Yuri Hyuga

"Bite Me."

- Yuri's standard response to arrogant villains

Yuri Hyuga is the main hero of the videogames Shadow Hearts and Shadow Hearts: Covenant. Yuri starts out as a reluctant hero and soon evolves consummate Anti-Hero. He has the power to Fuse with monsters he has defeated

Background
Yuri is the half-Russian half-Japanese son of Anne and Jinpachiro “Ben” Hyuga raised in main-land China. Ben was a Harmonixer, a being with the power to take over the corporeal envelope monster he defeated and signed up into the Japanese military. Ben was away from home and Yuri spent most of his time with Anne as a child. Ben would eventually die in the field unbeknownst to his family; Worse still Ben's enemy retaliated by sending demons to possess residents of Ben's hometown and had them eat the other villagers including their hosts families, finsihing off the village with the deaths of Ben's wife and son. When the monsters came for Yuri and Anne, Anne recognized what her so-called neigbors really were and did her best to protect Yuri but was killed. The turmoil of seeing his mother laying their lifeless triggered Yuri's Fusion abilities early. When Yuri came-to he couldn't remeber what he did in his transformed state all he all he knew was that his house was covered with the torn up body parts of the monsters that kiled his mother.

It is stated in Shadow Hearts Covenant that most Harmonixers develop their abilites in the late teens to early adulthood and ussually only have the power to transform into one creature. Because of the traumatic events that lead to the triggering of Yuri's Fusion abilities he was able to Fuse since around ten years of age, further-more Yuri could fuse with multiple monsters instead of just one.

Shadow Hearts
Yuri had heard the call of a voice in his head for years, he was never sure if it was a gaurdian spirit or his own intuition given life since he wasa Harmonixer, but the voice randomly warned him of dangers and one day it called for him to take catch a ride on the Trans-Siberian Express. Yuri reluctantly boarded waiting for whatever he was supposed to. Before long Yuri figured out what he was there to do upon noticing a prim and proper British passanger make his way to the head cabin. The British gentleman revealed himself as a warlock and summoned a demonic minion to kill the members of the Japanese envoy, making his way to a blonde girl the envoy was protecting. The warlock introduced himself as "Roger Bacon" to the girl once all the guards were dead but soon noticed the young man behind him. Bacon's minion immediately lunged at Yuri but was caught in Yuri's right-hand and crushed in his barehand. Though the monster had severed Yuri's left hand before being caught Yuri just casually picked his severed arm off the floor of the train and it back up to his  bloody shoulder where-upon it almost instantly reattached revealing to Bacon that he was no mere man himself. Bacon seemed more annoyed at his minion's death than naything else saying he was fond of him. Bacon quickly used a sleep spell on the girl and picked her up preparing to leave, Yuri tried to free the girl and charged after Bacon however the British Warlock casually glanced over his shoulder at Yuri and sent him flying through the back of the cabin and several cars back. By the time Yuri made his way back to the main car he saw Bacon had taken the girl to the roof of the cabin. Yuri burst through the cabin and confronted Bacon there. Bacon put down the still unconscious girl and fought Yuri, though Yuri revealed his demonic form it did little to stop Bacon and with a few gestures Bacon used a spell that put Yuri on at death's door. As Yuri kneeled trying to regain his strength Bacon was about to deliver the final blow but then something happened, a holy light radiated from the girls unconscious form reacting to the monsters in Yuri's body, the light caught Bacon off-guard and Yuri too kthe oppertunity to punck a whole in Bacons face. As Bacon collected himself from the pain Yuri quickly grabbed the girl and jumped off the train. Watching the diabolical man heal his wound as easily as Yuri had he waited in the moonlight with the girl in hand as the train quickly put distance between the two of them and the warlock