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| “ | He is like a black sun, a black sun that will not stop until it consumes everything in its path. | „ |
| ~ Masaru Saiga on Bai Jin |
Bai Jin is the main antagonist of the manga and anime known as Karakuri Circus. He is one of the two brothers from the Land of Qin—Better known as the modern China—that travel to Europe so that they could learn alchemy with the intention of creating puppets that could live as human beings.
However, after the two brothers met a woman known as Francine, Bai Jin's heart suddenly take a dark turn after he found out his older brother had married Francine despite Bai Jin sees her as her first sweetheart which caused him creating several tragedies that happened in the series such as the puppet that attack innocent humans—better known as Automata—or ZONAPHA Syndrome which is a disease caused by third party parasympathetic dominance.
Over the course of the story, as Jin manipulates the events behind the scenes for his own bidding, he assumes several identities, Commander Faceless (His current identity) and Dean Maistre/Sadayoshi Saiga
He is voiced by Toshio Furukawa in Japanese who voiced Piccolo Jr., Asura (Soul Eater), Moroboshi Ataru and Portgas D. Ace.
Appearance[]
Bai Jin initially appears as an average - built fair skinned young man with long black hair. He mostly used a set of brown robes covering most of his body and a dark greenish hood above his clothes. He was wearing black pants and darkened shoes underneath.
Due to his encounter with Francine and seeing his brother's apparent "betrayal", Bai Jin wears glasses and fell into the pit of insanity as the time goes on and his manic appearance in his late years as an old man is much more exacerbated.
Assuming his second identity after reincarnating, Bai Jin becomes a Shirogane assuming a name of Dean Maistre. As Dean, he used to support a silver long hair much like other Shiroganes with curved spikes and silver eyes. However, during his tenure with Souji Saiga, his hair become black so that both Souji and his wife could easily disguise themselves.
As the time went by as he assume another identity, Sadayoshi Saiga after Souji adopted him to the family, he has a rather short hair and shows some wrinkles in his face due to his aging body. During his time as Dean and Sadayoshi, he mostly wear a black suit with red ties. However, when he reveals his true nature, he wears a long black jacket and wears a black Coco hat.
After he was defeated by Souji once the latter know his true nature, he then assume his third identity, Commander Faceless which is the current identity that he uses over the course of the series. As Faceless, he has a feature of an old man with short silver hair and a rather pointy mustache and beard which resembles a stereotypical mustache twirling villain in the early days of cinema. He also wears a black coat, a brown businessman suit and always wears his sunglasses. Despite his body resembles a human, Faceless replaces most of his body with machines and his face is as flexible as a rubber as Faceless himself has an ability to stretch his own face.
History[]
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Personality[]
In the past he showed a very cheerful and kind personality, besides that he was very close to his brother, he also showed a very joking personality, however when he learned about the feelings between his brother and his beloved Francine, his personality was corrupted, because After kidnapping Francine, he showed an abusive treatment of her for not reciprocating her feelings, even hitting her physically. After Francine's death, his personality became more sadistic and obsessive, because in addition to building a robot identical to Francine, he tried to make her laugh through actrocious acts that he considered comical, showing that his sense of humor had become very dark. and sadistic. After the betrayal of the Francine doll and noticing that he had already aged so much that he was dying, Bai Jin proved to be a great strategist, as he quickly used what little Aqua Vitale he had to create a plan to be able to reincarnate through a child who he managed to kidnap with the help of a dog that he had previously made to drink some Aqua Vitale so that it would obey him.
After reincarnating in the child and joining the organization that ironically fought his creations and being able to command from both sides and be able to create better strategies.
Many years later, as Sadayoshi Saiga and later as Commander Faceless, he proved to be a great manipulator, since he kept the Francine doll active to stay undercover, he caused his entire family to attack Masaru to prepare him physically and mentally to become his Next body vessel, as well as always had contingency plans in case you didn't achieve your goals. He also showed that his personality had become completely sadistic and dark showing no remorse for everything he did, as well as not caring about others, being able to let his own son die and get rid of him if necessary, not even showing anything. of kindness to her own doll allies, recreating Francine doll's bodyguards only to constantly humiliate them and letting all the new dolls make fun of them.
His sense of humor has become even more sadistic, in addition to something independant, even when he kept his identity hidden, because from time to time he played with his face as the Faceless Commander. He also showed his sadistic humor when he caused Shoiji Saiga to try to kill Masaru when he thought that Faceless had already transferred body, then Faceless appears only to make fun of Shoiji for being fooled moments before causing Shoiji's death.
His personality had also become so obsessive about being reunited with the reincarnation of Francine (Shirogane Saiga) that he caused most of the events only for Shirogane to fall in love with him, his main plan being to take over the body of his son Masaru to get closer to her. and later fell in love with him.
