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[Character Name] Kengamine Nagi
[Canon] Deadman Wonderland
[Point Taken from Canon] Death (chapter 21)
[Age] 27 (estimated)
[Gender] male
[Sexual Orientation] Heterosexual
[Eye Color] blue/violet
[Hair Color] dark brown
[Height]
[Other] He has a scar across his neck from where his vocal chords were cut out, and he's currently missing the bottom portion of his left arm.
[Clothing] Dark blue/purple long-sleeved shirt, slacks, scarves (one around his kneck that is green and one on his waist that's faded red), and geta.
[Background]
When we first meet Nagi (Deadman name: Owl), he is the overly optimistic leader of Scar Chain - a resistance group that intends to get the word out about what's really going on in Deadman Wonderland and free the Deadmen. He and his second, Karako, approach Ganta (the protagonist) and ask him to join them. To show their sincerity, they save Minatsuki from the Punishment Game. (She lost to Ganta and thus had to have a wheel spun to reveal what part of her would eb given up for science. The wheel landed on "hair," which shouldn't have been an actual option to begin with.) The group, excited to be putting their plans into action at last, seems a bit too carefree to Ganta and he refuses to help them even after this because he doesn't believe they're taking things seriously. He changes his mind, however, after he finds out what happened to Nagi.
Nagi was matched against his wife in the Carnival Corpse. To avoid fighting her, he threw the match - and it was quite obvious that he did. He lost his vocal chords in the Punishment Game (he now speaks mechanically), but the director wasn't satisfied with that. He insisted that the woman take a punishment as well. Frightened, she fled and was killed. When Ganta returns to Nagi after hearing about this and apologizes, Nagi is very friendly and forgiving on the matter. He claims to have a child in a facility outside the prison, and his dream is to be able to hold the baby even once.
When their plans are put into action, they are easily ruined by a traitor within. The Undertakers, a group of anti-Deadmen, are waiting for those trying to get a chip with information to the outside, and the chip itself is an explosive device. Nagi is detained by the traitor and a very young member of the Undertakers, and we see a darker side of the man as he shows the girl very little mercy despite her age (though to be fair, not attacking with all he had could have gotten him killed). He loses an arm in the altercation and is captured by an Undertaker named Genkaku, who plans on turning him to their cause.
Drugged by Genkaku, the Undertaker helps reveal some things about the man that he'd forgotten. Nagi was hardly as sane as he seemed. After the death of his wife, he'd come to Genkaku and literally ripped apart his men with his bare hands. He must have suppressed these memories later, when his anger had subsided. Karako and Shiro (a friend of the protagonist) get themselves captured as well. When Scar Chain comes to rescue all three of them, they find a Nagi who's remembered who he is and is angry with the world in general.
The reason he hadn't fought his wife in the Carnival Corpse was because she'd been carrying their child. She was killed when her belly was slit open and the baby along with her. The locket he carried with him contained no picture. He'd been deluding himself. In his anger, he begins attacking the Undertakers and Scar Chain alike, for in his mind none of them deserved to live while his wife and child had died.
It takes the combined efforts of Ganta and Karako to snap him out of it (mostly Karako) and get him to realize that he still has friends that care about him and that they should be fighting to be free of that place. When Nagi shows that he's calmed down and won't continue to cause wanton destruction, Genkaku blasts a hole through his torso. Despite this (and despite missing a good portion of his spine - we'll just go with manga physics here) he lives long enough to hold Genkaku in place to take an attack by Ganta. He dies smiling as Karako cries over him.
[Personality]
Nagi is a prime example of someone shattered by the Carnival Corpse - matches where Deadmen are forced to fight each other in front of an unknown audience. (If they aren't killed, the loser is forced to give up part of their body for "science" in the Punishment Game.) An inherently good person, he is broken by the death of his wife and unborn child (he is shown the dead baby in a jar afterward) and driven mad. At the point I'm taking him from he'll have remembered who he is and who his friends are, but though he'll be free from Deadman Wonderland he won't be pleased to have been jept from reuniting with his wife in death. He will also be upset that his wife and child weren't brought back to life as well, or that he was at least joined by the other members of Scar Chain.
He might consider himself weak-willed, but he's a very determined individual and that didn't just come from the false hope he gave himself. When his left arm was crushed in the fight with the young undertaker, he simply ripped the nearly separated part of it off completely and kept going. He probably won't snap and attack allies again unless incredibly provoked, but he's not going to be the same cheerful, optimistic person Ganta first met. He has the capacity to be - he just needs the right people to bring it out of him.
Nagi likes to give weather forecasts, except his forecasts don't have anything to do with the actual weather - more like how he believes things are about to happen. If the "sun is coming out", it means he sees good things coming in the future. This is something I hope to keep and use with him every now and then.
[Specialties/Abilities] Like the other Deadmen, Nagi has a Branch of Sin, or an ability that uses his blood. His are "Owl's Eyeballs," orbs of blood that he can control and make explode when he wants. The explosions aren't huge, but they can cause significant damage. (Ganta has taken one to the stomach without having a hole blown there.)
He's also rather strong physically, though he doesn't seem to have any real fighting style aside from slugging people and/or ripping organs from their body.
[Affection] Nagi lost his wife and unborn child. Though close friends are a possibility, any romance would take some major work.
[Fighting] He's a fighter, yeah, and he'd probably get into fights if provoked or to protect someone else. He probably won't try to kill anyone unless he's seriously pissed off, though.
[Other Facts] He keeps a communication device in a fake portion of his lower row of teeth (a few back molars). This is what his Dreamberry will turn into when not in use. ^^;