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Character Name: self-explanatory
Canon: If the canon has multiple versions, please be specific.
Reference Link: A wiki link is preferable, but anything that has a summary of the canon works. If there is no picture on your link, please provide a reference picture as well. If there is really nothing to link, write a short (no more than 200 words) description of the canon and character appearance.

Character History: A brief summary of your character's background. Only the highlights, please! This section should not be more than 300 words long.
Personality: Can be longer than the history, if necessary, but again, please try to be succinct.

Writing Sample: For this section, you have two choices:

1. Fill out an IC survey (copypaste below)
2. Write a first or third person sample on the subject of your choice. (~300-500 words)

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Character Name: Kuroba Kaito
Canon: Detective Conan/Magic Kaito
Reference Link: Kaito Wiki! | Magic Kaito Wiki! | Detective Conan Wiki!

It's a wiki party /o/

Character History: KAITO IS BATMAN-- well, no, not really. But he did spend a good portion of his childhood growing up with a famous magician for a father that he admired more than anything in the world. Kuroba Toichi was unquestionably talented at what he did, so when he was killed in a stage accident during one of his magic shows, nine-year-old Kuroba Kaito was devastated. The young boy spent the next eight years perfecting his own sleight-of-hand in order to rival his father in talent, and by the time he was seventeen, his own magic surpassed that of many professional stage magicians. For a while there, it seemed like Kaito had overcome the tragedy of his father's death. . . but then he stumbled across a hidden room behind a portrait in his own house.

In that room, he discovered a secret that Toichi had taken to his grave: the deceased magician had moonlighted as Japan's most infamous phantom thief, Kaitou Kid. Confused at this turn of events, Kaito donned the hat and cape in order to find out what really happened to his father eight years ago. What he discovered wasn't exactly comforting: Toichi had been deliberately murdered, not killed in an accident. Angry and hurt that he went so long believing a lie, Kaito decided to revive Kaitou Kid in order to draw out his father's murderers and exact upon them the justice they deserved for killing his old man. Throughout his adventures as the phantom thief clad in white, he found out that Toichi had been killed over a gem called Pandora-- a stone that shed immortality-granting tears to whomever drank them during the passing of a certain comet. Kaito then vowed to find this gem before the organization that offed his dad did, essentially completing his transformation to wannabe Batman in white.

Personality: Kaito is essentially. . . a dumb boy. Which isn't to say he's not smart-- he's actually very intelligent underneath all of his dumb boy antics. It's just that he is far too smart for his own good, so fairly simple things (such as school) bore him. He's always searching for ways to alleviate this boredom by coming up with creative magic effects, and he isn't beyond showing these talents off to his classmates. He has basically been deemed the 'class clown' of his grade, the magician who brings magic effects to school, plays pranks on his fellow classmates, and snarks at his teachers. He can been bluntly rude (calling Aoko flat-chested), exceedingly grumpy when people pick on him (despite the fact that he picks on people all the time), and he has more than enough confidence to spare (he is not above calling himself the 'Greatest magician in the world'). But while Kaito is the confident dumb boy trickster who will poke at people for reactions just to see what happens, he isn't all flair and dramatics. He has shown the ability to realize when he's pushed the envelope too far, and is more than willing to offer a helping hand to those who might need it. He doesn't describe himself as a vigilante (he actually outright rejects the concept), but he's more vigilante-like than he thinks he is. . . his motives for being Kaitou Kid are selfish, but he honestly does want to help people and will go out of his way to do so. Aoko has described him as 'cold, but sweet'-- someone who is grouchy but can still be surprisingly thoughtful when you least expect it.

And beyond the chaotic dumb teenage boy-ness that is Kaito, there is Kaitou Kid. Kid says a lot about Kaito's abilities to act and lie, for you would never suspect that the two were one and the same. Kid is much more graceful and enigmatic. . . he enjoys speaking in riddles and sounds a lot more adult-like than Kaito. Kid is calculating and very smart, a thief who can plan elaborate heists-performances and still not be caught. He pushes his rivals into being the best they can be and enjoys the challenge of a chase. There is definitely bleed over from Kaito to Kid because they are the same person, and Kid is just a character Kaito plays for his performances. But when Kaito has the Kid facade on, it's almost eerie how every dumb boy part of Kaito seems to disappear. . .

Writing Sample:

01. If given a choice, what would you like to be called?
. . . if? I'm pretty sure there's not supposed to be an 'if' in that question. Kuroba is fine. Kaito, for those who prefer to skip the formalities. Together, they make Kuroba Kaito, world's greatest magician! And don't you forget it.

02. Do you require socks to be part of your uniform?
If I say yes, are you going to steal them from me?

03. Not including mandatory periods of silence, what is the longest you have gone without talking?
Does sleeping count as 'mandatory?' Otherwise, I dunno. A few minutes? I don't do voluntary silence well.

04. Are you plagued by suspicions that other people, including coworkers and relatives, may be doing things behind your back that will hurt you?
Ha ha ha. . . 'Course not! I trust those close to me well enough, and I don't see why they'd go out of their ways to do something like that.

05. Other than a large egret, what wild animal would you like to domesticate?
A dinosaur. C'mon, how cool would that be?

06. Are you functionally incapacitated by witnessing other people's misery?
Why are you even-- No. Not incapacitated. But it's something I'd rather avoid, if I can.

07. What is your favorite flatware for, purely as an example, eating cake?
Who cares? As long as it ends up in my mouth somehow!

08. Do you trust yourself?
Absolutely. Who wouldn't trust this face~?

09. Please list a crime that only you would know that you have committed.
. . . oi. My criminal record is perfectly clean, thank you. And even if it wasn't, who the heck would actually answer this?

10. If you disappeared tomorrow would anyone miss you?
You really like the creepy questions, don't you? Yes, I'm pretty sure there are several people who would, so don't get any funny idea.

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