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Player

Name: Lel

Age: Over 21

Contact: leloipa on aim and plurk, leloipa1@gmail.com

Character

Name: Shinichi Kudo

Age: 17

Gender: Male

History:

Personality:

Shinichi 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 armed suspects. 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. He is most comfortable when dealing with adults at a professional level.

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. At times he can be rather childish. For example, sulking over being forced to attend a show he finds uninteresting. He can often be heard to complain that magic shows and thieves are boring. 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 about his favorite cases. 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 cars and cheesecake. An there is Ran, of course. His most important person.

He has admitted to deliberately putting on a mature and serious attitude so that the police would listen to him.

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.

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.

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 also tends to be slightly arrogant about his skills as a detective.

Strengths/Abilities:

Shinichi is a brilliant detective along the lines of Sherlock Holmes., Given a single glance at a person's appearance or the scene of a crime and he can deduct a great deal about them. He has also developed a number of other related skills.

Soccer (Nearly Pro Level Skill)

Skateboarding

Marksmanship

Flying a small plane and helicopter

Parasailing

Driving a car

Advanced Physics and Mathematics

Languages (Fluent in English and Japanese, some knowledge of Russian,Spanish and Italian)

First Aid (advanced, including knowledge of poisons)

Detailed knowledge of dozens of esoteric subjects

Defusing Bombs (Multiple types)

Codebreaking and riddle solving

Weaknesses:

Social Awkwardness at anything outside of crime scenes. Shinichi doesn't really understand how other kids his age think or act. He's much more comfortable dealing with adults at a professional level. His intense focus on detective work and insistence on ignoring social invitations in favor of reading or practicing soccer has often lead to accusations from his peers of snobbishness or arrogance.

Singing. Although he has perfect pitch, Shinichi has no relative pitch at all. This means that he can read music, and listen to it. But he is completely incapable of replicating a melody with his voice, or even staying on key.

Although he is ridiculously competent with everything related to detective work, Shinichi is somewhat less competent at handling day-to-day life. Such as cooking, talking to normal people without accidentally insulting them, shopping, etc.

At this point in his life, Shinichi is more than a little arrogant. As expected of a teenager who has been solving high-profile 'unsolveable' cases since he was 14. And who has never been wrong.

He fears allowing people to die on his watch, and he fears failing his friend Ran. Who is nearly his only friend. He tends to blame himself when he can't save people from the crimes he solves.

Although he can use logic to predict how a criminal will act, he has admitted that he has never been able to understand what drives one person to kill another. It makes no sense to him.

Attire/Items:

Green windbreaker

T-shirt

Jeans

Sneakers

Notebook and Pencil

Camera

Handkerchief

Evidence Bags

Penknife

Wallet, with his student ID and other minutiae

Game Transfer: Nope.

Notes:
I will be taking Shinichi from the first chapter of the series, at the end of his date in the Tropical Land Amusement Park with Ran. But before he runs off to follow the two men from the Black Organization. Characterization will be taken from a number of flashback chapters that showed Shinichi's life as a high school detective.

Samples

First Person:

[A tall blue-eyed teenager looks seriously into the communicator. He coughs slightly into his hand, and then begins speaking in a calm, confident voice.]

May I have your attention? This is high school detective Shinichi Kudo. Based on what I know of the current situation I must assume that I have been kidnapped.

Is anyone willing to fill me in on the situation? More importantly, has everyone checked their cellphones? It appears mine has stopped working.

Third Person:

The problem with being a high school detective, Shinichi often thought, was that he was still in high school. It wasn't only that he often had to fight to get adults to listen to him. He'd expected that when he had first decided that he would be a detective. And after nearly two years of work, that wasn't even much of a problem anymore. To the Japanese police force the mere mention of his name was often enough to get the respect he needed.

And now, in this situation, he was starting at the beginning once again. His initial efforts to gather information from the others trapped here had met with less than ideal success. Not outright derision, like he remembered from his first case. But he had seen clear doubt in his ability to discover anything useful.

And in a way that was even worse.

But he would solve this case. He had encountered difficult cases before, but there had never been one he couldn't solve. A mystery was nothing more than a puzzle created by the human mind after all. And there was no such a thing as a puzzle that could not be solved. If there was no answer in the accounts of the people taken here, he would simply need to seek out other information. He would solve this and find a way home.

Ran was waiting for him, after all.