History Characters / ShadowHeartsYuriHyuga

** In ''Covenant'', as Yuri is coming in to give [[spoiler:Minister Ishimura]] what [[KickTheSonOfABitch he has coming]], the man's 6-year-old grandkid Kosuke barges in and shields him from Yuri, saying he can't hit his grandpa. After an initial shock at realizing that EvenEvilHasLovedOnes, he shoves the little guy away (which knocks him out cold) before beating the ever-loving shit out of his grandpa.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Yuri quite brutally [[spoiler:beats the terminally ill Minister Ishimura, the mastermind behind quite a few of Japan's more radical wrongdoings]].

* BadassUnintentional: In the first game all he wants is to contunue living without a care in the world. However, TheVoice in his head forces him to go and protect Alice. Yuri grows out of it by the end of the game.

** Not that he wasn't one already, but after meeting, Alice he somehow unlocks the power to fuse with more than one monster. While other Harmonixers also demonstrate this ability, Yuri's is the most versatile out of them.

In ''Covenant'', he now lives in a small village of Domremy, dedicating himself to protect it amidst UsefulNotes/TheGreatWar. However, he's disturbed by a secret society called ''Sapienes Gladio'', that sees him as an obstacle for their sinister schemes. Using an artifact called the Holy Mistletoe, they put a curse on Yuri, dooming him to die, unless he manages to find a cure. Accompanied by a German officer called Karin Koenig, Yuri sets out to stop the nebulous organisation.

In gameplay, Yuri is a terrifically powerful melee fighter. He's usually the strongest physical attacker in the party, and in ''Covenant'' he's one of three characters able to equip five hit areas on the Judgement Ring. His special command in both games is "Fusion", which allows him to turn into a monster, thus changing his elemental affinity and augmenting his stats, but consuming a lot of Sanity Points. In fused state he gains an additional special command - "Special Skills", which allows him to use several spells of the same element as the fusion. In exchange, in ''Covenant'' he's unable to use Magic Crests to use specific spells, and is forced to rely entirely on his own powers

* AnimalMotifs: In his official [=SH1=] art he's surrounded by a flock of crows. Crows can be associated with [[CreepyCrows threat and danger]].

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: His Japanese name, "Urmnaf", is pure gibberish, despite it, supposedly, being Russian. The translation changed it to an actual slavic name.

** In the first game's intro he barges in the train, where the BigBad attempts to capture Alice. While said BigBad gives Yuri a HopelessBossFight, it gives Alice enough time to manifest her powers and distract the baddie long enough for Yuri to punch him in the face.

** Played with in ''Covenant''. His first-tier fusions retain his general shape and fighting style, with Fire, Dark, and Light fusions looking outright humanlike, but with torn clothes. later Light fusions turn him into strange androgynous figures, that don't resemble him at all. His final fusion, however, is recycled from the previous game.
* BloodKnight: He spent over a decade WalkingTheEarth, searching out and killing monsters. {{Deconstructed}}, however, because it was more of an indirect revenge for killing his mother. He also came to fear that one day, souls of monsters he killed over the years would come for payback. It also led to him fearing his own powers, which, combined with already-TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening, didn't reflect nicely on his mental condition.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the first game, [[spoiler:at a certain point it is revealed that Yuri has absorbed too much Malice and it consequently consumes him. The rest of the team have to fight him to snap him out of it]].

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: In the first game he [[spoiler:attempts to fuse with the Seraphic Radiance, which ends with hif being overwhelmed by Malice, and on the verge of being possessed. Alice has to basically sign off on her death to save him]].
* BrokenAce: Arguably within the first ''Shadow Hearts'' due to the loss of his parents. But certainly by ''Covenant'' after [[spoiler:Alice's death]]. In both cases, Yuri is outwardly a badass without a care in the world; go into his soul at any point and it is reinforced how torn-up he is inside though.

