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OOC:
Name we know you (the player) as: Lel
Plurk and/or Discord contact: leloipa on plurk, Lel #8770
May mods who do not have you on one or other add you?: Y
Triggers? (You may PM us or post to the Trigger list if you prefer): N/A

IC:
Character name: Conan Edogawa (Shinichi Kudo)
Character age as of canon point (As best as is known): 17, looks and claims to be 7
Canon format (Anime, manga, video game, live action TV, novel, web comic, etc.): Anime, Manga, Movies
Name of canon: Detective Conan
Canon point: Just after the mystery train arc
Is the canon point more than 6 months old in the US as far as you know?: Y

Completely optional history and personality section. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO SKIP THIS!:
Conan started his life as Shinichi Kudo, the only son of a famous mystery writer and an equally famous actress. He was highly intelligent and struggled to connect with other people as a child. He had one good friend, Ran. At an early age Shinichi discovered the Sherlock Holmes novels, and he decided that he wanted to be a detective like Sherlock Holmes, but in the real world. He spent ten years mostly ignoring his childhood as he dedicated himself to learning everything he might need to know for that career. At the age of fourteen his parents left Japan, leaving him behind in the family mansion. At about the same age he solved his first solo case, and spent several years traveling throughout Japan as built up his reputation as a high school detective who could solve any case.

A year ago, Shinichi stumbled across an obvious illegal meeting. He was caught by the criminals, and they forced him to take a new experimental poison that was meant to kill without a trace. But he didn't die. Instead he shrank to the size of a first grade student. He quickly realized that the only way to regain his life was to investigate them and find the cure. But if they knew he survived they would come after him and everyone in his life. And that's how first grade elementary student Conan Edogawa was invented. Through a series of events he found himself being taken home to live with his childhood best friend (and love interest), but he quickly resolved that he could never tell her what happened. Because anyone who knew what had happened would be putting their lives at risk from the criminals that had done this to him.

And through the use of tools created for him by a family friend, Conan started investigating the organization while solving all of the incidental cases that appeared around him. While also surviving life as a first grader and trying to keep anyone from realizing and worrying that Shinichi had disappeared.

Please list and explain the three worst (morally) things your character has ever done:

Has spent a year lying to his best friend and love interest about his identity. She believes that Conan is a distant relative of himself and treats him as a little brother, all the while he keeps up the lie that Shinichi is on an extended case somewhere and can't come home. He feels extremely guilty about this, but believes that this is the only way to keep her safe from all the danger surrounding him.
Repeatedly and shamelessly manipulates the people around him into the actions he can't take himself. He leads the police around investigations, manipulating them into reaching the conclusions he wants them to see. If that doesn't work he drugs people that he knows will be respected and uses them as living ventriloquist dummies to solve cases.
Has used his harmless appearance to manipulate criminals into traps.

Please list and explain the three best (morally) things your character has ever done.:

Has sacrificed everything that his life used to be to protect the people around him. He is a liar and a manipulator, but hes done that to himself in order to protect the people he loves from danger.
Has dedicated his life to seeing justice done. He's suffered for that, but he doesn't regret it.
Saved the life of an assassin, asking her if a reason was needed to save a life.

Please put the six things above on a timeline relevant to each other:

Has dedicated his life to seeing justice done. He's suffered for that, but he doesn't regret it.
Saved the life of an assassin, asking her if a reason was needed to save a life.
Has sacrificed everything that his life used to be to protect the people around him. He is a liar and a manipulator, but hes done that to himself in order to protect the people he loves from danger.
Has spent a year lying to his best friend and love interest about his identity. She believes that Conan is a distant relative of himself and treats him as a little brother, all the while he keeps up the lie that Shinichi is on an extended case somewhere and can't come home. He feels extremely guilty about this, but believes that this is the only way to keep her safe from all the danger surrounding him.
Repeatedly and shamelessly manipulates the people around him into the actions he can't take himself. He leads the police around investigations, manipulating them into reaching the conclusions he wants them to see. If that doesn't work he drugs people that he knows will be respected and uses them as living ventriloquist dummies to solve cases.
Has used his harmless appearance to manipulate criminals into traps.

