〖OOC〗CHARACTER PROFILE
Character Profile;
Name: Kitaniji Megumi; 北虹 寵 [North ➝ Rainbow ➝ Blessing]
Nickname(s): Shades, Megs, Megumi-chan
Canon: The World Ends With You
Timeline: Post-erasure.
♝ General information;
[ ! = Headcanon information ]
Gender: Male
Species: Reaper/Shinigami
Age: Deceased @ 26. (Actual age is 55!)
Birthdate: September 3, 1952!
♝ Appearance;
Height: 6'3"!
Hair color: Black
Eye color: UNKNOWN
Ethnicity: Japanese
Physical Traits: Megumi is spindly and quite pale. He has wavy black hair that falls just passed his shoulders, a goatee, and very defined cheekbones (seriously).
Dress/Clothing Style: He dresses like a disco reject. In canon, he wears a black snakeskin disco suit with flared sleeves, pants legs, half-unbottoned shirt and all. Shit he's even got a medallion-ish necklace. His closet is probably full of custom made suits of a similar fashion. Also he ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS wears his sunglasses and red headphones.
♝ Strengths & Abilities;
Kitaniji is patient, sly and manipulative, being able to make most things work into and towards his plans. Furthermore, he is was Conductor of Shibuya, making him quite a powerful Reaper. Like every Reaper, he is possesses passive telepathy where he can hear everyone within a wide range at once or focus in on particular individuals. He is also capable of imprinting thoughts or ideas on individuals or on a mass scale as seen throughout week 3. He can create Noise and invisible walls (barriers) up to level 5. And he can levitate.
♝ Personality;
Megumi Kitaniji is (or actually was considering his point in canon) Conductor of the Reaper's Game of Shibuya. As such, he is second in command. He is head of the Reapers, however also the direct subordinate to the Composer. Much like the relationship between a composer and conductor in music, the Composer of the Underground creates the rules, plans, and orders, and the Conductor must give those orders to the Reapers and make sure they are followed. Such a role requires a strong presence, and that is something Kitaniji certainly possesses.
He is snakelike, sinister and cold. He is intelligent, manipulative, ruthless, and downright cruel at times. He will use anyone or anything and work it into his plans. Nothing is sacred and every life expendable. For example, he uses Shiki as an entry fee for Neku during the second week of the Game even though she'd won the Game. In reality reincarnating her was impossible in the Composer's absence, and so he uses her without even a second thought. Another example is his strategy with the Red Skull pins. He spreads the pins first to the RG, then to his own Reapers in order to defeat the Composer in their Game. Not only were numerous Reaper lives lost, but also the individuality of Shibuya's denizens temporarily.
All the while, he is able to keep his composure, almost always smiling calmly. He is level-headed, even when his Officers have gone maverick and break the rules of the Game. He is very patient with a "wait and see attitude" that makes him seem like a bit of a pushover or a pacifist, but he usually works the results into his own plans. He is a man who prefers to lead from the shadows, but will be confrontational if necessary, as he combats Neku on the last day of the game.
Though polite and formal towards Players and Reapers alike, he is quite an aloof and callous figure (if the latter wasn't obvious). He generally dislikes and distrusts people. According to the manga, as a child he was teased for having a girly name, something that apparently bothers him, but now he typically lets most insults and disrespect simply roll off his back. It is incredibly difficult to irritate him. While not overly malicious, he does still take some enjoyment out of messing with Players by taking their entry fees and watching them struggle.
There is one individual who meets the exception in his regards towards people and that is his superior. As he puts it himself, he is the loyal servant to the Composer and loyal he is indeed. To Kitaniji, the Composer is more like a god than a man. He goes so far as to use capitalized pronouns whenever he refers to the Composer. Basically, if he were to be compared to a born again Christian, then the Composer would be Jesus.
Despite these traits and his role as the big bad, Kitaniji isn't necessarily evil. He's more of a well-intentioned extremist. Again, to him, the ends justify the means, and in the canon, that end is the salvation of Shibuya. He loves Shibuya--it's streets, it's buildings, possibilities, and potential--and it is that love that drove him to the Game against Joshua and all of his actions within the game itself.
Name: Kitaniji Megumi; 北虹 寵 [North ➝ Rainbow ➝ Blessing]
Nickname(s): Shades, Megs, Megumi-chan
Canon: The World Ends With You
Timeline: Post-erasure.
♝ General information;
[ ! = Headcanon information ]
Gender: Male
Species: Reaper/Shinigami
Age: Deceased @ 26. (Actual age is 55!)
Birthdate: September 3, 1952!
♝ Appearance;
Height: 6'3"!
Hair color: Black
Eye color: UNKNOWN
Ethnicity: Japanese
Physical Traits: Megumi is spindly and quite pale. He has wavy black hair that falls just passed his shoulders, a goatee, and very defined cheekbones (seriously).
