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CONTENT WARNING: This application, as well as the linked wiki page, will be discussing topics such as drug addiction, extreme violence, gore, abuse, and rape. Please proceed with care if any of these topics are triggering to you.
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Name: Keisuke
Canon: Togainu no Chi
Gender: Male
Age: Unspecified. Estimated 19 years.
History: Wiki page. (Note: He is from the end of the True Route, meaning only the sections "Common Route" and the brief mention of Nano's Route in "Other Routes" are applicable.)
Personality: For a world as grim as that of Togainu no Chi, a person like Keisuke is a rare find. The world of 20XX, born out of a wartime apocalypse, makes struggle and strife between people a normalcy, be it for personal matters or something as simple and necessary as food and shelter. It tends to make people cold. This is not true for Keisuke. The core and intrinsic tenants of his personality stand out starkly against those who have adjusted to this type of environment by growing tough and wary. Keisuke was always timid and quiet; as a child, growing up in an orphanage, he was often picked on and bullied by those who targeted those qualities as weakness. Because Akira, another boy in the orphanage, tended to fend off his bullies, Keisuke ended up with an ingrained response to rely on others when things got tough instead of standing up for and fending for himself. After many years of relying on Akira’s strength, as well as later following him after moving on from their adoptive families, Keisuke has turned relying on others into a crutch. Whatever strength he might possess, he is unprepared to use it.
Because of this, Keisuke tends to idolize those that he perceives as “strong” and constantly berates and puts himself down for not being the same way. He does this both internally and externally; it is highly prevalent in his thought process and tends to come out through small turns of phrase (such as referring to himself as “someone like me,” or something similar). This makes him extremely dependent on others, particularly those confident enough to gain his admiration. When alone and isolated from these types of people, Keisuke tends to become very fearful and paranoid. He also becomes much more prone to making bad decisions, particularly those that he might see as ways to begin to become stronger. The example of this that takes place in the game is when he finds an ampule of Line, an addictive and dangerous drug that increases one’s physical strength, and takes it so he will no longer have to rely on Akira.
That doesn’t necessarily go as planned, but more about that soon.
As he is normally, Keisuke is quiet and considerate (“soft-hearted,” as some might call him). He’s also honest, possibly to a fault—generally the only lies he offers are those of omission. It’s his natural disposition to offer kindness and compassion to others, to the point where others perceive him as naïve (particularly once they crossed into Toshima). This begins to adjust as the story progresses and Keisuke learns to become more and more guarded. He tends to think before speaking and acting—a kind of natural hesitation at odds with the world around him. He’s naturally wary, eventually coming to verge on paranoid, so that can provide a barrier between himself and strangers initially.
Once he begins to understand someone and opens up to trust them, however, he tends to do so completely and immediately. Once Keisuke has adopted someone as a friend, he’s an exceptionally loyal and self-sacrificing one. It’s also worth saying that, though he tends to be ruled by indecisiveness and hesitations normally, once he perceives that someone close to him is in danger or needs help, he becomes single-minded in preventing that. This is documented throughout the game by his relationship with Akira. At the very beginning, he launches himself into an attack against the government men who arrested Akira. It also serves as the impetus to later follow Akira into Toshima, despite the stories of how difficult and dangerous it would be. Despite his own squeamishness about violence, he agrees to take part in the life-or-death game of Igura with the sole intention on helping Akira. At the very end of the True Route, he throws himself between Akira and a bullet, dying content that he'd managed to save him one last time.
Now, let’s resume the thread of conversation from earlier, about how Keisuke took Line to become stronger.