Do you consider your character a hero, an anti-hero, a good aligned side kick, a bystander, a victim, a fence sitter, a mercenary, an evil aligned side kick, a villain, or something else? Why?:

A hero, but one willing to go around the law to do what needs to be done. Everything Conan has done has been with good intentions, but that doesn't mean he hasn't hurt the people around him. He knows that he'd done things that maybe he shouldn't be forgiven for, and he feels incredibly guilty for it. But he doesn't see a way out.

Do you think your character should start on the Isle or in Auradon? Why?:

The Isle. Although Conan has good intentions and reasons, he's lied to and manipulated people who trust him for more than a year.

Which of those two would you prefer your character to start in?:
Isle

Are you still interested in having this character in this game at this time if that preference is not met?:
I may reconsider. I decided to app Conan because I had some ideas for plots on the isle, and I already have a character in Auradon.

Powers and Abilities:
Conan has no special powers. The only unusual thing about him is that he was poisoned by a drug that shrank him into a child. The drug has no cure as of now, but if a way could be found to temporarily suppress the effects he could be returned to his true age for a short time.

Conan is a highly skilled detective with advanced observational skills and experience in solving seemingly impossible cases.

Conan is a walking encyclopedia of knowledge and skills. He has spent more than ten years acquiring all the knowledge and skills that he believed that a detective following in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes could need. In addition to his general knowledge of all kinds of subjects. he has shown the following skills. This is not a complete list.

Driving a car
Flying a helicopter
Flying a plane
Driving a motorboat
Extreme skateboarding skills
Extreme soccer skills
Parasailing
Codebreaking
Languages
Defusing bombs
Computers
Marksmanship
Fixing electronic equipment
Survival Skills in various environments
Advanced First Aid

What clothing/items did your character arrive with? (See rules and FAQ for what is allowed, feel free to ask if you are unsure):

Glasses - Conan's glasses have been altered to have night vision, binocular zooming and, when paired with stickers that he does not currently have, tracking functions.
Shoes - Conan's shoes have been altered to allow him to increase the strength of his kicks.
Belt - Conan's belt has inflatable soccer balls concealed within the belt buckle. One of these is a special ball containing fireworks for emergencies.
Watch - Conan's watch has a concealed launcher with a sedative dart. He only has one dart for it currently.
Detective Boys Badge - This has a simple short range radio concealed in it and can be tracked using his glasses. The radio will be useless without any of the other badges in range.
Two Cell Phones

Optional- What do you have to keep in mind when playing this character?:

Conan is highly intelligent and highly competent, but he's also very bad at dealing with normal day to day life. He's more comfortable in dealing with criminals and law enforcement than he is with normal social interaction with other kids.

What mod candy, if any, does your character bring? (Aka what elements would you really like to see us play with?):

Conan is almost definitely familiar with a wide variety of survival methods and tools. Once he arrives on the isle he will likely make attempts to improve living conditions there (if he can talk anyone into following the directions of a seven-year-old).

What else do you think the mods should know about your character or their canon?:
-N/A

Player Name: Lel
Contact: leloipa on plurk, Lel#8770 on discord
Invited by: N/A
Other Characters: Danny Fenton

Character Name: Shinichi Kudo
Canon: Detective Conan
Canon History: Here

Canon Personality:

Stubborn
Intelligent
Curious
Idealistic
Tenacious. Once he has the solution to a case or a criminal in sight, he does not give up.
Grumpy and sarcastic, but can be like an enthusiastic child when it comes to things he likes.
Walking encyclopedia of obscure facts, which he is more than happy to share despite the opinions of anyone else in his vicinity.
Adrenaline junkie
Prone to drama
Believes in justice, but is more than a little flexible when it comes to the law
A complete geek for all things detectives and mysteries. Also a big fan of soccer.
Ridiculously competent at everything except having a normal life.
Self-sacrificing
Kind of a brat
Bad at understanding people, outside of criminal psychology. Absolutely terrible at making friends, mostly because it hasn't occurred to him yet that that's something he needs. Covers up for his terrible people skills by going on all in on drama.

