DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN DEATH NOTE NOR DO I OWN ANY OF IT'S CHARACTERS. HOWEVER THE CHARACTER OF SHINIGAMI TOSHIKO DOES BELONG TO ME, AND IF YOU ASK VERY (and I mean very very very) NICELY, I MIGHT LET YOU BORROW HER.
Name: Shinigami Toshiko or in English Toshiko Shinigami
Name means: Toshiko: alert child
Shinigami: God of Death
Nicknames: Toshi, Shini
Aliases: Senjo (fairy), Hotaru (Firefly), Kagerou (Dragonfly)
Years: 2003-2005
Age: 21
Gender: female
Species: Human
Date of birth: November 28, 1983
Occupation: Detective, assassin
Title: fourth best detective, second best assassin
Blood Type: AB
Nationality: half Japanese, quarter Irish, quarter Spanish
Personality: Toshi's personality changes at any given moment as she is an actress and is always in character. Hyper, but calm about it. Toshi is usually quiet and listens, but when she knows someone is being an idiot, she corrects them without a second thought. Sharp, intuitive, but pessimistic, Toshi has no fear of death, or of "Kira". Acts without a thought, and hides her feelings for L.
Appearance: shoulder length, silky looking red hair with short bangs, steel blue, sharp eyes, 5 foot 6, 110 lbs. Toshi wears a short black skirt, black tank top, a long sleeveless black and red sweater with matching arm warmers, black running sandals and gray brown gloves that conceal(and cushion) brass knuckles.
Characteristics: Seeing as she grew up with him in the orphanage, Toshi has many of the same quirks about her as L. Instead of sitting properly like other people, Toshi prefers to crouch, but for a slightly different reason. L crouches because he believes that his analyzing capabilities are deduced by 40 percent if he sits properly. Toshi prefers to crouch because she finds it easier to dodge something. They both also prefer to only eat sweets such as candy and sweet fruits. Toshi also really enjoys salty foods, and is continuously munching on potato chips. She has an extremely high metabolism and, like L, believes that weight gain can be prevented if the majority of a persons calorie intake is used by the brain. Thus far it has worked for her.
Past: Toshi had an odd upbringing before she was taken to the orphanage. An old legend from her fathers clan, the Shinigami clan, was that any female child died at birth, but if the female child survived, the mother died during childbirth. It was true that it usually happened, but Toshi's mother didn't die. She survived until Toshi was two and a half years old, when she and her husband were killed by a drunk driver. At age 6, her grandparents, believing the child to be mentally disturbed, decidedly disowned her and sent her to an orphanage, known as Wammy's House. There she met L Lawliet and Watari. Watari noticed that though she seemed like a somewhat normal, if not extremely intelligent child, she also seemed to be afraid of losing L, but at the same time wanting to push him away and not letting him get any closer. After closer inspection of her odd, slightly eccentric behavior over the years that she's at the orphanage, he concludes that she has separation issues that were probably caused from losing her parents and then losing her grandparents and everyone she ever cared about as a young child. The only stability in her life was in the orphanage when she was with L. Watari feared what would happen to her seemingly fragile mind if L disappeared from her life, so he decided to try and keep them near each other, for all Toshi's fear and love of L. When Toshi was ten, Watari also noticed her quickness to pick up what others were thinking and was able to adapt quickly to any given situation and he began to train her to act, believing that with that she could be useful to L, who was training to be a Detective. At the same time, Toshi had been able to get lessons for the martial arts from a world renowned teacher. She was his best student before he allowed Toshi to kill him instead of him dying of cancer as her final test at age twelve. Neither Watari nor L knew anything of this. After her sensei's death, Toshi became more withdrawn from L and the other children at the orphanage and began to openly train, often challenging other, often older kids, to fight her, and see if they could defeat her. Everyone she challenged lost. When L challenged her, at first she was frightened because she didn't want to hurt him, then decided that she couldn't allow her feelings to get in the way of what she was, and accepted the challenge. She lost. Watari, seeing this, asked L to train with her, to spar, in hopes of curbing her sudden violent anger. He also made her study with L, do everything the same as L, plus he began training her to use weapons such as knives, swords, guns, throwing stars and her body. On top of all this, he made her continue to act. He never knew where she found the time to do anything else, like track a man from the Meguro district in Tokyo to the Shitamachi district and kill him at the age sixteen. Because of Toshi's affinity to acting, she began to pretend everything was a play and wasn't actually real at the age of seventeen. Doing this helped her cope with what she was doing. L was the first to realize this, but only because the way she looked at him was suddenly different, and there was a pained, disturbed look in her eyes. When he confronted her about it, she told him that if she didn't act like it wasn't happening, she'd break. Knowing that she wasn't brought up like a fragile porcelain doll, he forced her to believe that what she was doing was real, that it was hurting others. When she told him that they were all serial killers except one, he got confused and asked her who. She told him about her sensei and her final test, he became enraged and hit her, knocking her to the ground. He turned his back on her and told her that he thought he might have been falling in love with her, but he didn't know if it was possible anymore, then walked away. Believing that he was leaving her at last, Toshi jumped up and ran at him, grabbing him and knocking him to the ground. She kissed him gently, then got up and apologized for everything and disappeared. After that, Toshi began to make a living as an assassin and thief. L began to investigate her, not realizing who she was but suspicious, although Toshi knew who he was. She approached him, a different woman at the age of nineteen, more mature. She gave him one of her aliases, Kagerou, and said she knew "Senjo", the assassin he was hunting. She was known as Senjo, or Fairy, because of glitter that was always left on the victim, letting the police know who she was, even though the manner in which each victim died was different. L ended up arresting a different young woman who was obsessed with Senjo and was willing to go to jail for "him". L, though was suspicious of Kagerou and did some research on her. He found out that Kagerou was actually Shinigami Toshiko, the worlds fourth best detective, and that she was a top assassin that used the aliases "Senjo", "Hotaru" and "Kagerou". Unfortunately, Toshi had already disappeared again before he was able to find out if it was true.
