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NAME: Kamui
AGE: 18
CANON: Gintama
NAME: Kamui
AGE: 18
CANON: Gintama
CANON HISTORY: Kamui's wiki page only covers through the Shogun Assassination Arc, so I will provide his more recent history here.
After fleeing Earth, Kamui led the Seventh Division in fending off their Harusame pursuers. They moved to capture an enemy stronghold ship, but it wound up being a trap. Half of Kamui's men were killed by his own father, hired by their enemy's leader Utsuro, but when Kamui and Umibouzu charged at each other, the already ransacked stronghold burst. Kamui disappeared into the darkness of space.
He did not reappear until Takasugi Shinsuke took a fatal fall on the planet Rakuyou, where Kamui's Seventh Division and Takasugi's Kiheitai had agreed to meet if they were separated. He saved Takasugi's life but didn't stick around. With the silent assertion that they were now even, he left to deal with his own matters: namely his father.
Once he found his target, he issued his showy challenge. The fight began with Kamui dropping an entire cliff on Umibouzu and only got more intense from there. Despite that a war was raging around them, the two members of the Yato clan became absorbed only with killing each other. They would have succeeded too, if Kamui's younger sister Kagura hadn't stopped them.
Not thrilled with the interruption, Kamui turned his wrath on Kagura, leaving Umibouzu to agonize over his children destroying each other. Umibouzu believed that the only responsible thing to do after bringing a monster like Kamui into the world was to kill Kamui himself. However, when the main antagonist Utsuro made his move to kill Kamui first, Umibouzu shoved both of his children out of the way. In the end, he couldn't stand to watch his children die. Kamui and Kagura fell along with the landslide caused by Umibouzu and Utsuro's powerful confrontation.
In the valley where they fell, Kamui told Kagura why he left home so many years ago. As a child, he'd learned that their mother was dying because she could only live with the support of the Altana from her home planet. Umibouzu took her away from that planet so that they could marry and have a family. Thus, Kamui had determined, the only way to save his mother was to cast aside his family and take her back to her home world by force. In order to do this, Kamui tried to kill his father and failed. Knowing he couldn't remain with his family after that, he ran away with the Harusame Space Pirates. With this explanation, he asked Kagura to let him go as killing Umibouzu was all he had left. He buried her under a pile of boulders and left.
Upon returning to the battlefield, Kamui saw that his father had lost to Utsuro. Enraged that someone had gotten to Umibouzu first, Kamui charged his dying father only to be stopped by Gintoki.
Kamui still refused to leave Umibouzu be, so Gintoki grabbed the fallen warrior and headbutted him back into the ground. With that, he proclaimed himself as the one who defeated Umibouzu, antagonizing Kamui into fighting him instead. Kamui did not hold back, throwing all of his anger at Gintoki. The fact that Gintoki never wavered despite that he was losing disturbed Kamui, and he sensed that Gintoki was putting his strength into fighting someone else entirely. He asked who Gintoki was really fighting. Gintoki told him he was fighting himself, something Kamui was running away from. Kamui did not like that.
The vengeful Yato warrior had given up everything for strength. The idea that there was a sentimental part of himself that he could not throw away, that this sentimental part of himself was why he couldn't win, was too much for him to take. Kamui lost control of his Yato blood, forfeiting all reason and purpose. It took Gintoki, Kagura, Shinpachi, and Abuto to hold off his senseless onslaught long enough for him to regain his senses, but even their combined efforts could not stop him. Only once Kamui won the fight against himself and accepted that there was a part of him he cherished even more than strength did the battle end.
Kamui and Kagura threw one last punch at each other, but when it came down to it, Kamui could not kill the little sister he'd once promised his father he'd protect. His punch missed, and the two broken siblings collapsed into each other's arms.
A large faction of the Harusame space pirates, including three division leaders, approached after the fight had finished. They claimed that seeing the protagonists recklessly challenge Utsuro and his vast armies made them realize they were on the wrong side of the fight. Pirates were meant to defy the status quo, not enforce it, and the ragtag group fighting Utsuro looked a great deal more free than any of them. Despite that Kamui was lying on the ground beaten and broken, they would rather follow him than the mighty Utsuro. Kamui left Rakuyou with them, proclaiming that he'd never lose again, especially not to himself.
If he couldn't do that much, he could never face his family again.
While Utsuro's faction came together and surrounded planet Earth, Kamui did the opposite. He ordered his men on a wild rampage, taking out the enemy's forces everywhere else. He didn't return to Earth until the last minute, when planet-wide destruction was imminent.
After he and his men crashed through Utsuro's defenses and landed on Earth, Kamui met Gintoki and was pointed in Kagura's direction. He swiftly moved to save his sister from her attackers. He and Kagura shared a brief moment of mutual encouragement, during which Kamui asserted that he would help them save Earth, but afterward he'd be ready to defeat her anytime.
