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Character name: Yuu Kanda
Fandom: D. Gray-Man
Timeline: End of Chapter 97.
Age: 18
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
[Copy-pasted from my Vatheon app.]
Strengths & Skills:
Weaknesses:
How would they use their abilities?:
At the moment when I'm taking him from, Kanda's weapon is unusable, so most of his weapon-based skills will be temporarily cockblocked. However, when he does get it back, he probably won't use his powers unless it's needed to fight off a threat.
His sword skills, though, he will use to chase people away from him. Through death threats.
Hopefully he won't go through with them.
Hopefully.
As for his healing abilities, it just means he won't be careful with his health at all. He's not the type to go around cutting himself open to heal other people with his blood.
Appearance:
Kanda is a 5'9” (180 cm) Japanese man, with long (to the lower back) black hair, blue eyes, and a solid but willowy build. He can usually be seen with his hair in a high, punishingly tight ponytail, and usually wears his Exorcist's uniform: a black coat with elaborate silver finishing and trims, black pants and black boots. There is a black symbol tattoo on his chest, on the left side above his heart. It's been noted that Kanda is supposed to have a beautiful, somewhat feminine face despite his physical prowess and incredible pride.
Kanda in his uniform with Mugen.
His sword, Mugen, was a katana with no sword guard on the handle, forged in combination with a holy weapon (Innocence). However, when he arrives, it will be in shattered pieces in a bag. They will remain this way until he can reforge it.
Background/Personality:
**BE WARNED: THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS.** ...lol as if you didn't know that, right.
I hate to start this off with spoilers, but with this guy, it's entirely warranted. Kanda's life begins after he'd already died; he was born in the science lab of the Asian branch of the Black Order. The Order is a shadow part of the Vatican (Catholic Church), which focuses on collecting Exorcists-- people who have been chosen to wield special holy weapons known as Innocence. The Exorcists, with the help of non-Exorcist supporters, exist to fight machines created as the weapons of a man known as the Millenium Earl. These machines are fueled by the souls of the deceased, who are called back by loved ones so in despair after their deaths that they would essentially strike a deal with the devil to bring them back. When their souls are brought back, they are chained to the machine's skeleton, and are forced to kill whoever called them and take over their bodies. These machines are called akuma.
Yuu Kanda was an Exorcist who died fighting a group of akuma. His brain was salvaged after his death and used in a cloning experiment by the Asian branch in secret; this project was called the Second Exorcist project, and resulted in the creation of cloned children with incredible strength and healing abilities. The purpose of the project was to try and manufacture Exorcists after they had died, so that the Innocence they had wielded could be wielded again. (Innocence chooses its wielder, and goes dormant when their Exorcist has died, provided it wasn't destroyed.) However, the children created from the project still retained the memories of their past lives, and typically went mad with the knowledge and had to be put down.
Kanda was one of those children. When he was first awakened, his memories were suppressed in an attempt to prevent the previous losses of the others. A lot of his bitter and cynical nature was retained, however, shown by his reaction to the other child present there, Alma Karma. Kanda could not understand how Alma could be so easygoing in such a dismal place, an underground lab where they knew nothing about the outside, and suffered every day trying to wield weapons that would have nothing to do with them. He often is shown lost in this sort of thinking, and as a result, some of those suppressed memories came up in his dreams. The closer he grew to Alma (after they became friends), the more frequent they came, and he even started hallucinating pieces of his past. (On a side note, it's shown that there are times when Kanda can see the soul of the person Alma had been created from; a lady who had been very important to the previous Kanda.) As the hallucinations grew worse, the scientists in charge of the project attempted to put him to sleep. Just before they were able to, though, Alma managed to kidnap Kanda from them and well. Tossed him into a river.
It's implied Kanda can't swim from this event, where he presumably drowned once before pulling himself out of the underground river and meets Marie and Bak in the outer part of the Order. Before they can really talk to him, however, Kanda is taken back to the lab to be put to sleep properly. It's only then that he realizes what had happened to him and what he really was. Just like all the others, Kanda was consumed by his feelings of deep rage and betrayal, demanding to know how many hours, days, months, years he'd been dead. Then he is presumably put to sleep. But just before he dies, he recalls memories of that important lady (who turns out to be the donor of Alma's genes), and is filled with a deep desire to live and find that person. This strong desire, presumably the echoes of his deep love for that person, causes the Innocence Mugen to come to him and destroy the bindings that had been holding him down. Kanda was still consumed by that deep wrath, however, and was contemplating killing everyone in the lab, before he ran across Marie again-- who had been fatally injured in a mission just awhile before. He hadn't died yet, but being a familiar face caused Kanda to go over and investigate. When he does, he accidentally bleeds on Marie's fatal injury, and the healing properties of his blood saves Marie from death.
It's this little act that causes Kanda to change his mind, and he (an 8 year old kid) carries him (a 20+ year old man) towards an exit. It's while he's carrying Marie that they have a very important discussion, in which Kanda discovers a little of the value of life. Marie tells him that he was able to keep his head calm because Kanda was there, giving value back to Kanda's life. Kanda then decides that instead of killing the scientists, he'd go find Alma and the three of them would run away from the Order. Anywhere.
Upon finding Alma, however, that plan was discarded. Alma had already rediscovered his memories and killed all the scientists himself. He then attacked Kanda and Marie, again nearly killing Marie. Kanda himself died, but thanks to his regenerative abilities, he came right back to life. After some painful discussion, where Alma compares himself to an akuma, Alma asks Kanda to die with him. Just die, and leave all of this behind.
