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INFO & PERMISSIONS.
STATISTICS
NAME Kamui Uehara
AGE physically mid-20s, mentally much older
CANON POINT post-Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
OOC PST, tags every 1-3 days, brackets or prose. i am 25+ and use she/they. :)
BEST CONTACT PM or
HISTORY
(cw: eye horror, child abuse and neglect, suicide)
art: gaiaku_aoz @ twitter
The Silver Case & Flower, Sun and Rain (1970s - 1980s)
The original Kamui Uehara was born on the Micronesian island of Lospass, as a member of the Sundance tribe. As part of tribal ritual, his left eye was removed and a replacement was implanted: one of the eyes belonging to a local breed of hyena. Legend has it that, should the hyena's eye awaken and turn silver, the bearer would be granted immortality; sure enough, anyone who bears the silver eye cannot die via illness or old age. They have largely unknown secondary powers, implied to impart some form of supernatural reality manipulation to the owner.
At some point in his teens, Kamui immigrated to Kanto. According to government record, it is at this time that Kamui became a serial killer, becoming popularly known as "The Angel of Absolute Zero". In 1979, Kamui Uehara infiltrated a meeting of high-ranking government players at the top of the 24th Ward's TV Tower. After a bloody slaughter in which all but Mayor Hachisuka were killed, he was arrested by fledgling detective Tetsugoro Kusabi. This was referred to as The Silver Case, as all victims were elderly men.
(In reality, these events were falsified. That day, numerous government officials killed each other for the opportunity to kill the innocent Kamui Uehara and rip out his silver eye for themselves. The victor, Mayor Uminosuke Hachisuka, would go on to replace one of his eyes and continue to govern the 24th Ward with his actions kept secret, even eventually succeeding himself as his "son". It's even possible that the original Kamui was not even really a serial killer. The press operated under the guise that Kusabi had apprehended Kamui, to be put in prison indefinitely.)
Furthermore, Kamui Uehara's personality had attracted government attention. Both obedient and possessing a large amount of "criminal power"-- an abstract capacity for chaos, cruelty, and violence-- his persona was seen as an ideal base for government pawns. Thus, the Shelter Kids Policy began in 1980. The families of 1,440 2-year-old boys were promised free tuition through high school in exchange for 4 years of participation. [NOTE: As this number is recorded inconsistently in canon, I stick with the original Shelter children being between 2-4.] Though presented publicly as an advanced educational undertaking, in reality, the children within the project were being harshly subliminally imprinted with the persona of "Format Kamui", to be activated at the convenience of the powers that be. These children were kept in darkness and silence within a sterile facility, robbed of individuality and forced to silently perform rote tasks day after day. The true intent of this project was kept top secret; any teachers who objected were executed.
The children were also being used as experimental subjects in an effort to mass produce silver eyes. Lospass had been secretly co-opted for use as a hyena breeding ground, with hyena eyes being implanted into as many children as possible. However, the majority of the children’s bodies physically rejected the implants, with almost none of the hyena eyes achieving "ocular silverization". Upon release, most children had suppressed all memories of their traumatic upbringing in the Shelters, but their status as sleeper agents had been assured. Shelter Kids were then placed in strategic places in the government and police. A secret second project for young girls, modeled after Format Kamui but dubbed “Ayame”, was later sponsored by an independent political faction.
Uehara was one of these original Shelter children; he was also one of the rare individuals for whom a silver eye had awakened. Still a dormant Kamui and with the memories of his life before the age of 6 suppressed, Uehara was adopted out of the Shelter and raised by government employees, having an uneventful and largely detached upbringing in the 24th Ward.
The Silver Case (1999)
In early 1999, "Kamui Uehara" (an activated Shelter child used as a scapegoat for the deceased original Kamui) escaped from prison in an incident known as the Kamui Case. In the span of a year, Tetsugoro Kusabi of the 24th Ward Heinous Crimes Unit went rogue, uncovered the truth about the Silver Case, and executed a number of key players in the Shelter Project; he was aided by new agents Akira and Sakura Natsume, both former Shelter children. Kusabi went into hiding and the survivors of the 24th Ward HCU, now well aware of the treacherous deep state within the 24th Ward, restructured their department and continued operation.
Between 1999 and 2005, Uehara went through police academy and became a detective. Although his powers hadn't yet fully awakened, he was fully aware that he was to one day become active as another incarnation of Kamui Uehara.
The 25th Ward (2005 - ???)
With his training complete, Uehara was relocated to the newly formed 25th Ward. The 25th Ward was an experimental region: supposedly utopian, but effectively authoritarian and rigid in both culture and governance. It was secretly watched over by officials known as "Observers"; any criminals or rule breakers pinpointed by Observers were summarily "processed" by deep state agents affiliated with the 25th Ward's postal service. Even more secretly, Observers were actually metaphysical beings fully able to control the ways in which they were perceived within reality-- i.e., as a part of the actual video game The 25th Ward: The Silver Case.
