Name: Hiro Yuusha

Age:17

Appearance:

Personality: Despite his name, appearance and reputation Hiro is really just a somewhat shy, lazy and bookish guy exasperated with the life of adventure he's been stuck with who wants to get the whole ordeal over as quickly as possible so he can enjoy a life of relaxing in peace without somebody challenging him for his 'title' or forcing him on some quest to defeat a monster or save a noble or the world or anything like that. While he may have wanted to be a hero as a small child, the realities of the situation weigh on him very literally now. So, while he's become very cynical about his life, he still occasionally admits that maybe he's doing some good while trying to find a way to get rid of his curse, even if 'doing some good' means putting himself in harm's way when he'd much rather just live quietly.

Backstory: As a child of around seven years old, Hiro accidentally stumbled onto a gigantic magical sword while playing in the mountain countryside near his hometown. Intrigued by its' glowing inscription that declared that whomever wielded the sword would become the greatest hero in the world, and dreaming of the life of luxury he could live as the World's Greatest Hero, Hiro grabbed the sword immediately to try and take it home with him, though it was so extremely heavy that he could barely get it to budge. Unfortunately, the sword's decree never said anything about giving the wielder any [i]choice[/i] about becoming the World's Greatest Hero, and he found that even if he let go of it for a while and tried to walk away without it, the sword would re-appear in his hands or somehow stuck to his back. In fact it eventually became apparent that the gigantic sword was the legendary weapon Hero's Burden, and it was soon even more apparent to Hiro that he was stuck hauling it around until he either died or actually became the Greatest Hero in the World. 

So, from that point on he began constantly training to become the greatest hero in the world, even though he was constantly weighed down by the extremely heavy sword. At the age of about ten, he felt like he could no longer grow any stronger or better as a potential hero while staying in his village, so he set out into the world to try and find strong people to train him and new challenges to face. Unfortunately, soon after he set off people began to notice the gigantic sword and its' inscription and despite his protests and the fact that he was still a child, assumed he must be a legendary hero to carry a sword like that.around so casually. This meant that generally any troubled towns or persons-in-need he came across would beg or force him to help them, and bandits, villains and hero-wannabes looking to enhance their reputation by taking down a big-time hero started coming after him.

At first he barely survived and escaped these incidents, but years of having to fight countless monsters and endless duels while rescuing a horde's worth of damsels and nobles in distress and being cursed at by a variety of villainous forces actually helped him build up a ridiculous amount of skill at heroics even though he was mostly doing all of it just to get rid of the sword and constant annoyance of people wanting him to put his life on the line when he'd much rather try and relax. Having decided the life of a wandering hero is extremely unpleasant-what with being constantly on the road hunting, foraging and cooking for your own meals with little in the way of company or friends and only the occasional town inn or castle to look forward to at the end of the day before moving on all over again-Hiro Yuusha decided he would try and become a regular at Nekoyama's Adventuring Guild, at least so he could have a place to stay while still attempting all the necessary heroics that his quest to get rid of his Hero's Burden requires.

Abilities/Equipment:
Arguably, Hiro's most notable characteristics are his enhanced physical abilities. Lugging the Hero's Burden around for ten straight years already guaranteed him near superhuman strength, not to mention how difficult it was to become strong enough to actually fight effectively with such a large and heavy weapon. Hiro's physical abilities have been further enhanced by multiple infusions over the years and he can now effectively wield Hero's Burden in just one hand as skillfully as if it were a regular-sized sword. It isn't just Hiro's strength that goes far beyond human limits, though. His speed and agility have been greatly enhanced as well and he can sprint with the best of atheletes or free-run across rooftops casually even with the Hero's Burden weighing him down. This is even more impressive than it might seem, as if he drops the massive sword he can become exponentially faster and more agile than an ordinary human, though the Hero's Burden returns to slow him down again should he move too far away from it. His endurance and durability are better than seems humanly possible as well, partly due to all of the infusions and partly just due to a life of surviving things he shouldn't have survived.

Hiro's swordsmanship is about what could be expected from living roughly a decade with a sword as nearly an extension of his own body and spending most of that decade using it for fighting various people and things almost non-stop. He also has quite a bit of talent at empty-handed combat and general brawling for times when swinging a huge sword around might be impractical.

Hiro has just one spell, Instant Inventory. It allows him to move any inanimate object currently touching him into and out of a pocket dimension at will. While this mainly allows him to store items without having to carry them on his person, he cannot use it to get rid of the Hero's Burden as the sword's magic considers 'a separate dimension' far enough a way to teleport back to him shortly after he puts it there. In addition to storage He can also use it to change his clothing in the blink of an eye as well as for a myriad of other purposes applicable to the ability to suddenly vanish and recall objects as long as one is in contact with them when they shift dimensions. Instant Inventory's pocket dimension currently contains:
-A collapsible, size adjustable pole (maximum length eleven feet)
- A 20 foot long length of rope tested to be strong enough to hold Hiro and his sword
-A framed tent and stakes for pitching it.
-A small raft
-One set of insulated winter clothing complete with scarf, hat, gloves, earmuffs and thermal underwear
-A bathing suit, sunglasses and a surfboard
-One towel (very important)
-An umbrella
-One small wand designed to set things on fire brightly and quickly. More of a lighter for campfires or improvised torch than a weapon
-cooking equipment (knives, cutting board, pots, pans, a means to suspend the same over a campfire if necessary and magical heat and flame resistant oven mitts)
-A collection of books, mostly novels and fiction

Lastly, Hiro Yuusha's sword, The Hero's Burden, is a very unusual sword. Mainly in that it's very large in both length and width, making average swords seem like butter knives. It can cut through any non-magical material with ease, though it has more difficulty cutting through magical or magically infused materials despite its' incredible sharpness. It is so sharp in fact that Hiro can't afford to drop it carelessly, since if it's not angled right the blade will sink straight into the ground all the way to the hilt. It is also pretty much indestructible. Many times Hiro has tried to purposefully get it destroyed during battles with a variety of forces or just tried to break it on his own without so much as scratching the sword. 

Aside from that it has two major drawbacks. The first and most notable is that whoever wields the sword can't get rid of it until they either die or become the World's Greatest Hero. They can put it down for a while and move a short distance away from it but if they try and leave it behind anywhere or if the sword gets too far away from them or otherwise separated, it will just teleport back to the wielder's hands after a few minutes, or show up and stuck to their back inexplicably without need for a sheathe, though thankfully it seems conveniently incapable of cutting its' wielder. The second drawback of the sword is just that it is [i]extremely[/i] heavy, to a magical extent. Heavier than even its' massive size should make it. Combined with its' size most wielders would find it a completely unusable weapon. In fact if someone other than the current designated wielder attempts to pick it up or move it, they'll find it has become magically too heavy to even budge an inch.

 
Quote: "For the last time, I'm not a Hero or a Chosen One or a Savior or anything like that, I'm just a guy with really really bad luck!"