✦ A P P L I C A T I O N ✧ ⟾ ビヨンド バースデイ ⟾ san_simeon
san_simeon
Personal Information
Name: Levi
Age: Eighteen
Gender: Female
Instant Messenger: [ AIM ] brekekekex koaxx
E-mail: 16.9floz [at] gmail [dot] com
Personal LiveJournal: televisions
Character Information
Fandom: Death Note: Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
Variant: Canon | Timeline: August 21st, 2002: the night before he's scheduled to meet with Naomi Misora at the Pasadena apartment complex.
Name: Beyond Birthday (Aliases: "B," "B.B." and "Rue Ryuuzaki.")
Age: 18-20.
Gender: Male
Appearance: A few notes about Beyond's appearance: 1.) In art, his eyes are red. This is not an accurate view of him by other characters; it is an artistic representation of his shinigami eyes. To no character would or should his eyes appear red. His eyes, with contacts in, are dark grey, to emulate L. Without contacts, they should still be black, as there is no reason to disbelieve his claim that he is "Nihon" (Japanese) as Naomi Misora does not disbelieve it. His hair is a natural jet black. He is very thin, and a few inches taller than L (as L is in canon 5'10", this should make B 6'0" to 6'2". I have him in between, as 6'1"). The circles under his eyes are not even ninety percent the darkness of L's -- he wears make-up for this, and while he does have slightly noticeable undereye circles, the resemblance to L in this is make-up and not natural. He is described as wearing a "plain shirt," which could be any manner of plain shirt, but for the purpose of emulating L's appearance has the highest likelihood of being a white, long-sleeved shirt.
Personality: Beyond Birthday has never been mentally sound. Driven close to insanity by his congenital shinigami eyes -- his innate and unstoppable ability to see the names and death dates of everyone around him -- Wammy's House drove him over the edge by giving him an unhealthy obsession. He is naturally extremely intelligent, so with or without his shinigami eyes he is very sharp and capable of planning well in advance, and with utter precision. His mimicry of L not a factor, he is not a man prone to emotional closeness -- why bother, when every time you see the face of someone you care for you are unable to stop counting down to the date they will no longer be with you? He is detached and cold, at least on a person-to-person basis-- or he attempts to and prefers to believe himself to be detached and cold. In reality, while he does have a tendency to be straight-faced, quiet, and seemingly melancholic, he can be light-hearted, easy-going, and caring -- so long as he feels that it is safe to be so (i.e., that his affection will not go rejected).
His time at Wammy's House was not at all conducive to creating a functioning member of society from the raw material that arrived. He and A or any of the first generation of prototypes were never truly expected to attain the L code; and when so many other children were taken in, to widen the pool as much as possible, B must have realized this to be true. When he realized how hopeless he was -- a boy with an unattainable dream, an overintelligent orphan with a developed obsession over a persona, a young man whose whole life was tainted with the knowledge of death dates of everyone -- he became a boy who made a decision and determined to do anything he deemed necessary to achieve a goal he could meet. Whether he was close with A or not, genuinely or on a rival or colleague basis, A's suicide seems to have been a trigger for him to fully give up attempting to live up to the L code and take a different route. He would erase his existence and live only in memories, and L was the only person whose death date he doesn't know, cannot see. L to B is more of an abstract concept than a living, breathing human being. L was a goal. L was an indirect mentor. L was the deity of Wammy's House. Living forever in L's memory would be a natural solution to someone who believed in the deaths of everyone but L.
Unable to live up to such expectations, however shaky, B has a severe inferiority complex. However, having received training to become the greatest defender of justice in his century has done nothing but confuse him, subconsciously at least. Knowing death dates, he has no real interest in taking lives, as without his interference his victims would still be dead by the end of the day. He twists this to his advantage, and his defense. None of his victims died conscious -- he drugged them before any harm was inflicted. While he clearly has no real affection for humans on an individual basis, he has no real qualms with them, either. Most are simply tools to be used to his advantage, as he is no simple, mere human. His inability to see his own date of death sometimes causes him to wonder if he will die at all.
Beyond is not insane or psychopathic. He is fully aware of his actions, fully aware of his decisions, and fully aware of his conscience. He knows his murders are wrong, that his attempt to become immortal by permanently scarring L is wrong, that creeping Naomi Misora out as much as he does is wrong. He considers, however, that there are more important things to him, personally, than adhering to his own code of morals. He's a boy desperate to make his mark on the world in the highest way he can imagine.
