Hideo Kosameda

Hideo Kosameda (, Kosameda Hideo) is the Captain of the Kosameda Bushi.

Personality
Although outwardly seen as a calm and gentle person at first sight, this is in fact a facade, as Kosameda is a far more cruel individual than he initially lets on. Kosameda is arrogant and self-centered, and with a superiority complex. He verbally and physically abuses everyone serving under him, repeatedly belittling them as a means to wear down their confidence so as to make them dependant on him, both psychologically and for their own survival.

A tyrant by nature, he believes his own word to be absolute and brutally punishes anybody who so much as disagrees with him, engaging in further acts of abuse and even threatening them with expulsion from his castle or punishment to families, taking advantage of people's inherent desire to protect and be with their loved ones to further erode dissent. Being granted his privilege and dominion over his castle and territory by Tokugawa likely inflated his ego to dangerously self-serving levels, building a cult of personality around himself in which everyone under him is a "family" with himself as the "father" to whom they have to submit themselves for protection, and that they can by no means survive without his aid. As a result of this, he looks down on everyone, caring very little about anybody and generally viewing people as tools for his own benefit, being more than willing to have the more vulnerable citizens be used as cannon fodder to preserve his castle, despite the fact that such an action is an evident violation of Bushi principles.

Sadistic and violent he seems to have a thirst for battle as evidenced by his speech in front of his townspeople. He also brutally and repeatedly kicked Tsugumi for no particular reason other than to assert dominance after the latter defied him, which left every spectator visibly horrified at his cruelty. Conversely he is very adverse to being mistreated in any fashion as he was distraught when Tsugumi spit on his face. He was subsequently left despondent and isolated himself when defeated.

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