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| Death the Kid (デス・ザ・キッド, Desu za Kiddo) commonly called "Kid" (キッド, Kiddo) by his friends and family, is one of the three main meisters that the series follows. He is Patti and Liz's meister and Shinigami-sama's son.
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Kid suffers from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, or OCPD, which is represented as an obsession about everything having to be perfectly symmetrical and takes the idea of perfection to the extremes. To him, anything symmetrical is beautiful and if it is off by any measurement (a picture frame off by millimeter, or a pose that is slightly out of place), he will try to correct it right away, even if the situation calls for utmost attention. His favorite number being 8 because of its symmetry. He is so obsessed with symmetry that Kid refuses to fight a battle unless he has both Patty and Liz together as they would not be symmetrical apart. The biggest problem Kid has is with his hair, because the left half of his bangs are marked with three white stripes. He has attempted to dye his hair all black to cover his asymmetric Sanzu Lines; however, due to his body being that of a Shinigami, it rejects the hair dye and soon returns to normal.
Showing Kid anything that is too asymmetrical or mentioning his hair will send him into a state of massive depression, which normally takes encouragement from Patti and Liz to break. As shown in episode 3, or Chapter 0.3, because the Pharaoh's coffin was symmetrical Kid wouldn't fight back, because he would ruin the symmetry. In the most extreme of cases, Kid will cough up blood and faint; this is usually set off by his hair being cut, or completely failing to make something symmetrical. If he sees anything perfect or symmetrical get broken or destroyed, or an opponent who is not symmetrical, it will send him into a blind rage (surprisingly similar to his father's previous violent personality) where he will unload all of his power to erase the offensive sight or cause of the destruction from his eyes. It is also because of his obsessive-compulsive personality disorder that Kid finds Liz and Patty's weapon forms much more appealing than their human forms. Because Kid was born a Shinigami it was never required that he train a weapon, and he was offered many partnerships in the form of arranged marriage although he rejected them all, purely because using any of them would break his symmetry.
However, his obsessive-compulsive outbursts aside, Kid is actually quite serious and sophisticated, and can be quite cool-headed in battle if the concept of symmetry doesn't enter his mind. Despite his prim and proper attitude, he does exhibit a few boyish characteristics from time to time, like when he is chasing after the runaway express in the desert, and he chooses to do skateboard tricks on the sand dunes whilst doing so, and he is quite happy to play basketball along with the rest of his team. He also cares for his friends, as he is seen expressing concern about Soul's scar at one point, and also threatens Gopher that he will never forgive him if he hurts Maka.
t is mentioned by Maka that it is normally hard to match soul wavelengths with more than one weapon, but Kid is able to do so because he, Liz, and Patti have a mutual admiration for each other. Kid admires Patti and Liz's positive souls due to his negative personality.
His father has mentioned that Kid is a shinigami and does not need to collect souls, but Kid says he wants to make a weapon of his own. His father also says that since he uses two weapons and the guns do not count as a set, he will have to collect twice as many souls: 198 evil kishin eggs and two witch souls instead of 99 souls and one witch soul.
Appearance
Kid is always dressed in a refined manner, mostly because of his status. He limits his main wardrobe to a standard black business suit with white rectangles, until later on in the anime series when he is seen wearing a white coat instead of a black one. The rectangles are placed in a manner that is completely symmetrical. The main rectangle goes straight down the chest of the jacket, while a set of squares wrap around each shoulder blade. His undershirt is a formal white dress shirt with the shinigami symbol as his top button. His color scheme is meant to copy his father's. When going out on mission, Kid will typically cover himself in a cloak and mask that makes him look like a smaller version of his father.
Kid's most notable feature is the three white lines that cut across one half of his hair. Kid hates this greatly as it throws off his perfect symmetry and mentioning such will put him into a depression, in which he curses his own existence. Kid's soul has a red color and has the three white sanzu lines, representing his asymmetrical bangs.
relationships
Partner
Liz: The older of the Thompson sisters. Kid picked her as one of his partners, due to the ability to become matching pistols with her sister, which fits perfectly with his symmetry obsession. Though Kid's biggest problem with her is that her human form doesn't match her sister's, with Patty being more endowed, shorter, and having shorter hair. Though she sometimes gets exasperated with Kid's obsession with symmetry, the two do seem to share a rather strong bond with each other. When Kid gets captured by Eibon (Noah), she attempts to force him to give Kid back. When this attempt fails, however, Liz does not pursue Eibon. This causes Patty to Call Liz a coward, to which Liz replies that she does not want to lose Kid, but she can't have Patty die on her as well. She also states that Kid was the reason for Liz and Patty reforming their street thuging ways, to which she is grateful.