Besides "confused," or "misdirected," Beyond can easily be summed up with one adjective: "devoted." His devotion is not easily won, and certainly not easily admitted to on his part, but devoted he is. Despite his decision and steps taken to surpass L, he still harbors -- though at this point a dormant form of -- intense hero-worship for the detective, his code, and the actions he knows of, cases he's solved. Because of his decision, the steps he takes to mimic a man he has never laid eyes on are carried out as exactly as possible, the precision a ritual in and of itself. L is a safe subject to be devoted to; he is the closest being to Beyond that will never die. L is safe to feel something toward, about. Even if L were to die, B would never know, never be told, especially after having left Wammy's House. L is absolute, L is L is L is, to Beyond, God.
He's put so much of himself into erasing his own existence that if asked his own preferences, he would be truly unable to answer beyond "I cannot remember." If he does not eat jam in ways he knows disturb Naomi Misora (deliberately, so he can be certain that she is speaking about him to L, no one eats jam like that), or coffee that is sugared to an unnecessary point, anything else he eats is deliberate for another reason -- meat or eggs for protein, fruit for natural sugars, bread for carbohydrates, potatoes for starch, and so on. He has no real preferences of his own, not at this point, and sees most of his own actions as a means to an end. For himself he tries to do everything for the sake of function. He showers, for example, often and thoroughly not entirely because he dislikes feeling gross, but to avoid illness as much as possible.
On his own, he is willing to help and assist others, especially if he has developed, for whatever reason, an attachment to them, from behind his own masks (those attachments naturally developed and not, as he feels bitterly against L, those of miles of distance, voice filters, human shields, and so on). He is also more than capable of physically assisting, but will remain emotionally distant for as long as possible. His easiest triggers are the subjects of L and his parents: anyone putting L down he immediately dislikes, at best; any comparisons can either inflate him with pride or deflate him to the point of extreme anger depending on their respective positivity or negativity; any allusions by someone he already cares for to his parentage can render him vulnerable. He considers his greatest pride is that he, unlike L, is the kind of person to aggressively seek his own information, and not wait for it to be brought to him by others. However, Beyond's greatest pride could really be considered his extreme devotion; to those he learns to care for; for the truth and knowledge in most situations to be brought to light; to keeping the peace if he considers that necessary and relatively unharmful.
He will have a few personality tweaks, however, due to the time in canon he's from: he will be somber, solemn, and very serious, partially to hide his misery in his failure and partially because he just won't be up to faking cheerfulness. His relations with others will be strained, though he will be hesitant to be solitary. He will attempt to curry favor, but only partially so he can ask for help -- he also dislikes that he will have to receive assistance for some tasks, and though he wouldn't easily admit it, he wants to keep the playing field even and be sure he doesn't owe anyone. He may not be the most physically capable man anymore, but he can certainly repay in mental services.
History: Beyond Birthday was born with a unique ability in addition to naturally elevated intelligence; he is capable of seeing the name and lifespan of any human being whose face he sees. More than capable of it: he is unable to not see these things. He never needs anyone to introduce themselves, except to gain knowledge of any aliases they may be using. He knows when every human being he sees by face will die.
His childhood was largely uneventful and relatively normal, despite learning at an early age to detach himself from every person for his own emotional safety -- up to his time at Wammy's House, an orphanage primarily for the purpose of creating a pool of possible successors to the L code: L, the greatest detective in the world, of the century. After the deaths of his parents -- his father the victim of a violent attack, and his mother of a train crash -- "Beyond" was taken in at the House and referred to as "B." The second Child of the House; the second attempt; the second prototype, and the second failure.
The first failure was "A," the first child of Wammy's House. Soon after A's suicide, B, the second failed prototype, parted ways with Wammy's House, fully aware he would not attain the L code, fully aware he would never be L. Instead, he left with a firm, unbreakable decision: to surpass, not become, L. He would provide L with an unsolvable case, a challenge. When he won, he would be superior to L; not just a match, or an equal. Superior. "B was the top, and L was the bottom -- L would grovel at B's feet. The copy would surpass the original." The backup would become the primary.
