Kazuki Karaiya
Kazuki Karaiya (仮頼谷 一樹, Karaiya Kazuki), auto-surnommé Ultimate Singer (アルティメット・シィンガー, Arutimetto Shīngā, lit. Le Chanteur ultime),[1] est l'antagoniste principal du manga spin-off Crazy D Demonic Heartbreak et sa version romancée Crazy Heartbreakers.
Karaiya est un agent de police qui vit et travaille à Morioh. Il obtient la possibilité de manipuler le perroquet Pet Sounds et son Stand, et sème le désordre à travers la ville. Il obtient aussi le Thoth de Boingo.
Apparence
Karaiya est un Japonais de plutôt grande taille, mais qui est mince. Il a une face plutôt androgyne avec des traits fins et délicats. Cependant, il arbore souvent une expression de dédain et de cruauté. Il a des cheveux de couleur claire taillé en carré court, ainsi qu'un grain de beauté sous l'oeil droit, et des sourcils plats.
Karaiya apparait surtout dans son uniforme de policier, avec donc une veste et pantalon assortis sombres par dessus une chemise de couleur claire et une cravate sombre. Sa casquette de policier est aussi assortie à son uniforme, et est adornée d'un emblème d'étoile sur le front. Enfin, il porte un harnais passant de l'épaule gauche au flanc gauche.
Personnalité
Au premier abord, Kazuki Karaiya semble être un agent de police paisible et aimable, cependant ce n'est qu'une façade qui cache sa grande arrogance et sa cruauté. Karaiya est en fait un homme fou à lié avec des tendances sadiques et une folie des grandeurs.
Durant les évènements du spin-off, Karaiya essaie surtout d'accumuler du pouvoir et de se débarrasser de tous ceux en travers de son chemin. En manipulant le Stand de Pet Sounds, il attaque ainsi plusieurs fois Hol Horse et Josuke Higashikata, le petit-fils de son propre collègue Ryohei pour les éliminer quand ils essaient de rechercher le perroquet. Par exemple, il essaie d'attaquer Josuke dans un immeuble pour faire croire à un suicide.[3][1] En plus, Karaiya permet à des criminels comme Koji Kiyohara de rôder librement pour qu'ils lui porte assistance en temps voulu, ne se souciant absolument pas du danger que cela pause à la population ni du manquement à son devoir de policier.[4][5]
Karaiya a été grandement influencé par son défunt grand-père Mogizo Karaiya, lequel a été transformé en Vampire par Cars. Mogizo Karaiya se croyait supérieur à l'humanité et a influencé son petit-fils, le persuadant qu'il était aussi supérieur aux humains et qu'il devait se dévouer à dominer les autres. Karaiya acceptant facilement ceci et développa une folie des grandeurs, se croyant supérieur aux autres et percevant les autres humains comme des imbéciles. Il se donne des titres grandiloquent, se qualifiant d'"empereur au pinacle du monde". Ironiquement, Kazuki n'était ni particulièrement doué en sport, et avait des notes médiocres à l'école, mais il se demande encore pourquoi les autres ne remarquent pas sa "grandeur".[1] Il s'autoproclame aussi être le "chanteur ultime", chantonnant souvent en disant "Chante, chant, chanteur ultime ♪" "comme un poivrot" selon la narration du roman.[1] Avant que sont grand-père ne lui tourne la tête, Karaiya se sentait perdu dans la vie, et sa folie des grandeurs lui a donné une sorte de raison de vivre. Lors qu'il a acquis Pet Sounds, il se sentit alors omnipotent, étant en joie d'avoir un pouvoir spécial même si ce n'était pas vraiment le sien.[6] Défait par Josuke pour de bon, Kazuki Karaiya finit par se répéter de façon illusoire qu'il va se tenir au dessus de tous mais surtout comme mantra pour mieurx ignorer sa défaite.[7]
Malgré sa folie des grandeurs, Karaiya maintient facilement la façade d'un homme amical et paisible auprès de ses collègues policiers[2] et d'autres civils, par exemple s'approchant de Boingo en lui suggérant de l'aider à trouver son chemin.[6] Il a aussi appris cela de son grand-père Mogizo qui lui a parlé de secrets qui donnent à ceux qui les découvre la qualification pour monter au somet. Ainsi, malgré son grand dédain pour autrui, Karaiya a appris à se camoufler et à cacher sa véritable nature pour pouvoir patiemment attendre cette vérité qui lui permettrait d'atteindre le sommet, imitant comment son grand-père vampire se faisait passer pour un humain. Kazuki Karaiya a d'ailleurs décidé de devenir policier pour pouvoir s'approcher de la vérité et non par conviction.[1] Quand Kazuki Karaiya se et en colère, son masque craque et il révèle sa véritable nature.[4] Il est particulièrement agacé quand on n'agit pas parfaitement comme il le souhaite. Il déteste aussi voir les gens vivre leurs vies insousciante.[1]
Pouvoirs et compétences
Pet Sounds
After sharing a piece of his earlobe with Pet Sounds, Karaiya's soul mysteriously connects with Pet Sounds, allowing them to share the same Stand. Karaiya is capable of fully wielding it for his own gain. Pet Sounds's Stand is capable of recording events from the past in punched cards and inserting them into someone's body. The victim's body is then forced to reenact the event, essentially parroting what happened.