This camaraderie lasted for a whole two minutes. Kamui and Kagura's team up against the leader of their attackers, dubbed the Eldest, quickly devolved into the two siblings beating on each other instead. Their petty squabbles should have put them at a disadvantage in the fight, but in true Yato family fashion, they started using the Eldest as a projectile weapon against each other. The Eldest's poor crotch was thoroughly abused in the process, as the ruthless siblings seemed to aim there with every single hit. Eventually, they grew bored with him and finished him off with a combined strike.
The most surprising thing about the entire conflict, however, was that after the battle, Kamui reassured Kagura and their enemies that he had not killed the Eldest. Nothing had changed, he insisted; he just had no use for the weak. He had his eyes on a bigger prize.
When Kamui moved to attack Kagura for real, Gintoki finally arrived to scold him and put a stop to it. In a characteristically dramatic display, Kamui agreed to be patient so long as Gintoki, Kagura, and his other targets made sure not to die in the upcoming battles.
They all leaped into the fray, fighting for Earth together.
CANON PERSONALITY: Kamui is by his own admission "empty," a snapped soul with nothing left but to move forward on his eternal hunt for strength.
As a child, his family meant everything to him. They were the reason he first sought strength. His father was one of the strongest Yato out there, and that all powerful man had asked him to protect his mother and little sister in his stead. When his mother fell ill, Kamui poured his heart and soul into being everything she needed him to be. Until he learned the harsh truth his father had been hiding from him. His mother was a mutant, born on the Yato's now uninhabitable home planet. That planet was the only place she could live, yet her husband and children would die under such harsh conditions. She chose her family over her health. Now she was dying.
Kamui's very existence was killing the one person he wanted to protect most.
The day he learned this was the day he shattered. He took his family down with him when he tried to kidnap his mother and force her to return to her home planet. He attacked his father, and his father nearly killed him, all while his mother watched weakly from the sidelines and his little sister begged them to stop. His young mind warped, desperate for a way out, but all he could do was run away. He'd destroyed everything he cared about, his one place in the universe, and he'd done it more thoroughly than even he'd thought possible. He could never go back again.
It's from this mentality that the Kamui of the present was born. He is a man who only looks forward, disregarding the past as nothing more than a crutch. He shuns worldly or emotional attachments to anything, even his own life, and openly despises the weak. His only goal is to become "the strongest," and he will do anything, kill anyone, to get there.
Kamui's obsession with strength is a lifelong one. He has always had difficulty defining it, and thus, he's looked to others as examples. When his father's strength couldn't save his mother, he began looking to a man named Housen, the then leader of the Harusame Space Pirates Seventh Division. Housen's strength was easy to understand because it wasn't meant to protect, only to destroy. It makes sense, after all. The strength Kamui had gained in his desperate attempts to save his family only netted him tragedy. This must be because strength isn't meant to protect others in the first place. No, strength is not a means to an end; strength is the only end for which one should strive.
He is very closed minded in that sense, choosing to see the world in black and white. Anything that doesn't fit into his definition of strength must therefore be weakness. Umibouzu, one of the strongest men in the galaxy, is weak in Kamui's eyes because he wasn't willing to kill Kamui, his first and only son. Housen, the King of the Yato and the man who taught Kamui how to fight, is also weak because he fell in love with a woman and was desperate enough to cage her. These two former idols of Kamui's fell prey to such weakness as love, guilt, lust, and possessiveness. According to Kamui, that is their downfall, and he's not wrong. Housen dies to an uprising of those women he's subjugated, and Umibouzu loses both his arms because of Kamui. The very concept of honing one's strength to protect something is now outright insulting to his ideology because it betrays one's weakness, and more than anything else, Kamui detests his own weakness.
This is why he has so much trouble with protagonist Gintoki and his little sister Kagura. They wear their weaknesses like a badge of honor and yet Kamui cannot beat them into submission. Through their persistence, they lay his weakness bare: the fact that he still loves and wants to be acknowledged by the family he destroyed.
Kamui does eventually accept this weakness as a part of his identity and is forced to eat a piece of humble pie, but this doesn't make him a better person by any means. If anything, it gives him the opportunity to be even more intolerable. He sees no reason to reform (once a pirate, always a pirate) and decides that because the reason he couldn't defeat Kagura was that she refused to stay down, he'll just have to refuse to accept defeat himself. This becomes his new definition of strength: refusing to give up until he's accomplished his goal. In the hands of a shounen protagonist, such conviction becomes his best trait. In the hands of Kamui, it becomes a vow to protect his prey until he can kill them himself.
His decision making has always been guided by his momentary whims in this way. While his well-honed battle sense and pure, unadulterated power are what he's known for among his enemies, his followers see a different side to him daily. Kamui is brutal, yes, but he's also selfish, sacrilegious, and single-minded to the core. He will tease and taunt and pettily torture his companions with as much gusto as his enemies. He will ditch anyone and anything the moment they no longer interest him. These traits are actually what make him so charismatic among his fellow outlaws. What Kamui desires isn't the perks of a higher status or a better world to live in but rather to topple the entire hierarchy just to prove he can.
