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dorotabeau) wrote2022-01-05 11:43 am
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Other Characters: N/A
IC
Name: Kabane Kusaka
Canon: Kemono Jihen
Canon Point: Chapter 56
Age: 13 (probably)
History/Personality: Kabane's wiki is here, though it only covers the anime which ends at chapter 21.
Until the age of thirteen, Kabane lives a destitute life of neglect and abuse because he is part kemono. A half human, half ghoul monster. He's saved from this fate when Detective Inugami is hired to kill him. Instead, Inugami fakes Kabane's death and brings him to Tokyo to work as an employee of the Inugami Detective Office. Along with the other wayward orphan kemono Inugami has picked up over the years, Kabane dutifully works any job a client asks of him and stumbles into all sorts of hijinks along the way. He himself becomes a client when he asks Inugami to find his missing parents. The usual staple of odd jobs and clean up requests quickly escalates into life or death shounen battles, however, when the only clue Kabane has regarding his parents turns out to be one piece of a mysterious macguffin.
Whoops.
The glaring elephant in the room when it comes to Kabane's personality is how devastatingly incomplete it is. He is the product of twelve years of explicit and purposeful child neglect. What little attention he did receive was abusive, intended to snuff out his free will before it even developed. It worked. When Kabane is introduced in the first chapter, his emotional development has been so stunted that he literally cannot feel fear or hatred. What emotions he is capable of barely show on his face because he was never allowed the socialization required to learn basic facial expressions.
Inugami's arrival changes everything. A little encouragement, a promise, and a new home are all it takes for Kabane to allow himself his first taste of hope. Befriending the other kids at the kemono office also gives him new meaning and fast tracks his growth into an actual, real person with concerns and desires beyond his own survival. See, as soon as he's learned how to care about other people, he's swarmed by the litany of unfamiliar anxieties that manifest from one very important realization: he could lose them.
Kabane already didn't give a rat's ass what happened to his own body. Fueled by the determination to protect his new friends, this callous disregard for himself evolves into an unyielding resilience in the face of adversity. He will do anything for the sake of his friends. He will do anything tens of hundreds of times, over and over until he gets it right, because he has no pride or shame or social norms to hold him back. All of this turns Kabane into an unstoppable machine on the battlefield.
He's not so gifted in his daily life.
Though Kabane is ultimately altruistic - eager to be useful and make everyone he loves as happy as they make him - he is not always great at conveying this. His attitude is simultaneously naive and worldly, idealistic yet pragmatic, a dissonant perspective informed by his ignorance of love and his intimate knowledge of death. It's why he can readily console enemies who were just trying to kill him but not be bothered upon hearing a factory is raising human children as meat. This makes his reaction to some things compared to others seem oddly incongruous, but it wouldn't be so terrible on its own. He's also the bluntest, most clueless guy in any room at any time. Subtlety and tact are not his forte, and he has to have many abstract ideas explained to him before he'll catch on. In fact, it's a running gag that he doesn't realize decapitating himself in front of someone might upset them.
With these powers combined, Kabane is unwittingly forged into an earnest and friendly disaster lacking in any common sense.
Would you consider your character to be heroic? Why or why not?: Kabane is abundantly heroic, though he'd never describe himself that way since that's not what he's trying to be. He doesn't run around actively looking for crime to thwart. The moment he sees any injustice being done to someone he loves, however, he doesn't hesitate to help. Even if he has to kill to do it. The more he learns about the world and the people around him, the more friends he earns, the more injustices he sees play out, the more determined he becomes to protect everyone. Until the day he met Kohachi Inugami, he lived a life devoid of any hope and meaning. Knowing how miserable that kind of life is drives him to spread hope to others in any way he can, from buying a crying girl some ice cream to battling over the fate of an entire city.
Powers/Abilities:
▹ Regeneration. Ghouls have a self-sustaining white flame that bursts from their wounds in place of blood. As long as enough of the brain remains somewhere, this flame is capable of rebuilding any amount of damaged tissue from the inside out. Kabane has been shot through the forehead, decapitated, cut into pieces, and even burned alive, but because his brain wasn't completely destroyed faster than he could regenerate the damaged tissue, he survived every time. This ability is not unlimited. Kabane will exhaust himself if he has to regenerate too many times too quickly.
