Ikoma

yopuka2108 Ikoma (生駒, Ikoma) is the main protagonist and a young steam smith who makes a living in Aragane Station making iron and steam engines. He and his good friend Takumi developed a weapon called "Tsuranuki Zutsu" in order to defeat the Kabane. Everyone makes light of him now, but he looks forward to a day when he will be triumphant.

Appearance
Ikoma is a bespectacled young man. He appears to be of average height and build. He has light brown or golden eyes, and light ochre long messy hair. After stopping the infection from spreading to his brain, his hair partially turns white. His spectacles are missing a lense on the left frame while the lense on the right frame is tinted green. Ikoma is rather muscular, but it's rather hard to tell with the baggy clothes he wears.

Before the breaching, Ikoma wore the regular steam smith clothing. After stopping the transformation, he wears a harness bond to his body. This harness covers his right shoulder and right part of the torso, and he also wears a red cape over his body.

Personality
Ikoma is a rather complex character. He is a determined and creative person. He has an urge to prove himself regardless of the situation and has a sense of justice that makes him act in dangerous situations if he considers them unfair, even if said situations put him on risk. His willpower is so high that he managed to resist severe choking by simply remembering his painful memories.

He desires to stop the Kabane, but also he is ready to save lives in the process. Although he may fight for other people, he is not a "suicidal" irrational hero and has great price in what he does. When he moves the lever that releases the Koutetsujou, he realizes that he is saving the lives of people that abandoned him, and takes even greater price in his actions.

He is also a very ambitious person to invent his own weapon "Tsuranuki Zutsu" despite multiple failures to pierce the Kabane Iron heart.

Summary
Ikoma is one of the steam smiths whose main job is to repair the Hayajiro's. He however is creating a new weapon that could pierce though the Kabane heart's cage. He has also found out that the Kabane are actually people infected by a virus. If the virus can't go to the brain however, the infected person will remain a living being but is not classified as a human or Kabane but a Kabaneri.

Powers and Abilities
As a Human he has considerably above average intelligence and is a gifted mechanic and inventor. He has an immense pain resistance, as he managed to cauterize a open wound, pierce a couple of nails on his body, and choke himself without losing conscience.


 * Kabaneri - As a Kabaneri, Ikoma is shown to have extremely high resistance, demonstrated when Kurusu shot him in his heart and falling down from the Koutetsujou. His strength is also amplified several times more than a normal human, able to bend thick metal pipes with complete ease. He is also able to withstand high heat and possibly pain having a body that is part dead. He is able to take down multiple Kabane with succession. He also shows extreme willpower and endurance by taking damage that would normally kill humans or render them near death. After using his kabaneri powers, he is left exhausted, similar to Mumei.