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| “ | My name is Teitoku Kakine, Academy City’s #2 Level 5 and the user of Dark Matter. | „ |
| ~ Beetle 05 after taking the identity of Teitoku Kakine. |
| “ | I have something to say to you people who enjoy creating collisions between heroes like a game of billiards. Do not underestimate a Level 5. | „ |
| ~ Beetle 05 before fighting Rensa |
Rhinoceros Beetle 05, commonly referred to as Beetle 05 and later Teitoku Kakine, is a major character in the A Certain Magical Index franchise.
Initially, he was a rhinoceros beetle created by the original Teitoku Kakine through his Dark Matter ability and was sent to capture and dispose of Fräulein Kreutune but ended up gaining sentience and a will of its own due to the interference of Rikou Takitsubo's AIM Stalker. After defeating the original Kakine, Beetle 05 takes over his identity and becomes a heroic urban legend in Academy City and the guardian of Fremea Seivelun.
He is voiced by Masaya Matsukaze in Japanese.
Appearance[]
He originally appeared as a large white Rhinoceros beetle that's 15 meters long with normal green eyes. After breaking free of the Dark Matter Network, he gains red eyes, which indicates his rebellion. He can also shrink down to the size of a keychain.
Once he fully becomes Teitoku Kakine and assumes his human form, his eyes turn back to green, contrasting him against the original Kakine. In his human form, Beetle 05 is practically identical to Kakine but is now described as a pure white boy, implying that he still all colored white.
Personality[]
Beetle 05 embodies the selfless and kind side of Teitoku Kakine. He is someone with the desire to protect others and a strong moral compass, being driven by a keen sense of justice. Unlike his original, Beetle 05 seeks only to help others in need and will come to aid anyone in trouble. He is extremely protective of children, as shown by his interaction with Last Order and Fremea Seivelun, even becoming the guardian of the latter.
Before gaining sentience, Beetle 05 was originally emotionless, only following Kakine's orders. Part of what gets him to rebel is misinterpretation of what his orders were, one of which is to protect all residents from anything dangerous. He then concludes that Kakine and the other Dark Matter beetles count as 'dangerous' and attacks them, while the original targets including Last Order and Fremea are residents to be protected. This is also partially due to Takitsubo's influence.
Moreover, Beetle 05 is shown to absolutely denies and despise the actions of the original Teitoku Kakine and aims to become someone better than him. At the same time however, he is also quite paranoid, worrying that his original's influence will eventually take back control.
Biography[]
During the Ichihanaran Festival Arc, the original Teitoku Kakine is revealed to still be alive after Accelerator tore him to pieces at the end of their first battle. He shows he can create a new body made fully out of Dark Matter, and is also able to make clones of himself in the shape of insects, like rhinoceros beetles, that can carry out orders on his behalf.
Powers and Abilities[]
Dark Matter: After taking over Kakine's, Beetle 05 is now able to use his esper ability, Dark Matter, which allows him to generate and manipulate an exotic type of matter that defies the normal physical laws and is able to warp the laws of physics as a result. Due to being made out of Dark Matter himself, Beetle 05 has command over the entire Dark Matter Network and all dark matter in an extension of him.
- Nigh-Immortality: As long as Dark Matter exists in the world, Kakine will never die, granting him some form of immortality.
- Regeneration: Kakine can easily rebuild his Dark Matter body, as he requires no organs to survive. Even if completely destroyed with something like Meltdowner, he can recreate it from another Dark Matter pile/puddle. The same applies to his creations. Kakine now lives through his own ability, and claims to be able to regenerate as long as there's Dark Matter left in the world.
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Kakine's Angelic Dark Matter Wings.
- Dark Matter Wings: Kakine can create six white wings made out of Dark Matter that allow him to fly. These wings can be several tens of meters long, and can be used as blunt, stabbing or slicing weapons that can casually slice a building in half vertically.
- Light Diffraction: By diffracting sunlight through the countless unseen gaps of his Dark Matter wings, Kakine can change light's nature to one that doesn't follow the laws of physics, instead using its own set of laws. This light can be used to burn opponents
- Wind: Using his wings, Kakine can create a powerful gale wind strong enough to send a person flying.
- Enhanced Strength: Due to his Dark Matter body, Beetle 05 possesses incredible strength that is beyond what's naturally possible.
- Dark Matter Analysis: Kakine can calculate and predict all effects his Dark Matter has on his surroundings.
- Energy Manipulation: Kakine can infuse his Dark Matter and the attacks launched by it (such as the diffracted light or wind caused by his wings) with 25,000 different types of energy that he can produce by twisting the laws of physics.
- Shapeshifting: Since his body is made of the Dark Matter that he holds control of, Beetle 05 can easily change his shape. He has shown he can freely change between his white beetle form (Either as small as a regular beetle or as large as his original form) and his human form.
- Materialization: Kakine is able to create anything with Dark Matter. The things that Kakine creates are not bound by the normal laws of physics and instead operates on abnormal laws. He is also give it specific or even mutually-conflicting properties to make whatever he wants out of it.
- Dark Matter Spears: Beetle 05 can release a storm of countless white Dark Matter spears from a Dark Matter puddle.
- Dark Matter Beings: Teitoku is capable of creating an army of hundreds of Dark Matter beings, which are all connected to his Dark Matter Network. Kakine does this by splitting his own personality into independent minds that can join back together into a single consciousness when he joins back together. They all follow the wishes of the existence known as Teitoku Kakine, even though there's no actual large consciousness controlling them, because they are all the individual known as Teitoku Kakine.
- Clones/Self-Duplication: Like the original post-revival, Beetle 05 possesses the ability to create clones of himself using Dark Matter. He even states that unlike the Misaka Network, he doesn't need his 'primary' body as his consciousness exists in all of his clones. That said, he's careful not to create too many to avoid risk of a clone breaking off and trying to do what he did to the original.
- Matter Transmutation: Like the original, Beetle 05 can use Dark Matter to alter ordinary matter in highly unusual ways and give new properties, according to abnormal laws other than the laws of physics.
- Explosion Creation: Kakine is capable of creating explosions around him at will
- Psychometry: Kakine is able to cover an area in Dark Matter to read the information on the surface as if it were a record or a CD. He can see the events that occurred there, up to a few months back into the past. Kakine can get enough information about these past events to even recreate the humans present for them, including their thoughts.
- Wallcrawling: He is able to stand and walk on walls.
Beetle Form[]
- Detection: The bodies of the beetles are equipped with an organic antenna that uses the structure of the ampullae of Lorenzini that sharks use to find their prey.
- Wings: Using their wings, the beetles can lift their large bodies off the ground and fly. By vibrating them at high speed, they can convey their thoughts in human language and speak, or if the Original Teitoku Kakine needs to, his own voice through the beetles. They can also use the vibration of their wings to divert shockwaves, a technique adapted from Accelerator's vector control. By vibrating his wings in a certain amplitude, they can allow certain small objects, like Last Order and Fremea Seivelun, to levitate.
- Cannon: The beetles' horns are cannons that can fire Dark Matter shells on targets, apparently exploding on impact. It does not use gunpowder; it does not smoke when fired. Instead, it uses a spring system to fire the shells. The shells detonate by breaking the hardened outer coating with sponge springs, as such, their acoustic effect is only 36% to 50% than that of a normal shell, making it infeasible to weaponize the shockwaves generated by the shell on impact. The cannon is as strong as those of warships.
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