AU History:
Like his canon self, Shinichi grew up as the only child of mid-tier celebrities. At an early and impressionable age he discovered classic detective literature, and he decided that he wanted to become a real life version of Holmes (or the local universe equivalent). He committed to spending the next ten years of his life learning every skill and area of knowledge that he thought he would need for that goal. Of course this meant completely abandoning any attempt at a normal childhood, but who needs that?

At around the age of twelve Shinichi became aware of the paranormal side of the world. He spent some time in deep denial of this, as it hardly fit the highly logical view of the world he’d spent years developing by this point. But eventually the evidence mounted up to a level he couldn’t deny, and he decided that if the paranormal side of the world existed, then he was going to be a detective for that side of the world too. But for that to happen he needed to understand it.

At the time Shinichi’s spiritual strength was not high enough to learn any magic himself, and he honestly wasn't very interested in it.. He focused on learning how to recognize the presence of the paranormal and understanding how to work with it in situations where it affected his cases.

Shinichi solved his first independent case at the age of fourteen, and from there on began to develop a reputation as an amateur detective specializing in cases that had been dismissed as unsolvable or impossible by everyone else. In addition to all the cases he came across, he also began taking cases that he was led to through the presence of ghosts or through the sense for magic he had developed. In those cases Shinichi made a point of gathering enough evidence to make the case to the police without touching on the less believable parts of his process.

Now at seventeen, he has arrived in Kaisou following rumors of a lead on a case he has been pursuing for the past few weeks.

AU Personality Differences: In canon, Shinichi was extremely against the idea of magic or ghosts or anything supernatural as the explanation for anything. He took it as a personal offense whenever anyone suggested it, and considering just how many times the supposed ghost or spirit was a hoax created by criminals, he had good reason. He is still highly annoyed when he comes across hoaxes trying to pin the blame on something supernatural, but he doesn't dismiss it completely now.

Also because Shinichi has not (yet) gone through the whole Conan experience, he's a bit more lonely and awkward about people than his canon self. He is also far less paranoid, less stressed and more reckless.

Element: Shadow
Purchased Powers: Magic Detection
Possession: N/A

HMD

Player Information

Name: Lel

Character Information

Name: Conan Edogawa (Shinichi Kudo)
Canon: Detective Conan
Canon Point: After the conclusion of the Mystery Train Arc (Episode 704)
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OU
Age: 17, Currently looks and claims to be 7

World Information:
Very similar to the real world, apart from the high number of teenage detectives running around Japan. Private detectives and phantom thieves are celebrities, and the murder rate in Conan's part of Tokyo is insanely high. A secretive criminal syndicate has infiltrated governments and corporations around the world. Geography is very similar, although some fictional areas have been added and a few landmarks have been renamed. Science and technology is similar to present day Japan for the most part. The largest exception being the Black Organization's invention of Apotoxin-4869, a drug that was created to be the perfect undetectable murder weapon but has a very rare side effect of de-aging the victim instead.

Personal History:
Link
Timeline

Personality:
Conan is brilliantly intelligent, cool-headed, independent and logical. And also a hopeless mystery geek. His ability for deductive logic, extensive knowledge of esoteric topics and analytical ability make him an amazing detective. He is hardly ever wrong, once he has figured a case out. Even cases that have been labeled unsolvable. There is a reason that the media took to calling him a modern day Holmes.

But at the same times, his genius has created problems for him. He is completely unable to resist a mystery. If he finds one, his curiosity will not let him rest until he finds an answer. When in the middle of an investigation he often forgets the danger of hunting suspects in a child's body. He can deduct motives and solve impossibly complicated riddles, but he doesn't really understand people on a personal level. He didn't understand his own feelings for his childhood friend Ran until it was too late to tell her anything, and he has repeatedly missed obvious hints from others about their feelings for him. He can also be very forgetful about his personal life. He never remembers his own birthday, for example. He also has trouble relating to his peers. Even before his shrinking, he was almost completely isolated from his classmates, apart from Ran. He is most comfortable when dealing with adults at a professional level.

