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Laito Sakamaki (逆巻 ライト Sakamaki Raito) is the fifth son (biologically the third) of the Sakamaki household. Laito, along with Kanato and Ayato, are the triplet sons of Cordelia, first wife of Karlheinz, the Vampire King.
Appearance
Laito has shoulder-length reddish-brown hair, with a lighter blondish color to the tips, a mole on the right side of his chin and green eyes just like his triplet brother Ayato. He has fair skin and is usually seen in a pose where he holds the tip of his hat as it looks like he is trying to pull it down. He has a slender figure and is often seen smirking. He has two piercings on his left ear.
In Haunted Dark Bridal, Laito usually wears an unzipped blue hoodie with white cuffed sleeves over a striped sweater with sleeves that almost cover his hands and an white dress shirt with a red tie. He wears it with brown pants along with his hat that has a red ribbon around it.
In MORE,BLOOD, Laito wears a white dress shirt with a grey vest and two scarves, one white and one black. He wears this with black pants and his signature fedora hat.
His school uniform consists of the black uniform jacket over a red jacket that has fur bordering the hood. Under that is a white dress shirt with a skinny black tie. He wears black pants that go only to his knees and his signature hat.
Personality
Laito is extremely perverted. His perverted nature causes him to be suspended from school often. Laito is a Do-S (extreme sadist like all of his brothers). He is always cheerful and loves to joke and is similar to Ayato when teasing the heroine.
However, his personality suddenly changes when something goes against his wishes and when Yui is too defiant around him. He doesn't like it when the heroine disobeys his orders and he often punishes her because of that. Laito can also be shown to be good at interpreting peoples' motives.
Laito takes pleasures in making Yui do what she refuses to do and then to make her enjoy what she hates. He is an open pervert type of character and also a voyeur, which makes him wish to share his prey with others and enjoy seeing her get messed up by others, but then he becomes possessive and jealous and punishes her for it. It is shown he also doesn't mind if people observe when he is messing with Yui.
He also holds on tightly to the title others have given him, which is shown in the More, blood prologue when Shu calls him an imitated pervert, and Laito asks him if he has a death wish.
In MORE,BLOOD, it is stated by Ayato that Laito refuses anything that he does not want to admit to. This is shown multiple times. One example is in a flashback when Ayato tried to tell Laito that Cordelia loved neither him nor Laito, but Laito refused to believe Ayato and said that Ayato was 'jealous' of him. In DARK FATE, Laito refuses to accept Cordelia as his mother, and thus acts as if he never had a mother to begin with.
History
Although he was born before Kanato and Ayato, according to the ancient Japanese tradition he is considered the youngest of the triplets. Unlike Cordelia's other children, Laito did not call her "mother" from childhood flashbacks. As a child, he hinted to Ayato that what he really wanted was not the most outstanding blocks castle, but something else, and anticipated fun when Cordelia’s guest suitors showed up, trying in vain to get her (MB Ayato Dark Prologue). He also inspired his brother that “she only loves Karlheinz” and that Ayato should better follow his example (MB Ayato Dark Epilogue). When he noticed blood on Kanato’s hand from a cut with scissors, he realized that his brother did it on purpose to “turn her attention” and advised him to shed more blood - followed by a warning that it would not work with her (MB Kanato Maniac Prologue). Yui had visions of little crying Laito asking for help (MB Laito Ecstasy 10, LE Laito Maniac Prologue). According to the Young Blood manga, before the ceremony, he liked to read, spent a lot of time with his brothers, and took responsibility for Kanato. He was also surprised by the hatred between Shu and Reiji. He called the fact that vampires drink blood a superstition of people, although he was the first to suggest it as part of their upcoming ritual. He was a cheerful, mischievous and insightful boy. He also showed the photograph in which he was captured before the ceremony to the heroine: he called the expression on the face of that sweet boy still innocent and now no longer existing, “ignorance”, because then he had not yet known the pleasure of blood drinking (Mini Drama Laito Sadistic Song). As children, the triplets often slept together (Drama-CD Versus II: Ayato vs Laito, YB vol.1-2), although Ayato eventually began to notice that at some point Laito would disappear from bed.
"From a young age, Laito desired a formless something called "love", not in verbal expression, but only in direct contact/contact of the body. However, behind these cold speeches and actions, he was tormented by the desperate contemplation of "love", "Mother asked Laito about something. Because of this, he began to have cooled feelings towards love and does not believe in the love-affection of others" (description from the fanbooks of MB and VC). "He was a lively/full of energy boy who played friendly together with his brothers, but also had distorted feelings for own mother" (anime fanbook, p. 20).
Relationships
Yui Komori
He calls her "Bitch-chan" which he actually means "little bitch" and always gets in her way just to drink her blood by perverted means and enjoys teasing her. Laito has an unclear understanding of love by believing it largely to be lust which he tries to explain to Yui. He finds her belief in God humorous.
