Hisao Susumu

Hisao Susumu
Aliases The Captain Age 30 (Alter timeline) Gender Male Species Human Homeworld Euthora
Domain Release [temporary] Soul Phantasms Contenimpery, Astral Projection
Affiliations Azuman Sea Command, Asunami Nuclear Squadron 3 Relatives Takao Susumu (brother), Goro Kodotsuta(cousin)

"We all start somewhere. It’s my job to make sure our roots aren’t cut. /That/ is bravery."

— Hisao during a confrontation with a racist station car rider in Chapter Five of "Strange Chemistry"

Hisao Kitadōro Susumu is the main protagonist of Strange Chemistry and one of the youngest ranking captains of the Azuman colony Navy.

In alter timeline, he is introduced during a sideplot story as a sort of guide and companion to Emma Isokoski after encountering her in his own home island of Azuma.

Appearance

Hisao is tall with a body type of a lean man, standing at 6'3" but having some more developed muscles on his legs, despite being rather slow.

He has slightly wavy dark brown hair neatly combed with a good portion of it combed frontwards and styled up like a sort of horn. Hisao is rather organized, showing that kind of personality trait with the limited amount of clothes he wears on a day-to-day basis. Not one to really stray onto wearing extravagant and often out-worldly garbs, nor traditional ones of his people, Hisao usually sticks to just a white button up shirt, dark brown or black pants with straps that rest on his shoulders to keep them from falling, black worker shoes and a fabric ivy cap (also known as a newsboy cap)

When at work or generally when he is deployed somewhere, his basic attire is replaced with a black thick coat neatly tucked in with his equally colored pants, midnight blue shoulder pads and white short fabric gloves. The ivy cap is replaced with a white captain's hat with the classic black visor and gold adornments.

Personality

A gentle soul to many, Hisao does not carry himself highly as he should with the position he carries in the navy. There is a general positive aura around him that often makes it easy for the man to communicate effectively and form connections with little to no effort. Generally fearless in putting himself "out there" and not taking any offense to anyone who critisizes his tastes, Hisao is seen as someone who generally marches under his own drum.

There is a sort of kindness within him that he spends his time trying to use and gain a general sense of self-fulfillment. As shown with his encounter with Emma in Strange Chemistry, Hisao often pushes himself towards self improvement in keeping relations and making sure people around him are happy, even though inwardly he constantly feels insecure about his attempts at being kind.

Though having the potential to become great, the young Captain has little to no desire to be that way. There is a general satisfaction he carries with himself, showing that he is confident and well of self-esteem. Out of the entire cast, Hisao seems to be the most average and mild-mannered...and prefers to keep it as such.

Apart from all that, complexity does not escape him. Under his general happy and gentle demeanor lies a fiery will and passion. It is almost easy to offend him with very sensitive issues that are personal and he takes fierce guardianship over protecting marginalized groups and cultural ideas. Though willing to put his all in helping, as shown in Chapter 9 of Strange Chemistry, at one point in his childhood Hisao was a rather timid coward when he failed to stand up for his cousin Goro from abuse.

Trivia

• Hisao's full name can be roughly translated as "Proceeding the long lived man of the Northern Gate."