▹ Pseudo-Immortality. Even if Kabane cannot regenerate, he will not die from any fatal wound lesser than the total destruction of his brain tissue. Several times throughout the series, he ends up temporarily stuck as a disturbingly functional, very-much-alive severed head. It's cool. He'll grow back his body eventually.
▹ Super Strength. Most kemono seem to be stronger than humans, and ghouls are no exception. Kabane is at least powerful enough to tear limbs from their bodies and swift enough to leap up the length of a redwood.
▹ Lack of Pain. As a ghoul, Kabane feels no pain. Never has.
▹ Kemono Stench. All kemono reek to high heaven, but Kabane has the added bonus of being a ghoul - a literal corpse demon. Humans find the stench nauseating, but other kemono aren't bothered. Rather, they use it as a way to identify and track their own.
▹ Monster Transformation. While it's implied that ghouls are rational most of the time, they lose control of themselves during the new moon. They go mad with a craving for flesh, and any meal they bite into will immediately begin to rot in their grip. Their bodies also morph, taking on the terrifying visage of a decaying demon. Not even Kabane is fully capable of controlling himself in this state, and it terrifies him.
▹ Kemono Calculus. Every kemono calculus is imbued with an essence or power that aligns with the abilities of one species of kemono. Each of these calculi can amplify the right user's power. Kabane's initial calculus was the life calculus. It contains the power of humanity rather than kemono. Because of this, it serves to quench Kabane's thirst for human flesh, keeps him from transforming during the new moon, and heightens his vitality. Kabane has since collected and combined four more calculi, leaving him with five total. Because he's only compatible with the life calculus, however, he has gained no new abilities, just exponentially increased vitality which allows him to regenerate long past what would normally exhaust him.
▹ Regeneration Transformation. At his current canonpoint, Kabane has just learned how to replace his human body with his more powerful ghoul body when regenerating. Transforming this way allows him to retain control. Though it tires him out very quickly, it's strong enough that he's used it to destroy a cliff with his bare hands.
Inventory: Several black hoodies with a rib cage and spine motif, his kemono calculus made of five calculi combined, and a bottle of perfume meant to hide kemono stank
Coterie: Jaguars. Kabane is the punching guy. Head empty, fist heavy.
Samples: Incensed TDM; Databurst Thread
Player/Contact: Wind,
Other Characters: N/A
IC
Name: Kabane Kusaka
Canon: Kemono Jihen
Canon Point: Chapter 56
Age: 13 (probably)
History/Personality: Kabane's wiki is here, though it only covers the anime which ends at chapter 21.
Until the age of thirteen, Kabane lives a destitute life of neglect and abuse because he is part kemono. A half human, half ghoul monster. He's saved from this fate when Detective Inugami is hired to kill him. Instead, Inugami fakes Kabane's death and brings him to Tokyo to work as an employee of the Inugami Detective Office. Along with the other wayward orphan kemono Inugami has picked up over the years, Kabane dutifully works any job a client asks of him and stumbles into all sorts of hijinks along the way. He himself becomes a client when he asks Inugami to find his missing parents. The usual staple of odd jobs and clean up requests quickly escalates into life or death shounen battles, however, when the only clue Kabane has regarding his parents turns out to be one piece of a mysterious macguffin.
Whoops.
The glaring elephant in the room when it comes to Kabane's personality is how devastatingly incomplete it is. He is the product of twelve years of explicit and purposeful child neglect. What little attention he did receive was abusive, intended to snuff out his free will before it even developed. It worked. When Kabane is introduced in the first chapter, his emotional development has been so stunted that he literally cannot feel fear or hatred. What emotions he is capable of barely show on his face because he was never allowed the socialization required to learn basic facial expressions.
Inugami's arrival changes everything. A little encouragement, a promise, and a new home are all it takes for Kabane to allow himself his first taste of hope. Befriending the other kids at the kemono office also gives him new meaning and fast tracks his growth into an actual, real person with concerns and desires beyond his own survival. See, as soon as he's learned how to care about other people, he's swarmed by the litany of unfamiliar anxieties that manifest from one very important realization: he could lose them.
Kabane already didn't give a rat's ass what happened to his own body. Fueled by the determination to protect his new friends, this callous disregard for himself evolves into an unyielding resilience in the face of adversity. He will do anything for the sake of his friends. He will do anything tens of hundreds of times, over and over until he gets it right, because he has no pride or shame or social norms to hold him back. All of this turns Kabane into an unstoppable machine on the battlefield.
