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Death the Kid | Soul Eater | Not Reserved
Name: Bizzy
Age: 29
Contact Info: brb.herding.cats@gmail.com; brb_herding_cats @ plurk
Other Characters: Zippo!
Character Information
Name: Death the Kid
Canon: Soul Eater
Age: 14? Kid appears to be about fourteen-ish years old, but his age is arguable and it’s unclear if he ages the same as humans. I have always played him as having aged the same as humans before connecting the lines of sanzu, and since I’m playing him before then, then fourteen it is!
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Shortly after the kishin Asura is revived. Kid’s last clear memory will be of attempting to keep Asura from attempting to escape from beneath the DWMA. His attempts to retaliate against the kishin result in him unconscious—this is about mid-Episode 24.
Background Link: Bam, the Soul Eater Wiki, and the good old fashioned regular wiki page too, just in case. As Kid is coming from fairly early in the overall canon (manga and anime), the Soul Eater wiki is going to give a lot of background information that is kind of irrelevant. Disregard everything after “post timeskip”!
Inventory: The clothes he’s wearing—black slacks, a white button-down collared shirt and undershirt, a uniquely-designed black suit jacket, black shoes, and the caricature-skull broach he wears at his neck. He’ll have his student ID in his pocket, but no wallet. Two handkerchiefs—one per pocket and one on each side. He will have a small mirror in his pocket, as well. That’s all!
Personality: ”I do not deny evil, nor do I believe that any human is completely free of malice. Everything must be in balance. As long as evil and good maintain an equilibrium in this world there is no problem. Perfect balance is the key to everything.”
Much of Death the Kid’s behaviors, eccentricities, quirks and personality traits can be related to his quote above. Kid is the future Grim Reaper, the next god of death. His father has failed once in bringing forth an heir to his position, resulting in the creation of one of the world’s greatest evils. Kid is an additional fragment of Death’s soul, and this time Death himself is determined to not make the same mistakes.
Death the Kid is being raised far more like a human child, in hopes to foster an understanding of and an attachment to those over whose lives he will ultimately preside. Death’s attempt to instill a great deal of respect and care towards humans in his second son is clear in Kid’s actions towards humans. While the next grim reaper looks like a frightening miniature undertaker, he turns out to be a very compassionate and respectful youngster who has a great deal of respect and concern for others. Kid’s attentiveness to detail and kindness is advanced for his presumed age: more like an experienced adult handling a wary stranger, Kid expresses his concern for others with subtlety and in private. While he does occasionally take drastic action—joining the DWMA on a whim so he would be permitted to step in and help the students fighting Stein in an extracurricular lesson—he also takes care to cater his concern to the situation.
Kid’s sense of morality is far more intense than most, perhaps to be expected of one whose role is to maintain order. While he is frequently idealistic in his expectations of morality in humans, it is born of the childlike naiveté that Death in part forced upon him by raising him much like a human. Regardless of Kid’s compassionate nature, there are things the young reaper will not tolerate. Falling very much in line with his very black-and-white understanding of balance, he outright states that he will not allow anyone the right to kill. While Kid does not fully ascend to his status as the grim reaper until the very end of the manga (and will not be entering Snowblind as such), it is understood that a large portion of his lot in life is the protection of human souls from potential kishin. Kid takes this burden very seriously.
Despite looking like a fourteen year old, Kid behaves more like an adult. He presents himself as composed the majority of the time and exudes confidence, the cool and collected picture of a wealthy heir to a very important position. Kid places a lot of importance on good manners and propriety, to a point where his father’s nonchalance and cheerful attitude does occasionally irk him. Still, Kid is prone to losing each and every bit of calm control should the situation call for it. In line with his strict understanding of morality, his reactions to violations of such are the moments in which Kid truly loses all composure. Kid at his angriest is the Kid who has seen his friends threatened, his father’s name spoken defiled, the souls that he is duty-bound to protect in harm’s way. Only one other thing gets the next grim reaper quite so flustered—
The absence of symmetry. Most likely the greatest hindrance in Kid’s daily life is his obsessive-compulsive tendencies. His obsession is for symmetry, balance, order, equilibrium; his compulsions are almost always somehow connected to striving for that balance. His behaviors can absolutely go beyond what is rational, and he is not completely unaware that they are irrational. Still, he’s unable to help himself when caught in the throes of his own anxieties and either needs to attend to the compulsion or, should he not, feel intense shame and guilt. Kid’s reactions to his various eccentricity-related thoughts range from the comical (“If you don’t think about it, it won’t bother you!” “I’m thinking about it, I’m thinking about it!”) to the ridiculous (spitting up blood and passing out) to the outright dangerous (abandoning his weapon partners to check on the status of a painting in his hall).
I want to touch upon something that will be very important for Kid in Snowblind, but hasn’t been discussed in the SE canon because it doesn’t come up. In Snowblind, Kid will be human. And while Kid is not arrogant, he is shown to be very proud of his lineage as the son of Death. He’s ready (though not overly eager) to become the next Grim Reaper. He has lived his entire life as a being with supernatural healing, an ability to perceive the souls around him without so much as an extra thought. Suddenly, he will be thrust into an environment very much unlike his home (he lives in the desert!), unable to sense souls, unable to use a mirror to call his father, unable to survive in the way he has his entire life. What other name could there be for the fragment of Death’s soul but Death the Kid? By placing Kid in an environment where he is not Death the Kid but simply Kid, we’ve stripped him of the biggest part of his identity. Struggling with this absence of self is going to throw Kid for a substantial loop. To what end is he going to fight his anxieties, if there is no greater name to uphold? How far will Kid go to fight for his morals without his defining compass? I do imagine that Kid will continue to feel very much connected to his roots in that he doesn’t want to lose the connection to his honorable father—who the series does lead us to believe he does truly care for. That said, Snowblind’s setting and the absence of such a substantial part of who he is lends itself to the potentiality of Kid losing himself as a person. Who is he, if he is not Death?
