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CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character Name: Kamui (Yato do not have surnames.)
Canon: Gintama
Canonpoint: After chapter 668 but before the two year time skip. Utsuro, the big bad, has technically been defeated, and the Earth is damaged but not destroyed.
Character Age: 18

Appearance: Though Kamui is an alien, he looks almost entirely human already. No changes in the humanization process will be cosmetic. This does mean he'll be retaining that stupid lock of hair that always sticks up off the top of his head though. Just call him the cowlick killer.

Background/History: Kamui's Wiki

This wiki covers everything save the Silver Soul Arc, during which Kamui returned to Earth and agreed to keep his murder boner for half the main cast in check until they could defeat Utsuro and his Earth-destroying armies.

Strengths:

➛ Disciplined. Kamui is a master of martial arts. Though he doesn't act like it, he has cultivated excellent focus through meditation and repetition. As such, he rarely loses control of his emotions unless he actively decides to. He is very talented at making it seem like he takes action on a whim when in fact he's already observed his surroundings, analyzed his opponents, and considered the consequences before he charges headlong into danger. He will always charge headlong into danger, but he'll know what he's doing when he does. This is seen most readily in the Silver Soul Arc, during which he has to save first Gintama's main protagonist and then his little sister Kagura when they lose their heads in the fight for Earth. He goes so far as to scold them while he does it, citing that not even he would be able to make up for a military deficit that large. He, the man who is still very interested in killing both of them himself. Kamui is not apathetic or stoic; he just has the control necessary to harness his emotions in a practical way. He exhibits this control often, such as when he remains coolly defiant in the face of his own execution or when he jumps from zero to sixty in an instant upon finding a worthy opponent. It's just hard to tell when he smiles all the damn time.

➛ Persistent. When Kamui sets a goal for himself, he will risk anything and everything to achieve it, even other people. He was only about eight years old when he attempted to kill his own father in order to save his mother's life, and ever since then, he has trained solely for the chance to challenge him again. Whether it's his determination to sucker strong opponents into a fight by any dirty means necessary or his ambition to rise through the Harusame's ranks and thus get more dangerous assignments, it all stems from the same single-minded persistence he's had since he was born. The same single-minded persistence that drove him to destroy his family in order to protect it. Time, pain, even his very self are nothing compared to his goal of becoming "the strongest." He will keep pushing through every obstacle, no matter how many times he fails. Because, in his own words, he only sees what's ahead.

➛ Straightforward. Though Kamui is an antagonist, and a sadistic one at that, he's no schemer. Au contraire, he's almost refreshingly open about what a horrible person he is. He will insult, attack, and even murder others without blinking an eye, but he'll be perfectly honest about his intentions from the get go. Once he's advertised that he's an alien space pirate assassin turned national terrorist, there's really no point in hiding anything else. This is demonstrated when he approaches Takasugi after receiving his assignment to kill the man. He orders his subordinates to make sure they won't be interrupted and proceeds to demand of Takasugi that he "please die." On the rare occasion that Kamui does lie, it always has to do with his denial over the fact that his little sister reminds him so much of their late mother. So, really, the only time he deceives others is when he's deceiving himself. This works out, when you consider that his goal is usually to squeeze a fight out of someone. Beating around the bush won't achieve the same result as insulting the person's mother and then demanding they fight back or else.

Weaknesses:

➛ Selfish. Kamui has virtually no material desires. Somehow, however, he still manages to be the most selfish teenager in the known galaxy. He is callous and sacrilegious, fickle and petty, sometimes all in the same sentence. Nothing is sacred to him, and thus nothing is above ridicule. After all, if Kamui doesn't approve of something, that means it's worthless, and everyone else should think so too. He will tease and taunt and pettily torture his companions with as much gusto as his enemies, which may well be a good thing considering that whether he sees someone as an ally or an enemy depends entirely on his momentary whims. An example of how quickly he can change tack is his and Kagura's joint battle against Yato legend, The Eldest. Kamui spends this single battle switching between working with his sister to fight The Eldest, bickering with his sister, attacking his sister while kicking The Eldest around between them, defeating The Eldest together with his sister, and finally trying to kill his sister again. Even when confronted by several people demanding they should have first dibs on a rematch because Kamui instigated their initial fights before leaving them high and dry, he just laughs them off and equates them to girls angry that he's taken their virginity. Long story short, he does what he wants when he wants however the hell he wants to do it, and damn the consequences.

