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Name: Conan Edogawa/Shinichi Kudou
Series: Detective Conan
Appearance:

As his younger form and older form

Age: 17 but he appears 7

Canon Point: Just before chapter 1000

Canon History:

-The High School Detective of the East
-Downgraded to elementary school detective.


Shinichi is the son of a retired actress, Yukiko Kudo, and a world famous author, Yuusaku Kudo. His mother retired after she turned twenty so that she could live the life of a normal Japanese housewife. His father continued to write his best selling series ‘Night Baron and started helping the police force out with certain cases as Yuusaku is a much better Detective then Shinichi.

At an early age Shinichi showed signs of having the potential to become a great detective and usually dragged his friend, Ran Mouri along on many of his adventures. At age seven Shinichi was given a challenge that was meant for him to give up on and give his father but he was far too stubborn to do as the challenger expected. Unknown to the little detective, and still unknown to him to this day, that challenger was none other then the Original Kaitou Kid, Kaitou 1412.

When he was fourteen his parents decided to move to L.A. and Shinichi chose to stay in Japan, probably so he could stay with Ran. From age fourteen to sixteen he lived alone and built up quite the career as a famous high school detective. At age sixteen Ran won the regionals championship in karate and as a reward Shinichi promised to take her to an amusement park known as Tropical Land.

Ah, Tropical Land, the place Conan hates most in the world. There is actually a very good reason for that. While on a date with Ran, sixteen year old Shinichi Kudo came across a case dealing with decapitation and set eyes on two men in black trench coats for the first time. He quickly solved the murder and while walking with Ran noticed one of the men in black from earlier acting suspiciously, thinking nothing of it he bid farewell to Ran and followed after the man.

He tailed the burly man behind a building and witnessed a blackmail transaction, in the manga, he whips out a camera and discretely snaps a few shots. However, Shinichi forgot a very important detail while spying on the suspicious man; there were two.

Before he can react properly, the other man comes up behind him and beats him over the head with a blunt object. Shinichi stumbles and falls forward, unable to move. Instead of shooting him dead like any other thug in black, they force feed him an untested poison and leave him for dead.

However, he does not die! Instead his body has a rare reaction to the poison and he shrinks! And it is much less then painless. He body over heats and his chest throbs, he thinks about how his bones feel like they’re melting as they shift and reform to a smaller size. Soon after, he passes out as the pain is just too much.

When he comes too, Shinichi realizes that everyone seems much bigger then they should and shortly after discovers that he’d been shrunk. He escapes the concerned police officers and runs to his house. Too bad for him, he can’t reach the door to let himself in. He meets up with his neighbor, and through some fancy deductions only Shinichi could pull off convinces Agasa he’s who he says he is and the two decide to conceal his identity.

Shortly after that, Ran comes looking for Shinichi and discovers the small six year old, who had quickly shoved on a pair of his dad’s old glasses as a make shift disguise. She presses him for a name and he combines names from Edogawa Rampo and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to get ‘Conan Edogawa.’

And thus! Conan is born. Agasa convinces Ran to let Conan live with her and her father as Kogoro is a detective and there is a chance someone will bring in a case dealing with the mysterious men in black.

Personality:

Shinichi is a detective that never stops. Even if he's not on a case he frequently finds himself curious about the people he comes in contact with. He is always using his detective skills to figure out someone's profession or where they were five minutes before he met them. He is always aware of things going on around him hyper observant. It isn’t anything that he can stop-he just tends to notice things. As Shinichi he tends to stay at ‘aware’ when off a case and ‘hyper aware’ when on one. As the shrunken form of Shinichi, Conan is always hyper aware and anytime he’s under stress it jumps to ‘paranoid aware.’ He could, after all, be hunted by some very dangerous people and it has had an effect on the poor boy.

Shinichi is what you would call a mystery freak. This doesn’t change between when he’s Shinichi and when he’s Conan. He has read the series Sherlock Holmes more times then he can probably count. He’s been to a Holmes convention, had to take thousand question test and most likely, got a perfect score on it. The Kudou library is filled from floor to ceiling with mystery books and it’s an easy bet to say he’s read every last one of them.

Murder and the most bizarre cases are the Detective’s favorite kinds as he generally has little to no interest in thieves and finds adultery cases to be stupid and a waste of his time. He also isn't fond of kidnapping but he will take a case like it if it's brought to him. When solving cases, most people make the assumption that Shinichi is out for justice. That is not entirely accurate as he is mainly out for fun. He is very much one of those detectives that play the game for the game's sake. He is a teenager after all, and he looks at his cases like a puzzle- cat and mouse. That is not to say he doesn’t care about the victims of the murderers he catches he’s just good at desensitising himself to it as it’s very rare a crime scene will get to him. He's seen bodies hacked to pieces and only casually mentioned this to his best friend, telling her he doesn't let the job affect him. He is out for justice in some senses to the word, but mostly he's out to solve the really complex puzzles which is why he likes the really complex cases that baffle the police. Especially locked-rooms murders.

