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PLAYER INFORMATION

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AGE:27
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CHARACTER INFORMATION

SERIES: Detective Conan
NAME: Conan Edogawa (Shinichi Kudo)
RACE: human
AGE: 17, but appears 7
CANON POINT: Just after episode 523 (What She Wants to Ask)
REFERENCES: Wiki
GENDER: Male
APPEARANCE:
A tiny and serious child with an air of intelligence about himself.  His most noticeable feature is a pair of oversized glasses which he wears at all times.  His bright blue eyes are alert, and he is always taking note of everything around him.  Conan's hair is slightly messy, but mostly tamed save for a cowlick that sticks up at the back of his head.  Although he is short even for his age, Conan is very athletic.  When adults are around he often puts up a facade of cheerful childishness.  When alone or among children he  often has a bored expression or an irritable scowl.

As a side note, Conan's teenage self looks remarkably similar to Kuroba Kaito.  Close enough that the magician has been able to disguise himself as Shinichi without a mask.

Picture of Conan

Picture of Shinichi

PERSONALITY & HOUSE REQUESTS:

The first thing anyone notices about Conan is his intelligence. He knows and understands far too much, even for his true age. Ask him about practically any topic and he can ramble about it knowledgeably. As the seven -year-old he appears to be he attempts to conceal the full extent of his knowledge and deduction skill, but he has never been very successful at this. He tries to appear like an ordinary child, but he doesn't really have clue what normal is.

He is brilliantly intelligent, cool-headed, independent, logical, and acerbic. And hopelessly in love with his childhood friend Ran. His ability for deductive logic, immense knowledge, and analytical ability make him an amazing detective. He is hardly ever wrong, once he has figured a case out. Even cases that have been labeled unsolvable.

But at the same times, his genius has created problems for him. He is completely unable to resist a mystery. If he finds one, his curiosity will not let him rest until he finds an answer. When in the middle of an investigation he often forgets the danger of hunting suspects in a child's body. He can deduct motives and solve impossibly complicated riddles, but he doesn't really understand people on a personal level. He didn't understand his own feelings for Ran until it was too late to tell her anything, and he has repeatedly missed obvious hints from others about their feelings for him. He can also be very forgetful about his personal life. He never remembers his own birthday, for example. He also has trouble relating to his peers. Even before his shrinking, he was almost completely isolated from his classmates, apart from Ran. He is most comfortable when dealing with adults at a professional level.

Whatever name you call him by, he has always had a habit of putting on different personalities to get the results he wants. Shinichi's core personality is a bored and irritable boy. He finds most of the typical occupations of his peers uninteresting and constantly runs a sarcastic commentary on the people around him. Only a few things can snap him out of this. Any mention of Sherlock Holmes will instantly turn him into an enthusiastic boy who can ramble on for hours. And the appearance of a mystery of any kind will instantly bring out his razor sharp focus. Once he is on the hunt to solve a mystery he is almost impossible to distract. He is a huge fan of soccer, and admits to a fondness for cars and cheesecake. An there is Ran, of course. His most important person.

Even when he was still Shinichi, he admitted to deliberately putting on a mature and serious attitude so that the police would listen to him. As Conan now he often puts on an act of sugary enthusiasm for the benefit of adults. Especially when at a murder scene and drawing attention to vital clues. He is probably truest to his own personality among his classmates in first grade and among th few people who know his secret. But even with them he is secretive.

Currently Conan has only two goals in his life. First, to reclaim his old life and to finally confess his feelings to Ran. To do this he needs to find an antidote for the poison that turned him into a child and he needs to bring an end to the Black Organization. Secondly, he has the goal of finding the truth behind every crime he stumbles across.

He believes in justice. If finding the truth involves bending or breaking the law, he will do that without a seconds regret. He also believes that there is nothing that justifies the taking of a life, even if it is a murderer's life. Once he told a fellow high school detective that cornering someone with logic and allowing them to commit suicide was the same as committing murder themselves.

He has the worst luck in the world when it comes to stumbling across cases. He can't go anywhere without dead bodies turning up somewhere. Amusement parks, the mall, bus-rides, the beach, parties, restaurants, even if he is just walking down the street. If there is a crime happening anywhere in the area, he will be there. If there is a way for a person to die, he has probably seen it before. And no matter how horrific the scene, he is never phased. He sees bodies as evidence. Nothing more.

His forced second childhood has turned him into a kind of deadpan snarker. He is never shy about making acerbic observations about the people around him, though most of those comments never leave his head. Particularly if they're getting off track in a murder investigation. Additionally, his act as a child has made him more than a little manipulative. He is entirely capable of leading adults through an entire investigation without ever letting them know what was really happening. If they still don't get it, he will resort to drugging them and using them as living puppets.

