Shou Fukamachi

Shou Fukamachi, also known as Guyver 1, is one of the main protagonist of the Guyver anime and manga.

Shou is formerly an average high schooler, Shou becomes Guyver I's host after accidentally activating it, giving him the strength needed to oppose Chronos and their schemes.

In the AWA fics, Shou is listed as a purchased prisoner from the Slave Fortress.

Appearance
Shou has a darkish-brown hair and has black eyes. He wears a black high-collared high school uniform over a white dress shirt, black slacks and white sneakers.

As the Guyver, Shou wears a blue body armor from head to toe over a black bodysuit. He wears a helmet with a red visor and a horn on top.

Personality
Before his war against Cronos, Shou Fukamachi lived a very "normal" life, but he cherished everything about it and struggled to try and hold on to it even after becoming the Guyver. He is completely selfless and is always ready to throw himself into the line of fire when his friends are threatened. He does, however, suffer from self-doubt and tends to blame himself whenever something goes wrong.

Abilities
By bonding with the Guyver, Shou has gained extraordinary powers that he uses to battle Cronos and protect the people he cares for. The bio-boosted armour was created by the alien Advents (aka Creators or Uranus) as a standard-issue armament, but its destructive potential is increased many times when equipped by a human being.
 * Superior Strength - The Guyver enhances Sho's strength many times its average.
 * High-Frequency Blades - The blades protruding from the Guyver's forearms (also called "vibro-blades" or "sonic swords") vibrate at intense frequencies that destabilize the molecular cohesion of the objects they contact then cut through them. This makes them capable of slicing through virtually any solid object.
 * Head Laser - A fine laser beam fired from a small gem above the control medal, capable of burning through solid steel.
 * Sensor Orbs - Two metal orbs on the Guyver's head that can detect distant sounds and movements, increasing Sho's sense of awareness.
 * Control Medal - The core of the Guyver armour, responsible for regulating power output and controlling transformation. Removal of the control medal from the Guyver's skull will result in the suit's power overloading, causing the armour and host to disintegrate. In other words, the Guyver will eat its own user.
 * Regeneration - The Guyver is capable of healing very quickly, even from wounds normally fatal to other humans. In fact, even if the Guyver should die, as long as the control medal is intact and still possesses a fraction of its host's DNA, it can reconstruct the host and maintain his memories up until the point of death.
 * Gravity Control Orb - The metal orb on the Guyver's waist controls gravitational forces, allowing it to levitate. It also allows the Guyver to create a micro black hole as a form of attack. This attack is normally referred to as the Pressure Cannon.
 * Sonic Buster - The two small orbs on the Guyver's "mouth" can emit devastating blasts of sonic energy, capable of causing victims' heads to explode or even going so far as to completely destabilize an enemy's molecular structure and shatter them like glass.
 * Mega-Smasher - The Guyver's most powerful weapon is a high-output particle beam cannon that will vaporize everything in its range. It is fired from two emitters made of a gelatinous organic material concealed under the Guyver's chestplate.

As Guyver Gigantic
The Guyver Gigantic is an ever-more powerful bio-armour that Sho created through sheer willpower. After his supposed death at the hands of Archanfel, Sho's consciousness remained inside the Chrysalis, a fragment of the destroyed Creator ship that had recorded his biological and neurological essence and was slowly reconstructing him. Realizing he needed something more powerful than the Guyver to fight Archanfel, Shou's consciousness reshaped the Chrysalis according to his own will. The result was a towering armour suit that fitted over the standard Guyver armour and magnified its powers beyond measure.
 * Power Amps - The orbs attached to the Gigantic's huge shoulders are capable of generating shield barriers to block even the most powerful energy attacks. They can also manipulate individual body parts that are severed in combat.
 * High-Frequency Swords - The Guyver's swords become longer and can curve in different directions, greatly increasing their effective range.
 * Head Beams - Whereas a standard Guyver was limited to one Head Beam emitter, the Gigantic has three which can be fired simultaneously and with much greater range.
 * Sonic Orbs - The addition of extra sound orbs magnifies the power of the Guyver's Sonic Buster.
 * Giga-Smasher - This particle beam is 100 times more powerful than the Mega-Smasher.
 * Flight Jets - Organic jets on the Gigantic's back allow it to fly at almost light-speed.
 * Gravity Control - The addition of extra gravity control orbs allows the Gigantic to increase the power of its Pressure Cannon and to generate immeasurable kinetic force in its fists. Used in conjunction with the flight jets, this allows the Gigantic to perform a Gravity Ram attack that will completely obliterate anything in its target area.

Gigantic Exceed
Gigantic Exceed is a transformation (only used by Shou thus far) that increases the Gigantic's size to 52 meters, with all the orbs and chest spike glowing and (in Shou's case) the body colour changing into a dark red and black. According to the data file in volume 25 of the Guyver manga, this is the "true form" of the Gigantic. The three gravity orbs and power amps operate at full capacity, constantly drawing the necessary energy needed to maintain the Gigantic's size from "another dimension". All of the Gigantic's weapons and abilities are available in this form and their power is increased in proportion to its size. In this mode, the Gigantic can also use an attack called "Gravity Implosion", a micro black hole that instantly crushes and annihilates an opponent then immediately dissipates.

Trivia

 * Compared to Agito, Risker, and Valcuria he's extremely average, being a student while the other three have had combat training, it makes his acts of heroism and his level in badass all the more dramatic.
 * For a large part of the manga Shou's only really able to give Chronos trouble because of the raw power advantage he has over Zoanoids while having no combat training. Played up in his fight with Lisker, who's equally powerful and also a black belt, and is crushing Sho until his suit malfunctions.
 * Shou fights Kronos more in order to protect friends and family than from any need to see the enemy brought to justice. Had he not become host for a Guyver Unit, he probably would have happily continued in ignorance of Kronos.
 * Shou cares deeply for Mizuki Segawa with the intensity of first love and Tetsuro Segawa, Mizuki's older brother, is his closest friend. He had two other friends who tease him about his relationship with Mizuki named Takaya and Mono but they were killed.
 * Shou lived with his father, Mr. Fukamachi until he was turned into a Zoanoid and killed by his own son.