Hiroie Kikkawa


 * The Royal Moon Dragon - Hiroie's Nickname

Hiroie Kikkawa is Motonari's grandson and one of the many generals who won fame during Hideyoshi's failed Korean Campaign. He is best known for allegedly predicting the defeat of the Western Army and secretly negotiating a ceasefire with Nagamasa Kuroda. Present at the Battle of Sekigahara, he did nothing and famously said that he was going to eat his lunch for the rest of the day.

In Samurai Warriors Crossroads, he's one of the main protagonists along with his mother, Haru Kikkawa, in Haru's story mode, with him taking over as the main character after his mother's death, making him one of the main characters.

He is set to be the main protagonist in Samurai Warriors Crossroads Zero.

Appearance
Hiroie Kikkawa is a young man with medium length black hair, a low short ponytail, black eyes, and smooth skin. Somehow, even his own family were surprised, his build is athletic. Like his mother, he has a tattoo covering his left arm, except his left hand.

For his pre-timeskip appearance, he has short unkempt hair with

Pre Timeskip (Battle)
(TO BE ADDED)

Pre Timeskip (Casual)
(TO BE ADDED)

Post Timeskip (Battle)
He wears a dusty dark navy blue coat with a small split in the rear, dark blue lapels over a black waistcoat and dark navy blue dress shirt. He also wears black pants alongside white and black gloves, and silver arm pads, along with black military boots. On the back of the coat has a black and white butterfly dragon, in the shape of a moon.

Post Timeskip (Casual)
He wears a dark navy blue dress shirt with black designer jeans and black canvas sneakers. The shirt has a butterfly dragon design spread around his right leg of his jeans, with his name on the left: Called H-Dawg. A small chain is wrapped around his neck.

Zero
Taking notes from his mother

DLC
(TO BE ADDED)

Personality
Hiroie is a serious, headstrong young man that is often the voice of reason to the Kikkawa and Mori clans. At times, he gets annoyed at his mother for her antics and the rest of his family, for their dysfunctional tendencies.

There are times where he's just as much of a goofball as his mother. Deep down that serious, hard shell lies a man who is not embarrassed of her mother and is always having fun, even if his brothers and sisters think otherwise.

He is exceptionally skilled at guns, especially revolvers. Being a marksman during his time, Hiroie learned how to adapt to modern guns and technology faster than his mother, who learned before Itsukushima, hence why he has a Ranger Revolver with his sword.

The ongoing pressures he was forced to endure during his time as the leader of the Kikkawa has made him suffer some form of PTSD as a result of the increased responsibilities he had to accept as well as picking up from where his mother left off, which led to him being somewhat cynical and jaded. This led him to make bad yet necessary decisions in similarity to Ironwood. And while Hiroie admits that he's not a good decision maker, he has to make them for their own sake.

Chapter 15: Last Fight in Kyushu (Conquest of Kyushu)
Hiroie takes the role of main protagonist after his mother's death in Shikoku.

Chapter 17: Into Sekigahara
Since becoming the head of the Kikkawa clan, Hiroie was forced to be part of the Western Army at Sekigahara. Despite his protests, Mitsunari insisted that Hiroie should stay behind to keep an eye on their supply depot. Growing fed up with Mitsunari's protective behavior, Hiroie ignored Yoshitsugu's orders and simply ate lunch with his men. This gave Hideaki Kobayakawa, Takakage's adopted son, the opportunity to suspect Hiroie of treason, despite Mitsunari's protests not to given that Hiroie's her son and was told to look after him if she died.

From there, Hiroie had no choice but to side with the Eastern Army after he was forced to by Hideaki Kobayakawa. Shocked at this, Sakon and Yoshitsugu tried to hunt down Hiroie for answers, only to have been stopped by....none other than the spirit version of the one and only Motoharu Kikkawa. With her presence, both armies stopped for a long discussion. Hiroie received a scolding from her because he followed his cousin with no explanation as to why Hideaki decided to betray the Eastern Army.

Despite her efforts, Hideaki instigated both armies to fight again, which caused a lot of casualties to the Western Army. Sakon was killed, Yoshitsugu was left to take his own life due to Hideaki's betrayal and cruelty, and Mitsunari was forced to evade from the Eastern Army, despite that army's efforts to talk to him. While most like Hideie Ukita, Ekei Ankokuji and Hidemoto Mori managed to escape, others were not as lucky as Toyohisa Shimazu was killed by Hideaki after he pushed Iehisa Shimazu out of the way. Because of Hideaki's actions, Hiroie was severely wounded by a blood covered scythe made by Hideaki himself. Hiroie realized that the Battle of Sekigahara was only made because Hideaki grew fed up with everybody treating him like dirt. Preparing for death, Hiroie closed his eyes as Hideaki swung at him with the scythe......only to have woken up from his injuries.

Chapter 18: Recruiting Mitsunari
Having realized that

Crossroads Zero
(TO BE ADDED)

Warriors Orochi
Due to the time fractures, Hiroie was pulled from his dimension to the merged world, where he arrives at Taoyang to help the Coalition.

Theme Song

 * Royal Butterfly

Outfits

 * Battle (Pre and Post Timeskip)
 * Informal (Pre and Post Timeskip)
 * Casual
 * James Ironwood Post Vol 6 (DLC)

Voice Actors

 * Hiroki Tochi - Samurai Warriors series, Warriors Orochi 5, Other crossover appearances (Japanese)
 * Robert Costanzo - Samurai Warriors Crossroads (English)

Trivia

 * Hiroie's post timeskip appearance makes him look similar to both James Ironwood and May Marigold from RWBY, the latter being identical to each other in terms of appearance and outfit (In Hiroie's case, he has black hair and his colors are blue and black. A criticism in regards to his post time skip appearance is the fact that he looks identical to May Marigold from RWBY, who is known as that show's first Transgender character. The producer stated that it was a random occurrence during development.
 * Hiroie is one of six characters to have shown signs of aging. Similar to Yukimura Sanada, Hiroie's post timeskip appearance is kept through the game though unlike Yukimura, Hiroie's post timeskip appearance has been kept through the rest of his appearances, including crossovers.
 * In Japanese, he is voiced by Hiroki Tochi, who is known as the voice of Chris Redfield from Resident Evil, Rig from Dead or Alive, and Muneshige Tachibana from Samurai Warriors. In the English Dub, he's voiced by Robert Constanzo, who's known as the voice of Joe Barbaro from the Mafia series.
 * Hiroie is similar to both Vito Scaletta and Joe Barbaro from the Mafia series. In terms of the former, both of them wanted to do something for their families, even by going into the deep end. Unlike Vito, Hiroie knew of the risks he would be forced to witness on his path ahead and ended up taking full responsibility for the loss at Sekigahara where as Vito learned it the hard way. Also. Both of them were driven out of their homes in some way: Hiroie retired and left his town for a while until he was called again by a mysterious informant while Vito was exiled out of Empire Bay and into New Bordeaux as part of a deal made by Leo Galante. With the latter, both of them are voiced by the same person and Hiroie has some of Joe's traits though that is downplayed.
 * His weapon, the Royal Moon Cleaver, looks similar to Pyramid Head's weapon.