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Fandom: Dot Hack GU.

Muse #1- Haseo / Ryou Misaki ( also known as Sora during Dot Hack IMOQ which took years prior to all GU events ).

Age: 17-19 ( anime, manga, light novels and games )

The main protagonist of the Dot Hack GU games and other forms of the GU media. Haseo initially was very friendly when joining The World R:2, until being tricked by a group a PKers who took advantage of his naivety. After this event, he becomes cold and self-centered, although he holds a soft spot for Shino. He finds it hard to get close to people, as his previous experience with the PKers resulted in him being betrayed.

When Shino was attacked by Tri-Edge, he stopped at nothing to find out what happened to her and tried get his revenge. As he progressed, Haseo learned to trust his new friends and grew as a person. Though not as warm, he is a great leader and is willing to risk everything for those he hold dear. Also, despite his profession as the PKKer "Terror of Death" in Roots, Haseo hates rumors and forums, disdainfully calling it "idle chatter". His preferred sources for information are PKs and "professional victims" like Bordeaux and Midori, respectively, as they are far more likely to encounter the mysterious PKer, Tri-Edge, than the rumor-mills on the BBS.

Ovan mysteriously vanished during a major fight before the events of the games. Without its leader the guild that Haseo belonged to, Brigade, soon collapsed. Haseo decided to remain with Shino as not to abandon her like the leader did. However, without warning Shino was forcibly taken away from him. The culprit was an infamous PKer named Tri-Edge. He had PKed Shino while she was alone at the Hulle Granz Cathedral and somehow had placed her into a coma in reality. With only his name and a short description to go on, Haseo began to hunt Tri-Edge, hoping to find a way to bring Shino back.

Wanting more power, Haseo entered an event known as the Forest of Pain. At the center, a brief encounter with Harald Hoerwick gave his character tremendous power. With this power he began ruthlessly hunting PKers, acquiring the title "The Terror of Death" after killing 100 PKers at once. Eventually he succeeded in finding Azure Kite, who he thought to be Tri-Edge, but was defeated by his Data Drain attack. His character was reformatted and sent back to level 1, forcing Haseo to start all over again.

"Haseo" is an alternate reading of the characters in a Japanese poet's, Matsuo Bashou's, name. His disciple, Kawai Sora, was the inspiration for Sora's name. Haseo's player, Ryou Misaki, is a sophomore student attending a famous private high school. He lives alone in Tokyo, and his dad owns a major company. He visits Shino, who is in a coma, at the hospital everyday. He decided to play The World R:2 after talking to a friend who used to play its previous version, The World.

He was once the player behind Sora, but lost all memory of it and The World after being Data Drained by Skeith. Meanwhile, Sora's data continued on as a vagrant AI and eventually reunited him as Skeith. Being an Epitaph User, Haseo acquires a Lost Weapon as part of the main storyline: a rare Scythe called "Ticking Death", which is renamed to "Shadowy Death" once evolved to its final form.

Fun facts: Haseo's Japanese voice actor, Takahiro Sakurai, is also known for voicing Cloud Strife, from Final Fantasy VII. Both of Haseo's game voices are the same as Suzaku Kururugi from Code Geass. Takahiro Sakurai in Japanese and Yuri Lowenthal in English.