* ButNotTooForeign: He's half-Japanese and half-Russian. In the first game, his heritage is name-dropped purely for RuleOfCool purposes, but it's actually worked into the plot of the sequel. Also, in ''Covenant'' it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's very likely half-''German'', and not Russian, because, as it turns out, his mother is time-displaced Karin. He, however, does tells Anastasia that he's raised at least in part as a Russian]].

* CharacterDevelopment: He starts as a standoffish IneffectualLoner who more or less wants to be left alone, but TheVoice forces him to go do things. Over the course of the game he becomes more willing to do heroic deeds, and eventually conquers his fear of his own powers. By the end of the game, he's a genuinely heroic individual, who has no beef towards even the BigBad. In the sequel, when he's cursed with the Holy Mistletoe, he goes to dismantle the evil conspiracy not for vengeance, but because he considers their goals to be dangerous for the world. Eventually he [[spoiler:comes to terms with Alice's death]], and learns that [[spoiler:to break the curse he needs to find true happiness]]. Eventually, he succeeds by following his own philosophy - to live the life his own way. He [[spoiler:allows himself to be killed to preserve his memories from the curse, and gets his desire to be happy by being sent to the past, now able to save Alice]].
* CrazySane: Yuri mentally absorbs strife from those he defeats, as a result he is constantly just a handful of fights away from going permanently insane/possessed; However, because of this, Yuri/The Player must make a habit of consistently dealing with his figurative/literal inner-demons. There is a reason his Sanity Points dwarf nearly everyone else’s.

* CursedWithAwesome: He seems to think about his Harmonixer powers as a curse. Now, how exactly turning into super-powered monsters sounds like a curse? {{Justified|Trope}}, however, because he's afraid of his powers as a result of his TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening.

** In his introduction he shrugs off getting his arm sliced off by a Wind Shear, catches it, and crushes its head, before reattaching said arm back. An impressive feat, given that said monster is fast enough to [[ParryingBullets parry bullets]], as shown in the same cutscene.
** In ''Covenant'', when he [[spoiler:regains Amon's soul, he utterly destroy Rasputin's friggin' airship all by himself!]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Yuri's backstory. His mother died protecting him from monsters that were sent to kill them under Dehuai's orders, and his resulting rage forced him to transform for the first time. He then came to some time later, naked, covered in blood, and surrounded by the torn-apart corpses of the creatures that he had killed. After spending the night crying and clinging to his mother's dead body, he then ran off into the night, never to return. This happened when he was ten. He then wandered the land, killing monsters he came across, all while secretly fearing that souls of these monsters will eventually come back for vengeance.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Yuri literally punches out [[GodOfEvil Demon Gods]] and other monstrosities on a regular basis, thus earning the tittle of '''Godslayer'''. It's really all in a day's work for our Harmonixer hero. By the end of ''Covenant'' he has defeated [[spoiler:a god summoned from the soul of the planet itself, an alien EldritchAbomination, three Demon Gods, and one of most powerful gods of Japan]]. And that's not going into {{Superboss}}es, which include more demons, gods, magicians, etc.

* TheDreaded: By the time ''Covenant'' rolls around, Yuri is known and feared by various secres societies. ''Sapientes Gladio'' specifically goes out of its way to track him down and curse him with the Holy Mistletoe - which is, frankly, a bit overkill, given that it was initially meant to kill [[spoiler:Albert, the BigBad of the previous game]].

* EmptyShell: In ''Covenant'', [[spoiler:this is, technically, his fate if the player gets the bad ending. Yuri loses all of his memories, and Roger takes it on himself to take care of him. Downplayed a bit, because he's definitely not catatonic or whatever, and retains some of his usual demeanor. Yuri that we knew is still dead, though]].

* EnemyWithout: It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:Fox Face]] is a manifestation of his fear to lose himself to the monster he's fusing with.

* ExperiencedProtagonist: By the start of the first game he has been hunting monsters for about fifteen years already.
* EyeBeams: His "Demon Rays" attack in Amon form has him fire out a massive beam from both of his eyes. The beam sweeps upwards in the first game, but fired straight in the sequel.

