Shing Meteoryte

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Shing Meteoryte
Information
Game	Tales of Hearts
Japanese Name	Shing Meteoryte (シング・メテオライト, Shingu Meteoraito?)
Hometown	Seeble
Age	16
Weight	54 kg
Height	167 cm
Weapon	Asteria
Japanese Voice Actor	Tetsuya Kakihara

Shing Meteoryte is the main character from Tales of Hearts.

A boy with an unusually strong curiosity for the world, Shing lives with his grandfather Zeks in the town of Seeble. He inherits the ability to use Soma from his grandfather and mother, but he hides this fact from them. Because of his curiosity and personal inexperience, he lacks delicacy in his speech and conduct. He notices his mistakes, and is able to properly reflect upon them. He is given the Soma "Asteria" (アステリア, Asuteria^?) by his grandfather, passed down by their ancestors.

His quest begins after finding Kohak and her brother Hisui Hearts washed up in the beach.

Contents 1 Personality 2 Fighting Style 3 History 3.1 Retrieving Kohak's Spirune 3.2 Within Shing's Hearts 4 Relationships 4.1 Party 5 Other Appearances 5.1 Tales of VS.

[edit] Personality

Shing is an easygoing and cheerful person but, his personality can turn serious every time his friends, especially Kohak, is in need. Shing is also a persistent person, as it is proven by his action to retrieve Kohak's spirunes which were scattered all over the world. He's also a selfless person when it comes to other; he doesn't care what happens to him as long his friends are safe.

[edit] Fighting Style

Shing's Soma is in the form of a sword, so he is a close-ranged fighter devoted to speed and combos. He isn't a fragile character, but he doesn't have the same raw damage-dealing potential as Innes Lorenz or Kunzite. As a rarity for Tales series' male protagonists, Shing's artes are mostly of the light element.

[edit] History

[edit] Retrieving Kohak's Spirune

In the beginning of the game, Kohak collapses due to the attack from Incarose. Shing, worried about her, goes inside Kohak's heart with the help of his Soma. When he enters her Spir Maze, Shing meet Richea, the girl who makes Kohak as her vessel. When Kohak's Spir Maze is attacked, Shing fends off the attackers with a dark aura, which causes him to be to be thrown out of Kohak's heart and Kohak's spirune to be shattered. Her Spirune scattered over the world, leaving Kohak emotionless. Feeling guilty and wishing to see Kohak's smile again, Shing resolves to go all over the world to retrieve Kohak's spirune.

[edit] Within Shing's Hearts

After Shing manages to retrieve all of Kohak's spirune, Shing discovers a depressing truth about himself—the creator of Zerom, Creed Graphite, lies within his heart. The fact complicates the party's "saving the world from Zerom" plan. Shing also receives severe injuries and gets depressed.

By the end of the story, it is discovered that Creed Graphite is just the same as Shing—a lonely person. Despite being cheerful all the time, Shing has always felt lonely due to the death of his family. This loneliness started to fade when he met Kohak and the others.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Party

Kohak - Shing gets a crush on Kohak the first time he sees her on collapse on the beach. Despite having a crush on her, Shing always manages to act as himself in front of her. He shows a great care for her upon wanting to retrieve back her heart, saving her from a falling cliff, saving her from getting suck into the destroyed Gardenia, and many other things. Seeing this devotion, Kohak also has begins to return Shing's feelings, putting a great trust in him and even calling him her "knight".

Kohak also shows great care for him, as she is the one who change Shing back to the he was after the Creed Graphite incident.

Before entering Gardenia's core, Kohak is desperately scared, and she asks why Shing can still be cheerful although they will encounter a very strong enemy soon. Shing replies that there's no way that he isn't scared, but he say as long there's a bond between them, they will somehow made it. At this point, Kohak finally confesses to Shing that she loves him, shown by hugging him.

The ending scene implies that Shing has also confess to Kohak.

Hisui - Shing and Hisui's relationship starts roughly due to Kohak's heart being torn in pieces all over the globe. After seeing Shing's intention and eagerness on retrieving back Kohak's spirune, Hisui slowly soften towards Shing. As time passes, they become very good friends, although sometimes Hisui still physically abuse Shing whenever he teases him, or Shing talking nonsense or stupid things, or whenever Shing and Kohak are being close to each other and Hisui plays the protective older brother.

At first, Hisui is very overprotective over Kohak toward Shing, then after seeing Shing's great care for her, he finally agrees that they could become a couple.

Beryl - Despite Shing being younger than Beryl, they both share a sibling relationship with each other. Although it seems that Beryl also has a crush on Shing, she keeps it for herself since she knows that Shing loves Kohak.

Sometimes Beryl also teases both Shing and Kohak whenever they get close to each other, like saying "stop this love atmosphere" or "don't make world for you two only".

[edit] Other Appearances

[edit] Tales of VS.

Shing Meteoryte makes an appearance alongside fellow Hearts party member Kohak Hearts as a playable character.