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shiftingtruths) wrote2010-01-13 09:16 am
shiftingtruths) wrote2010-01-13 09:16 am
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STATS
» NAME: Rokudo Mukuro 六道 骸
» FANDOM: Katekyo Hitman Reborn
» AGE:
» GENDER: Male for both.
» ORIENTATION: Opportunistic.
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EXTENDED PROFILE
» APPEARANCE: Mukuro's appearance is a lot like a fond 'fuck you' to the general stipulated suit and tie of the mafia families. He sports a rat tail, with a long jacket coat, and a black tie over a simple white t-shirt. There are belts criss-crossing his leather pants, of course, and boots complete the look. He has a slender frame, considered tall, and the trademark tufts sticking up at the back of his head have prompted a resemblance to a pineapple.
» PERSONALITY: Mukuro is a highly complex character - he's complicated, fluid, mysterious and highly ambiguous, especially when it comes to his aims and goals. He's a messed up antagonist-turned-unwilling-protagonist, even if it's clear that he goes his own way. In other words, he's damn near impossible to figure out at the best of times.
There is perhaps a few things that set him aside from the cookie-cutter villains, a murderous intent that is self-destructive and not at all noble. There is no destruction for the sake of complete order, or the megalomaniac ruling of the world. His aims are much simpler, perhaps.
He wants to destroy the world, turn it into a beautiful sea of blood. And for all intents and purposes, he wants to see it gone. Not improved, not controlled. Completely, utterly gone. His loathing of the world and humans is clear - so deeply, hopelessly cynical that it comes out as a matter-of-fact.
Despite the fact that he intends to destroy the world, he still helps the Vongola by passing instructions down to them, by collecting the information and data on the Millefiore when he's infiltrated it and sending it to them. No one knows why he does what he does, really.
He does, however, maintain that Sawada Tsunayoshi is nothing but his prey. He is a smooth talker and an excellent liar, and he has no qualms about manipulating anyone and everyone he comes across.
He's power-hungry as well, keeping his eye on the ones who are most powerful - presumably to take over their bodies and use them for his own ends. He can be quite the trickster as well, playing and twisting his words. He tends to be quite patronizing, and an excellent actor, especially when he pretended to be some hopeless dork who needed Tsuna's help. He's also most confident in his powers, highly aware of himself to the point where it becomes a casual kind of arrogance that suits him well. He's got quite the ego, as can be seen here, especially when he addresses Hibari for the very first time:
This also hints that Rokudo has been around for quite awhile, longer than his fifteen years. He's arrogant, confident, and just the kind of person that you really, really don't want to mess with. Reborn sums it up well -
"How many times has that man driven the mafia and police alike into desperate and dangerous situations? Furthermore, this time, he's killed people to evade the law."
In addition, he does know quite a bit - whether he keeps excessive tabs on them, or just knows, no one really knows. He even knows a fair bit about the arcobaleno, as can be seen and hinted through this conversation regarding his powers. Whether he's telling the truth or just fucking around or trolling is up in the air, honestly. Mukuro's an established liar, but sometimes, rarely, he tends to tell the truth. The problem is that no one really knows when he does.
Example 1
Reborn: The cycle of death and rebirth, you mean? The state of Hell, the state of Hungry Ghosts, the state of Shura, the state of Animals, the state of Humans, and the state of Heaven, which state will you be born into after death?
Mukuro: My body has already been through all six paths to Hades in my previous lives, and it has all been carved into my memory. The six journeys through Hades have gained me six fighting skills.
Reborn: If that's really true, then you are a monster.
Mukuro: You're in no position to talk, cursed baby of the Arcobaleno.
He does seem to have things that he doesn't feel inclined to talk about as well; things that had to do with the Estraneo family, and it can be argued that it is merely is age that makes him a tad bit petulant and childish with the subject, even if he addresses it with a veneer of calm, and his shortness can only be seen in his words regarding the Estraneo family's inhumane use of the Possession bullet here. Reborn remarks that its use was so inhumane that the mafia world had declared it forbidden, and destroyed its manufacturing instructions.