** From his very introduction, he has been trying to protect Alice - albeit not entirely on his own will at first. [[spoiler:Alice then sacrifices herself to save Yuri from the Malice that has been consuming him.]] Yuri never quite gets over it.
** To a slightly lesser extent, in the second game he has been trying to protect the village of Domremy - only to be stabbed with the Holy Mistletoe, cursed, and almost die. While living in Domremy, Yuri befriended a little girl called Jeanne, who was taken hostage by villains, and accidentally killed. [[spoiler:Yuri doesn't dwell on it that much only because Jeanne's soul ends up in his MentalWorld, and specifically tells that she wants to help him]].
* FateWorseThanDeath: In ''Covenant'' he considers [[spoiler:losing his soul to the Mistletoe Curse]] to be this. [[spoiler:That's why in the good ending he chooses to die to preserve his memories, instead of becoming an EmtyShell.]]

* {{Foil}}: Towards the BigBad of the second game. Both have [[spoiler:lost the woman they love, and both have tried and failed to ressurect her]]. However, where [[spoiler:Masaji Kato]] gave into nihilism and tries to remake the world, Yuri accepted it, and fights to protect the world instead.

* GenerationXerox: He looks extremely similar to his father, Jinpachiro Hyuga. In the first game he also follows his father's footsteps in fighting Dehuai, albeit with a large difference in [[spoiler:actually ''surviving'' the attempt to fuse with the god summoned by the warlock]].

* GratuitousLatin: Most of his fusions in ''Covenant'' are called with mangled Latin words. Somnion - from "somni", Libertis - from "libertas", and so on.
* GrinOfAudacity: He is so snarky and indignant that it's part of his default portrait in ''Shadow Hearts''. In ''Covenant'' he continues to invoke it frequently in nearly every scene, but it's no longer part of his default character photo... For obvious reasons when you think about it.

* HeadCrushing: In the first game's intro he kills a Wind Shear by catching it and effortlessly crushing its head with one hand.
* HearingVoices: In the first game, a mysterious voice tells him to do things, and punishes him with a severe headache, if he disobeys. This is exactly why Yuri was on the same train as Alice - the voice told him to save her. Yuri initially thinks that he's going insane, but eventually it's revealed to be [[spoiler:Koudelka from the [[VideoGame/{{Koudelka}} eponymous game]], guiding him in order to stop the BigBad]]. It's implied that Yuri is susceptible to hearing it thanks to his powers.

* HenshinHero: His Harmonixer powers enable him to fuse with souls of monsters into several distinct forms, each with its own ElementalPowers. In his Amon fusion he even strikes some {{Tokusatsu}}-escue poses.
* HeroicLineage: His father also have been a hero, who also had the power of fusion. In ''Covenant'' it's revealed that [[spoiler:his family, the Hyuga clan, have been protectors of the Inugami village for generations]].
* HeroicWillpower: It's unspecified how long Mistletoe Curse would take to kill someone else, but the fact that Yuri resisted it with sheer willpower for six months and survived several attempts to speed it up is noted to be exceptional.

* ImmuneToBullets: In his Amon form rifle bullets are shown to bounce off him. Not surprising, given that even TheGoomba from the first game can parry bullets.

** In the Japanese version, he's almost never reffered to with his full first name - "Urmnaf". It's just "Uru" most of the time.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: He strikes a friendship with much older Roger, Gepetto and Zhuzhen. On the other side of the trope, he befriends eight-years-old Jeanne.
* InTheBlood: His power of Fusion comes from his father. Yuri even inherits his final Dark fusion, Czernobog. In ''Covenant'' it's revealed that [[spoiler:Harmonixers' powers are indeed inherited. Yuri even encounters his cousin, who is also a Harmonixers]].
* JackOfAllStats: His various Fusion forms allow him to take on any role, compensating for his inability to use Crest Magic. His only AchillesHeel is when the enemy is strong against the element that the player needs right now. Say, you desperately need healing against Fire-element enemy, and has Yuri morph into Water fusion, and then recieves far more damage, than he could otherwise.