Line is a very peculiar drug, physically enhancing the user in strength, speed, and senses. It typically has the side-effect of making the user more emotionally volatile and aggressive. For Keisuke, this is heightened to such a state that his personality becomes so starkly different from his typical self that he’s practically indistinguishable. In the story, Keisuke resorts to Line during a moment where he is at his lowest, railing against himself due to a misunderstanding that led him to believe that Akira had secretly despised him all along. When he takes the drug, these feelings of inadequacy and the conflict of his feelings of love for Akira turn on a dime into feelings of bitter hatred. Where Keisuke is typically compassionate and careful, Keisuke on Line is thoughtless, cruel, sadistic, threatening, and more than willing to injure and maim and kill just to flaunt his new-found strength. His wariness inverses as well; he becomes perfectly confident in his own power and not at all afraid of any consequences of his own actions. He flagrantly subverts the rules of Igura to show off and makes an atmosphere of terror by slaughtering people in neutral zones and outside of sanctioned combat.
Because, whether he is on Line or not, the game itself means nothing—the possibility of power, notoriety, and material gain mean nothing to him as well. Regular Keisuke saw it as a way to try to make himself useful to Akira, just as he had always had. Keisuke high on Line saw it as a framework to instill terror in him, to display the great transformation he had undergone until the point he would try to achieve his ultimate goal of breaking and ultimately killing Akira, the source of his unrest and unresolved feelings. It’s never stated that he has any sort of plan after that—he turns completely from an idealist into a fatalist, determinedly pursuing a singular course of action until it is either completed or destroys him.
At his current canonpoint, Keisuke has successfully survived the neutralization of the Line in his system and the withdrawals associated with that; he remembers everything he did while he was high on the drug and despises each and every action. He makes no excuses or justifications. It is also implied in the game that, should he ever become addicted to Line and recover from it in this fashion, he would have to deal with managing addictive tendencies for the rest of his life.
At his death, Keisuke has gone through character growth worth mentioning. The residual strength that the Line left him gives him enough confidence to act when needed, even though it's highly likely he might still hesitate if it's not Akira's life on the line. He's slightly less idealistic and more realistic now, though he had the fire enough to denounce the people who experimented on them at the orphanage, even as they held guns on him. Despite how Toshima, Igura, and Line changed him, he's still the same sort of person he was before he left the CFC: he tends towards compassion, understanding, and a slightly hesitant carefulness that stands out in Togainu no Chi's war-torn world.
Powers/Abilities: At his current canon-point, Keisuke has the power of Line (a mind- and body-altering drug) in his system, which augments his strength, speed, reflexes, and senses exponentially. He is strong enough to crush a man's skull with his bare hand, fast and agile enough to dodge bullets, and his senses are sharp enough that he could track a person's scent through pouring rain. The extent that Line augments his abilities is actually unique—Keisuke is regarded as a "sub-species" due to how unusually compatible he is with the drug.
Typically the drug (which is taken by ampule) would need to be periodically taken for the effects to last. Ceasing to take the drug can cause violent withdrawals, often ending in death. Keisuke's Line has been neutralized, meaning he no longer has the adverse effects of the drug but maintains the benefits. A description on how the drug affects his mental state is in the Personality field, though this would not normally be applicable in his neutralized state.
Keepsakes/Mementos: A set of dog tags emblazoned with the Ace of Spades, assorted tools used to work on machinery, clothing associated with blue collar work (coveralls, etc.), ampules (with or without Line in them), Solids (his favorites are green curry), a particular knife, a bullet (which was still in his body when he died).
Sample: Keisuke realizes, in the fraction of a second after the bullet pierces between his ribs, grazes past his heart, and lodges in his chest, that his entire life, he had been running on borrowed time. It's what he believed, anyway, and in the end that's what made it true. This world wasn't one that befit someone like him. It was a world with teeth and an appetite—it caught the weak between its jaws and tore them to pieces. It would have done this to him long ago, starting with the bullies in the orphanage and ending most likely with an unfortunate altercation in the crime-soaked streets, but Akira had intervened. He had staved off the bullies, and no one would dare interfere with Keisuke when he had a Bl@ster regional champion at his side. It was Akira who had bought him all of that time—but there was no way it would last forever.
