Yu the Red Panda

This is an article about Yu, the fursona of Paladin-Sior.

Yuniko "Yu" Masako Himura is the fursona of Zion/Paladin. Being raised and brought up by a regular and wealthy family, he would have been brought up to be a working, stable fifteen-year-old. That all changed when the adolescent became very aware of the world's terrors. Maybe too aware. He saw the world as it truly is. A world full of idiots, lying politicians, terrorists, and madmen. He began to believe that the world will end in chaos and terror, bringing himself down trying to get up. Now, older and wiser, equipped with vastly more courage and knowledge, he's gotten past his ridiculous, paranoid nature and ready to accept his life as it is.

Physical Appearance
Yu looks like a regular red panda. He has similar features to a regular red panda, including the mask (which the creator cannot draw) and small stature. He stands at three feet, four inches and weighs seventy-two pounds. He has brilliant electric blue eyes that seem like they're glowing (which is hinting the large amount of energy flowing through his body). He has flipped long hair that goes down to his chest. Strangely, one of his "eyebrows" is in three sections, as he requested.

Due to changes in his life, he decided to let his eyebrows go back to normal and change his style up.

Regular Attire
Yu is usually seen with a black dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up and the collar up, a red undershirt shirt with black letters spelling "PANDA" horizontal. He also wearing black jeans, and black and red hi-top sneakers.

He also has a black scarf around his neck and a white watch. He also is wearing white, wireless headphones. The creator finds most of the inspiration from the Persona 4 character Yosuke Hanamura in his appearance in Persona 4: Dancing All Night, with the exclusion of the watch, which is more of Yu Narukami.

Alternate/Summer Attire
In the summer/spring days, he is usually seen wearing a dark blue, short-sleeved dress shirt, black skinny jeans, and dress shoes. This is also complimented by a black tie and a detective's cap.

This alternate outfit is inspired by Naoto Shirogane's summer outfit in Persona 4.

Personality
Yu is silent and kind when you first meet him. He is usually seen reading a book or drawing, and maybe walking around. If you approach him, he'll be courteous enough to start a friendly conversation and being honest.

Yu is changed from his "Niko" side. He is now more quieter and a lot more strict with his ways as well. He is also way more productive than usual. He takes time out of his day to actually do something besides slack off now. He lives life to the fullest instead of just wallowing away at the sight of the world crumbling.

Like his "Niko" side, he still has that wonderful Deadpan Snarker attitude, and he still retains the Only Sane Man shtick. He also seems pretty whimsical for a 13-year-old kid, pointing out the many flaws in a plan or in a person and accepting them for who they are. Furthermore, he has become a lot more serious with his knowledge, and admitting he doesn't know much about most things.

Niko is actually quite manipulative and calculating. He can act from bitter to eccentric in seconds, and easily suck the information out of someone. His cuteness and humor also support this, as he can easily fit into any crowd anywhere. He uses this to get out of sticky situations, earns someone's trust for information, or manipulate someone to do his bidding.

Around his friends, he acts less bitter. He does keep his quiet nature, but he shows some signs of humor and happiness, but only rarely. If one does manage to become his friend, Yu would expect the person to not lie or betray him, put their complete trust in him, and respect and appreciate him. If said person does that, they shall receive the same treatment. Yu honestly wants to see his friends happy, and he wants to see them improve in whatever they're invested in.

Deep down, Yu wants peace. He fights himself at night because of his ignorance and behavior towards people. He hurts internally most of the time from his struggles. Soon, he will find peace with himself. Then, he will be able to move on from his depression and actually be of use.

For personal weaknesses, he overthinks. He tries so hard to not make any rash moves or be too nice, but he jumps the gun and screws himself over. This is one of the main reasons he's very silent, and doesn't talk to much people.

Another one is him being self conscious about his behavior. Silent, somewhat untrustworthy, calculating. He also is self conscious of brushing people off, pushing them away, or insulting the idiocy of people. He knows that he can act better, but he just can't. He feels as if his heart is pulling on strings with his brain, puppetering his thoughts and emotions.

Birth and Childhood
Yu, born as Yuniko Masako Himura, was born in a local military base in Yurashia. He was born to Asuka Minima-Himura and Akio Himura on April 27th, 2XX1. He was somewhat smaller than what the doctors expected and he came out not even shedding a tear or bawling. He weighed five pounds that day and he was the size of a foam football. Many people said that Yuniko was born a special child due to a majority of his veins glowing from the large amount of energy coursing through him.

After draining the excess energy from him, which took a couple of days, he was given to his mother and father. He was praised by his whole family as he arrived to his grandmother's house. Everyone gave him kisses, hugs, raised him in the air, sang to him, and all that good stuff. After a few days of taking care of him, his mother and father were unfortunately not there for most of the time for them both being in the army. His grandparents, aunts, uncles and his older sister, Haruko were there most of his early years.

