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dorotabeau) wrote2022-01-15 07:11 pm
dorotabeau) wrote2022-01-15 07:11 pm
general 💀 info
FULL NAME
kabane kusaka
SPECIES
kemono, human-ghoul hybrid
BIRTH DATE
june 15, the day inugami saved him
RESIDENCE
tokyo, japan
ALIAS
dorotabo
GENDER
male
AGE
13
OCCUPATION
inugami detective office
APPEARANCE
At first glance, Kabane looks like any other edgy thirteen year old boy. His dark hair is messy, his hoodie features a spine and rib cage, and he wears his sneakers without socks like a heathen. All very standard for a rebel rascal. Upon closer inspection, however, his thousand yard stare is an ever-present indicator that he's not so standard after all.
HEIGHT
4'11; 151cm
BUILD
athletic and sturdy
HAIR
default black, burns red when using kemono power
WEIGHT
106lbs; 48kg
ATTIRE
rebuys the same skeleton hoodie ad infinitum
EYES
big, red, and irresistible
PERSONALITY
The glaring elephant in the room when it comes to Kabane's personality is how conspicuously incomplete it is. When he's first introduced, he has already been reduced to an empty shell, observing his surroundings with the unfocused thousand yard stare of a broken soldier. This empty shell is the product of explicit and purposeful child neglect, carried out over the course of twelve years. What little attention his aunt and cousin do give him is abusive, intended to snuff out his free will before it can even develop. It works. His development is so stunted that he literally has no concept of emotions like fear, hate, or love. What emotions he is capable of feeling barely show on his face because he's never had anyone to express them to.
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. Inugami and everyone else at the kemono office care about him, even he can understand that, and he quickly learns to cherish this love and care by giving it back. He wants to give everyone the same "light" that Inugami gave him because he knows just how desolate life in total darkness can be. He'll happily do anything from catching roaches and cooking dinner to murdering hundreds of monsters birthed from unethical experimentation if he thinks it will aid someone he cares about. It's all the same to him; all that matters is that it's what his friends want.
This extreme desire is also what makes him such a valuable asset on the battlefield. While Kabane may be functionally immortal, his friends aren't. With that thought in mind, he is constantly building his strength in order to become the perfect shield. Kabane may never have cared about his own body, but fueled by a newfound determination to aid and protect his friends, this callous disregard for himself swiftly evolves into an unyielding resilience in the face of adversity. Not only will he do anything for a friend, 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. The fact that he doesn't feel pain means that even torture doesn't make him flinch. In any fight, Kabane is limited only by his inability to strategize.
He's not quite so reliable outside of a fight.
Though Kabane is undeniably altruistic, eager to be useful and make everyone he loves as happy as they make him, his world view is often more animal than human. He doesn't subscribe to "survival of the fittest", but he accepts death and defeat as a natural part of life in a very extreme way. Any positive concepts - such as hope and love, idealism and friendship - are things that he has had to actively learn. They do not come to him naturally. This learned humanity combines with his natural defeatism to create a dissonant attitude that is simultaneously naive and worldly, innocent and cruel. He accepts predator and prey alike, treats them both equally, and this can cause obvious problems. It's why he can console an enemy who was just trying to kill his friend yet willingly accept when said friend decides that enemy must die for his transgression. Kabane himself has stated that he only kills when he has no other choice, but once he reaches that point, even he can get sickeningly brutal. All of this can make his reactions to the world around him seem incongruous, but it wouldn't be so terrible on its own.
What elevates Kabane from "incongruous" to "hilariously inappropriate" is that he is also the bluntest, most clueless guy in any room at any given time. Subtlety and tact are not his forte. He thinks in very literal terms and thus has to have abstract ideas explained to him before he'll catch on. He's also not the most well-adjusted crayon in the box. In fact, it's a running gag that he doesn't realize decapitating himself in front of someone might upset them. He's gullible, can't lie to save his life, and will abso-fucking-lutely eat your smartphone if he has to.
With these powers combined, Kabane is unwittingly forged into an earnest and friendly disaster lacking in any common sense.