Death had been hot on his heels ever since he had left the CFC, ranging after him as he ran through the Oldlands, lurking in the labyrinthine streets of abandoned Toshima. For the briefest of moments he had made nice with it, even channeled it, painting some of the darkest corners of that hell bright red with blood until he had snapped out of it. After everything, he can't seem to find much despair in the life seeping out of him from the bullet wound in his back. It was simple: his time was up. He should've known when the soldiers closed in on him that he wouldn't be able to keep his promise. Akira would have to leave him behind.
He already feels numb. Just a few seconds ago the world had been on fire, the air full of falling rain and a hail of bullets. It had seemed easy then to move between them—an ease on par with the mysterious man he fought alongside—but now it had all washed out to grey. He barely feels it as Akira's arms move past his sides. He wants him to move, most likely, but all the strength was gone from his limbs.
Keisuke feels Akira shudder violently. He'd seen the blood.
He forces a breath. It's agonizing. He can feel the blood in his lungs. He grimaces as hands find the sides of his face; he coughs, and there's the blood, a familiar taste of dull copper on his tongue. He didn't have long.
He manages to get his eyes open. The world is a haze, between the rain and his hair matted to his eyes and the loss of blood, but he can distinguish his friend. He searches him, looking for blood, anything—
"A - kira. Are - you hurt?"
An irrational part of him almost wants to smile. He's fine. Thank God. All Keisuke can think is that he's so happy the bullet didn't pass through him to hit Akira as well. He doesn't have energy for much, but he has to speak to him before he goes. It's the only thing that matters. He's the only thing that matters—that he can live on.
"...Don't talk..."
He would've laughed if he could manage it. Instead he feels the pain blossom in his chest, causing him to contort in response. A sound of pain catches in his throat. It abates slightly after a moment. Less time. He needs to hurry.
"Before I die... Akira - there's something - I've got to tell you." He hears Akira weakly plead with him again to stop talking, but he's already on a roll. Each breath is more difficult than the last to draw; he has to make the most of each second. "I took - Line, because... I just wanted - to be able to help you... so badly..."
Akira protests his speech more loudly this time, with a sharpness that would have cowed him any other day before this one. Keisuke's bloodied smile notches just a bit wider; he shakes his head where it rests against his friend's chest. "In the end - I only hurt you... I'm sorry... w - what a useless power... but...
Getting his lead limbs to move feels as difficult as drawing blood from stone, but he manages. His hand finds the side of Akira's face—emboldened only in the face of death, still feeling that even this was akin to theft. If that were the case, hopefully one last sin would be overlooked at the cusp of death. He can't see anymore; his vision had ebbed away with the blood seeping out of his wound. He can only barely feel the warmth of Akira's face—but it's enough.
"- At least - you're not injured... I'm - so glad I could protect you... I'm so - glad... you're okay, Akira... thank - god..."
It's his last breath. He knows it is. He draws it as long as he can, focusing on the warmth beneath his fingers for the last few seconds. His heart staggers its last; death is a sickening vertigo between those last few beats, lungs failing to re-inflate, the flow of blood staunching itself.
When Keisuke dies, he has convinced himself into contentedness. He's alive. I'm so glad - so glad I could save him, just this once. His hand falls from Akira's face as the strength leaves him.
He dies with a smile still on his face.
Mindset: The way that Keisuke was raised impressed the importance of the here and now and very little else. Because of this, Keisuke has very rarely thought about what might happen to him after his death. For lack of thinking, he most likely assumes that he will just cease to exist. Because this world will challenge that, he will be shocked and perhaps a little bit numb at first. He wouldn't be starkly disbelieving, though, as he tends to trust what he sees. He will remember all of the details of his death sharply, as they were profoundly impactful on him. Knowing that he'd already gone up what he assumes was the worst his world could throw at him, he won't panic—instead he will take getting to know and understand the world slowly, albeit with plenty of confusion (since he has very limited knowledge of technology). In the end the great challenge which will present itself to him is finding something new to exist for, as he's left his life and the person he cared most for behind.
