Shinra Kusakabe

Shinra Kusakabe is the main protagonist of the manga Fire Brigade of Flames. He is a Third Generation Fire Officer at the Eighth Fire Brigade of Tokyo, also known by his epithet Demon due to his peculiar grinning habit.

Appearance
Shinra is a young boy of average height with short and spiky dark brown hair, and glowing red eyes. He's first seen wearing a black suit over a white shirt, a pair of black trousers and black boots which burnt like many others when he ignited them to save Iris. . He was later given a Bunker gear, which consists of a tank top buckled at the waist with a belt, which presses a middle part that's strapped to his shoulders, and dark colored shorts. Those are later topped by protective outer jacket and trousers, and finished with a helmet.

Personality
Shinra is energetic and confident, not hesitating to act immediately when the time calls for it and is very proud of his ambition of becoming a hero. However, Shinra suffers from Nervous laughter, which is a real life condition where animals naturally grin or show their teeth when nervous, stressed, angered or uncomfortable. Such things as running into a schoolgirl even made him nervous and when he saved Iris from a falling object. He was quite easily made shaky by Akitaru Ōbi staring him in the face, and is naturally nervous around girls since he's been in training with males only for an extended period of time. Aside from this, he has a strong ambition of becoming a hero, and isn't easily agitated by other people's words and opinions of this matter, as demonstrated when Takesa Hinawa asked if he wanted to become a hero just for his reputation.

Background
During his childhood, Shinra was feared because of his odd grinning habit and was even disowned by his own grandmother because of it, who called him a "demon".

Unknown exactly what it was at this point, an occurrence happened to Shinra and possibly his family before the events of moving to his grandmothers. This occurrence led to Shinra being blamed. He states that there was another "black shadow" besides his on that day.

Powers and Abilities
Shinra is a Third Generation Combustion user, able to ignite, control and utilize the flames he generates to his own will.

Combustion
Shinra is a Third Generation Combustion user. This allows him to ignite his own flames and utilize them to his own will. So far, he has only shown the ability to ignite fire on his feet, allowing him to run at quicker distances. The ashes he leaves on the floor in image of his footprints are called the "Devil's Foot-Prints".