Kanda, however, had found value in his life, and given himself a purpose. He chose to live, and “killed” his best friend right then and there. (It's later discovered that Alma merely went into a coma, and the Order kept him that way to use for experiments later, particularly the Third Exorcist project.) Recovering Marie, Kanda left the Asian branch and presumably found his place amongst the Exorcists as a near-normal Exorcist. He decided to continually search for that important person, never knowing that she was really Alma. In order to do that, he single-mindedly fights for the Order, going to incredible, almost ruthless lengths to ensure the success of every mission he goes on.
This attitude is first shown in the first mission Allen goes on, where Kanda is his partner. Kanda repeatedly abandons Allen to fight a level 2 akuma by himself in order to protect a doll who was carrying Innocence in her body. He tries multiple times to destroy the doll to recover the Innocence, despite pleas from the doll, her companion, and Allen to wait until the doll's companion had died. It's not until Allen threatens to fight Kanda himself that Kanda's mind (somewhat) changes-- but the reader never finds this out explicitly, as they're all attacked by the level 2, who forcibly extracts the Innocence itself. Allen then erupts in a murderous rage himself, resulting in an evolution of his Innocence. The evolution nearly defeats the akuma, but Allen didn't have the energy or control in order to properly use it, and Kanda wound up having to protect him. It's here that the reader is shown that Kanda might possibly have a heart through his rough words; he tells Allen to get back up and fight, since he was the one who was carrying on about protecting the two in question, and that the only thing he hated more than naïve idiots like Allen were people who couldn't keep their promises. Although at first the dialogue can seem as though Kanda was just being the cold-hearted bastard he pretends to be, it seems to be more that this is how he conveys his feelings-- by speaking this way, he forces other people to look at what they're doing, think about it, and get back on their feet, no matter how much it hurts. He becomes considerably more obvious with this method of “inspiration” after this mission; one might presume that the things he went through with Allen might have changed him some, although they never get along.
This is also the mission where we discover Kanda's regeneration for the first time, as his injuries heal in three days when they should have taken a normal person five months to heal. However, this means he can go pester Allen about returning the Innocence, and he discovers a little more about what makes Allen tick. Allen claims he has no precious things, that he lives in the moment-- and yet, he wishes to be “a destroyer who saves”. While Kanda gives no reply, the expression drawn on his face is one more of understanding than of the contempt one might expect, although it's largely hidden by his usual icy expression. (For the record, Kanda still thinks Allen is a naïve idiot. Just one that he can understand.)
Kanda shows up very early in the manga. He shows up in the fifth chapter trying to keep Allen from coming into the Order's headquarters due to a misunderstanding. He shows himself to be a mistrusting douche ass jerk, unwilling to back down to strangers threatening his home-- even after Allen's been proven to be a fellow Exorcist. At first, you might think that his generally hostile attitude towards Allen is merely his mistrust for someone he doesn't know; however, in the subsequent “LET'S BE FRIENDS” dialogue Allen attempts to initiate, it's shown that he really is as unpleasant as he appeared, refusing to even shake hands with the new Exorcist just because he'd been cursed. Almost immediately after this, he's shown to have an argument with a Finder (a non-Exorcist member of the Order who works in the field) about the deaths of the Finder's friends. Kanda tells the man, in rough, blunt terms, that he can be replaced at any time and that if he couldn't take the deaths, he needed to leave the Order. Allen then cuts in, but what this shows is that when Kanda gives solid advice to other people, he hides it behind his bad attitude and snark. His words only really rile up the Finder, but the contents of what he says are really quite true. The Finders and the Exorcists put themselves in a holy war where one cannot dwell on the deaths of their friends. In a war where people die all the time. Kanda is trying to get the Finders to understand that, but he is a very socially awkward person who vastly dislikes other people and is annoyed by them. Everything he says, if it's not straight fact, is layered with annoyance and brusque near-hostility.
The mission with the doll is the last time we see Kanda for a very long while; we see him again in chapter 43. Here, he is fighting with Marie and one other Exorcist to protect an Exorcist General-- an Exorcist who has unleashed and mastered the highest level of control over their Innocence. The general in question is a man by the name of Tiedoll, who was Kanda's master while he was training. Tiedoll treats Kanda as one of his own children, which Kanda tends to despise. Whether it's out of genuine distaste or his own reluctance to be treated as a real, genuine, normal human being is unclear, though I like to think it's the latter. After all, Kanda knows Tiedoll well enough to predict his decisions and courses of action, which is usually something only someone close to him would be able to do. Anyway, the three are split in the chapter, and the third Exorcist in Kanda's group, Deesha, winds up getting killed by one of the Noahs-- the bosses of the akuma. It's here that it's implied that Kanda does in fact feel a connection to his comrades, and mourns their passing. However, he doesn't dwell on it, and moves on with Marie to find Tiedoll and continue with his mission.
