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Name: Sol
DW username: Bioluminescense
E-mail address: bioluminescense42@gmail.com

Character name: Near
Series: Death Note
Timeline: End of the manga- mid-2000s

Canon resource link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_(Death_Note)

Powers: Near does not have any superpowers in the classical sense, but his mind is brilliant enough to qualify as at least a pseudo-power.
Character background: Near is one of the antagonists from Death Note. He was raised in an orphanage called Wammy's House, where extremely intelligent children are raised to become the world's greatest detective, L. All the children use mononyms in order to protect and conceal their identities, as L had to remain anonymous. Near and his peer, Mello, were the ones chosen to become the next L, but Mello declined immediately, leaving the position to Near alone. He moved from England to the United States, where he joined a team that was trying to catch a mass murderer.  His team joined forces with a similar one in Japan. The killer, Kira, could kill without touching a person, making him very difficult to track. . Near singlehandedly found that one Kira, the L-Kira, and the one leading the Japanese investigation team, was using a messenger to send instructions to the X-Kira, who was carrying out the killings without having any direct contact to the L-Kira. He eventually uncovered the identity of both the L- and X-Kiras by luring the X-Kira to a warehouse where L-Kira and his team were meeting with Near and his team. X-Kira, whose real name was Mikami, revealed that the L-Kira was really Light Yagami by calling him “God”, incriminating Light and forcing him to confess that he was indeed Kira.

Third-Person Sample:

“Near, face it- there are no links. The victims were chosen at random. ”

“No there are.” Near flicked a tiny toy robot through the air. “And I am 78% sure that I found it. Look at the crime scene photos again. Do you see it?”

“Frankly, no.”

“The first victim, Align Deere was holding a hand mirror that no one who knew him could identify. It was pointed toward a mirror in the bathroom. That was pointed to one in the hall.” There were a few nervous stares. ”Yes, the angles are all correct. Trust me.  Now, the one in the hall was pointed exactly north. The building was built specifically on cardinal directions. It was in the floor plans.  The second victim Valley Trace’s house was directly north of Henry’s house. They lined up with only a ½ degree error margin. She was found sitting up, with her eyeglasses on the table next to her. The scene was set to look like she was looking at them. Her friends said that she wore her glasses religiously. But they faced toward a window, which faced a mirror in her bedroom. The bedroom window was open, and the mirror lined up with her car GPS. It was turned on, and it was set to go to the street of the third victim.”

“Near, this is too complex. No one would have, or could have, thought of this. You are tying together bits of air.”

“Now that you said that, I am 89% sure.” Another tiny robot flew, landing in a cup of coffee. Near did not notice.

“Wait how-?”

“Let me go on. The house of the third victim, Derive Rabbitt, was at the end of a cul-de-sac. At the very end of the street where, if you followed the GPS, you would come right up in front of. She was on her bed, staring up. She was paranoid, and had cameras in most rooms of her house. I know what you are thinking, that the cameras would have caught the murderer.” Another robot whizzed through the air, hitting a computer monitor making it twitch momentarily.  “They were almost all turned off, though, which only she could have done. But the camera lens was pointed toward the mirror on the back of her closet which was pointed toward the window in the hall, which was closed, meaning that the trail did not continue outside. That mirror was pointed in the direction of another camera, which shot southwest. It was out of the way of the killer, so it was left on. It was pointed at the billboard outside her house.”

“This is too elaborate not to be exactly right.”

“Exactly.” Near picked up another robot, and tossed the little plastic toy, which landed under a chair.

“The southwest angle was meant to mislead us. The fourth victim, Cobbler Tailor, was pointed to by the sign, which advertised a popular French shoemaker on one half and a man famous for making extravagant wedding dresses on the other half. Cobbler was found half-crushed under a large armchair. Tied around his shoe was a polished spoon. This was a bit awkward to follow at first, as the mirrors were all at odd angles, and had to be flipped exactly 180 degrees in order to lead to the next. But the final thing, a large silver butterfly, pointed to the west. There are three places that the next victim might be found. We must investigate them all. The next murder might be prevented.”

Crunch. The toy robot under the chair was crushed by a wheel.

First person sample:

The murderer has to have access to files containing information about the victims prior to their murders. I have to find this organization, or they will find another victim. I cannot find any pattern in the times of the killings. But this is a race and a game. And I must win.