#FavCharacterH is very important to me. H might be my most important letter.
H is for Hakumen. Hakumen is why I'm "NaClKnight"
I played Blazblue throughout college with my first real fighting game buddy. We played a lot of games but BlazBlue was the most even between us and most consistent.
Hakumen can be frustrating to play with (his movement is either slow, costly, or high commitment, he has no projectiles, and all his special moves cost meter, let alone his supers), but he can also be frustrating to play against (has very quick parries, has 2 good pokes, has big, dangerous sword swings, has very high damage potential and steals rounds) so we started riffing on him.
We called him the Salty Samurai. I play good defense and make approaching me difficult and costly.
Salty Samurai eventually became NaClKnight cause I thought it was clever to use the chemical formula for Table Salt and retain the alliteration. And I like Knights more than Samurai
So I started using that for tourneys online and IRL, where people pronounce it Nackle or Salt or SaltKnight.
Eventually i took Blazblue Central Fiction seriously and got pretty good. Enough to be a server's best Hakumen and show up in their top 4 in a few tourneys. I love Hakumen. I hate most of Blazblue's pixie ass anime stereotype ass mahou shoujo ass roster. But gahdamn i love playing Hakumen
I don't like the story mode of Blazblue at all, but that's mostly cause I dislike overly convoluted stories with too many proper nouns, but in Universe Hakumen is a hero. Jin was a rising star in the military assigned to apprehend his criminal brother. Then things got spooky. He, his brother, and a creepy robot girl all fell into a hole in the world. Jin lost his physical body but someone poured his soul inot this suit of armor. The whole experience gave him perspective.
As Hakumen, he helped kill the giant magical beast plaguing humanity. He's the first of the Six Heroes. And when he was done killing the black Beast, humanity threw him into the abyss, hoping the rolling waves of chaos would kill him.
Hakumen survived, weakened and angry.
In game he represents the order of an upside down world trying to right itself.
He has a cool ass mantra to boot.
Hakumen is an all time character for me across any medium. Faceless. Vigilant., Resolute. Just. Powerful.
He calls himself The White Void. The Just Blade. The Cold Steel. I call him my favorite.
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