Category:Kanato Sakamaki

Kanato Sakamaki (逆巻 カナト Sakamaki Kanato) is the fourth son of the Sakamaki household. Kanato, along with Laito and Ayato, the triplets are the sons of Cordelia, and Karlheinz, the Vampire King.

Appearance
Kanato is a rather short, thin figure with a noticeably younger look about him than his brothers, thus causing him to stand out as more childlike in appearance. He has light purple hair, which he inherited from Cordelia, with matching eyes, and dark undertones beneath them, most likely due to lack of sleep.

Kanato is almost never seen without his beloved Teddy wrapped safely in his arms.

In Diabolik Lovers (original game), he usually wears a black hoodie vest with a long-sleeved white shirt and red ribbon underneath. The vest's straps extend to his upper arms. He wears this attire with black shorts and red pants bearing a checkered pattern that reach above his knees.

In MORE,BLOOD (fandisc), he wears a beige sweater with a black, polka-dotted dress shirt underneath and an un-clipped red bow tie. He will occasionally don glasses.

His school uniform consists of the black school jacket over a maroon-colored vest with a red, string tie and a white undershirt with a ruffled Victorian collar, which are worn with black pants. He also wears short black knee-socks and brown dress shoes.

History
Kanato was born the middle child of Cordelia, and raised alongside his two brothers, Ayato and Laito. Unlike Ayato, he and Laito were given more freedom, yet the former did not receive enough attention from his mother that a boy his age required. Cordelia, who referred to him as her “Little Songbird”, often called for him to sing to her, which he happily inclined to. Despite the neglect he often faced from her, he loved her even so, and was taken aback by her death, which happened unbeknownst to him. Kanato as a child,craved his mother’s attention so much and since just once he received it when she showed concer about him having a cut on his finger,encouraged by Laito to do more self harm to gain her attention,Kanato would endlessly stab himself hoping he will reach his mother.

Kanato views Cordelia like a Goddess and no matter what she does, for him it is always perfect ,he admires her deeply and wishes to believe he looks like her even though he only has her hair color,which makes sometimes his brothers mock him for his self deceive.

Kanato holds a deep love towards Cordelia which unfortunately never reaches her because she shows zero interest in him aside from his singing (Kanato’s character book chapter Birth ).

Cordelia would view Kanato as a weird child and both his self harm and him harming an entire human village to turn them into dolls, for her seem nothing but him simply exposing his weird nature,whit which she doesn’t plan to bother.

Kanato receives his Teddy bear as a gift from Cordelia and that is the reason he treasures him so much.He prefers not to play so much with his brothers and remain alone with his only friend - Teddy ,which he more or less starts to idolize as a replacement for Cordelia he cannot obtain .And that is the reason why after Cordelia’s death and him burning her body, he keeps the ashes and places them in Teddy, then later eats little by little her remains which makes him feel better.He also makes the heroine eat them with him too,in order for him to feel Cordelia better through her. (Diabolik Lovers game).

Personality
Kanato’s disturbed, child-like personality is a fact and he had a very weird and eccentric personality even as a child, usually staying alone ,talking to his dolls, self harming, or turning others into wax dolls. He developed a sense of possession towards Cordelia, believing that no one could have her but him finally in the death; after finding her bloodied corpse in the rose bushes (upon being pushed from the balcony by Laito), he made sure to burn what was left of her and contained her ashes inside of Teddy.

Around others, Kanato usually acts very spoiled,childish and demanding usually emotionally blackmailing either with tears or hysterical tantrums to get his way, and in fact he is quite mentally unstable, and shows signs of psychotic behavior when angered. He is shown to be moved to tears easily which later is replaced by loud yelling, and adores sweets. Perhaps his most prominent trait is his attachment to his precious teddy bear, Teddy, whom he is always depicted holding and will become enraged if a person takes, let alone touches or speaks “familiarly” to him. This is first shown when he snaps at the heroine for referring to Teddy as if she “knows him”. And this is like that because his Teddy,is not only his best friend ,but also because it is a gift from Cordelia he treasures more than anything.

However,Kanato can freely be categorized as an “yandere type” of character due to the bonds he is

capable of doing,even if they still are quite twisted. Kanato is childish but overly possessive and even if not always

thinking clearly he must decide the future not only for himself but also for the heroine.He always believes she is by default his,even when she isn’t on his route.

Relationships
Cordelia

Since he was a child, he was frequently ignored by his mother and spent much of his time by himself ,prefer thins rather than playing with his brothers. During his childhood, Cordelia mainly used him for her entertainment, in order for her “Little Songbird” to sing to her. This was his main purpose and he was happy at least this can please her,even though she would pay more attention to his uncle Richter while Kanato is singing for her. Upon discovering her body in the rose bushes, he was saddened by her cold, lonely state and set her a lit, keeping her ashes to himself; at last he was satisfied that his mother was finally his and his alone.

Karlheinz

For the first time Dark Fate (fandisc) exposes more about how Kanato views his father.And even though he was endlessly neglected as an unworthy existence for him.Kanato would secretly admire his father.Even if hating him and envying him for Cordelia’s affection and his power,Kanato would still secretly admire him as a “God” and wish to have what he does.

 Richter

Kanato knew about the relationship between Richter and his mother which they have never hid, and disapproved of Richter because of the deep connection that Kanato had with his mother. And Kanato would hate any man that goes close to his mother even if silently and very passively.

Ayato

Ayato and Kanato, though they supposedly “detest the mere presence” of one another, actually have a somewhat brotherly relationship. This relationship is shown during the countless times Ayato steals Kanato’s

Teddy just to have fun with him. However even Ayato would stop in front Kanato’s tears even though he says he simply hates this kind of bother. In general Kanato isn’t that close with either of his brothers because he detest having to share Cordelia with them even as children. And is ready to kill them if they push him too far or “trespass” his territory.

Laito

Kanato is triplets with Laito and Ayato, but since Laito is viewed as the youngest triplet in the DL universe logic (of the old Japanese tradition where the one twin or triplet that is born first is actually the youngest). Kanato demands even more respect from Laito than he does from Ayato and loves to boss him around. However when they were kids ,since Laito was the most ignored child and he envied Ayato for being Cordelia’s heir,and Kanato being her singer,leaving him with no value for her at all,he would purposely provoke and manipulate Kanato to self harm.

Abilities
Teleportation on short distances.

Faster and stronger than average human but weaker physically than most of the vampires.

Fast healing.

Increased vision and smell.

Summoning/controlling familiars.

Turning his dolls into familiars- animating unliving objects.

Fire manipulation.

Flying during a full moon.

When he defeats Karlheinz and inherits his magic, Kanato doesn't seems to be able to control it at all.

Trivia
When he was a child, Kanato always sung Scarborough Fair to Cordelia.

He hates eating spicy or bitter food and drinks.

His foot size is 25cm.

He is the only triplet with purple hair similar to Cordelia's. He takes pride in this and is slightly narcissistic because of it.

His favorite dessert is raspberry pudding.

He is mentioned to be something of a necrophile (because of his obsession with turning people into dolls and preferring  them silenced and lifeless).

He likes sweet foods. And hates coffee as states that it is bitter.

When he was little, his mother used to let Richter drink her blood in front of him.

References 

Diabolik Lovers (game) Diabolik Lovers More,Blood (fandisc) Diabolik Lovers Dark Fate (fandisc) Kanato’s Character Book