Uehara was assigned to become an agent of the 25th Ward's HCU. Here, he was used as a pawn by two key forces: 1) the 25th Ward's government, seeking the influence of a Kamui within the HCU, and 2) insider agents from the 24th Ward looking to awaken him as Kamui and an Observer to destroy the oppressive 25th Ward from within.
Before his formal hiring, Natsume secretly allowed Uehara onto the crime scene of his first case-- the murder of Miru Yuzuki-- where she explained the role he would be playing for the 24th Ward. Here he was also given his assignment to become an HCU agent by high-ranking 25th Ward administrator Kinshiro Nakane, who also ordered him to work under the name Kamui Uehara. (It is unknown what his original given name was.) At the 25th Ward HCU offices, Uehara met agents Shinko Kuroyanagi, Mokutaro Shiroyabu, Hatoba (chief of the HCU), Akama, and Aoyama. He took a largely passive role throughout his tenure as Kuroyanagi and Shiroyabu's partner. However, in time, Shiroyabu awoke to his own powers as the son of incarnations of Ayame and Kamui, as well as becoming a host for the now purely metaphysical existence of deceased Observer Kosuke Kurumizawa. Uehara was largely absent from his duties at the HCU during Shiroyabu's awakening as he'd gone into hiding. As the rest of the HCU pursued rogue agent Shiroyabu, Shiroyabu discovered that Uehara was truly Kamui as well as a fledgling Observer, then found and killed him.
However, some time before Uehara's presumed death at Shiroyabu's hands, he found himself in the middle of a standoff between Akama, Aoyama, Hatoba, and Kuroyanagi. It was at this point that Akama and Aoyama revealed their true identities as time-traveling agents with an even deeper agenda than the 25th Ward project itself: it was their job to usher Uehara to many influential points in the timeline. Uehara took 100 separate actions at this nexus point—shooting himself, shooting his colleagues, running away, giving up, and so on—each leading to a separate fate and branch on the timeline.
After following all 100 branches to their end, Uehara finally expressed his abilities as an Observer, inheriting the memories of all previous versions of himself and gaining true meta awareness. He pledged to the player themselves that he would cleanse the world of evil and create a newer, better world and future.
Travis Strikes Again (??? - 2019)
In the final timeline, Uehara shot at both Akama and Aoyama. The two saved themselves, explained the situation, then teleported him to a roadside burger joint in Texas in the year 2019. There, Uehara was instructed to meet with and aid the assassin Travis Touchdown using his abilities as an Observer to detect the “points” Travis needed to encounter. Travis was searching for the "Death Balls"-- the games of an unreleased console, the Death Drive-- as they were rumored to be able to grant the owner's any wish once gathered. Kamui and Travis spent some weeks corresponding and searching for the Death Balls together, often meeting at diners across the United States.
However, Kamui's final mission was to kill or be killed by Travis before giving up the final Death Ball. After hiring several assassins to hold 3 innocents hostage and fight Travis, Kamui eventually fought Travis himself, prepared for a battle to the death...
...Until Travis refused to continue the fight, as they had become friends through their partnership. Kamui, who had never been shown genuine friendship before this point, began to cry-- then relinquished the Death Ball, continuing to assist Travis on his journey to the end.
With all Death Balls assembled and his mission complete, Kamui disappeared into time, on his way to somewhere in the future...
No More Heroes 3 (2021)
im not playing from this canonpoint outside of memes there is too much i cant explain lmao
PERSONALITY
Kamui Uehara, past, present, and future, isn't so much the main character of the Kill the Past series as he is the story's main fixture. He is many things to many people-- a symbol of chaos, a supernatural threat to be eliminated, a vision of hope, an urban legend, a cautionary tale. Even Kamui himself views himself as an archetype and harbinger of the future before anything; after all, he's just another child imprinted with the personality base of the original Kamui Uehara, carrying out the same cosmic mission of other Kamuis before him.
One crucial aspect makes this Kamui different, however: unlike the many Kamuis who came before him, he's lucky enough to have the opportunity to simply be human.
A lifetime of following orders and doing what he's supposed to do have made him a little passive when it comes to asserting his own preferences. Due to the deep abuse and neglect suffered in his childhood, as well as the knowledge of his own role in Kill the Past, he's still in the process of building up his own identity past his enormous importance in the grand scheme of the universe. He’s in an odd space of lacking in a sense of self while also being hyperaware of his own importance; he’s supposed to drive progress and action instead of prioritizing his humanity and needs as a person. It's not that Kamui has low self-esteem, it's that he's still getting accustomed to needing it, period: he's a utility, a vehicle from point A to point B, so considering his individuality is on the backburner most of the time.