Again, Kanda vanishes from the scene for a long period of time, showing up again for one page in chapter 86. From here, he becomes a major player again, pitching into a battle against the Millenium Earl, the Noah Tyki, and a large akuma which was created from a country full of other akuma. Against this giant creature, Kanda's growth as a swordfighter shows, as he takes it down with a single blow after Marie tied it down with his Innocence. Kanda even battles Tyki for a few pages, where his incredible speed is shown. (Tyki even comments on how fast he is, and has to throw Lenalee, whom he'd taken hostage, in the air as a distraction to get away.) During the fight with the akuma, Lavi makes the mistake of calling Kanda by his first name-- Yuu. It's here that it's shown that Kanda vastly despises the use of his first name, as he threatens to cut Lavi to pieces if he does it again. Allen eventually shows up to protect Lenalee, using the power of Noah's Ark to get from the Asian branch headquarters in China to the battlefield in Edo the span of a few minutes. After Lenalee has been secured, Allen and Lavi have a single panel reunion before Kanda attacks Allen on accident, having not seen the new form of Allen's Innocence and mistaking it for an akuma. It causes Tyki to have time to escape...which Kanda thoroughly blames on Allen. They immediately begin to argue, Kanda being that peeved at having failed to take the Noah down. The argument degenerates into threats involving shaving each other bald. They seemingly don't get along at all, despite obviously thinking in similar ways.
At the end of this particular battle, Lenalee is dragged into the Ark by the Earl's golem Leero. In an effort to save her, Allen, Lavi, Kanda, Krory, and Chaoji are all dragged in with her, and trapped in the Ark. Kanda asks where they are, and in response to Allen's answer, they start bickering again. Luckily, this time, they're distracted by Leero-- and again they're shown to have similar thought processes, since they both immediately turn to threaten it, even saying the exact same thing at the exact same time with the exact same expression. Talking to Leero, they discover that there is no exit to the Ark, as the Earl is destroying it to create a new Ark completely under his control. (This Ark can be used by “the Musician”, an associate of the 14th Noah. Allen turns out to be the Musician, and he also houses the memories of the 14th Noah in his mind-- which are supposed to erode at his existence until the 14th takes over Allen's body.) Tyki gives them the key to a series of doors that will lead them to Rhode, who will make an exit for them if they can get there.
The “if they can get there” turns into an important part-- as they have to fight two other Noahs to get there in the first place. The first Noah they have to fight is Skin Boric, the Noah housing Noah's Wrath. In present, it's unclear why that's important. Anyway, Kanda chooses to fight Skin by himself, citing the fact that it was part of his mission to do it. When Allen and the others try to help, he threatens to kill them, even going so far as to use the First Illusion on them to chase them out. Lenalee is the only one there who seems to realize that he's doing it to minimize the potential loss from this fight. Once again, Kanda's attitude that he's not quite human seems to crop up, as he opts to stay behind (essentially as a potential sacrifice) in order for the others to keep walking on.
This fight is quite possibly Kanda's most impressive fight. He uses the Third Illusion and its conjugate skills in this fight for the first time where the reader can see them. It's not enough to take down Skin, though, and Kanda dies a grand total of 4 times throughout the course of this fight. After the 3rd time, Kanda managed to attack Skin with his melting sword, destroying Skin from the inside out. Here, he says that “people die. As long as they remain humans.” It can be inferred that Kanda puts a certain value on death itself, possibly because it is so difficult for him to die, and is such an integral part of human life.However, Skin wasn't dead yet, and attacked Kanda as he walked away. Kanda was unable to dodge the attack for fear of it hitting the exit, and tried to block it instead. Mugen shattered, resulting in Kanda's 4th death during the fight. He does manage to kill him in the end, using the reconstruction ability of Mugen to deliver the final blow.
However, by then, the room Kanda and Skin were fighting in was falling apart, and Kanda didn't have the energy to escape. The room collapsed on him at the end of chapter 97, the time point in canon I am bringing him from.
Before I finish, though, there are other interactions shown in later chapters that reveal Kanda's take on other members of the Order, particularly the European Branch's science department, Lenalee, and a few members of the Asian branch. The revelations about Kanda's childhood and Alma are not seen until chapters 190-193. (It's here, in fact, that the reader is led to realize that Allen and Kanda get along... by beating up on each other. It's the nature of their friendship. After all, Allen wakes Kanda out of his memory-bound stupor by beating him in the head with his Innocence, and tells Rhode that it's just how it's always been.)
Chapter 135 shows the group of Exorcists that were trapped in the Ark recovering in the infirmary. It's here that we discover Kanda's violent rejection of Tiedoll's paternal affection as he tries to go back to his room to sleep. Loudly and violently. (Apparently, he managed to escape the infirmary, because he's later shown being literally dragged back by the head nurse.) This cuts into some scenes where we discover Allen's connection to the 14th Noah, and how he's now being watched by the head of the central management section of the Vatican, lead by Hitler a man who looks like Hitler named Leverrier (multiple translations use different names). When Lenalee discovers that Leverrier is there, she seems to have a violent, traumatized reaction to his very presence, and runs away to hide out with Kanda. Kanda seems to have a higher tolerance for Lenalee than he does normal people, allowing her to talk to him about her problems even if he's annoyed. In fact, he seems to know her like a brother knows his sister. When Lenalee comes to sit with him, she pretends she's just there to meditate for him, but he sees right through her, not only asking what's going on, but pointing out that she only comes to hide out with him when Leverrier is involved. This discussion with Lenalee again shows Kanda's more supportive side; when Lenalee starts slipping into a bout of depression because she realizes she's running away, Kanda tells her he thinks she's a strong person, and to shut up and meditate. Again, he's socially awkward and grumpy, and always tries to get other people to see their core problems and to keep walking on despite them. (It seems to be a theme in this manga.)