He can be childish sometimes, particularly when someone brings up the topic of soccer or his favorite mystery novels. When he was still Shinichi, he admitted to deliberately putting on a mature and serious attitude so that the police would listen to him. As Conan now he often puts on an act of sugary enthusiasm for the benefit of adults. Especially when at a murder scene and drawing attention to vital clues. He is probably truest to his own personality among his classmates in first grade and among the few people who know his secret. But even with them he is secretive.

He believes in justice. If finding the truth involves bending or breaking the law, he will do that without a seconds regret. He also believes that there is nothing that justifies the taking of a life, even if it is a murderer's life. Once he told a fellow high school detective that cornering someone with logic and allowing them to commit suicide was the same as committing murder themselves.

He has the worst luck in the world when it comes to stumbling across cases. He can't go anywhere without dead bodies turning up somewhere. Amusement parks, the mall, bus-rides, the beach, parties, restaurants, even if he is just walking down the street. If there is a crime happening anywhere in the area, he will be there. If there is a way for a person to die, he has probably seen it before. And no matter how horrific the scene, he is never phased. He sees bodies as evidence. Nothing more.

His forced second childhood has turned him into a kind of deadpan snarker. He is never shy about making acerbic observations about the people around him, though most of those comments never leave his head. Particularly if they're getting off track in a murder investigation. Additionally, his act as a child has made him more than a little manipulative. He is entirely capable of leading adults through an entire investigation without ever letting them know what was really happening.

He idolizes Sherlock Holmes, and has deliberately modeled himself after the detective. And he is a natural skeptic when it comes to ghosts, aliens, and magic. He has repeatedly run into murderers attempting to disguise their crimes as the works of ghosts or local monster stories. Upon meeting any people with such special powers, he is likely to immediately assume it is a hoax to cover up for another crime.

Conan has a habit of taking everything on himself. He tends to be very closemouthed about the things that are really bothering him and will never ask for help even if he needs it. He often forgets just how physically vulnerable he is right now, especially when he gets caught up in the chase. One of the few things that frightens him is the possibility of the Black Organization discovering that Shinichi Kudo is still alive. Not just because of what it would mean for his own life, but because it would put a target on everyone he cares about as well.

Key themes:
-Learning how to have a life.
In Shinichi's first childhood, he ignored most of the typical lessons and adventures of childhood in favor of pursuing his interests and growing up as fast as possible. It resulted in amazing skill in detective work, but severely stunted skills in everyday life. Now in his second childhood he is finally learning about all the things he missed.

-Seeking the Truth
One of Conan's primary character motivations is that he needs to find the truth. Even if that truth might be something he didn't want to know, he still needs to find it.

-The Meaning of Being a Detective
At first, Shinichi's primary motivation for seeking a career as a detective was his idolization of Sherlock Holmes. He didn't want to just write about detective like his father, he wanted to become a detective who was like a real life Sherlock Holmes. Before becoming Conan he also mentions the thrill of it, and the feeling of cornering a criminal into a confession with nothing but evidence and his mind. He is also a little in love with the positive attention his skill gets him from the media and police force. But after he becomes Conan, that all changes. He can't take credit for his own work any more, and can barely even get adults to listen to him. Being mentioned in the news becomes dangerous. And he encounters several very difficult cases that result in Conan developing some very strong ideas about what a detective should strive to be.

Main Motivation:
Bringing an end to the Black Organization, finding a cure and returning back to his life as Shinichi.

Skills:
Age Transformation
Not a true ability, as this was caused by the poison that was given to Shinichi. Once affected by it, he shrank to the size of a child. Rarely he was able to return to his teenage self, but the change is very dangerous to his health and not something he can do often.

Advanced Deductive and Observational Abilities
He's shown himself capable of performing sherlock scans on complete strangers. Meaning he can take basic observations about a stranger's appearance and turn them into deductions on their employment and recent history.

