Nagito is a tall, skinny young man with pale skin and light gray-green eyes with thick eyelashes. His hair is shoulder-length and naturally wavy, of an unnaturally pale pinkish off-white color that fades to white the closer to his scalp, and is described as looking like it "doesn't belong to a living person". During his school years, his hair appears silvery-white with grey tones. Nagito strongly associates hope with talent and talent with worth, leading him to adopt an elitist and fatalistic worldview where only people possessing amazing talents and a strong will as worthy of becoming hope. He sees the "Symbols of Hope", as he calls them, as inherently worthy simply because he believes their talents are granted by hope itself. He harbors an admiration for their Ultimate talents to an unhealthy degree that Nagito himself describes it as a feeling of "pure, selfless love that wants nothing in return.”