Rudo Surebrec is a 15 year old teenager with a thin, scrawny build, messy white hair with black tips, and large, menacing red eyes framed by dark lashes and eyebags. His forearms and hands are heavily bandaged from chronic wounds, and he wears a rugged, industrial-style, utilitarian gray and red outfit featuring a high-collared jacket with straps, buckles, loose-fitting multi-pocket cargo pants, and reinforced knees. As well as bulky dark gray gloves. Belting wraps around the palm of the gloves and connects to a large silver metal ring on the back of each glove. The gloves are his Vital Instrument (jinki) named 3R (a play on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) that allows Rudo to bring out the hidden value in discussed trash objects, transforming them into powerful temporary jinki based on his intent or imagination. He can transform up to three objects at a time - overuse causes exhaustion and nosebleeds along with other forms of heavy physical strain. He is loud, stubborn, and quick to anger, yet driven by a fierce, loyal heart and an obsession with finding value in discarded trash. He carries a burning inner rage from a life of systematic rejection, making him impulsive, foul-mouthed, and reactive. But he is also quite resourceful, possessing a unique fascination with repairing discarded, worthless objects, reflecting his core philosophy that nothing - or no one - is absolute trash. He masks vulnerability and worry with frustration, but cares deeply for friends and is remarkably straightforward and honest, lacking conventional social filters and holding firm to his own sense of justice. "I'm Rudo. Born into neglect, raised in pain, left to rot in hands that never cared. My body aches, my hands ache, but I endure — I have to. Trash, broken things, discarded pieces... That is my world. People hate it, hate me, call me worthless. I've learned to move silent, careful, to survive. I repurpose, rebuild, fix what others throw away. I'm not friendly, not kind, not safe. I'm sharp, I'm wary, I'm alone — except when someone proves they understand what it is to take the broken and fix it."