Shogo Sasaki

Shougo Sasaki (佐々木正吾, Sasaki Shōgo?) is the main protagonist of Final Fantasy Lost Stranger, an employee of Square Enix with aspirations of working on a Final Fantasy title who is transported along with his sister into a Final Fantasy world never seen before.

Appearance
Shougo is a young man in his early 20s, he has a tall and lean build with short black hair and black eyes. He wears a tight black shirt and white trousers.

Personality
Shougo is an avid Final Fantasy fan and has nearly encyclopedic knowledge of every entry in the series so far released. It is noted by Yuuko that he developed keen observational abilities as a result of meticulous planning and strategizing while playing and used to be much brighter in his childhood.

Although at present time he is a mostly pessimistic individual who often ends in saddened mood swings when things do not go his way, although he is able to regain his composure quick mostly with help of his sister of whom he's very close to.

Story
Ever since his early childhood he was a dedicated fan of Final Fantasy and played several installments. He used to play along with his sister Yuuko Sasaki with whom he was very close to. He used to share on his motto of studying hard and believed nothing was unbeatable. Yuuko deeply admired her brother and the two vowed to join Square Enix to work on a Final Fantasy title of their own.

Several years later although both siblings are hired, they are in different departments which causes him to fall into a depressive state, although Yuuko constantly encourages him that they can still make their dream a reality since they are in the company they wanted. Before a truck runs before them seemingly killing them.

Shougo feels a Moogle and wakes up finding a Black Mage and Warrior and eventually a White Mage that believing him injured, heals him with Cure until her MP is depleted. Shougo joins the group and finds Yuuko in the town of Nylpo. Shougo recognizes several races such as Miqo'te although he gets the names wrong in this world and comes to realize that they are in a Final Fantasy world different from anything he and Yuuko know. Although confused Yuuko encourages his brother to make the best of this chance in order to live a Final Fantasy adventure and request to join Sharuru's party, which she accepts.

The group goes into performing several quests with Shougo annotating every piece of information he deems useful, but it is revealed the two siblings are Jobless and that they need to register in the guild in order to acquire a Job. Suddenly an civilian alerts the adventurers that a girl was left behind with a monster nearby, so the group decides to help her. Once they arrive the group find the menacing Dawnless White Dragon a monster so infamous that has never heard of being injured before and whom the Sharuru's group failed to fight on a previous encounter. Faced with such a monster the party decides to wait for more capable fighters to arrive, although Yuuko decides to save the girl quoting Zidane's catchphrase of "not needing a reason to help somebody". Being the fastest of the group she believes she can get the girl while the group distracts the Dragon.

The attacks do not affect the monster and when Yuuko gets the girl the terrain under her weakens her, causing the dragon to notice them. Shougo realized the terrain is unstable and using an unknown ability he's able to detect where the terrain is weakest, firing an arrow and causing the ground to collapse. Yuuko tosses the girl to Shougo but she herself is mauled by the Dragon inflicting fatal wounds unable to be healed by Sharuru. Shougo begs the White Mage to utilize Raise on her, but Sharuru reveals the unfortunate news that Raise in that world is nothing but a spell from fiction.

Abilities
As a result of playing through several Final Fantasy entries, Shougo has developed a great ability to observe and learn from his surroundings. This extends to the point where he's able to discern hidden paths and secret treasure with little difficulty. He practiced archery so he is competent with a Bow.

Shougo has an unexplained ability where his eyes shine in several markings. During this state he's able to observe several information from whatever he's looking at, such as the composition of food or the durability of the terrain. This information is displayed to him in the form of Information Boxes.