He says as much when his second in command Abuto points out that his actions will get the entire Seventh Division in trouble with Harusame's higher ups. If his superiors don't approve of his actions, Kamui chimes cheerily, he'll kill them. He'll have to kill them sooner or later anyway if he wants to become the strongest; angering them enough to come after him only makes his job easier.
Honestly, this entire personality section could be summed up with a concise, "He does what he wants when he wants, and screw everyone else." Not only is he a selfish asshole, he is a self-aware selfish asshole. This makes his smug grin that much more intolerable because he can't be reasoned with. He is the man who waged war against the universe and said with a smile that it's just what pirates do. He already knows he's an idiot with no desire but to fight until he dies, so anyone with the balls to tell him what he is as if he doesn't know is clearly asking to be shat on.
What makes this unabashedly obnoxious personality so fascinating, however, are the moments when Kamui contradicts his own rules. Until Kagura beats some sense into him, he's convinced that caring is weakness, that strength is all that matters, and that losers deserve death. Yet he still spares one of his subordinates when he's lost a fight, holds back his desire to do battle with Shinsuke because he "owes him one," and repeatedly aids his little sister rather than kill her. Despite Kamui's long-suffering crusade to snuff out his emotion, he never actually succeeds.
The reason for this is revealed as far back as his very first appearance. During his introduction arc, he goes to great lengths to reunite a young boy with his prostitute mother. He justifies it as spiting Housen, but Housen chides him over how transparent this act of vicarious redemption really is.
Kamui's mother has been his conscience the entire time.
It's just too bad that she couldn't also be his therapist.
SKILLS/ABILITIES: Kamui is a member of the Yato Clan, a race of violent aliens from a long dead planet. They are known as one of the most powerful races in the galaxy, also the most bloodthirsty.
➛ Inhuman physical strength and endurance: All Yato are significantly stronger than humans, and their bodies are capable of taking damage that would kill anyone else. For example, Kamui's subordinate catches a bullet in his teeth, his father is able to withstand a blast from a battleship with only an umbrella, and Kamui himself keeps fighting long enough to kill twenty men after being pumped with enough poison to kill an elephant. Not only can they survive the vacuum of space, Kamui even manages to break into the control center of a spaceship from outside. He frequently murders opponents just by thrusting his palm straight through their chests.
➛ Extensive hand-to-hand fighting experience: Kamui is not only powerful, he is also disciplined, accompanying his punches and kicks with seemingly weightless acrobatics and a keen battle sense. He learned how to fight from the King of the Yato and has since usurped his title as leader of Harusame's Seventh Division. Though he regularly refers to himself as an idiot, when it comes to the battlefield, he's anything but.
➛ Yato blood: Their blood is described by Kamui as a sort of collective intuition made up of the memory of their entire species. Throughout most of the series, this is seen as a negative trait because Yato instincts always tend toward violence. The Yato have to overcome their base instincts or else lose their identities to a sea of mindless bloodlust. Kamui, Kagura, and Umibouzu all fall prey to their blood at one point in their lives - during which time they attack everyone indiscriminately without care for their opponents or themselves. Although Kagura is originally afraid of this blood, Kamui teaches her that there's more to it as long as the Yato in question is disciplined. This well of instinct can be utilized through the senses and allow one to measure his/her opponent, comparing said opponent to the thousands of battles stored within their blood's collective memory. Kamui can sense the presence of other Yato with it, distinguish the truly powerful from the braggadocious, and analyze the enemy's battle strategy.
➛ Sunlight sensitivity: Though the Yato are infamously powerful, they do have one prominent weakness. Their bodies cannot handle direct sunlight. Prolonged exposure to the sun's rays dries them out until they literally crumble to death. Because of this, Yato are known throughout the galaxy for their pale, flawless skin and the parasols they carry. They reinforce and weaponize these parasols, using them as clubs or even guns. Kamui is no exception.
After fleeing Earth, Kamui led the Seventh Division in fending off their Harusame pursuers. They moved to capture an enemy stronghold ship, but it wound up being a trap. Half of Kamui's men were killed by his own father, hired by their enemy's leader Utsuro, but when Kamui and Umibouzu charged at each other, the already ransacked stronghold burst. Kamui disappeared into the darkness of space.
He did not reappear until Takasugi Shinsuke took a fatal fall on the planet Rakuyou, where Kamui's Seventh Division and Takasugi's Kiheitai had agreed to meet if they were separated. He saved Takasugi's life but didn't stick around. With the silent assertion that they were now even, he left to deal with his own matters: namely his father.
Once he found his target, he issued his showy challenge. The fight began with Kamui dropping an entire cliff on Umibouzu and only got more intense from there. Despite that a war was raging around them, the two members of the Yato clan became absorbed only with killing each other. They would have succeeded too, if Kamui's younger sister Kagura hadn't stopped them.