The little red panda was silent for most of his early years. He played with his elder's old toys often, and he didn't really seem to care if they were ripped, chewed up or not. He watched a lot of kids' shows of cartoons hitting each other on the head with hammers. He took an interest in reading children's book, such as tales of three goats or a thief who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Besides that, he didn't do anything else. He barely smiled nor frowned. He kept a blank face, no matter what he was doing. This made the adults concerned, as they wanted to see Yuniko laugh and smile while playing, but they were never given the opportunity.

By the age of three, his mother had resigned from the army and started finding a new job. Her and Niko's dad had starting forming issues with each other. They were constantly arguing, to the point where Asuka tried to cut her husband with a kitchen knife. As soon as Yuniko was involved in this, they decided it would be best for them to divorce and find new people. After the whole divorce, they decided that Asuka could take the children and Akio could see them any free time he gets. The last time Yuniko saw his father in real life, he gave Niko his small golden ring, which he had as a kid. He gave it to Yuniko, before going off.

This was the first time Niko had cried. Or, the very least, shed a tear.

Everything changed after that one shocking moment. Three years pass, and his mother eventually found a man to marry: Daniel Wilson, a Mexican grey wolf. Four years later, they had a hybrid by the name of Ki-Ki Wilson. Yu started to act happy to their eyes and that's all they saw and cared about. Deep down, Yuniko was suffering. He wanted to shout, but he had no outlet to. He had no one to go to for his problems. He felt.. alone. Suddenly, at the age of ten, Yuniko realized of something... Something that would alter the course of his life forever.

Realization of the World
At the age of ten, he has realized that the world is an evil place.

When Niko found out about the Internet, he was surfing information about random things he took an interest in. He was on a website of where you can post videos on, and saw something shocking happening on security camera footage: A echidna getting shot at by a human, just because he was a mangly animal.

Niko was shocked. He was about to hurl from the horrible scene he just watched. He looked at more information about it, and more cases. He found out about controversial topics and cases for them, and he realized that some of the stuff happening to those people is happening to young people like himself. It kept going and going, hitting Niko hard. Eventually, he shut the computer down. He put his hands over his face as he started thinking about those horrible things. Simple questions started branching off into much more complicated questions. ''Who would do this? What were they thinking when they did these horrible crimes? Why would they hurt others when they know they're consequences? How could someone do such a thing to a Mobian or human being?''

Niko thought and realized the hard truth.

People were.. ignorant and incompetent. People didn't pay attention nor did they care. They didn't watch what they say and they didn't think about who would react and what. He saw kids, adults, even family fighting amongst each other because they were to ignorant to pay attention to one another. They were acting like children. Small six year olds, just... more immature, stupid, and older. He was utterly mad at the world. He was mad at the stupidity, the audacity to do such things.

He became unstable and he knew it. He acted bitter and sarcastic, more evil. His parents decided it would be best for himself to just walk away from it all. They sent him away to a military school located in the United Federation. After 3 years, he came out, a changed person. He waited for his mother and father to come get him... Turns out they just abandoned him for dead.

A changed person and a loner, Niko decides to roam the land, until he can find a new hope or purpose that can fill the void that his family left.

Present
Yu decided to change his life completely. He has passed the mantle of his ex-alter ego, Red, to his friend and brother, Solomon. He is also broken up with a girl named Charon, as he realized that he jumped into a relationship with a girl he doesn't even know all that well. They still remain good friends, but he knows to at least know the girl before jumping into a relationship.

With a couple of years of finally growing up, he has become more mature and a lot more powerful with his energy manipulation. Through the acceptence of life, he has started to act more and more like a person instead of a hardened, paranoid warrior. He relies on his friends more instead of going by himself. He has disciplined himself through solitude, too, and he has also been taking therapy sessions so he can release unneeded stress off his chest.

So far, life is good. He takes some time to hang out with his friends and he plans on getting closer to his true self instead of acting like a paranoid father. He has gotten wiser and mature, making people that have known him long enough to get a weird vibe from him, like he has gotten some weird resolve that causes him to be more powerful with his actions, but be so gentle.

