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CHARACTER CANON INFORMATION
Character Name: Kamui
Canon: Gintama
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Current canon as of 3/7, so Manga Chapter 578.
History: Here!
Powers/Abilities:
☂ Boy 2 Stronk: Kamui is one of the most physically capable members of the entire Gintama cast. He is highly skilled in fighting, and has the strength, endurance, and body sense to back up the skills he's learned over the years.

☂ Evil Space Bunny: Kamui, despite all appearances is not human. Instead, he is a member of an alien race known as the Yato, which are known for their exceptional strength, agility, heightened senses and accelerated healing ability, as compared to ordinary humans. Additionally, he's considered to be one of the highest elite members of the Yato clan, with his own abilities far surpassing the average of his race. Yato are also exceptionally bloodthirsty as compared to humans and many other Amanto, a trait which Kamui also has in spades.
Personality:
"Weaklings like you... have no place with us."
[...]
"I've got no use for weaklings."
Kamui is fixated on being strong, first and foremost. As an extension of this, he's similarly fixated on being a Yato, and what it means to be a Yato, having a very rigid definition in his mind, with the primary traits being bloodthirsty and strong. Kagura is, in his opinion, neither of these things, and is therefore not worth his time, not worth being considered one of them, and can be more easily cast aside. Similarly, his entire goal in life is to be the strongest - not simply the strongest Yato, but the strongest person in the entire known and unknown universe, and he'll stop at nothing to reach that goal, expressing that those he feel are weaker than he is are not worth his consideration, much less his time...

"Samurai really are a blast."
...Most of the time. He feels that humans are weak, and in most cases he's right - compared to him, the average human is. But then he encountered Gintoki and, later, Takasugi who, despite both being humans, proved they met and far, far surpassed his expectations of what being human is. So, interestingly, he reclassifies them. The humans who piqued his interest are both samurai, so it's samurai who keep his interest when it comes to the human race. He thinks of them as a fun prey, because despite their weak bodies, they possess a tenacity that allows them to keep getting back up and even to defeat much, much stronger opponents. This is in no small part due to Gintoki being the protagonist, and therefore it being necessary for him to keep getting up time and time again until the bad guy goes down, but while Gintama does address the meta in such ways fairly often, Kamui himself has not, and probably will not, or else his line might have gone; "Protagonists really are a blast."

"I pay my respects with a smile when killing. Regardless of how their life was, it's appropriate to send them off with a smile, so they can die soundly. You could even say that I intend to kill when I'm smiling."
Kamui is almost always smiling. He has fun with his day-to-day life, especially when that fun involves running off directly into the sort of dangerous situations that could get him killed... but more often than not directly result in carnage en masse for whoever he has his sights on at the given moment, whoever he feels would be fun to go toe to toe with. But the sentiment that he intends to kill when he's smiling is an interesting one - he laughs about the admission soon after making it, when it scares Seita, but in every other instance he shows that he is always a half-step away from killing someone, and when he's really steeped in a difficult fight, such as against Housen, the Harusame's ambush, or against Sougo or Umibozu (and, eventually, Kagura), his smile grows even wider, bordering on manic excitement where getting in his way means almost certain death (rest in peace, Ungyou, you will probably be forgotten).

"Who's afraid of the big pitiful old man? Not me."
Kamui is very, very confident, to a reckless degree. The last time he'd seen Housen, he was stronger than him, and Kamui had considered him as master, but he doesn't hesitate to tear him down and aggravate him to the point where he doesn't hesitate to start a fight. And that fight gets interrupted, so we as the audience will never know if that confidence was misplaced bravado or not. Given his tendency to pick fights with people he is reasonably certain he can defeat but still have some chance of defeating him, it's anyone's guess as to whether or not his life would have ended there, but it is certain a large portion of Yoshiwara would have gone down with the loser. His confidence extends further, in his attempt to take on Harusame not for political gain, but simply to test himself against an alien race known for being exceptionally strong in large groups, but weak individually. Another interrupted fight. He runs headlong into danger, even when heavily injured, and seems to think of that as a fun handicap that allows him to fight weaker opponents and still test his strength against them.

"Is a weak-ass game piece like that gonna be of any use?"
For all his fixation on bettering himself, and for how smart he is in many other areas of life - particularly researching enemies, knowing who to ally himself with, and when it would be smart to bail out, knowing how to be a functioning captain of a space pirate vessel of Yato who are all, most likely, older than him - he is still not one for strategy, and does not know how to make use of anything, or anyone, he considers weak, and certainly does not understand their value in strategic situations, leaving all that up to other people, like Abuto and Takasugi. Still, while he may be flippant about their decisions, particularly in Abuto's case ("Yes, yes! Yes, yes!"), he only puts up a nominal protest, by way of expressing his own opinion, but doesn't get in the way of what he seems to simultaneously consider both above and below him.