Tohth
Tohth is a comic-book-like Stand whose whimsical story periodically updates itself to predict the close future with 100% accuracy. After incapacitating Ryoko and Boingo, Karaiya takes the book for himself.
History
Background
When Karaiya was young, his grandfather Mogizo Karaiya advised him not to open his heart to humans because of how shallow they are. Before World War II, Mogizo was at St. Moritz, Switzerland for an intelligence operation, where he experienced something that transcended all of creation. Mogizo never shared the truth with his son since he was already born by the time Mogizo became a vampire, but he decided to tell his grandson since he felt that both of them were similar. Mogizo passed on the ideology he learned from Kars and planned to share a part of his vampire essence to him when he became an adult.[6] However, Mogizo went missing when Karaiya was in elementary school, so Karaiya never received his power.[1]
After growing older, Karaiya started working in Morioh as a police officer in the Budogaoka Police Station. In March 1999, Keicho Nijimura stole Pet Sounds in Cairo, Egypt, and brought the parrot with him to Morioh. At some point, Karaiya retrieves the parrot from Keicho[1]; Hol Horse assumes that he confiscated the bird.[8] Karaiya shares a piece of his body with Pet Sounds, linking their souls together and making them share the same Stand.[9][1]
Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak / Crazy Heartbreakers
Attacking Hol Horse
Karaiya first controls Pet Sounds to use its Stand on the police inspector, Hiraoka. While driving to work, Hiraoka runs over several pedestrians and nearly crashes into Hol Horse.[10]
At the Budogaoka Police Station, Karaiya takes interest when Boingo mentions that he lost a manga. Ryohei asks Karaiya to escort Boingo back to his hotel. Before they leave, Karaiya ominously hopes that Ryohei could get a promotion someday for his hard work and passion.[2]
Later, Karaiya has Pet Sounds use its ability to possess a group of chefs. Watching from an alley, Karaiya witnesses Hol Horse using his Stand to defend himself and is excited to learn that there are other Stand users in Morioh.[11]
Battle in the Subway
Without directly meeting him, Karaiya gives Koji Kiyohara permission to kill whoever he wants in Morioh's subway station, while also having Pet Sounds attack Josuke and Hol Horse. However, Kiyohara and Pet Sounds are both defeated by the duo, allowing Ryohei to arrest Kiyohara.[12] While Kiyohara is in his jail cell, he sees a memory of Karaiya sitting beside him in a police car. Karaiya asks him how it felt to lose. When Kiyohara doesn't answer the question but instead asks who Karaiya is, Karaiya screams at him. Pet Sounds then appears behind Karaiya and activates its Stand ability on Kiyohara, causing him to shriek in his cell.[4]
Retrieving Tohth
Karaiya looks at the civilians around him and feels that he is superior to all of them. Recalling his grandfather's words from when he was younger, Karaiya has full faith that he can crush anyone that stands in his way. Karaiya walks up to Boingo, who is taking shelter from the rain, and asks if he needs a hand searching for his book. However, Karaiya actually incapacitates Boingo and carries him with one arm while looking for Tohth. He eventually finds Ryoko Kakyoin and uses Pet Sounds's Stand to possess her. With Tohth left on the ground, Karaiya picks it up and becomes its new owner. The pages tell him to give Ryoko a gun so that she can shoot Hol Horse. Karaiya is ecstatic that he can now control both the past and the future using Pet Sounds and Tohth.[6]
Final Battle
Karaiya then uses Boingo as bait to lure Josuke into a trap. Despite Josuke's caution, he falls for it and Pet Sounds is able to attack him.[13] Josuke and Boingo manage to break free from the illusion thanks to Josuke's Stand, causing Karaiya to grind his teeth in anger wondering what kind of ability Josuke has. He assures that no matter what tricks Josuke uses next, he will never win against the abundant memories Pet Sounds has stocked up. He declares that his next attack will be a massacre and he'll kill all of them.[9]
When Josuke, Boingo, and Hol Horse reunite, Karaiya tricks them by using a paper model of Pet Sounds and an illusion of Ryoko to split them up. Josuke runs after the fake Ryoko, and Hol Horse chases after "Pet Sounds". After Karaiya successfully splits them up and isolates Josuke, he makes Josuke relive a memory of Daniel J. D'Arby playing poker with DIO. While Josuke is defenseless, Karaiya comes behind him with a cutting torch and intends to make Josuke's death look like a suicide.[14] Luckily, Josuke manages to escape the memory by punching Pet Sounds before Karaiya could harm him. Karaiya tries to act innocent, but Josuke sees through his trick and punches him with his Stand.[15]
