Bai Jin
Bai Jin is a male anime and manga character who features in Karakuri Circus.
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Biography
Bai Jin (白金) was a male human born many years ago in the land of Qin where he had an older brother named Bai Yin. The pair grew up to be skilled puppeteers where they sought to improve their art. To achieve that end, they travelled to Prague the City of Spires in order to apprentice themselves under an alchemist. The two wanted to master the art so that they could use it on their puppets in order to bring them to life.
He then secretly kidnapped Francine where he fled Prague with his brother attempting to find him over the course of the next 9 years. Every time she attempted to escape he was noted to had beat her until one day he demanded why she could not love him the way she loved his brother leading to her eventually silently obeying his commands. In that time, he settled in Quiberon in France where he settled by a village in order for her to fall in love with him. However, she still held out hope for Bai Yin to find her as she was in love with him instead of Jin. By this point, her eyes had become cold to the point that it made Jin uneasy and he grew to dislike Francine more and more in this time. Around this time, a sickness fell among the villagers of the town and they came to believe Francine was responsible where a mob of them captured her and imprisoned her in a basement. Due to his growing dislike of her, it was said that he had allowed her to be captured though still worked to free her. Unable to free her, Jin looked to develop the Aqua Vitae in order to cure the villagers and thus secure Francine's freedom. By this point, his brother Yin had tracked him down and demanded to know the location of his wife with Jin directing her to her prison. Thus, the two were re-united but he was unable to free her as the villagers forced him away from Francine. Around this time, a fire was started at the prison engulfing it in flames where it ended up killing Francine. Jin arrived at the scene with the Soft Stone holding the Aqua Vitae but was too late and had found that his brother had similarly already made the stone to save his love. Both were too late and Jin was broken over the loss of Francine as well as the fact that she only loved his brother. Yin though said that in her own way she cared for Jin as well which was the reason why she had never attempted to run away from him. Giving Jin a lock of Francine's hair, Yin departed and left his brother to mourn the loss of their shared love.
Using the remains of her hair, Jin sought to re-create Francine as a doll automaton who he also named Francine after her. Upon being activated, he had wished for her to love him and though she was devoted to her creator she had a blank expressionless face. In an effort to see her smile, he crafted other automatons that eventually became the Midnight Circus that were tasked with making performances to see the doll Francine smile. This included acts of murder that were perpetrated on the villagers at Quiberon for their role in the death of the original Francine and he even began to infect them with a virus that led to the Z.O.N.O.P.H.A. syndrome. Despite all these efforts, the doll never smiled and in anger Jin began to resent her as well as take his frustrations out on her. This led to one day when he attacked the Francine doll and damaged her where he left her broken on the ground after which he departed France as he journeyed back to his homeland. Unknown to him at the time, the Francine doll was repaired by the other automatons who then departed the area as they continued in their murderous efforts to make her smile whilst spreading the ZONOPHA pathogen across the lands. Returning to Qin, the now elderly Jin was struck with a realisation that he could make a new Francine by using the Soft Stone and her hair to reincarnate her in a new body. To achieve this, he needed the hair on the Francine doll and was prepared to return to France but his aged body began to fail him and he realised he could not survive the journey. Thus, he kidnapped a Bai boy from his village and created a well of Aqua Vitae from the Soft Stone where he dissolved his body into allowing for his personality to be present within the waters. The boy was then tricked into drinking the water allowing for Jin to reincarnate within the younger body which gained white hair and other superhuman traits as a result of exposure to Aqua Vitae. He then made the journey back to Quiberon but found the doll Francine to had long departed the area and sought to look for her. But then he saw a young girl that was the age of his new body who looked exactly like Francine. This was Angelina who resembled her aunt and was overjoyed at seeing a boy like her where she introduced him to her family where he came to join the ranks of the Shirogane that had formed as victims of the automatons and looked to destroy those machines.
He took the name of Dean Maistre where he joined their ranks as he reasoned that they would help him track down the Francine doll. However, he came to be obsessed with Angelina and he wanted her to love him where he intended to accomplish this by being her protector. During this time, her mother Lucille did not want her child to live the life of a Shirogane and had her leave Quiberon where she was told to make a new life for herself elsewhere. Maistre later came to find out that Angelina had gone to Japan where she had fallen in love with a man named Shoji Saiga who she shared he Aqua Vitae with so that they could be together. Dean joined the couple where he secretly held hope that Angelina would fall in love with him eventually if he stayed with the couple. His close ties to them led to Shoji deciding to adopt Maistre who then took the name of Sadayoshi Saiga where he helped manage the Saiga Group business conglomerate that had a talent for making puppets. In these years, Jin overheard a conversation between Angelina and Shoji where she revealed to him that she was pregnant with his child. The couple were overjoyed at this news but this shattered Maistre's views of Angelina as he believed she was no longer worthy of being his love.
Overview
Personality and attributes
After his reincarnation in a Bai boy, he began to take the name of Dean Maistre when he joined the ranks of the Shirogane. He then took the name of Sadayoshi Saiga after being adopted by Shoji Saiga and joining his family. Following his assassination attempt on Saiga, it was believed that Sadayoshi was killed but he took on a new identity as Commander Faceless who led the Shirogane-O.
His good lucks led to him being popular among the ladies in his youth.
In time, Bai Jin became a self-centered individual who could not see anything wrong with his own actions. In fact, he believed that if something benefited him then it could not be wrong and did not care who he hurt to accomplish his goals. This eventually led to him developing a god complex and he looked down on humanity.
He became smitten with Francine after first seeing her and was in love with her. At the time, his brother Bai Yin showed no interest in her and Jin sought to court her. However, she and Yin came to fall in love with one another with Jin seeing this as an act of betrayal by his brother. The jealously he experienced mentally broke him and made him more crazed over the years.
Her obsession with Francine led to him creating the Doll Francine where he used a lock of the real ones hair. After creating her, he had her obey his commands but saw no love or laughter there. Thus, he made many attempts to make her laugh including creating clown-like Automata who performed gruesome acts of murder to entertain her. All these efforts failed and Bai Jin came to be frustrated with her where he eventually took his anger out on the Doll Francine where he seemingly destroyed it. However, the Automata managed to repair the Doll Francine and continue with their mission in attempting to make her laugh.
Powers and abilities
He and his brother later came to become skilled alchemists where they sought to create the Aqua Vitae.
Bai Jin came to develop it after his brother where he managed to make the Soft Stone that produced the substance. Jin also came to develop sophisticated mechanical dolls that were called Automata. These came in a variety of shapes and sizes along with capabilities where they came to form the Midnight Circus.
As Faceless, he created a new group of elite automatons to serve him with these being the Les Dernier Quatre.
Bai Jin was the person responsible for creating the ZONOPHA virus as punishment on the villagers that were responsible for killing Francine. The pathogen was actually created by microscopic dust-like automatons that he named Apollyon. Jin managed to craft these into giant statue sized silver winged incarnations formed of dust that were called Artemis which were used as part of his plan to infect the entire world with ZONOPHA.
He maintained a flying airship that could house a large number of automatons and served as a mobile headquarters.
Notes
- Bai Jin was created by Kazuhiro Fujita where he featured in the setting of Karakuri Circus.
Appearances
- Karakuri Circus:
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