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artificialflower) wrote2013-03-23 10:07 pm
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CHARACTER NAME: Yū Kanda
SERIES: D.Gray-Man
CANON POINT: chapter 213
AGE: 19, though emotional development may be stuck at 9 because history.
APPEARANCE: he's a pretty princess
PERSONALITY:
Kanda is rude, stubborn, proud, rather cold and often arrogant. Generally, he prefers tidyness and minimalism in everything. For example, his room is shown having practically nothing but a bed, a nighttable and a clotheshanger, so that also supports the point. He also apparently has decent table manners (minus the vocabulary), and openly displays disgust at Allen's (and whoever else's if they're messy) eating habits.
He doesn't open to people, nor talk to them unless he really wants to say something and even then his sentences are rather short and commonly include swearwords (even when he was 9, he already knew a word that only a row of symbols could display in the manga). He doesn't like people acting familiarly with him (and, in fact, he doesn't even shake hands with anyone - for example, when Allen offered him a handshake when they first met, he just insulted the brat and went on his merry way) nor using his first name ("Yu"), but there are a few people that seem to get away with it; General Tiedoll, Alma and later Lavi always call him Yu but are threatened less than half of those times. Lenalee can also whack him in the head with no consequences and has even received a compliment from him at some point (they also sometimes meditate together, since they were children even), and later on he even drinks his Innocence out of her hand (getting Komui and Bak utterly enraged). He also gets along well with his teammates, especially Marie.
He tends to treat these people better than others, sometimes even to the point of friendly, though still while being his own rude pessimistic self. Alma Karma deserves a separate mention here; while Kanda thought of him as his best friend even for years afterwards, when pitched against him in a deadly match he killed him rather than letting them both go down, lead by his will to live, and even looking ready to do it again if needed. He had done that without knowing the full truth about the experiments though; once it is revealed that Alma has the 'person' he had been looking for, he sees him off in a very tear-wretching manner, leaving behind everything else (although apparently he does so with intention to return if he doesn't die), and agreeing to fulfill Alma's last wish to die on his own terms rather than being finished off by Innocence. ALL IN ALL, he can be a little more tolerable when it comes to a few chosen people.
The tiny bit 'softer' side of his reflects in his hobbies, which were stated to be soba making (no wonder) and gardening. It is unknown if him being somehow related to lotus has anything to do with it, but apparently he likes plants quite a lot. In fact, it wouldn't be surprising if he owned a garden or at least kept some plants in his room once he had time for it.
He tends to express more through actions or looks than actual words. He is basically the type that speaks through his eyes. His overused phrase that is his most common response to things he doesn't bother to answer to is simply "Che", or a similar monosyllabic sound. He looks down on a lot of people, often even ridiculing their feelings, though he also shows certain amount of respect to his superiors and Lenalee. Due to being able to use Innocence, and possibly to all the trouble he had to endure for that, he refers to all supporters as failures; he is powerful and doesn't see the need to be modest about it. He can be pretty dense, childish or even plainly stupid outside of the battle, even though he does have a little of a "sixth sense". He doesn't seem to be really capable of "thinking outside the box", as his General points out, so creative thinking isn't quite one of his strong traits either.
The most notable mental strength of his would have to be his willpower, which he scores at 5/5 in personality stats. He can force himself to move and fight after being gravely injured, and even his body's abilities wouldn't be enough for that if it wasn't for the sheer strength of his will. It might have something to do that in the past, he was killed repeatedly while trying to synchronize, and that sounds like it would hurt more than enough to build character. His battle instincts are quite excellent, and while he is by no means a good strategist (the peak of his career would be the 'beat it until it stops moving' plan), his common denseness usually doesn't find its way into a fight; he's capable to make quick, logical decisions and won't be easily fooled by an enemy in disguise, sensing what he calls 'murderous aura' of sorts, what displays a certain level of battle hunch and intuition.
His general mindset could be described by most of the quotes relating to him, in particular, "I will carry out the orders. Whatever happens, I will." that was displayed on a chapter cover once. Everything else is second-priority to him; like stated above, he doesn't care about the means he uses to fulfill his duty. He believes that in every war there are sacrifices - one could even say, he's one of them - and thinking otherwise is simply stupid. Technically, the war and fighting is why he exists in the current form in the first place; Mugen saved his life, in a sense - all that adds to such view on the world and battle-accepting nature. He also seems to believe that everyone who has different views on these things than him are either naive, gutless or stupid. Basically, there are two kinds of opinions: his and wrong.