Immediately after that discussion with Lenalee, the headquarters is attacked by Lulubell, a Noah, and an army of akuma, including the series' first level 4. The significant part of this battle for Kanda is near the end, when Lenalee is trying to reconnect with her Innocence. Kanda tries to persuade Komui to go to his sister and support her, even through Komui is reluctant to do so. Specifically, Komui is showing his own uncertainty about what to do, when just like a frustrated little brother, Kanda kicks him from behind in a bout of comedy, shouting in anger at him about how he's tired of listening to their problems, one after the other. Then he asks Komui why he came to the Order in the first place, again forcing Komui to own up to his own problems. Kanda is, essentially, like another sibling to both Komui and Lenalee. The connection between the three tends to be very deep, and extends out to the rest of the science team. One of the casualties of this battle was a member of that team, Tapp, and though Kanda doesn't say anything about it, he is shown to have a sorrowful expression on his face (for about one panel) before turning and walking to do something else. Again, this shows Kanda's hidden supportive side, especially when helping Allen block an attack from the level 4 off of Komui and Lenalee, adding his strength to his and telling him to “hang in there”.
In short, Kanda is a socially awkward, grumpy, stubborn near-hermit with a low boiling point, who likes to be cold and distant to most other people. The closest thing he has to family are Lenalee, Komui, and the science department. His friends are limited to his “family”, Lavi, and Allen, whom he fights with almost constantly. His violent, nearly antisocial tendencies coupled with his cold attitude tend to intimidate, frighten, and chase people away from him, while his inflammatory words cause others to dislike him. However, his friends can come to realize that he is considerably more supportive than he appears to be.
Added bonus: Kanda's favorite food is soba, which is nearly all he eats. He's said to wash his hair with soap, and dislike (or hate) almost everything. It's easier to list the things he likes to do than it is to list the things he hates. The fanbook states his hobby is gardening.
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Have you read up on how the game works?: Yep. The Guide plug-in is called Flaming Ferret. Kanda can earn money by working jobs, doing freelance work, and stealing money from other people.
1st person sample:
[The feed flicks on to a really rather beat up looking person at a strange angle. He's got long hair and a rather beautiful face. He might seem to be a girl, but he's definitely not. He probably hit the video button with his elbow or something, filling out this form for the third time.]
[Anyway, said person is scowling fiercely at the salmon form in front of him.]
[He looks downright livid, actually.]
[Meet Kanda Yuu, grumpy Exorcist without a functional weapon. That little brown bag at his elbow is all that's left of his precious weapon.]
--This is stupid. How many of these goddamn forms do they have?!
[He glances over at the guide with a frown. Is that thing blinking? ...He seems to recall that means it's recording or something. Like a golem.]
...Tch.
[He really wants to ask if there's somebody here that can fix Mugen... but on the other hand, this is an unfamiliar place, full of strangers that can't seem to talk sense, even with a translator fish in his ear.]
[...Eugh, yeah, not thinking about that anymore. He reaches over and fumbles with the buttons until the light turns off... along with the feed.]
3rd person sample:
“This is ridiculous.”
He knew this was the tenth time he'd said this already, but that didn't make it any less true. He'd just fought through the hardest battle of his life and had the room he was in collapse on him. To keep going another day, to keep the world going another day, so he could find that person...
And the world got bowled over for some goddamn landscaping?! This had to be somebody's bad idea of a joke!
It just had to be. What kind of a place would claim sticking a fish in your ear would let you understand other languages without any training?! And aliens? Yeah, alright, he'd admit that maybe there were intelligent, non-human creatures out there.
But these were just giant bureaucrats! Giant, lump-faced, pig-snouted, butt-ugly bureaucrats.
“Sir, are you done with that pen yet?” At the nasaly sound of another alien at his elbow-an equally annoying, ugly, smaller and less bureaucratic one, something in Kanda snapped.
His face took a turn for the dark and wrathful, and he turned on the alien with a glare that made the other squeak and turn the color of the floor. He didn't say a word-but the alien in question got the point, and scuttled off before it got flattened like a Goomba in Super Mario.
In all, a wise decision, considering Kanda was about ten seconds from stomping on someone in EXACTLY that fashion.
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IC:
Character name: Yuu Kanda
Fandom: D. Gray-Man
Timeline: End of Chapter 97.
Age: 18
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths:
[Copy-pasted from my Vatheon app.]
Strengths & Skills:
- Regenerates injuries incredibly quickly, including severed limbs and can come back to life in about 6 minutes after being killed.
- As a component to his regeneration abilities, his blood can heal the wounds of other people.
- Abnormally high physical strength
- Can live on very little
- Has a holy weapon (Mugen) imbued in his sword with the following abilities:
- First illusion: A slash in the air releases a swarm of insects to devour his foes.
- Second illusion: Kanda coats his sword and scabbard-if he has it-in energy, creating an illusion sword copy of Mugen for duel-weilding. A subset of the second illusion is an eight-slash attack that appears to leave a trace in the shape of an 8-petaled lotus.
- Third illusion: Comes in steps. Initially, Kanda activates the power in his tattoo, allowing him to tap into his own life reserve for extra power in strength and speed. Then, if Mugen should break, he can reconstruct it for one very powerful slash. With his life reserve tapped, he can also use an attack that creates a series of small explosions, known to take down even Level 4 akuma-which otherwise require multiple generals to take down. This skill is also usable in Fifth Illusion style.
