History Characters / UnderNightInBirthHydeKido

* InnocentCohabitation: With Linne and Vatista. The innocent part is helped by the fact that they're way too young physically for him.

* CovertPervert: Hyde tries to come off as someone that is pretty unmoved around pretty girls, but when chronicle mode was added the audience gets to see his thoughts more often and it shows that this definitely is not the case. [[BuxomIsBetter Especially if they have large chests]].

** He also seems to think BuxomIsBetter. He's not impressed with Linne or Nanase's figures and his flustered reactions to Vatista seem to be more worried that she has no sense of modesty. But he fantasizes about feeling Yuzuriha's body when carrying Nanase and his first encounter with Hilda starts with him ranting internally about how big her boobs are. He even guesses that she became so powerful [[DistractedByTheSexy because all her opponents were distracted by them]] before thinking that he's probably the one being most distracted by them and how confusing it is that the notoriously evil and strong Paradox is so attractive. Orie is pretty far from flat as well.

** On Vatista's end, he first encounters her while she's completely naked, and she goes on to save him from Hilda later on. The aftermath is just loaded with this, between praising her strength in battle, inviting her to live with him after seeing she has nowhere to go, grabbing her hand to bring her to meet Linne. Vatista is the only girl who defends his character in Nanase's arcade mode and [[MayflyDecemberRomance promises to remember his name even after he dies while she sleeps]]. It doesn’t stop there, Vatista’s Chronicle story reveals that [[spoiler: Hyde’s Insulator was created from her seventh wing, giving them a connection that transcends the bounds of fate. The sword also is implied to still have some of Vatista's will in it and is overprotective of Hyde to the point of being dangerous.]] The creators ''then'' went on to state that Vatista's [[ElegantGothicLolita fashion]] [[MegaTwintails sense]] was tailor made to suit what Hyde considers [[HasAType most attractive]]. Vatista only avoids being an ImpliedLoveInterest from the sheer amount of sub-text by virtue of Orie's presence in the story.

* SirSwearsALot: Seriously, this kid is just as loud & as vulgar as ''[[Franchise/BlazBlue Ragna the Bloodedge]]''. Possibly even worse.

* GlassCannon: Hyde has very high damage potential, yet is tied with Wagner and Londrekia for having the 2nd lowest health counts in the game.

* JackOfAllStats[=/=]{{Shotoclone}}: As per usual, and thus meaning many professional players will really have to play at their best to use him well. But like several examples with the latter trope, Hyde has his own unique touches/moves to help differentiate from other shotos out there, with the biggest twists being his fireball/projectile followups and possessing two different types of projectile attacks. Though in terms of playstyle, Hyde focuses both on fundamentals and large-ranged whiff-punishment on his normals, lest he himself gets whiff/block-punished as hard due to his risky and laggy specials.
** However, he does lack solid mixup, since his Force Function, Strict Daze[[note]]Shoukoku no Zansai (Vestige of Cruelty)[[/note]], is his only grounded-overhead attack that needs to be fully charged up first.
*** GlassCannon: Another subversion to his JackOfAllStats status, since as of Exe: Late[st] he has the same HP amount as Wagner, with the both of them just having the second-lowest HP totals in the game with Seth's being the lowest. GameplayAndStoryIntegration accounts for that fact that seen down below, Hyde is just an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent; no doubt his durability is on the low end when his prior training has amounted to just a few months.

* BadassAdorable: Quite a[[NiceGuy kind]] in his day-to-day life, which helped him garner a laundry list of female admirers. He also wields one of the deadliest weapons in the game's entire setting.

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'''Profile'''
* Height: 171 cm (5'7")
* Weight: 55 kg (121 lbs)
* Blood type: O
* Date of Birth: April 14th
* Weapon: The Insulator
* EXS ability: Void Red
* Known alias: The Unknown Actor]

* MulticoloredHair: Blonde at the front, black at the back.

Hyde awakens to his ability, the EXS of Darkness[[note]]Literally Jet-Black[[/note]]: '''Void Red''', which manifests together with the ability to call forth the legendary sword, the '''Indulgence of Insulating''', otherwise known as the '''Insulator'''. Aside from its already formidable capabilities of slaying immortals, his EXS ability grants the manipulation of flame-like shadows that is commanded with the sword, apparently influenced by his affinity to the color black. Hyde's powers however are especially draining on his person as he struggles to completely maintain his abilities and is seen gasping for air or having his right arm convulse with pain if he over-exerts himself. Sometimes, he states that he feels like his body moves on its own accord during combat. He is shown to be able to draw out the Insulator from one of his palms. In game-play terms, Hyde's unique mechanic is tied to his blade where all of his sword-based normals deal chip damage, strengthening the quality of his impressive pressure game. His Force Function, '''Strict Daze'''[[note]](or Vestige of Cruelty)[[/note]], is a large empowered slash that deals significant chip damage when blocked and sends opponents flying if landed, with its effects increasing if fully charged. His Infinite Worth, '''Gyre Vortex''', sees Hyde planting the Insulator in the ground beneath him, bringing forth a violent geyser of darkness-tainted EXS.\\\

--> ''[[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening He awakens]]. [[TheDulcineaEffect In order to free the girl]] [[WhoWantsToLiveForever from the chains of eternity that seal her fate]].''\\
''The power burning within him is [[DarkIsNotEvil the Void]]. The blade he carries, [[SoulCuttingBlade the Insulator]].''\\

''to reclaim everything, and return it to nothingness.''