Family

 * Asuka Wilson - Yu's hyperactive, workaholic mother. She deeply cares for Yu, and the feelings are mutual. She never notices Yu's problems because of the amount of work she has, and she feels terrible for not being there. She always tells his friends about how closely attached Yu and her were when he was younger and now he's moving on from her. It honestly saddens, but makes her glad that she's seeing him become an adult.
 * Daniel Wilson - Yu's harda--ed, confident stepfather. Yu thinks that Daniel is a good man, but sometimed, Daniel can act a bit too harsh. In the end, they work as a team. Daniel usually jokes with Yu about getting into a relationship with his female friends, either leading Yu to look down in shame or lead to Yu elbowing his dad, muttering "Father!" blushing.
 * Haruko Himura - Yu's goofy, cultured biological sister. Haruko is the oldest of the Wilson-Minima children, and is usually taking up the responsible jobs. She loves Yu like a little brother and vice versa. She and Yu usually are seen making jokes at each other, often insulting each other with light-hearted and somewhat hilarious quips and dancing like idiots. They care about each other too much, and they make a good team. They discuss politics and pop culture in current times, usually saying that all of it's is going downhill.
 * Keke Wilson - Yu's playful, cute little half-sister. She usually drags Yu along to play with her, usually tea parties or, surprisingly, ninja fighting. Yu cares for her deeply, and is very protective over her. She usually gets herself in trouble with Asuka and Haruko, but he's usually there to cheer her up and help her out. Keke has even mentioned that Yu's her favorite sibling (which is bragging rights for Yu toward his sister). Sometimes, Yu feels like he is under Keke's shadow of attention because KeKe is usually spoiled rotten, but he dismisses it, unfortunately.
 * Akio Himura Jr. - Yu's ex-military, constant joker biological father. Yu has been close to Akio ever since he left. They talk everyday on the phone, planning when they will meet, or what have they been doing. Like Daniel, he jokes with Yu about money and getting a girlfriend, which leads to the same exact results with him. They don't see each other a lot, but he does send gifts to Yu and Haruko.

Friends

 * Astri Winters - One of Niko's first friends when he got out of the military camp. He met her in a pizza place along with the older wolf, Kyle. Since then, Astri has been close to him, for some odd reason.

''She is somewhat like a Rubix cube for Yu. She's an enigma, but in the end, you have fun with her. He usually hangs out with her more than Kyle because he feels as if he can bond with someone that is not that far ahead of him more. They usually talk about whatever comes on to mind.''

''It is heavily hinted that Yu might be interested in Astri. This is hard to detect as he is usually very calm around her, and he shows very high respect towards her.''

''Yu and Kyle have a brotherly relationship. They always seem to have each other's backs and they always seem to have fun with each other, especially with gaming. They usually go around on walks, and sometimes they do fun stuff, like visit the arcade.''
 * Kyle D.B. - Yu's gamer friend. He met him at a pizza place along with a younger wolf by the name of Astri, and then they became best friends ever since.

Lately, he hasn't seen Kyle much due to just getting out of a depression and finally doing something about his life, working hard for another 3 months.

''When they're not trying to commit suicide, they usually hang out at outdoor areas. They usually talk mentally, as they both have a chip that allows them to read each other's thoughts for a mile radius. They talked about romance, corny jokes, and they usually do that whenever they're in awkward situations.' Yu is usually the one to comfort Solomon, or make him see the error in their ways, and vice versa.''
 * Solomon - Yu's father/brother figure. He met Solo when he was still Red/Niko. Since then, they saved an entire country from dictatorship, stopped a high-ranking criminal from shipping illegal weapons to the U.F., and even stopped a genetically modified clone of Yu.

Yu has passed the mantle of the persona (fursona...?) Red to him, giving him the mask and one of the armored arms.

Neutral/Rivals

 * Grail - Yu has only ever met Grail once, and it's when he was being robbed and outnumbered. Grail refers to Yu as "Kid" and usually is quick to be gone before Yu can have conversation with him.
 * Kai - Yu has encountered him a couple of times. To Yu, he seems pretty distant with everyone and wants to be left alone.
 * Jayden - Jayden is Yu's parole officer. They usually meet up to discuss Yu's issues in and out of school and life. Yu doesn't seem to care for him much.
 * Risto - Risto and Yu are... acquaintances..? It seems Risto is very overprotective of Astri to the point where when Yu mentioned having a crush on said wolf, he kind of tried to kill Yu. Now, Yu is very weary on what he says around the hyena, and plans on hightailing it if it's something unintentionally bad.

Enemies
(Being worked on.)

Powers
====== Yu was born with the ability to manipulate multiple forms of energy, which he inherited from his great-great grandfather, Li Mein Himura II. He mostly uses natural energy manipulation, due to it's balanced healing and combat purposes. Niko has really stable energy and actually knows how to use it well.

When Yu uses his energy, it changes colors depending on what it's used for: Yu, through some focus, learned how to teleport in short spurts and track people by their mass of energy from a literal mile away, depending on how strong the energy is.
 * Cyan - This is the color it turns to when Yu is using energy attacks, such as concussion beams, ball projections, beam emissions, pillars, bolts, or blasts.
 * Pink - This is the color it turns when Yu heals another person. At a downside, he cannot heal himself, so he has to plan out and think carefully on how he attacks. This is also the color of Niko's shields, which can block most attacks, but breaks if he doesn't have enough willpower to combat the attack.
 * Green - This is the color it turns to when he make energy constructs. He can make small platforms, weapons, duplicates of himself, restraints, energy golems, and he can make his claws more powerful (signified by green gauntlets surrounding his hands). This is an obvious reference to the Green Lantern Corp from DC Universe.
 * Yellow - This only shows when Yu is absorbing the natural energy out of an opponent. This is signified when Niko's hand is surrounded by yellow energy. When he absorbs the opponent's life force, it doesn't necessarily kill them, it just puts them in a "coma" or death-like stillness.
 * Red - The color that shows when Yu's "mental switch" has been flipped. He will shoot powerful red beams at opponents or try and cut them wide open with energy blades.

