CHARACTER PERSONALITY:
=== Player Information ===
Name/Nick: Lel
Journal:
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Current Characters:n/a
=== Character Information ===
Name: Conan Edogawa (Shinichi Kudo)
Gender: male
Age: appears 7, but is really 17
Fandom: Detective Conan
Time period: Just before the red horse arson case (Episode 325)
Pokemon: Mudkip
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Wears an over sized pair of glasses.
Has large blue eyes.
Has a ridge in its headfin resembling a cowlick.
Explanation:
A mudkip is small. Less than one foot tall, which nicely replicates Conan's situation of being trapped as a small child. It also has an ability to detect danger, and good observational ability, which fits well with Conan's abilities as a detective.
History:
Wiki Personality:
The first thing anyone notices about Conan is his intelligence. He knows and understands far too much, even for his true age. Ask him about practically any topic and he can ramble about it knowledgeably. As the seven -year-old he appears to be he attempts to conceal the full extent of his knowledge and deduction skill, but he has never been very successful at this. He tries to appear like an ordinary child, but he doesn't really have clue what normal is.
He is brilliantly intelligent, cool-headed, independent, logical, and acerbic. And hopelessly in love with his childhood friend Ran. His ability for deductive logic, immense knowledge, and analytical ability make him an amazing detective. He is hardly ever wrong, once he has figured a case out. Even cases that have been labeled unsolvable.
But at the same times, his genius has created problems for him. He is completely unable to resist a mystery. If he finds one, his curiosity will not let him rest until he finds an answer. When in the middle of an investigation he often forgets the danger of hunting suspects in a child's body. He can deduct motives and solve impossibly complicated riddles, but he doesn't really understand people on a personal level. He didn't understand his own feelings for Ran until it was too late to tell her anything, and he has repeatedly missed obvious hints from others about their feelings for him. He can also be very forgetful about his personal life. He never remembers his own birthday, for example. He also has trouble relating to his peers. Even before his shrinking, he was almost completely isolated from his classmates, apart from Ran. He is most comfortable when dealing with adults at a professional level.
Whatever name you call him by, he has always had a habit of putting on different personalities to get the results he wants. Shinichi's core personality is a bored and irritable boy. He finds most of the typical occupations of his peers uninteresting and constantly runs a sarcastic commentary on the people around him. Only a few things can snap him out of this. Any mention of Sherlock Holmes will instantly turn him into an enthusiastic boy who can ramble on for hours. And the appearance of a mystery of any kind will instantly bring out his razor sharp focus. Once he is on the hunt to solve a mystery he is almost impossible to distract. He is a huge fan of soccer, and admits to a fondness for cheesecake. And there is Ran, of course. His most important person.
Even when he was still Shinichi, he admitted to deliberately putting on a mature and serious attitude so that the police would listen to him. As Conan now he often puts on an act of sugary enthusiasm for the benefit of adults. Especially when at a murder scene and drawing attention to vital clues. He is probably truest to his own personality among his classmates in first grade and among th few people who know his secret. But even with them he is secretive.
Currently Conan has only two goals in his life. First, to reclaim his old life and to finally confess his feelings to Ran. To do this he needs to find an antidote for the poison that turned him into a child and he needs to bring an end to the Black Organization. Secondly, he has the goal of finding the truth behind every crime he stumbles across.
He believes in justice. If finding the truth involves bending or breaking the law, he will do that without a seconds regret. He also believes that there is nothing that justifies the taking of a life, even if it is a murderer's life. Once he told a fellow high school detective that cornering someone with logic and allowing them to commit suicide was the same as committing murder themselves.
He has the worst luck in the world when it comes to stumbling across cases. He can't go anywhere without dead bodies turning up somewhere. Amusement parks, the mall, bus-rides, the beach, parties, restaurants, even if he is just walking down the street. If there is a crime happening anywhere in the area, he will be there. If there is a way for a person to die, he has probably seen it before. And no matter how horrific the scene, he is never phased. He sees bodies as evidence. Nothing more.
