Shinji Kagami

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Shinji Kagami
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A.K.A. Master of Mirrors
Age 23 (Born 2008)
Voice Actor Hikaru Midorikawa
Relatives Kyouji Kagami
Series Get Backers
Player Frank
  • Name: Shinji Kagami
  • Age: 23
  • Sex: Male
  • Birthday:
  • Parents: Kagami Kyouji, Himiko
    • Place of Birth: Babylon City
    • Nationality: Babylon City
    • Specialty: Cigarette Tricks
    • Hobbies: Smoking, TV series.
    • Likes: Playing games (of all types), smoking, secrets.
    • Dislikes: Rudeness.
    • Favorite Food: Teriyaki Anything
    • Least Favorite Food: Processed Anything
    • Favorite Music: None
    • Favorite Sport: Basketball
    • Most Valuable Possessions: Collection of ridiculously pimp suits. Gucci anything.
    • Level of Education: Technically none.
    • Seiyuu/Voice Actor: Hikaru Midorikawa
  • Physical Stats
    • Height: 6'1"
    • Weight: 178lbs
    • Eyes: Gold
    • Hair: Blonde
    • Special: Ridiculously ultra pretty.

Appearance

Shinji always dresses sharply. Even when slumming it, he tends to wear suits and button up shirts with sharp ties or unbuttoned enough to show off his natural athleticism. He has a fluctuating hairstyle, usually gelled to trend-setting standards, and usually has a genial smile across his face. He has a few earrings and tends to vary between them, and is known to carry a pocket watch. He usually travels with a briefcase while working, but doesn't bother carrying it around socially, at least usually. The important thing to note about Shinji's look is that he is always on the bleeding edge of classy fashion, and does not like being either dirty or disheveled.

Personality

Shinji is outwardly a polite and outgoing man. Usually friendly, helpful and overall pleasant to be around, though those who get to know him know he has a bit of a sarcastic streak and a very sharp tongue when people exceed his patience. He is also incredibly loyal to his ideals and very secretive, and is not likely to share things he knows are actual secrets. Due to this, he has an outwardly incredibly honest demeanor and will tell people everything and anything he can, though he bills himself a liar, so they don't ask for more. Truth be told he is scrupulously honest, except when it comes to secrets.

Background

Kagami Kyouji was The Man From Babylon City, back in the heydays of Mugenjou and VOLTS. After several battles with the Get Backers, including his final, fatal showdown with Himiko, Kyouji died to the hand of his lover, and that was the end of his story.
Well, it would've been, except this is Mugenjou. He was given a second lease on life, and without his obligations to the Witch Queen, he was free to seek out Himiko, who was another descendant of the Queen, and more importantly, one of the Voodoo Children. With their purpose passed, and without the looming threat of his attempting to kill her, an unorthodox but intense romance began between them, and eventually, the two had a child together, Shinji.
Born and raised in Babylon City, Shinji had a 'normal' life. Except for being a man of Mugenjou, he was relatively normal, if exceptionally sharp and intelligent. A keen sense of observation, and an incredibly high learning rate.. all things practically normal for someone who could survive Mugenjou. Due to his skills and learning ability, Kyouji started to train Shinji in his Mirror Fighting Style, which got him noticed by the Witch Queen. As he grew up, he was groomed to be one of the Shitennou, alongside the recently 'born' Kokuji Akabane, and eventually, the newcomer to Mugenjou, Cumin, and a fourth person none of them refer to.
He remained as a Shitennou, his loyalty being to Mugenjou first and foremost, but has gone out in the 'real' world more and more, being the most aware of all of Mugenjou's denizens to the ways of the outside world.

Skills

Physical Skills:

  • Alertness: Incredible
  • Athletics: Incredible
  • Stealth: Incredible

Social Skills:

  • Subterfuge: Incredible
  • Streetwise: Very Good
  • Intimidation: Amazing
  • Leadership: Good
  • Expression: Very Good
  • Etiquette: Amazing
  • Performance: Incredible

Mental Skills:

  • Computers: Good
  • Investigation: Incredible

Other Skills:

  • Survival: Very Good
  • Empathy: Abysmal

Special Abilities

Martial Arts - Kenpo: Shinji is a master of 7 different forms of Kung Fu, and a dabbler in others, learned from his times in Mugenjou. He focuses primarily on soft styles, using liquid-like movements and his lithe frame to move out of attack range and counter with minimal effort, going for quick, decisive strikes, primarily in pressure points or weak spots, but his styles are used to complement his true combat skills (see below). He is a certifiable master in the following styles:

Mirror Master: Shinji's true power. He has a fighting style which allows him to make use of mirrors and associated illusory or deception tactics, but the true power lies in the mirrors themselves. He has mastered several techniques which are theoretically able to be taught, but one requires a special affinity for the mirrors, and Shinji has no intention of sharing the secrets of his art or Babylon City with anyone. The style allows for the use of mirrors in combat, both for the obvious reasons, and as weapons, as well as manipulating reflections and perceptions, and most of all, using the mirror dimension, when within Mugenjou anyways. This style renders him immune to mirrors and glass damage, and if prepared, he can also resist/deflect lasers as well. Shinji has the following techniques.
Dust in the Wind: Shinji can blow out shards of mirror which will act as a barrier around him, but the true insidiousness is that anyone who breathes in this cloud of mirrors will shred their insides. He can use these mirror shards to make either a shield, or reflections of himself, acting like clones or after images which play with someone's perceptions. The true terror is that moving through them causes the above damage.
Mirror of Life: Shinji can literally copy anyone's attacks. This is all a skilled illusion, but when fighting him he can become a copy of anyone and use his mirrors to fight like them. He can even mimic special techniques and magic spells, acting as if he's stealing people's powers, but again this is just an illusion. The real power is that he can manipulate perception to copy someone's appearance and behaviour, even taking their place if he can fool them with his acting skills. This is all an act. He does it to fool and play with people's minds, and land in a good blow. He cannot copy a technique and use it later, at least, not without it still being completely fake. He uses his mirror weapons and his own martial arts + speed to pretend he copied the move while using mirrors to make them believe otherwise.

