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Character Name: Conan Edogawa (Shinichi Kudo)
Fandom: Detective Conan
Character History:
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Character 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 a clue what normal is.
He is brilliantly intelligent, cool-headed, independent, logical, and acerbic. 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.
Conan'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 geek 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 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 the 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, 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 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.
Powers and Abilities:
Apart from being ten years younger than he should be,and occasionally being able to return to his true age (in very specific circumstances) Conan is just an ordinary human. Granted, one that is ridiculously competent at all kinds of strange things.
As a detective, Conan has advanced observational and deductive abilities. He is very good at using tiny clues from a complete stranger's appearance to deduct facts about their life. He has acquired a huge amount of knowledge on esoteric subjects. He is fluent in English and Japanese, with some knowledge of other languages. He is ridiculously good at soccer and skateboarding, and also knows how to drive cars and boats, fly planes and parasail. He's a crack shot, and knows advanced first aid, explosives defusing and disposal, codebreaking, lipreading and who knows what else. He is also tone deaf, socially awkward, and completely incompetent at all the mundane things that every normal child knows how to do.
Samples
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.]
Can anyone see this? This is a little strange, isn't it?
I was going to go to the library today, but then I guess I got kidnapped. This place doesn't look anything like 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.... Does the library here have a good mystery section? I've read all the ones in the library at home!
Third Person:
Conan scowls down at his notebook. Ever since arriving in this city he had been determinedly collecting every piece of information he could find about how this so-called bending worked. The very concept was ridiculous. And the lack of interest he'd seen from many of the other people here was even worse. How could anyone simply accept something like this without understanding why it worked?
It was worse than all those times someone had tried to mislead the police with magic tricks. So many times he had seen common sleight of hand used to convince the witnesses that a crime had been committed by magic or a ghost. But every time he had been able to figure out the trick. Whatever the trick or deceit here, he would figure it out.
Holmes had said it, right? There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation. Like his idol, Conan had always firmly believed that there was nothing in the world that could not be explained. Matter could not simply appear out of nothing. Reality could not bend purely through someone's will. This was basic physics.
There must be some trick to this. In the end this was just another puzzle. And there was no puzzle he couldn't solve. The more complicated it became, the more he became intrigued by it. Hidden under his folded hands, the boy's lips curve into a smug smirk. He would find the secret behind this, no matter how long it took.
Suddenly he stiffens as he hears the distinctive sounds of footsteps on the library floor. Conan hastily sweeps all his research into his backpack and conceals his collection of advanced science texts under more age appropriate books. By the time the adult comes into eyesight there is nothing left to show he is anything more than a kid doing homework.
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Name: Lel
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Character Information
Character Name: Conan Edogawa (Shinichi Kudo)
Fandom: Detective Conan
Character History:
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- Shinichi Kudo is born to Yuusaku and Yukiko Kudo, a best-selling mystery author and a famous actress. They decide to return to Japan to raise him.
- As a young child, Shinichi meets and becomes best friends with Ran Mouri. He also becomes a fan of the Sherlock Holmes novels and decides to become a detective.
- Age 14: Yuusaku and Yukiko start traveling the world again, leaving Shinichi behind at their home in Japan. Shinichi solves his first solo case while on a plane to visit them in New York. While in New York he meets Vermouth in disguise.
- Age14-17: Shinichi becomes famous throughout Japan as a teenage detective who could solve any case. The press nicknames him "Modern Holmes" and "Detective of the East".
- Age 17: While at an amusement park with Ran, Shinichi follows a pair of suspicious men dressed in black. He gets caught and is forced to take an experimental poison that is intended to kill without leaving any evidence for an autopsy. The men in black leave him for dead. But instead of killing him, the poison shrinks him to the size of a seven-year-old child. Shinichi seeks out his neighbor, Professor Agasa for help. Agasa tells him that he can't let anyone know his real name. At that moment Ran arrives, and in a panic Shinichi invents the name Conan Edogawa. Agasa tells Ran that Conan is his distant relative and asks her to take care of him for now.
