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Character Name: Mikado Ryuugamine
Canon: Durarara!!
Canon Point: The end of Volume 8! ("Adabashi Arc", on his wikia page)
Background/History: Wikia!
Personality:

Mikado is a boy who appears to be nothing special at all, nothing but plain and polite. Someone who keeps to himself, comes back home at reasonable times in the night, and definitely doesn't socialize much when there's not a screen in front of him.

While it normally might be seen as insulting to guess a person is this "boring", guessing Mikado to be this way would be undeniably correct.

When you're born in a small town where everyone knows everyone and there's way too much sky and not enough to do, it reflects on you. There are exceptions, but Mikado is not one of them. He speaks politely and carefully, trying to choose his words well enough that often he will stutter or trip over them, often starting sentences by trailing into them, or finishing them by trailing away. He refers to everyone in polite, formal ways, respectfully calling people by their last name and using the Japanese honorific "-san" (or "-kun" if they're his age or younger), unless instructed to use their first name, which he'll still tack an honorific onto for the sake of being polite. Living around other people who lived small town lives with small town personalities, Mikado is quite naive, easily falling for guises and trusting people that probably should not be trusted.

A small town can be full of excitement and adventure when you're young, but when you grow older and when your best friend moves to the city it can quickly lead to a boring, unexciting life. That boring, unexciting life was exactly the thing that Mikado wanted to get rid of. He loves cliches, and would much rather live a cliched life full of excitement and maybe danger than something day-to-day.

At first it was created as a joke, but the gang that Mikado created online, "Dollars", in tangent with moving from his small town home to big-city Ikebukuro, is what sparked in giving Mikado that exciting and "unusual" life that he had dreamed of having. A city is full of life and adventures and is constantly changing. Something that is there one day might not be there the next, and change like that around every corner is definitely not the every day life Mikado tried to escape. When in a constantly growing and changing city that houses the endless sea of a gang that he created, Ikebukuro is exactly that escape he needed.

While he's still meek, Mikado is still serious and brave enough of a leader when he needs to be. He's smart enough to know his strengths and weaknesses, using the sheer number of Dollars members to intimidate someone who had more strength than him instead of foolishly trying to fight. When he's like that, it's almost as if he isn't Mikado at all. He uses a strong tone of voice, one that's much different than the quiet and soft-spoken one he uses in day-to-day life. It's almost cliche how much of a change he can make of himself depending on his situation, and being a lover of cliches, Mikado would be glad to be told that.
If an opportunity like that doesn't arise, however, Mikado isn't above grabbing whoever he's with at the time and fleeing with them to safety, despite lacking in the speed department as well. The safety and security of his friends and those around him is a big deal for him, being the kind of guy who will take an hour to make a decision if it in some way could involve one of his friends in a negative way, or the kind of guy who will take it upon himself to try to help out a friend he'd just met when it comes to a missing person.

Of course, if one doesn't have friends to protect, it's hard for the protective side of someone to come out. Although he did have good enough relations with people back in his home town for them to bring him souvenirs when he opted out of class trips, his best friend had moved away when they were younger, leaving him slightly alone. Kida is someone who is close enough to Mikado that the boy doesn't have to be so polite, often making mildly sarcastic playful jabs at his friend's flashy personality. Even though Mikado is a reserved person, he allows himself to be draped and jumped on, letting Kida completely demolish anything close to "personal space" when he's around. Kida is the reason that Mikado had come to Ikebukuro in the first place, happily accepting moving to the big city after being invited to go to the same school as his friend once again. He trusts Kida's every word, although sometimes doesn't exactly follow all of his advice. They're close enough that even a new friend the two made, Anri, notices it after only spending an afternoon with them. Anri is a class representative with Mikado, and a girl he got to know after trying to save her from some bullies. She called herself a parasite, said that she was living off of the warmth of another girl too easily, and after hearing her story almost immediately tries to help her find that friend. The three of them together, Mikado, Kida and Anri, have a warm relationship together, which is often joked at being a "Love Triangle", as it's apparent that there are feelings developed within it. Of course, with Mikado being kind, trusting, and most of all naive, it leaves him open to being fooled easily by a kind face. Thinking that Izaya is as kind and helpful as his online persona "Kanra", Mikado trusts him enough to ask for advice when it comes to his gang, not knowing that he's being played for fun and information.