Patti: The younger of the Thompson sisters. Kid picked her as one of his partners, due to the ability to become matching pistols with her sister, which fits perfectly with his symmetry obsession. though Kid's biggest problem with her is that her human form doesn't match her sister's, with Liz being less endowed, taller, and having longer hair. Patty, though always seemingly carefree, also seems to share a strong bond with Kid, as seen when Kid gets captured by Eibon (Noah), where she uncharacteristically calls Liz (who Patty rather admires and looks up to) a coward for not trying to go after Kid.
Family
Shinigami: With the Shinigami as his father, Kid already has Shinigami powers and doesn't need to train his weapons, but he does so anyway. Where Kid is generally serious and reserved, his father is not, unless the situation calls for it. Kid has commented on this but doesn't stress it. He refers to Shinigami as 'honorable father' (父上, chichiue), who he seems to be named after as it has been shown that Shinigami's name was "Death" when he was younger.
Shibusen
Maka: Little interaction is shown between Maka and Kid, but it is established that they work well together as calm and strategic fighters.
Black Star: Just like everyone else, Kid finds Black Star's need to be loud and noticed highly annoying. Being the son of Shinigami, Kid is seen as a god, which frustrates Black Star at some points, as he is striving to become a person to surpass God, leading to conflicts between the two. Despite that, Kid does see that Black Star has very good combat skills and is a powerful asset to Shibusen, placing the two on good terms with each other.
Excalibur: Kid, along with Black Star, went on a quest for Excalibur, after finding some information on it in a book. After finding Excalibur, they left him behind, despite him being the ultimate weapon, because his humor was too bizarre and he was way too annoying and self-absorbed, even more than Black Star. Kid went on the quest originally because Excalibur's weapon form is perfectly symmetrical.
Abilities
Naturally, Kid has excellent gunning skills as he uses the Twin Demon Guns as his default weapon of choice. He holds his guns in an unorthodox manner, by holding the guns upside-down and pulling the triggers with his pinkies. Kid has been shown to be able to maneuver around with his guns, adapting to any situation that opposes him. In addition, his weapons have the ability to compress his soul wavelength and fire it at will. Rather then normal bullets, he fires pink soul wavelengths at the target. This also allows him to blast his soul wavelength through the opponent, shown when used against Soul in their first encounter. The attack was more of a dark-like 'stream' of energy that fires through the enemy, though it won't open a hole through the opponent or his/her clothing.
He has a flight-capable skateboard called Beelzebub, which he uses as a form of short distance transportation, though it could be used for long distance as well, as seen to be used for flying to Egypt.
As he was born a Shinigami, Kid's potential power is technically far above that of his fellow Shibusen students. However, the details of Kid's, or his father's, nature as Shinigami have not been revealed. Both share a skull motif (in Shinigami's mask and Kid's rings) and dark, vaguely monstrous, shadows appear around them when either use their abilities, such as Shinigami attacking Asura and Kid using Soul Resonance.
skills
Shinigami Abilities: A number of Kid's skills come from the fact that he's a Shinigami.
* Body of a Shinigami: Kid's body is that of a Shinigami, so naturally most things that effect the human body are trivial in his case . He is unaffected by most weather conditions such as the UV Rays the sun emits which can be harmful to the average person. He is also unaffected by natural poisons as he attempted to dye his hair in order to remove the three white lines but failed. It can be assumed there are many more benefits, those of which that are unknown.
Connection of the first Sanzu Line
* Sanzu Lines: Not much is known about the Sanzu Lines, other than they are represented by the white lines in Kid's hair. He hasn't been able to fully control the Sanzu Lines, but we know that he unlocks great powers when he does. He also showcased new abilities, like upgrading the caliber of Kid's shots from Patti and Liz from .38 to .42 and changing his guns to visually match the Israeli made Desert Eagle. The Sanzu Lines seems to be directly linked to the Shinigami Special abilities, as he was able to access some of his father's abilities after connecting one line.