That doesn't mean he has no likes or dislikes, or that he doesn't have a personality. Past the phenomenal cosmic destiny, Kamui's a soft-spoken and mild-mannered young man. He's got simple tastes, and he enjoys the creature comforts of good food and unjudgmental company. Having once been a detective, he's perceptive and intelligent, which translates to a love for picking apart mysteries and puzzles, as well as an emerging dry wit. However, as these parts of himself are still blooming out of a near blank slate, he can come off as awkward or even creepy around others. He's not used to socializing like a normal person, at least not for anything other that keeping appearances, so he can come across as stiff or detached. He’s not very good at it yet, but behind all that, he really is trying to open himself up as best as he can.
No matter how much he grows into his own identity, though, Kamui can't escape the legendary killer he was always fated to become. He's quite morally ambiguous and has a casual relationship with both death and violence, having experienced them both firsthand over and over; when it comes to his own abilities as a killer, he's utterly no-nonsense and confident, to the point of eerie detachment from both killing and his own mortality. After all, another incarnation can and will always replace him. In fact, until Travis himself hesitates, Kamui is willing to kill-- or be killed by-- someone he's been completely friendly with for the sake of moving towards a goal. He breaks down in tears after having been shown this kindness, showing just how foreign it is to his expectations for the bloody utility with which he handles his own life.
In Kamui's last appearance in Travis Strikes Again, Travis Touchdown tells Kamui to "live in the light" -- a callback to The Silver Case, and a plea for his friend to embrace his identity no matter what fate has in store for him. He acknowledges how difficult it'll be, but, because he trusts Travis, promises to try. This is the crux of his growth and character. Although Kamui has lived life as little more than a human weapon, he's been presented the opportunity for friendship and life following his own will and heart. As hard as it is, he's doing everything he can to seize that light, and to become more than just another Kamui Uehara.
PERMISSIONS
OUT OF CHARACTER
BACKTAGGING yes! i'm slow too, go for it!
THREADHOPPING yes, i love shenanigans!
FOURTHWALLING kamui is totally fourth wall aware, so as long as it’s not infomodding do your worst.
CONTENT
IN-CHARACTER
PHYSICAL CONTACT he'll be weird about it, as he's not used to physical intimacy, but go for it.
SHIPPING & SMUT if we have cr established, let’s talk! not interested in smut for now.
VIOLENCE yes! please ask before dealing any serious injuries but otherwise im super down.
TELEPATHY yes! it’s a mess in there tbqh.
FOURTH WALLING (note: not applicable to jigokucho!) while he isn’t as pop culture savvy as them, kamui is fourth wall aware on the level of characters like deadpool and travis touchdown. he knows he is from a video game and is aware of meta conventions and the very structure of the reality he inhabits — i.e. with the fourth walling on full blast he would recognize all interactions were text-based. i'll never use this to godmod and will largely avoid touching on it with characters who aren't also fourth wall aware, but please feel free to let me know if you would like to either opt out or actually like to play around with it.
CRIMINAL POWER (please see here for jigoku-cho!) Kamui is able to sense an individual's criminal power. Criminal power is an abstract measure of a person's potential for chaos, lawbreaking, and violence, detectable by the supernaturally attuned in the Kill the Past series.
It's most similar to reading an aura, mixed with a very unspecific version of Dragonball's power level-- for example, a powerful villain would ping Kamui as having a high amount of criminal power. This doesn't mean that anyone with a large amount of criminal power will be a villain, though: it just means they'd be capable of destruction. Anti-heroes and heroes who could feasibly be pushed to chaos would also ping high, while an unenthusiastic henchman would ping moderate to low. Kamui, in turn, radiates this energy in spades, and people with a good sixth sense (or even just a really good intuition) would be able to sense something was off or strange about him.
this is an inherently infomoddy power, so please let me know if you’d like me to avoid it; i will only ever use this with player permission.
CONTENT WARNINGS
Due to his upbringing in the Shelter, the plot point of the silver eyes, and the many ways he has died or killed himself across multiple timelines, Kamui's backstory contains elements of child abuse and neglect, eye gore/horror, and suicide, as well as unreality due to his fourth wall awareness. CR can absolutely be formed without directly touching on any of this content so I’m more than happy to avoid some or all of it - just let me know!
OPT OUT
please feel free to comment to this post if you'd like for me to avoid any topics or not tag you with Kamui altogether.