The gang that Mikado created, Dollars, at first started off just as something fun between a few online friends. It wasn't supposed to be something that existed in the real world, just something made for fun to see if it could be done. But when more people got the email to join, when more people called them self "Dollars", Mikado knew that he needed to take on responsibility as the founder. When the entry page that was initially used to write down one bad thing you've done in order to join Dollars went from harmless and fun things like "I drew eyebrows on my dog" to "I stole so I could be part of Dollars", Mikado felt guilty for being the one who caused those crimes to happen, and he immediately took down the page. When those who seemed like they would be in Dollars, people who were "colourless" and "invisible", began getting attacked, Mikado threatened to disband the gang. Although it was something that was his and his work, it would be selfish to keep together something that was harming the people in it. However, he was talked out of it by his members, being told that Dollars gave them pride, a place to be, a sense of connectivity to a sea of people that knew no bounds in Ikebukuro. The people of Dollars were already colourless and invisible, so they wouldn't be able to disappear even if they were told to. Mikado takes responsibility for the gang once again, this time when attacks in the name of Dollars are taken out and get out of hand, using the loophole of "Dollars has no rules, doesn't it?" to get away with it. After getting worried that they're out of his control, Mikado denies almost immediately that he's excited about this when confronted.

As the story goes on, it's shown that Mikado has begun to show that he's not exactly as stable as he outwardly appears. He's smiling a smile even he wasn't aware of when even more exciting things are offered to happen, such as taking on a figure head position of a facet off of Dollars called "Blue Square". However, he rejects this giddy excitement with harsh anger, which he reflects on as something that he never let surface before, even in prior harsh situations. That was the kind of thing that Mikado didn't want to admit about himself, making him stand in shock for ten minutes after he realized it was true. That's the beginning point in when he slowly begins to lose his grip on the content, naive Mikado, into someone who is overcome with brief surges of "black feelings", such as only feeling bored by a person as he's beaten unconscious, getting offended when someone else decides he's a "mere human" and therefor not a target, and hating himself for being so useless and yet self-important in the middle of a gang war. The final push he needed was being told to leave Dollars by someone he outed himself as the leader to, being told that someone with such warm eyes as him would never belong on that side. An unnatural and exciting life was all he wanted, and he had been pushed to his limit enough for being told he'd never fit one that he stood in the street and cried. The "normal Mikado" is nowhere to be found when he calls Blue Square to another meeting, where he stabs Aoba with a pen after telling him they were to sign a contract. He wasn't going to let someone be under him who wasn't going to "stomach the full wrath of his anger" when precious friends were dragged into dangerous situations he wanted them nowhere near. He snaps back to the kind and naive Mikado as soon as there's an agreement, even apologizing and bandaging the hand he'd attacked. His mood swings are rather disturbing, and a big sign that he's no longer stable or "normal".

He goes onto taking the "corruption" of Dollars into his own hands, as it's his personal responsibility as it's creator, "purging" those who he finds unideal to be in the group with outright violence. When confronting a stalker that is tarnishing the reputation of Dollars, he ends up going as far as to setting him on fire. It's around that point that he's beginning to see Ikebukuro as dangerous. He meets with Kida after six months, but tells him that no, this shouldn't happen yet. From this point on, Mikado has the goal to "creat somewhere that Masaomi and Sonohara-san can return to.".

Abilities/Powers: There is absolutely nothing special about him, and that’s sort of the point to his character! He’s a normal boy who goes to bed at a normal time with normal nerd physique. No powers, no fighting skills!
Items/Weapons: A lighter and his Blue Square shark-face hood mask!
Sample Entry: a musebox post!
Sample Entry Two:

When he's pulled out of his deep sleep by the screech of the alarm clock, Mikado's first thoughts are that he must have passed out from the physical trauma of having his head repeatedly smashed against a brick wall. It's a calm, matter of fact thought, as if he were thinking about waking up to rain. The sight, though, wasn't one expected of someone in his condition. His head pounds as he sits up, tapping off the alarm clock. Did Aoba-kun and the others skip out on taking him to a Hospital, and bring him to another warehouse instead...? They could be avoiding questioning as to how Mikado came about the injuries. This place, though... It seemed as if this room were barely held together. Is this really such a good idea, taking him here instead of getting medical help...? Reaching up to touch his face, the boy mutters a soft ouch as his fingers ghost over his cracked cheekbone.

This might be a kidnapping, is his next thought. While he was out, Aoba-kun and the others may have been attacked, and since they were injured... It would be easy enough to pick up the unconcious person they'd been carrying and whisk them away, right...? His chest tightens, and in that moment, Mikado can't tell if it's from fear, or excitement. Isn't this like the beginning of an exciting story? It's almost as cliched as it can get, but it's also... obviously very dangerous.

"Ah, this is..." His voice escapes in something that's almost like relief, upon noticing the cell phone resting on the head of his bed. It hadn't quite clicked, right away, that the phone wasn't his, at first, but... No. The design was completely different, he didn't have a touch screen like this--. ...Did it belong to his kidnapper? They may call him with their demands. Something inside of him twists inside of him and the corner of his lip turns up in a darkened smile. ...Really, isn't this just arming him, though...?

But, his heart sinks upon swiping the screen, upon seeing -- Pictures? There was no number pad function, let alone a keyboard. How could he "use the power of numbers", like this...? With a sigh and a groan, he slumps back down onto the bed.

"How troublesome..."