- Conan enrolls at Teitan Elementary and is befriended by three children. The detective boys club is formed.
- Agasa starts making gadgets to help Conan in his detective work.
- Conan starts to solve cases again by either leading adults to the clues and conclusions, or sedating various adults and using his voice changer to solve the case in their voices.
- The Moonlight Sonata case happens. Conan is unable to stop a culprit from committing suicide.This leads him to start insisting that a detective who fails to stop a suspect from committing suicide is no different than a murderer.
- Akemi Miyano is murdered while attempting to leave the Black Organization.
- Conan meets Heiji, a teenage detective from Osaka. On their second meeting, Heiji figures out his real identity and appoints himself as Shinchi's best friend.
- Conan meets Kaitou KID, a phantom thief. Their first encounter ends without a victor. KID escapes, but fails to steal the black pearl he had targeted.
- Shiho Miyano, Akemi Miyano's younger sister, attempts to leave the Black Organization, where she was known as Sherry. She is caught, and chooses to take the same poison that was given to Shinichi. Like Shinichi, instead of dying she shrinks to the size of a seven-year-old child. She had previously suspected that Shinichi had survived, although she had marked him deceased within the Organization's records. Now a child as well, she seeks him out, and is found by professor Agasa. Under the name Ai Haibara she enrolls in Teitan Elementary and joins the detective boys. She starts working on an antidote for the poison.
- The Black Organization starts looking for Sherry.
- Conan gets shot while on a camping trip with the detective boys. Ran reveals that she suspects Conan's real identity when she volunteers to give the blood for a transfusion he needs. Ai gives Conan the first prototype of a cure for the poison, allowing him to return as Shinichi for a short time. He succeeds in convincing Ran that he is not Conan and asks her on a date. Unfortunately, he is delayed by a murder at the restaurant elevator and changes back to Conan before he can return to Ran. As Conan he returns and tells her that Shinichi had been called away on another urgent case, but promised to return. Some day.
- Conan meets Jodie Saintemillion. Although posing as an American English teacher at Ran's school, in reality she was an undercover FBI agent, in Japan to investigate Vermouth, an agent in the Organization.
- Conan meets Akai Shuuichi, an American FBI agent and Akemi Miyano's boyfriend. He had previously infiltrated the Organization as Rye. Akai notices that Ai's face is familiar, and starts watching her.
- Vermouth makes an attempt to capture Sherry (Ai Haibara). The FBI attempt to interfere. Conan reveals himself in disguise as the Haibara that Vermouth had captured. The real Haibara shows up. Ran protects Haibara from Vermouth. It is revealed that Vermouth met both Shinichi and Ran in New York pre-series, and is unwilling to kill them. In the confusion Vermouth kidnaps Conan as a hostage and escapes. Conan reveals that he had come with a concealed recording device and succeeds in recording the phone address of the boss of the organization when Vermouth calls him. Vermouth admits defeat and promises not to go after Sherry again, although she drugs Conan one more time and destroys the recording device before she escapes.
- Conan identifies the boss of the organization's phone number, because of his memory of the number tones resembling a children's song. Ai tells him to stop there, because it is a pandora's box too dangerous to open.
- Conan discovers that a local newscaster is Kir, an agent of the Black Organization.
- Conan helps the FBI capture KIr.
- Conan discovers that KIr is actually an undercover CIA agent.
- Conan plots with Kir and Akai Shuuichi to find a way to reinsert Kir into the Organization. Akai agrees to follow Conan's plan.
- As far as anyone but Conan and Kir know, Akai Shuuichi is killed by Kir Shortly afterwards a college student named Okiya Subaru appears and begins to rent the empty Kudo home.
- Kir warns Conan that a new agent named Bourbon has appeared.
- Conan meets Sera Masumi, a teenage girl detective.
- Conan meets Amuro Tooru, an employee at the restaurant under the Mouri residence. He becomes Kogoro's apprentice detective work.
- Conan is kidnapped by a suspect in a case. Okiya, Sera and Amuro all show up to rescue him. Vermouth is also at the scene. She calls one of the three on the phone and reveals that one of them is Bourbon.
