Kurama (Full Metal Panic)

"Well,to be fair, i didn't plan to quit smoking."

- Kurama's last words "You're quite good using that raging mouth of yours, Mr. Sousuke Sagara- Or should i say Kashim?"

- Kurama taunting Sousuke while keeping Nami hostage. Kurama is a quaternary antagonist in the Light Novels of Full Metal Panic, and the responsible of killing one of the major characters in the series, Nami.

Of japanese nacionality,it is depicted as a very tall man, with circle glasses, short hair and having a fondness for cigarettes.He forms part of Amalgam's execution squad (Being Gates his predecessor.)

In the light novels
Kurama was one of many Amalgam's agents targeting Sousuke as a prime objective. In his first appereance, it is shown that he murdered a taskforce squad of five soldiers of the BSF.

Kurama acted in Jindai High School, and took Kyoko Tokiwa as a hostage, leaving her tied up in an old building filled with explosives. Sousuke goes foward rescuing Kyoko, and Kurama planned to activate the bombs once he is in the building, but his atempt failed as Wraith helped Sousuke defusing the bombs, Kurama escapes before Mithril forces could found him, and though Kyoko leaves the building alive, he was severaly injured, meaning Kurama beat her up or worse before Sousuke and Wraith arrived.

Afterwards, Kurama was not showed again until the time he captures Nami, a Mithril engineer and close companion of Sousuke, Kurama knowing the last. Sousuke followed Kurama to Namsaku, and there Sousuke warns Kurama to leave Nami alone, instead, he ends up shooting her, which enrages Sousuke and kills Kurama in the act.

Personality
Kurama is a very cautious man, and avoids fighting his targets, this can be derived from being very prudence or simply being a coward. Kurama is also a bold strategist, baiting someone to come where he wants, usually by ruthless means such as kidnapping people close to his targets, when it finally comes to action, Kurama won't think twice about the lives he's about to end. Cigarettes are one of his habits are smoking cigarettes, to the point that he says he wouldn't mind dying younger because he wouldn't stop smoking.

Trivia.

 * His facial features resemblance one of Fullmetal Alchemist villains, Shou Tucker.
 * Apart from that, both of them are heavily hated characters in their respective media, as they both killed off popular and liked characters, the media and changened the perspective view of the world of the protagonists.


 * It is unknown if he'll have a role in the new announced season of Full Metal Panic: Invisible VIctory.
 * Kurama is heavily hated among the fandom for the fact that he mistreated Kyoko and killed Nami.
 * Kurama formed part of the feared Execution Squad of Amalgam, possibly being de successor of Gates.