After all... "I have no interest in killing the pathetic."

"You're the same as me, aren't you? You can't pull the wool over the same stupid eyes. You don't really care about the shogun's head, right? You just wanted to come here because you got a whiff of the smell of the blood. They're the eyes of a murderer. You can't feel alive unless you're on the battlefield surrounded by death. No matter how many villains you cut down, that thirst is not quenched. You've been looking for someone strong like me, and I've been looking for someone strong like you. Right? So relax. If you're saying that you can only cut down villains.... then, I'm one hell of a villain."
Kamui sees himself strongly in Sougo, and the assertions he makes in the heat of the moment are more telling than he'd want, or would make to someone he wasn't currently trying to rile up into a fight. He follows trouble, he follows "the smell of blood," which he's never hidden before, but this indicates it's a conscious decision to do so. He knows the thirst for blood can only be quenched with a tough opponent one who, in all likelihood, will inflict serious injury and exhaustion, quieting the bloodlust because the physical body is incapable of keeping up. Most telling; however, is the assertion that Sougo - and, therefore, Kamui himself - cannot feel alive when he's not on the battlefield, that the adrenaline rush, and the hunt for the next rush in the interim, is the only thing keeping them going. A strange assertion, for one who appears so cheerful all the time, but an indication that there is something deeper under the surface that even he is careful to not let show.

"I don't have anything I want, nor do I have a reason to turn back. I can't see what lies ahead. Everything blurs together into a new and everlasting battlefield. And it's there I feel most at home. I'll keep advancing, until I'm stronger than anyone or anything, as what I needed to protect is no longer here."
Kamui, at a base level, lives in the moment. He has motivations, but they're vague and short-sighted. He wishes to become the strongest, but he doesn't really know what that means, and he knows that to accomplish this he has to fight and fight and keep fighting, so he's built his world up to be a hazy battlefield. He has to keep moving forward, because he can't go back, and his motivations have evolved with him, have simplified from "become stronger to protect mammy and Kagura" to just "become the strongest," because he's already failed. Umibozu left. He wasn't strong enough to protect his family, and put that task on little Kamui's shoulders, nearly killing him when he came back and Kamui wasn't strong enough to kill him first. He was the man of the house, at the time, and fought and fought to get stronger to protect his family, all while hiding whenever he got hurt, putting on a smile for their sick mother. But you can't punch illness in the face, so he was never strong enough to protect what he needed to, so his goals have shifted, because he doesn't really have much else.

CHARACTER AU INFORMATION
Student Name: Zheng, Kamui
Date of Birth: June 1
Typical Appearance: Totally not some kind of delinquent. Where did you get that idea?
Typical Inventory:
☂ Gauze and Medical Tape (At least two rolls each)
☂ Approximately seven extra hairties
☂ An assortment of band-aids of varying shapes and sizes
☂ The latest new smartphone, equipped with the strongest case on the market (but the screen is already cracked)
☂ Assortment of snack food items
☂ Umbrella, Parasol, or most convenient suitable bludgeoning object (pipe, baseball bat, etc.)
☂ Wallet containing school ID and as much cash as can fit inside it, but nothing else
Strengths/Abilities:
☂ I’ll kick anyone’s ass. I’ll kick your ass. I’ll kick your dog’s ass. I’ll kick my own ass.
☂ Can and will eat pretty much anything.
☂ Decent cook.
☂ Is basically a Chinese Kung Fu movie.
☂ Big Brother Hairstyling Powers.
☂ Parkour.
☂ Do it for the vine.
☂ Street Smart.
Weaknesses:
☂ Daddy issues.
☂ Mommy issues.
☂ Sister issues.
☂ Sunshine.
☂ Strategy.
☂ An idiot.
☂ What's an emotion.
☂ That sure is a yan face you have there, kiddo.
☂ Predisposed to fear-boners, apparently.
☂ Also apparently a (former!!) crybaby.
Personality Translation:
Luckily, Kamui is already a shitty eighteen year old brat in canon, so much of his existing personality can carry over with little difficulty. He'll still be violent, he'll still be excitable and enthusiastic about fighting, he'll still be out to become The Strongest, though that itself will have a slightly different definition, and will be based more around picking fights with strong people to test himself, instead of aiming to kill those stronger than him to prove his worth.