His plan to do so, surpass L, was intricate, careful, precise and exact. To become the world's greatest criminal, it couldn't be anything else, it couldn't have flaws of his own or holes he left open. Before any crimes were committed, he sent a warning to the LAPD in the form of a crossword, the answer to which was the address of the first murder, nearly unsolvable but by the world's greatest, sharpest mind. This was to alert L more than it was the police, the latter of who m dismissed it as a prank. L's solution to the puzzle came too late, however; his "information-gathering network" did not obtain it until the third murder's passing. The crossword was never meant to be a genuine warning, but to serve as a way to mock L, and show him what B was capable of logically. This done, Beyond began his actual crimes. Nine days after the crossword puzzle was received and dismissed by the LAPD, Beyond strangled his first victim from behind: Believe Bridesmaid, and nailed four "Wara Ningyo," a type of voodoo doll, to each wall. His second murder manifested in a girl named Quarter Queen, four days later; beaten to death, eyes crushed and three Wara Ningyo on the walls. Nine days lapsed before the third victim, Backyard Bottomslash, died from blood loss. Two Wara Ningyo.
L figured that one more murder would occur due to the killer's apparent need to nail at least one doll to the wall at each crime scene. Additionally, the murder would not have obviously been B's crime -- and for if not all, most of the way through the case L was perfectly aware that the murderer was B from Wammy's House -- and therefore B would have no reason to commit it, which he would not have -- B didn't murder his victims to murder them. He murdered them for the sake of his challenge to L. L's time to solve the case as it was still occurring, then, was drawing to a close. Enlisting the assistance of Naomi Misora, L began to investigate, and B began his game in earnest.
He emulated what he knew about L's appearance, despite never having laid eyes on the detective before -- of course, or he would have immediately known his name -- and literally lay in wait, under the first victim's bed, for the appearance of Misora at the first crime scene. Having been "trained" to succeed L, Beyond had a fairly accurate grasp on the detective's methods, and was aware that someone would be sent, by L, to seek hidden messages at the crime scene. He would be there to assist, carefully and cautiously guiding her through the clues and messages he had left at each scene, always giving her the impression that the deductions were her own, or at least jointly discovered, to evade if not suspicion, outright, validated suspicion. He "tested" her worth to act as L's eyes by physically attacking her in daylight, and discovered upon this action that her fighting style was capoeira. He had no intention of attempting to take her life, knowing from the numbers that made up her lifespan that he would be unable to kill her. He managed, in their interactions, to repulse her: his mannerisms -- the slouching, bad posture, manner of sitting, his way of crawling around the crime scene -- meant to mimic L's -- are grating at best. These are, so I believe, not his natural mannerisms, however: they are meant to upset Naomi Misora to the point where she would speak to L regarding them. Beyond himself I believe to be relatively "normal" and self-conscious in his mannerisms.
Guiding her through each crime scene's clues, he reached the great finale of his plan: the fourth victim. This victim, unbeknownst to anyone -- but possibly suspected by L, as he urgently requested Naomi to catch the killer at all costs -- was himself. He planned to commit suicide by fire, filling numerous criteria of his own: the mutilation of his body; the disappearance of the killer L is seeking, thus effectively removing his ability to solve the LABB case; the alliterative name, the appropriate numbers (in regard to the puzzles he's set up, not his own invisible lifespan), and the erasing of his existence anywhere but in L's memory. Not touched upon, however, was the likelihood of his final criteria consisting of the escape of his own conscience. Haunting L forever, he would be the one case the detective was unable to solve.
Naomi and Beyond plan to meet at the earlier of two times dictated by the killer in hidden clues at the last crime scene, and split into the possible targeted apartments, B taking the man's (Blues-harp Babysplit) and Naomi taking the woman's (Blackberry Brown), as they cannot agree with one another on which of the two the killer plans to attack. In truth, the killer plans to attack neither of the seemingly possible victims; the killer is, of course, B -- Beyond Birthday -- and he is his fourth victim. However, he underestimates Naomi Misora's deductive ability, and his slip earlier; while attempting to figure out the killer's method to the locked-door scenario, the truth finally occurs to her -- that Ryuuzaki has manipulated every one of her deductions regarding the case, and when she realizes that Ryuuzaki knows about her being a capoeirista, she knows he has been the killer the whole time, and rushes from her station to arrest him. He has, however, already set fire to himself by the time she arrives, and is thoroughly charred, though still living, when she extinguishes him.
Death: Instead of living to be imprisoned, I'll have B as having died from his self-immolation instead of surviving. He'll vaguely remember Naomi arresting him, and for the sake of not trying to make a crusty, charred figure move around during play, he'll be pretty far along in his healing at the hospital before he finally succumbs to death.