G̶̶l̨͡i̵͢t̷c͝͠h̕é͠s̷̷͡: First and foremost is Keisuke's history with Line. Though the drug was successfully neutralized at his death, he still battles with crippling guilt and self-doubt for having taken the drug in the first place (which led to him killing many people and nearly going after Akira in a similar fashion). When under the influence of Line, the "normal" Keisuke is fully contingent of his actions, even though his rational self has no ability to influence them. He fears this utter loss of control again, though this is mostly because he is repulsed by the idea of hurting anyone else (anyone that wasn't threatening someone he cared about, anyway). The violent, sadistic side of him which emerges under the effects of Line is part of him, though, and is fully available for glitching purposes.
Somewhat related is the after-effects of addiction itself. Though Keisuke has gone through the withdrawals and is technically no longer chemically dependent on Line, he will still have to deal with the psychological ramifications of trying to move past drug addiction. In one of the routes in the game, Motomi theorizes that it would not be easily done.
His senses were enhanced by Line, and they can sometimes overwhelm him. Once, while still under the influence of the drug, he tracks Akira's scent through the rain, saying it was "maddening" to him. Similar powerful sensory influxes could hugely impact him, as he's still growing used to the powers that he now has permanently.
Paradoxically, Keisuke both fears being completely alone but also despises his propensity towards relying too much on others (seemingly becoming a burden to them). Though he is slightly more independent after the events prior to his death, being thrust into a new, frightening situation will revert him somewhat back to this habit, so it will still be applicable. He tends to gravitate towards people for their strength, but since he now has considerable physical strength, it will most likely be cast on those who are mentally or emotionally strong—something he still wishes he was better at.
He inwardly despises himself for how hesitant, empathetic, and (generally) violence-averse he is. In the world he grew up in, stoicism, physical strength, and swiftness to act (the good qualities of a soldier) were prized. He was taught from a young age that he just wasn't cut from the right cloth.
Lastly, but of great importance, is Akira. Keisuke was in love with his best friend for years, even though he personally perceived it as socially/morally wrong. Practically his entire impetus in life was to try to help him, so he would let Keisuke stay near him. Though Keisuke feels as though dying to save him, so that he could get out of Toshima, was the best that he could've asked for in a death, he will still be devastated by the loss and distance of someone he cares for more than anything else.
Canon: Togainu no Chi
Gender: Male
Age: Unspecified. Estimated 19 years.
History: Wiki page. (Note: He is from the end of the True Route, meaning only the sections "Common Route" and the brief mention of Nano's Route in "Other Routes" are applicable.)
Personality: For a world as grim as that of Togainu no Chi, a person like Keisuke is a rare find. The world of 20XX, born out of a wartime apocalypse, makes struggle and strife between people a normalcy, be it for personal matters or something as simple and necessary as food and shelter. It tends to make people cold. This is not true for Keisuke. The core and intrinsic tenants of his personality stand out starkly against those who have adjusted to this type of environment by growing tough and wary. Keisuke was always timid and quiet; as a child, growing up in an orphanage, he was often picked on and bullied by those who targeted those qualities as weakness. Because Akira, another boy in the orphanage, tended to fend off his bullies, Keisuke ended up with an ingrained response to rely on others when things got tough instead of standing up for and fending for himself. After many years of relying on Akira’s strength, as well as later following him after moving on from their adoptive families, Keisuke has turned relying on others into a crutch. Whatever strength he might possess, he is unprepared to use it.
Because of this, Keisuke tends to idolize those that he perceives as “strong” and constantly berates and puts himself down for not being the same way. He does this both internally and externally; it is highly prevalent in his thought process and tends to come out through small turns of phrase (such as referring to himself as “someone like me,” or something similar). This makes him extremely dependent on others, particularly those confident enough to gain his admiration. When alone and isolated from these types of people, Keisuke tends to become very fearful and paranoid. He also becomes much more prone to making bad decisions, particularly those that he might see as ways to begin to become stronger. The example of this that takes place in the game is when he finds an ampule of Line, an addictive and dangerous drug that increases one’s physical strength, and takes it so he will no longer have to rely on Akira.
That doesn’t necessarily go as planned, but more about that soon.
