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Out Of Character

Name:  Lel
Age: Over 18
Contact: PM to this journal or leloipa on plurk

In Character

Name:  Conan Edogawa (Shinichi Kudo
Canon: Detective Conan
Canon Point: The end of the Mystery Train case, episode 704 
Sex/Gender: Male
Actual Age/Apparent Age:   Looks 7, is actually 17


Belongings:

• Voicechanging Bowtie
  • A voicechanger disguised as a bowtie. It can be used to perfectly mimic voices.
• Pursuit Glasses
  • Night Vision
  • Zoom
  • The glasses can use radar to track transmitters within a 20 km radius.
• Elastic Suspenders
  • Can be used in pulleys to lift heavy objects
  • Can stretch up to 100 meters
• Soccerball Belt
  • Contains several inflatable soccerballs in the buckle.
  • The soccerball can be inflated to normal size or to a much larger size for use as an emergency air cushion.
  • Also contains two firework filled soccerballs for emergencies.
• Kick Enhancing Shoes
  • Uses electricity and magnets to enhance Conan's kicking ability
• Watch
  • Contains flashlight
  • Contains sedative dart launcher
• Detective Boys Badge
  • Contains shortwave radio
• Turbo Skateboard
  • A powered skateboard capable of moving at more than 60 mph.
  • Runs on solar energy
• Two cellphones
• Notebook and Pencil
• In the LIbrary the belt, shoes and skateboard will not work.

Skills and Powers: 
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 parasailing. 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. 

Bookmark Description:
A plain blue bookmark with the detective boys logo.



History and 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 admits to a fondness for cheesecake. 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.

Samples

First Person/Action brackets:
[There was a small boy scowling into the bookmark's 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! 

Third Person/Prose:
Conan scowls down at his notebook. Ever since arriving in this library he had been determinedly collecting every piece of information he could find about what this place was and why he had been brought here. It had been a very frustrating endeavor., so far. There was information, but collectively it made no sense. Why him?  Why the others?  Had they been selected at random or had they had been selected based on some ability that was needed? 

And then there was the Library itself. How exactly did it function? How was it possible for entire worlds to be contained within the form of a book?

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. 

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 pulls out an age appropriate mystery novel. By the time the adult comes into eyesight there is nothing left to show he is anything more than a kid reading a favorite book..