IMPRESSIONS
VISUAL A Japanese man in his 20's. At a glance, he could be any Japanese man in his 20's-- no harsh or defining facial features or scars, dark hair with bangs long enough to partially obscure his face, average height, average weight, average build. Blink twice, and you'll miss him in a crowd. Kamui does, however, have a strikingly silver left eye; it's uncanny at a glance, originally belonging to a hyena. It even has reflective tapetum lucidum. Actually looking at Kamui reveals a bit of a babyface with softer features and a slightly rounded nose: he's about 25-27, but can easily pass younger. He stands at about 5'5", is neither thin nor bulky, and typically wears an impassive, neutral expression by default.FASHION Kamui favors dark, neutral solid colors. When not in a dark businessman's suit, he's usually dressed in what can only be described as business casual: blazers or cardigans, button-ups, slacks, loafers. He'll sometimes wear a dark green coat with a fur-lined collar over this, or switch to sneakers.
OLFACTORY Neutral soap; he doesn't wear scents of any kind. Faintly of food, on occasion. Rarely, of blood.
AURAL Voiced by Max Mittelman. At his canonpoint, his voice is a lot less expressive and even slightly monotone. UNFORTUNATELY I have to own the universe roasting me with this, so he sounds a little more like Mittelman's performance of... Resasuke... in Aggretsuko...
DEMEANOR An almost limitless well of calm. Kamui speaks softly, doesn't take up much space, and is both polite and to the point in nearly all his interactions. He's rarely roused to anger or annoyance and keeps a cool, professional head when caught off guard. Breaking through this front, however, reveals someone much more earnest-- and even a little naive-- off the clock. To the supernaturally-inclined, there's an air of something very off to him, centered around his eye; to normal people, he just stares a little too long and stands a little too stiffly.
MENTAL & ETC Intelligent; particularly skilled at puzzles, mazes, and word games. Literally suppressing like half of his early childhood in order to function; has a warped sense of self; compartmentalizing like A LOT a lot of stuff. He's Fine! This Is Fine. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
JIGOKU-CHO
CLAN ShutenHOUSING A small Western-style apartment in the Shuten district; less shabby than the starting apartments for new recruits, but still not altogether spectacular. Lives in the same complex as Tamamori, Minato, and Eiichi.
JOB Clerk at a convenience store where Sutoku and Shuten territory overlap. He works late shifts a lot, and he is prrrrrobably not judging you for your suspicious purchases.
REGAINS Harpoon gun, teleportation (up to a few city blocks), criminal power sensing (see below)
CR
PLAYLIST
SUPERCOLLIDER
RADIOHEAD7:01
TIMELESS
JAMES BLAKE4:31
CORONUS, THE TERMINATOR
FLYING LOTUS2:40
OBSERVER
SEVDALIZA4:05
HAS ENDED
THOM YORKE4:57
MEZZANINE
MASSIVE ATTACK5:56
MACHINE GUN
PORTISHEAD4:47
IF YOU SAY THE WORD
RADIOHEAD4:20
WANT TO BE FREE
BRITISH SEA POWER3:47
OPT IN/OUT: CRIMINAL POWER
Character: Their Name | username
Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: CAN HE??? Any limits you'd like on this are fine to list here too; I won't use this for anything outside of flavor (i.e. PVP) unless given player permission.
If so, what would Kamui sense?: The worse their crimes and/or the ease in which they could be pushed to commit crimes, the higher their criminal power might be. If you're not sure, you can just let me know how
bad me bewhat they're capable of and I can tell you what he might pick up.(frozen comment) POWER UPGRADES
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: yes
If so, what would Kamui sense?: once kim was being tortured by a magical torture gun and in between gasps of pain yelled that the torture gun was using patented technology and is technically illegal
OKAY MORE SERIOUSLY: Kim has legally killed several people and absolutely has a desire for violence that he keeps deeply repressed; he likes power trips to some degree and the feeling that people are getting theirs. It is extremely difficult to actually push him to that violence, however, and it will almost always be within a legal capacity (but he's a cop, so...). His likelihood of unjustly shooting someone is low, but is much more connected as a fear response due to Panic And Stressor Disorder than to a desire to hurt somebody.
He's capable of other crimes though, like a probable history of illegal street racing and the fact that he tried a whole weed once (but it's decriminalized.............) but I have a feeling Kamui cares less about this.
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as i said on plurk he'll ping relatively low which, compared to every horrible suda cop: HYSTERICAL
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Yes.
If so, what would Kamui sense?: Gosh. It's quite a high criminal power, Kamui. I'm sure that is very surprising. Soma has built an entire criminal empire; he's tortured people to death; he's murdered folks; he's engaged in power struggles and crippled areas in order to gain control. He just straight up walks up to someone and slits their throat if they're in the way of his grand schemes. If he hadn't had his hands tied, he might have shot a teenager in the stomach to be able to escape. He bad.
