dcmk; saguru personality
Title: Saguru Hakuba Personality Analysis
Author:
hattergems
Word Count: 800
Rating: K
Characters: Saguru Hakuba.Disclaimer: Detective Conan, Magic Kaito. Gosho Aoyama pwnz dem.
Summary: An in-depth look into the British detective's mind and the possible reasons for all his many flaws and strengths. Useful but highly rambling guide for roleplaying. Please credit this brain-vomit if used.
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The core of how Saguru Hakuba runs his life is to escape reprimand, to be beyond it. To be untouchable. What shows this is the way he treats people - smugly and with condescension, yes, but in a subtle, unbearably polite, reasonable way - and the manner with which he investigates his cases: meticulously, highly particular, following and even going beyond procedure. So that he feels that he has done everything he could have and cannot be reproved. A failure is also less painful that way.
Overly cerebral to the extreme, Saguru Hakuba is not at all shy to walk all over or dismiss people that can’t keep up because they cannot benefit him - like Inspector Nakamori when he couldn’t answer Saguru’s barrage of questions about the Kaitou Kid; like fellow detective Heiji Hattori, who decided to run the risk of destroying important evidence in a bid to save a life. That said however, he is agonizingly chivalrous to the fairer sex, probably because of his strict upper-class childhood. This, along with his impeccable manners, dashing Eurasian features, confident behaviour in the face of attention and adoration makes him rather popular with the ladies, despite all his flaws. He will do anything for a damsel in distress. After all, Saguru Hakuba means “questing white knight”.
Saguru’s insecurities play a large part in the way he is. Behind the strong projection of his scathing complacency, his self-esteem must not be up to much since he perceives everything anyone says as a personal challenge and that he has to prove them wrong. Because if he doesn’t do this, he’d be the one wrong, wouldn’t he? For example, when Kaito Kuroba made a snide jab about Saguru’s incompetence as a detective, Saguru immediately escalated the statement into a contest to capture the Kaitou Kid. He will do anything to make sure he is the one that is correct. Once, stranded in an isolated mansion, he didn’t tell and give the other people with him hope that there was a rescue helicopter coming just because he hadn’t been sure if this was true or not.
This fault is a result of his father, the well-known Japanese police chief, not believing his boy is up to much. Saguru’s father thinks he is snobbish - which Saguru by all means is, as a shield and because of his upbringing - but this does not mean that he is incompetent. This friction is possibly caused by Saguru’s childhood away from his father, with his English mother, who the police chief might not think highly of. Saguru never tells this to his father's face though, since he has obviously been strictly tempered to never rebel openly.
Regardless of Hakuba Senior, Saguru is truly very intelligent, and a good detective, able to match wits with Kaitou Kid, and even effectively win during all the heists they have gone one-on-one against each other, staying one step ahead of the thief. Which is more than Shinichi Kudo, the other high school detective known to go up against Kid, can claim to doing. Saguru's problem when solving cases is his bias to his own assumption, overlooking anything that does not support his theory. He comes into situations with pre-conceived ideas, which he then has to correct in light of new evidence. This is the same with people. When he facts peoples’ actions into his theory, things tend to go a little awry because he is a pretty bad judge of different personalities, seeing as he exaggerated Heiji Hattori’s sloppy tendencies to an unrealistic extreme.
Saguru specialises in investigations of thefts because the cases are more of a logic puzzle and there aren’t multiple suspects with all their own variables that might throw off his reasoning. His trademark question, “Why did you come to do this?” shows his lack of understanding of others and how self-centred he is, since he can't understand how other people just aren't the way he is, they don't think the way he does. That is the reason he became so annoyed with Heiji Hattori. He automatically assumes Heiji is hot-blooded and incompetent, because he knows what it would take for him to act the way Heiji was acting.
Saguru is not very emotionally invested, meaning he doesn't give much of a damn, and places detective work above all else, since - considering the fallout if the magician were to be revealed - he consistently makes hints about Kaito being Kid in front of Aoko Nakamori. He doesn't really care about other people and he doesn't believe that anyone cares about him either, too tired of being open and getting hurt, so he just blocks everyone off. But he does care about his reputation.
Saguru has a one-track mind and he is liable to get obsessive. His most eye-catching quirk is with the time, citing to down the millisecond. He owns a pocket watch that loses just 0.001 seconds a year, and he even comments to the Kaitou Kid the first time they meet that he is 1 minute 13.02 seconds late for the heist. He also constantly travels without telling anyone where he is and he generally just does his own thing.