➛ Extremist. Despite living in such a diverse galaxy, Kamui has always had an issue with seeing his surroundings as clear cut black and white. People are either strong or they're weak, interesting or boring, worth everything or worth nothing. He looks at objects, places, and even concepts the same way. He just doesn't perceive that middle ground. This is readily apparent during his battle with his father. Kamui spends the entire sequence raving about how he's grown strong, just as his father asked him to, demanding his father's attention even as he tries to kill him. This dichotomy is glaring, and yet Kamui can't see it. He is completely convinced he hates his father, so this must be the only truth. This means that hatred is the only emotion he can express his other sentiments with. Murder is literally the only option he sees to make his father proud. With an attitude like that, it's no wonder that every action he takes is extreme as well. He can't just aim to be stronger, no. He has to resolve himself to be the absolute strongest, prove his worth by fighting every powerful opponent he comes across to the death, and give up everything else he cares about in the process. Moderation doesn't exist in his vocabulary.

➛ Lacking identity. Kamui doesn't hesitate to describe himself as empty. You have to be, he insists, in order to qualify as the vessel for a heavy title like "the strongest." Before he hit puberty, Kamui had already severed all ties he had to any objects, places, and people he'd ever known. He was no longer a son or a brother or a citizen of Rakuyou. He wasn't even an individual Yato, instead doing his best to exemplify the code of violence adhered to his many ancestors. He did this all because he recognizes that sentiment has no place on the battlefield, certainly not when his ultimate goal is to kill his own father, but sentiment is required in order to forge a sense of self. Without it, Kamui never seeks to define himself beyond his own physical strength. He has no favorites, no hobbies, no aversions, nothing to call his own. This lack of identity is what makes it so easy for his Yato blood to overwhelm him, turning him into a mindless killing machine that doesn't even remember its own name. After he regains his mind, Kamui comes to accept the importance of attachments even in battle, but he is still new enough to the concept that it doesn't come easy. Beyond sort of attempting to be a big brother (not necessarily a good one), he still only has his strength to rely on.

➛ Sacrifice. This ties into his other weaknesses and is more of a result than a cause. Because Kamui cares so little about others, because he's so black and white in his views, because he lacks a sense of self, Kamui is more ready than anyone to sacrifice anything for his goals. This permeates his very core in unexpected ways. He is always ready to take a hit before he can land one in a fight, protects others by hurting them himself and then informing them of what mistake allowed it to happen, and consistently destroys his own reputation for the sake of getting people to hate him enough to fight him. While he's perfectly willing to shoot an unarmed teenage girl just to clear space for a battle, he's equally ready to take a stab wound to the chest in order to shield Kagura from Utsuro's wrath. If he were to die in battle, he wouldn't hold it against the one who killed him either. That's simply the way of the battlefield.

Fatal Flaw: Kamui's downfall is his complete and utter inability to accept his own weakness. He is so desperate to be strong that rather than face his flaws and overcome them, he "kills" them. He kills them inside of himself as well as literally killing those he sees exhibiting the same flaws. This is why he is so quick to condemn things like love, compassion, and the desire to protect others. These are the kinds of emotions that made him realize how pathetic and weak he really was. These are his flaws. As a child, he did everything within his power to save his mother's life, to protect her from her own family, from himself, and yet he walked away beaten, bloody, and alone. His father had nearly killed him; his mother was never going to recover. The only choice Kamui had was to leave and grow stronger, so he killed those lingering affections and hollowed himself out into an empty shell. When he sees others fighting for a cause or for their loved ones now, it's laughable to him. It even bores him. Until they start to win. That's when Kamui loses his fine-tuned control. Because if others can succeed where he failed, that means it wasn't his ideals that fell short. He himself is the failure. He is weak.

While at his current canon point, he's accepted that running from his weakness is weakness in itself, he's only just started to learn how to correct that behavior. Nobody gets over ten years running trauma in a day, least of all someone as stubborn and self-absorbed as Kamui.

Driving Force: Rather than seeing strength as a way to achieve his goals, Kamui considers it to be the end game. Growing stronger is his motivation. Period. He wants to know every kind of strength there is in the universe, see it with his own eyes, and one day defeat it. It's what drives his every action. He's never wasted a thought for what he'll do once he obtains his coveted title of "the strongest." All he wants is to keep fighting and, as a result, grow ever more powerful.

Patron: Kamui grew up on the planet Rakuyou, finds himself more and more intrigued by planet Earth, and spends a great deal of his time on Harusame Space Pirate vessels, but the only place he ever calls home is the battlefield. Though Kamui would sooner side with Mars' bloodlustful Greek counterpart, in his current state of mind - one searching for new meaning without being forced to give up the old, Mars is an ideal patron to provide what he needs rather than what he wants.