- Fourth illusion: Seems to be a suped up variant of Third Illusion. Little is known, since when it is used in canon, it's quickly replaced by Fifth Illusion.
- Fifth Illusion: For those who've seen Dragonball Z, this is essentially Kanda's super saiyan mode, coming at the cost of a great amount of his life reserve. His hair turns to a light shade of purple and stands up straight, and Mugen shifts shape into a small butcher knife with wings on the hilt, last seen in the manga in Kanda's childhood, at the end of the flashback. It grants him incredible strength and speed, and allows him to only feel anger. Mugen also seems to emit large quantities of electricity. A subset of this style is an attack that sends out several large energy beams.
Weaknesses:
- As mentioned, many of Kanda's skills take from his own life to use.
- He only eats soba, tempura, and tea.
- He has next to no social skills.
- He doesn't read affection well. If someone's got a thing for him, he's oblivious.
- He's a bit of an idiot. The order of intelligence with the four main charcters goes Lavi, Lenalee, Allen, and then Kanda. He's not stupid, but he IS a bit of a moron.
- Most of his skills require him to have mobility. He's not so good in constrained areas.
How would they use their abilities?:
At the moment when I'm taking him from, Kanda's weapon is unusable, so most of his weapon-based skills will be temporarily cockblocked. However, when he does get it back, he probably won't use his powers unless it's needed to fight off a threat.
His sword skills, though, he will use to chase people away from him. Through death threats.
Hopefully he won't go through with them.
Hopefully.
As for his healing abilities, it just means he won't be careful with his health at all. He's not the type to go around cutting himself open to heal other people with his blood.
Appearance:
Kanda is a 5'9” (180 cm) Japanese man, with long (to the lower back) black hair, blue eyes, and a solid but willowy build. He can usually be seen with his hair in a high, punishingly tight ponytail, and usually wears his Exorcist's uniform: a black coat with elaborate silver finishing and trims, black pants and black boots. There is a black symbol tattoo on his chest, on the left side above his heart. It's been noted that Kanda is supposed to have a beautiful, somewhat feminine face despite his physical prowess and incredible pride.
Kanda in his uniform with Mugen.
His sword, Mugen, was a katana with no sword guard on the handle, forged in combination with a holy weapon (Innocence). However, when he arrives, it will be in shattered pieces in a bag. They will remain this way until he can reforge it.
Background/Personality:
**BE WARNED: THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS.** ...lol as if you didn't know that, right.
I hate to start this off with spoilers, but with this guy, it's entirely warranted. Kanda's life begins after he'd already died; he was born in the science lab of the Asian branch of the Black Order. The Order is a shadow part of the Vatican (Catholic Church), which focuses on collecting Exorcists-- people who have been chosen to wield special holy weapons known as Innocence. The Exorcists, with the help of non-Exorcist supporters, exist to fight machines created as the weapons of a man known as the Millenium Earl. These machines are fueled by the souls of the deceased, who are called back by loved ones so in despair after their deaths that they would essentially strike a deal with the devil to bring them back. When their souls are brought back, they are chained to the machine's skeleton, and are forced to kill whoever called them and take over their bodies. These machines are called akuma.
Yuu Kanda was an Exorcist who died fighting a group of akuma. His brain was salvaged after his death and used in a cloning experiment by the Asian branch in secret; this project was called the Second Exorcist project, and resulted in the creation of cloned children with incredible strength and healing abilities. The purpose of the project was to try and manufacture Exorcists after they had died, so that the Innocence they had wielded could be wielded again. (Innocence chooses its wielder, and goes dormant when their Exorcist has died, provided it wasn't destroyed.) However, the children created from the project still retained the memories of their past lives, and typically went mad with the knowledge and had to be put down.
Kanda was one of those children. When he was first awakened, his memories were suppressed in an attempt to prevent the previous losses of the others. A lot of his bitter and cynical nature was retained, however, shown by his reaction to the other child present there, Alma Karma. Kanda could not understand how Alma could be so easygoing in such a dismal place, an underground lab where they knew nothing about the outside, and suffered every day trying to wield weapons that would have nothing to do with them. He often is shown lost in this sort of thinking, and as a result, some of those suppressed memories came up in his dreams. The closer he grew to Alma (after they became friends), the more frequent they came, and he even started hallucinating pieces of his past. (On a side note, it's shown that there are times when Kanda can see the soul of the person Alma had been created from; a lady who had been very important to the previous Kanda.) As the hallucinations grew worse, the scientists in charge of the project attempted to put him to sleep. Just before they were able to, though, Alma managed to kidnap Kanda from them and well. Tossed him into a river.
It's implied Kanda can't swim from this event, where he presumably drowned once before pulling himself out of the underground river and meets Marie and Bak in the outer part of the Order. Before they can really talk to him, however, Kanda is taken back to the lab to be put to sleep properly. It's only then that he realizes what had happened to him and what he really was. Just like all the others, Kanda was consumed by his feelings of deep rage and betrayal, demanding to know how many hours, days, months, years he'd been dead. Then he is presumably put to sleep. But just before he dies, he recalls memories of that important lady (who turns out to be the donor of Alma's genes), and is filled with a deep desire to live and find that person. This strong desire, presumably the echoes of his deep love for that person, causes the Innocence Mugen to come to him and destroy the bindings that had been holding him down. Kanda was still consumed by that deep wrath, however, and was contemplating killing everyone in the lab, before he ran across Marie again-- who had been fatally injured in a mission just awhile before. He hadn't died yet, but being a familiar face caused Kanda to go over and investigate. When he does, he accidentally bleeds on Marie's fatal injury, and the healing properties of his blood saves Marie from death.