Dress/Clothing Style: He dresses like a disco reject. In canon, he wears a black snakeskin disco suit with flared sleeves, pants legs, half-unbottoned shirt and all. Shit he's even got a medallion-ish necklace. His closet is probably full of custom made suits of a similar fashion. Also he ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS wears his sunglasses and red headphones.
♝ Strengths & Abilities;
Kitaniji is patient, sly and manipulative, being able to make most things work into and towards his plans. Furthermore, he is was Conductor of Shibuya, making him quite a powerful Reaper. Like every Reaper, he is possesses passive telepathy where he can hear everyone within a wide range at once or focus in on particular individuals. He is also capable of imprinting thoughts or ideas on individuals or on a mass scale as seen throughout week 3. He can create Noise and invisible walls (barriers) up to level 5. And he can levitate.
- Abilities
- Dragon Bite; He will turn one of his hands into a dragon mouth, and attack the opponent with it.
- Energy Spray;
- Red - Four spiraling waves of energy balls that can inflict attack break.
- Blue - Kitaniji summons an energy ball on either side of him which will then shoot out spiraling energy balls. The larger energy balls can be destroyed, however direct contact will damage the opponent.
- Laser; He shoots lasers from his hands (Sorry, the sunglasses are just a fashion statement).
- Guided Laser - A laser guided by one or two lines, which will turn at random places. After they are done, they disappear and he shoots the laser.
- Time Stop; What it sounds like. He can temporarily stop time.
- Transform: Anguis Cantus; Kitaniji's Noise form, a huge red cobra with a tattoo'd hood.
- Dragon Bite - He bites you. B]
- Bubble - He shoots a bubble at the opponent which drags them towards his mouth. THEN OM NOM NOM. It can, however, be broken with attacks.
- Laser Blast - A charged up energy blast fired from the Noise's mouth.
- Energy Spray - A fired spread of 8 energy balls.
- Multi-color Energy Spray - Like the other energy spray, but with an array of red, yellow and blue. While all three colors deal damage, the red orbs can inflict attack break and the blue orbs can inflict defense break.
- Transform: Draco Cantus; Kitaniji's second Noise form, which he adopts after entrapping the Composer. It's a fucking huge six headed snake-dragon thing of death. Though the attack power and whatnot is much higher than his previous form, it has retains the same abilities of Angius Cantus and gains a healing ability as well as a huge explosive light-sword attack.
♝ Personality;
Megumi Kitaniji is (or actually was considering his point in canon) Conductor of the Reaper's Game of Shibuya. As such, he is second in command. He is head of the Reapers, however also the direct subordinate to the Composer. Much like the relationship between a composer and conductor in music, the Composer of the Underground creates the rules, plans, and orders, and the Conductor must give those orders to the Reapers and make sure they are followed. Such a role requires a strong presence, and that is something Kitaniji certainly possesses.
He is snakelike, sinister and cold. He is intelligent, manipulative, ruthless, and downright cruel at times. He will use anyone or anything and work it into his plans. Nothing is sacred and every life expendable. For example, he uses Shiki as an entry fee for Neku during the second week of the Game even though she'd won the Game. In reality reincarnating her was impossible in the Composer's absence, and so he uses her without even a second thought. Another example is his strategy with the Red Skull pins. He spreads the pins first to the RG, then to his own Reapers in order to defeat the Composer in their Game. Not only were numerous Reaper lives lost, but also the individuality of Shibuya's denizens temporarily.
All the while, he is able to keep his composure, almost always smiling calmly. He is level-headed, even when his Officers have gone maverick and break the rules of the Game. He is very patient with a "wait and see attitude" that makes him seem like a bit of a pushover or a pacifist, but he usually works the results into his own plans. He is a man who prefers to lead from the shadows, but will be confrontational if necessary, as he combats Neku on the last day of the game.
Though polite and formal towards Players and Reapers alike, he is quite an aloof and callous figure (if the latter wasn't obvious). He generally dislikes and distrusts people. According to the manga, as a child he was teased for having a girly name, something that apparently bothers him, but now he typically lets most insults and disrespect simply roll off his back. It is incredibly difficult to irritate him. While not overly malicious, he does still take some enjoyment out of messing with Players by taking their entry fees and watching them struggle.
There is one individual who meets the exception in his regards towards people and that is his superior. As he puts it himself, he is the loyal servant to the Composer and loyal he is indeed. To Kitaniji, the Composer is more like a god than a man. He goes so far as to use capitalized pronouns whenever he refers to the Composer. Basically, if he were to be compared to a born again Christian, then the Composer would be Jesus.
Despite these traits and his role as the big bad, Kitaniji isn't necessarily evil. He's more of a well-intentioned extremist. Again, to him, the ends justify the means, and in the canon, that end is the salvation of Shibuya. He loves Shibuya--it's streets, it's buildings, possibilities, and potential--and it is that love that drove him to the Game against Joshua and all of his actions within the game itself.