He exemplifies many of the house's desired traits, though not always in the most direct of manners.

Strength, obviously, is his everything. Despite having set up shop with scheming and manipulative pirates, Kamui leads the division of forces specifically designated for combat, not criminal activities. He is the Harusame's sword, their ultimate offensive force, and everyone knows it. They just also know that Kamui harbors no more love for them than the people he kills for them. Among the rest of the Harusame, he is called the Lightning Spear of the Seventh Division and is eventually set to be executed because the Admiral is afraid of him and his endless ambition for strength.

Kamui's division subordinates, on the other hand, are ridiculously loyal. Abuto, his second-in-command, cites that seeing Kamui smile in the face of death is their pride and joy. They admire his valor, a courage so over the top it may well be crazy, and seek to emulate it. Though Kamui is painted as the worst kind of boss from the moment he's introduced, this is only a surface perception. He will absolutely murder his subordinates if they get in his way, but unlike anyone else, he will give them a warning first. He is not at all above ordering his men on a suicide charge, but he will be charging in right alongside them. He will tell them to their faces that losers should die when they fail him, but he will still carry them to safety on the grounds that he needs them alive to do his paperwork for him. Those who fight alongside him will never be coddled, the expectations are high, but they will be treated as an extension of Kamui himself, and he will dutifully stand by them.

A protective nature is not something the Kamui of today would ascribe himself, but it's worth noting that it was the original reason Kamui sought out strength in the first place. His father told him again and again to grow stronger so that he could protect his mother and little sister, and so a young Kamui quietly stood there and took beating after beating as his baby sister's personal shield. Kamui may have tried to kill those feelings later, but he couldn't obliterate them completely. In his defining fight with protagonist Gintoki, Kagura shields Gintoki from her brother's fist, and despite everything Kamui insists he stands for, he hesitates. In the battle against Utsuro, he goes on to save her life twice and Gintoki's too. He's not done with them yet, so he can't just let them die.

The less desirable traits of the house may well be some of Kamui's favorites.

Being violent is what he's known for across the galaxy. It's the one part of his reputation that he actively enjoys spreading around. Sadomasochistic tendencies will do that to a guy. The more hostile he appears, the more likely other hostile entities will seek him out to challenge him.

Impatience and an uncompromising ego are what his subordinates have to deal with on a daily basis, and it's the reason why Abuto is 32-going-on-55. In Kamui's introductory arc, he meets with his former teacher Housen under orders only to intimidate the man. Instead, he kidnaps a child for leverage, demands a night with Housen's personal escort, and promptly does battle with him on his own roof. Even when it comes to those he respects as his equal such as Takasugi, he will only go along with them until he finds his next new shiny. When the two of them team up to take the Shogun's head, Kamui starts out eager to compete with his new partner, but the moment he catches sight of a more powerful opponent, he turns around and slaughters a horde of Takasugi's men so he can challenge his chosen prey one-on-one. He's not committed to any cause enough to be patient with it, and until recently, he hasn't had any reason to compromise what he wants for anyone else.

This entire application demonstrates exactly how narrow Kamui's focus can be. He has a grand total of one goal in life, and it drives his actions to the point of excluding everything else. The way he's managed to contort his entire world around the concept of strength has actually led to him missing the point of having strength in the first place.

No other patron rings as truly with Kamui as Mars.

GAME INFORMATION

Setting Suitability: Kamui will consent to his god's call for the same reason he does everything else: he wants to grow stronger. With Utsuro the strongest man in the galaxy defeated, Kamui is left with no direction. How does he get stronger from here? Well, it would help to better understand what strength is and what it can be in different hands. The samurai of Earth have shown Kamui that physical strength isn't everything. Thus, in a world where everyone is forced to compete on a level playing field, a world in which he's been stripped of the Yato Clan's innate physical strength and healing capabilities, he'll have the opportunity to see for himself what these people have that he lacks. Either he'll figure it out or die trying. These are the kinds of stakes Kamui lives for.

I personally look forward to playing out Kamui's constant struggle to form bonds with his new teammates. He has little trouble fighting alongside most allies while the battle is raging, but he simply doesn't make friends. It doesn't help that anyone with the physical and/or mental fortitude to earn his respect is someone he immediately wants to fight to the death. At his current canon point, he's at his limit just wrestling with the notion of caring for his father rather than killing him, a struggle he's undertaken for his little sister's sake rather than his own. I want to take this trend a step further. Now that he's officially allowed himself to be part of a family again, he needs to find a reason to start caring for someone unrelated.

Sample: TDM1, TDM2