He's quite violent (and sees it as a destressor), and doesn't mind to resort to drastic means to prove his point or to get what he wants, including for example a full-fledged attack on comrades when they didn't want to leave him behind, or holding his blade at a child's throat to make him confess stealing. Moreover, he shows less than zero remorse over either of these situations even after some time passing, and doesn't even seem to think he had done anything special or 'bad' at all.
In fact, he doesn't seem to get quite a lot of things (he even sees mission reports as a bother, and while not displayed, an aversion to reading is also possible. However, the fact that, according to the character book, he is apparently far-sighted yet wears no glasses can also be playing a part in this). He often can appear petty or even childish, for example stealing a ribbon from a little girl to tie his hair since his own tie got damaged in a fight with "her siblings". Due to the wicked canon, instead of being normally born he had awakened from a pond at about 9 years old biologically. Even though it is unclear if he had any knowledge and motorics already, he's soon shown walking and talking according to how a 9 year old should; however now that he's around 19 he does at points act as if he was around 10 mentally as either way that is the period during which he had life experience. And that life experience mostly included the war, as well as being disciplined to act like a soldier and not show emotions right from his 'birth'. Seeing only bloodshed for all that time, it's entirely possible that he's a little emotionally underdeveloped. AT THE SAME TIME, his 'brain' was transferred from a diseased possibly older Exorcist, and while he doesn't remember much about his 'past life' other than broken fragments of memories and the feelings he's once had, it can show as well (not necessarily by him complaining about 'young people', but you get the point).
Kanda's rude and irritable jerk nature, however, doesn't seem to be the result of the experiments he's been forced through. He had been swearing and telling people off more or less from the moment he started talking, before he ever remembered anything of his past and before he was ever put through the synchronization tests. He was also even quicker to resort to physical violence back then. He also cried on occasion, what isn't the case now (although he was shown to complain a lot when he gets drunk, and being actually rather nice (though still an asshole) to his theoretical new best friend Lavi). Grown-up Kanda appears to be a little colder and more reserved, often calling out his threats in a calm tone rather than shouting (what is only more intimidating, really), but generally he is the same as back then. No actual Freudian excuse there.
Finally, there have been several moments that might imply his mental stability being really quite questionable. Not only him being angry beyond logic and any boundaries to the point of attacking everything in his way, smiling in a feral manner while being technically killed or using violent means on subordinates to get his point across point that way; as a child he was seeing hallucinations related to his past and, when he was considered to be a failed experiment due to that and the lab decided to cryogenically freeze him, he is seen maniacally laughing like a true madman, and claiming he knows the truth moments before the ceremony starts and his resurfacing memories are broken further, almost getting him killed until he finally manages to connect to the Innocence.
Then we have his (lack of) social skills. Kanda doesn't only not like, but is almost incapable of working in a team other than his own long-time teammates. Sure, he does his part when it's needed and can work in sync with other exorcists, but he displays actual teamwork very rarely and has the habit of trying to turn people against him even when they're his subordinates. He is too proud and arrogant to ever ask for help even when he does need it, and tends to miss out on plenty of things that may be considered common sense to normal people. Part of him also lacks maturity, given his upbringing and the time he remembers being alive for; it sometimes balances out when combined with his older memories, however.
Despite all that happened, Kanda seems loyal and puts Black Order missions as his first priority, even though he hates its Central Agency. One might say that he is in fact loyal to Komui and the Generals rather than the Order itself, and that would seem rather true. He is very serious about orders and will lecture others if he thinks they're fooling around instead of what Exorcists should do. He seems to be a man of routine to the extreme; he only eats soba and nothing else, trains every day, always gets up at 4 AM and goes to sleep at 10 PM (exercises more if he can't sleep), and is mostly focused on his work. Given that he also seems to connect it all to his main goal, it could also be said that he's almost too focused in a way. It's possible that he considers duties to be similar to promises in a way, and he is exceptionally serious about the latter; fulfilling the promise (he doesn't even clearly remember) to 'that person' is his main motivation in life, and he openly loathes anyone who breaks their word.
CHARACTER NAME: Yū Kanda
SERIES: D.Gray-Man
CANON POINT: chapter 213
AGE: 19, though emotional development may be stuck at 9 because history.
