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[miniholmes]

OOC Information:

Name: Kinz
Age: In a month I REALLY won’t want to talk about it.
Time Zone: CST but really, as long as it’s not like super early in the morning I’m usually around.
Preferred Contact Method: discord is probably faster (kinz#9265) but plurk is cool too (kinziekay)


IC Information:

Reserve Link: Here is the thing.

Character Name: Shinichi Kudou
Series: Detective Conan.

Character History:

Background: (Seeing as I intend to take Shinichi from his much, much younger years there is only so much history that can be offered that isn't just speculation, being in first grade means that his history is relatively short. Everything else feeds into his personality. )

Shinichi is the son of a retired actress, Yukiko Kudou, and a world famous author, Yuusaku Kudou. His mother retired after she turned twenty so that she could live the life of a normal Japanese housewife. His father is a retired private detective that now writes an international best-selling series ‘Night Baron,’ started helping the police force out with certain cases and frequently brought his young son along with him, exposing the young boy to large numbers of horrific murders and desensitizing him to dead bodies.

At a very early age Shinichi showed signs of having the potential to become the great high school detective he would later be known as. His mother is convinced he helps her locate her husband by solving a riddle he left detailing his location despite the fact her son isn't even two years old at the time. As he gets older his love of mysteries grows and at some point he decides that just reading mysteries isn't enough anymore and he begins looking for cases around town, usually dragging his friend, Ran Mouri along on many of his adventures.

Character Canon Point: About ten Years before the series even starts.


Personality: Little Shinichi's level of comprehension, knowledge, logic and reasoning far exceeds that of a normal little boy. By the age of seven he's already read an impressive number of adult mystery novels including his all time favorite, Sherlock Holmes. Quite an impressive feat for a first grader! More impressive still is the fact he was able to comprehend every word he read of the entire series as well as several other mystery novels. This means that at the age of seven he already has the intelligence of a slightly above average adult, a fact he is very well aware of.

However, because he's aware of just how smart he is he's convinced himself that he's A) The smartest person in the room, B) The most mature person in the room, or C) Both. And it's usually both. If he sees a person as either less intelligent or less mature than him he finds it extremely difficult to develop any kind of real respect for that person. His parents are a perfect example as he easily respects their intelligence but since he views himself as more mature than they are, cannot respect them in a way a child should respect his parents. He loves them, but he treats them as if they're the immature ones. Unfortunately, in this case, he's right as both Yuusaku and Yukiko like to make spontaneous decisions and up and leave on vacation whenever the urge strikes them. Given their childish nature it is unlikely that they always make it a point to let Shinichi know when or even where they're going, leaving their young son to either fend for himself or take refuge with the family friend and next door neighbor Agasa, who is possibly the only adult, at the time, that Shinichi respects as an adult. Later in life he learns to respect quite a few people but as a child there are only about two people he truly respects, those being; Agasa, and his friend Ran Mouri.

He's quite popular in school, possibly because of his raw intelligence, his knack for soccer and any other outdoor activity he puts his mind to, or an odd mix of both. Or perhaps it's his bravery that makes his classmates want to hang around him. He takes a very strong stance against the belief in anything supernatural and even goes out of his way to prove that such nonsense doesn't exist. Whatever the reason for his classmates' loyalty to him is, he enjoys every last bit of the attention. Meaning that even though he's only a seven year old boy he's already become an arrogant little brat.

While he gets along with other children on a surface level he does not get along with them any deeper than that as he does not know how to socialize with children his own age-or anyone for that matter. He's very well aware he's nothing like his classmates as his favorite subjects are murder mysteries and Sherlock Holmes. Neither are subjects a normal seven year old would appreciate. He does have one friend that appreciates his love of all things Sherlock Holmes and mysteries and that is his friend-Ran Mouri. She isn't nearly as intelligent as he is but she makes efforts to share his interests which he meets by getting her things like the Sherlock Holmes books as a birthday present. He clearly encourages her desire to be on level with him. Shinichi is fiercely protective of Ran and has been since the first time he saw her smile. He’s made a point to always protect her and even consulted his dad when he didn’t like how much a preschool teacher was favoring her over the children. His suspicions turned out to be justified in the end and his dad ended up stopping the teacher from kidnapping the tiny girl.

The Sherlock Holmes series impacts his life in every way possible as it is Sherlock Holmes, not Yuusaku Kudou that inspires young Shinichi to become a detective. Holmes is his very definition of the perfect detective-genius, mature, and composed with observations skills beatable only by his brother Mycroft. Because Shinichi is so thoroughly and completely smitten by the legendary detective and his methods that he lives his life by the rule: What Would Holmes Do? And it's applied to every little aspect of his life and not just his methods as a detective. This means he goes looking for adventure and cases to test his developing skills.

His parents have a very hands off approach when it comes to raising their son in that, so long as he comes back okay they see no reason to get involved. They are so out of tune with their son's life and what he gets up to that it would be far more accurate to say Shinichi raised himself using his beloved Sherlock Holmes as a guideline. He is so unaccustomed to the idea of discipline that he develops a negative reaction to Ran's mom who is appropriately against the idea of two seven year old children wandering about the city unaccompanied by an adult.

It was mentioned that Shinichi is generally convinced he's more mature than any person he's talking to, but it's worth noting that this is only what he thinks. His arrogance, stubbornness, tendency to look down on others, and flat out refusal to listen to anyone is all evidence that he is still very immature and has a lot to learn.



Abilities: He is one smart kid with an impressive knack for observation and deduction but he is just that- a kid.

Six Items:

-The Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes
-His Soccer ball
-A picture of him and Ran

And three other mystery novels.

Character Samples:

Sample 1: Here he is, harassing a dead guy.

Sample 2:

It’s not that I’m that concerned or anything, but this isn’t the beach I was on before so I need to know if anyone’s seen my mother. [ He is actually way more concerned than he lets on. Don’t let his sour expression fool you. ]

She’s Japanese with light brown hair and if I had to guess I’d say she’s wearing large sunglasses and a wide brimmed hat. If you haven’t seen her, that’s okay too, I guess. But she should know better than to leave her son!