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Jan 06, 2009 16:56

Fandom: D.Gray-man (Manga) From the end of chapter 175
Gender: Male
Age: 18. Should be 19 canonly now, but I’m not sure.
Sexuality (if applicable): …if he were interested, he’d be bi, I guess. But he’s kind of asexual, even though fandom likes to pair him up with ppl~
Original or Anomaly?: Original

Appearance: Here’s an image. Otherwise, this is my description: 177 cm (5'10") (that's pretty tall for a japanese man), with long, straight black hair that's mostly kept in a high pony-tail. He has a thin feminine-ish face with a default angry expression. He could be mistaken for a girl if you just look quickly, which canonly Lenalee actually did the first time she met him (though, he was only ten at the time) but lately, from where I’m taking him in canon, he looks a lot older and less feminine. He has a tattoo on the left side of his chest with the (possibly) Hindu/Buddhist character for "Om" that he sometimes hides behind a wrapping of bandages around his chest. This tattoo also has a ring of something that looks like flames around it, and it is said that when that ring disappears completely, Kanda will die. It’s connected to the lotus, and all very vague. [dammit, Hoshino won’t give me any clues >/]

Personality: Drawn back and annoyed to an extent. Doesn’t think much of people in general and usually deems most persons he meets as idiots. He’s has a foul mouth when he gets upset enough to use more words than the usual hn, hm, hrm, tch, che, whatever, not my problem, …” the dots being the most frequently used answer. He isn’t very talkative, and would most likely answer anything you say with the recently stated words. He hides his emotions most of the time and claims that other people’s worries are none of his business, and that he doesn’t care, even though he reacts very fiercely to advances and pastimes by others. Can get trough as cold and indifferent, but there’s evidence that he actually cares for his co-workers even if he doesn’t want to bother showing it. Getting attached to someone means taking responsibility to actually feel those emotions and letting them cloud ones judgement. Kanda prefers to be cold and calculating. He doesn’t appreciate other’s butting into his life and very often ends up threatening people with his sword (Mugen) for coming too close to him. Invasion of his personal space can very well lead to near-decapitation, so take it easy.

He dislikes a lot of things, maybe a little too many of them. And there are probably more of them than those he points out on his own; naïve people, people who won’t keep their promises, cursed people (all which applies to Allen Walker, a person Kanda despises, but still views as a fairly capable exorcist now, after have known him for a while. Doesn’t change the fact that he hates him though), people who won’t stop talking shit, people who call him by his given name (these two applies to Lavi the most). He hates when people call him by his given name, as stated, and there are two who does, Lavi and Tiedoll. He doesn’t appreciate that Tiedoll acts like his father when he most clearly is not. He calls Allen moyashi (beansprout) because of his short height, thinking that it’s below him to even use his real name. He also hates sweet things, like cake and such. Don’t try to feed him cake, seriously. He only eats different kinds of soba or sometimes tempura.

Kanda is very stubborn and he hates losing. If it was necessary, he could fight until his death, but so far, thankfully, he’s survived. He has a strong mind and is determined to reach his goal once it’s set, without straying off to things on the side. He deems most activities for fun as stupid and time consuming and doesn’t waste time to indulge in such frivolous activities. He is devoted to his work and could be called a very extreme workaholic. He doesn’t care much about anything else, as long as he gets the work done. Even so, he doesn’t actively try to harm innocent people and isn’t mean to the average man. (Unless you’re Lavi, Allen, or perhaps Komui or someone he’s got to know. But then again, they’re not the average man.) It depends on said person’s level of idiocy. He’s neutral in most cases and would leave the matter (and the place) if it weren’t in his interest or didn’t favour his objective or mission in any way. Even if you’re teasing him, getting inside his skin means not getting harmed, well, too much, when he’s angry. If he doesn’t draw his sword, and only settle so for yelling at you, consider yourself lucky. Pushy people may get either minced, or just ignored. He has the ability to get used to the annoying people, but it doesn’t mean he will stop harming them if it goes too far. Kanda enjoys fighting to an extent too, and he miiiight get humorous a times, often sarcastically or laughing in spite, but those moments are very few and a far between~

Others… he likes gardening, and to make soba. Has the ‘worst blood type’; AB.

History: Kanda has one purpose in his life, which his training and his reasons for being an exorcist will (he hopes) lead him to in the end, and that is to find “that one person”. No, he’s not Sasuke. There hasn’t been anything else revealed about this specific person canonly yet, not even whether it’s a woman or a man or if Kanda’s related to them. Kanda states that he will never allow himself to die before finding this person, however hard the search may become. He doesn’t like to talk about the matter either, (so you probably won’t find out much about it from him, or his mun, until more is revealed in the series.) and he doesn’t appreciate people asking him about his past and his childhood.

