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Let us just say that I know a little more about the world than most do.

Dr. Citan Uzuki (シタン・ウヅキ, shitan udzuki) is a playable character in Xenogears. Serving as Lahan's doctor and a quirky inventor, he lives up the mountain path from Lahan with his wife, Yui, and his daughter, Midori.

As one of the first characters to join the party, Citan keeps an eye on Fei Fong Wong, and knows more about the world than he lets on.

Appearance[]

Citan has a very long black hair, which is tied in a very low ponytail adorned with a red ribbon. He has brown eyes, and wears small spectacles with additional lenses at the sides.

His main appearance is a light green long sleeved shanku with dark grey trim edged with white piping and red lining on the inside. At his waist is a lavender and pink side sash, tied to one side with a three piece metal brooch with different designs on each. Underneath he wears loose white pants and dark grey ankle-high boots with yellow or gold trim. In both his battle sprite and the anime cutscenes, Citan's shanku is shown to be green.

During his earlier years as an Element, Citan wore a blue suit with a green gem in the center and his black hair was cut at shoulder length.

Personality[]

Citan is a man of great intellect and harbors a great enthusiasm for technology. He possesses an acute intellect when thinking through complex problems, such as the invasion of Merkava and the physical structure of Deus. He is also responsible for building or having a hand in the creation of many Gears.

Citan is a man of secrets, but holds true to his beliefs, even if it means his motives are unclear to his allies during one of his plans. As a man tasked with taking care of Fei, he takes his task seriously and is prepared to make uncomfortable choices, especially when it comes to the matter of Id.

He has a personal code of morality he holds himself to, and would never break a promise. One example of this is the promise he made to Yui's grandfather, Gaspar Uzuki, that he would never use a sword to kill again. However, when the situation deteriorated for the worse, he takes up the sword again with the approval of Yui, arguing that 'this is no time for moralities'.

Yui believes Citan is too persistent and talks too much, while Citan thinks otherwise.

Biography[]

Citan's true name is Hyuga Ricdeau (ヒュウガ・リクドウ, hyuuga rikudou). Born in the year 9970 in Etrenank, Solaris, Hyuga was the ninth child of father Shouki Ricdeau and mother Luli. His early life was hard, as he was from a family of third class citizens, or 'worker bees'. He received sword training from his grandfather. Perfect Works says it is unlikely all his brothers are blood-related.

In 9982, due to a germ experiment at a Soylent System facility, a epidemic occurred in Solaris's Third-Class citizen level, resulting in the death of Hyuga's entire family. Due to his high intelligence and his experiments, many in the 3rd class suspected one of Hyuga's experiments to be the cause of this epidemic, and drove Hyuga out.[1]

This continued until, with the recommendation of Kahran Ramsus, Hyuga was accepted to the Jugend Military Academy. While there, he met Sigurd Harcourt and Jesiah Black, and went on became a member of Jesiah's group, The Elements, as the Water Element.

Eventually, Sigurd and Jesiah left Solaris, Ramsus was promoted into a high Gebler officer, and Hyuga was appointed as a Solarian Guardian Angel. As a Solarian Guardian Angel, Hyuga carried out orders given to him directly by Emperor Cain and the Gazel Ministry.

In 9992, Hyuga was tasked with directing the strategy for Solaris's third invasion of Shevat[2]. During the invasion, he had a showdown with the Great Sage Gaspar Uzuki, which ended in a draw between the two skilled warriors. It was at this time Hyuga met Yui Uzuki, falling deeply in love with her. When the invasion turned out to be in Shevat's favor, Hyuga ordered the Solaris military forces to retreat. While this may have been due to a strategic decision on his part, his feelings for Yui was just as likely part of his motivation.

It was through the escape route that Hyuga previously used that he and Yui met again in secret. The two had their trysts, though Gaspar would debate his granddaughter's lover on many issues. It was during these visits that Hyuga, questioning the motives of using his swordsmanship for killing, entrusted Yui with his grandfather's sword, as he chose to learn the martial arts she and Gaspar used instead.

In 9994, Hyuga and Yui marry, and later have a daughter, named Midori[2]. Their time as a family was interrupted two years later, however, as Hyuga was secretly entrusted by Emperor Cain with another important task. Taking on the name Citan Uzuki, he was to watch over the recovered Contact Fei Fong Wong, on the surface.[3] He was to see if Fei would bring relief or destruction.

Citan did not see his wife and daughter until two years later, when he came to collect them. Reunited as a family, Citan, Yui, and Midori moved down to the surface to live in a quaint house near Lahan Village in the mountains, where Citan worked as a country doctor.

Xenogears[]

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Citan Uzuki.

Citan regularly reports to Emperor Cain over the course of the game, working in secret.