* Shadow Skull Arms: Similar to his father, Kid is able to produce black skull-like arms out of his body, although they seem to be slightly smaller than his father's version. Unlike his father, Kid used the arms for a supportive purpose rather than an offensive one, using one of them to reattach his arm, that got severed in his fight with Mosquito. He is able to use them after connecting the first Sanzu Line.
Kid, about to use Konso
* Konso: This ability allows Kid to store souls and hold them for later use. Kid was in the process of using this technique to store a number of souls The Flying Dutchman had captured but did not actually get the chance to use it. This is most likely the same ability Shinigami uses whenever he confiscates souls from students or how Arachne's soul was saved for Soul until he got his 99 Kishin Egg Souls.
Techniques
* Stand Alone Techniques
o Death God Martial Art - Stance of "Crime": This fighting style is Kid's normal style but without using Liz and Patti and therefore focuses on chops, kicks, and hammer blows (all of which can be symmetrical). He also adopts the stance before fighting Crona and Ragnarok.
o Death God Martial Art - Stance of "Punishment": This fighting style is more defensive than the Stance of "Crime', allowing Kid to use his father's skull shields to block attacks, which he calls Death Arm Blocking. He uses Patti and Liz with this style.
o Death Ride: Not really an attack, as it is Kid doing a rail slide with his skateboard.
o Tornado Flip: Kid launches his skateboard, spinning, at an opponent possibly cutting them in half. Not much is known as it was only used to save Patti and Liz once when they were being constricted by the Pharaoh of Wrath.
Death Cannon
* Soul Resonance Techniques
o Dark Needle: A seldom seen attack of Kid's that is also one of his most powerful. A giant black blast that leaves behind a series of skull-shaped smoke.
o Death Cannon: Kid's Soul Resonance attack. When activated, Kid's lower arms are covered with metal and resemble cannon barrels. Three black spikes come out of each of the upper arms. He then charges his attack and fires two giant blasts of energy from the cannons that impact with the opponent, leaving behind a series of skull shaped smoke. In the anime, after all three Sanzu Lines connected when Kid was near death, his Death Cannon became two oversized cannon barrels.
* Sanzu Line Techniques
o Sanzu Fall Shot: A technique used while the Second Sanzu Line is connected using the power of BREW. Kid brings his arms up while firing and brings them down until he splits them, his arms parallel with the ground. The stream that is fired down can be used to strike multiple targets at once.
* As stated by Mosquito, Kid has type D blood.
* In South Eater, a fan made, crossover/parody with characters from South Park, his role is filled by Craig Tucker.
* When in battle, Kid, Patty and Liz will often go into a symmetrical formation in which Kid will be on his knees with his arms low to the ground, Patty will be standing over him with her hands behind her head and Liz above both of them with her arms outstretched like wings. A running gag is that whenever this formation is less symmetrical (such as when Patty was off to one side) Kid gets mad and shouts at them.
* His name is a reference to "Billy the Kid", a gunfighter of the old west.
* In Smash Eater, fan made crossover/parody with characters of Super Smash Brothers Brawl, he is played by Meta Knight in the beginning (with Kirby and King Dedede for Patty and Liz), Toon Link in the middle (with Ness and Lucas for Patty and Liz), Pokemon Trainer in the dinner scene (with Mr. game and Watch and Lucario for Patty and Liz) and Fox at the shooting scene(with Falco and Wolf for Patty and Liz), and by Roy at the end scene. He is the only inconsistent character, all others changing only if their other forms are shown.
* His theme song is "So crazy". His character song with Liz and Patti is "Sore ga Bokura no Michishirube".
* In the correct font and written in all capital letters, every letter of Death the Kid's name has at least one line of symmetry.
* Kid is known for his phrase "kicchiri kacchiri" (きっちりかっちり) ("absolutely perfect" in the dub), which means "precise and neat" in English.
* Kid's technique Sanzu River Shot is a reference to the Sanzu River.
* On the first official popularity poll, Kid was voted the most popular character.
* In an ironic correspondence, the Funimation voice actors for Death the Kid, Liz and Patty, are the same voice actors as Keroro, Nasumi, and Aki from Sgt. Frog.
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