Eight

Eight is a playable character in Final Fantasy Type-0, and one of the main characters of the same game.

Appearance and Personality
Eight is a young man with short auburn hair. Like all Class Zero members, he wears a uniform of a black jacket and a red cape, but instead of white pants, he wears capris and boots. Eight's cape is tied around the neck, giving it a scarf-like appearance.

Eight uses gloves and fights using martial arts because he hates weapons, believing that they take away lives too easily. He is fittingly attributed the number 08 in Class Zero.

Story
Eight is a young man who is a member of Class Zero, a group of students from the Peristylium Suzaku, the Magic Academy of the nation of Rubrum, that fight the invasion of Rubrum by the Milites Empire. As part of the resistance operation "Operation Apostle", he and his comrades seek to become the Agito, a messiah prophesied in ancient mythology to appear at the time of Finis, an apocalyptic calamity.

In the Type-0 Odaiba Trailer, Class Zero were in a graveyard when Ace said that dwelling in sadness will not do them any good, Eight replied that even so they will not forget that they were here and lived in this era.

In Battle
Eight wields knuckles in battle and obviously has a close-range battle style, which appears to integrate both kicks and punches. Similar to a beat them up game, the timing along with how long the player hold down the attack button plus what input with the analog stick controls his attacks. The player can also cancel his attacks to make infinite combos. Mixing all these will allow him to use his true potential. His basic attack is Knuckle.

Special Abilities
Eight Special Attack are a series called Forms allow him to unleash a variety of attacks by using the direction pad on the PSP. Three known Forms skills so far are Flowing Water Form, Swift Lightning Form and Hurricane Form. Explosive Fist deals heavy damage to a foe, but consumes nearly all of the Ability Gauge.

Etymology
"Eight" is one of the trumps of a traditional set of playing cards.

Trivia

 * Eight shares his Japanese voice actor with Sora from the Kingdom Hearts series.