Character: Artemy Burakh |
Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Sure!
If so, what would Kamui sense?: So, I'm not sure. He's less malicious? (laughs) But he did help the destruction of a structure that killed all the miracles in his town; he murdered people if they came at him with violent intent. But like, he's killed at least three people with his bare hands. He's robbed houses when he was desperate and needed food. Definitely killed folks if it was to protect someone who is innocent. Yeah...
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like kim, i think artemy would be mid-to-low seeing as, yes, that is less malicious! x)
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Hooray! Artemy for once not giving off the worst vibes ever to people.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: YE
If so, what would Kamui sense?: honestly I just wanna counterbalance all the murders here, he gets confirmation that Natori is, in fact, a shoujo
like, mild chaotic?? someone on tumblr put it that Natori hits all the character tropes of "character who is willing to fuck people over in order to accomplish his noble goals" except his noble goal is to be a good person and he doesn't realize the disconnect. He's just a confused millennial who is like, willing to steal a letter because he thinks it'd be bad for the recipient to read it, or snoop around in a teenager's business because he heard the teen has Secret Magic Item and Natori wants to find out what Secret Magic Item is so he can make the adult decision to remove it from the teen's possession if he decides the teen shouldn't have it. Or break into a teen's house in the middle of the night with a giant paper doll to see if he can see magic shit. I wish this wasn't all the same teenager but alas here we are
what's the crime level equivalent of, like, risky behavior and then feeling bad about it afterwards and waffling over if he should've done differently?
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natori would probably ping low-ish because as far as maliciousness goes there's like, not so much there. also NATORI STOP BREAKING INTO A TEENAGER'S HOUSE???
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: ssssssuuuuuurrreee I don't know how much of this would be straight up aura vs just 'slimy bad man' feel but Matoba's aura, specifically, is extremely powerful but also rancid and cursed (literally)
If so, what would Kamui sense?: I don't really know where to begin here because exorcist moral scale is REAL WEIRD...... FWIW, the Matoba are basically yakuza-coded within canon. They will murder, torture, blackmail and cheat if it gets the results they want; mostly youkai, but hey- if you're a rival exorcist and you're in their way..... ehhhhh??? They have political connections that they definitely use to pull favors and scratch backs and clean up any little messes that might involve human society/laws that they need done. They definitely do illegal shit.
The thing is, being that exorcists are sort of their own weird little piece of community outside of normal society, the Matoba are the law in their own community; they do uphold standards when it comes to the practice of forbidden arts and stuff like that, and mete punishments for those that do stuff that they consider against exorcist 'law'. And when it comes to ayakashi, human morality and laws obviously don't apply.... So when it comes murder and violence against ayakashi, Matoba truly does not believe that what he does is wrong in any way.
tl;dr I'll leave it up to you!! But Matoba definitely kills non-human shit without remorse and also doesn't bat an eye at violence against humans if he feels it's justified by exorcist community morals.
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ANYWAY: the powerful & cursed energy combined with Matoba's ruthlessness are prrrrobably gonna land him at a high. Brutal cop characters ping high too-- so it's not strictly based on whether something is literally against the law of the land or a community.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Yes, yes he can! Dante isn't a criminal per se, he's more a hero if anything, but he has criminal tendencies. Kamui saw firsthand what Dante can do at the casino incident and there's bound to be more of that happening in the near future. Dante is fully stocked on rounds again.
If so, what would Kamui sense?: For the lack of a better description, Dante has big chaotic demonic energy. Like monstrous demonic energy, almost like Kamui standing right across from an actual devil (cause he is~!).
He's like fire, the angrier he gets the larger the flames. To Kamui, Dante might feel quite sinister despite his jovial and fun-loving nature. He'll easily be able to sense just how many demons and people Dante has killed throughout his career. However, Kamui might be able to truly sense the struggle within Dante between his human and demonic side. It's like something monstrous within him is constantly playing tug-a-war with his spirit. Dante walks a fine line between man and beast, literally. If Dante ever veers too far into his demonic side, it would be catastrophic and Kamui could probably sense that.
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Re: OPT IN/OUT: CRIMINAL POWER
Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: please do. nothing is funnier to me
If so, what would Kamui sense?: jesus in purgatory type shit, aerith isn't the murderous type in any capacity, but she has petty crime gremlin vibe. she won't go out of her way to do it, but if the opportunity arises and it would benefit her (or the greater good!), she's willing to get it done. she's a "i'll kick a guy in the balls and knock him out with the steel chair" kind of gal, in the context of her being attacked by a group of men also. huge Chosen Hero type energy.
but still super delighted by the idea of getting to kick you in the nuts and knock you out with the steel chair. like. super excited by th e prospect type energy. you know what i mean?? additionally: she has "holy" energy! not entirely human, but not dark. pure light and vibrant life to an unnatural, inhuman degree. she's half cetra, so he's welcome to pick up on that.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Yes!
