Dan Murasaki

Dan Murasaki (, Murasaki Dan), also known as Ghost, is a character featured in Lost Judgment. He is a member of the motorcycle gang Made in Heaven and the leader of its "Ghost Faction".
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Dan is a mid-sized young man with spiky black hair and steel earrings. He wears black, baggy jeans, a tattered red shirt and a black leather jacket. Whenever he's leading his faction in the motorcycle gang, he wears a black helmet with white scratches resembling a skull on it, which conceals his face.
=== Personality ===
From a young age, Dan was always overshadowed by his older brother, Reiji. As a result of it, despite greatly admiring his older brother, he also greatly resented the fact that he was always compared unfavorably to him.
Due to his inferiority complex, he is a very angry young man who lashes out violently at anyone who upsets him. He rules his faction of Made in Heaven with an iron fist and employs force as the primary means of asserting his group's position within the gang. He also believes that Made in Heaven shouldn't just be a gang focused on racing and should instead branch out into organized crime.
== Background ==
Dan grew up in a poor household and was overshadowed his whole life by his older brother Reiji. Because of that, he was a very angry kid and became a juvenile delinquent in his teens, getting into fights and committing petty crimes to get attention. He was acquainted with Masaru Akatsuka when he was in middle school.
After his older brother died while on a race with his motorcycle gang, Dan came up with an idea for how to finally step out of his brother's shadow: He would join Reiji's former gang, Made in Heaven, while using an alias and a disguise to avoid being recognized as Reiji's brother, and he would take control of it and reshape it as he saw fit. Since Dan was not as skilled a racer as his older brother, he primarily relied on violence during the gang's free-for-all races to defeat his opponents. Pretty quickly, Dan (going by the alias "Ghost") became a feared and respected member of the gang, leading his own faction of followers. However, his plans to take over from 2nd Leader Akatsuka were disrupted when Yuma Suou, a senior student at Seiryo High School, joined the gang and quickly defeated every other member, including Dan, in races, thus earning the position of 3rd Leader.
In late 2021, Dan is covertly approached by Matsuhisa Koga of the Neo Keihin Gang, who want to form an alliance with Made in Heaven and integrate them into their criminal operations. Dan agrees to the partnership, but he needs to defeat Suou in a race in order to take over Made in Heaven and turn them from just racers into proper criminals.
== Involvement ==
=== Lost Judgment: 2021 ===
Takayuki Yagami infiltrates Made in Heaven to convince Suou to abandon the gang, at the behest of fellow Seiryo student, Kyoko Amasawa. On his first day in the gang, Dan immediately has a bad feeling about Yagami and accuses him of being a police infiltrator. Since Yagami can't point out any gang members who recommended him for the gang, Dan and his goons prepare to beat Yagami and kick him out, only for Suou to stop them, since he insists that anyone can join as long as they can beat a member in a race. Aggravated, Dan tells Kanasugi to race against Yagami. Much to Dan's frustration, Kanasugi loses and Yagami is admitted into the gang.
He and his goons gather pictures of the Biker Gang Prevention Group's relatives to scare them off during their next protest. Since Yagami had recently defeated the leaders of the Bakuon Rairyu and Raging Angels factions, Dan agrees to take him on as a means of impressing all the gang's members and forcing Suou to race him again for the gang's leadership.
After Yagami has challenged and defeated three of his underling, Dan finally takes him on himself, but is unable to beat him. In his frustration at being beaten, Dan crashes his bike and his helmet is destroyed, revealing his face to all the gang's members. Akatsuka recognizes him as Reiji's younger brother, shocking all of Made in Heaven's members, since they didn't know Reiji had a brother. Since his plan to take over the gang via racing has failed, Dan instead tries to convince the gang's members to abandon his brother's old rule of "Whoever rules the road, writes the rules" and instead turn into a violent gang to rule over Yokohama's streets by force. When some of the gang's members start to agree with him, Yagami shows Dan some evidence which he'd collected that the Keihin Gang are manipulating him and only intend to use him as cannon fodder for their plans to take over the city. Infuriated by this, Dan storms off towards the offices of the Yokohama Biker Gang Prevention Organization, whom Yagami had just shown him the Keihin had been using to attack Made in Heaven in the hopes of radicalizing Ghost's Faction.
At the Prevention Group's offices, Dan finds Kenta Kasai and several members of the Keihin, just as Yagami had told him. Much to Yagami's shock, a rampaging Dan beats them all up by himself and then tries to attack Masato Otsuki, the local politician who led the prevention group. However, he is stopped by Yagami and Kotaro Seyama, another prevention group member who knew Reiji before his death. Yagami beats Dan in a fight and Seyama manages to talk him down from his rampage, saying that he can forge a path in life for himself outside of his brother's shadow without continuing to live like a criminal. Defeated and exhausted, Dan agrees to leave the gang life and try to become a civilian once more. He later helps the bikers convince Suou's mother to let him continue motocross.
Later on, Yagami and Amasawa realize that Kotoko Itokura is being blackmailed by the Keihin, who are threatening her mother's life. In order to put a stop to this, Yagami asks for Dan's help, sending him and several of his former Ghost Faction underlings to the hospital where Itokura's mother is interned to get rid of the Keihin Gang members who are permanently keeping lookout outside her room. At the time Dan arrives there, Kasai happens to be the one keeping lookout and, as soon as he sees Dan, he flees in terror to avoid another beating. He orders his subordinates to keep watch until Yagami is finished with his business.
== Gallery ==
LJ - Headshot - Dan Murasaki.png|Dan's headshot
LJ - Headshot - Ghost.png|Headshot as Ghost
==See also==
*Biker Gang
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Made in Heaven
Category:Lost Judgment Characters