He idolizes Sherlock Holmes, and has deliberately modeled himself after the detective. And he is a natural skeptic when it comes to ghosts, monsters, and magic. He has repeatedly run into murderers attempting to disguise their crimes as the works of ghosts or local monster stories. Upon meeting any people with such special powers here, he is likely to immediately assume it is a hoax to cover up for another crime.

Shinichi has a habit of taking everything on himself. He tends to be very closemouthed about the things that are really bothering him and will never ask for help even if he needs it. He often forgets just how physically vulnerable he is right now, especially when he gets caught up in the chase. He is terrified of the Black Organization ever discovering that Shinichi Kudo is still alive. But he is most terrified that Ran will get hurt. If it means that she won't get involved he is willing to lie directly to his best friend. Even if it means she will hate him if she ever finds out.

He hates lying, and he hates being in this situation where his whole lie is a lie. But even more, he hates what he has done to Ran. He has to sit and watch Ran getting upset and worried about Shinichi's disappearance, when all he has to offer her is an occasional phonecall through a voice changer.

As he put it once.

If I told her how I feel, she’d just miss me even more. After all, I’m the guy who’s been breaking her heart by making her wait an eternity. Even though I’m always by her side. I don’t want to see her cry anymore. Even if it means that I no longer have a place in her heart. Seems pretty immature of me, doesn’t it?


House Request 1 (Gryffindor)

One of Shinichi's strongest character traits is courage. He cares passionately about protecting lives and bringing criminals to justice. To him, even the worst criminal does not deserve to die. He wants to see criminals face punishment for their crimes within the justice system. He believes so fiercely in this that he has often risked his life to save the lives of people he knows to be murderers and worse. He once told a fellow high school detective that cornering suspect with logic and allowing the suspect to commit suicide was the same as committing a murder themselves.

When it comes to saving lives, Shinichi has no sense of self-preservation. He will impulsively throw himself into danger without thinking of the consequences. In the past he has used a skateboard to jump over a broken skybridge 70 stories in the air, run over a burning bridge, jumped off skyscrapers, and taken bullets to protect other children. He routinely confronts dangerous adult criminals despite his child's body, challenging them with nothing more than his mind and a few gdgets invented by his next door neighbor.

House Request 2 (Ravenclaw)
Shinichi prizes his mind highly. He knows huge amounts of facts about hundreds of different subjects, and often lectures everyone around him on different topics. He can't stand not knowing something. Nothing drives him crazy faster than a secret he doesn't know, and he will pursue it singlemindedly until he has the problem solved to his own satisfaction.

COMMUTER DETAILS: Conan is one character who will NEVER ally himself with the deatheaters.

POSITION:Student

ABILITIES & POWERS:
He's a detective. One of, if not the best in his canon. Basically this means that he has incredible skills of observation, is good at reading criminal's intentions and is capable of putting together pieces of seemingly unrelated information to figure out the method and reasoning behind elaborate crimes.  Conan has vast amounts of information memorized on hundreds of different topics.  Most of them relating to solving murders. He has also shown other skills such as piloting aircraft, advanced marksmanship, knowledge of poisons and the human body and solving riddles and codes.

Conan always carries a number of disguised tools and gadgets, which he uses to make up for the weakness of his child's body.  His most offensive weapons are his wristwatch and his shoes.  His shoes are specially designed to temporarily increase his kicking power.  Using them, he can knock criminals unconscious from hundreds of feet away.  And has occasionally dented metal using a soccer ball.  His wristwatch has a concealed sedative dart launcher.  

His glasses have secondary uses as night vision goggles and as a homing device tracker.   Conan's bowtie is a voice changer, and his belt buckle conceals an soccerball inflater and launcher.

The only really unusual ability he has isn't so much an ability as it is a condition.  A year ago he was poisoned by an experimental drug called APTX4869.  It was supposed to kill him, but instead he shrank to the size of a first grader.  As of now, there is no permanent cure although he has used some temporary cures to return to his true age for a few hours.  

He will likely be very good at any classes involving theory or figuring out why something works. After he is convinced that such a ridiculous thing as magic actually exists, of course.  He will not do well in any classes that require the use of imagination or that depend on believing that magic will work.  He is likely to be very uncomfortable  with the idea of actually using magic for a while. 

WAND:

Cedar with a dragon heartstring core, ten inches, unyielding.