Mukuro: It cannot be compared to mind control. It's not control, but complete possession - from the top of his head to his toes, they're all in my power. In other words, this body is mine.
Reborn: You were able to ensnare a man like Lanchia because of this bullet too. Why do you have this thing?
Mukuro: Because it belongs to me. That's enough talking.
Mukuro is a twisted, warped kind of person that would occasionally show glimmers of humanity. He's killed countless people since he had been a child, possessed others without a care and using them completely. He has an irrepressible need to dominate others, assert his will on them, possess them and bend them to his will, and more often than not, he views himself as superior from all others, with a sense of disdain clear in his view of people. He's fiercely independent, self-sufficient, and does not see a need to rely on people, except to use them. He's not sadistic, he does not derive much of a sexual pleasure in excessive tormenting - he does things because he's compelled to, because he thinks its funny, because it pleases him, etc. He does things when he wants, however he wants.
Tsuna: Who do you think people are?
Mukuro: Toys, I suppose.
It angers Tsuna, of course, who sees people as more than that. Indeed, Mukuro's behavior seems to indicate that he indeed does treat them as toys, using and discarding Ken and Chikusa's bodies as he liked and discarding them when they reached their breaking point with an eerie, creepy sort of ease that can unsettle someone.
However, for all of his spiel that the people around him are merely toys, he does put himself out there for both of his companions, more specifically, Ken and Chikusa, who had followed him for years. However indirectly it might be. There are two memorable occasions when he had done so, the first being sacrificing himself to the Vendicare during their escape. He tricked Ken and Chikusa, of course, by telling them that they would be in the way if they followed him, and that they would meet up later, when in all actuality...
Of course, he might have entirely logical reasons behind this - having the both of them out there doing his work is different and more efficient than having all three of them stuck, but we would never really know what his motivations are. In the second instance, he had even agreed to be Tsuna's Mist guardian when Iemitsu had used Ken and Chikusa as a bargaining chip.
He justifies this, of course, by saying that at least he would be in a position that would be closer to his target, Sawada Tsunayoshi.
A calculated move, or something much softer? No one knows. Above everything, Mukuro's an enigma, with so many more facets to him. He's a smug bastard who doesn't like to lose, and he tends to play games with people more often than not. No one knows what he's thinking, really, or if everything he does is simply on a whim, or a part of a grand plan too complicated for people to comprehend. He's not without compassion, perhaps, which caused him to save a girl once named Nagi - now Chrome.
He saves her by creating illusory organs for her to survive on, establishing a bond between them that had once prompted Reborn to comment that Mukuro's and Chrome's lives were inexplicably intertwined. Mukuro lives because Chrome does. Chrome survives because Mukuro lives. It's either compassion or a mix of being an opportunist, but the fact of the matter remains that Mukuro? Does really weird and erratic shit sometimes, and that his words often contradict his actions. He's an immense enigma; he despises people and all that they stand for, but on a level, he does need them. He's both repulsed and drawn to naivete, to this need to corrupt and destroy it however he can, and on the same coin, watch it interestedly like a little boy viewing a bug.
Through a magnifying glass.
For another example, Mukuro is a paranoid planner. He sets his plans in motion long, long before they come to fruit - the battle of Glo was one such incident, where he lost on purpose six months before to have a chance to have Chrome fight him, and to possess the other's Rain box. But on the other hand, he can be exceedingly reckless, like for example, cutting off all escape routes for himself in battle. He must either be completely nuts, or completely confident.
In my opinion, it's an unhealthy mix of both. He's an excellent strategist as well, with a knowledge of battle tactics and a taste for zero-sum games that put him in desperate situations. Even in the battle with Mammon, he really does put himself out there.
No one really knows if Mukuro had really come from Hell, or if it's just another elaborate lie. Mukuro rejects the idea of being linked to the Vongola, but he does embrace the characteristics of the Mist. Indeed, he is as his position as the Mist Guardian of the Vongola family suggests - There is truth in lies and there are lies in the truth. He's a living example of that, where lies and truth come seamlessly together and become a single, whole, indistinguishable - unstable - package.