It's this little act that causes Kanda to change his mind, and he (an 8 year old kid) carries him (a 20+ year old man) towards an exit. It's while he's carrying Marie that they have a very important discussion, in which Kanda discovers a little of the value of life. Marie tells him that he was able to keep his head calm because Kanda was there, giving value back to Kanda's life. Kanda then decides that instead of killing the scientists, he'd go find Alma and the three of them would run away from the Order. Anywhere.
Upon finding Alma, however, that plan was discarded. Alma had already rediscovered his memories and killed all the scientists himself. He then attacked Kanda and Marie, again nearly killing Marie. Kanda himself died, but thanks to his regenerative abilities, he came right back to life. After some painful discussion, where Alma compares himself to an akuma, Alma asks Kanda to die with him. Just die, and leave all of this behind.
Kanda, however, had found value in his life, and given himself a purpose. He chose to live, and “killed” his best friend right then and there. (It's later discovered that Alma merely went into a coma, and the Order kept him that way to use for experiments later, particularly the Third Exorcist project.) Recovering Marie, Kanda left the Asian branch and presumably found his place amongst the Exorcists as a near-normal Exorcist. He decided to continually search for that important person, never knowing that she was really Alma. In order to do that, he single-mindedly fights for the Order, going to incredible, almost ruthless lengths to ensure the success of every mission he goes on.
This attitude is first shown in the first mission Allen goes on, where Kanda is his partner. Kanda repeatedly abandons Allen to fight a level 2 akuma by himself in order to protect a doll who was carrying Innocence in her body. He tries multiple times to destroy the doll to recover the Innocence, despite pleas from the doll, her companion, and Allen to wait until the doll's companion had died. It's not until Allen threatens to fight Kanda himself that Kanda's mind (somewhat) changes-- but the reader never finds this out explicitly, as they're all attacked by the level 2, who forcibly extracts the Innocence itself. Allen then erupts in a murderous rage himself, resulting in an evolution of his Innocence. The evolution nearly defeats the akuma, but Allen didn't have the energy or control in order to properly use it, and Kanda wound up having to protect him. It's here that the reader is shown that Kanda might possibly have a heart through his rough words; he tells Allen to get back up and fight, since he was the one who was carrying on about protecting the two in question, and that the only thing he hated more than naïve idiots like Allen were people who couldn't keep their promises. Although at first the dialogue can seem as though Kanda was just being the cold-hearted bastard he pretends to be, it seems to be more that this is how he conveys his feelings-- by speaking this way, he forces other people to look at what they're doing, think about it, and get back on their feet, no matter how much it hurts. He becomes considerably more obvious with this method of “inspiration” after this mission; one might presume that the things he went through with Allen might have changed him some, although they never get along.
This is also the mission where we discover Kanda's regeneration for the first time, as his injuries heal in three days when they should have taken a normal person five months to heal. However, this means he can go pester Allen about returning the Innocence, and he discovers a little more about what makes Allen tick. Allen claims he has no precious things, that he lives in the moment-- and yet, he wishes to be “a destroyer who saves”. While Kanda gives no reply, the expression drawn on his face is one more of understanding than of the contempt one might expect, although it's largely hidden by his usual icy expression. (For the record, Kanda still thinks Allen is a naïve idiot. Just one that he can understand.)
Kanda shows up very early in the manga. He shows up in the fifth chapter trying to keep Allen from coming into the Order's headquarters due to a misunderstanding. He shows himself to be a mistrusting douche ass jerk, unwilling to back down to strangers threatening his home-- even after Allen's been proven to be a fellow Exorcist. At first, you might think that his generally hostile attitude towards Allen is merely his mistrust for someone he doesn't know; however, in the subsequent “LET'S BE FRIENDS” dialogue Allen attempts to initiate, it's shown that he really is as unpleasant as he appeared, refusing to even shake hands with the new Exorcist just because he'd been cursed. Almost immediately after this, he's shown to have an argument with a Finder (a non-Exorcist member of the Order who works in the field) about the deaths of the Finder's friends. Kanda tells the man, in rough, blunt terms, that he can be replaced at any time and that if he couldn't take the deaths, he needed to leave the Order. Allen then cuts in, but what this shows is that when Kanda gives solid advice to other people, he hides it behind his bad attitude and snark. His words only really rile up the Finder, but the contents of what he says are really quite true. The Finders and the Exorcists put themselves in a holy war where one cannot dwell on the deaths of their friends. In a war where people die all the time. Kanda is trying to get the Finders to understand that, but he is a very socially awkward person who vastly dislikes other people and is annoyed by them. Everything he says, if it's not straight fact, is layered with annoyance and brusque near-hostility.