Samples: one two three four
Personal Information
Name: Levi
Age: Eighteen
Gender: Female
Instant Messenger: [ AIM ] brekekekex koaxx
E-mail: 16.9floz [at] gmail [dot] com
Personal LiveJournal: televisions
Character Information
Fandom: Death Note: Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
Variant: Canon | Timeline: August 21st, 2002: the night before he's scheduled to meet with Naomi Misora at the Pasadena apartment complex.
Name: Beyond Birthday (Aliases: "B," "B.B." and "Rue Ryuuzaki.")
Age: 18-20.
Gender: Male
Appearance: A few notes about Beyond's appearance: 1.) In art, his eyes are red. This is not an accurate view of him by other characters; it is an artistic representation of his shinigami eyes. To no character would or should his eyes appear red. His eyes, with contacts in, are dark grey, to emulate L. Without contacts, they should still be black, as there is no reason to disbelieve his claim that he is "Nihon" (Japanese) as Naomi Misora does not disbelieve it. His hair is a natural jet black. He is very thin, and a few inches taller than L (as L is in canon 5'10", this should make B 6'0" to 6'2". I have him in between, as 6'1"). The circles under his eyes are not even ninety percent the darkness of L's -- he wears make-up for this, and while he does have slightly noticeable undereye circles, the resemblance to L in this is make-up and not natural. He is described as wearing a "plain shirt," which could be any manner of plain shirt, but for the purpose of emulating L's appearance has the highest likelihood of being a white, long-sleeved shirt.
Personality: Beyond Birthday has never been mentally sound. Driven close to insanity by his congenital shinigami eyes -- his innate and unstoppable ability to see the names and death dates of everyone around him -- Wammy's House drove him over the edge by giving him an unhealthy obsession. He is naturally extremely intelligent, so with or without his shinigami eyes he is very sharp and capable of planning well in advance, and with utter precision. His mimicry of L not a factor, he is not a man prone to emotional closeness -- why bother, when every time you see the face of someone you care for you are unable to stop counting down to the date they will no longer be with you? He is detached and cold, at least on a person-to-person basis-- or he attempts to and prefers to believe himself to be detached and cold. In reality, while he does have a tendency to be straight-faced, quiet, and seemingly melancholic, he can be light-hearted, easy-going, and caring -- so long as he feels that it is safe to be so (i.e., that his affection will not go rejected).
His time at Wammy's House was not at all conducive to creating a functioning member of society from the raw material that arrived. He and A or any of the first generation of prototypes were never truly expected to attain the L code; and when so many other children were taken in, to widen the pool as much as possible, B must have realized this to be true. When he realized how hopeless he was -- a boy with an unattainable dream, an overintelligent orphan with a developed obsession over a persona, a young man whose whole life was tainted with the knowledge of death dates of everyone -- he became a boy who made a decision and determined to do anything he deemed necessary to achieve a goal he could meet. Whether he was close with A or not, genuinely or on a rival or colleague basis, A's suicide seems to have been a trigger for him to fully give up attempting to live up to the L code and take a different route. He would erase his existence and live only in memories, and L was the only person whose death date he doesn't know, cannot see. L to B is more of an abstract concept than a living, breathing human being. L was a goal. L was an indirect mentor. L was the deity of Wammy's House. Living forever in L's memory would be a natural solution to someone who believed in the deaths of everyone but L.
Unable to live up to such expectations, however shaky, B has a severe inferiority complex. However, having received training to become the greatest defender of justice in his century has done nothing but confuse him, subconsciously at least. Knowing death dates, he has no real interest in taking lives, as without his interference his victims would still be dead by the end of the day. He twists this to his advantage, and his defense. None of his victims died conscious -- he drugged them before any harm was inflicted. While he clearly has no real affection for humans on an individual basis, he has no real qualms with them, either. Most are simply tools to be used to his advantage, as he is no simple, mere human. His inability to see his own date of death sometimes causes him to wonder if he will die at all.
Beyond is not insane or psychopathic. He is fully aware of his actions, fully aware of his decisions, and fully aware of his conscience. He knows his murders are wrong, that his attempt to become immortal by permanently scarring L is wrong, that creeping Naomi Misora out as much as he does is wrong. He considers, however, that there are more important things to him, personally, than adhering to his own code of morals. He's a boy desperate to make his mark on the world in the highest way he can imagine.
