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Character Name; Kyohei Kadota; nickname: Dotachin; calling him this will not endear you to him.
Canon; Durarara!! Link to wiki: http://durarara.wikia.com/
Canon Point; After his encounter and fight with Rokujo Chikage; before his accident.
Age; He is 23.
House; Kadota loves to read, so I feel he belongs in Odin. He's also very intelligent, and while he doesn't particularly seek book knowledge all the time - though he seems well-read - he is incredibly street smart. He knows what is going on and where, and if he doesn't, he goes out of his way to find out, and then he uses that knowledge to help out and do what he can. He is also well-rounded in his knowledge, for example, he's an excellent street fighter, but can quote from the books he reads.
Power; I'd like him to have the ice power, if that's okay. He's much more reserved, and ice fits his personality better.
Personality;
Kyohei has a very cool, calm demeanor at first. He loves to read and he keeps to himself often, personality wise. His friends mostly refer to him as Kadota (as is typical in Japanese), Kadota-san, and those two unmentionables who insist on calling him Dotachin. He doesn’t like it, as ‘chin’ is a diminuative, almost cutesy addition to someone’s name, and Kadota is clearly much too cool for that. Someone as serious-minded as he is really doesn’t have time for cutesy nicknames. He definitely acts more mature and level-headed that the majority of the people around him, and sometimes can even be a bit of a killjoy.
Kadota’s own moral code holds more influence over him than almost any other thing. This is a main reason he likes being in Dollars, because it gives him freedom to follow his own code. Despite being a member of a gang, he’s largely seen aligned with a cause that would be considered good, rather than evil. Some of the few times we see Kadota smile in the anime are when he’s inflicting justice on someone else, such as going after and interrogating the guys who are involved in human trafficking, or when he and other members of the Dollars infiltrate Kida’s gang to turn on Horada. He definitely seems to enjoy justice. We also see his moral code in action when he fights with Rokujo Chikage. He tells Chikage that he beat up some people from the other’s Toramaru gang because he wanted to, not on behalf of Dollars. His reasonableness truly shows when he lets Chikage know that he will find the people in Dollars who caused trouble for Chikage and will make them apologize somehow. Chikage is surprised that he would ‘sell out’ fellow Dollars members, and Kadota replies that because there are no rules he can, and anyway, it’s not on behalf of the Dollars, but simply because Kadota ‘doesn’t like them’ i.e. the people who caused trouble for Chikage. He is clearly not somebody to cross, Dollars members or not.
It’s difficult to tell from the limited information we get about Kodota in canon, what motivates him, and what he’s often thinking behind his hollow smiles and sometimes empty demeanor, but his moral code seems to give him some idealism. He feels that what he does in Ikebukuro with his gang is important, and he thinks they are together laudable. He’s definitely not the hero type; we see this during a high school flashback when he’s willing to let Izaya do whatever mischief he will do just so long as it doesn’t cause him or his friends trouble. However, something like his fight with Rokujo Chikage, where he pays for a cab so they can go somewhere less crowded to fight, and after the fight they end up respecting each other friends as they end up having to fight against other Dollars’ members, seems to be exactly what he’s looking to accomplish. Something just like the protagonists he would read about in his books and manga; this seems even more apparent when thugs from Dollars mock him about being friendly with Chikage after they’ve beaten each other up, saying he’s playing some ‘friendship-game’ and ‘this isn’t a fucking manga’. Only, to Kadota, it isn’t a game. It’s simply who he is. He’s happy to look out for the people who fit his moral code, who he can call ‘good people’.
Kadota really values his friends; they seem to be some of the only ones who can pull out his lighter side. Not that he’s unpleasant; even with strangers he’s helpful and conversational, but he considers his friends great people and he loves their company. He seems to enjoy company in general. He smiles with them too, in the anime. Despite the fact that they have no trouble at all teasing him and being playful, it is clear that Kadota has their utmost respect, and they are unquestionably loyal to him. When he’s injured in an accident that leaves him in the hospital, Erika and Walker swear to kill whoever hurt him, and Shizuo says he won’t forgive whoever hurt his old classmate. However, Kadota is very humble and doesn’t seem to understand why they follow him. He likewise doesn’t consider himself any sort of boss or figure of authority in Dollars, even when others see him as such. This shows how his behavior is nothing more than what is ingrained in his personality. After fighting with Rokujo Chikage, they end up on friendly terms, and Chikage seems to respect him. Even Shizuo has confidence in him; during the issue with Toramaru while he debates on being involved, he recognizes that if Kadota is on it, it will be taken care of. During a small high-school flashback that Narita writes about, we also see that Izaya recognizes Kadota for the leader that he is.
