Ryo Tominaga

Ryo Tominaga (富永 リョウ) is a main character in Digimon Survive.

Appearance
Ryo is a teenage boy with fair skin, short black hair, and black eyes. He wears a purple bandana with two yellow stripes on its right side, a yellow shirt with long sleeves under a white and purple zippered jacket. He also wears blue pants with a pocket on each side, and purple sneakers with yellow soles.

Description
When he first appears, Ryo comes off as a typical "tough guy", being rude loner who tried to keep to himself, though Saki later explains that he just had trouble expressing himself.

After becoming trapped in the alternate world, Ryo is the most unnerved by the events. He refuses to accept the reaity of the situation and his tough guy facade quickly falls away to reveal that he actualy a coward. He is even scared of his partner Digimon, and is disgusted by the Larva Digimon.

Over time, his mental state continues to worsen. He becomes paranoid, beleiving that the others see him as dead weight and intend to use their partners to kill him and he begins desperatly clinging to his memories of his mother, begging her to come save him and seemingy forgetting that she was dead. Apon seeing Arukenimon's human disquise, he instantly sees similarities to his mother and begins to cling to her. However, when Arukenimo's true form is revealed, he immeditaly recodnizes that she is not his mother, but this revalation only drives him further into despair.

After being reminded of his mother's death by Haru, Ryo still clings to her memory, beleving that he is already dead and the alternate world is the afterlife, and he will see his mother again in there.

Etymologies
Name used in the February 27, 2022 trailer for Digimon Survive.
 * Ryo Tominaga (富永 リョウ)
 * Ja: Tominaga (富永). Japanese surname that means "very wealthy".
 * Ja: Ryo (リョウ). A Japanese gender-neutral name. Possibly from "Ryo" (量), due to his surname's meaning.