Not thrilled with the interruption, Kamui turned his wrath on Kagura, leaving Umibouzu to agonize over his children destroying each other. Umibouzu believed that the only responsible thing to do after bringing a monster like Kamui into the world was to kill Kamui himself. However, when the main antagonist Utsuro made his move to kill Kamui first, Umibouzu shoved both of his children out of the way. In the end, he couldn't stand to watch his children die. Kamui and Kagura fell along with the landslide caused by Umibouzu and Utsuro's powerful confrontation.
In the valley where they fell, Kamui told Kagura why he left home so many years ago. As a child, he'd learned that their mother was dying because she could only live with the support of the Altana from her home planet. Umibouzu took her away from that planet so that they could marry and have a family. Thus, Kamui had determined, the only way to save his mother was to cast aside his family and take her back to her home world by force. In order to do this, Kamui tried to kill his father and failed. Knowing he couldn't remain with his family after that, he ran away with the Harusame Space Pirates. With this explanation, he asked Kagura to let him go as killing Umibouzu was all he had left. He buried her under a pile of boulders and left.
Upon returning to the battlefield, Kamui saw that his father had lost to Utsuro. Enraged that someone had gotten to Umibouzu first, Kamui charged his dying father only to be stopped by Gintoki.
Kamui still refused to leave Umibouzu be, so Gintoki grabbed the fallen warrior and headbutted him back into the ground. With that, he proclaimed himself as the one who defeated Umibouzu, antagonizing Kamui into fighting him instead. Kamui did not hold back, throwing all of his anger at Gintoki. The fact that Gintoki never wavered despite that he was losing disturbed Kamui, and he sensed that Gintoki was putting his strength into fighting someone else entirely. He asked who Gintoki was really fighting. Gintoki told him he was fighting himself, something Kamui was running away from. Kamui did not like that.
The vengeful Yato warrior had given up everything for strength. The idea that there was a sentimental part of himself that he could not throw away, that this sentimental part of himself was why he couldn't win, was too much for him to take. Kamui lost control of his Yato blood, forfeiting all reason and purpose. It took Gintoki, Kagura, Shinpachi, and Abuto to hold off his senseless onslaught long enough for him to regain his senses, but even their combined efforts could not stop him. Only once Kamui won the fight against himself and accepted that there was a part of him he cherished even more than strength did the battle end.
Kamui and Kagura threw one last punch at each other, but when it came down to it, Kamui could not kill the little sister he'd once promised his father he'd protect. His punch missed, and the two broken siblings collapsed into each other's arms.
A large faction of the Harusame space pirates, including three division leaders, approached after the fight had finished. They claimed that seeing the protagonists recklessly challenge Utsuro and his vast armies made them realize they were on the wrong side of the fight. Pirates were meant to defy the status quo, not enforce it, and the ragtag group fighting Utsuro looked a great deal more free than any of them. Despite that Kamui was lying on the ground beaten and broken, they would rather follow him than the mighty Utsuro. Kamui left Rakuyou with them, proclaiming that he'd never lose again, especially not to himself.
If he couldn't do that much, he could never face his family again.
While Utsuro's faction came together and surrounded planet Earth, Kamui did the opposite. He ordered his men on a wild rampage, taking out the enemy's forces everywhere else. He didn't return to Earth until the last minute, when planet-wide destruction was imminent.
After he and his men crashed through Utsuro's defenses and landed on Earth, Kamui met Gintoki and was pointed in Kagura's direction. He swiftly moved to save his sister from her attackers. He and Kagura shared a brief moment of mutual encouragement, during which Kamui asserted that he would help them save Earth, but afterward he'd be ready to defeat her anytime.
This camaraderie lasted for a whole two minutes. Kamui and Kagura's team up against the leader of their attackers, dubbed the Eldest, quickly devolved into the two siblings beating on each other instead. Their petty squabbles should have put them at a disadvantage in the fight, but in true Yato family fashion, they started using the Eldest as a projectile weapon against each other. The Eldest's poor crotch was thoroughly abused in the process, as the ruthless siblings seemed to aim there with every single hit. Eventually, they grew bored with him and finished him off with a combined strike.
The most surprising thing about the entire conflict, however, was that after the battle, Kamui reassured Kagura and their enemies that he had not killed the Eldest. Nothing had changed, he insisted; he just had no use for the weak. He had his eyes on a bigger prize.
When Kamui moved to attack Kagura for real, Gintoki finally arrived to scold him and put a stop to it. In a characteristically dramatic display, Kamui agreed to be patient so long as Gintoki, Kagura, and his other targets made sure not to die in the upcoming battles.
They all leaped into the fray, fighting for Earth together.
CANON PERSONALITY: Kamui is by his own admission "empty," a snapped soul with nothing left but to move forward on his eternal hunt for strength.
As a child, his family meant everything to him. They were the reason he first sought strength. His father was one of the strongest Yato out there, and that all powerful man had asked him to protect his mother and little sister in his stead. When his mother fell ill, Kamui poured his heart and soul into being everything she needed him to be. Until he learned the harsh truth his father had been hiding from him. His mother was a mutant, born on the Yato's now uninhabitable home planet. That planet was the only place she could live, yet her husband and children would die under such harsh conditions. She chose her family over her health. Now she was dying.