APPEARANCE: he's a pretty princess
PERSONALITY:
Kanda is rude, stubborn, proud, rather cold and often arrogant. Generally, he prefers tidyness and minimalism in everything. For example, his room is shown having practically nothing but a bed, a nighttable and a clotheshanger, so that also supports the point. He also apparently has decent table manners (minus the vocabulary), and openly displays disgust at Allen's (and whoever else's if they're messy) eating habits.
He doesn't open to people, nor talk to them unless he really wants to say something and even then his sentences are rather short and commonly include swearwords (even when he was 9, he already knew a word that only a row of symbols could display in the manga). He doesn't like people acting familiarly with him (and, in fact, he doesn't even shake hands with anyone - for example, when Allen offered him a handshake when they first met, he just insulted the brat and went on his merry way) nor using his first name ("Yu"), but there are a few people that seem to get away with it; General Tiedoll, Alma and later Lavi always call him Yu but are threatened less than half of those times. Lenalee can also whack him in the head with no consequences and has even received a compliment from him at some point (they also sometimes meditate together, since they were children even), and later on he even drinks his Innocence out of her hand (getting Komui and Bak utterly enraged). He also gets along well with his teammates, especially Marie.
He tends to treat these people better than others, sometimes even to the point of friendly, though still while being his own rude pessimistic self. Alma Karma deserves a separate mention here; while Kanda thought of him as his best friend even for years afterwards, when pitched against him in a deadly match he killed him rather than letting them both go down, lead by his will to live, and even looking ready to do it again if needed. He had done that without knowing the full truth about the experiments though; once it is revealed that Alma has the 'person' he had been looking for, he sees him off in a very tear-wretching manner, leaving behind everything else (although apparently he does so with intention to return if he doesn't die), and agreeing to fulfill Alma's last wish to die on his own terms rather than being finished off by Innocence. ALL IN ALL, he can be a little more tolerable when it comes to a few chosen people.
The tiny bit 'softer' side of his reflects in his hobbies, which were stated to be soba making (no wonder) and gardening. It is unknown if him being somehow related to lotus has anything to do with it, but apparently he likes plants quite a lot. In fact, it wouldn't be surprising if he owned a garden or at least kept some plants in his room once he had time for it.
He tends to express more through actions or looks than actual words. He is basically the type that speaks through his eyes. His overused phrase that is his most common response to things he doesn't bother to answer to is simply "Che", or a similar monosyllabic sound. He looks down on a lot of people, often even ridiculing their feelings, though he also shows certain amount of respect to his superiors and Lenalee. Due to being able to use Innocence, and possibly to all the trouble he had to endure for that, he refers to all supporters as failures; he is powerful and doesn't see the need to be modest about it. He can be pretty dense, childish or even plainly stupid outside of the battle, even though he does have a little of a "sixth sense". He doesn't seem to be really capable of "thinking outside the box", as his General points out, so creative thinking isn't quite one of his strong traits either.
The most notable mental strength of his would have to be his willpower, which he scores at 5/5 in personality stats. He can force himself to move and fight after being gravely injured, and even his body's abilities wouldn't be enough for that if it wasn't for the sheer strength of his will. It might have something to do that in the past, he was killed repeatedly while trying to synchronize, and that sounds like it would hurt more than enough to build character. His battle instincts are quite excellent, and while he is by no means a good strategist (the peak of his career would be the 'beat it until it stops moving' plan), his common denseness usually doesn't find its way into a fight; he's capable to make quick, logical decisions and won't be easily fooled by an enemy in disguise, sensing what he calls 'murderous aura' of sorts, what displays a certain level of battle hunch and intuition.
His general mindset could be described by most of the quotes relating to him, in particular, "I will carry out the orders. Whatever happens, I will." that was displayed on a chapter cover once. Everything else is second-priority to him; like stated above, he doesn't care about the means he uses to fulfill his duty. He believes that in every war there are sacrifices - one could even say, he's one of them - and thinking otherwise is simply stupid. Technically, the war and fighting is why he exists in the current form in the first place; Mugen saved his life, in a sense - all that adds to such view on the world and battle-accepting nature. He also seems to believe that everyone who has different views on these things than him are either naive, gutless or stupid. Basically, there are two kinds of opinions: his and wrong.
He's quite violent (and sees it as a destressor), and doesn't mind to resort to drastic means to prove his point or to get what he wants, including for example a full-fledged attack on comrades when they didn't want to leave him behind, or holding his blade at a child's throat to make him confess stealing. Moreover, he shows less than zero remorse over either of these situations even after some time passing, and doesn't even seem to think he had done anything special or 'bad' at all.
