History Characters / DotHackFirstGeneration

* TheHero: In addition to his role in the original games, he's considered to be a legendary hero in The World a decade after his exploits. He's constantly referenced in ''.hack//Versus'' by Ovan, who has different pre-battle quotes depending on whether he's fighting the real Kite or one of his expies.

* AbusiveParents: Tsukasa's father is an extremely terrible excuse of a father, which is but one of the reasons for Tsukasa's angst. [[spoiler: He even tries to kill her in the real world in the hospital while she's comatose, but is stopped by the hospital staff and taken into police custody]].

* AsleepForDays: In a coma for at least 6 months in the real world.

* CrossPlayer: Due to being Data Drained, not only does Tsukasa have amnesia, [[spoiler: but "he" doesn't remember that "his" real life self is a girl. Data Draining has resulted in Tsukasa's mind "feeling" everything in The World, so for all intents, this purposes as a GenderBender.]]

** An Shouji, in addition to being subject to a GenderBender, is quite literally a [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] Expy of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Ikari Shinji]]. Though her given name is written with the kanji for ''Anzu'', it is read as ''An'', which can mean either "copy" or "rough draft". Her surname, ''Shouji'', can mean "devotion"... and so can another Japanese word, ''Shinjin''. Add in the abusive parents, the depression, the escapism, and the inability to connect with people, and recall that Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, who worked on ''Evangelion'' and ''.hack'', talked Hideaki Anno out of his initial ''female'' character concept for Shinji...
** Also interestingly, Tsukasa's [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dothack/images/5/58/Annshoji.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20060315002224 real-life self]] looks remarkably like [[http://distopia.altervista.org/immagini/mana.jpg Mana Kirishima]] from ''Girlfriend Of Steel'', a spin-off game of Evangelion.
*** JustifiedTrope: The two series share the same character designer, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.
** However, Tsukasa himself (the character) outwardly looks more like an {{Expy}} of [[Characters/NeonGenesisEvangelionTheChildren Nagisa Kaworu]], with his white hair, unusual eye color (purple in this case), a calm demeanor and lots of mysteries surrounding him.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Surprisingly. Sometimes, he playfully pokes any animal he encounter.

* HiddenDepths: He is able to answer trivia questions about black and white era western movies like Roman Holiday due to his mom being a big fan of them.

* ReluctantWarrior: In Versus, one of his pre-battle quote is, "Guess I have no choice but to fight.."

* SourOutsideSadInside: Tsukasa comes off as a {{Jerkass}} who spends his time brooding, moping, and either ignores or insults anyone who tries to engage with him. It's little more than a flimsy, unhealthy cope for his depression and difficulty either communicating with or trusting people, given his FriendlessBackground and AbusiveParents.

%%* WhiteHairBlackHeart
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Her father resented her not only for being a girl, but for being alive. He took severe issue with An showing any feelings or even wanting a bra.

* CoolOldGuy: Isn't ''that'' old, but is a nice and personable older player who serves a mentor figure to the younger players/

* ParentalSubstitute: See also ReplacementGoldfish below.

* AllThereInTheManual: There was a web novel released that's basically his verion of ''Another Birth,'' going through a loose retelling of the games while delving into his real life self. An ongoing English translation of this novel can be found [[https://dothacktranslate.wordpress.com/projects/new-novel-hack/ here]].
* AudienceSurrogate: You actually name Kite and his real-life self whatever you wanted to, as the games go out of their way to never say either name to make it easer for the player to self-insert. He's far from a blank slate, however. As an added bonus, importing your IMOQ save to the G.U. games results in [[spoiler:Azure Kite's character data using your old save's name since Aura copied his data directly from R:1.]]

* [[GivingTheSwordToANoob Giving The Bracelet to a Noob]]: Kite ''wasn't'' the first choice that Aura had to receive The Bracelet. Orca was. Unfortunately, just before she was about to give it to him, Skeith Data Drained him, putting him into a coma. Kite (who literally had just logged onto The World for the first time) was, for better or worse, the only option Aura had before becoming Data Drained herself.

* KidHero: Presumed about fourteen-years-old and in junior high, Kite's player is just a kid looking to have fun with his best friend before he gets wrapped up in The World's chaos. Despite his surprising rate at adapting into the role of a leader, reminders of his age show occasionally, like a cheeky comment or his responses in the email conversations.

* LoveDodecahedron: He doesn't realize he's in the middle of a LoveTriangle between [=BlackRose=] and Terajima Ryoko. And there's Natsume on the side, who knows him in real-life. The series never resolves who, if anyone, he ends up with, likely due to his AudienceSurrogate nature.

* TheUnchosenOne: Aura meant to give the Twilight Bracelet to ''Orca''.

* {{GIRL}}: Inverted trope. [Tsukasa, a male avatar character[[spoiler:, is actually played by An Shouji, who is female.]]

%%zce* {{GIRL}}: Inverted.