[OOC: Personal Canon]
Personal canon for Matt. Feel free to leave comments ooc-ly.
1. Matt has never personally killed anyone. In his investigations he has caught people who later received the death penalty and has had one intermediary kill a suspect, but he considers that he hasn’t actually taken a life.
2. There was one occasion where Matt made a mistake on a case, and the police officers he was working with got killed. He knows it should be marked down as ‘acceptable loss,’ but he still feels responsible.
3. Matt hates Wammy’s House. As a kid he just didn’t like being forced to do things he didn’t want to, so he would avoid his work and play with electronics. But as he got older and realized how much it fucked up everyone, it went from a grudging annoyance to resentment. HOWEVER, Matt can’t entirely turn his back on it. For one, it is where he grew up, and where his best allies are from. He still can use his contacts from Wammy’s. (Or could; once Near let out that he was from there, and Matt found out Japanese police were investigating the place, he was considering leaving it behind completely.) Also, the idea of total secrecy is just too ingrained for him to give it up completely.
4. Matt is rather morally ambiguous. He would take cases that interested him-so long as they weren’t high-profile enough to risk notice by Kira-but for the most part never really went out of his way to promote justice. Actually, most of his income comes from either his personal computer repair shop or from credit card scams/internet fraud. (I ran him through a D&D alignment test and got True Neutral, but I think he might lean toward Chaotic Neutral sometimes. YES I’M A DORK DEAL WITH IT.)
5. At Wammy’s, Mello was Matt’s closest friend. But Matt knows very well that Mello’s only goal is success, and that his childhood friendship wouldn’t stand in the way of Mello’s ambition. He and Mello did keep in touch, though, even after Mello cut all other ties to Wammy’s. Matt thinks it’s because he was the only one Mello could trust to not rat out to Near.
6. Matt had a two-year relationship with Lane, a girl from Wammy’s. They bought the flat in Winchester together. But after a couple years they had different opinions on what to do with the skills they’d learned from Wammy’s. Lane wanted to go international, like L had, and help promote justice. Matt was more apathetic about it and wanted to stay small-scale. Lane eventually went her own way. They stayed in contact, but they weren’t exactly close after that.
7. In Winchester Matt managed to make a few friends of sorts due to his computer tech job and hanging out in cybercafés and game stores (he has to get out some time). They were never really closer than drinking buddies, though.
8. In the course of his investigations, both for and after Wammy’s, Matt could technically be accused of conspiracy, espionage, producing false IDs, impersonating government officials, treason, cyberterrorism, bribery, and blackmail. Unrelated to investigations, he has committed internet fraud, tax fraud, and carjacking. (At this point he hasn’t actually helped kidnap Takada yet.)
9. Since Matt hung out with Mello a lot, he was rarely on good terms with Near. He respects the snowball for being a smart bastard, but doesn’t really like his blind obsession with becoming L or his completely emotionless approach to cases. Sometimes Matt considers Near to be an example of just how badly Wammy’s House fucks people up.
10. If he had never been orphaned, he would have gone on to create a computer systems company that could have rivalled Windows/Apple.
11. Assorted random quirks/habits: Is terrible at hiding his expressions without his goggles on.
Likes drinks with a high caffeine content. Preferably coffee.
When he doesn’t have a game to play, he’ll tap his fingers.
Can’t sing for beans.
Doesn’t like grapes.
The longest he’s stayed up is three days straight, while working.
1. Matt has never personally killed anyone. In his investigations he has caught people who later received the death penalty and has had one intermediary kill a suspect, but he considers that he hasn’t actually taken a life.
2. There was one occasion where Matt made a mistake on a case, and the police officers he was working with got killed. He knows it should be marked down as ‘acceptable loss,’ but he still feels responsible.
3. Matt hates Wammy’s House. As a kid he just didn’t like being forced to do things he didn’t want to, so he would avoid his work and play with electronics. But as he got older and realized how much it fucked up everyone, it went from a grudging annoyance to resentment. HOWEVER, Matt can’t entirely turn his back on it. For one, it is where he grew up, and where his best allies are from. He still can use his contacts from Wammy’s. (Or could; once Near let out that he was from there, and Matt found out Japanese police were investigating the place, he was considering leaving it behind completely.) Also, the idea of total secrecy is just too ingrained for him to give it up completely.
4. Matt is rather morally ambiguous. He would take cases that interested him-so long as they weren’t high-profile enough to risk notice by Kira-but for the most part never really went out of his way to promote justice. Actually, most of his income comes from either his personal computer repair shop or from credit card scams/internet fraud. (I ran him through a D&D alignment test and got True Neutral, but I think he might lean toward Chaotic Neutral sometimes. YES I’M A DORK DEAL WITH IT.)
5. At Wammy’s, Mello was Matt’s closest friend. But Matt knows very well that Mello’s only goal is success, and that his childhood friendship wouldn’t stand in the way of Mello’s ambition. He and Mello did keep in touch, though, even after Mello cut all other ties to Wammy’s. Matt thinks it’s because he was the only one Mello could trust to not rat out to Near.
6. Matt had a two-year relationship with Lane, a girl from Wammy’s. They bought the flat in Winchester together. But after a couple years they had different opinions on what to do with the skills they’d learned from Wammy’s. Lane wanted to go international, like L had, and help promote justice. Matt was more apathetic about it and wanted to stay small-scale. Lane eventually went her own way. They stayed in contact, but they weren’t exactly close after that.
7. In Winchester Matt managed to make a few friends of sorts due to his computer tech job and hanging out in cybercafés and game stores (he has to get out some time). They were never really closer than drinking buddies, though.
8. In the course of his investigations, both for and after Wammy’s, Matt could technically be accused of conspiracy, espionage, producing false IDs, impersonating government officials, treason, cyberterrorism, bribery, and blackmail. Unrelated to investigations, he has committed internet fraud, tax fraud, and carjacking. (At this point he hasn’t actually helped kidnap Takada yet.)
9. Since Matt hung out with Mello a lot, he was rarely on good terms with Near. He respects the snowball for being a smart bastard, but doesn’t really like his blind obsession with becoming L or his completely emotionless approach to cases. Sometimes Matt considers Near to be an example of just how badly Wammy’s House fucks people up.
10. If he had never been orphaned, he would have gone on to create a computer systems company that could have rivalled Windows/Apple.
11. Assorted random quirks/habits: Is terrible at hiding his expressions without his goggles on.
Likes drinks with a high caffeine content. Preferably coffee.
When he doesn’t have a game to play, he’ll tap his fingers.
Can’t sing for beans.
Doesn’t like grapes.
The longest he’s stayed up is three days straight, while working.