If so, what would Kamui sense?: She's repressed, but still somewhat on the brink of could be pushed into causing harm. Repeated deaths and feeling powerless do eventually make you at least consider what harm you could cause in extreme circumstances. She also committed (accidental) murder years ago, though it's part of why she's deeply in the idea of atoning for her past. Would need a strong motivation for anything worse than self defense.
Character: Hibiki | same journal just 👺
Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Yes and I'm doing two because the answers are different.
If so, what would Kamui sense?: Heavily leashed potential. Hibiki does not act on a scale of human morality even when some actions coincide with "good". Has killed, will kill again if needed, influences Emily to do things that skirt the line of morally acceptable, generally goes for what's interesting above what's actually correct. That said, they have a good grasp on their self from their work to voluntarily sagehood and from being attached to Emily - the blurred boundaries in their souls go both ways, and they understand that being careful suits them better, as well as makes a harmonious relationship. So generally, they used to be worse, they still can be and still do things out of line, but they aren't uncontrollable and know how to calm down. Could be persuaded in bad directions if they like the outcome.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Yes
If so, what would Kamui sense?:
Harry has committed a few legal kills in the line of duty, and it's remarked how incredibly low it is for an officer nearly two decades in service. However, his capacity for violence will be stark and that he could be very easily pushed into it through an emotional response. As an example, prior to becoming an amnesiac, Harry crippled a man by beating him with a clipboard while intoxicated on the job. The reason was because Harry broke his clipboard's compartment slot by smacking it against the man, which escalated into further violence. Police brutality, you gotta hate it! He's not nearly as bad as he used to be, but the potential is still present.
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it's more the potential than the number of acts that have already happened, so OH BOY HARRY you are setting off the crime alarm!!! kamui will probably be surprised by this, especially when kim's criminal power was a lot lower, but not that surprised. it happens.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Yes
If so, what would Kamui sense?:
Hizen is the spirit of a real sword! And the way sword boys work is they inherit their character from the histories and stories of their masters. He belonged to Okada Izo, one of Japan's most famous assassins and one of the 4 renowned hitokiri (manslayers). Hizen is basically a manifestation of "Hitokiri Izo's" story. He's prone to violence, gets into fights easily, and kills very easily. He has real bloodlust when he fights.
He's an assassin in canon and he regularly does "dirty work" and "clean up" on missions behind the scenes. He's very down to kill if it's for a job. He's killed a bunch of actual humans and spirits on missions, including ones he's really liked. But the catch is... he's self-aware, self-hating, and actually really hates killing lmao. He's extremely reluctant to kill when he's off duty and tries to be decent. It's just that once he gets a job, he flips a switch and becomes a killer.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: yes
If so, what would Kamui sense?: lmao, oh boy
Kimmuriel will likely ping as high because he has murdered extensively and sometimes tortured, mostly for business interests (drow mercenary company) but sometimes as a personal vendetta thing. He's mentally manipulated people to do his work by proxy and straight up bodyjacked them. His morals are shit-tier.
Like he's...comparatively less terrible now but he did recently threaten someone by seizing control of their body and forcing them to almost cut their own throat as a demonstration of what he Could do to someone. So yeah, just fucking terrible vibes.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Yes
If so, what would Kamui sense?: High chaos and unmistakably criminal. Street kid who got his start stealing shit and getting into fights. Joined the yakuza asap and made captain by 20 because of how well he beats people up. Was on his way to kill 18 people alongside his oath brother when he got caught up in some nasty yakuza intrigue and ended up tortured for a year. He agreed to kill someone in exchange for acceptance back into the clan. He failed to do so, but everything subsequent has been C H A O S. He's on his way to going feral from trauma. When he's feral he's the second most feared fighter in Tokyo after (main character) Kiryu Kazuma.
His feral crimes include definitely murder, assault, vast property destruction, loan sharking, a construction racket, and whatever else I'm forgetting that Oldjima gets up to. Yakuza shit. I should add somewhere that he's against hurting civilians especially women and children. But other gangsters? Everything's fair game.
The chaos factor on Majima Goro is vast in its potential.
I saw Mira did the yokai so here I am laughs:
Character: Chijoku | also meowjima
Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Yes
If so, what would Kamui sense?: Chijoku and Majima have comparable levels of chaos, it's why they get along. Chijoku is just less feral and more an enormous snake yokai who doesn't really see any reason why he shouldn't get his way. He is very much Majima's enabler and thinks he should also care less and do whatever he wants. Out of everything though, Chijoku's *actual* greatest sin is gluttony above and beyond anything else. Maybe also general apathy for what happens to humans, like he gives a shit??
