Saiki Kusuo (DETAILED, CANON!)

appearance

Kusuo has an average build and height. He has short hot pink hair, fair skin, and pale purple eyes with no signs of pupils nor emotion. Kusuo wears a pair of controller devices, one on each side of his head, which are never removed except in situations of absolute necessity or by accident. The devices resemble white, cyan antennae, with pink, lollipop-like spheres. Accompanying the devices, Kusuo wears white glasses with lime green lenses to prevent his petrification power. During the days he has school, he wears the standard PK Academy uniform that all male students wear. On his days off from school, he occasionally wears clothes that are sewn by his mother. However, there are times he is forced to buy clothes since his mother has an exotic taste in clothing patterns. Kusuo's physical appearance is unlimited, since he can transform himself into any other living being, but each transformation has a 2-hour interval. While in his female/genderswap form, Kusuo goes under the name Kuriko (formerly Kusuko). In this form, he has lighter pink hair (slightly larger), lacks visible limiters, wears clear glasses, and is usually wearing the female standard PK Academy uniform. In his cat form, Kusuo is known as Psi/Sai and has white fur. In this form, he still wears his glasses and his limiter is in the form of a collar around his neck.

personality #1

When Kusuo was a child, he was more open to his emotions. Part of it was due to the fact that he was unaware of what his powers did, such as breaking a whack-a-mole machine in an arcade and thinking the machine was giving him praise. He was highly mischievous, such as making his parents look for him for 5 hours after he teleported, and smiled around others without a second thought. However over the course of time, with having to hide his psychic powers from others and his abilities slowly ruining experiences for him, he started to close himself up. Thus, in the present, Kusuo is a reticent, self-centered, reclusive shut-in who hates being the center of attention, he is quite reserved and rarely uses his voice, instead preferring to project his words via telepathy into the minds of others. To avoid interactions, he tries to make other people disinterested in him or avoid others as much as possible. For example, Kusuo hiding from the other characters in the bathroom and Kusuo talking to Imu, knowing Kokomi would not like it. Despite this, Kusuo is very adept at determining what people want and executing plans based on them. He was able to single-handedly raise Chiyo's favorability of Takeru from 54 to 95, and to raise Reita's of Arisu to 98 on a whim. Despite being completely anti-social, Kusuo is more than capable of making selfless choices, willing to sacrifice his own happiness for the sake of others. He gave up his coffee jelly to get a baseball back to a child, gave Chisato a plane ticket to Okinawa knowing that it will lead to Kokomi winning her way, and preferring to let his father be him, himself being left alone, just so he does not ruin the fun for the other characters. Due in part to this trait, he hates burdening others or owing favors. He always helps Kineshi after he helps him and was visibly disappointed in himself for making his mother keep his abilities a secret. Kusuo is also careful to never disrespect or insult his acquaintances in their faces.

personality #2

Kusuo is one of the most responsible characters in the series. He helps with chores around the house, such as cleaning and buying groceries.Despite being able to get anything he wants without using any money, Kusuo saves up money to buy the things he wants, e.g. the Coffee Jelly Maker. He is capable of cheating in exams to get a good score, but he decides to get average scores to avoid attention. He also protects the other students' privacy and wellbeing. Most of all, he tries heavily to not rely on his powers, wanting to achieve things for himself. In spite of his kind-hearted nature, Kusuo does have some faults. While he is quite intelligent, he lacks some common sense on some concepts, especially when it involves social boundaries and the internet. For example, he nearly got scammed by an online shop, believing an item would be cheap and not checking for delivery details. He can easily be manipulated with any sweets, especially coffee jelly. He likes to pry on the other characters, though it is often for their own good; for example, while he has stated that he personally does not think he will not fall in love, he will watch others who are in love and help them if he can. Examples include deciding to spy on Chiyo and Shun walking together the day after Valentine's Day and helping Satou Hiroshi with his crush on Suzumiya Hii. Although he doesn’t believe he will ever fall in love, Aiura Mikoto, a soothsayer, has predicted that they are soulmates. Kusuo is also prideful, such as being irritated at the thought of being pickpocketed as he is an esper, describing how incredible his own powers are throughout the series and sometimes referring himself as a god. Not to mention, he is stubborn, such as the case when he refused to admit his obvious seasickness. Despite this, Kusuo is very good at listening to other people, and accepting that he is wrong when the evidence is very clearly against him; his pride doesn't get to his head.

personality #3

Other flawed characteristics include being somewhat pessimistic. With all these characteristics, people who know him and Kusuo himself, consider him as a tsundere.