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Credit for inspiration from hydok.
Author:
hattergems
Word Count: 800
Rating: K
Characters: Saguru Hakuba.Disclaimer: Detective Conan, Magic Kaito. Gosho Aoyama pwnz dem.
Summary: An in-depth look into the British detective's mind and the possible reasons for all his many flaws and strengths. Useful but highly rambling guide for roleplaying. Please credit this brain-vomit if used.
..
The core of how Saguru Hakuba runs his life is to escape reprimand, to be beyond it. To be untouchable. What shows this is the way he treats people - smugly and with condescension, yes, but in a subtle, unbearably polite, reasonable way - and the manner with which he investigates his cases: meticulously, highly particular, following and even going beyond procedure. So that he feels that he has done everything he could have and cannot be reproved. A failure is also less painful that way.
Overly cerebral to the extreme, Saguru Hakuba is not at all shy to walk all over or dismiss people that can’t keep up because they cannot benefit him - like Inspector Nakamori when he couldn’t answer Saguru’s barrage of questions about the Kaitou Kid; like fellow detective Heiji Hattori, who decided to run the risk of destroying important evidence in a bid to save a life. That said however, he is agonizingly chivalrous to the fairer sex, probably because of his strict upper-class childhood. This, along with his impeccable manners, dashing Eurasian features, confident behaviour in the face of attention and adoration makes him rather popular with the ladies, despite all his flaws. He will do anything for a damsel in distress. After all, Saguru Hakuba means “questing white knight”.
Saguru’s insecurities play a large part in the way he is. Behind the strong projection of his scathing complacency, his self-esteem must not be up to much since he perceives everything anyone says as a personal challenge and that he has to prove them wrong. Because if he doesn’t do this, he’d be the one wrong, wouldn’t he? For example, when Kaito Kuroba made a snide jab about Saguru’s incompetence as a detective, Saguru immediately escalated the statement into a contest to capture the Kaitou Kid. He will do anything to make sure he is the one that is correct. Once, stranded in an isolated mansion, he didn’t tell and give the other people with him hope that there was a rescue helicopter coming just because he hadn’t been sure if this was true or not.
This fault is a result of his father, the well-known Japanese police chief, not believing his boy is up to much. Saguru’s father thinks he is snobbish - which Saguru by all means is, as a shield and because of his upbringing - but this does not mean that he is incompetent. This friction is possibly caused by Saguru’s childhood away from his father, with his English mother, who the police chief might not think highly of. Saguru never tells this to his father's face though, since he has obviously been strictly tempered to never rebel openly.
Regardless of Hakuba Senior, Saguru is truly very intelligent, and a good detective, able to match wits with Kaitou Kid, and even effectively win during all the heists they have gone one-on-one against each other, staying one step ahead of the thief. Which is more than Shinichi Kudo, the other high school detective known to go up against Kid, can claim to doing. Saguru's problem when solving cases is his bias to his own assumption, overlooking anything that does not support his theory. He comes into situations with pre-conceived ideas, which he then has to correct in light of new evidence. This is the same with people. When he facts peoples’ actions into his theory, things tend to go a little awry because he is a pretty bad judge of different personalities, seeing as he exaggerated Heiji Hattori’s sloppy tendencies to an unrealistic extreme.
Saguru specialises in investigations of thefts because the cases are more of a logic puzzle and there aren’t multiple suspects with all their own variables that might throw off his reasoning. His trademark question, “Why did you come to do this?” shows his lack of understanding of others and how self-centred he is, since he can't understand how other people just aren't the way he is, they don't think the way he does. That is the reason he became so annoyed with Heiji Hattori. He automatically assumes Heiji is hot-blooded and incompetent, because he knows what it would take for him to act the way Heiji was acting.
Saguru is not very emotionally invested, meaning he doesn't give much of a damn, and places detective work above all else, since - considering the fallout if the magician were to be revealed - he consistently makes hints about Kaito being Kid in front of Aoko Nakamori. He doesn't really care about other people and he doesn't believe that anyone cares about him either, too tired of being open and getting hurt, so he just blocks everyone off. But he does care about his reputation.
Saguru has a one-track mind and he is liable to get obsessive. His most eye-catching quirk is with the time, citing to down the millisecond. He owns a pocket watch that loses just 0.001 seconds a year, and he even comments to the Kaitou Kid the first time they meet that he is 1 minute 13.02 seconds late for the heist. He also constantly travels without telling anyone where he is and he generally just does his own thing.
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Credit for inspiration from hydok.