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: sure
If so, what would Kamui sense?: L M A O Dazai is the actual worst. He's done murder, torture, and almost all things nasty. He didn't even enjoy it; he just tried to feel a thing, tried to find some meaning to life, and... basically didn't. Recently he's been on the side of good, but he still sorta kinda technically mass-murders if that will save a greater number of lives, and he gives exactly zero fucks about it. He knows he should. He knows he's expected to. But he doesn't.
Meanwhile he's still smiling and making the world's worst dad jokes, which is also a heinous crime, let's face it.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: I'm just filling this out for your reference later you know the answer is yes
If so, what would Kamui sense?: So as I've said, Fukuda killed six people, and he also drilled holes in the heads of three other people (including himself) who didn't die. He expressed little remorse for the people that died and injured more people in his attempts to escape being captured by the police.
THAT SAID, there are two extenuating(?) factors;
-Fukuda genuinely believes these head holes can/will help people because it did for him. He doesn't kill for the sake of killing, people dying is just an acceptable (in his mind) side effect of his drilling. That said, the cops in ID: INVADED have devices that detect "cognition particles" when someone has a killing intent, and Fukuda does generate these, so it's not as if he is not aware that drilling these holes generally kill people.
-While Fukuda came up with these ideas on his own, he was technically a victim of John Walker, a guy who uses what is essentially dream invasion/hypnotic suggestion to influence people with latent ~serial killer potential~ to act on these urges. It is possible Fukuda would never have actually tried to drill anyone else without this meddling.
-John Walker does things in sets of seven so ostensibly Fukuda has hit his quota and I choose to believe this means he no longer feels Compelled to kill, but will still offer to drill a hole in someone's head if they would like one!!
TL;DR He will kill but he's not like... aggressive outside of being backed into a corner. He has brain damage and a poor grasp on the concept of morality.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: absolutely
If so, what would Kamui sense?: this dude is fucking ball the wall insane and, honestly, more than a little evil. he's a 45 year old patriarch of a well established yakuza group and a retainer to the head of the largest yakuza group in japan (at least, during yakuza 0)
he loves fighting, it makes him horny, he loves fucking WHILE fighting. he loves killing, he loves power, and he's beyond obsessive. he started killing when a teen and just never stopped. to get the attention of Majima, he had a girl killed and brutalized her face so intensely that she wasn't able to be recognized. Just as a treat for his boy.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Yes!
If so, what would Kamui sense?: WELL.
Probably high because he's always looking for trouble?? lmaoRyouma plotted for a long time to topple the shogunate and was definitely considered an enemy of the state. He also left the Tosa Domain one day and never looked back, becoming a ronin and therefore adding (more) treason to his record from the perspective of the government at the time. Basically, everything he thought about and everything he was aiming to accomplish was an extremely offensive crime in the mindset of Late Tokugawa Era Japan, especially where he had zero respect for authority.Ryouma is also described as being paradoxical because he often holds very differing views simultaneously and doesn't lean more strongly one way or the other. He wrote often in his personal notes statements that contradict his ideals in the vein of "one must think of how it would be possible to kill all the people in the world" and would quietly criticise his own kindness and how hard it would be to change the world like that. He is filled with intrusive thoughts that lean dark but he just doesn't act on them. Was known for never drawing his sword after a point but was also a lot more okay with guns and cannons??? Big eat the rich energy too.
He also really doesn't care much about whether or not something is a crime if doing it will make the lives of many more people better (assuming it's a victimless crime other than property/money damages).
He was also a Counter Guardian for who knows how long. He had Oryou with him and so snake-wife probably did most of the killing and violence where she could but since Counter Guardians are more or less supernatural "fixers" empowered by the World, there's a strong likelihood that doing the work needed to save humanity from extinction fell under an umbrella that might be considered "crime" more often than it didn't lmao.
He's just an annoyingly chaotic entity rip.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: You betcha!
If so, what would Kamui sense?: Ohhhh lordy. I assume she’ll ping very high. Bulleta, in contrast to her cutesy appearance, is actually a ruthless supernatural bounty hunter known as a ‘Darkhunter’. I don’t think she’s ever killed any of her fellow humans, probably? But she takes down monsters/youkai/etc. on the regular and without a shred of remorse, all for that sweet sweet cash. It is an highly dangerous job because the creatures she fights are very powerful but she loves hunting and takes great pleasure in it. She fills ‘em full of lead, slits throats, blows ‘em up, you name it.
She absolutely despises monsters (especially werewolves) and her arcade ending suggests she is regarded as a dangerous serial killer by the monster community. She’s very good at what she does - she is one of the few (or perhaps the only) S Class Darkhunters out there. It’s said her stare alone is enough to strike fear into lesser Darkstalkers (which are basically extra powerful monsters.)