His forced second childhood has turned him into a kind of deadpan snarker. He is never shy about making acerbic observations about the people around him, though most of those comments never leave his head. Particularly if they're getting off track in a murder investigation. Additionally, his act as a child has made him more than a little manipulative. He is entirely capable of leading adults through an entire investigation without ever letting them know what was really happening. If they still don't get it, he will resort to drugging them and using them as living puppets.
He idolizes Sherlock Holmes, and has deliberately modeled himself after the detective. And he is a natural skeptic when it comes to ghosts, monsters, and magic. He has repeatedly run into murderers attempting to disguise their crimes as the works of ghosts or local monster stories. Upon meeting any people with such special powers here, he is likely to immediately assume it is a hoax to cover up for another crime.
Shinichi has a habit of taking everything on himself. He tends to be very closemouthed about the things that are really bothering him and will never ask for help even if he needs it. He often forgets just how physically vulnerable he is right now, especially when he gets caught up in the chase. He is terrified of the Black Organization ever discovering that Shinichi Kudo is still alive. But he is most terrified that Ran will get hurt. If it means that she won't get involved he is willing to lie directly to his best friend. Even if it means she will hate him if she ever finds out.
He hates lying, and he hates being in this situation where his whole lie is a lie. But even more, he hates what he has done to Ran. He has to sit and watch Ran getting upset and worried about Shinichi's disappearance, when all he has to offer her is an occasional phonecall through a voice changer.
As he put it once.
If I told her how I feel, she’d just miss me even more. After all, I’m the guy who’s been breaking her heart by making her wait an eternity. Even though I’m always by her side. I don’t want to see her cry anymore. Even if it means that I no longer have a place in her heart. Seems pretty immature of me, doesn’t it?
=== Samples: ===
First Person:
1) You discover a secret passage in a basement. What do you do?
Investigate, obviously. I've never seen a secret passage that didn't have some interesting clues inside it.
2) Have you ever wanted to communicate with aliens from another planet?
That's a ridiculous question. Aliens aren't real. Every piece of evidence ever presented in support of their existence has been proven to be a hoax.
3) Would you feel comfortable stating your opinion to a very important person?
Of course! Detectives need to be able to work with local authorities.
4) Do you like to do things according to plan?
I prefer to work along a plan whenever possible. However, there are times when a plan must change to deal with unexpected events. A good plan needs to take the need for flexibility in changing situations into account.
5) Do you think that lies are sometimes necessary?
I don't like lying. But as much as I hate the need for it, there are times when a lie is necessary. if it means protecting someone who is important to me I will tell a many lies as necessary. Even if it means they hate me for it.
Third Person:
When Conan wakes, he instantly knows something is wrong. He should be hearing the sound of traffic and smelling the familiar cheap leather and chemical smell of another of the old man's rental cars. But here there was only the smell and sounds of a forest.
All of this added up to one thing. Kidnapping.
But who? And for what reason? And what about Hattori and Uncle? He had been with them. Were they safe? As useless as the old man could be, Uncle never would have allowed someone to take him without a fight.
Cautiously, Conan slits open his eyes and takes in his surroundings. His first guess had been right. It was a forest. But where? The trees he could see were the wrong species for the area of Japan he had been in. And it was bitterly cold. Far colder than it should have been. How far had he been taken for the climate to change this much?
But there was more wrong with the situation than that. Even standing, his surroundings still seemed massive to him. There was something wrong with his sense of balance. And a glance at his hands reveled blue amphibian-like skin.
The disorientation and size of the forest was easy enough to explain. The angle he was seeing everything from had changed, like it had once when he had first shrunk from the size of a teenager to that of a small child. At a guess, he was less than a third the height of his child size now.
What happened? Was this the work of some new poison? Turning into a child had been bad enough. Like this, could he even pass for human?
More importantly, was the Black Organization involved?
He couldn't answer any of those questions right now. First, he needed information. Slowly Conan picks his way across the forest floor and begins to investigate his surroundings.