In fact, he doesn't seem to get quite a lot of things (he even sees mission reports as a bother, and while not displayed, an aversion to reading is also possible. However, the fact that, according to the character book, he is apparently far-sighted yet wears no glasses can also be playing a part in this). He often can appear petty or even childish, for example stealing a ribbon from a little girl to tie his hair since his own tie got damaged in a fight with "her siblings". Due to the wicked canon, instead of being normally born he had awakened from a pond at about 9 years old biologically. Even though it is unclear if he had any knowledge and motorics already, he's soon shown walking and talking according to how a 9 year old should; however now that he's around 19 he does at points act as if he was around 10 mentally as either way that is the period during which he had life experience. And that life experience mostly included the war, as well as being disciplined to act like a soldier and not show emotions right from his 'birth'. Seeing only bloodshed for all that time, it's entirely possible that he's a little emotionally underdeveloped. AT THE SAME TIME, his 'brain' was transferred from a diseased possibly older Exorcist, and while he doesn't remember much about his 'past life' other than broken fragments of memories and the feelings he's once had, it can show as well (not necessarily by him complaining about 'young people', but you get the point).
Kanda's rude and irritable jerk nature, however, doesn't seem to be the result of the experiments he's been forced through. He had been swearing and telling people off more or less from the moment he started talking, before he ever remembered anything of his past and before he was ever put through the synchronization tests. He was also even quicker to resort to physical violence back then. He also cried on occasion, what isn't the case now (although he was shown to complain a lot when he gets drunk, and being actually rather nice (though still an asshole) to his theoretical new best friend Lavi). Grown-up Kanda appears to be a little colder and more reserved, often calling out his threats in a calm tone rather than shouting (what is only more intimidating, really), but generally he is the same as back then. No actual Freudian excuse there.
Finally, there have been several moments that might imply his mental stability being really quite questionable. Not only him being angry beyond logic and any boundaries to the point of attacking everything in his way, smiling in a feral manner while being technically killed or using violent means on subordinates to get his point across point that way; as a child he was seeing hallucinations related to his past and, when he was considered to be a failed experiment due to that and the lab decided to cryogenically freeze him, he is seen maniacally laughing like a true madman, and claiming he knows the truth moments before the ceremony starts and his resurfacing memories are broken further, almost getting him killed until he finally manages to connect to the Innocence.
Then we have his (lack of) social skills. Kanda doesn't only not like, but is almost incapable of working in a team other than his own long-time teammates. Sure, he does his part when it's needed and can work in sync with other exorcists, but he displays actual teamwork very rarely and has the habit of trying to turn people against him even when they're his subordinates. He is too proud and arrogant to ever ask for help even when he does need it, and tends to miss out on plenty of things that may be considered common sense to normal people. Part of him also lacks maturity, given his upbringing and the time he remembers being alive for; it sometimes balances out when combined with his older memories, however.
Despite all that happened, Kanda seems loyal and puts Black Order missions as his first priority, even though he hates its Central Agency. One might say that he is in fact loyal to Komui and the Generals rather than the Order itself, and that would seem rather true. He is very serious about orders and will lecture others if he thinks they're fooling around instead of what Exorcists should do. He seems to be a man of routine to the extreme; he only eats soba and nothing else, trains every day, always gets up at 4 AM and goes to sleep at 10 PM (exercises more if he can't sleep), and is mostly focused on his work. Given that he also seems to connect it all to his main goal, it could also be said that he's almost too focused in a way. It's possible that he considers duties to be similar to promises in a way, and he is exceptionally serious about the latter; fulfilling the promise (he doesn't even clearly remember) to 'that person' is his main motivation in life, and he openly loathes anyone who breaks their word.
First thing to note is that Kanda is, in fact, an artificial human. As such, his physical ability extends beyond that of simple humans (even if he apparently can't swim); he's very fast and agile (to the point of being no more than a blur when he moves), very physically strong despite his looks (capable of breaking holes in concrete with his punch or kick as well as splitting a machine in half with a blade), and he's a regenerator. The extent of his regeneration exceeds death, in fact; most of his wounds heal in the matter of hours (seconds, if higher Innocence levels are activated), he's capable of regrowing a lost limb or crushed organs, and, when killed, he will come to life as if nothing has happened approximately 580 seconds after death. Therefore he's almost impossible to kill (however it seems that using Innocence is killing him more efficiently than anything else). He can also keep fighting while taking impossible damage. While it was displayed in canon that the number of such revivals must be barely countable, it also isn't unlimited, as the more damage he takes through the years, the slower his regeneration rate gets, implying that eventually he will, in fact, die permanently.