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. Inugami and everyone else at the kemono office care about him, even he can understand that, and he quickly learns to cherish this love and care by giving it back. He wants to give everyone the same "light" that Inugami gave him because he knows just how desolate life in total darkness can be. He'll happily do anything from catching roaches and cooking dinner to murdering hundreds of monsters birthed from unethical experimentation if he thinks it will aid someone he cares about. It's all the same to him; all that matters is that it's what his friends want.
This extreme desire is also what makes him such a valuable asset on the battlefield. While Kabane may be functionally immortal, his friends aren't. With that thought in mind, he is constantly building his strength in order to become the perfect shield. Kabane may never have cared about his own body, but fueled by a newfound determination to aid and protect his friends, this callous disregard for himself swiftly evolves into an unyielding resilience in the face of adversity. Not only will he do anything for a friend, 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. The fact that he doesn't feel pain means that even torture doesn't make him flinch. In any fight, Kabane is limited only by his inability to strategize.
He's not quite so reliable outside of a fight.
Though Kabane is undeniably altruistic, eager to be useful and make everyone he loves as happy as they make him, his world view is often more animal than human. He doesn't subscribe to "survival of the fittest", but he accepts death and defeat as a natural part of life in a very extreme way. Any positive concepts - such as hope and love, idealism and friendship - are things that he has had to actively learn. They do not come to him naturally. This learned humanity combines with his natural defeatism to create a dissonant attitude that is simultaneously naive and worldly, innocent and cruel. He accepts predator and prey alike, treats them both equally, and this can cause obvious problems. It's why he can console an enemy who was just trying to kill his friend yet willingly accept when said friend decides that enemy must die for his transgression. Kabane himself has stated that he only kills when he has no other choice, but once he reaches that point, even he can get sickeningly brutal. All of this can make his reactions to the world around him seem incongruous, but it wouldn't be so terrible on its own.
What elevates Kabane from "incongruous" to "hilariously inappropriate" is that he is also the bluntest, most clueless guy in any room at any given time. Subtlety and tact are not his forte. He thinks in very literal terms and thus has to have abstract ideas explained to him before he'll catch on. He's also not the most well-adjusted crayon in the box. In fact, it's a running gag that he doesn't realize decapitating himself in front of someone might upset them. He's gullible, can't lie to save his life, and will abso-fucking-lutely eat your smartphone if he has to.
With these powers combined, Kabane is unwittingly forged into an earnest and friendly disaster lacking in any common sense.
BACKGROUND
INUGAMI DETECTIVE OFFICE
Inugami; Dandy bakedanuki detective dad
Mihai; Arrogant vampire gamer lord
Shiki; Spunky spider boy tsundere
Akira; Cute snowman addicted to social media
Kon; Excitable feral kitsune girlfriend
Mihai; Arrogant vampire gamer lord
Shiki; Spunky spider boy tsundere
Akira; Cute snowman addicted to social media
Kon; Excitable feral kitsune girlfriend
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 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 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 stuck as a fully functional severed head. It's cool. His body will grow back eventually.
KEMONO POWER
Most kemono seem to be stronger than humans by default, and ghouls are no exception. Kabane can tear a person's limbs from their body with his bare hands. He also has the precision and control required to scale cliffs and trees with that strength.
LACK OF PAIN
As a ghoul, Kabane feels no pain. Never has.
KEMONO STANK
All kemono have a distinctly unpleasant smell, but Kabane has the added bonus of being a ghoul - a literal corpse demon. Humans find his stench nauseating, but other kemono aren't bothered by it. Rather, kemono use their collective reek as a way to identify and track their own.
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 and powerful form of a decaying demon. Not even Kabane is fully capable of controlling himself in this state, and it terrifies him.
REGENERATION FUELED TRANSFORMATION
Shortly before his canonpoint, Kabane learns how to replace his human body parts with more powerful ghoul body parts when regenerating. Transforming this way allows him to retain control of his mind while reaping the physical benefits of his ghoul transformation. It amplifies his power several times, though it tires him out quickly.
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 five more calculi, leaving him with six 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.