When Fei's party infiltrates Solaris, they separate into groups, with Citan grouping with Fei and Elly. When Fei accidentally is transported to the 3rd Class sector, Citan and Elly left in separate pods, attempting to find him. Citan later finds Fei lost in Etrenank's commercial district, and they reunite with Elly to explore the inner workings of Solaris's base. 

Revealing critical information about the facilities they were going through, Citan explained further into the true nature of Solaris's higher staff, drawing suspicion from Elly.  After Elly asks to know who Citan truly is, the lights promptly go out.

Citan later visits Fei, who is suspended by device that paralyzes him from the neck down. He wears Fei down mentally, challenging him on his ideals until Fei shuts down, letting Id come to the forefront, as Citan intended.

When Fei comes to, Citan reveals all this was to remove the Limiters placed in them. He also reveals that Elly has no Limiter, something he finds unusual since even Solaris citizens have Limiters implanted in them when they are born.

Citan is next seen with Jessie, revealing that Cain understands the situation, and that he leaves it up to 'them'.

After Cain is killed and Solaris's floating city destructs and sinks into the ocean, Citan joins Fei's group for good.

Gameplay[]

Citan is one of the best fighters in the game, first displaying a blindingly swift hand to hand combat style and, upon regaining his sword, a sword style similar to that of Iaido. He also has a large library of support Ether (his particular Ether talent is called "Arcane"), which is appropriate to his role as a doctor. He joins Fei early on in the game and stays with him until the end.

Early in the game during battles, Citan is seen fighting barefisted and using a ki to make an illusion version of himself to make a deadly blow to his opponent and is the only character to join the party with a high HP. Later on, he wields a sword to make a deadly blow in each slashes when using his deathblows and his fighting style is based on Iaido. Upon using elemental deathblows, Citan is capable of using elemental magic. If unarmed, he can form a sword-like blades in each elemental deathblows except Willow Wind which he makes a lightning damage with one straight punch. If using a sword, Some of his elemental damage has drastic change, both Festive Wind and Rumble Earth can make a heavy slash towards his opponent while both Haze of Fire and Crystal Water can do multiple slashes in each opponent.

Gear-wise, Citan's first Gear is Heimdal. Later on, he returns to his Omnigear named Fenrir, which is aligned with the Anima Relic Asher and equipped with a large sword. It was kept in Gaspar's care 'in case of emergencies'.

In Gear battles, Citan pilots Heimdal and upon using his moves, every punch or kick has a Chinese symbol embedded in each blow. Later, when he pilots his Omnigear, Fenrir, his fighting style soon switches to that of sword fight based on Bushido and can make a deadly blow when he slashes his opponent with its moves.

Deathblows[]

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Citan Deathblow Compilation (Unarmed)

Citan's Deathblows (unarmed).

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Citan Deathblow Compilation 1 (Sword)

Citan's Deathblows (sword).

(Brackets = with sword)

