Character: Hiro Nakamura
Series: Heroes (Wikipedia for series and Hiro)
Character age: 24
Job: Audience/Camper liason
Canon: One day, Hiro Nakamura is going to be an English-speaking, sword-wielding, bona-fide badass. Today, however, is not that day. Today Hiro is an enthusiastic Japanese otaku with a heart of gold and the ability to bend time and space. Like all great heroes who are also Spider-man fans, Hiro knows that with great power comes great responsibility, so he and his best friend Ando are on a mission to save the world. Working with them (though in different places), are a ragtag bunch of other heroes, some known and some unknown. One of them, Peter, gets a visit from the Hiro of the future, who gives him a simple message: save the cheerleader, save the world. Hiro and Ando, after hearing about this from Peter, are looking for her on a roadtrip across America righting wrongs and cheating at gambling. But mainly righting wrongs.

Hiro is earnest, bright, cheerful, and dedicated. He has a strong sense of right and wrong, a dedication to justice, and a genuine and powerful desire to not just save the world, but to save every individual he can, even those who wrong him. He also has a deep appreciation for comic books, video games, geekery in general, and delicious waffles.

Note: the style of Hiro's app is taken from his online blog, where he really does use that translation service and those smiley faces. He is being taken from after the episode "Nowhere to Hide."

Sample post:

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In order to become great, every hero must go through long training, mustn't they? In Final Fantasy X, there were the Calm Lands, where Tidus leveled up for many hours. For me, there is Louisiana! I have found a most impressive training camp full of superhero fans like myself! (*o*) Many of them are in character, in diverse roles from protagonists to mindless zombies. I have never seen a LARP as complicated as this before, and I am honored to be allowed to participate in it.

Of course I am using this opportunity to raise my stats. In order to become as powerful as the future self who visited Peter Petrelli, I have decided I must raise my strength and dexterity to be able to use my sword. (^o^)==[=======> Here at the camp, I have managed to get one point of dexterity with the tentacle monster dodging game (it is most complicated—I must admire the ingenuity of the American fans, if not their subject choices) and half a point of strength from roleplaying fights with the gorilla cosplayers. I tried to thank them afterward, but they were very in character and refused to speak to me. (-_-) At least, I hope it was that and not that they could not understand my poor English. I will have to continue practicing until I can speak to everyone! \(^o^)/

Luckily they have also offered me a job here. When I told them that I was a blogger, they explained that they had been looking for someone who could make the audience feel included. I never knew LARPers played to an audience before, but I am glad to be earning money honestly. b(^o^)d So, readers, I ask that you friend the Livejournal community campfuckudie so that you can read and comment on my and others' blog entries there. The cosplayers all have accounts and are most convincingly in character. Long have I wanted to ask my favorite characters what they were thinking at key moments in their development, and the insights of the American fans are most intriguing. Their antagonists especially have much interest to me, although they are so in character they will often become threatening. (v_v) I have already had to run from five of them, but if this continues I am sure to raise my dexterity points again!

I encourage all of you to come and read this blog and tell me and my new friends what we can do to entertain you. I know this is not the heroic quest that I had promised, but until I have raised my stats adequately I think this is the best place for me to be. I have heard that I can even raise my constitution by trying the Tuesday soup! And once I am finished leveling here, I am sure that I will be able to defeat the big boss and save the cheerleader! <(^o^<) (>^o^)>

I only hope she will not be in another castle.

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