OOC INFORMATION Name: Lel
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Current characters in the game: N/A
IC INFORMATIONPREINCARNATIONName: Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa
Canon: Detective Conan, to include the anime series, movies, specials and OVAs.
Age: 17, appears to be 7
Species: Human
Appearance: 
History:
Timeline of the Series
Character History
Shinichi was born to Yuusaku and Yukiko Kudo, a best-selling mystery author and a retired actress. At a very young age he found and became fascinated by the stories of Sherlock Holmes.By the age of six he had already decided that he wanted to become a detective like Holmes. By the age of sixteen he had solved hundreds of difficult cases and was already being asked to assist on cases by the police.
His future as a detective seemed set. But that all ended the day he finally ran into a case too big for him. While investigating some suspicious characters at an amusement park Shinichi was caught and forced to take an experimental poison. He was left for dead. But Shinichi didn't die. Instead the poison shrank him to the size of a young child.
Realizing that the criminals might return if they discovered he was still alive, Shinichi took on the identity of Conan Edogawa. He was taken in by his childhood friend, who believed Conan to be a distant relative of Shinichi's. However, Conan refused to tell her any part of the truth in an attempt to protect her from becoming involved. Even if it meant he had to watch her wonder why Shinichi had never come home and worry over him.
And that was Conan's new life. Living the life of an ordinary child, while watching his real life falling apart because he was no longer there to live it. But the mysteries didn't stop coming just because he looked like a kid now. Using inventions created by his neighbor, he figured out ways to manipulate the people around him into coming to the right conclusions and take the credit for solving the cases.
Over time Conan discovered information on the criminal group that poisoned him and dedicated himself to bringing an end to the organization. He met and became allies with a former organization member named Sherry, who had also become a child when she took the same poison. She began working on a finding an antidote for the poison while joining Conan in his life as a child. Later, he discovered agents from the FBI, CIA and Japan's Secret Service had infiltrated the Organization, and began working with them.
REINCARNATIONName: James Bredon "Jimmy" Dupin
Age: 16
Appearance: Very similar in appearance to his teenage self. His hair is a few shades lighter and his eyes are a lighter shade of blue.
History: Jimmy was born in America, and grew up in New York City. His father is an officer with the NYC police department and his mother is an attorney. He also has three older siblings, all involved with law enforcement to some degree. As the youngest child of the family, his life has been somewhat sheltered up to this point. Jimmy gets along well with his family, but he is more than ready to strike out on his own. This is one of the reasons he applied to become an exchange student. He chose England because of his interest in the British mystery authors.
Jimmy was introduced to the works of Agatha Christie at a very young age, and he idolizes Hercule Poirot and Ms. Marple. He has read extensively in classic detective literature, but has never read a Sherlock Holmes novel. Jimmy went through a stage as a child where he wanted to become a detective like the ones he read about, but when he learned that consulting detectives like that didn't really exist in the real world he decided to write mysteries instead. He has already had a number of short mystery stories submitted to magazines, and a few were even published to excellent reviews. Jimmy is currently thinking about what the plot of his first full length novel should be.
He plays soccer very well, and is considering whether it is something he wants to pursue in college, or if he wants to focus on his writing career. Currently, he is just beginning a year as an exchange student in Mossgate. He is in his last year of secondary school, and is currently staying with a host family in Mossgate.
First Echo: Cause: Overhearing someone playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on a piano. He had heard it in movies before, but never in person.
What was Echoed: The conclusion of the Moonlight Sonata Case, which was the source of Shinichi's belief that a detective who cornered a criminal with logic but did nothing to prevent them from committing suicide was no better than a murderer.
Why:
The sound of the Moonlight Sonata being played in the distance was a recurring theme in that case.
PERSONALITYPre-Incarnation Personality: Shinichi is brilliantly intelligent, cool-headed, independent and logical. And also a hopeless mystery geek. His ability for deductive logic, extensive knowledge of esoteric topics 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. There is a reason that the media took to calling him a modern day Holmes.
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 his childhood friend 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.
He can be childish sometimes, particularly when someone brings up the topic of soccer or his favorite mystery novels. 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 the few people who know his secret. But even with them he is secretive.