Besides "confused," or "misdirected," Beyond can easily be summed up with one adjective: "devoted." His devotion is not easily won, and certainly not easily admitted to on his part, but devoted he is. Despite his decision and steps taken to surpass L, he still harbors -- though at this point a dormant form of -- intense hero-worship for the detective, his code, and the actions he knows of, cases he's solved. Because of his decision, the steps he takes to mimic a man he has never laid eyes on are carried out as exactly as possible, the precision a ritual in and of itself. L is a safe subject to be devoted to; he is the closest being to Beyond that will never die. L is safe to feel something toward, about. Even if L were to die, B would never know, never be told, especially after having left Wammy's House. L is absolute, L is L is L is, to Beyond, God.
He's put so much of himself into erasing his own existence that if asked his own preferences, he would be truly unable to answer beyond "I cannot remember." If he does not eat jam in ways he knows disturb Naomi Misora (deliberately, so he can be certain that she is speaking about him to L, no one eats jam like that), or coffee that is sugared to an unnecessary point, anything else he eats is deliberate for another reason -- meat or eggs for protein, fruit for natural sugars, bread for carbohydrates, potatoes for starch, and so on. He has no real preferences of his own, not at this point, and sees most of his own actions as a means to an end. For himself he tries to do everything for the sake of function. He showers, for example, often and thoroughly not entirely because he dislikes feeling gross, but to avoid illness as much as possible.
On his own, he is willing to help and assist others, especially if he has developed, for whatever reason, an attachment to them, from behind his own masks (those attachments naturally developed and not, as he feels bitterly against L, those of miles of distance, voice filters, human shields, and so on). He is also more than capable of physically assisting, but will remain emotionally distant for as long as possible. His easiest triggers are the subjects of L and his parents: anyone putting L down he immediately dislikes, at best; any comparisons can either inflate him with pride or deflate him to the point of extreme anger depending on their respective positivity or negativity; any allusions by someone he already cares for to his parentage can render him vulnerable. He considers his greatest pride is that he, unlike L, is the kind of person to aggressively seek his own information, and not wait for it to be brought to him by others. However, Beyond's greatest pride could really be considered his extreme devotion; to those he learns to care for; for the truth and knowledge in most situations to be brought to light; to keeping the peace if he considers that necessary and relatively unharmful.
He will have a few personality tweaks, however, due to the time in canon he's from: he will be somber, solemn, and very serious, partially to hide his misery in his failure and partially because he just won't be up to faking cheerfulness. His relations with others will be strained, though he will be hesitant to be solitary. He will attempt to curry favor, but only partially so he can ask for help -- he also dislikes that he will have to receive assistance for some tasks, and though he wouldn't easily admit it, he wants to keep the playing field even and be sure he doesn't owe anyone. He may not be the most physically capable man anymore, but he can certainly repay in mental services.
History: Beyond Birthday was born with a unique ability in addition to naturally elevated intelligence; he is capable of seeing the name and lifespan of any human being whose face he sees. More than capable of it: he is unable to not see these things. He never needs anyone to introduce themselves, except to gain knowledge of any aliases they may be using. He knows when every human being he sees by face will die.
His childhood was largely uneventful and relatively normal, despite learning at an early age to detach himself from every person for his own emotional safety -- up to his time at Wammy's House, an orphanage primarily for the purpose of creating a pool of possible successors to the L code: L, the greatest detective in the world, of the century. After the deaths of his parents -- his father the victim of a violent attack, and his mother of a train crash -- "Beyond" was taken in at the House and referred to as "B." The second Child of the House; the second attempt; the second prototype, and the second failure.
The first failure was "A," the first child of Wammy's House. Soon after A's suicide, B, the second failed prototype, parted ways with Wammy's House, fully aware he would not attain the L code, fully aware he would never be L. Instead, he left with a firm, unbreakable decision: to surpass, not become, L. He would provide L with an unsolvable case, a challenge. When he won, he would be superior to L; not just a match, or an equal. Superior. "B was the top, and L was the bottom -- L would grovel at B's feet. The copy would surpass the original." The backup would become the primary.