Kamui's very existence was killing the one person he wanted to protect most.
The day he learned this was the day he shattered. He took his family down with him when he tried to kidnap his mother and force her to return to her home planet. He attacked his father, and his father nearly killed him, all while his mother watched weakly from the sidelines and his little sister begged them to stop. His young mind warped, desperate for a way out, but all he could do was run away. He'd destroyed everything he cared about, his one place in the universe, and he'd done it more thoroughly than even he'd thought possible. He could never go back again.
It's from this mentality that the Kamui of the present was born. He is a man who only looks forward, disregarding the past as nothing more than a crutch. He shuns worldly or emotional attachments to anything, even his own life, and openly despises the weak. His only goal is to become "the strongest," and he will do anything, kill anyone, to get there.
Kamui's obsession with strength is a lifelong one. He has always had difficulty defining it, and thus, he's looked to others as examples. When his father's strength couldn't save his mother, he began looking to a man named Housen, the then leader of the Harusame Space Pirates Seventh Division. Housen's strength was easy to understand because it wasn't meant to protect, only to destroy. It makes sense, after all. The strength Kamui had gained in his desperate attempts to save his family only netted him tragedy. This must be because strength isn't meant to protect others in the first place. No, strength is not a means to an end; strength is the only end for which one should strive.
He is very closed minded in that sense, choosing to see the world in black and white. Anything that doesn't fit into his definition of strength must therefore be weakness. Umibouzu, one of the strongest men in the galaxy, is weak in Kamui's eyes because he wasn't willing to kill Kamui, his first and only son. Housen, the King of the Yato and the man who taught Kamui how to fight, is also weak because he fell in love with a woman and was desperate enough to cage her. These two former idols of Kamui's fell prey to such weakness as love, guilt, lust, and possessiveness. According to Kamui, that is their downfall, and he's not wrong. Housen dies to an uprising of those women he's subjugated, and Umibouzu loses both his arms because of Kamui. The very concept of honing one's strength to protect something is now outright insulting to his ideology because it betrays one's weakness, and more than anything else, Kamui detests his own weakness.
This is why he has so much trouble with protagonist Gintoki and his little sister Kagura. They wear their weaknesses like a badge of honor and yet Kamui cannot beat them into submission. Through their persistence, they lay his weakness bare: the fact that he still loves and wants to be acknowledged by the family he destroyed.
Kamui does eventually accept this weakness as a part of his identity and is forced to eat a piece of humble pie, but this doesn't make him a better person by any means. If anything, it gives him the opportunity to be even more intolerable. He sees no reason to reform (once a pirate, always a pirate) and decides that because the reason he couldn't defeat Kagura was that she refused to stay down, he'll just have to refuse to accept defeat himself. This becomes his new definition of strength: refusing to give up until he's accomplished his goal. In the hands of a shounen protagonist, such conviction becomes his best trait. In the hands of Kamui, it becomes a vow to protect his prey until he can kill them himself.
His decision making has always been guided by his momentary whims in this way. While his well-honed battle sense and pure, unadulterated power are what he's known for among his enemies, his followers see a different side to him daily. Kamui is brutal, yes, but he's also selfish, sacrilegious, and single-minded to the core. He will tease and taunt and pettily torture his companions with as much gusto as his enemies. He will ditch anyone and anything the moment they no longer interest him. These traits are actually what make him so charismatic among his fellow outlaws. What Kamui desires isn't the perks of a higher status or a better world to live in but rather to topple the entire hierarchy just to prove he can.
He says as much when his second in command Abuto points out that his actions will get the entire Seventh Division in trouble with Harusame's higher ups. If his superiors don't approve of his actions, Kamui chimes cheerily, he'll kill them. He'll have to kill them sooner or later anyway if he wants to become the strongest; angering them enough to come after him only makes his job easier.
Honestly, this entire personality section could be summed up with a concise, "He does what he wants when he wants, and screw everyone else." Not only is he a selfish asshole, he is a self-aware selfish asshole. This makes his smug grin that much more intolerable because he can't be reasoned with. He is the man who waged war against the universe and said with a smile that it's just what pirates do. He already knows he's an idiot with no desire but to fight until he dies, so anyone with the balls to tell him what he is as if he doesn't know is clearly asking to be shat on.
What makes this unabashedly obnoxious personality so fascinating, however, are the moments when Kamui contradicts his own rules. Until Kagura beats some sense into him, he's convinced that caring is weakness, that strength is all that matters, and that losers deserve death. Yet he still spares one of his subordinates when he's lost a fight, holds back his desire to do battle with Shinsuke because he "owes him one," and repeatedly aids his little sister rather than kill her. Despite Kamui's long-suffering crusade to snuff out his emotion, he never actually succeeds.
