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Player name: Kinz
Age: 24
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IC:

Character name: Conan Edoagwa/Shinichi Kudou
Canon: Detective Conan
Age: 17 (appears 8)
Gender: Male

Abilities & skills:

Shinichi is purely human but easily classified as a genius. The kid is like a sponge and is always willing to learn new things as he takes a very different stance than Sherlock Holmes when it comes to keeping up with certain subjects. Holmes believes that he only needs to learn about subjects that would be useful to him as a detective while Shinichi is under the impression that there is no telling what might be relevant in a case and makes it a point to soak up all the knowledge he can. He is also quite gifted at soccer.

His freakish intelligence - This gives him an advantage over most people he comes up against, especially since most people only see him as a little boy which generally turns out to be their downfall. It is also how he's able to stay level headed and think through a situation, believing that as long as he can keep a level head he can get himself out of just about any situation. (spoilers: he's wrong.)

Determination - Shinichi does not take failure well and it's because of this he will not back down from anything without an impressive fight. Especially now that he's trapped in what he considers to be a pathetic excuse for a body, he strives to keep his weaknesses from interfering with his job.

Incredibly High Pain Tolerance - This is more than likely born of growing and shrinking in such a short time on numerous occasions, but it helps him stay focused on other things and allows him to ignore his pain. This can be both a good and bad thing as it also means he will push himself up until he either passes out or accomplishes his goal. As I said, he does not take failure well.

Athletic - He likes to stay as physically fit as possible-taking up soccer specifically as a means to hone his detective reflexes. And now that he's trapped as a small child his athletic ability is all the more important to him. He does not want to be seen as weak and in his mind that's all he can ever be while trapped as an eight year old.

Observation and Deductive Abilities - The thing he is best at and good thing too as both are something no detective can be without. He may not have started out as observant as he is now (In fact it's likely he didn't) but, he has trained himself on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, applying them to every aspect of his life and living by a kind of "What Would Holmes Do?" lifestyle. He's not quite as good as the legendary detective, but he's almost there, however, he is still a kid and he's still learning.

Acting - While his skills aren't always the best and he's not exactly consistent with his child-act, it can't be denied that he's an excellent actor, able to fool most everyone into thinking he's actually a eight year old kid, just a little too mature for his age. It's his acting, at this point, that is the reason he's made it so long without such a flimsy little lie being exposed.


Personality:

Shinichi is a detective that never takes a break. Even if he's not on a case he frequently finds himself curious about the people he comes in contact with. He is always using his detective skills to figure out someone's profession or where they were five minutes before he met them. When solving a case he focuses on one thing-The Truth. He doesn't generally care about the people involved in the case as long as he figures out what happened, why it happened and how to prove it happened or prove who did it so that he can bring that one truth to light.

Murder and the most bizarre cases are his favorite kinds as he generally has little to no interest in thieves and finds adultery cases to be stupid and a waste of his time. He also isn't fond of kidnapping but he will take a case like it if it's brought to him. When solving cases, most people make the assumption that Shinichi is out for justice. That is not entirely accurate as he is mainly out for fun. He is very much one of those detectives that play the game for the game's sake. He is a teenager after all, and he looks at his cases like a puzzle- cat and mouse. He doesn't usually give a damn about the victims of the murderers which is obvious since he's not affected by most crime scenes. He's seen bodies hacked to pieces and only casually mentioned this to his best friend, telling her he doesn't let the job affect him. He is out for justice in some senses to the word, but mostly he's out to solve the really complex puzzles which is why he likes the really complex cases that baffle the police. Especially locked-rooms murders.

Being the son of a retired actress he has a love for theatrics and loves to play out the drama of a situation and make a big show of his deductions. He loves to start from the beginning and go over every aspect of the case to keep his audience guessing until he finally reveals the culprit. He intentionally leaves out the most crucial detail of his accusations just to bait the culprit into demanding he show the proof. Which, he has no trouble doing.

He may be a capable detective and share almost all the traits of a classic detective but he has his faults such as his impatience and the biggest one being his recklessness. Even if it's all a game to him there is one aspect for the puzzle that he takes very seriously and that is a life. If he thinks he can stop a murder he will try, even if it puts him in danger. Yes, even if the person he's trying to save is a murderer their self. He once made the mistake of getting too careless with his deductions and as a result was unable to talk a murderer down from suicide, he never really lets it show just how much his failure truly affected him, but from then on he is very careful with how he presents his deductions and takes precautions to avoid another murderer committing suicide.