Abilities #1 Apport

The power to pull something from somewhere else and have it appear before you. Works in tandem with teleportation. Anything teleported needs to be exchanged using Apport with something of exactly equal value or within a 10% difference. Kusuo can cause trouble if he isn't careful, as the item that Apports takes the place of the Apported item. On one occasion, he accidentally destroyed school property after swapping a ball with an umbrella.

ability #2 Astral projection

The power to separate his or someone else's spirit from their body. He can fight spectral beings such as ghosts in this state. Possession: When astral projecting, Kusuo can take over someone's body by switching his spirit with theirs.

Ability #3 Bilocation

Kusuo can use this power to duplicate himself. It is one of his most difficult powers for various reasons. He cannot control how the clones look or act, he needs to remove his limiter to use this power, the clones have all his powers and can feel anything he feels, including the removal of his limiter, which means that they could cause serious damage if left unchecked. As the original, any damage he suffers will also be reflected on the clones themselves.

ability #4 Clairvoyance

Without having to move, this power allows Kusuo to view objects or people anywhere that are obstructed from his view by crossing his eyes.

ability #5 Cyrokinesis

The ability that allows a person to create and control ice with their mind.

ability #6 Curse

The ability to create misfortune to others and can be done by touch. The course of the curses can be changed at Kusuo's discretion. He once used this to curse someone who was trying to steal his wallet

Ability #7 Electrokinesis

The ability to manipulate electricity

Ability #8 fly/levitation

The ability to fly/float.

Ability #9 Hydrokinesis

The ability to freely use water or create water. Also the ability to create sweat on the body.

Ability #10 Hypnosis

Kusuo uses this power to disguise other people, making Reita look like himself, or making his father look like himself. He cannot use this power on himself.

Ability #11 Invisiblity

The power to turn himself invisible for 10 minutes. It is canceled if someone touches him while he's in that state. When the time runs out, or if someone touches him, he has to wait 1 minute before turning invisible again.

Ability #12 Memory altercation

Delivering a strong impact to someone's head to eliminate the desired memory. In the anime a wacky yellow bat resembling TV Tokyo's mascot must be used. In the manga anything that causes an impact (ex: crowbar) may be used. Memory Supplementation: The drawback of this power as Kusuo uses restoration on the brain of the person, the memory is filled with a random different memory on each person. For example, when Kusuo erases the memory of Kaidou learning that Kusuo does not make friends easily because he is a psychic (as accidentally revealed by his mother), Kaidou's brain automatically fills in the memory error that Kusuo was unable to make friends due to his eighth-grader syndrome, a personality trait Kaidou himself struggles with internally.

Ability #13 Mind control

The power to subtly influence the minds of every single person on the planet. He can make others perceive that something unnatural is actually natural, even rewrite human biology itself, making it one of his most powerful abilities. Kusuo uses it without his limiter and considers it his most dangerous power, able to recreate the world with his imagination alone. He has to be careful using this power, because changing how others think affects the people around them, and he could destroy the world with a single thought. He used this a few times, at a young age, to make unusual hair and antennas commonplace due to the oddity of his own appearance at birth, and it is how he avoids standing out. Kusuo could also rewrite human biology at the genetic level. He has made it natural for people have a variety of hair colors, heal rapidly from minor injuries, evolved them to think fast at critical moments, have clothes ripped to pieces leave the crotch intact and return to normal afterward, slender people strong, and people can knock others out with a simple chop. In one episode, he also made students having part-time jobs normal. To deal with the exploding volcano, Kusuo also uses mind control to change people's perception of time, repeating his junior year and allowing powers to grow over time until he becomes strong enough to stop the disaster.

Ability #14 Petrification

The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye. This happens automatically unless he is wearing his glasses. It takes a full twenty-four hours for an affected being to return back to normal. This is one of his abilities that he can't control and one of the few not to be affected by his limiter.

Ability #15 Pregcocnition

The power to see events that will occur before they actually happen, usually accompanied by a headache. This can happen when he is asleep. Kusuo has no control over his ability and can misinterpret or even cause what happens.

Ability #16 Psychic Hold

The ability to throw an electric current to the opponent to bind him

Ability #17

The ability to bring forth a physical energy just by thinking it, which can be used to do things like move or break objects.[5] It's one of his most commonly used powers. Full Force: Without any precaution, Kusuo's power increases every time he attacks. Assist: When full force is applied, there is a great increase on the power and speed of the object/person the psychokinesis in being used and is possible to continue until exhaustion Psycho Bit: One of the main techniques Kusuo uses which allows him to move multiple rocks and inflicts damages to someone regardless of his/her distance. Limit Released Psychokinesis: The ability to create a ball of energy in the air. Its power was able to destroy a whole island.