This, somehow made him decide that at an age of ten become and exorcist and train under Froi Tiedoll. He travelled with him for about a year before joining the other exocists at the order, meeting Lenalee for the first time and being mistaken for a girl by her, much to his dismay. He also met his fellow student for Tiedoll, Noise Marie. At the age of 12, Kanda got to taste soba for the first time and since then he wouldn’t eat anything else, smitten with what he thought was a delicious taste. Nothing really important happened until he was 16 years old, when Lavi joined the picture, getting almost decapitated after he started calling Kanda by his first name, since hearing Tiedoll call him ‘Yuu-kun’. Kanda despises both of them for doing that. At age 18, he had a mission in a forest village (together with a finder named Goz who didn’t react to his fits of anger), concerning a witch. When he returned to HQ, he met Allen for the first time, thought he was an akuma and attacked him.

Though, in the series, Kanda isn’t introduced until he met Allen for the first time. The gatekeeper mistakes Allen for and Akuma, and Kanda is first in place to attack him, damaging Allen’s anti-akuma weapon in the process. He doesn’t stop his attack until Lenalee comes out and bops him on the head with a writing tablet. Even though Allen tries to introduce himself to him, Kanda brushes him off with a “as if I’d shake hands with a cursed person”. Later on, Allen and Kanda clashes several times, and their mutual dislike grows more and more. Kanda starts calling him moyashi and Allen is in general disliking the way Kanda treats the Finders.

However, despite their obviously bad personal chemistry, they are paired up when Allen gets his first mission to find the innocence in Matel. Upon finding it, after tough fights back and forth with a level 2 akuma, Kanda wants to take it from the living doll, Lala, against her and her friend’s wish. Allen doesn’t like this at all and they start an argument over it, until the level 2 appears on the scene. Allen starts the fight with it, but his innocence goes trough a rebound and Kanda steps in, despite his serious wounds, and protects Allen. He grew so annoyed by the fact that Allen didn’t seem to hold onto life, only throwing it away. They destroy the akuma together in the end. Even if Kanda’s wounds were serious, they heal in about three days, thanks to the lotus, and he immediately departs on another mission.

Over the next period of time, Kanda and his teammates, Noise Marie and Daisya Barry, travel to find Tiedoll and get stuck in a city because of akuma. Daisya is killed by Tyki Mikk, and you can see how it gets to them. They continue in search of their master and upon finding him, they together travel to Edo to help General Cross’ group fight the Millennium Earl. Kanda arrives just in time to save Chaoji from Tyki Mikk who captured Lenalee. Kanda battles him until Tyki throws Lenalee at Kanda to throw a large blast agains them, only to be blocked by Lavi and his hammer. Kanda then takes down the huge Akuma that no one else could fight. After it all, Kanda enters the Ark together with Lavi, Krory, Allen and Chaoji to save Lenalee who got kidnapped again, this time by Lero.

Inside the ark, Kanda battles the Noah Skin Bolic, so the other’s could go ahead. This is one of the most intense battles Kanda has had so far and he suffers severe injuries but defeats Skin though at the cost of some of his life since he used “Sangenshiki”. It is an ability that increases his speed and strength dramatically, but at the same time, uses up some of his own life. Mugen is broken and shattered into pieces, but the parts of the sword is still working as an innocence when he finally kills Skin. Though, when the Ark collapses, he’s too late to reach the door out and is “killed” with the others who got left behind in the place. Later, when Allen restores the Ark, Kanda and the other “lost” exorcists are revived.

The return to the human living world is not really something Kanda finds amusing since he’s forced to stay in the infirmary along with the others. He tries to leave, but Tiedoll stops him. After a while, he is released and returns to his quarters. His innocence is by this time still in pieces, and is slowly being repaired by Komui, and because of that, Kanda protects Komui with a normal sword when the level 4 akuma attacks the HQ. He fights it with all his strength and takes a lot of damage to protect Komui, Lenalee and Hevlaska. Both he and Lavi helps Allen when he fights the akuma, taking hold of his sword to steady him. The akuma is in the end destroyed by general Cross because “it burnt his hair”. After it all, Kanda has a bet with Allen about cutting all of his hair off is he looses a swordfight with him. He wins, as he himself predicted. Though, no hair was cut off.
Later on, Kanda and Lavi accidentally get one of Komui’s potions poured over them during the process of moving the HQ and they turn small. Allen and Tincampi get’s long hair and Lenalee and Bookman starts talking cat-language. Upon all this crack, the HQ is invaded by a ghost who infests Krory with a virus, making him a zombie. He bites others, and it spreads throughout the whole place. Bak Chan comes in the end and restores the chaos and returns everyone to their original forms. There’s no need to actually evaluate more on this part, so I’ll leave it like this.

