Who's the question mark box at the bottom of Hayate?
Everyone you wish: I would love a new original male character, but for satisfyng the majority of the fans, after the inclusion of the bosses and Irene, that place should be owned by Shiden, Niki or Rio Tachibana.
I've been contemplating on this for a while and come to think of it, it may not actually be a bad idea.
Even though the story is all FUCKED up what if Phase-4 was the REAL Kasumi?
Nowadays I continue to think that would have been great if the comic authors of "The Amazing Spiderman" would have followed the original scenario in their minds that was just this one...
There would be too much incongruences for Kasumi being revelaed as a clone, more this concept was similarly already used for the fake Kasumi in the DoA5 story. On the opposite I think that could be more easy to include the revelation that Ein it's never been an amnesiac Hayate with a fixed body and experiments on his nervous system (with the sideffect of a loss of memory), rather a real clone of Hayate.
So while the Ein clone was able to get a shinobi life unaware of it, the poor real Hayate could be still crippled, prisoner of Donovan and confined in a wheelchair....
By the way this is just an hypothetical scenario, I don't think that the current Hayate is really a clone.