Her soul is canonically very powerful (it has to be to resist the influence of the creatures she hunts) and EXTREMELY dark and malicious, on par with some of the strongest of demons.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Y
If so, what would Kamui sense?: Anna has been touched by some eldritch gods, so her chaos factor is very high. She is extremely reactive and violent. She generally falls on the side of 'good' but is willing to do vicious things in pursuit of good.
As a Hunter, she killed innocent people because she didn't know that they were all being lied to. That the church knew it was infecting and was using the Hunters to clean up their mess for them while they did more and more hideous things in search of ascension. Anna now is extremely critical of the Church and really anyone purporting authority and truth. She is viciously against sycophants, believers, and the deluded. She is viciously against human experimentation.
But she is still a Hunter. This is a role that has been branded in to her mind and it makes her a servant of the eldritch gods and a potential candidate on the road to ascension. She's a failed candidate and is destined to turn into a beast and/or go insane.
Because she is still a Hunter, she still sees it as her duty to kill unhinged beasts who threaten others, as well as the eldritch gods trying to change and manipulate reality. The thing of it always is: who hunts the Hunter when they become the beast.
So uh. Have fun with that Kamui.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: yes
If so, what would Kamui sense?: WELL he is a well-known assassin and has killed at least 9 people, possibly more (historical records are murky) and he's also fine with petty crimes like theft and assault. Do with that what you will, I guess!
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: go ahead!
If so, what would Kamui sense?:
this was so funny and difficult to parse out an answer for at first because the entirety of his canon is 'wei wuxian is less a criminal because he loves to do the crimes intentionally, and more a criminal because he makes a lot of bad decisions in the name of trying to do good and it snowballs'
ANYWAY i'm pretty sure he pings as 'very high' because regardless of motive or context, his crime list is like. mass murder, mass torture, mass war crime atrocities, massive crimes regarding the desecration of the dead, massive crimes regarding going against the natural life-death system the society he comes from works to preserve as a central thing...et cetera.
also he is filled with the energy of just, like, so many vengeful ghosts, which i don't think is a CRIME but doesn't HELP
sorry he's real extra
SORRY I'M LATE WITH STARBUCKS
Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: YA!!!
If so, what would Kamui sense?: She have them big kill numbers fam!! Like seven millennia worth of wars and killing. So the body count is... Huge. Probably in the thousands. She has a natural tendency for violence as a problem solving tool, and while she's... Mostly good in the big picture, she's an "ends justifies the means" type in a lot of circumstances. She was also raised in an ancient culture where they took war prisoners and made slaves from the worst of them, which is something she regrets now as her sense of morals has shifted and grown. Small crimes include ya know probably illegal drugs and shit. SHE'S A MESS OKAY!! A MESS!!
what if i put this in the rIGHT PLACE
Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: easily, unfortunately for tama
If so, what would Kamui sense?: ............well he has also committed the cool cool crime of time travel fuckery. Honestly he doesn't outright do any murders or even steal- but he hhhhhhhhhas like repeatedly tried to abduct people for their safety. It's mostly just chaos gremlin energy than Crimes crimes, but given the "it's totally a good idea to kidnap my friends so they dont kill themselves" thing alongside the time looping...
It does get more complicated than that though, because all time travel canons always goddamn do why do I do this to myself. At current canonpoint, the second route/loop of the game, he's inherited his hashihime/time travel stuff back from someone else...and they had got it from a future Tamamori who uh lets just say did a Lot of very real and very awful crimes. but it is genuinely up in the air if all of that would spiritually stick...????? it probably would because regardless he has a sense of those crimes anyway from the first route/timeloop, because they all sort of happen in chronological order kinda sorta, so there'd be like. a waft of "wait what the fuck", if i had to guess? confusing. he'd be confusing.
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Can Kamui sense your character's criminal power?: Yes! He doesn't have any supernatural defenses against that kind of stuff.
If so, what would Kamui sense?: Short answer is low crime, low chaos, to contrast everyone else. Long answer is it's complicated??
Small petty stuff first: Minakami tends to lie or obfuscate the truth. This has caused a lot of misunderstanding but also not really a crime, besides stealing a uniform to back up a lie. Otherwise he's generally law-abiding and tries to stay out of trouble.
More iffy: he sincerely believes he's committed murder. Someone did die and technically as a result of his actions (tl;dr it was a magical deal to save a person at the price of someone else's life), but whether he's morally culpable is ?????
I lie down and give up: He has past-life memories, and by law of averages at least some of them must have done shit (in at least one of them he was a swordsman and would have at least some blood on his hands). Whether they would ping as connected to him is ??????????