The mission with the doll is the last time we see Kanda for a very long while; we see him again in chapter 43. Here, he is fighting with Marie and one other Exorcist to protect an Exorcist General-- an Exorcist who has unleashed and mastered the highest level of control over their Innocence. The general in question is a man by the name of Tiedoll, who was Kanda's master while he was training. Tiedoll treats Kanda as one of his own children, which Kanda tends to despise. Whether it's out of genuine distaste or his own reluctance to be treated as a real, genuine, normal human being is unclear, though I like to think it's the latter. After all, Kanda knows Tiedoll well enough to predict his decisions and courses of action, which is usually something only someone close to him would be able to do. Anyway, the three are split in the chapter, and the third Exorcist in Kanda's group, Deesha, winds up getting killed by one of the Noahs-- the bosses of the akuma. It's here that it's implied that Kanda does in fact feel a connection to his comrades, and mourns their passing. However, he doesn't dwell on it, and moves on with Marie to find Tiedoll and continue with his mission.
Again, Kanda vanishes from the scene for a long period of time, showing up again for one page in chapter 86. From here, he becomes a major player again, pitching into a battle against the Millenium Earl, the Noah Tyki, and a large akuma which was created from a country full of other akuma. Against this giant creature, Kanda's growth as a swordfighter shows, as he takes it down with a single blow after Marie tied it down with his Innocence. Kanda even battles Tyki for a few pages, where his incredible speed is shown. (Tyki even comments on how fast he is, and has to throw Lenalee, whom he'd taken hostage, in the air as a distraction to get away.) During the fight with the akuma, Lavi makes the mistake of calling Kanda by his first name-- Yuu. It's here that it's shown that Kanda vastly despises the use of his first name, as he threatens to cut Lavi to pieces if he does it again. Allen eventually shows up to protect Lenalee, using the power of Noah's Ark to get from the Asian branch headquarters in China to the battlefield in Edo the span of a few minutes. After Lenalee has been secured, Allen and Lavi have a single panel reunion before Kanda attacks Allen on accident, having not seen the new form of Allen's Innocence and mistaking it for an akuma. It causes Tyki to have time to escape...which Kanda thoroughly blames on Allen. They immediately begin to argue, Kanda being that peeved at having failed to take the Noah down. The argument degenerates into threats involving shaving each other bald. They seemingly don't get along at all, despite obviously thinking in similar ways.
At the end of this particular battle, Lenalee is dragged into the Ark by the Earl's golem Leero. In an effort to save her, Allen, Lavi, Kanda, Krory, and Chaoji are all dragged in with her, and trapped in the Ark. Kanda asks where they are, and in response to Allen's answer, they start bickering again. Luckily, this time, they're distracted by Leero-- and again they're shown to have similar thought processes, since they both immediately turn to threaten it, even saying the exact same thing at the exact same time with the exact same expression. Talking to Leero, they discover that there is no exit to the Ark, as the Earl is destroying it to create a new Ark completely under his control. (This Ark can be used by “the Musician”, an associate of the 14th Noah. Allen turns out to be the Musician, and he also houses the memories of the 14th Noah in his mind-- which are supposed to erode at his existence until the 14th takes over Allen's body.) Tyki gives them the key to a series of doors that will lead them to Rhode, who will make an exit for them if they can get there.
The “if they can get there” turns into an important part-- as they have to fight two other Noahs to get there in the first place. The first Noah they have to fight is Skin Boric, the Noah housing Noah's Wrath. In present, it's unclear why that's important. Anyway, Kanda chooses to fight Skin by himself, citing the fact that it was part of his mission to do it. When Allen and the others try to help, he threatens to kill them, even going so far as to use the First Illusion on them to chase them out. Lenalee is the only one there who seems to realize that he's doing it to minimize the potential loss from this fight. Once again, Kanda's attitude that he's not quite human seems to crop up, as he opts to stay behind (essentially as a potential sacrifice) in order for the others to keep walking on.
This fight is quite possibly Kanda's most impressive fight. He uses the Third Illusion and its conjugate skills in this fight for the first time where the reader can see them. It's not enough to take down Skin, though, and Kanda dies a grand total of 4 times throughout the course of this fight. After the 3rd time, Kanda managed to attack Skin with his melting sword, destroying Skin from the inside out. Here, he says that “people die. As long as they remain humans.” It can be inferred that Kanda puts a certain value on death itself, possibly because it is so difficult for him to die, and is such an integral part of human life.However, Skin wasn't dead yet, and attacked Kanda as he walked away. Kanda was unable to dodge the attack for fear of it hitting the exit, and tried to block it instead. Mugen shattered, resulting in Kanda's 4th death during the fight. He does manage to kill him in the end, using the reconstruction ability of Mugen to deliver the final blow.
However, by then, the room Kanda and Skin were fighting in was falling apart, and Kanda didn't have the energy to escape. The room collapsed on him at the end of chapter 97, the time point in canon I am bringing him from.
Before I finish, though, there are other interactions shown in later chapters that reveal Kanda's take on other members of the Order, particularly the European Branch's science department, Lenalee, and a few members of the Asian branch. The revelations about Kanda's childhood and Alma are not seen until chapters 190-193. (It's here, in fact, that the reader is led to realize that Allen and Kanda get along... by beating up on each other. It's the nature of their friendship. After all, Allen wakes Kanda out of his memory-bound stupor by beating him in the head with his Innocence, and tells Rhode that it's just how it's always been.)