Flavor Abilities: Kid is one of the top three EAT meisters in the DWMA and the next grim reaper. While he will not be at his strongest without his abilities as a reaper, he is a formidable fighter and not an opponent to take on lightly. He’s fast on his feet, and he’s a quick thinker—frequently able to quickly adapt a strategy to the situation at hand, he’s an asset to his team in combat not only for his physical strength but for tactical advantage.
Suitability: I talked a little bit in the personality section about Kid as a human, because I think that will be one of the most interesting aspects of putting him in the setting of Snowblind. Kid isn’t human. Kid is a reaper. He has lived his entire life with supernatural healing abilities, an ability to sense souls and know a wealth of information about them simply by focusing and “reading” them (soul perception). While I have always believed, because he has lived with a human-like body, that he has experienced hunger/thirst/fatigue/injuries/etc., they have never required urgent intervention—his body has always been able to manage on its own and without significant intervention. While one average human would require eight hours of sleep a night, Kid could go a good few days without or might just do a bit better with some rest under his belt. He doesn’t really need to eat, but it’s not going to hurt if he did. He’s been injured, sure, but he heals far faster than the average person and with far less medical intervention. Five crushed ribs, a collapsed lung, a concussion and a massive bleeding head wound? Most people would be unconscious, all things considered (shonen anime protagonist or not). Kid just needs a little extra rest (two hours of sleep that night instead of zero), and he’s fine.
That will not be the case in Norfinbury.
He needs to get his act together. Do his weapon partners really sleep eight hours a night? Fingers do get very cold when it’s minus thirty degrees out. How do humans manage?! He definitely just ate yesterday, how could he be hungry again?
A lot of Kid’s survival issues in Snowblind will be twofold. First are the same as everyone else: find what he needs to survive. Second, however, is getting used to the fact that he can’t simply ignore those physiological needs for so long.
Add to this humanness the fact that humanness leaves an absence of being Death and…we’ve covered the physical horror and the psychological horror. Kid…will have a lot of bad days in Snow
hellblind.RP Samples:
1. I played quite a bit at the test drive and have 40 comments already…there may be more by the time I get the courage to actually post my app.
2. How ironic that now a word that before held no fear for him can now strike such terror within him.
Death no longer conjures up the familiar image of his father’s mask, the expanse of the afterlife in his eyes, the warm vibrations of a soul slightly resonating with his. He shares no namesake with death, not here in Norfinbury where the snow is as deep as he is tall in places, not here where the temperature drops into negative digits overnight. Here, he is just Kid, and death is not on his side.
He is so much slower like this. Did he forget to eat something today? Knowing the sensation of hunger is not enough; he is so used to simply ignoring it and pressing on without regard for consequence that he’s found himself dizzy and lightheaded more than once. Was last night the night he did not sleep? He doesn’t know. Every snowy day blends into the next, and each physiological need is as pressing and complex as the one before and yet as easy to forget. Kid has meant it sincerely each and every time he has looked at someone questioningly and asked How do you manage?
The snow is up to his knees here and his pants would be soaked if it weren’t so cold that the flakes simply remained crystalized against the fabric. Ice settled into his shoes, though he didn’t notice the cold. Find somewhere warm. Lockdown is soon. Past? He has to get inside, has to be inside or he will freeze. Freeze, freeze—
When he finds a door (and it takes an agonizingly long time to do so), he can’t get it open. His fingers won’t turn the knob. Pressing his weight against it won’t get it to open. He bangs against the door, once and then twice, but nothing. It doesn’t give against his slight frame and he doesn’t have the energy to try a second time. Slogging his way through the expanse of snow, he finds a portion of the partially collapsed house that creates a small burrow.
It’s better than nothing.
If Death the Kid—Kid, Kid, he reminds himself. He is not Death here, he is just Kid—is going to die of exposure, he will do so while at least making some effort to survive.
Crawling into the small space, he finds shelter from the wind, and the respite is enough for him to suddenly realize the ache in his chest. It hits like a freight train, and he lets out a choked gasp, golden eyes wide in shock. Stillness brought pain everywhere. The toes that were previously numb began to prickle with discomfort. His fingers burned with pain every time he tried to move the useless appendages. And every breath hurt, grew increasingly painful.
He is unsure of how long he sits, sinking into the snow, burrowing deeper. He has no idea of when he fell asleep. But when he opens his eyes, he sees Death coming for him. And in spite of his fear, he is happy to see his father again.
ACCEPTED
A cozy little antique shop. It's not very large, and it's overcrowded with shelves and large pieces of old furniture and strange statues of various animals, but it's shelter. It feels sort of ominous, however... The back room only has a table with one chair and a small bathroom.
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Re: ACCEPTED
I will be using this journal for Kid!