The reason for this is revealed as far back as his very first appearance. During his introduction arc, he goes to great lengths to reunite a young boy with his prostitute mother. He justifies it as spiting Housen, but Housen chides him over how transparent this act of vicarious redemption really is.
Kamui's mother has been his conscience the entire time.
It's just too bad that she couldn't also be his therapist.
SKILLS/ABILITIES: Kamui is a member of the Yato Clan, a race of violent aliens from a long dead planet. They are known as one of the most powerful races in the galaxy, also the most bloodthirsty.
➛ Inhuman physical strength and endurance: All Yato are significantly stronger than humans, and their bodies are capable of taking damage that would kill anyone else. For example, Kamui's subordinate catches a bullet in his teeth, his father is able to withstand a blast from a battleship with only an umbrella, and Kamui himself keeps fighting long enough to kill twenty men after being pumped with enough poison to kill an elephant. Not only can they survive the vacuum of space, Kamui even manages to break into the control center of a spaceship from outside. He frequently murders opponents just by thrusting his palm straight through their chests.
➛ Extensive hand-to-hand fighting experience: Kamui is not only powerful, he is also disciplined, accompanying his punches and kicks with seemingly weightless acrobatics and a keen battle sense. He learned how to fight from the King of the Yato and has since usurped his title as leader of Harusame's Seventh Division. Though he regularly refers to himself as an idiot, when it comes to the battlefield, he's anything but.
➛ Yato blood: Their blood is described by Kamui as a sort of collective intuition made up of the memory of their entire species. Throughout most of the series, this is seen as a negative trait because Yato instincts always tend toward violence. The Yato have to overcome their base instincts or else lose their identities to a sea of mindless bloodlust. Kamui, Kagura, and Umibouzu all fall prey to their blood at one point in their lives - during which time they attack everyone indiscriminately without care for their opponents or themselves. Although Kagura is originally afraid of this blood, Kamui teaches her that there's more to it as long as the Yato in question is disciplined. This well of instinct can be utilized through the senses and allow one to measure his/her opponent, comparing said opponent to the thousands of battles stored within their blood's collective memory. Kamui can sense the presence of other Yato with it, distinguish the truly powerful from the braggadocious, and analyze the enemy's battle strategy.
➛ Sunlight sensitivity: Though the Yato are infamously powerful, they do have one prominent weakness. Their bodies cannot handle direct sunlight. Prolonged exposure to the sun's rays dries them out until they literally crumble to death. Because of this, Yato are known throughout the galaxy for their pale, flawless skin and the parasols they carry. They reinforce and weaponize these parasols, using them as clubs or even guns. Kamui is no exception.
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Kamui Brisby
AU AGE: 19
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Kamui will no longer be a Yato, so he will actually be able to tan without dying.
AU NAME: Kamui Brisby
AU AGE: 19
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Kamui will no longer be a Yato, so he will actually be able to tan without dying.
AU HISTORY: Permission for familial ties was granted by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
courageofheart who is also apping this round.
Kamui was born Mr. and Mrs. Brisby's first child. He was followed by two younger brothers before Mr. Brisby met his end in a car crash. Kamui was eight, his brothers even younger, and Mrs. Brisby was left to raise them on her own.
Kamui's early years were filled with taking care of his brothers and being the perfect son a mother could ask for. He did everything he could to help, even if he was a sloppy little kid about it. Then he got sick. At nine years old, Kamui fell ill with a severe case of pneumonia. Mrs. Brisby tortured herself trying to nurse him back to health, but it was never enough. She was forced to reach out to her husband's friends in Recolle in order to get Kamui the medical care he needed. With their aid, the Brisbys were able to move to Recolle and eventually adjust to big city life.
Throughout his illness and recovery, Kamui was keenly aware of how far his mother had pushed herself for his sake. His tiny mind blamed his weak, stupid body. Soon enough, a mixture of self-loathing and the eagerness to prove himself developed into chronic misbehavior. The more he interacted with people outside of his family, the less he was willing to listen to what any of them had to say. He had to be untouchable, both emotionally and physically, so that no one would ever worry over him again. Gradually, his harmless schoolyard games expanded to include trespassing, theft, bullying, vandalism, and fights.
By middle school, Kamui was a full-fledged delinquent. The only thing that kept him from joining any actual gangs was the potential danger to his family. He didn't care what happened to him, but he'd be damned if he let anyone touch his mother or little brothers while he still breathed. He made sure to never ditch school more than he could get away with, hid his fight injuries with thick clothing and a giant smile, even bullied money out of other students so that he could pay his own medical expenses. He was careful, but no one as reckless and foolhardy as Kamui could be careful for long.
In Kamui's final year of middle school, he made his first major mistake: he let another student goad him into a fight inside the classroom. Kamui threw his own desk chair at the boy and proceeded to beat him until three teachers finally managed to pull him away. With so many witnesses, this time he couldn't escape the consequences. Kamui was shipped off to a juvenile detention center for assault and battery. He was there for a year - receiving counseling, doing community service, working through issues he insisted he didn't have.