  • Important Note: He can mimic any martial arts stance, move, technique or what have you that is physical in nature. Energy attacks, magic spells or any other projection of that type, he can make an EXACT mirror image of, but it's EXACTLY that. A mirror image, more meant to trick and dissuade. He cannot actually cause damage with those.

Mirror Weapons: Shinji can make a weapon out of anything he can reflect in his mirror, the favorites being a scythe, a zweihander and a ninjato. Any mirror he touches can be manipulated into being like him for this.
Mirror Control: Shinji can use mirrors and shards of mirrors to do whatever he wants, whether weapons, copies of himself, halls of mirrors and so on. This is his favorite method of misdirection, and incredibly useful in halting an opponent and altering their perceptions. Outside of Mugenjou, this power is limited to a much smaller range, and cannot actually be used to trap people within mirrors.
Reflective Invisibility: Shinji can make himself invisible to any mundane form of surveillance and sight. He is not inaudible, he can be sensed, and he can be noticed via heat detection, but he is completely invisible to any sight-based detection.
Reflective Scrying: Shinji can gaze into any mirror and look out of any mirror he's empowered. Other than that, he needs to sense a reflective surface, and has a scrying range of 200 feet from his special mirror, being able to look through a single mirror as if he were in the room. In Mugenjou, he can do this from all reflective surfaces in a 5 mile radius.
Reflection Walk: Shinji can step into and out of any reflection in a 3 mile radius. This is only applicable inside Mugenjou.
Mirror Trap: Shinji can trap something in its own reflection, provided he has the ability to literally trap them in a hall of his own mirrors. Once in the reflection, breaking the mirror will free them, but until then, they are trapped in the mirror dimension. THIS POWER ONLY FUNCTIONS IN MUGENJOU, where the laws of reality are skewed enough to allow him to do that.

Powers & Merits

Super Speed: Shinji, like his father before him, has ridiculous super speed. He does not have the traditional high-training rapid movement, he has genuine actual Super Speed. He can cross long distances within incredibly short times by simply running, he can defy gravity by running up walls or over water, he can vanish without a trace by moving faster than the eye can follow, and he has super reflexes and senses to go with this ability. He is considerably faster than a speeding bullet, and this does not require particular physical exertion on his part. He uses his speed in traditional combat style, such as after images and blurring to avoid hits or deliver them, but he is capable of moving at high speeds in mundane circumstances, and reacting to thrown weapons or arrows as if they were standing still. He also hits fast, but has no special multi-hit combos because that's not how he fights. However, he can hit many times in a row from different angles.

Merits

Luck: (3pts) Shinji is just born lucky. Things fall into place for him.
Loyalty: (1pt) Shinji will never act against Babylon City in particular and Mugenjou in general.
Double-Jointed: (1pt) Shinji is incredibly limber, mostly due to his martial arts training.
Ambidexterous: (2pts) Shinji can dual-wield his mirror weapons or use them from either side without problems.

Unique Items

Mirror Briefcase: Shinji carries a briefcase with him in combat. it is a stylish, leather bound case which he can pull out of a mirror. Inside the briefcase are several hundred mirrors and several thousand mirror shards. While he carries a lot of them on him even casually, his stronger attacks (Mirror of Life, Dust in the Wing) require him to use the Briefcase to have enough ammunition to do it all. He can also use it to escape by hopping inside it, as the interior of the briefcase is mirrored, and it is fully reversible.

Items Of Note

Really Pimp Suits: If Shinji's current suit costs less than your car, then he's in pyjamas.
Hand Mirror: For Makeup.

Gallery

  • Face shot of Kagami.

  • Kagami post-workout.

  • Kagami's bad day.

  • Kagami doing sports.

  • Kagami studying.

  • Kagami walking out of the shower.

Weaknesses & Flaws

Mugenjou: Outside of Mugenjou, Shinji is a deceptive and clever fighter, but all of his major powers are seriously gimped. The longer he stays out, the less he has access to his 'Mirror Dimension', not allowing him to use his teleporation or scrying very well, and completely barring off his main power.
Weaponry Based: Shinji is dependent on his mirrors. Granted, any mirror will do, but while he can use his sensory and movement powers with reflections, his attacks and special techniques require MIRRORS, and they require mirrors he has TOUCHED and used his technique on. Getting rid of his mirrors can make him essentially powerless.
Fragile Speedster: Shinji is resilient and strong enough for a martial artist, but his ability to dish it out and dodge is not on par with his ability to take a hit. Powerful attacks or single strikes CAN take him out, as he is not one of those types with inexhaustible stamina or insane regeneration.

Flaws

Bard's Tongue (1pt) Shinji's honest nature tends to bring about disaster, and sometimes out of his control.
Addiction - Chain Smoker (1pt) Shinji is a chain-smoker. He never doesn't smoke, if he can help it, even if it's detrimental.

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