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.
He idolizes Sherlock Holmes, and has deliberately modeled himself after the detective. And he is a natural skeptic when it comes to ghosts, aliens, 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, 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. Not just because of what it would mean for his own life, but because it would all of his friends would have a target placed on them as well.
Any differences?: Jimmy has a much more relaxed personality than Shinichi does. Having never gone through the events that created completely justifiable cynicism and paranoia in Shinichi, James has a much more optimistic look on life. He trusts much more easily, and is more willing to ask for help when he needs it. He's still proud, but when he knows he can't handle a problem at home, he will ask for help. Having grown up with siblings and always having his parents as a resource he never developed the level of independence of his previous self. He never needed to.
He's still extremely intelligent, and struggled with making friends as a child, but he never became as isolated as he did in his previous life. Because of this, he was more social in school, and understands other people much better. He is still a walking encyclopedia of trivia and odd abilities, but not nearly at the scale he was in his previous life.
Unlike his previous self, James abandoned any interest in becoming a detective himself early in his life, setting his sight on becoming a mystery writer instead. He never became a famous detective in high school, and never experienced the media circus that came with it. As a result he is much less arrogant than Shinichi was at the same age. He is very proud of the few short stories that have been published, and will gladly make anyone who shows the slightest interest all the positive reviews he's gotten.
Abilities: - Age Transformation
- Not a true ability, as this was caused by the poison that was given to Shinichi. Once affected by it, he shrank to the size of a child. Rarely he was able to return to his teenage self, but the change is very dangerous to his health and not something he can do often.
- Advanced Deductive and Observational Abilities
- He's shown himself capable of performing sherlock scans on complete strangers. Meaning he can take basic observations about a stranger's appearance and turn them into deductions on their employment and recent history.
- Languages and Alphabets
- English (Fluent)
- Japanese (Fluent)
- Braille
- Cyrillic
- Transportation
- Ridiculous Trick Skateboarding
- Driving a Car
- Flying a Plane
- Driving a Speedboat
- Parasailing
- Other Skills
- Soccer
- First Aid/Basic Medical Knowledge
- Explosives defusing and disposal
- Marksmanship
- Codebreaking and riddle solving
- Lipreading
- Perfect Pitch
- Walking encyclopedia of random knowledge
- Known Tools
- Pursuit Glasses
- With a press of a button, Conan's glasses can be night vision binoculars or high powered zoom binoculars.
- They can also be used to track the signal of his detective boys badge and his tracking stickers.
- Tracking Stickers
- Stickers which produce a signal that can be tracked by the pursuit glasses.
- Voice-changing Bowtie
- A voice changer concealed as a bowtie. Capable of mimicking a wide variety of voices
- Detective Boys Badge
- A simple radio communicator concealed as a kids badge.
- Elastic Suspenders
- Conan's suspenders can stretch and retract. He has used them to lift heavy objects and as an emergency bungee cord.
- Watch
- Conan's watch can be used as both a launcher for sedative darts and as a flashlight
- Soccer Ball Belt
- Conan's belt buckle conceals an inflator and a number of deflated soccerballs.
- Powered Kick Shoes
- Conan's shoes use magnets to stimulate his leg muscles and increase his kicking ability.
- Turbo Skateboard
- The skateboard has a solar powered engine.
- Snowboard
ROLEPLAY SAMPLES
- 3rd person/action: Test Drive
- 1st person/network:
[There was a small boy scowling into the video feed.. Even from the rather limited view,i it was obvious that he couldn't be much older than seven. After a few moments his expression shifts into calculated cheerfulness. He'd long ago learned that strangers were more inclined to answer questions from a cute child.] Ne! Can anyone see this? This is a little strange, isn't it? I was going to go to the library today, but this doesn't look anything like the one in Beika City.
Did anyone else end up here by surprise? And does anyone know the way home?
Ran-neechan will get upset if I'm not home in time for dinner.
[A pause, followed by some much more genuine enthusiasm.] But as long as I'm here.... Is there a mystery section? I've read all the ones in the library at home!
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