- Haibara takes the prototype antidote to rescue the detective boys from a fire. She is unknowingly filmed. Okiya and Amuro see the photo.
- Everything converges on the Belltree Express, a mystery themed train ride. Knowing that Sherry was on board thanks to a ring she was wearing in the photo, the Black Organization intends to set off an explosion on the train. Conan sends the real Haibara to a safe cabin on the train, and recruits Kaitou Kid (who had been on the train in disguise) by blackmailing him into disguising himself as an adult Sherry and playing bait. Amuro confronts the disguised Kaitou Kid and reveals himself as Bourbon. Vermouth blows up the caboose of the train. Kaitou Kid escapes on his hangglider, leaving the Black Organization with the belief that Sherry had been killed.
- While leaving the train, Vermouth sees Agasa and Haibara and realizes that Conan had outwitted all of them.
- Amuro (Bourbon) decides to reinvestigate Akai Shuuichi's death.
- Amuro (Bourbon) and Vermouth succeed in investigating what happened the night of Akai Shuuichi's death.
- Amuro (Bourbon) confronts Okiya Subaru. With Conan's assistance, Amuro is convinced that Akai Shuuichi is somewhere else. It is then revealed that Okiya was the disguise of Akai Shuuichi.
- Akai Shuuichi reveals that Amuro's real name is Rei Furuya. He is actually an officer of the Security Bureau of the National Police Agency, under cover as a member of the organization.
- Conan discovers that a high ranking organization member named Rum has appeared in Japan.
Character 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 a clue what normal is.
He is brilliantly intelligent, cool-headed, independent, logical, and acerbic. 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.
Conan'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 geek 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 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 the 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, 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 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.
Powers and Abilities:
Apart from being ten years younger than he should be,and occasionally being able to return to his true age (in very specific circumstances) Conan is just an ordinary human. Granted, one that is ridiculously competent at all kinds of strange things.
As a detective, Conan has advanced observational and deductive abilities. He is very good at using tiny clues from a complete stranger's appearance to deduct facts about their life. He has acquired a huge amount of knowledge on esoteric subjects. He is fluent in English and Japanese, with some knowledge of other languages. He is ridiculously good at soccer and skateboarding, and also knows how to drive cars and boats, fly planes and parasail. He's a crack shot, and knows advanced first aid, explosives defusing and disposal, codebreaking, lipreading and who knows what else. He is also tone deaf, socially awkward, and completely incompetent at all the mundane things that every normal child knows how to do.
Samples
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.]
Can anyone see this? This is a little strange, isn't it?
I was going to go to the library today, but then I guess I got kidnapped. This place doesn't look anything like 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.... Does the library here have a good mystery section? I've read all the ones in the library at home!
Third Person:
Conan scowls down at his notebook. Ever since arriving in this city he had been determinedly collecting every piece of information he could find about how this so-called bending worked. The very concept was ridiculous. And the lack of interest he'd seen from many of the other people here was even worse. How could anyone simply accept something like this without understanding why it worked?
It was worse than all those times someone had tried to mislead the police with magic tricks. So many times he had seen common sleight of hand used to convince the witnesses that a crime had been committed by magic or a ghost. But every time he had been able to figure out the trick. Whatever the trick or deceit here, he would figure it out.
Holmes had said it, right? There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation. Like his idol, Conan had always firmly believed that there was nothing in the world that could not be explained. Matter could not simply appear out of nothing. Reality could not bend purely through someone's will. This was basic physics.
There must be some trick to this. In the end this was just another puzzle. And there was no puzzle he couldn't solve. The more complicated it became, the more he became intrigued by it. Hidden under his folded hands, the boy's lips curve into a smug smirk. He would find the secret behind this, no matter how long it took.
Suddenly he stiffens as he hears the distinctive sounds of footsteps on the library floor. Conan hastily sweeps all his research into his backpack and conceals his collection of advanced science texts under more age appropriate books. By the time the adult comes into eyesight there is nothing left to show he is anything more than a kid doing homework.
Additional:
Test Drive