Ability #18 Psychometry

The ability to receive information stored in an object if he touches it without his gloves. When Kusuo touches a person, he experiences their senses, including those that are impacted by psychic abilities, as if they are his own. This power, by extension, allows him to see and communicate spirits when he is in physical contact with Reita.

Ability #19 Pyrokinesis

The ability to generate and control heat and fire with their mind. He can use this power to heat objects and areas, make other people blush, or heat his own body to keep himself warm or kill viruses to never get sick

Ability #20 Restoration

The power to revert a person or object, and everything it touches, by 24 hours (or by 7 years without his limiters) with the restriction of reviving the dead and undoing petrification. May only be used once a day per a target.

Ability #21 Shrinking/Size Augumentation

The power to shrink down his body to small sizes. It takes an hour to return to normal size. Later it's revealed that he also has the power to grow huge, but it's basically useless. Shrinking = fast, growing = slow

Ability #22 Super Strength

The ability of having extreme strength, beyond what is believed to be normal. It is easily one of the powers he has the least control over, though he has mitigated this somewhat by training on throwing balls. He also can't control this power when he is in a non-human form.

Ability #23 telepathy

The ability that is used the most, due to the mode of Kusuo's communication. The power to read and talk through minds. It works on humans and animals, but Kusuo can't turn it off.[6] It doesn't work on people with low intelligence like Riki or tiny lifeforms like bugs. Angel Whisper: The ability which telepathically speaks of the crime on the doer to stimulate guilt. Brain Lullaby: The ability that sends a lullaby to the opponent's brain to put them to sleep, however this may differ to whom it was used. Bug News: A pseudo "foreboding" that feeds telepathic advice or call for help. Favorability Meter: The ability to quantify the favorability using telepathy. Relationships and human's nature significantly changes it. Foreboding: The ability to telepathy to plant an idea/sense of foreboding in someone's head. Forced Telepathy: The ability to forcefully relay feelings/thoughts from one to another. Immediate Telepathy: The ability to give others visual information with audio via touch. Subliminal: An ability which is a bit similar to that of Angel Whisper but only one word. Telepathic broadcast: Sending a big load of 'thoughts' to other people but significantly interferes with thinking

Ability #24 Teleportation

The power to send back himself and something he touches to a faraway place. He can only teleport once before needing to wait three minutes until he can use it again.

Ability #25 Toughtography

The ability to create picture perfect photos just by thinking it

Ability #26 Time travel/Time leaps

The power to escape the flow of time by jumping to either the past or future. It also activates itself randomly, getting Kusuo stuck in a loop, and the only way to get time to go back to normal is for him to completely empty his mind of all thoughts.

Ability #27 Transformation (Shapeshift, Morph)

The ability to physically transform his body into anything. It takes two hours to fully transform. When he takes on a non-human form, it's hard for him to control his physical strength.

Ability #28 X-Ray

The power to see through things you normally couldn't like underside of a face-down card, or the contents of an airtight box.[9] Like his telepathy he can not control this power. The permeability to view through things increases with every second he stares at the object: clothes in three seconds and skin in five. When the limiter is removed the rate increases, being able to see bones near instantaneously. Because of this, he often sees through the skin of other organisms and views their muscular and skeletal systems, which results in him unable to perceive the attractiveness of other humans or the cuteness of animals. The ability is reset whenever he blinks or closes his eyes.

Relationships #1= Family

Saiki Kurumi Kurumi is Kusuo's carefree mother and plays a major role in Kusuo's development. She is the main reason why he doesn't use his powers for evil and turn to the 'dark side.' Kurumi is ecstatic whenever she see Kusuo making friends. Kusuo respects his mother and sees her as a kind but too trusting person, but is a little frightened of her when she snaps at times. Saiki Kuniharu Kuniharu is Kusuo's father. He is more open to taking advantage of Kusuo's powers. Kuniharu loves his wife and sons a great deal and is excited to see Kusuo's friends, though he sometimes enjoys seeing Kusuo in his misfortune as payback for his disrespect towards him. Kusuo pays very little respect to him and has been doing so since he was a baby. He usually refuses to help his father, whom he thinks would become too dependent on his powers, though he can be bribed with coffee jelly. After seeing how hard he works at his office, even though he made mistakes, Kusuo gain a little bit respect for his father, but still finds him annoying at times. On a ferris wheel, when his grandfather badmouthed his father Kusuo used his psychic powers to cause a ferris wheel to spiral, showing care for his father. Saiki Kusuke Kusuke is Kusuo's competitive older brother. They have been competing with each other ever since they were little. However, Kusuo with his psi powers would always win against the genius Kusuke. Kusuo always thought that his brother hated him for always winning, but Kusuke is actually obsessed with Kusuo and cares for him. He enjoys competing with his little brother even though he knows he will lose, showing his masochist side. Twenty years into the future where Kusuo dies early, Kusuke is happy to see him since his life was boring without the latter. Kusuo does not like his brother very much, finding him very annoying and wants little to do with him. Despite this, it seems he does care for Kusuke as the latter was same person who created the limiter on Kusuo.