* KnightInSourArmor: Yuri is a cynical BrokenAce, who, nonetheless, fights to save the world.

* LimitedLoadout: In the first game he can equip only three fusion souls at most.

* MagicPants: In most of his fusions he loses all of his clothes, which then reappear after cancelling the transformation. His first-tier Light, Dark, and Fire fusions in ''Covenant'' also retain some of his clothes, but in torn state, which is then magically fixed after defusing.
* MagneticHero: Played with. Yuri is curt even with the ones he gets along with, and people party members have to force themselves into the group.

* MentalWorld: The Graveyard is a place within Yuri's mind, where he can unlock new fusions and, in the first game, purify his Malice. It also serves as [[spoiler:a residence for Jeanne's and Albert's souls, who were accidentally pulled into his mind. In ''Covenant'' Yuri is periodically summoned here by Jeanne to discuss his curse, while Albert makes peace with Yuri after he unlocks his Amon fusion]].
* MindHive: As it turns out, [[spoiler: he accidentally pulls certain souls (usually of those who died near him) into the Graveyard. While he just dominates monster souls to fuse with them, human souls retain their consciousness, and can sometimes communicate with Yuri. Known residents of the Graveyard include Ben Hyuga, Jeanne, and Albert]].
* MommasBoy: At-heart, though he doesn’t like to acknowledge it considering his macho exterior and the pain of associated with his mother’s death.

* TheMourningAfter: He's still not over [[spoiler: Alice's sacrifice]] as of the second game.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: All of his Fire fusions in the original game are four-armed demons. They also provide largest physical attack bonuses on their tier, losing only to the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One Fusion]] [[spoiler:Seraphic Radiance]].
* MultiformBalance: Each of his fusions provides different bonuses to his stats, and allows him to play different roles - physical or magical attacker, healer, or support. Expanded in the second game, where he can fuse more freely (thanks to his fusions now consuming only a little bit of Sanity Points, but on every turn), and can contribute to different stages of {{Combination Attack}}s. High-angle, low-angle, multi-hit, single-hit - each of his forms puts something unique on the table.

* NothingPersonal: He doesn't hold any personal grudge towards either of {{Big Bad}}s of both games. He knows that they are {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s, who want to radically change the world. But even if these changes would have been for the better, he chooses to protect the world he knows and loves.
-->'''Yuri''': ''Let's promise then. No matter who wins, no hard feelings, eh?''

** In the first game, after [[spoiler:failing to fuse with the Seraphic Radiance]], he's overwhelmed by Malice, and the party has to beat some sense in him. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it also takes Alice to offer her life to the Four Masks be taken in place of his. In the canon ending, she dies because of this.]]
** In the second game's bad ending he [[spoiler:gets his soul killed, which means that he loses all of his memories, and can't remember even his own name. It's implied that Yuri we knew is dead, and the one we see in this ending is essentially a new person in the same body]].

* OppositesAttract: He is a rude and cynical drifter, who comes close and personal with his enemies, while Alice is a sweet and gentle WhiteMagicianGirl from a well-off family. They even have opposite elements - Dark and Light. And yet, they love each other.

** In the first game his third-tier Light fusion is Sandalphon - a specific archangel in Judaism and Christianity. Here, however, it is a weird, legless, leviating being, adorned with inexplicably ancient-Egypt-like decorations.
** His strongest Wind fusion, meanwhile, is "Seravi" - a misspelling of "seraph". It is said to be "formed from the soul of a Roc", as in RocBirds, who don't have anything to do with Abrahamic religions at all. The fusion itself looks more like a harpy.

** His final fusions in both games, [[spoiler:Seraphic Radiance and Dark Seraphim]] are angelic figures, that cross the BishonenLine and appear as just naked Yuri with black wings. They are actually [[spoiler:a soul of a god, incarnated from the very soul of the planet]].
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: His second- and third-tier Water fusions in ''Covenant'' are Eastern-style dragons, who are said to be a "spirit of the ocean" and a "god of water" respectively. These forms has no usable limbs, and their physical attacks are carried out with a pair of floating fists of some kind.