"This is the mist."
» BACKGROUND: No one knows who Mukuro's parents are, or if they are alive, only that he was subjected to relentless torture at the hands of the fallen Estraneo family as a child - one assume that it is his own family.
One has to understand that the Estraneo family had fallen and regarded as brutes because of their manufacture of forbidden weapons, as well as their methods of testing it out on their subjects. Rejected by the mafia world, they became desperate, and made new and better weapons without stopping, testing them on children. All for the good of the family. It is a harsh, unforgiving world within the mafia, and this is no exception.
Desperate times called for desperate measures, right?
Ken: We were guinea pigs for human testing, by our own family.
Reborn: I thought so. I was doubting, but you guys are part of the Estraneo family that created the forbidden Possession Bullet, aren't you?
Ken: Forbidden? You guys labeled it like that for your own convenience. Thanks to that, our family members were labeled as brutes and were horribly persecuted by other mafia. As soon as we stepped outside, guns were pointed at us and we were killed like bugs. That just stimulated the adults of the family even more in continuing the experiments to invent special weapons.
Very, very few survived the painful, invasive experiments. Imagine being cut up, plundered, torn up and sewn up again day after day, where scientists took what they wanted and put in what they wanted, with endless experiments on little children.
"No matter where we go, how much we struggle, there was no way for us to live."
Rokudo Mukuro was one such child - until he snapped; a cold, calculated murderous rage that ended up in him slaughtering the entire family at the tender age of seven, eight? This is where his thirst of vengeance is born.
It can be understandable, in a way (in headcanon, Mukuro's eye was forced onto him, making him remember the lives he had lived one after another, which made him snap). This is where he had picked up Ken and Chikusa, of course - children like him who had witnessed his slaughter of their captors. Perhaps to them, Mukuro's terrible deed is one that is necessary. Betrayed by their own family, watching friends die day after day in the Estraneo's desperate bid for their former glory, there was no other way to be free.
And here we see a young boy standing in a mass pile of bodies and ruined equipment. Rokudo Mukuro. Seen through Ken and Chikusa's eyes, Rokudo Mukuro was their deliverer. A horrifying, desperate move of one quiet child having snapped so completely under the onslaught of betrayal and pain.
And it is then that Rokudo Mukuro reveals his eye with a disturbing, eerie calm and a smile spared for the two boys who were still alive, and the beginning of a bloodthirsty vengeance that called for the total annihilation of the mafia, as well as the entire world. And for the first time, Mukuro speaks, a hand extended to Ken and Chikusa.
A home of sorts, perhaps. A purpose for them that did not involve the surgeon's scalpel, wires, and a slow, agonizing death for the ones who were no better than rats in a lab.
And then so unfolds the next step of Mukuro's thirst for vengeance; his claiming of the next victim, Lancia - the strongest mafioso in all of Northern Italy. Lancia's boss was someone who had picked a child Mukuro up and adopted him into his own family. The boy was sweet to him, of course, and he had liked the boy, and had taken responsibility for him.
Until he possessed Lancia and forced him to slaughter his entire mafia family and made him assume the name Rokudo Mukuro as a decoy. It was then that Mukuro became highly proficient in using people as toys for his own whims, plans, and fancies. Made easier, of course, by the fact that Lancia had completely submitted to Mukuro's control and did all his killing for him.
» OTHER:
Miscellaneous titbits:
☠ He is a stalker. No, really. See below.
☠ There are some things that he does, he does because he thinks its funny. Like trolling Hibari. Image courtesy of this manifesto.
☠ Also, he seems to have a thing for pain. Look, earrings and collar of thorns. But maybe it's just a kid thing.
☠ And more earrings.
☠ Mukuro doesn't have a hot, fiery temper - his is the cold, calculation snap
☠ He's incredibly detached, especially when it comes to dealing with things
☠ He does have his bouts of wisdom, mostly stemmed from Buddhist teachings
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