Languages
English (Fluent)
Japanese (Fluent)
Braille
Morse Code

Transportation
Ridiculous Trick Skateboarding and Snowboarding
Driving a Car
Flying a Plane
Driving a Speedboat
Parasailing

Other Skills
Soccer
First Aid/Basic Medical Knowledge
Explosives defusing and disposal
Marksmanship
Codebreaking and riddle solving
Lipreading
Walking encyclopedia of random knowledge

Item:
Kick Shoes. These are special shoes made for him that allow him to kick with the strength of an adult.

Sample:
Test Drive

Conan is a detective. And he is really, really good at what he does. Like Sherlock Holmes, he can put together a pretty decent idea of someone's life just from clues in their appearance.

Of course in RP those clues might not always be obvious. Especially when its a character I'm not as familiar with. So it would really help me out a lot if you could answer these questions.

1: Name and Contact
2: Character Names and Journals
3. What does your character look like? Is there anything about their appearance that stands out? Do they have an accent? Has their occupation left them with any calluses? Do they have any hobbies that would affect their appearance?
4. What is Conan allowed to deduct about their lives?
5: Is there anything you don't want him to notice?

Spike the Dragon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Despite being a dragon, Spike strongly reminds Conan of the Detective Boys. He's a good kid with an interest in detective work. But despite all that, still a kid. And thus someone Conan wants to protect. And keep far, far away from the danger of his life. Unfortunately Spike seems determined to be involved.

Sherlock Holmes BBC Sherlock

A very fascinating man, despite being one of the most irritating individuals Conan has ever met. Obviously a brilliant detective, although he has never given a deduction in Paradisa. It is very strange that he shares the same name as Conan's favorite fictional detective, but Conan still refuses to believe that they are the same person. There are too many details that are different. Besides, no real detective can possibly measure up to how incredible Holmes is.

Currently Conan is very unhappy with Sherlock. Thanks to a shared nightmare event Sherlock was able to walk into his head and see more about his past than Conan ever wanted anyone in Paradisa to know. He is attempting to escape from Sherlock while revealing as little of the truth as possi

James Moriarty BBC Sherlock

Another interesting person. The fact that he shared a name with the legendary criminal from the Sherlock Holmes novels had interested Conan enough to keep an eye on his activities over the journals, but there were no major interactions until the nightmare plot. There, Moriarty witnessed Conan's encounter with a nightmare of the Organization. Upon the end of the plot, he made several strange comments regarding criminal organizations and his similarity to Sherlock that have raised Conan's paranoia to previously unseen levels.

Dairine Callahan So You Want to be a Wizard

Perfect Frenemies. They are two kids too smart for their ages who seem to be unable to conduct a conversation without attempting to troll the other while being complete brats. There has been mocking, sly insults, and much complaining about the Castle's liking for sticking them in ridiculous costumes.

Galadriel Lord of the Rings

Another complicated relationship. She seems to believe in some kind of magic, but reacted to Conan's disbelief with amusement. He has the sneaking suspicion that she finds his efforts to find logical scientific explanations for the Castle more entertaining than anything else. And then there was their last meeting, where she lectured him for his recent antics and manipulations. He still remembers this resentfully. It isn't like hes areal child, you know. He can more than take care of himself. And if he was the only one put at risk, why should anyone else care?

Celeborn Lord of the Rings

They've only met once, but it was memorable. Conan still resents being scolded and lectured for being arrogant. How can he be arrogant when he was right? Celeborn is going straight on his list of unhelpful adults.

Legolas Lord of the Rings

Another Elf. At least this one isn't as irritating as the other two he's met. An archer.

Dr. Carson Beckett Stargate Atlantis

Figured out Conan's secret thanks to a genetic scanner. Currently investigating the possibility of a cure for Apotoxin. Closest thing Conan has to an ally in Paradisa, although there are still a lot of things Conan hasn't informed him about. The extremely high risk of death, for one thing. Carson still knows more about Conan than anyone else in the castle.

James Watson Sanctuary

Another detective. Figured out parts of Conan's secrets after a deaging loss turned him into a child version of Shinichi. Haven't talked in a while.

John Watson BBC Sherlock

Some awkwardness, mostly due to Conan's social awkwardness/accidentally being a creepy child and differing opinions on how to handle Sherlock being a jerk. Haven't talked in a while.