** In the first game he clutches his head when fusing. It's later revealed that it causes him mental pain because he's afraid of losing himself to the monster he's fusing with. Yuri later grows out of it, after [[spoiler:he defeats the manifestation of his fears, Fox Face]].
** In ''Covenant'' he clutches his chest instead. It's implied to be the result of the Mistletoe Curse, as it takes a toll on his physical condition. Yuri stops doing it after [[spoiler:he finds out what makes him happy, and decides to die, instead of living on as an EmptyShell]].
* PeggySue: ''Covenant'' reveals that [[spoiler:the good ending of the original game can be possible only if Yuri goes through the good ending of the second game and goes back in time, with knowledge how to save Alice. It, obviously, messes with the timeline, and prevents events of ''Covenant'' from happening as they did]].

** Most of his Light fusions (aside from the first-tier one in ''Covenant) permanently float, albeit in the first game mainly due to the lack of legs.

* PowerUpLetdown: In both games, his first-tier Water and Light fusions actually ''lower'' some of his stats. In the second game it can be fixed by putting some Soul Energy into them; in the first - not so much.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: In the opening sequence of the first game he reattaches his arm, that was sliced off by a Wind Shear. He never uses this ability again, and [[GameplayAndStorySegregation doesn't even have any kind of regeneration in gameplay]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is he a Harmonixer or a Harmonizer? The former spelling was used in the first game, and the latter - everywhere else.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:This is especially the case during his BrainwashedAndCrazy stint]]

** In the good ending of ''Covenant'' we learn that [[spoiler:his existence is an ontological paradox. Specifically, it's all but stated, that Karin, who ends up in 1887, will end up becoming his mother. However, for her to be time displaced requires her to travel with Yuri... Which would be impossible, if not for a time loop]].
** [[spoiler:Yuri's PeggySue status in the same good ending may bring forth another one. Since it's implied that he now knows how to save Alice, he will likely prevent events of ''Covenant'' from happening, thus preventing Karin from going to the past and becoming his mother]].

** Not that he wasn't one already, but after meeting Alice he somehow unlocks the power to fuse with more than one monster. While other Harmonixers also demonstrate this ability, Yuri's is the most versatile out of them.
** Around midpoint of the first game, he comes to terms with his powers and conquers his fears. After that, he becomes much more effective and badass. Not screaming in terror each time he fuses definitely helps.

** In the first game he wears one belt normally, and three more around the waist, over his longcoat.
** In the second game he wears two belts around his waist. His jacket is fastened with two belts in front, and has a belt on each cuff. His pouch also has two belts hanging from it (subject to JigglePhysics, no less). Oh, and concept art reveals that his boots are also fastened with two straps each.
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: His first transformation happened when he saw monster killing his mother. He slaughtered them all in a blind rage, and then found himself naked and covered in blood. He then clung to his mother's corpse for a full night. All that happened when he was about ten years old. No wonder fusion mentally hurts him.

* UnknownRival: Nicolai hated Yuri's guts ever since [[spoiler:Yuri has dealt with the BigBad of the first game]]. Naturally, Yuri has no clue that someone wants to kill him that much.

* WalkingTheEarth: Before he started hearing TheVoice that eventually led him to meet Alice, he wandered throughout easter Eurasia, killing whatever monsters he came across.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: The Mistletoe's curse that he was hit with at the beginning of ''Covenant'' is eventually going to kill him. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that it's a physical death, though. It's going to rob him of his soul and memories, leaving him an EmptyShell]]. Yuri's strong willpower allows him to endure the curse for over six months, but it finally catches up to him at the end of the story.

* {{BFS}}: His higher-level Fire fusions in Covenant get a pretty big sword to work with. His max-level Fire fusion, when using the Inferno attack, throws his sword away and conjures up an ''[[UpToEleven even bigger]]'' sword from a ring of flames.

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