Though no staff ever managed to get through to him, there was one person who did. Mrs. Elizabeth Brisby visited her son every day she was able. She panicked, she cried, she was sure she'd failed him; and Kamui realized he hadn't been careful at all. He was released the summer before his sophomore year of high school, and though he wasn't a new man, he was determined to become one.
During his high school years, he spent his free time searching out ways to blow off steam legally. He had started working with wood and metal in juvie and continued to do so now, carving out the beginnings of his custom weapons business. He kept his fighting to underground circles, punching only people who had agreed to the fight beforehand. Stealing was now the coward's way out, and bullying grew boring. It wasn't about him anymore. He didn't have to be untouchable for his own sake; he had to be indomitable for hers. He didn't have to ensure no one worried about him; he just had to make himself worthy of that worry.
Because that was real strength, and real strength wouldn't make his mother cry.
AU PERSONALITY: No amount of nature vs. nurture tampering can cure Kamui of his desperate desire for strength. He will always feel the need to prove himself and to protect what he loves. That is how he defines his personal worth. Having been born human, however, Kamui Brisby pares all of his Yato counterpart's extremes down to a more acceptable moderation.
Kamui Brisby is no nihilistic assassin, to start. He may have no qualms with smashing someone's face in to prove a point, but he would never take a life if he had the choice. You can't learn not to mess with Kamui Brisby if you're too dead to mess with Kamui Brisby. While he has little respect for the law or authority in general, he is also well aware that he would hurt his family if he were to be arrested again. That more than morals or ethics keeps his criminal tendencies in check.
Since Kamui's home isn't completely broken, he also never reached his shattering point. Kamui Brisby isn't afraid to care about people, and that means he isn't "empty" either. Kamui Brisby still has something to protect - a loving mother, little brothers, his own future. He can't give those up like his counterpart deluded himself into doing when he decided worldly attachments were for the weak. As such, Kamui Brisby is a much more social animal. He seeks out people for more than just a fight; he wants to joke and tease and mess around for the fun of it. He wants to get in trouble for kicks rather than for the purpose of furthering his murder spree, and he wants strength so that he can impress people instead of slaughter them. His canon counterpart is too single-minded and set in his one goal to even consider broadening his horizons in such simple ways. But Kamui Brisby lives in a world where his goals can't be accomplished without close ties.
While Kamui Brisby is still as selfish, sacrilegious, and single-minded as ever, he does have a selective off button. It doesn't matter what anybody else wants - until someone gives him what he wants. It doesn't matter what anybody else believes - until believing in something makes that person strong. It doesn't matter what anybody else expects from him - until what he wants is to give them what they want. Basically, because Kamui Brisby isn't afraid to accept that he cares, he isn't always afraid to show it either. Though sentiment is far from common in his everyday discourse, if compelled, he will actually express it in ways more complex than not killing someone.
Kamui the Yato may be the leader of an assassination squad and a combat specialist, but Kamui Brisby is very undisciplined in his violence. He's wild and unpredictable when he fights, caring very little about the outcome as long as he can brawl his frustrations away. Without purpose in battle, he can be fickle - able to punch someone's nose in one day and then greet them cheerfully the next. True to his Yato counterpart, he also comes to admire anyone who can beat him, even if they use underhanded methods. Strength is bad ass, and anyone more bad ass than him is someone he needs to learn from, not envy. Because of this, he can fall into friendly correspondence with people who beat him up and vice versa with more ease than he can with most other people out there. Literally bonding through fists.
It's important to note that his outward demeanor is not that different from his canon counterpart's. Kamui Brisby taunts friends and foes alike. He's petty and prideful, disregards rules like they're sweaty socks, does whatever he feels like whenever he feels like it, and makes way too many vulgar jokes. He's a selfish asshole. What actually differs between the human and the Yato is that when Kamui Brisby realizes he's being a selfish asshole, he has a still breathing reason to stop.
His mother is his therapist.
courageofheart who is also apping this round.Kamui was born Mr. and Mrs. Brisby's first child. He was followed by two younger brothers before Mr. Brisby met his end in a car crash. Kamui was eight, his brothers even younger, and Mrs. Brisby was left to raise them on her own.
Kamui's early years were filled with taking care of his brothers and being the perfect son a mother could ask for. He did everything he could to help, even if he was a sloppy little kid about it. Then he got sick. At nine years old, Kamui fell ill with a severe case of pneumonia. Mrs. Brisby tortured herself trying to nurse him back to health, but it was never enough. She was forced to reach out to her husband's friends in Recolle in order to get Kamui the medical care he needed. With their aid, the Brisbys were able to move to Recolle and eventually adjust to big city life.
Throughout his illness and recovery, Kamui was keenly aware of how far his mother had pushed herself for his sake. His tiny mind blamed his weak, stupid body. Soon enough, a mixture of self-loathing and the eagerness to prove himself developed into chronic misbehavior. The more he interacted with people outside of his family, the less he was willing to listen to what any of them had to say. He had to be untouchable, both emotionally and physically, so that no one would ever worry over him again. Gradually, his harmless schoolyard games expanded to include trespassing, theft, bullying, vandalism, and fights.