Cordelia
Laito desired his own mother too because her blood made all the vampires crazy. Cordelia was giving her blood to Laito but never belonged to him so he wanted to make her only his (DL Laito Ecstasy 08). He also compared fighting Yui with Cordelia (S-answer DL Laito Ecstasy 10) and discovered the similair taste of blood (DL Laito Dark 07). In More,Blood Cordelia was giving her blood to Laito cause it was her mother's love (MB Laito Dark Pologue), but he thought she did it only for own pleasure and her words of 'love' didn't mean anything as she always lied (MB Laito Ecstasy Epilogue). In Dark Fate Laito was sure of him being a replacement of his father to Cordelia and even offered her 'to forget about that person' (= to become only Laito's). But she answered that Laito was nor a replacement neither Karlheinz, so Laito couldn't realize who else he was for that woman (DF Laito Maniac Epilogue). Then he discovered that Karlheinz was using Cordelia as experiment, and cried for her destiny (DL Laito Ecstasy Epilogue). In the end he accepted her as his mother (DF Laito Vampire End, SS Dark Fate). There was no sex between him and his mother, only bloodsuking. Seems Cordelia was healing Laito's pain with her special blood as Yui tried in LE Laito Maniac 01.
Karlheinz
Karlheinz almost completely neglected Laito as his father. Like his other brothers, Laito hates his father. Cordelia told Laito one of the reasons she chose him as a lover was that he resembled Karlheinz.
Ayato
Ayato is Laito's triplet brother. Laito thinks of Ayato as the closest one of his brothers. Their relationship is complicated. Despite being the eldest biologically, Laito still views Ayato as his older brother (he calls him like that in the Radio special from 2012). They enjoy doing mischief together but usually Ayato doesn't handle it well when Laito gets too happy and aroused by watching him suck blood from someone. Laito is quite the cynic about love and has stated that he thinks Ayato to be a spoiled brat who needs to face reality.
Kanato
Just like Ayato, Kanato is part of the triplets together with Laito, and they too share a strained a relationship. They were seen as close when they were children, making a game of catching bats with Ayato. He was also very protective of him. When both Kanato and him were chased by the ghouls, and Kanato refused to look for the fig tree, Laito would always stay by his brother's side.[1][2] However, they later grew apart.
Richter
Richter is the uncle of the triplets and Laito sees him as a rival for Cordelia. Whenever they encounter each other, they have a verbal fight. Laito despises Richter as the latter has stolen his "beloved" from him.
Abilities
Like all vampires, he has an inhuman strength as well as increased speed, increased vision and hearing, and smell. Being a vampire, he also has fast healing and healing saliva.
Teleportation
Along with his siblings, he appears to be capable of teleporting from nowhere in an instant.
Flying
During a full moon, he can fly.
Other
He can control and summon familiars. He can also turn the souls of the failed sacrificial brides into familiars.
Like all vampires, he gets slightly weakened by holy objects but this only enrages him more.
Since he is a pure born vampire, he can only die if his head is cut off, however if his body is too damaged to heal fast enough it might also be life-threatening even if not directly.
In general, Laito doesn't like to fight (even though he enjoys to torture). Therefore, he hasn't developed many fighting skills and strength.
Etymology
- Laito's surname Sakamaki means "reverse winding" (逆巻).
- It can also mean "inverted, reverse, opposite, wicked" (逆) (saka) and "volume, roll, reel, book" (巻) (maki) separately.
- His family name, "Sakamaki" can roughly be translated into Japanese as "Reverse winding" or "Reverse reverse", while the kanji spelling of his name Sakamaki (逆巻) can also be pronounced in spelling as "Sakama" in characters pronunciation.
Trivia
- Out of the triplets, Laito and Ayato get along well the most.
- His erogenous zone is located below his belly button.
- He can play the piano.
- He is right-handed like his triplet brother Kanato.[3]
- His foot size is 26cm.
- He is scared of bugs and creepy crawlies.
- He had a collection of female clothing, which is where he got the dresses in the Halloween CD for Kanato, Ayato and himself to wear.
- He won 1st place in an official Rejet poll called “Rejet Character you can’t introduce to your parents” in 2016.
- He was once suspended from his school although he never mentioned why.
- In CHAOS LINEAGE, he is a member of the Violet Family.
References
- ↑ Young Blood: Chapter 4
- ↑ Young Blood: Chapter 5
- ↑ Diabolik Lovers MORE,BLOOD Visual Fan Book
Heroine | Yui Komori |
Sakamaki Brothers | Ayato Sakamaki • Kanato Sakamaki • Laito Sakamaki • Shu Sakamaki • Reiji Sakamaki • Subaru Sakamaki • Kino |
Mukami Brothers | Ruki Mukami • Kou Mukami • Yuma Mukami • Azusa Mukami |
Tsukinami Brothers | Carla Tsukinami • Shin Tsukinami |
Others | Karlheinz • Beatrix • Cordelia • Christa • Richter • Seiji Komori |