The difference will lie in how bloodthirsty he is. In canon, he doesn't bat an eye at killing. In the AU, he's never tried. He still won't think too much of it on the island, but he isn't a murderer (yet), and he will be less willing to dive right into life-threatening situations with reckless abandon. He won't have his accelerated healing or heightened strength, either, so that alone will breed some caution in him.
AU Backstory:
Kamui was born and grew up in a tiny, run-down, back-alley apartment of a slum in a city in the Republic of Central Asia that was hit hard by the economic collapse and, somehow, fell to the wayside during the reconstruction, in no small part due to being a magnet for drifters and people who had always lingered on the fringes of society. It was a rough place to grow up, to say the least, made all the rougher courtesy of an absentee father and an extremely ill mother. Dear old dad didn't have the courtesy to just leave the wife and kids without a word, though, instead waiting for Kamui to be old enough to be left with a mission, of sorts, to take care of his mom and sister, to be strong and protect them, before he left to find work.

So, little Kamui did whatever he could to get stronger, and that mostly involved getting into a whole lot of fights with people a whole lot bigger and tougher than he was. All too often, he would get hurt, and would come home and hide just how hurt he was from his mother (but it never quite escaped his little sister's notice), usually behind a wide smile and diverted concern for her well-being. Every day he grew, and every day he got closer and closer to what he thought was "strong" until, one day, his father came home, and in an effort to test himself, and to prove how far he'd come, and to prove that he was capable, he did what he did best and picked a fight.

And, promptly, lost.

The loss devastated him, forced him to work harder after his father left, again, redoubled his motivation until his mother's already failing health took a turn for the worse. A scrappy little kid who is good at taking out opponents three times his size can protect a broken home, and can physically protect the people inside it, and can keep material items from being stolen, but cannot protect against illness. The reality hit him hard, so he decided to pick himself and be a proper man of the house... and left, cutting ties entirely with those he left behind.

Eventually, he found himself a teacher who put a more refined technique to his scrappy fighting style in addition to giving him basic life skills he would need to get by. Despite this, Kamui formed no real emotional connection to the man, taking him up on an offer to travel to the Republic of Greater East Asia with him after hearing about new and different opportunities to fight new and different opponents, in addition to putting even greater distance between himself and his past. He left this teacher almost as soon as he arrived, learning the language out of necessity and by immersion, and making money by jumping headfirst into underground street fighting, not doing too poorly for himself, in the end.

But he was a self-professed idiot. He'd always been one, and despite deciding he always would be one, he knew he wouldn't get far without some kind of formal education and, come first year of high school, he took advantage of ROGEA's educational systems in a school aimed primarily towards immigrants. And struggled. He ended up falling into an unlikely not-quite friendship with a kid who could never score well enough to graduate, and after learning that Kamui was currently living in playgrounds and on park benches, they went from unlikely pseudo-friends to unlikely roommates.

Amazing how a roof over your head can help with education, because from there, Kamui hit the ground running in regards to his studies. He learned everything that was thrown at him, with a particular knack for biology and math, and even had the audacity to skip class when it wasn't going to be something fun or interesting. And still passed with flying colors, much to the ever-growing annoyance of his friend. He passed his first year with decent marks, and his second with flying colors, but between his second and third, he heard some rumors about a good school with a troublesome, edgy class. If that wasn't tempting enough - because, really, if that was all, he could just go bother said troublesome class on days he skipped - they also had a dorm, which would allow him to get out of his friend's hair, more so he wouldn't start to lose it than out of any real concern or desire to not be bothersome (he's still bothersome to the poor guy, even without being in the same class anymore).

Or maybe Shiroiwa is just a magnet for misfits, because there was no stopping Kamui from transferring in in his third year, much to the horror of his new roommates, with him consistently coming home bloody (most of it not his) and his habit of cleaning out the pantry and fridge on a regular basis. As far as classwork is concerned, he shows up... sometimes. More often than one might expect from a scrappy little delinquent, but not often enough to lose his cred. He simply has better things to do, people to be fighting, connections with classmates at his old school to keep up with (more of a gang than a group of friends, but that was neither here nor there...), and trouble to cause, when he isn't bringing his particular brand of trouble into the classroom itself.

Character Summary: That weird foreign transfer student who smiles too much that you're fairly certain has already committed way too many major crimes for a teenager. He'll claim a language barrier if you try to ask about it.

SAMPLES
Edgelords supreme. / And some dicks for good... measure. ;D