As he is normally, Keisuke is quiet and considerate (“soft-hearted,” as some might call him). He’s also honest, possibly to a fault—generally the only lies he offers are those of omission. It’s his natural disposition to offer kindness and compassion to others, to the point where others perceive him as naïve (particularly once they crossed into Toshima). This begins to adjust as the story progresses and Keisuke learns to become more and more guarded. He tends to think before speaking and acting—a kind of natural hesitation at odds with the world around him. He’s naturally wary, eventually coming to verge on paranoid, so that can provide a barrier between himself and strangers initially.
Once he begins to understand someone and opens up to trust them, however, he tends to do so completely and immediately. Once Keisuke has adopted someone as a friend, he’s an exceptionally loyal and self-sacrificing one. It’s also worth saying that, though he tends to be ruled by indecisiveness and hesitations normally, once he perceives that someone close to him is in danger or needs help, he becomes single-minded in preventing that. This is documented throughout the game by his relationship with Akira. At the very beginning, he launches himself into an attack against the government men who arrested Akira. It also serves as the impetus to later follow Akira into Toshima, despite the stories of how difficult and dangerous it would be. Despite his own squeamishness about violence, he agrees to take part in the life-or-death game of Igura with the sole intention on helping Akira. At the very end of the True Route, he throws himself between Akira and a bullet, dying content that he'd managed to save him one last time.
Now, let’s resume the thread of conversation from earlier, about how Keisuke took Line to become stronger.
Line is a very peculiar drug, physically enhancing the user in strength, speed, and senses. It typically has the side-effect of making the user more emotionally volatile and aggressive. For Keisuke, this is heightened to such a state that his personality becomes so starkly different from his typical self that he’s practically indistinguishable. In the story, Keisuke resorts to Line during a moment where he is at his lowest, railing against himself due to a misunderstanding that led him to believe that Akira had secretly despised him all along. When he takes the drug, these feelings of inadequacy and the conflict of his feelings of love for Akira turn on a dime into feelings of bitter hatred. Where Keisuke is typically compassionate and careful, Keisuke on Line is thoughtless, cruel, sadistic, threatening, and more than willing to injure and maim and kill just to flaunt his new-found strength. His wariness inverses as well; he becomes perfectly confident in his own power and not at all afraid of any consequences of his own actions. He flagrantly subverts the rules of Igura to show off and makes an atmosphere of terror by slaughtering people in neutral zones and outside of sanctioned combat.
Because, whether he is on Line or not, the game itself means nothing—the possibility of power, notoriety, and material gain mean nothing to him as well. Regular Keisuke saw it as a way to try to make himself useful to Akira, just as he had always had. Keisuke high on Line saw it as a framework to instill terror in him, to display the great transformation he had undergone until the point he would try to achieve his ultimate goal of breaking and ultimately killing Akira, the source of his unrest and unresolved feelings. It’s never stated that he has any sort of plan after that—he turns completely from an idealist into a fatalist, determinedly pursuing a singular course of action until it is either completed or destroys him.
At his current canonpoint, Keisuke has successfully survived the neutralization of the Line in his system and the withdrawals associated with that; he remembers everything he did while he was high on the drug and despises each and every action. He makes no excuses or justifications. It is also implied in the game that, should he ever become addicted to Line and recover from it in this fashion, he would have to deal with managing addictive tendencies for the rest of his life.
At his death, Keisuke has gone through character growth worth mentioning. The residual strength that the Line left him gives him enough confidence to act when needed, even though it's highly likely he might still hesitate if it's not Akira's life on the line. He's slightly less idealistic and more realistic now, though he had the fire enough to denounce the people who experimented on them at the orphanage, even as they held guns on him. Despite how Toshima, Igura, and Line changed him, he's still the same sort of person he was before he left the CFC: he tends towards compassion, understanding, and a slightly hesitant carefulness that stands out in Togainu no Chi's war-torn world.