Being the son of a retired actress he has a love for theatrics and loves to play out the drama of a situation and make a big show of his deductions. He loves to start from the beginning and go over every aspect of the case to keep his audience guessing until he finally reveals the culprit. He intentionally leaves out the most crucial detail of his accusations just to bait the culprit into demanding he show the proof. Which, he has no trouble doing.

He may be a capable detective and share several traits of a classic detective but he has his faults such as his impatience and the biggest one being his recklessness. Even if it's all a game to him there is one aspect for the puzzle that he takes very seriously and that is a life. If he thinks he can stop a murder he will try, even if it puts him in danger. He has been known to run off without warning and usually right into danger. Usually, nothing he can’t handle however, as long as he ‘s got his trusty kick shoes and belt, or even the wrist watch can get him out of a bind.

Before shrinking, Shinichi was a very arrogant, spoiled rich boy. He was under the belief he’s the best thing since sliced bread and his attitude towards others made this very apparent. As Shinichi, he could move around crime scenes freely and didn't need any help while conducting an investigation. Now that he's stuck as the grade-schooler Conan Edogawa that has changed drastically. He has to watch how he words things and basically lead the adults to the right answers. It can be very annoying but through it he's learned a few social skills and also how to be a manipulative little brat if he makes just the right expressions.

It’s less noticeable as Shinichi, but Conan seems to have problems tolerating people that aren’t very intelligent. Having gone as far as to have once lectured a criminal on how much more efficiently they could have carried out their crime because he was personally offended at how stupid the criminal wound up being.

While Mysteries usually have his undivided attention there is a part of him that is still a normal teenager; Ran. Ran Mouri is Shinichi’s childhood friend and love interest. He’s so hung up over her that his love for her truly deserves it’s own part in his personality. He admires Ran’s strength and compassion above all other things about her and truly sees her as the most important person in the world. He would do anything for her. Even as Conan, his love for her hasn’t changed, even though they live together. He hates having to lie about his identity to her but he’d rather she stayed safe. If Ran ends up in danger Conan gets reckless and he’s prone to act irrationally and without thought.

Abilities:

Shinichi is purely human and, aside from shrinking hasn't even had a brush with the supernatural- he refuses to believe it exists. However, he does have one ability and that's his intelligence. The kid is like a sponge and is always willing to learn new things as he takes a very different stance than Sherlock Holmes when it comes to keeping up with certain subjects. Holmes believes that he only needs to learn about subjects that would be useful to him as a detective while Shinichi is under the impression that there is no telling what might be relevant in a case and makes it a point to soak up all the knowledge he can. He is also quite gifted at soccer.

His freakish intelligence - This gives him an advantage over most people he comes up against, especially since most people only see him as a little boy which generally turns out to be their downfall. It is also how he's able to stay level headed and think through a situation, believing that as long as he can keep a level head he can get himself out of just about any situation. (spoilers: he's wrong.)

Determination - Shinichi does not take failure well and it's because of this he will not back down from anything without an impressive fight. Especially now that he's trapped in what he considers to be a pathetic excuse for a body, he strives to keep his weaknesses from interfering with his job.

Incredibly High Pain Tolerance - This is more than likely born of growing and shrinking in such a short time on numerous occasions, but it helps him stay focused on other things and allows him to ignore his pain. This can be both a good and bad thing as it also means he will push himself up until he either passes out or accomplishes his goal. As I said, he does not take failure well.

Athletic - He likes to stay as physically fit as possible-taking up soccer specifically as a means to hone his detective reflexes. And now that he's trapped as a small child his athletic ability is all the more important to him. He does not want to be seen as weak and in his mind that's all he can ever be while trapped as seven year old.

Observation and Deductive Abilities - The thing he is best at and good thing too as both are something no detective can be without. He may not have started out as observant as he is now (In fact it's likely he didn't) but, he has trained himself on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, applying them to every aspect of his life and living by a kind of "What Would Holmes Do?" lifestyle. He's not quite as good as the legendary detective, but he's almost there, however, he is still a kid and he's still learning.

Acting - While his skills aren't always the best and he's not exactly consistent with his child-act, it can't be denied that he's an excellent actor, able to fool most everyone into thinking he's actually a seven year old kid, just a little too mature for his age. It's his acting, at this point, that is the reason he's made it so long without such a flimsy little lie being exposed.

Inventory:

Voice Changing Bowtie - Exactly that, a bow tie with a very wide variety of voices to choose from.

Stun Gun Wrist Watch - A watch with a hidden sleeping dart inside, too bad he's only limited to one.

Anywhere Balloon Inflation belt - Again, exactly what is sounds like, the balloons are shaped like soccer balls and his belt only holds two at a time.

Power Enhancing Kick Shoes - Because of his very limited strength as a seven year old, his family friend and neighbor invented these for him, grievously over powering them so that Shinichi has to be extremely careful of what setting there on and judge accordingly.

He has a few extra gadgets affixed to his person, those being his tracking glasses and a listening device that comes with them, and the super stretch suspenders that expand quite an impressive distance.
(( Of course, all of his gadgets will malfunction at different times. Such as the Kick shoes may not do anymore than make his foot feel all tingly or bow tie will suddenly sound a bit robotic and distorted. ))

Sample:

On the job.