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CHARACTER
» Name: Yohji Kudou
» Fandom: Weiss Kreuz
» Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9F_Kreuz and I can provide drama CD translations if they're needed
» Canon Point: Just after Gluhen episode 8
» Gender: Male
» Age: 24
» Orientation: Heterosexual. His love of women is a huge part of his personality and there's no evidence that he's attracted to men.
» Personality: "Women's enemy is my enemy" is Yohji's motto. He adores women, easily flirting with cute ones even during a mission to try and find a kidnapped child before it's too late and recognizes Manx, Weiss's contact for mission details, by her ankles alone at one point. His love of women is returned by plenty of them throughout all of canon, likely because he's great at knowing just what to say and do to make them feel good about themselves and whether or not Yohji has any interest in a particular one, he will do anything and everything to protect them even when it puts him at risk; in the Dramatic Image drama CD, he gets shot in the leg but refuses to stop looking for one girl and both in his past and on-screen in the first series, he tells the person he's with to go on without him after he gets injured. Their safety is more important than his. The moment he's awake and bandaged, though, he's impulsive and determined enough to go right back to work even when his teammates think he should rest, as shown first in Dramatic Image.
Yohji is the oldest member of Weiss and for the most part, teases all of them as a big brother figure throughout, suggesting that Omi was up all night looking at porn or calling Aya "Stone Face" and giving everyone romance tips when girls seem interested in them. However, he's also the one to ask Ken if he can really hold Yuriko with his bloody hands, reminding him that they can't forget that they're all killers and, in the Holy Children CD, says there's no place for him on a mission after he'd previously backed out. His team gets to see the more serious side of him that others, whether they're flower shop customers or his students in Gluhen, are probably unaware of.
He's neither the strongest nor the smartest member of Weiss, but he's far from useless or stupid. As a former PI, he's good at watching things from a distance, including observing Aya with Sakura, and obtaining information, even if that means going to a place known for human trafficking and having a threesome with two of the women there for an opportunity to sneak in and obtain the needed data from someone's computer. During the events of the OVA, he and the others manage to convince the person toying with them that they believed in the fake mission. In Gluhen, it's stated that he'd been working undercover prior to his arrival, which also takes brains, as does managing to pose as an art teacher at an elite high school for the duration of that mission. Yohji's skill with his wire is good for both quietly killing targets and at one point disarming a trap of trip wires. Although it's an odd weapon, he uses it very well.
He may typically act calm and confident about nearly everything, but in reality Yohji takes it very hard when things don't go as they're supposed to and people he knows die or are in extreme danger. The first person he lost pushed him to become an assassin in the first place, he races into a scene without thinking when a girl who'd admitted her love for him might still be alive and screams as he kills the one responsible after learning it's too late, chain smokes and offers himself as bait in the days after he has to kill someone who might have been his old love without her memories, stops eating and simply drinks after an incident in the Dramatic Precious CDs where he's drugged unknowingly and made to believe he killed the woman he spent a night with. Yohji believes he's capable of it since he had put his hands to women's throats during sex in the past.
During Dramatic Precious, after Weiss is told they can break up after that mission, Yohji goes along with Ken and Aya in saying that he can't go back to a normal life and earlier had inner monologue stating that he's starting to hate himself. Although it seems sudden, when combined with his increased drinking and more serious attitude around the team when they're not working, it makes sense. This self-hatred and his growing exhaustion with the life he's leading are proven even more in Gluhen. Yohji is first accused by a woman he has to kill of not really caring for women beyond using them for missions and denies it until a conversation with the ghost of Asuka, his long-dead partner, turns into him realizing that it's true.
He hates what he's done and what he's become - going from honestly loving women to someone who only uses them as an escape and as people to act like he cares for to get information from - so much that the enemy, a teacher named Tsujii working for Weiss's long-time target, Eszett, offers him a way to forget whatever he wants and he seriously considers the offer. It takes Aya fighting him and being willing to kill him to get Yohji to change his mind. But until that final battle and him telling Weiss what he wanted, he still played the part of the charming art teacher well enough that his students and other teachers didn't know anything was wrong. Weiss could tell that something was weird, but he didn't explain things to them. Most people never bother trying to find out how much darker emotion is waiting under his usual face. He plays the part so well they never have a reason to.
» Appearance: http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q159/whitecrossb/Yohji/Picture3.jpg Yohji is the tallest of the Weiss members, with blond hair and green eyes, though he bleaches his hair even lighter in Gluhen, likely because he was doing undercover work before his on-screen arrival. He has a tattoo on his left bicep and is usually seen smoking or drinking, particularly when he's stressed about something. Assassin work has left him with plenty of scars from guns and other weapons.
SAMPLES
» "amatomnes" Entry: [He lounges, completely dressed and with a lit cigarette dangling from his lips, on his bed in the palace. Yohji looks mostly calm, since he's already talked to the maids about this place, but he wants to confirm what they've said before he figures out what to do next.]
Those cute girls that work here told me a crazy story about this place and explained what this was for. So how true was all that talk? It's a little hard to believe, but if it's all true, can I see some pretty faces?
» "amatomneslogs" Entry: The first things in his mind as he woke up were the clearer bits of last night - seeing the bruises he left on Tsujii's throat, hearing her offer to take all of his memories away, and leaving with that offer heavily on his mind. Yohji's head ached in the familiar way that told him he'd had too much to drink, so it didn't seem too weird to have fuzzy memories of the rest of the night. He figured he'd ended up in someone else's bed and would have to rush to get to school on time to teach.
Only, when he finally opened his eyes, that didn't seem to be the case. The room looked nothing like a tiny Japanese apartment. Hell, it didn't look Japanese at all. Realizing that was enough to yank him to his feet and hear a faint jingling noise coming from somewhere on his body. Yohji raised an eyebrow and ran his hands over himself to try and figure out the source of that noise. It only took a moment to find the collar around his neck with a tiny bell in the front. There didn't seem to be a clasp at all. What the hell? If it didn't have a clasp, how had it gone on in the first place?
Between the collar and the Mediterranean-seeming room he was in, Yohji had to think Eszett was somehow involved. After all, Tsujii worked for them and if she could take away his memories, she could drug and kidnap him too. It wouldn't be the first time someone managed to drug his drink, unfortunately. He grabbed his clothes, checked his watch to be sure the wire was still there, smiled a little when it was, and redressed in a hurry. Wherever he was, he needed to get home to continue working on this mission. If Tsujii thought this would get him to consider her offer quicker and abandon what he was doing for Weiss, she needed to check her facts again. As much as he hated his memories of the things he'd done, he couldn't just jump into trusting Eszett's words. Yohji opened the door to his room and noted how big this place was. Were other people here too?
Yohji didn't get much of a chance to explore the building before he spotted girls in maid uniforms. That made him put on his best harmless face. He gave them an easy smile, complimented one on her cute freckles, and asked where he was. Although she didn't seem to react to the flattery, she still explained it all.