Reiji Sakamaki

Reiji Sakamaki (逆巻　レイジ Sakamaki Reiji) is the second eldest son of the Sakamaki household. Reiji and his older brother, Shu, are the sons of Beatrix, second wife of Karlheinz, the Vampire King.

Appearance
Reiji's hair is a shade of purple-black with lighter purple-gray gradients. It is almost an inch away from being shoulder length and it is neatly combed. Reiji's eyes are a light red. He wears glasses. He is described to be a very handsome and elegant young man.

Reiji usually wears suit-like attire to match his seemingly polite personality. In Haunted Dark Bridal, he wears a grey vest with a black one over a white dress shirt. He wears it with black pants and a black belt. In MORE, BLOOD, he wears a black military trench coat with a white dress shirt underneath and black pants.

His school uniform consists of the black school jacket with a buttoned red vest over a black dress shirt with a perfect red tie. He wears it with along with the black uniform pants and black dress shoes.

According to Cordelia, if Reiji weren't so stiff, he would look just like his father from back when she first met him. She says that even his eyes are just like Karl's.[1]

Personality
Reiji has refined manners. Though he might have a polite, sophisticated way of speaking (which the creators describe to be "butler-like"), his words tend to come with a biting edge. He values rules and demands that they are followed by others, but he creates many strange rules. Despite how rigid he may seem, he still has some sense of humor (albeit a dry one).

Although Reiji is the second son, he takes it upon himself to keep the house tidy, to manage household affairs, and to keep his brothers in line. His role in the family combined with his seemingly polite, gentlemanly posture often causes him to appear more like the eldest instead of his older brother Shu Sakamaki.

Shown by how he values rules, Reiji is a strict person towards both himself and those around him. He is an arrogant, prideful person who demands perfection and dislikes submitting to weakness. Though his words may be harsh, they shouldn't always be taken at face value. He is an extreme sadist like the rest of his brothers, and his particular phrase is schadenfreude (pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune). Sometimes he does or says something in order to get a reaction that amuses him.

Along with his passion for experimenting and making potions/drugs, he loves to collect tea sets and kitchenware. His brothers sometimes use Reiji's love for kitchenware to coerce him into cooking for them by saying that they'll use the kitchen themselves - his brothers have a penchant for destroying it when they use it. Due to his love for collecting, Ayato often calls him a tableware otaku.

History
Reiji is the second born son to the Sakamaki family. Because his mother was the second wife and gave birth to the first son, Shu, Beatrix received a lot of hostility from Cordelia. The hostility led Beatrix to neglect Reiji to focus all her attention into raising Shu to become a proper heir.

While Shu hated the restrictions and attention given to him, Reiji craved his mother's attention, leading him to burn down a local human village and killing Shu's human friend, Edgar. He killed Edgar in an attempt to impress his mother and to punish Shu who continuously ran away from his responsibilities and made Beatrix upset. Reiji's hatred for his mother continued to grow when Edgar's murder didn't impress his mother and Shu became more withdrawn. Eventually, he hired Seiji Komori, a vampire hunter, to kill Beatrix, thinking that his mother would finally acknowledge him.

Unfortunately, he was left with regret and disappointment as he watched Beatrix at peace: she would finally be free from Cordelia's harassment, and she was proud to witness Reiji's growth (for the vampires, killing an "opponent" is considered a mark of becoming a grown up[2]). Reiji tried to find a way to resurrect her, claiming that he wanted to kill Beatrix in a way that would cause her unbearable suffering by his own hands.

Shu Sakamaki
Since Shu chose to reject the attention their mother gave him, Reiji has grown to deeply resent and despise Shu and developed a strong inferiority complex out of the jealousy he feels for all things Shu takes for granted. Reiji caused the fire that leads to the death of Shu's first and only friend, Edgar. Reiji's nickname for Shu is "Good-for-Nothing" (穀潰し Gokutsubushi). He also calls Shu spineless.

Teleportation
Appearing out of nowhere instantly.

Telekinesis
Using his power to move Yui's hand

Trivia

 * He is right-handed.
 * His foot size is 27cm.
 * Reiji is the only brother that tries to kill Ayato in Haunted Dark Bridal