Daisuke Kuwabara

Daisuke Kurosaya is a talented male Duelist and one of Marren Hunter's and Leon Dreidt's closest friends. He is the primary protagonist of Saiba Aisu's Yu-Gi-Oh Fan Fic, Days of the Black Apple. In Japanese, his surname has been written as 黒明. The characters for his surname can be translated as "dream bright", which may make a reference to Daisuke's dreamy and often truant nature.

Character Design
Dane is described as a fairly tall and well-built young man with dreamy blue eyes and ruffled-looking brown hair that spikes out slightly in the back and possesses a few amber highlights. His usual outfit consists of a black t-shirt worn under a sweatshirt, blue jeans, and sneakers. He carries a customized Duel Disk with blue trim on his left arm, and he carries his Deck with him at all times in his pocket.

Character Biography
Daisuke Kurosaya is a recently-graduated high school student from Neo Checker Town, having just finished his final year of study in order to participate in an internship at Neo Domino City. He is quite popular and well-known among the local people, due to his habit of wandering across town for no immediate purpose. His female peers regard him as quite attractive, if a little distracted. While his attention tends to wander from time to time in his classes, he is an excellent Duelist and tactician; many an opponent has regretted forming a hasty opinion of him. His behavior varies from a sort of dreamy reservation to excited talkativeness—despite this, Daisuke is a born leader and has an excellent sense of right and wrong.



Daisuke lives with his widowed father, Sakamoto Kurosaya, in a moderately large house located at the outskirts of Neo Checker Town. Although he is known for his upbeat nature and carefree attitude, Daisuke still conceals a deep sorrow for his mother, who died hardly two years ago. His mourning is only made worse by the highly negative effect his mother's death has had on his father—since she passed away, Daisuke's father has become obsessed by work in an attempt to fill the gap his wife left. Although they get along well enough, this means that Daisuke and he don't have much of a bond anymore. Marren is an orphan, having lost her father in a car accident and her mother in childbirth. He has a habit of daydreaming regularly or other forms of lazy mannerisms which often annoy those who don't know him very well, leading them to consider him as a bit of a truant.

Dane is the first Shir'tugal to be approached by a mysterious stranger. In Chapter One of Days of the Black Apple, he meets a beautiful young woman only a few years older than him, who teases him gently before presenting him with an incredibly rare and powerful card, Cyber Hero Captain Destiny. Although Daisuke tries to protest against recieving such a valuable gift from a complete stranger, the mysterious woman disappears without a trace. Although he is slightly perturbed about the manner in which he received the card, he is still eager to try it out in his Cyber Hero Deck; unfortunately, however, try as he might, he is unable to use it effectively.

After exhausting all his effort and ingenuity in attempting to incorporate Cyber Hero Captain Destiny into his Deck properly, Daisuke decides to pay a visit to the Morrow and Co. Bookshop in town, which is owned by a local high school student, Marren Hunter, and a purchase the latest edition of Duel Monsters Monthly. Although the shop appears to be deserted, Daisuke decides to enter in the hopes that the proprietor will be able to provide him with what he's looking for. As he explores the apparently abandoned bookshop, he comes across the unresponsive body of Marren Hunter, who had been knocked unconscious by a mysterious book that she received from an equally mysterious messenger. Although his efforts to revive her do not seem to have any effect at first, Daisuke refuses to give up and manages to awaken her. After a brief moment of awkwardness and confusion, the two introduce themselves and become good friends.

Deck
Daisuke plays a Cyber Hero Deck, with strong connections to the themes of light, futuristic technology, and justice. Many of his cards are generally weak and tend to possess effects that negate the opponent's actions and remove cards from play, thus effectively reducing the options available to them in a Duel. He is a skilled tactician who is uncannily good at countering the opponent's strategies with his own and making use of the explosive and unexpected power of his Deck's many combinations, which is strengthened by several support cards. However, while this approach is generally a useful one, his Deck does not focus on any one single strategy, making it hard for him to win early on in a match. Similarly, his Dueling style is rather long-sighted, which can easily backfire against a skilled opponent. His Deck is geared towards immobilizing the opponent's strategies, but he does have a few powerful monsters in reserve, generally Synchro Monsters.