By middle school, Kamui was a full-fledged delinquent. The only thing that kept him from joining any actual gangs was the potential danger to his family. He didn't care what happened to him, but he'd be damned if he let anyone touch his mother or little brothers while he still breathed. He made sure to never ditch school more than he could get away with, hid his fight injuries with thick clothing and a giant smile, even bullied money out of other students so that he could pay his own medical expenses. He was careful, but no one as reckless and foolhardy as Kamui could be careful for long.
In Kamui's final year of middle school, he made his first major mistake: he let another student goad him into a fight inside the classroom. Kamui threw his own desk chair at the boy and proceeded to beat him until three teachers finally managed to pull him away. With so many witnesses, this time he couldn't escape the consequences. Kamui was shipped off to a juvenile detention center for assault and battery. He was there for a year - receiving counseling, doing community service, working through issues he insisted he didn't have.
Though no staff ever managed to get through to him, there was one person who did. Mrs. Elizabeth Brisby visited her son every day she was able. She panicked, she cried, she was sure she'd failed him; and Kamui realized he hadn't been careful at all. He was released the summer before his sophomore year of high school, and though he wasn't a new man, he was determined to become one.
During his high school years, he spent his free time searching out ways to blow off steam legally. He had started working with wood and metal in juvie and continued to do so now, carving out the beginnings of his custom weapons business. He kept his fighting to underground circles, punching only people who had agreed to the fight beforehand. Stealing was now the coward's way out, and bullying grew boring. It wasn't about him anymore. He didn't have to be untouchable for his own sake; he had to be indomitable for hers. He didn't have to ensure no one worried about him; he just had to make himself worthy of that worry.
Because that was real strength, and real strength wouldn't make his mother cry.
AU PERSONALITY: No amount of nature vs. nurture tampering can cure Kamui of his desperate desire for strength. He will always feel the need to prove himself and to protect what he loves. That is how he defines his personal worth. Having been born human, however, Kamui Brisby pares all of his Yato counterpart's extremes down to a more acceptable moderation.
Kamui Brisby is no nihilistic assassin, to start. He may have no qualms with smashing someone's face in to prove a point, but he would never take a life if he had the choice. You can't learn not to mess with Kamui Brisby if you're too dead to mess with Kamui Brisby. While he has little respect for the law or authority in general, he is also well aware that he would hurt his family if he were to be arrested again. That more than morals or ethics keeps his criminal tendencies in check.
Since Kamui's home isn't completely broken, he also never reached his shattering point. Kamui Brisby isn't afraid to care about people, and that means he isn't "empty" either. Kamui Brisby still has something to protect - a loving mother, little brothers, his own future. He can't give those up like his counterpart deluded himself into doing when he decided worldly attachments were for the weak. As such, Kamui Brisby is a much more social animal. He seeks out people for more than just a fight; he wants to joke and tease and mess around for the fun of it. He wants to get in trouble for kicks rather than for the purpose of furthering his murder spree, and he wants strength so that he can impress people instead of slaughter them. His canon counterpart is too single-minded and set in his one goal to even consider broadening his horizons in such simple ways. But Kamui Brisby lives in a world where his goals can't be accomplished without close ties.
While Kamui Brisby is still as selfish, sacrilegious, and single-minded as ever, he does have a selective off button. It doesn't matter what anybody else wants - until someone gives him what he wants. It doesn't matter what anybody else believes - until believing in something makes that person strong. It doesn't matter what anybody else expects from him - until what he wants is to give them what they want. Basically, because Kamui Brisby isn't afraid to accept that he cares, he isn't always afraid to show it either. Though sentiment is far from common in his everyday discourse, if compelled, he will actually express it in ways more complex than not killing someone.
Kamui the Yato may be the leader of an assassination squad and a combat specialist, but Kamui Brisby is very undisciplined in his violence. He's wild and unpredictable when he fights, caring very little about the outcome as long as he can brawl his frustrations away. Without purpose in battle, he can be fickle - able to punch someone's nose in one day and then greet them cheerfully the next. True to his Yato counterpart, he also comes to admire anyone who can beat him, even if they use underhanded methods. Strength is bad ass, and anyone more bad ass than him is someone he needs to learn from, not envy. Because of this, he can fall into friendly correspondence with people who beat him up and vice versa with more ease than he can with most other people out there. Literally bonding through fists.
It's important to note that his outward demeanor is not that different from his canon counterpart's. Kamui Brisby taunts friends and foes alike. He's petty and prideful, disregards rules like they're sweaty socks, does whatever he feels like whenever he feels like it, and makes way too many vulgar jokes. He's a selfish asshole. What actually differs between the human and the Yato is that when Kamui Brisby realizes he's being a selfish asshole, he has a still breathing reason to stop.
His mother is his therapist.