Karaiya attempts to have Josuke hear The World's Stand cry, which he claims is the most powerful sound. Pet Sounds plays the sound with its Stand and Karaiya boasts about taking his place far above humans and looking down on everyone. Fortunately, Josuke is unharmed and only complains about his ears ringing. He had previously broken Pet Sounds's beak when he punched the parrot earlier to escape the D'Arby illusion. Josuke realized that the secret to Pet Sounds's ability is parroting back the exact noises it hears. Since its beak is broken, the sound it parrots will be off-key, and the ability will be useless. Josuke also figures out that Pet Sounds ate a piece of Karaiya's ear, so he uses his Stand to reattach the piece of Karaiya's ear that was in Pet Sounds's stomach. Josuke remembered Karaiya saying he wants to stand far above humans and look down on them, so he gives him exactly what he asked for. Karaiya becomes a hot air balloon after Josuke's Stand fuses the cutting torch with his skin and fuses his arms with a curtain.[3]
Ryohei and the other officers eventually recover a handgun at the construction site, and also find Karaiya strung up on a nearby tree. Karaiya had taken the gun without permission from a colleague. The upper management of the police force struggle with the decision of whether to treat him as retiring due to mental illness or to dismiss him for violating the code of conduct. They aren't able to interrogate him as he is mentally unfit to answer any of their questions.[7][8] He is expected to be hospitalized for at least six months, requiring multiple surgical procedures to remove the sheets that Josuke fused to his entire body.[8]
Citations
Citations- “I hope that someday he gets rewarded for all his hard work.”
- “So there were other Stand users here after all... Just you wait, I'll show you what Pet Sounds can really do!”—Kazuki Karaiya, Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 4
- “The only reason I let worthless pieces of trash like you walk free is so that you can be useful to me in times like these. Got it?”
- “Since I, Kazuki Karaiya, have come here to speak to you personally: I want you to answer me nice and clearly. Can you do that? Hmmm? Now, what you say next will determine your worth in the world.”—Kazuki Karaiya, Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 8
- “Wrong answer!! That’s why you’re nothing but trash!!”—Kazuki Karaiya, Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 8
- “I, Kazuki Karaiya, am nothing like these ignorant lowlifes.”—Kazuki Karaiya, Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 9
- “The fact that I have the power of Pet Sounds in my grasp is proof that I, Kazuki Karaiya, deserve to stand at the top.”—Kazuki Karaiya, Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 9
- “Anyone who stands in my way will be granted no mercy!”—Kazuki Karaiya, Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 9
- “No matter what cheap tricks you use, your Stand is limited to its one ability! But with the wealth of memories this parrot has stocked, you'll never win!”
- “Finally I can dispose of you... better yet, I'll be making you look like a moron! The sort of moron who plays with an Acetylene torch and gets himself killed!”—Kazuki Karaiya talking about killing Josuke Higashikata, Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 13
Chapitres
Apparition dans le Manga- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 3 (1ère apparition)
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 4 (Silhouette)
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 5 (Mentionné)
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 6 (Mentionné)
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 8
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 9
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 11
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 12
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 13
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 14 (Hors-combat)
- Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Final Chapter (Flashback(s))
Apparitions dans les Romans- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 2: Dazed date (1ère apparition)
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 3: Dissonance (Silhouette)
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 4: Descent on
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 5: Disquietude
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 6: Double doubt
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 7: DIO (Hors-combat)
- Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 8: Diamond (Mentionné)
Galerie d'images
Karaiya when he was young
Karaiya's first appearance
Karaiya with his coworkers
Karaiya intimidates Kiyohara
Karaiya yelling at Kiyohara for not answering
Karaiya acting friendly to Boingo
Karaiya incapacitates Boingo and reads Tohth
Karaiya with a cutting torch
Références
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 7: DIO
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 14
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 8
- ↑ Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 4: Descent on
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 9
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Final Chapter
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Crazy Heartbreakers Chapter 8: Diamond
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 11
- ↑ Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 1
- ↑ Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 4
- ↑ Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 7
- ↑ Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 10
- ↑ Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 12
- ↑ Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak: Chapter 13