The resources said that the holder of a cedar wand is perceptive and difficult to fool, and carries the potential to be a frightening adversary if crossed. Which fits Conan very well.  As a detective he 
is capable of predicting details of complete stranger's lives simply by looking at their physical appearance.  And he is very difficult to fool.  Ask any of the masters of disguise he routinely sees through.

Dragon heartstring fits his determination.

And it is unyielding, because Conan himself is very stubborn and indomitable when it comes to solving mysteries and chasing criminals.  Once he discovers that existence of a mystery it is almost impossible to force him to drop it.

MISC.:
Although Shinichi is really seventeen, he is currently attempting to convince the world that he is nothing more than a very bright seven-year-old. Because of this, would he be assigned to a year based on his real age or based on the age he appears to be?

Conan does not believe in magic. At all.

WRITING SAMPLES

FIRST PERSON:

[A week in this place, and he'd made no progress in deducing the motive behind this situation.  The stated reasoning behind their arrival was obviously ludicrous.  Magic?  There was no such thing.  Magic was merely a name humans gave to something when they could not understand it.  Or worse, the name given to a magician's tricks.

 Still, he couldn't deny that some of the things he had seen here defied conventional explanation.  But that was no evidence of magic.  There was nothing that could not be explained if it was given enough effort.

But there was one conclusion he could come to.  There would be no more progress in this case without more information.

And so....]

Hello!

[The small boy smiles brightly at the camera, doing his best to appear nothing more than an intelligent child.]

My name is Conan Edogawa!  I wanted to thank everyone who helped me when I arrived here.  Thank you!

But I'm still confused.  Are we really supposed to learn magic?  That isn't real, right?  I heard that we were brought here because someone wants us to fight a war.  Is that really true?  And has anyone ever met them?  They must be very mean people if they won't let us go home.

THIRD PERSON:

Conan sits in his seat at the front of the room and glowers at the professor.  He was going on about proper wand movement.  How ridiculous.  Like the movement of a stick could have anything to do with the effects of the so-called spells.  

Nothing made any sense!  The teachers told him the motions and words to say, but not a single one explained how such things were possible.  And saying it was magic was no kind of  explanation.  But he would find that out.  He would figure it all out.

This was just another puzzle, after all.  And there was no puzzle he couldn't solve.  The more complicated it became, the more he became intrigued by it.  Hidden under his folded hands, the boy's lips curve into a smug smirk.

When the professor opens the lesson for questions Conan makes his move.  He waves his hand, deliberately putting on childish mannerisms, and smiles innocently at the teacher.  

"Ne, I have lots of questions!  Why do we need to make those motions?  Where does the energy come from?  Would it work if we use different words?"

A hint of smugness creeps into Conan's expression as he memorizes the professor's responses.  He fully intended to verify them against the resources in the library and responses from other professors.  And perhaps later he could look into taking apart this wand or one of the other supposedly magical devices of the castle.  Surely there must be some kind of mechanism involved,

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REVISIONS REQUESTED

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The mods feel that though your app is strong, some adjustments need to be made. Please address the following points required for clarification:

● We would like to see further explanation for why the character hates lying or living a life as a lie when the wiki resource given describes him as someone pretending to be a child. Further elaborate on this would be appreciated, as well as evidence of this disposition.

● We would also like to see a revised abilities section that focuses less on the gadgets Conan has (as these will not be available to him in Hogwarts) and more on how his intelligence and other skills would fit in the word of Magic Draft. How will he adapt without the gadgets and what spells would he excel in?

● Finally, some clarification about what year Conan would be placed in would be appreciated. If he acts and looks like a child, should he be placed in a lower class or would a class suited to his actual age preferred?

Please reply as a comment to this comment within 72 hours so that the mods can see the changes made to your app.

Thank you!

REVISIONS 1

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Of course!

We would like to see further explanation for why the character hates lying or living a life as a lie when the wiki resource given describes him as someone pretending to be a child. Further elaborate on this would be appreciated, as well as evidence of this disposition.

This question involves going deeper into the plot of the series as well as some of Conan's deepest motivations.

First, Shinichi believes in revealing the truth. As a detective he treasures the truth, and dedicates himself to revealing the truth behind the crimes he encounters. This is even stated in the catch phrase he often repeats. 'There is only one truth.' He believes that his job as a detective is to seek out the one truth behind all the lies and trickery criminals employ to conceal their crimes. For someone who believes in the truth so strongly it is a very painful thing to be forced to live a life under a false name.

