Player Information
Name: Tea
Age: 39
Contact details: PM or
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Character Information
Name: Kaito Kuroba/KID the Phantom Thief/International Criminal 1412/Kaitou KID
Canon: Detective Conan/Magic Kaito
Canon Point: The Bell Tree Express (Detective Conan) &
Dark Knight (Magic Kaito)
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OU
Age: 17
World Information: Personal History: Once upon a time there was a thief who dressed all in white and couldn't be stopped. Sadly, as sometimes happens, he ran afoul of some unsavoury people and shortly vanished, presumed killed. Around the same time, the famous magician, Toichi Kuroba, was tragically killed in an accident, leaving behind his young son and grieving wife. So let's fast forward to 8 years later.
Kaito grew up in the shadow of his famous father, and a mother who as soon as he was old enough took up a jetsetting lifestyle, leaving him behind in Japan. One day, he stumbles through the portrait of his father that hung in the living room, only to find out that his father was the infamous Kaitou Kid, the phantom thief who was killed all those years ago. He takes up the mantle as there is someone out there who is using the name, only to discover that the someone in question is his father's old assistant, Jii, who is trying to draw out his father's murderers. It seems a certain gem came to his father's attention 8 years ago - Pandora - which would cry tears of immortality under the light of the moon, and he was trying to steal it, to get it away from a mysterious organisation. Sadly, they caught him first.
Kaito takes up his father's mantle, and begins the long task of stealing without stealing, and trying to stay one step ahead of the organisation in question. While being as flamboyantly in your face as possible, of course.
Personality: As a civilian or a thief, Kaito is a performer to the core - a trickster, a joker, a prankster, he loves the rush of a successful trick, the thrill of a challenge that no one else can beat. He is cocky, self-assured and almost arrogant, which masks the vulnerabilities of a genius - he's lonely, he's bored, he misses his father and his mother only talks to him over Skype, and he really only has one good friend for a long time - and she's his love interest and the daughter of the cop trying to catch him (his OTHER "friends" are his dad's old assistant, the witch who wants him to fall in love with her...and the genius detectives trying to catch him. Yeah).
His stated goal is to be a magician as good as his father. He is a genius (IQ level is supposedly 400) who entertains himself by playing pranks, peeking on the girls in their change rooms, flipping their skirts and provoking his best friend/love interest into chasing him around class with a mop. All while getting perfect scores.
As the thief he is a charmer, knowing just what to say to the ladies, stealing kisses and hearts. He plays very much to the gentleman thief archetype, delivering written warnings of his heists and is very much against causing harm, and will in fact go out of his way to try and save people. He has his own sense of honor and tends to return the things he stole (since none of them are Pandora, after all), but always to the "rightful" owner.
He has also demonstrated his caring side by "stealing" things like "a mother's attention" for her child, and other such things. He has, owing to his dislike for seeing people hurt, worked with Conan at times, and has been shown to be something of a stalker, and highly over-prepared for every eventuality, which doubtless helps his reputation as an uncatchable thief. He is also, amusingly, EXTREMELY afraid of fish.
Key themes: *Discovering his father's death was deliberate and the subsequent revenge kick
* Working out how to hide his identity from his childhood sweetheart, who also happens to be the daughter of the cop trying to catch him (and trying to hide his identity from the various detectives who chase him/blackmail him into helping them, including the one who might be fighting the same sinister orginisation and the one who is in his class)
* Being the Best Magician Thief Of All Time (in canon he's actually known occasionally as "The Last Magician of the Century" so he's all but acheived that)
Main Motivation: Kaito's entire story revolves around wanting to locate Pandora and destroy it to avenge his father's death ever since he found out it wasn't actually an accident.
Skills:(1) Intelligence - Kaito is
very smart, with genius level intellect - at one point said to have an IQ of 400
(2) Sleight of hand - Kaito is a superb magician, capable of feats of slight of hand that verge on impossible, secreting umpteen doves and cards and various paraphanalia on his person
(3) Inventor - tying into the above, Kaito has a card gun (yes a gun that shoots cards) long before he becomes the KID (and how no one ties them together when said gun becomes KID's signature move I don't know...) that he invented himself. The hang-glider came with the suit, but he also has smoke bombs, sleep gas, roller skates built into his shoes, blimps with dummies of himself, fake arms.... in short, anything and everything a prankster/magician/thief would need, and one assumes he makes a good deal of them himself, as who on earth would want
pink smoke bombs.
(4) Master of Disguise - Kaito has been proven to be able to mimic anyone's voice, and disguise himself so thoroughly that no one is able to prove he is not the real thing without paying very careful attention. He also sometimes wears multiple masks, if he thinks he might be exposed, and is something of a quick change artist, once dressing his best friend in a ball gown in seconds.
(5) Ventriloquist - although he does have gadgets to help with this (bugs and mikes and apparently tiny cameras his pigeons carry, no really), he can throw his voice with the best of them
(6) Thief - he can pick locks, pick pockets and is a master escape artist. Presumably, he can also hack computers as he has been shown using them a few times in the past
(7) Kaito is ambidextrous, and has a bevy of useful skills such as skiing, paragliding, hang-gliding, being an ace shot........but he cannot ice skate, and he cannot play billards.
Item: His
Card Gun, which, is, in indeed, a gun that shoots playing cards. Cards that are going fast enough that they are capable of lodging into metal, cutting through rope... (and yes, this is, indeed, physically possible in
real life - don't worry, it's non lethal! He's a non-lethal thief. He will have a full deck of cards to play with as ammo, but only the one deck.
Sample: linkNotes: if one Hakuba Saguru apps, please, please, put them in the same room, it will drive both characters up the wall.