-->''[[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening He awakens]]. [[TheDulcineaEffect In order to free the girl]] [[WhoWantsToLiveForever from the chains of eternity that seal her fate]].''\\

* Known alias: The Unknown Actor ]
-> A second-year high school student who was attacked by a Void on his walk back home from school. His life was saved by Linne, a strange girl he became acquainted with a few days earlier. Having awakened as an In-Birth, he is taken under Linne's wing and begins training under her and her companion Waldstein preparing himself for when the Hollow Night comes again. His association with Linne quickly earns him a reputation out in the night as the Unknown Actor, and later gains further notoriety by his possession of a particular blade. In his regular life, he is close friends with Orie, a childhood friend to Yuzuriha, and [[UnknownRival unknowingly becomes a rival to Seth.]] [[IJustWantToBeNormal Hyde hates all of this confusion and chaos injected into his life and just wants to go back to his boring normal days]], but [[TheDulcineaEffect not without doing everything he can for Linne first]].

-> Hyde awakens to his ability, the EXS of Darkness[[note]]Literally Jet-Black[[/note]]: '''Void Red''', which manifests together with the ability to call forth the legendary sword, the '''Indulgence of Insulating''', otherwise known as the '''Insulator'''. Aside from its already formidable capabilities of slaying immortals, his EXS ability grants the manipulation of flame-like shadows that is commanded with the sword, apparently influenced by his affinity to the color black. Hyde's powers however are especially draining on his person as he struggles to completely maintain his abilities and is seen gasping for air or having his right arm convulse with pain if he over-exerts himself. Sometimes, he states that he feels like his body moves on its own accord during combat. He is shown to be able to draw out the Insulator from one of his palms. In game-play terms, Hyde's unique mechanic is tied to his blade where all of his sword-based normals deal chip damage, strengthening the quality of his impressive pressure game. His Force Function, '''Strict Daze'''[[note]](or Vestige of Cruelty)[[/note]], is a large empowered slash that deals significant chip damage when blocked and sends opponents flying if landed, with its effects increasing if fully charged. His Infinite Worth, '''Gyre Vortex''', sees Hyde planting the Insulator in the ground beneath him, bringing forth a violent geyser of darkness-tainted EXS.

-> His Chronicle Mode story is called ''A Reluctant Hero'', the penultimate Chronicle Mode episode which details Hyde returning home from his nightly training before he encounters a mysterious figure out in the night who bids him to meet with Amnesia's boss.

!!!Voiced by: Creator/RyoheiKimura (Japanese), Creator/KyleMcCarley (English, ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle'')

** This came full circle when Hyde got his own ''[=BlazBlue=]'' expy in the form of Naoto Kurogane, who shares even more traits along side the above that they both share with Ragna like being an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent and tendency to run into disastrous women but still want to help them. Naoto even has an identical haircut and IdiotHair, and even has a fighting style that gives him defensive bypassing options (Hyde has ScratchDamage on ''all'' of his sword-based moves; Naoto can charge his unique mechanic-based attacks for a guard break), and are also both glass cannons who have the second-lowest HP pools out of the rest of the cast.
*** JustifiedTrope: WordOfGod stated that Hyde's creator directly sought advice from Toshimichi Mori himself (the director of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'') on how to design a protagonist such as Hyde.

* StockLightNovelHero: He hits a few ticks from this trope. Namely, he's a rather plain looking high schooler who awakens to a powerful ability and has quite a few girls implied to have deeper feelings for him. He does subvert the usual personality traits, being an IdiotHero. While he does acquire a powerful ability, he's considered a complete greenhorn compared to the more experienced cast members and he's firmly UnskilledButStrong. Makes sense given the developers being the ones who made [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood a spin off to a visual novel ]].

* BadassAdorable: Quite {{Adorkable}} and [[NiceGuy kind]] in his day-to-day life, which helped him garner a laundry list of female admirers. He also wields one of the deadliest weapons in the game's entire setting.

* StockLightNovelHero: He hits a few ticks from this trope. Namely, he's a rather plain looking high schooler who awakens to a powerful ability and has quite a few girls implied to have deeper feelings for him. He does subvert the usual personality traits, being an {{Adorkable}} IdiotHero. While he does acquire a powerful ability, he's considered a complete greenhorn compared to the more experienced cast members and he's firmly UnskilledButStrong. Makes sense given the developers being the ones who made [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood a spin off to a visual novel ]].