His plan to do so, surpass L, was intricate, careful, precise and exact. To become the world's greatest criminal, it couldn't be anything else, it couldn't have flaws of his own or holes he left open. Before any crimes were committed, he sent a warning to the LAPD in the form of a crossword, the answer to which was the address of the first murder, nearly unsolvable but by the world's greatest, sharpest mind. This was to alert L more than it was the police, the latter of who m dismissed it as a prank. L's solution to the puzzle came too late, however; his "information-gathering network" did not obtain it until the third murder's passing. The crossword was never meant to be a genuine warning, but to serve as a way to mock L, and show him what B was capable of logically. This done, Beyond began his actual crimes. Nine days after the crossword puzzle was received and dismissed by the LAPD, Beyond strangled his first victim from behind: Believe Bridesmaid, and nailed four "Wara Ningyo," a type of voodoo doll, to each wall. His second murder manifested in a girl named Quarter Queen, four days later; beaten to death, eyes crushed and three Wara Ningyo on the walls. Nine days lapsed before the third victim, Backyard Bottomslash, died from blood loss. Two Wara Ningyo.
L figured that one more murder would occur due to the killer's apparent need to nail at least one doll to the wall at each crime scene. Additionally, the murder would not have obviously been B's crime -- and for if not all, most of the way through the case L was perfectly aware that the murderer was B from Wammy's House -- and therefore B would have no reason to commit it, which he would not have -- B didn't murder his victims to murder them. He murdered them for the sake of his challenge to L. L's time to solve the case as it was still occurring, then, was drawing to a close. Enlisting the assistance of Naomi Misora, L began to investigate, and B began his game in earnest.
He emulated what he knew about L's appearance, despite never having laid eyes on the detective before -- of course, or he would have immediately known his name -- and literally lay in wait, under the first victim's bed, for the appearance of Misora at the first crime scene. Having been "trained" to succeed L, Beyond had a fairly accurate grasp on the detective's methods, and was aware that someone would be sent, by L, to seek hidden messages at the crime scene. He would be there to assist, carefully and cautiously guiding her through the clues and messages he had left at each scene, always giving her the impression that the deductions were her own, or at least jointly discovered, to evade if not suspicion, outright, validated suspicion. He "tested" her worth to act as L's eyes by physically attacking her in daylight, and discovered upon this action that her fighting style was capoeira. He had no intention of attempting to take her life, knowing from the numbers that made up her lifespan that he would be unable to kill her. He managed, in their interactions, to repulse her: his mannerisms -- the slouching, bad posture, manner of sitting, his way of crawling around the crime scene -- meant to mimic L's -- are grating at best. These are, so I believe, not his natural mannerisms, however: they are meant to upset Naomi Misora to the point where she would speak to L regarding them. Beyond himself I believe to be relatively "normal" and self-conscious in his mannerisms.
Guiding her through each crime scene's clues, he reached the great finale of his plan: the fourth victim. This victim, unbeknownst to anyone -- but possibly suspected by L, as he urgently requested Naomi to catch the killer at all costs -- was himself. He planned to commit suicide by fire, filling numerous criteria of his own: the mutilation of his body; the disappearance of the killer L is seeking, thus effectively removing his ability to solve the LABB case; the alliterative name, the appropriate numbers (in regard to the puzzles he's set up, not his own invisible lifespan), and the erasing of his existence anywhere but in L's memory. Not touched upon, however, was the likelihood of his final criteria consisting of the escape of his own conscience. Haunting L forever, he would be the one case the detective was unable to solve.
Naomi and Beyond plan to meet at the earlier of two times dictated by the killer in hidden clues at the last crime scene, and split into the possible targeted apartments, B taking the man's (Blues-harp Babysplit) and Naomi taking the woman's (Blackberry Brown), as they cannot agree with one another on which of the two the killer plans to attack. In truth, the killer plans to attack neither of the seemingly possible victims; the killer is, of course, B -- Beyond Birthday -- and he is his fourth victim. However, he underestimates Naomi Misora's deductive ability, and his slip earlier; while attempting to figure out the killer's method to the locked-door scenario, the truth finally occurs to her -- that Ryuuzaki has manipulated every one of her deductions regarding the case, and when she realizes that Ryuuzaki knows about her being a capoeirista, she knows he has been the killer the whole time, and rushes from her station to arrest him. He has, however, already set fire to himself by the time she arrives, and is thoroughly charred, though still living, when she extinguishes him.
Death: Instead of living to be imprisoned, I'll have B as having died from his self-immolation instead of surviving. He'll vaguely remember Naomi arresting him, and for the sake of not trying to make a crusty, charred figure move around during play, he'll be pretty far along in his healing at the hospital before he finally succumbs to death.
Samples: one two three four