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Shirou Kamui

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Kamui Shirou is a sixteen year old high school sophomore. He was born in Tokyo, but left with his mother Tooru at age ten, shortly after the somewhat excessively gruesome death of Saya Monou, the mother of his friends Fuuma and Kotori. Six years later he comes back, having at some point developed godlike powers (that's got to come in handy) and severe psychological problems. It turns out that his mother has died in a mysterious fire (I sense a device!), and with her last words has sent him back to Tokyo to meet his destiny. Kamui, in case you haven't figured it out yet, has two destinies: to become a Dragon of Heaven and save humanity or become a Dragon of Earth and destroy humanity. This is a fairly major plot point, which you can tell because of his name (Kamui means both "one who represents the majesty of God" and "one who hunts the majesty of God"), and because everyone in a ten mile radius of him has prophetic visions about his destiny. It's amazing that any of his classmates can concentrate in school.

He chose to save humanity, or more specifically, his childhood friends Fuuma and Kotori. They say that no good deed goes unpunished. As soon as he chose a side, Fuuma was allotted to be his opposite, but hey, they say everyone has an evil twin. Kamui’s just happens to be his best friend. The lesson here is not to try to save humanity.

The current Kamui is traumatized and somewhat lacking in spine. But we hope he’ll get it together so humanity won’t kick off.