He's not so gifted in his daily life.
Though Kabane is ultimately altruistic - eager to be useful and make everyone he loves as happy as they make him - he is not always great at conveying this. His attitude is simultaneously naive and worldly, idealistic yet pragmatic, a dissonant perspective informed by his ignorance of love and his intimate knowledge of death. It's why he can readily console enemies who were just trying to kill him but not be bothered upon hearing a factory is raising human children as meat. This makes his reaction to some things compared to others seem oddly incongruous, but it wouldn't be so terrible on its own. He's also the bluntest, most clueless guy in any room at any time. Subtlety and tact are not his forte, and he has to have many abstract ideas explained to him before he'll catch on. In fact, it's a running gag that he doesn't realize decapitating himself in front of someone might upset them.
With these powers combined, Kabane is unwittingly forged into an earnest and friendly disaster lacking in any common sense.
Would you consider your character to be heroic? Why or why not?: Kabane is abundantly heroic, though he'd never describe himself that way since that's not what he's trying to be. He doesn't run around actively looking for crime to thwart. The moment he sees any injustice being done to someone he loves, however, he doesn't hesitate to help. Even if he has to kill to do it. The more he learns about the world and the people around him, the more friends he earns, the more injustices he sees play out, the more determined he becomes to protect everyone. Until the day he met Kohachi Inugami, he lived a life devoid of any hope and meaning. Knowing how miserable that kind of life is drives him to spread hope to others in any way he can, from buying a crying girl some ice cream to battling over the fate of an entire city.
Powers/Abilities:
▹ Regeneration. Ghouls have a self-sustaining white flame that bursts from their wounds in place of blood. As long as enough of the brain remains somewhere, this flame is capable of rebuilding any amount of damaged tissue from the inside out. Kabane has been shot through the forehead, decapitated, cut into pieces, and even burned alive, but because his brain wasn't completely destroyed faster than he could regenerate the damaged tissue, he survived every time. This ability is not unlimited. Kabane will exhaust himself if he has to regenerate too many times too quickly.
▹ Pseudo-Immortality. Even if Kabane cannot regenerate, he will not die from any fatal wound lesser than the total destruction of his brain tissue. Several times throughout the series, he ends up temporarily stuck as a disturbingly functional, very-much-alive severed head. It's cool. He'll grow back his body eventually.
▹ Super Strength. Most kemono seem to be stronger than humans, and ghouls are no exception. Kabane is at least powerful enough to tear limbs from their bodies and swift enough to leap up the length of a redwood.
▹ Lack of Pain. As a ghoul, Kabane feels no pain. Never has.
▹ Kemono Stench. All kemono reek to high heaven, but Kabane has the added bonus of being a ghoul - a literal corpse demon. Humans find the stench nauseating, but other kemono aren't bothered. Rather, they use it as a way to identify and track their own.
▹ Monster Transformation. While it's implied that ghouls are rational most of the time, they lose control of themselves during the new moon. They go mad with a craving for flesh, and any meal they bite into will immediately begin to rot in their grip. Their bodies also morph, taking on the terrifying visage of a decaying demon. Not even Kabane is fully capable of controlling himself in this state, and it terrifies him.
▹ Kemono Calculus. Every kemono calculus is imbued with an essence or power that aligns with the abilities of one species of kemono. Each of these calculi can amplify the right user's power. Kabane's initial calculus was the life calculus. It contains the power of humanity rather than kemono. Because of this, it serves to quench Kabane's thirst for human flesh, keeps him from transforming during the new moon, and heightens his vitality. Kabane has since collected and combined four more calculi, leaving him with five total. Because he's only compatible with the life calculus, however, he has gained no new abilities, just exponentially increased vitality which allows him to regenerate long past what would normally exhaust him.
▹ Regeneration Transformation. At his current canonpoint, Kabane has just learned how to replace his human body with his more powerful ghoul body when regenerating. Transforming this way allows him to retain control. Though it tires him out very quickly, it's strong enough that he's used it to destroy a cliff with his bare hands.
Inventory: Several black hoodies with a rib cage and spine motif, his kemono calculus made of five calculi combined, and a bottle of perfume meant to hide kemono stank
Coterie: Jaguars. Kabane is the punching guy. Head empty, fist heavy.
Samples: Incensed TDM; Databurst Thread