Powers/Abilities: At his current canon-point, Keisuke has the power of Line (a mind- and body-altering drug) in his system, which augments his strength, speed, reflexes, and senses exponentially. He is strong enough to crush a man's skull with his bare hand, fast and agile enough to dodge bullets, and his senses are sharp enough that he could track a person's scent through pouring rain. The extent that Line augments his abilities is actually unique—Keisuke is regarded as a "sub-species" due to how unusually compatible he is with the drug.
Typically the drug (which is taken by ampule) would need to be periodically taken for the effects to last. Ceasing to take the drug can cause violent withdrawals, often ending in death. Keisuke's Line has been neutralized, meaning he no longer has the adverse effects of the drug but maintains the benefits. A description on how the drug affects his mental state is in the Personality field, though this would not normally be applicable in his neutralized state.
Keepsakes/Mementos: A set of dog tags emblazoned with the Ace of Spades, assorted tools used to work on machinery, clothing associated with blue collar work (coveralls, etc.), ampules (with or without Line in them), Solids (his favorites are green curry), a particular knife, a bullet (which was still in his body when he died).
Sample: Keisuke realizes, in the fraction of a second after the bullet pierces between his ribs, grazes past his heart, and lodges in his chest, that his entire life, he had been running on borrowed time. It's what he believed, anyway, and in the end that's what made it true. This world wasn't one that befit someone like him. It was a world with teeth and an appetite—it caught the weak between its jaws and tore them to pieces. It would have done this to him long ago, starting with the bullies in the orphanage and ending most likely with an unfortunate altercation in the crime-soaked streets, but Akira had intervened. He had staved off the bullies, and no one would dare interfere with Keisuke when he had a Bl@ster regional champion at his side. It was Akira who had bought him all of that time—but there was no way it would last forever.
Death had been hot on his heels ever since he had left the CFC, ranging after him as he ran through the Oldlands, lurking in the labyrinthine streets of abandoned Toshima. For the briefest of moments he had made nice with it, even channeled it, painting some of the darkest corners of that hell bright red with blood until he had snapped out of it. After everything, he can't seem to find much despair in the life seeping out of him from the bullet wound in his back. It was simple: his time was up. He should've known when the soldiers closed in on him that he wouldn't be able to keep his promise. Akira would have to leave him behind.
He already feels numb. Just a few seconds ago the world had been on fire, the air full of falling rain and a hail of bullets. It had seemed easy then to move between them—an ease on par with the mysterious man he fought alongside—but now it had all washed out to grey. He barely feels it as Akira's arms move past his sides. He wants him to move, most likely, but all the strength was gone from his limbs.
Keisuke feels Akira shudder violently. He'd seen the blood.
He forces a breath. It's agonizing. He can feel the blood in his lungs. He grimaces as hands find the sides of his face; he coughs, and there's the blood, a familiar taste of dull copper on his tongue. He didn't have long.
He manages to get his eyes open. The world is a haze, between the rain and his hair matted to his eyes and the loss of blood, but he can distinguish his friend. He searches him, looking for blood, anything—
"A - kira. Are - you hurt?"
An irrational part of him almost wants to smile. He's fine. Thank God. All Keisuke can think is that he's so happy the bullet didn't pass through him to hit Akira as well. He doesn't have energy for much, but he has to speak to him before he goes. It's the only thing that matters. He's the only thing that matters—that he can live on.
"...Don't talk..."
He would've laughed if he could manage it. Instead he feels the pain blossom in his chest, causing him to contort in response. A sound of pain catches in his throat. It abates slightly after a moment. Less time. He needs to hurry.
"Before I die... Akira - there's something - I've got to tell you." He hears Akira weakly plead with him again to stop talking, but he's already on a roll. Each breath is more difficult than the last to draw; he has to make the most of each second. "I took - Line, because... I just wanted - to be able to help you... so badly..."
Akira protests his speech more loudly this time, with a sharpness that would have cowed him any other day before this one. Keisuke's bloodied smile notches just a bit wider; he shakes his head where it rests against his friend's chest. "In the end - I only hurt you... I'm sorry... w - what a useless power... but...
