Hard Man

“Hate to burst your bubble, man, but that’s how it is - my job’s on Planet Earth, and your jobs are everywhere but.”

-Hard Man, to Top Man and Needle Man

Hard Man is the middle sibling of the third line of Robot Masters. He is Dive Man’s boyfriend and one of the two main protagonists of It’s Not Hard to Dive.

Appearance
Hard Man is a very tall and wide Robot Master with a black skin-tight bodysuit. He has blue armor with gray accents: a large chest plate with shoulder guards and a circular yellow lens, arm guards with gray gloves, a pelvic plate with a gray stump between his legs, and boots. His pelvic plate is connected to his chest plate by a gray belt with red lights on it, and it has a red dial just below the belt; his chest plate has a downward-facing red triangle under the yellow lens. His blue helmet also has gray accents, as well as gray knobs on the sides, and they cover up the upper half of his eyes - therefore, it hurts for him to fully open his eyes when he’s wearing his helmet.

Without his armor, Hard Man appears to be overweight, though he cannot help it. He has brown hair, which is usually messy, and it’s always in his eyes - he also has eyebrows. He has green eyes, blue eyelids, and no nose. He normally wears warmer clothing like hoodies and sweatpants to cover himself up, and he is typically seen in socks, though he sometimes wears his black sandals as well.

Personality
Most of the time, Hard Man is a rather lazy and apathetic individual. He often blames it on his weight, and while his weight is indeed one cause of his laziness, it is only a small cause in reality. He is usually calm and quiet, though he will not hesitate to scoff anyone criticizing him, especially for his indolence.

In addition, he is fiercely protective of Dive Man, in spite of being bashful towards him and a tsundere towards others regarding him. No matter how lazy Hard Man is, he will still do anything and everything he can to protect Dive Man and keep him happy. When he is around Dive Man, his demeanor becomes more outspoken and amorous, and he can sometimes be flirtatious as well.

He is also shown to eat a lot of junk food, as evidenced by the contents of his satchel before he left for work in the first chapter of It’s Not Hard to Dive. If he is scolded for this sort of thing, he shrugs it off and does not care.

Powers/Abilities

 * Hard Knuckle - can launch his own fist up to ten feet away, make it explode, and grow a new one
 * Massive internal storage space - has a lot of storage space inside himself
 * Rocket boots - can instantaneously launch himself into the air and drop onto opponents or the ground, causing tremors

Strengths

 * Quick reflexes
 * Strong punches
 * Highly efficient storage mechanism
 * Calm
 * Resilient
 * Understanding

Weaknesses

 * Slow thinker
 * Incredibly lazy
 * Whiny
 * Criticism intolerant

Gallery
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Trivia

 * Hard Man’s dislike for criticism is ironic considering he likes to tease others about their own flaws or weaknesses.
 * The original reason Hard Man and Dive Man were together was because they were both big and blue.
 * When NoisyMartian was writing the sixth chapter of It’s Not Hard to Dive, she unknowingly reused the dialogue from the third chapter that involved Hard Man describing Dive Man’s head as a “milkshake with doorknobs,” which the latter questioned.