Reki Kyan Husbando

Reki Kyan is the main protagonist of the SK8 the Infinity anime. He is a teenager in his second year of high school who loves skateboarding that he frequently attends the underground skateboarding race "S" and he is close friends with Langa Hasegawa, who got wrapped up in the race with him. Reki is a fair and slightly tanned skin young boy of average height with wild and spiky red hair where he often sports an Egyptian blue headband with white detailing and a red wrist sweatband, amber-colored eyes, he appears to have a lithe figure and his face is very expressional and easily read where he is usually sporting a smile or a silly face. Similar to the skater-boy look, his outfits consist of a sweatshirt or layered sweatshirt and sweater/t-shirt combos with baggy pants. He commonly wears a yellow hoodie in his layered or unlayered outfits. His main sweatshirt he wears matches his board detailing. His outfits fall under the street fashion subculture called skater style. Reki is a carefree high schooler. At first glance, it's easy to assume all he cares about is skateboarding, and while that's somewhat true, he's also shown to be interested in more creative things like drawing and even making skateboards from scratch. With his outgoing personality, Reki can get easily along with everyone, although he has a special affinity for those who are also interested in the skateboarding world. He's on the lazier side of the spectrum, only doing the bare minimum in school to get good grades and never really thinking much about the future career-wise, but when given responsibilities about things he's passionate about he tries his hardest and sets high goals for himself. He also is a selfless person who wants the people who he cares for to succeed in anyway shape or form, even if it puts himself in harm's way. He enjoys physical touch which is seen with both Miya Chinen and Langa Hasegawa interactions where Reki is often touching them. Reki cares deeply for his friends as an example of this is when he defends Miya from Adam: he challenged Adam to a beef in hopes of winning and forcing Adam to take back his insults about Miya. He also will do anything to make sure of his friends' safety like going to others to try to convince Langa not to skate against Adam. He expresses his concern for Langa, often making sure that he is okay. While he has a high patience, it's not above him to crack a few jokes about his friends or boss. After all, it all comes with the laid-back personality. Reki also shows the fear of falling behind and being left behind which means he has to work harder to catch up to the raw natural talents of his friends. He gets shown to be visually upset when he gets complimented by Langa showing that he doesn't believe his friends' words about his own self worth. It's been shown that Reki doesn't think of himself highly at all instead listening to the words of others saying that he's just the "redhead" that Snow hangs around. He shows weakness and covers it up with a smile. He fears being left behind so much it leaves him to self-destruct, damaging his body and mind in the process. He thinks he is inferior to his best friend because of the raw natural talent Langa has for everything. Reki shows self-doubt throughout the episodes progressively growing in depth and leading to him snapping at Langa about how he doesn't feel excited to go against Adam—he feels fear. He falls apart when he realizes that he cannot benefit his friend anymore and tells him this is where our path together ends out of fear and self-doubt. He is deeply affected by realizing all of his closest friends are talented while even as a joke imply he is not talented. He loses the light in his eyes when he talks about skateboarding, progressively becoming a shell of the once happy skateboard-loving nerd. Later, Reki is shown as usually deep in thought and more or less drained, unlike his usual excitable demeanor. He realizes he wants to stand with his friends but feels like he could never reach the place he needs to be to stand with them, leading to him breaking down as Langa and Kojiro Nanjo skate, realizing he doesn't want to be on the side supporting them. In his self-deprecation, he turns in his "S" pin, leaving the skating world behind. The self-deprecation continues to worsen, even leading him to validate being beaten up on the pretense that he deserved it, showing a new lack of even self-preservation. He pushes the people who care for him away until he finds a reason to figure out his actions need to change and that they all matter to him, leading to the rekindling of Langa and himself.