  • Ukigumo (Amaoto): Triangle Button X Button - 4 AP
    • Citan goes for punch then unleashes an elbow followed by an uppercut and a straight punch and damages his opponent with a jumping downward punch
    • Citan lands a powerful heavy slash from his sword before putting back on his sheath.
  • Mufu (Engetsu): Triangle Button Triangle Button X Button - 5 AP
    • Citan punches his opponent twice and creates an illusion version of himself to pull off his punches and knocks the opponent with a powerful uppercut.
    • Citan makes a slash from his sword followed by a punch and raising his sword to deal a powerful slash to the opponent.
  • Jinrai (Amagumo): Square Button X Button - 5 AP
    • Citan goes for a split kick and creates an illusion version of himself in a blue aura to pull off his combo to his opponent and lands a powerful straight punch, dealing damage.
    • Citan stabs his opponent with his sword to grapple in air and lands an uppercut and an upward stab, dealing damage.
  • Shinrai (Himatsu): Triangle Button Triangle Button Triangle Button X Button - 6 AP
    • Citan lands two punches and a kick to the opponent and creates an illusion version of himself in a red aura to pull off more combos of punches and kicks followed by an uppercut, an elbow and a powerful forward kick, deals heavy damage.
    • Citan knocks his opponent by slashing in mid-air followed by a multiple spinning slashes and a somersault kick.
  • Renken (Yako): Triangle Button Square Button X Button - 6 AP
    • It is a modified version of his Mufu where Citan punches his opponent followed by two roundhouse kicks then unleashing a powerful assault on his opponent with both punches and kicks and the last blow deals a slower but more powerful somersault kick.
    • Citan goes for a multiple spinning slash as he raises his sword in a blue aura to knock his opponent with a powerful slash.
  • Hakai (Zanretsu): Square Button Triangle Button X Button - 6 AP
    • Citan lands a split kick and punch and creates an illusion version of himself in a yellow aura where he lands a kick and punch followed by a powerful heavy blow to the opponent.
    • Citan spins his sword multiple times and lands a powerful double slash to the opponent.
  • Ougi (Myogetsu): X Button X Button - 6 AP
    • Citan knocks the opponent with a heavy blow followed by another heavy blow, a leg sweep and back straight kick and damaging his airborne opponent with an upward heavy blow.
    • Citan charges himself while forming multiple spirits to target the enemy and lands a powerful slash and a jumping slash, dealing heavy damage.
  • Willow Wind (Festive Wind): Triangle Button Triangle Button Triangle Button Triangle Button X Button - Wind Elemental, 7 AP
    • Citan unleashes a powerful lightning straight punch to the opponent creating a force of lightning and wind damage.
    • Citan lands a powerful stab to damage the opponent and it forms wind properties along with Chinese symbols embedded after dealing heavy damage.
  • Rare Earth (Rumble Earth): Triangle Button Triangle Button Square Button X Button - Earth Elemental, 7 AP
    • Citan lands a powerful heavy blow on the ground creating a single earth sword blade, deals heavy damage.
    • Embedded with rose petals, Citan performs a harakiri to deal heavy damage to the opponent.
  • Hell Fire (Haze of Fire): Triangle Button Square Button Triangle Button X Button - Fire Elemental, 7 AP
    • Citan spins himself and shoots his opponent in a burst of sword like flames, dealing fire damage.
    • Citan charges himself to make an uppercut slash embedded in flames, dealing fire damage.
  • Tsunami Ice (Crystal Water): Square Button Triangle Button Triangle Button X Button - Water Elemental, 7 AP
    • Citan forms a powerful icicles on his right arm and lands an icicie sword-like blade to slash the opponent in ice damage.
    • Citan multiple slashes his opponent in a water damage embedded with Chinese symbols as the final blow goes for another spinning slash, dealing heavy damage.

Guest Appearances & Cameos[]

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Citan in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius.

Citan was a Rare Summon in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius during their second Xenogears collaboration period.

Quotes[]

  • "Injured, sick, all accepted. Come on in! But no deceased please." (on a sign in front of his house)
  • "Music is a mysterious thing. Sometimes it makes people remember things they do not expect. Many thoughts, feelings, memories... things almost forgotten... Regardless of whether the listener desires to remember or not."
  • "Fei is bound... by the dark, cruel destiny of God..."
  • "Fei, using power or being used by power... is that not a problem of the heart...? If humans do not use their power for wrong it can be a good thing... I believe such power can help us."
  • "But now is not the time to contemplate morals. It is not fair for me to be the only innocent one."
  • "Do you think you could possibly be a little more subtle? With the amount of activity you have stirred up, you could even wake up the dead."
  • "Childish ideals pale when placed before reality. But actually many are satisfied with that. Being given one's place, frees one from any risks. Misfortunes maybe blamed on others. Do you know why people can not exist alone but under some bigger concept such as a group or a country? People need a place to go to be themselves... The more stable it is the more effective it is. The Ministry gives them such a place. Under total surveillance, there is no need to bear the delusion of being an 'individual'. What could be easier? Facts are facts so let's just accept them. It will be easier for all of us. Resistance is futile. It only makes things painful." - Citan, intentionally wearing Fei's psyche down in order to access Id

Trivia[]

  • Jin Uzuki from Xenosaga was inspired by Citan Uzuki, to the point where Jin's default outfit in Episode III is an obvious homage to Citan's. Jin's sister Shion Uzuki shares Citan's knowledge of science.
  • In a 1998 interview with The PlayStation magazine, when asked about fanmail describing Citan as 'scary', Tetsuya Takahashi commented that he wanted to give a comedic aspect to him, and that Citan personally wouldn't have given the canned food to Fei and Elly in Solaris.[4]
  • Soraya Saga drew a piece featuring Citan and his 8 siblings who are mentioned briefly in passing in Perfect Works. While they aren't given names by that book, their names were featured in the drawing. Notably, all of them (including Hyuga) are named after various Japanese Battleships. In order from eldest to youngest, their names are:
    • Hatsuyuki (初雪)
    • Kisaragi (如月)
    • Yunagi (夕凪)
    • Yayoi (彌生)
    • Sigure (時雨)
    • Oboro (朧)
    • Seiran (晴嵐)
    • Satsuki (皐月)
    • Hyuga/Citan (日向)

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. Perfect Works, pg. 178
  2. 2.0 2.1 Perfect Works, pg 17.
  3. Perfect Works, pg. 180
  4. https://xenogearsxenosagastudyguide.blogspot.com/p/hakoere-vol20-special-interview-1998.html?m=1
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