Chapter 135 shows the group of Exorcists that were trapped in the Ark recovering in the infirmary. It's here that we discover Kanda's violent rejection of Tiedoll's paternal affection as he tries to go back to his room to sleep. Loudly and violently. (Apparently, he managed to escape the infirmary, because he's later shown being literally dragged back by the head nurse.) This cuts into some scenes where we discover Allen's connection to the 14th Noah, and how he's now being watched by the head of the central management section of the Vatican, lead by Hitler a man who looks like Hitler named Leverrier (multiple translations use different names). When Lenalee discovers that Leverrier is there, she seems to have a violent, traumatized reaction to his very presence, and runs away to hide out with Kanda. Kanda seems to have a higher tolerance for Lenalee than he does normal people, allowing her to talk to him about her problems even if he's annoyed. In fact, he seems to know her like a brother knows his sister. When Lenalee comes to sit with him, she pretends she's just there to meditate for him, but he sees right through her, not only asking what's going on, but pointing out that she only comes to hide out with him when Leverrier is involved. This discussion with Lenalee again shows Kanda's more supportive side; when Lenalee starts slipping into a bout of depression because she realizes she's running away, Kanda tells her he thinks she's a strong person, and to shut up and meditate. Again, he's socially awkward and grumpy, and always tries to get other people to see their core problems and to keep walking on despite them. (It seems to be a theme in this manga.)
Immediately after that discussion with Lenalee, the headquarters is attacked by Lulubell, a Noah, and an army of akuma, including the series' first level 4. The significant part of this battle for Kanda is near the end, when Lenalee is trying to reconnect with her Innocence. Kanda tries to persuade Komui to go to his sister and support her, even through Komui is reluctant to do so. Specifically, Komui is showing his own uncertainty about what to do, when just like a frustrated little brother, Kanda kicks him from behind in a bout of comedy, shouting in anger at him about how he's tired of listening to their problems, one after the other. Then he asks Komui why he came to the Order in the first place, again forcing Komui to own up to his own problems. Kanda is, essentially, like another sibling to both Komui and Lenalee. The connection between the three tends to be very deep, and extends out to the rest of the science team. One of the casualties of this battle was a member of that team, Tapp, and though Kanda doesn't say anything about it, he is shown to have a sorrowful expression on his face (for about one panel) before turning and walking to do something else. Again, this shows Kanda's hidden supportive side, especially when helping Allen block an attack from the level 4 off of Komui and Lenalee, adding his strength to his and telling him to “hang in there”.
In short, Kanda is a socially awkward, grumpy, stubborn near-hermit with a low boiling point, who likes to be cold and distant to most other people. The closest thing he has to family are Lenalee, Komui, and the science department. His friends are limited to his “family”, Lavi, and Allen, whom he fights with almost constantly. His violent, nearly antisocial tendencies coupled with his cold attitude tend to intimidate, frighten, and chase people away from him, while his inflammatory words cause others to dislike him. However, his friends can come to realize that he is considerably more supportive than he appears to be.
Added bonus: Kanda's favorite food is soba, which is nearly all he eats. He's said to wash his hair with soap, and dislike (or hate) almost everything. It's easier to list the things he likes to do than it is to list the things he hates. The fanbook states his hobby is gardening.
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Have you read up on how the game works?: Yep. The Guide plug-in is called Flaming Ferret. Kanda can earn money by working jobs, doing freelance work, and stealing money from other people.
1st person sample:
[The feed flicks on to a really rather beat up looking person at a strange angle. He's got long hair and a rather beautiful face. He might seem to be a girl, but he's definitely not. He probably hit the video button with his elbow or something, filling out this form for the third time.]
[Anyway, said person is scowling fiercely at the salmon form in front of him.]
[He looks downright livid, actually.]
[Meet Kanda Yuu, grumpy Exorcist without a functional weapon. That little brown bag at his elbow is all that's left of his precious weapon.]
--This is stupid. How many of these goddamn forms do they have?!
[He glances over at the guide with a frown. Is that thing blinking? ...He seems to recall that means it's recording or something. Like a golem.]
...Tch.
[He really wants to ask if there's somebody here that can fix Mugen... but on the other hand, this is an unfamiliar place, full of strangers that can't seem to talk sense, even with a translator fish in his ear.]
[...Eugh, yeah, not thinking about that anymore. He reaches over and fumbles with the buttons until the light turns off... along with the feed.]
3rd person sample:
“This is ridiculous.”
He knew this was the tenth time he'd said this already, but that didn't make it any less true. He'd just fought through the hardest battle of his life and had the room he was in collapse on him. To keep going another day, to keep the world going another day, so he could find that person...
And the world got bowled over for some goddamn landscaping?! This had to be somebody's bad idea of a joke!
It just had to be. What kind of a place would claim sticking a fish in your ear would let you understand other languages without any training?! And aliens? Yeah, alright, he'd admit that maybe there were intelligent, non-human creatures out there.
But these were just giant bureaucrats! Giant, lump-faced, pig-snouted, butt-ugly bureaucrats.
“Sir, are you done with that pen yet?” At the nasaly sound of another alien at his elbow-an equally annoying, ugly, smaller and less bureaucratic one, something in Kanda snapped.
His face took a turn for the dark and wrathful, and he turned on the alien with a glare that made the other squeak and turn the color of the floor. He didn't say a word-but the alien in question got the point, and scuttled off before it got flattened like a Goomba in Super Mario.
In all, a wise decision, considering Kanda was about ten seconds from stomping on someone in EXACTLY that fashion.
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