He's got it programmed into his head that he can save anyone and never really gives much of a thought on his own personal health and safety. He has been known to run off without warning and usually right into danger. Nothing he can’t handle however, as long as he‘s got his trusty kick shoes and belt, or even the wrist watch can get him out of a bind.

Shinichi is what you would call a mystery freak. This doesn’t change between when he’s Shinichi and when he’s Conan. He has read the series Sherlock Holmes more times then he can probably count. He’s been to a Holmes convention, had to take thousand question test and most likely, got a perfect score on it. (in the interest of avoiding the fourth wall though, this will never come up. Just know that he eats, sleeps, and breathes mysteries) The Kudou library is filled from floor to ceiling with mystery books and it’s an easy bet to say he’s read every last one of them.

Before shrinking, Shinichi was a very arrogant, spoiled rich boy. He was under the belief he’s the best thing since sliced bread and his attitude towards others made this very apparent. As Shinichi, he could move around crime scenes freely and didn't need any help while conducting an investigation. Now that he's stuck as the grade-schooler Conan Edogawa that has changed drastically. He has to watch how he words things and basically lead the adults to the right answers. It can be very annoying but through it he's learned a few social skills and also how to be a manipulative little brat if he makes just the right expressions.

It’s less noticeable as Shinichi, but Conan seems to have problems tolerating the less than intelligent. It’s seen most often when he’s talking to the Detective Boys ( a group of kids that have adopted Conan as their friend), or if someone is flat out refusing to use their brain.

While Mysteries usually have his undivided attention there is a part of him that is still a normal teenager; Ran. Ran Mouri is Shinichi’s childhood friend and love interest. He’s so hung up over her that his love for her truly deserves it’s own part in his personality. He admires Ran’s strength and compassion above all other things about her and truly sees her as the most important person in the world. He would do anything for her. Even as Conan, his love for her hasn’t changed. He hates having to lie about his identity, but he’d rather she stayed safe. If Ran ends up in danger Conan gets reckless and all the intelligence he holds tends to go down the drain.

AU history:

Shinichi's history is mostly the same, he is still the son of a world famous mystery novelist (Yuusaku Kudou) and a retired actress (Yukiko Fujimine). He's still a famous high school detective and revered as the saviour of the Japanese police, and when he was sixteen force fed experimental poison that changed him from a teenager to the size of a child going by the name of Edogawa Conan.

He's come to Jurassic park because the people responsible for his shrinking would no doubt be very interested in the concept of recreating life. Having taken a temporary antidote he will arrive as his teenage self with his invitation and then sneak off to shrink back to child size.

if needed: A brief description of the poison itself.

Third or first person sample:

It's not unusual for strange envelopes baring a fake address to make their way into the mail box of one Kudou Shinichi. He's a fairly well known detective and he's used to people, sometimes anonymous, wanting his advice or assistance on strange problems. He doesn't usually charge anything for his services but sometimes clients would send him advance checks. He didn't find anything strange about the envelope itself or it's contents-a single index card with 'your next case' written in sharpie-(English, fairly neat handwriting but definitely male) A plane ticket scheduled for take off in two weeks, and a ticket to a theme park resort.

It was the theme park's name that caught his attention-Jurassic Park. He'd heard whispers of it a few years back but he'd been so busy with his cases that he didn't really pay any attention to it. The name InGen was also familiar but another one he'd probably written off as not important to him. He'd need to do a little research on this place to see if it would be worth risking trying to get there or if it was something he might want to pawn off on someone else.

What he finds is astonishing-nothing concrete but more whispers, a few interviews but it's so easy to fake an interview he'd be a fool to take it as evidence. Either way, if everything he's found on this place is true then it definitely warrants an investigation-if only to keep other parties from getting involved. Some of the interviews had implied recreating life and he can think of some very dangerous people that would love to sink their claws into that.

Getting there shouldn't be too much of a problem, he'll just have to sneak over to Agasa's and steal a few of the temporary antidotes and use one to leave Japan, another to get back once the case was over and one or ten to have just incase. If he timed everything right he could be leaving the country before Haibara even knew he was leaving. He'd have to have someone go with him though and for obvious reasons it couldn't be Agasa. His next choice is the high school detective of the west who is bound to be much more supportive of his plan than just about anyone else. He first calls the airport to get his departure moved to a different time and airport and from there calls his Osakan friend to work out the details.

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