Relationships #2= Friends/Associates, females

Yumehara Chiyo Chiyo is one of Kusuo's classmate who fell in love with Kusuo. She fantasized about him and tried to get closer. However, Kusuo, not interested in romance, easily foils her plan every time and was able to make her move on and start dating Shinoda.[1] After three months, Chiyo once again started to think of Kusuo as her relationship with Shinoda was souring. Kusuo tried to get them back together which worked at first but failed in the end due to the latter's bad habits.[2] Luckily, Kusuo eventually was able to get her to fall in love with Shun at the beach by increasing the strength of Shun's punch to keep the beach punk away from Chiyo and Kokomi. He worked with Mikoto to save her when she was marked for death. Teruhashi Kokomi Kokomi is one of Kusuo's classmate who noticed Kusuo walking alone in town. She tries to "improve" his summer by chatting with him, but Kusuo barely acknowledged her. She assumed he saw her as an illusion and that he was too infatuated to see her. She tried to get a reaction out of him, but failed as Kusuo is not interested in romance and believed she would draw too much attention. After Kusuo teleported away, Kokomi ended up thinking that he was an illusion and she was the one in love with him due to her beliefs about love, much to his dismay.[3] Kokomi is so persistent on getting Kusuo to acknowledge her beauty or fawn over her that she'd go as far as to eat gross ramen with him and his friends [4], something that did impress him. On Valentine's Day, Kokomi brought chocolates for Kusuo, but wasn't able to give it to him in fear that he’ll get beaten up by her fans or would start World War III, leading her to throw it away. Kusuo ends up catching it anyway.[5] During the school trip, Kusuo saves her from a bear after she was teleported to an island by mistake. She assumes it was a dream and took advantage of it by holding his arm, take her to a castle, and makes "Kusuo" acknowledge her.

Relationships #3= Friends/Associates, Males

Riki Nendo Riki is one of Kusuo's classmates whose mind and the only one cannot read. At first he was shocked, but came to believe the reason was that he is an idiot.[8] Riki sees Kusuo as his best friend after helping him prove his innocence, often asking Kusuo to eat ramen and calls him partner much to Kusuo's dismay. Kusuo disliked Riki not only because he's an idiot, but because he could not read his mind, leading him to secretly fear him and believe one day he could sneak up on him and kill him. Despite his annoyance of Riki, Kusuo at time helps Riki with some of his problems and at times admits he isn't a bad person, even slowly getting somewhat use to him and calling the latter a friend. However, at the same time still finds him annoying. Kaidou Shun Shun is one of Kusuo's classmate who suffers from 'second-year syndrome' (chuunibyou). Shun goes to great lengths just to befriend Kusuo, believing he's lonely just like him. He went around Kusuo's neighborhood to find the 'trickster' in his drawing which was actually Kusuo. In the end, Kusuo had no other choice but to show up with the face of the person in his drawing. Shun then started following him around, much to his annoyance. Despite finding Shun troublesome at times, Shun is possibly the least disliked person Kusuo knows since he is more willingly to help him. At one point, Kusuo called him a friend when he was being tricked for his gullibility several times and in New Years. Kusuo, still believe he's a weak crybaby, only finding him brave when he does acts like protecting a girl from a snake attack and defending Chiyo from beach punks. However like any other person, Kusuo still finds Shun annoying with his chuunibyou, but soon got used to him. Kusuo has also used his powers to help Shun by causing scammers to believe in his chuunibyou.

Likes

Coffee, Coffee jelly, a challenge, solitude

dislikes

his psychic powers, attention and social interactions, his classmates or school life, being called “cute” or “cool”, loosing control of his powers.

Kusuo’s common catchphrase

“Good grief”