Although it is true that he has grown to enjoy being a child sometimes, the truth is that he would give anything for a cure. To answer to his own name again and to speak with his own voice. Because he does not like speaking about his own feelings this is often more implied than said, but occasionally he refers to his feelings on the matter. During the Desperate Revival Arc, when he turned back to his real size for a few short days, he attempted to hold on to his adult form for just a few more seconds. Even through the excruciating pain of the change, which he has described as feeling like his very bones were melting. Just to be able to tell Ran his feelings with his own voice and face.

As Conan, Shinichi is like a child in witness protection who has been forced to give up his identity and name. All the time still seeing his family and the life he used to have. He tells lies to the people he loves while knowing that he is only causing them pain. But everything he does is to protect them.

He did not choose to be turned into a child. It was a freak accident caused by a poison that was supposed to kill him. The organization responsible for poisoning him believes him to be dead, and if they ever discover his survival he could be in great danger. When his childhood friend and love interest walked in just after he realized this, he panicked and concocted the identity of Edogawa Conan.

Since then, every encounter he had with the Black Organization has only reinforced the idea of how dangerous they are. They have infiltrated industries and law enforcement all over Japan, and are ruthless. The Organization has a record of murdering anyone with any knowledge of their existence. Conan has become convinced that the only way to protect the people he loves is to keep them from knowing anything about the situation. That he HAS to lie or he will be putting them in danger.

On several occasions he has made statements about how much he hates having to lie to his best friend, specifically. There have been many times he has nearly told her. But every time something has happened to remind how much danger she could be in if she knew.

In addition to this, he doesn't want her to worry. Even if all he can do is call her through a voice changer, he will do that. Even if it is hurting both of them. He thinks it is better than making her worry over how much danger he is really in.

If you need further evidence of this I can probably track down some video clips to support it.

REVISIONS 2

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● We would also like to see a revised abilities section that focuses less on the gadgets Conan has (as these will not be available to him in Hogwarts) and more on how his intelligence and other skills would fit in the word of Magic Draft. How will he adapt without the gadgets and what spells would he excel in?

He's a detective. One of, if not the best in his canon. Basically this means that he has incredible skills of observation, is good at reading criminal's intentions and is capable of putting together pieces of seemingly unrelated information to figure out the method and reasoning behind elaborate crimes. Conan has vast amounts of information memorized on hundreds of different topics. Most of them relating to solving murders. He has also shown other skills such as piloting aircraft, advanced marksmanship, knowledge of poisons and the human body and solving riddles and codes.

The only really unusual ability he has isn't so much an ability as it is a condition. A year ago he was poisoned by an experimental drug called APTX4869. It was supposed to kill him, but instead he shrank to the size of a first grader. As of now, there is no permanent cure although he has used some temporary cures to return to his true age for a few hours.

After arriving in magicdraft it will take a hard adjustment at first to accept the idea of magic. Up until this point his disbelief in magic has been a major part of his worldview. But once he accepts the reality of magic Conan will immediately try to learn as much as he can about why magic works. He has a compulsion to figure out why things work, and this will carry into his classes at Hogwarts.

Early areas of interest in magic are likely to be ways to use spells to support his detective work and to recreate the effects of his favorite gadgets. He might attempt to find a way to enchant soccer balls or slumber spells. Likewise, he would very interested in any kind of diagnostic spells.

Because of his intelligence and curiosity he is likely to catch up with coursework very quickly. Especially if it is challenging enough to engage his mind.

He will be very good at the parts of any classes involving theory or figuring out why something works. I expect him to get very good grades in History of Magic. His ability for code-solving and languages will make him very good at Ancient Runes. He has a talent for chemistry, as seen in a flashback where he concocted a smokebomb in chemistry class. This could easily be applied to potions.

He will not do as well with classes that depend on wandwork such as charms and transfiguration. He will be absolutely horrible at flying, due to the need to actually believe in the broom.

● Finally, some clarification about what year Conan would be placed in would be appreciated. If he acts and looks like a child, should he be placed in a lower class or would a class suited to his actual age preferred?

Conan is someone with the mind of a seventeen-year-old and the body of a seven-year-old. My main question here relates to how much will be known by the professors about the draftees. Would they know the real ages and real names of people who are lying about both? Or will they be asking the students how old they are?

If it is some kind of magic that decides it, then his age would be read as seventeen. But if anyone was to ask him his age Conan would inform them that he was 7.

Personally, I think it would be more interesting for plot development if he was assigned to the seventeen-year-old group. But I'm willing to work with however you decide.

Let me know if you need anything more!

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Just to avoid confusion, I'm letting you know that I just renamed my journal from tantei_kid to modernholmes.

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