Continuing, repairing the headquarters and eventually getting his crushed innocence back in one piece as a new Mugen, we don’t see much of Kanda, but that’s only for a few chapters where they investigate Allen being revealed as the fourteenth Noah, and Cross getting killed. We see Kanda upon the investigation of the Mysterious Thief G as he’s visiting the chief police officer in charge of the case. He runs into his daughter, who immediately falls for him, and Kanda either doesn’t care, or notices, and there is where the suspicions of him being either not interested, (fanonly believe to be gay) or simply just dense. I’d say he’s very not interested. Maybe a little dense in the area too. Comes with the not!interest. During this investigation, Kanda acts very cold and angry, he talks a little more than usual, but doesn’t even pull from being rude and meant to Miranda of all people. He doesn’t even keep from threatening a child, even if it turns out that that child is The Mysterious Thief G. He definitively has become more cruel. He also looks more and more manly. They are tricked by an akuma when they enter the house where the child lives, an orphanage, and they are trapped in a different dimension, Allen’s akuma-seeing eye sealed, rendering them more helpless to attacks. This is from where I will be taking my Kanda.

Strengths: He's fast and agile, most due to hard training and he knows how to use a sword. He can heal himself unnaturally fast and even withstand the akuma virus with the help of a lotus flower encased in an hourglass that's connected to his tattoo. Though, at the same time, if the lotus dies (it loses one petal for each fatal wound it heals on him) Kanda dies. He’s stubborn, as said above, and he doesn’t back down that easily. Lotus and tattoo won’t be working though.

He has a various number of attacks he can perform with his innocence and the lotus seal, and I thought I’d include those, even if they’re not as important as everything else.

• Kaichuu Ichigen: Releases a swarm of supernatural creatures called Hells Insects.
• Nigentou: Covers his sword and scabbard with energy that generates a two impossibly sharp weapons.
• Hakka Tourou: When using the Nigentou, Kanda slashes the enemy eight times, making it resemble a flower with eight petals.
• Shouka: It’s the activation stage of his tattoo, and he gains an extra pupil and veins starts appearing around his eyes.
• Sangenshiki: Can only be used when he’s activated Shouka. It makes him faster and stronger for a while, but it consumes some of his life energy as cost.

His skills with Mugen won’t be working, I assume, but what about the Lotus? Will it still be able to heal him? And he’ll of course still have Mugen with him, he just won’t be able to use his innocence, right? Not that he would need it in this place.

Weaknesses: Gets angry very easily. Has a tendency to get stuck on trivial matters concerning himself and does not appreciate people joking about him. He hates being called by his first name and is impulsive and sometimes doesn't think before he acts. In this RP setting, I wonder if Kanda will also get sick like any other human, since his tattoo would most likely have lost its powers and been reverted to a normal one. That particular part with the lotus might be his biggest weakness. Without it, he’d have to resort to being calmer about starting fights.

First Person Sample: … [there’s a long haired woman man stalking around the room, inspecting the premises and cursing slightly under his breath, a hand resting at the hilt of a sword held in a tight grip in his other hand] What the fucking hell is going on? If this is supposed to be a stupid joke, I’m not amused at all. I demand some sort of explanation right now, and without delay. [comes closer and glares into the viewpoint of the gadget] You, whoever is recording this for some moronic reason, I want answers and I want them now before I start tearing the place for them instead. I’m sure you wouldn’t like a sword through your gut. If I could find you, you bastard.

Third Person Sample: He felt tired, and some sort of voice ranted somewhere over his head. It was annoying, but he was so damn exhausted. Still, he was walking forward, like on auto, and he wondered if he did pick something up or not. It was hard to tell. Unable to register how or why, he now felt like he was moving down and he swayed a bit where he stood, trying and failing to uphold his composure. What was the voice saying anyway…? “Good morning?” How the hell could it be a good morning? He was tired, and someone would get their ass kicked for disturbing him this early.

He didn’t like this one bit. If he tried to move on his own accord, his head started spinning and nothing happened. More than panicking, he became angry about the whole ordeal instead. Someone was clearly behind whatever it was that made him walk without his consent. What had him confused, wait, more annoyed, was the fact he hadn’t woken up even though someone clearly had gotten close enough to do something to him.

For some reason, he couldn’t feel if he had Mugen or any kind of weapon with him, which he didn’t, and that made him a bit uneasy. He wasn’t in his uniform either. It pushed at his head more and more, the feeling that something or someone was watching him from somewhere, but… it wasn’t as if he could even try to look around himself. He cursed how weak he felt and tried once again to clear his vision a bit when the world came to an abrupt halt.

Holding his head in one hand, his vision slowly cleared in front of his eyes as he tried to figure out where the hell he had ended up or remember what had happened.

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