It was also implied that he is partly or completely immune to cold and low temperatures, as well as hunger; it is entirely possible that not getting any food wouldn't kill him, given that he only eats soba which can hardly provide a normal human body with everything needed. It is speculated that he can eat just about anything, even if it's not edible at all. For the same reason, he is also quite immune to poison, both edible and in the form of gas. It could be argued that he's becoming less human as time passes; he's been seen commenting on cold when he was a child, however years later doesn't seem to notice -20 degrees Celsius around.
Thanks to years of training, Kanda is a great swordsman, although it might be debatable that he excels more due to strength and speed rather than pure skill. Still, he doesn't waste movements and strikes quickly, can fight with a variety of swords without changing his style, and was shown cutting up huge, thick metal structures (at least 30 centimeters thick iron) with a regular sword alone. He also wields the blade with scary accuracy, even managing to stop it a hair's width away from harming the target if needed.
Finally, he is capable of taking care of plants to some extent (as gardening is mentioned as one of his hobbies), and preparing soba. It was implied that he can't make any other kind of food, though (in a drama CD, he adds eggs to a cake along with the shells, insisting that 'some eggshells never hurt anyone'). In a Q&A set, Lavi and Allen speculate that if he wasn't an Exorcist, Kanda would probably be a soba chef. (Lol relating to Jerry in more ways than one.)
Last but not least; magic. As an Exorcist, Kanda is compatible with a supernatural matter called Innocence, which resides in his sword, Mugen. When activated, it allows him to use a lot of quite damaging moves. His special attacks (other than simply slashing, that is) are called "illusions", so far five of them have been displayed in canon. The two first ones he can use with no strain; using the third and up starts draining from his life force (or, how it was called later, 'soul sublimation', which obviously is connected to his old self somehow).
* First Illusion, Hell Insects: projectile attack that creates solid, scary-looking multi-eyed bugs with long, sharp stingers about the size of a horse that can run havoc at whatever they're aimed at, capable of moving both slowly and with great speed.
* Second Illusion, Twin Blades: materializes a second sword in his other hand. This enables him to use a variety of energy-filled slashes, such as Eight Flower Mantis that looks basically like a quickly moving and deadly sharp spinning disc.
* Third Illusion; Sublimation. His strength and speed increase drastically, making him no more than a moving blur in the fight, however it feeds off his remaining lifespan, therefore slowing down his regeneration abilities. The energy attacks can get explosive at this point.
* Fourth Illusion. Further increase in speed and power.
* Fifth Illusion. The blade starts emitting waves of electricity and changes colour; Kanda's hair goes all weird (hi Fluffy!) and he seems to enter a berserker mode, losing awareness to the point of blindly attacking the target and anything that gets in the way until it is demolished. It takes a lot of his life and is very powerful (crater-making powerful). Some of the energy-based moves used with this, such as Ripping Flash Claw, use the power of lightning/electricity. His healing once again strengthens in this mode, going far beyond his usual state, for example allowing him to grow back a lost arm in the matter of seconds.
It should be noted, though, that with all this awesome, there are also some quite significant power drawbacks. The more powerful Innocence attack Kanda uses, the more life force he loses along with it, what in the end is ought to result in a complete and permanent death. He also experiences aftereffects from Third Illusion (and up, most likely), that result in general weakness, physical pain and conscience loss.
...aaaand none of his powers are exactly world-changing nor can it be used for escape, so I don't think it needs to be nerfed? Let me know if anything, though!
POSSESSIONS:
* sword called Mugen, with a sheath made of cloth and a string to tie it
* his uniform coat, long and black with red lining and silver buttons, with a belt
* black sleeveless shirt
* black fingerless gloves (kind of. might be arm warmers sort of a thing)
* light blue bead bracelet
* two red hair ties/strings
* pair of black pants with a belt, and I'm guessing a pair of boxers (possibly with choo-choo train ornamentation)
* pair of uniform combat boots with steel plating, and I'm guessing a pair of black socks
* soft vanilla-white buttonless cardigan
* attitude
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