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Niko is a guy you rarely see show any emotion. He always has a blank expression and barely smiles or frowns. To the unfortunate person that gets him angry... there is a huge chance of them getting critically injured.

Niko doesn't kid around when he gets mad. His veins glow a bright red out and his eye color goes from electric blue to a sparkling white. His energy attacks have a lot more effect, and he is effectively a lot stronger than he usually his, able to lift a car without any difficulty.

This also comes at a cost of Niko trying to kill everyone. He will try to kill acquaintances, enemies, allies and so forth, making him somewhat of a mindless monster. The only people he knows not to hurt is Astri and Kyle. Otherwise, he's gonna harm people.

The only way he will find his chill is when he is back to being secluded for hours. After that, he will resume going back to his rather odd, neutral nature.

Mobian/Red Panda Physiology
As a Mobian, Niko naturally has innate and enhanced senses of hearing, smell, taste, feel, and sight. Due to being a red panda as well, he can climb walls and trees with ease with his thick nails. He can also use this as a bonus with his energy manipulation, as he can charge up his claws for devastating atttacks, and he could probably climb through most metals. The only thing he cannot pierce with, but dent with his energy-charged claws is enchanted metal weapons.

Skills
Yu has a great knack for acting and drama. He usually goes into character to insult someone or whilst he's playing a game. Sometimes, he takes his characters too seriously at times, making stories for them the first time he has even thought of them. It seems that his acting has helped him out on convincing others and lying as well, making very manipulative, when he gets the opprotunity.

Yuniko's main passion is mostly art and writing. He usually goes onto websites to make characters and flesh out their stories, whether they are big or small. He then gets some inspiration from real life or from fiction to make their apperance and draw something. He seems to be doing good so far, but here and there, he needs some advice from Internet friends.

He also is very good with cooking, especially breakfast foods provided he is prepared with the ingredients and tools. He also has a very bad knack of organizing stuff out of instinct (don't let him in a dirty house. he will be like consuela.)

Physical

 * Yu has fatigue after a long time in the blistering cold or the blazing heat. If he doesn't get to moderate tempature, he might just die from exhaustion.
 * Yu is incredibly small and more prone to harder attacks from bigger enemies.
 * He has a miniscule problem with hearing from having his ear pierced.
 * He, obviously, can be killed. Since there are revivers and other occupations for reviving the dead, this doesn't really have a consequence.

Mental

 * Yu has a lot of stress on his shoulders from his life, which can be used against him.
 * Yu has the extreme fear of betrayal, or proditiophobia. He also has the fear of being alone, or monophobia.
 * If someone of his gets hurt, he might lose it, giving the opponent an advantage.

Trivia

 * This page was made on October 17th, 2014 on the Agent-Kai account.
 * Yu was born on April 27th, making him an Aries-Taurus cusp. He shares his creator's birthday.
 * Most of Yu's clothing is based off the characters. His main attire is based off of Yosuke Hanamura, the creator's favorite character.


 * It should be noted that Yosuke and the creator are more alike than you think. They both are really bored of everything, hated by everyone they know because they have a higher status, and afraid of people abandoning them. Even more so is that they unintentionally insult people, try and be as nice as possible, they're good with emotions, and they have uncanny deductive reasoning.
 * Yuniko is derieved from the name Yumiko, which means "arrow child". His middle name, Masako, means "proper child". His last name Himura means "scarlet village". In short, Yu is a proper child with a deep inner desire to serve humanity and give to others coming from a scarlet village. Fitting.
 * Yu is a neat freak. He likes an organized environment, otherwise, he cannot function properly as a human being. I'm being serious, if there is no clean area in a house, he will jump out the window and run away like a coward.
 * The reason why the creator chose the red panda to represent Yu is because it represents the creator itself. This came as a surprise to the creator, as he found himself closer to the red panda. Examples include, but are not limited to:


 * Being happy when the community is happy.
 * Live a stressed and fractured life.
 * Take time off ourselves for others.
 * Being really gentle.
 * Making wise and intelligent choices.
 * Use wisdom from our surroundings.
 * Healing through touch (in this case, Yu's natural energy manipulation).
 * Rejuvination in solitude.
 * Preference of quiet, calm places.