Hakuba Saguru

Saguru's surface mind, at least at first glance, tends to be ...kind of chaotic seeming! Basically he's incredibly detail-minded and has been working since he was pretty young to actually be PAYING ATTENTION to a lot of random background things people normally tune out or gloss over, which is part of the "surface clutter". His typical "train of thought" and logic pattern is pretty much a thought-map/flowchart where he's taking all of the new surface clutter, sorting it, matching it and drawing connections to past information, and building on that map, which means that whatever his attention is focused on, there's a mess of other things connected to it, maybe tangentially, that he's ALSO keeping lines to, along with whatever else might occur to him.

Oh, and he's probably sitting there cataloging details about whoever he's talking to, quietly constructing a mental profile and working out how their mind works, and generally figuring out enough to make a lot of people uncomfortable if he were to say it out loud. He will use and act on this information, but he does know that people tend to get hostile fast if he blurts it out carelessly.

If you're seriously paying attention or trying to poke around, while he does have a great deal of self-control and willpower, he is stone normal and short on ways to seriously stop someone; there's a few things that aren't hard to notice.

*The one addendum? He does seem resistant to attempts to actually influence/alter his mental state! Powers that rely on illusions, nudging, messing with perceptions, etc. will have a harder time working on him.

1) Depending on the situation, this one might not be hard to pick out from just body language, but he's less "fly the raised by wolves" flag if he's not around someone he's treating as at least a potential threat/predator; if someone's just unfamiliar, he's less open about it, although depending on how tense he is the "-ACTUALLY Saguru himself is pretty much a predator, even if a tame one-" vibe contributes a lot to how occasionally quietly unsettling he can be. That thing where he seems to be a little too intent and has just enough vaguely dominant-predator body language and behavior to where, in the DC group arcs, he acts nine kinds of suspicious without even trying?
No, he probably isn't actually up to malice, but yes, he actually IS going predator-mode. It's partially a defense mechanism that he does have some conscious control over, and partly a reflex that's the way he's grown up; he HAS spent most of his time around cops, criminals, and the proverbial city jungle. Even completely at rest there's still that predatory undertone.
The upside is that yes, it IS basically "tame/ethical".

2) However much predatory posturing he might pull, he IS... well, he's ethically pragmatic and morally altruistic. Depending on circumstances, he doesn't always do so well with set codes and laws; he'll respect laws where they're beneficial, sidestep them where they're harmful, and follow the spirit rather than the letter. He will, generally, be a Good Person, although he can be very pointy and vicious if he feels there's a reason. So that "Predator/Creeper" thing that skeeves people out occasionally? It's leashed and focused and he takes his morals INCREDIBLY seriously.

3) HE'S KINDA PARANOID. Less so here since he's isolated from worrying about the Black organization, but even someone where his first impression is "ally/harmless" isn't safe from him continually cataloguing information, and anything that seems out of place or "wait wait that's not right" will get mentally flagged and he will be more cautious until he figures out why or what's up. If someone flags any of his "Might be dangerous" things, he'll be even worse about "must figure out everything I can about them". And yes, he does work via an unholy hybrid of Sherlock-style methods and behavioral analysis. He's also cynical and pragmatic-pessimistic, in the sense that if one prepares for and assumes all of the worst possibilities, they can continue on and be confident they're ready for the worst and can only be pleasantly surprised.

4) As mature as he is, he is a teenage boy, has moments of emotional stupidity/flounder, and while he's got a very good control on his hormones and pretty specific senses of what's attractive to him, he's more frustrated than repressed. ...Also a little confused/some of it's not entirely translating right in his head.

With a bit more poking:
1) He sits on a lot of people's secrets. Most of it he keeps pretty well buried, although some of it may come up if he's actually thinking about someone in that messy thoughtmap.

2) He knows he's on the trail of something massive and dangerous that's taken out entire police precincts, and has some clues that his father might've sold out to them, although it's a suspicion; he's really unsure of his current odds of living past 20.

4) On a more "issues he sits on" level, there is a good bit of resentment of being basically the one solving other people's problems that is, by now, pretty much taken for granted, and being "The Detective" and almost never "Hakuba Saguru, Human Being"; he does appreciate the gratitude he gets and that some of the would-be victims he's saved remember him, other than that, he's pretty much on his own and it does bother him. He doesn't get along with his family really, he doesn't get along with his peers etc. He's too attached to his morals and what he's decided he wants to be, other people be damned, to snap and go the other way, but there are times he's tempted to at least say "screw it" to the parts where he's TRYING to play by the rules and just drop off legal radar and go predator. Doesn't help that some form of that is the only thing he can think of right now that might give him a life expectancy. He COULD, if pushed, be a much bigger and pointier predator in mentality.

What's on his shelf, for anyone who gets to see it and is paying attention:

There is a row of books that's pretty much the entire Sherlock Holmes collection, with a couple of Arsene Lupin novels on the end.
"Daybreak" and "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Nietzche
A couple of fairly advanced and recent psychology textbooks
Very thick history of criminology
Collected works of William Blake (one decent-sized volume)
Riverside Shakespeare (it is a book you could kill with.)
The Iron Flute (collection of Zen koans/parables with commentary)

His journals are on the upper shelf, granted they're mixes of notes and ...coded notes. Comedically enough, the few times his journals do veer into more normal diary-writing, the code gets almost as thick as it does in recent volumes when he's sorting things on the Org.

There's also a lock-box under his bed with a couple more potentially dangerous journal volumes and a few letters, along with newspaper clippings, photos, and casefiles of some of his past cases.

[He ... may pick up more on some of the field trips.]

Generally, normally dressed, he's got a few things stashed in the suit jacket - namely a pair of handcuffs, a set of lockpicks, and the revolver in a hidden holster, besides his pocketwatch and a notebook.

The Inverness coat has several larger hidden pockets, so he gets away with a lot more ...

And at any given time, will PROBABLY have two or three of the knockout gas grenades and a small gas-mask/breathing device stashed in some of those hidden pockets.

OOC Information:

Name/Alias: Birdy

Age: 28

E-Mail//MSN//AIM: kyanve@gmail.com, shirhanblade (AIM)

Personal LJ: shirhan_blade

IC Information:

Character Name: Hakuba Saguru

Character Journal: stalker_horse, switched to im_in_ur_exit

Canon: Detective Conan/Magic Kaito

Point in Canon: Current. Or at least, both of his DC canon appearances and Movie 10 have happened, and events in canon that may've been news-visible he might have vague knowledge of. (Maybe not a lot of the random cases, but you know, things like an unknown Blackhawk shooting at Tokyo Tower tend to make the news.)

Age: 17

Birthday: August 29

Appearance: At about 5'10”, he's tall enough to be noticeable, and fairly solidly built; he's in vaguely athletic shape, and apparently hit his growth spurt early. He has loose, short honey-blonde hair on the slightly dark side, and amber-brown eyes. He's half Japanese, half British, but mostly favors the British side of his heritage, with relatively little in his appearance to tip someone off. He certainly has the usual Virgo OCD, and keeps himself up well, although he tends to stick out slightly; outside of a school uniform, he dresses at least semiformally most of the time...
And when he's not dressing semiformally, he's dressing for the wrong century – down to pulling things like showing up at heists, joining the police, in a deerstalker hat and inverness coat, decked out like he belonged in turn of the century Europe.
Worth noting – he speaks English, Japanese, and French, and ALWAYS has some kind of an odd accent; his English is London-area with a barely noticeable Japanese accent, his Japanese has a British accent, and his French is Parisian with bits of British and Japanese accents.

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