* MistakenForPedophile: Due to having [[BornAgainImmortality Linne]] [[Really700YearsOld and]] [[RobotGirl Vatista]] as companions, Nanase ends up identifying Hyde as one and adds it to her [[PaedoHunt imaginary rap list.]]

A second-year high school student who was attacked by a Void on his walk back home from school. His life was saved by Linne, a strange girl he became acquainted with a few days earlier. Having awakened as an In-Birth, he is taken under Linne's wing and begins training under her and her companion Waldstein preparing himself for when the Hollow Night comes again. His association with Linne quickly earns him a reputation out in the night as the Unknown Actor, and later gains further notoriety by his possession of a particular blade. In his regular life, he is close friends with Orie, a childhood friend to Yuzuriha, and [[UnknownRival unknowingly becomes a rival to Seth.]] [[IJustWantToBeNormal Hyde hates all of this confusion and chaos injected into his life and just wants to go back to his boring normal days]], but [[TheDulcineaEffect not without doing everything he can for Linne first]].

Hyde awakens to his ability, the EXS of Darkness[[note]]Literally Jet-Black[[/note]]: '''Void Red''', which manifests together with the ability to call forth the legendary sword, the '''Indulgence of Insulating''', otherwise known as the '''Insulator'''. Aside from its already formidable capabilities of slaying immortals, his EXS ability grants the manipulation of flame-like shadows that is commanded with the sword, apparently influenced by his affinity to the color black. Hyde's powers however are especially draining on his person as he struggles to completely maintain his abilities and is seen gasping for air or having his right arm convulse with pain if he over-exerts himself. Sometimes, he states that he feels like his body moves on its own accord during combat. He is shown to be able to draw out the Insulator from one of his palms. In game-play terms, Hyde's unique mechanic is tied to his blade where all of his sword-based normals deal chip damage, strengthening the quality of his impressive pressure game. His Force Function, '''Strict Daze'''[[note]](or Vestige of Cruelty)[[/note]], is a large empowered slash that deals significant chip damage when blocked and sends opponents flying if landed, with its effects increasing if fully charged. His Infinite Worth, '''Gyre Vortex''', sees Hyde planting the Insulator in the ground beneath him, bringing forth a violent geyser of darkness-tainted EXS.

His Chronicle Mode story is called ''A Reluctant Hero'', the penultimate Chronicle Mode episode where it details Hyde returning home from his nightly training before he encounters a mysterious figure out in the night who bids him to meet with Amnesia's boss.

* GlassCannon: Hyde has very high damage potential, yet is tied with Wagner for having the 2nd lowest health counts in the game.

* {{Adorkable}}: Things like [[{{Squee}} his reaction to Merkava]], [[CovertPervert his awkwardness around attractive women]] and [[SeinfeldianConversation goofy conversation about random things related to Phonon's whip]] are only a couple of the instances in the game where Hyde does something cute and dorky. This is in stark contrast to his outward appearance, which tends to throw off some other characters that get to know him.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: DownplayedTrope, seeing as he ''is'' TheProtagonist, but Linne's chronicle mode is more about Hyde than it is about her. A good three-fourths of it is how she first met him and how he became an In-Birth as well as how he goes about his everyday life. Linne also spends most of her chronicle analyzing Hyde's personality and frequently internally monologues about his various quirks.

[[caption-width-right:350: '''[[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent The young boy, victim of chance and coincidence.]]''']]

[[caption-width-right:350: [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent The young boy, victim of chance and coincidence.]]]]

Hyde awakens to his ability, the EXS of Darkness[[note]]Literally Jet-Black[[/note]]: '''Void Red''', which manifests together with the ability to call forth the legendary sword, the '''Indulgence of Insulating''', otherwise known as the '''Insulator'''. Aside from its already formidable capabilities of slaying immortals, his EXS ability grants the manipulation of flame-like shadows that is commanded with the sword, apparently influenced by his affinity to the color black. Hyde's powers however are especially draining on his person as he struggles to completely maintain his abilities and is seen gasping for air or having his right arm convulse with pain if he over-exerts himself. Sometimes, he states that he feels like his body moves on its own accord during combat. He is shown to be able to draw out the Insulator from one of his palms. In game-play terms, Hyde's unique mechanic is tied to his blade where all of his sword-based normals deal chip damage, strengthening the quality of his impressive pressure game. His Force Function, '''Strict Daze''' (or Vestige of Cruelty), is a large empowered slash that deals significant chip damage when blocked and sends opponents flying if landed, with its effects increasing if fully charged.

* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7RcBzh968w Scraper Sky High]]'', as well as ''[[https://youtu.be/YyoehzNsAzY Mutual Situation]]'' for matches against [[TheRival Seth.]]

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[[caption-width-right:250: [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent The young boy, victim of chance and coincidence.]]]]

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