Getting his lead limbs to move feels as difficult as drawing blood from stone, but he manages. His hand finds the side of Akira's face—emboldened only in the face of death, still feeling that even this was akin to theft. If that were the case, hopefully one last sin would be overlooked at the cusp of death. He can't see anymore; his vision had ebbed away with the blood seeping out of his wound. He can only barely feel the warmth of Akira's face—but it's enough.
"- At least - you're not injured... I'm - so glad I could protect you... I'm so - glad... you're okay, Akira... thank - god..."
It's his last breath. He knows it is. He draws it as long as he can, focusing on the warmth beneath his fingers for the last few seconds. His heart staggers its last; death is a sickening vertigo between those last few beats, lungs failing to re-inflate, the flow of blood staunching itself.
When Keisuke dies, he has convinced himself into contentedness. He's alive. I'm so glad - so glad I could save him, just this once. His hand falls from Akira's face as the strength leaves him.
He dies with a smile still on his face.
Mindset: The way that Keisuke was raised impressed the importance of the here and now and very little else. Because of this, Keisuke has very rarely thought about what might happen to him after his death. For lack of thinking, he most likely assumes that he will just cease to exist. Because this world will challenge that, he will be shocked and perhaps a little bit numb at first. He wouldn't be starkly disbelieving, though, as he tends to trust what he sees. He will remember all of the details of his death sharply, as they were profoundly impactful on him. Knowing that he'd already gone up what he assumes was the worst his world could throw at him, he won't panic—instead he will take getting to know and understand the world slowly, albeit with plenty of confusion (since he has very limited knowledge of technology). In the end the great challenge which will present itself to him is finding something new to exist for, as he's left his life and the person he cared most for behind.
G̶̶l̨͡i̵͢t̷c͝͠h̕é͠s̷̷͡: First and foremost is Keisuke's history with Line. Though the drug was successfully neutralized at his death, he still battles with crippling guilt and self-doubt for having taken the drug in the first place (which led to him killing many people and nearly going after Akira in a similar fashion). When under the influence of Line, the "normal" Keisuke is fully contingent of his actions, even though his rational self has no ability to influence them. He fears this utter loss of control again, though this is mostly because he is repulsed by the idea of hurting anyone else (anyone that wasn't threatening someone he cared about, anyway). The violent, sadistic side of him which emerges under the effects of Line is part of him, though, and is fully available for glitching purposes.
Somewhat related is the after-effects of addiction itself. Though Keisuke has gone through the withdrawals and is technically no longer chemically dependent on Line, he will still have to deal with the psychological ramifications of trying to move past drug addiction. In one of the routes in the game, Motomi theorizes that it would not be easily done.
His senses were enhanced by Line, and they can sometimes overwhelm him. Once, while still under the influence of the drug, he tracks Akira's scent through the rain, saying it was "maddening" to him. Similar powerful sensory influxes could hugely impact him, as he's still growing used to the powers that he now has permanently.
Paradoxically, Keisuke both fears being completely alone but also despises his propensity towards relying too much on others (seemingly becoming a burden to them). Though he is slightly more independent after the events prior to his death, being thrust into a new, frightening situation will revert him somewhat back to this habit, so it will still be applicable. He tends to gravitate towards people for their strength, but since he now has considerable physical strength, it will most likely be cast on those who are mentally or emotionally strong—something he still wishes he was better at.
He inwardly despises himself for how hesitant, empathetic, and (generally) violence-averse he is. In the world he grew up in, stoicism, physical strength, and swiftness to act (the good qualities of a soldier) were prized. He was taught from a young age that he just wasn't cut from the right cloth.
Lastly, but of great importance, is Akira. Keisuke was in love with his best friend for years, even though he personally perceived it as socially/morally wrong. Practically his entire impetus in life was to try to help him, so he would let Keisuke stay near him. Though Keisuke feels as though dying to save him, so that he could get out of Toshima, was the best that he could've asked for in a death, he will still be devastated by the loss and distance of someone he cares for more than anything else.
