, as According to 9-1-1 and FBI, he was unseen on the land, but through building or skies which he able to sneak past the enemies.
 * Assassination: He played the assassination with a clean sight and he can do that with his gun or knife, but the gun with suppressor is something that he always used during the assassinate the target. He left the bodies on the area of assassination or just hide it in a place where people didn't find out, but the timing is sometimes challenging, it needs right time and right place where target position is on the right track in order to commence the operation to assassinate the target. If there's a witnesses who saw the target been assassinated, even for a child, he most likely gonna killed them, but for child sometimes he might gonna think twice, but most of the child or part of the targets family been murdered due to their as a witnesses. Sometimes he will use his brutality combat whenever the target fighting against him and so they died in most horrible ways. His methods of assassination is always play, clean and safe, but that's depend on the situation whenever they fight against him or else. If it's during military, he might find a some place that no one notice so he could perfecting his assassination.
 * Play Cover: Most of time, infiltrating the base got difficult if it reached his limit, so in order to do that he making a disguise by killing one of the officer, take their outfits and use it to disguise himself so he could be able to infiltrated the base. Or he might gonna do it again twice in order to reach the targets location and play his role of it's disguise in order to avoid target's suspicion toward him. He planned it through and sometimes he needs to learn information and background, along with communication and more in order to make a perfect disguise. But reading those according to himself is rather difficult to keep those in track, and sometimes he could make wrong communication that could arouse the suspicion toward him. So he carefully managing his plan safely and control of how to disguise a person without their notice, but that depends on situation.
 * Hacking Skills: His hacking skills is very exceptional, thanks to adds of Saika's hacking skill on his memories that he could remember how to hacking the system surveillance, network, online, and camera system surveillance. He able to unlocked the system security by hacking through the system surveillance and steal the highest classified documents from Governments and that's how he able to get the information about The Truth of Network Crisis, MAMA, CyberConnect Corporation, and Real Digitalization plan. He also able to control the traffics, online network, manipulating game sells, accounting bank and more, he used his smartphone as weapon for his hacking, but improvising is always needed in order to stabilized the hacking control with smartphone. He can also uses his hacking skill to hack the system of The WORLD online game, as he able to go through areas freely with his hacking skill or able to creating PC, or customize his PC with his own freedom, which is the same how Saika did. His hacking skill though caused the tremendous amount distortion and error toward network in The World online game.

Relationships
See Akira Kuryuu's Relationship

Trivia

 * Fans mistakenly that this character is a reboot version of Tokio Kuryuu, but in truth revealed that the player behind of Tokio is actually Akira Kuryuu all along, as how the one who using Akira's name in CHRONO RiSING Trilogy events is actually Geist.
 * In addition that fans mistakenly that reboot version of .hack//Link will took place in different routes of timeline after .hack//G.U. Vol.4 Reconnection, which is also revealed that the reboot story is actually set few months after the events of the original PSP game, .hack//Link which is now being remastered or remake as .hack//Link -Chrono Gear-. In sort, it took place between .hack//Link and .hack//Quantum.
 * Akira Kuryuu first teased it's character in the secret boss of .hack//Link -Chrono Gear-.
 * In contrast of his story difference from Tokio Kuryuu, Akira and Tokio's story refers like Dark and Light which presenting each of those stories in different matters depends of the tone story and it's atmosphere it takes.
 * Both of them presents on many different terms, for the most important that Tokio presenting the Warmth, Hope, and Lies, as for Akira he represents Cruel, Despair, and Truth.
 * His code name Schwarz in German means "Black", which symbolize the dark path that Akira and his life in the dark or in black matters. But his name has something brighter, and two of those has meaning as his doing are very much dark, but his intent is light. He's pretty much an Anti-Hero.
 * The differences between his life as Tokio Kuryuu in Akashic World with his brother's life in Immortal Dusk, as Akira's life in Akashic World filled with numerous tragedy and death as his story progress in CHRONO RiSING Trilogy event.