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Character Name: Keiki
Character Series: Juuni Kokki/The Twelve Kingdoms
Character Age: His human form appears to be a young adult. He's about 50-60 years old.
Character Gender: Boy kirin (ki)
Original Canon
Canon Point: Early in Youko of Kei's reign.
Background Link: Heeeere
Personality: Kuudere kuudere kuudere.
No, really. Keiki is reserved, subdued and emotionless the vast majority of the time, maintaining a formal and proper demeanour and frowning upon emotional outbursts. This isn't due to any coldness of spirit - as a kirin, he is literally an embodiment of benevolence, mercy and justice. Keiki would not even dream of hurting someone, and cares deeply for those around him, but when you're as socially inept and reserved as he is, hurting people is inevitable. He speaks succinctly and tactlessly, without 'wasting words' on things like, oh, white lies or reassurances. Glossing over a fault or murmuring false assurances isn't something he will ever do; he has to be forced into helping a crying child because he simply doesn't realise he's the reason the child is upset. After all, he told the truth, right? What could be wrong with that?
He forgets to explain things, or share his own thoughts, and accidentally excludes those around him. And yet every time it happens and someone begins to cry or scold him, Keiki is upset and confused by the reaction he gets. He truly does not intend to upset anyone, he's just...
Well, he's just Keiki. With coaxing, he can grow closer to people, but the last time he tried that, his monarch fell in love with him and almost destroyed their kingdom and killed Keiki. To him, it's logical to assume that this was entirely his fault, and he mopes about it constantly. He generally looks long-faced or disappointed, and the best you can hope for until you're his bff is an entirely blank expression.
As a high official of Kei (the Saiho, or advisor to the monarch and governor of the central province of Kei) he can come off as arrogant to those he judges as unworthy, and as a kirin he is physically incapable of bowing to anyone other than his monarch. Speaking of whom, Keiki is entirely loyal to a teenage girl, Youko, who was ordained as his heterosexual life partner queen by god itself. Without her, he will pine. Whilst he is somewhat more resistant to the depression caused by the absence of his queen than most kirin, he will still feel its effects.
Abilities: The kirin of the twelve kingdoms have a mixed bunch of blessings and curses, most of which revolve around their monarch. They are immortal, and ordinary weapons without the blessings of a sage cannot kill them. They can be immobilised or made deathly ill by exposure to blood, a substance they cannot stand. Without a monarch present, the only way to permanently kill a kirin is the same as with any immortal: behead them. Born as kirin, not humans, they grow up in the demon-filled wilds surrounding the holy mountains at the centre of the world, learning to tame those demons that will submit to them. By the time they learn to shift into a human form, they will have a complement of shirei, demons who have agreed to guard and obey them until the kirin's death. (When a kirin dies, they leave no body. Their shirei consume the corpse, gaining significant magical powers from it.)
Keiki is a typical kirin in this respect. He has several large, vicious shirei, mostly canines and apes, who are melded to his shadow and obey his every command. Shirei are necessary, as kirin abhor conflict and are incapable of fighting, even to defend themselves or their monarch.
In his kirin form, he is one of the fastest creatures in the world, and has the ability to fly. He can cast minor spells, such as seals, and can use several styles of divination. Unlike some kirin, he does not possess the ability to phase through solid matter, but he can create smal, localised dimensional storms between his world and ours. As the tower is neither and there is no convenient, huge empty space to call one, these storms are completely useless in Animus.
Oh, and his clothes don't transform with him. Due to propriety, he will not return to a human form when there are people present.
Sample Entry: have two!
Character Series: Juuni Kokki/The Twelve Kingdoms
Character Age: His human form appears to be a young adult. He's about 50-60 years old.
Character Gender: Boy kirin (ki)
Original Canon
Canon Point: Early in Youko of Kei's reign.
Background Link: Heeeere
Personality: Kuudere kuudere kuudere.
No, really. Keiki is reserved, subdued and emotionless the vast majority of the time, maintaining a formal and proper demeanour and frowning upon emotional outbursts. This isn't due to any coldness of spirit - as a kirin, he is literally an embodiment of benevolence, mercy and justice. Keiki would not even dream of hurting someone, and cares deeply for those around him, but when you're as socially inept and reserved as he is, hurting people is inevitable. He speaks succinctly and tactlessly, without 'wasting words' on things like, oh, white lies or reassurances. Glossing over a fault or murmuring false assurances isn't something he will ever do; he has to be forced into helping a crying child because he simply doesn't realise he's the reason the child is upset. After all, he told the truth, right? What could be wrong with that?
He forgets to explain things, or share his own thoughts, and accidentally excludes those around him. And yet every time it happens and someone begins to cry or scold him, Keiki is upset and confused by the reaction he gets. He truly does not intend to upset anyone, he's just...
Well, he's just Keiki. With coaxing, he can grow closer to people, but the last time he tried that, his monarch fell in love with him and almost destroyed their kingdom and killed Keiki. To him, it's logical to assume that this was entirely his fault, and he mopes about it constantly. He generally looks long-faced or disappointed, and the best you can hope for until you're his bff is an entirely blank expression.
As a high official of Kei (the Saiho, or advisor to the monarch and governor of the central province of Kei) he can come off as arrogant to those he judges as unworthy, and as a kirin he is physically incapable of bowing to anyone other than his monarch. Speaking of whom, Keiki is entirely loyal to a teenage girl, Youko, who was ordained as his heterosexual life partner queen by god itself. Without her, he will pine. Whilst he is somewhat more resistant to the depression caused by the absence of his queen than most kirin, he will still feel its effects.
Abilities: The kirin of the twelve kingdoms have a mixed bunch of blessings and curses, most of which revolve around their monarch. They are immortal, and ordinary weapons without the blessings of a sage cannot kill them. They can be immobilised or made deathly ill by exposure to blood, a substance they cannot stand. Without a monarch present, the only way to permanently kill a kirin is the same as with any immortal: behead them. Born as kirin, not humans, they grow up in the demon-filled wilds surrounding the holy mountains at the centre of the world, learning to tame those demons that will submit to them. By the time they learn to shift into a human form, they will have a complement of shirei, demons who have agreed to guard and obey them until the kirin's death. (When a kirin dies, they leave no body. Their shirei consume the corpse, gaining significant magical powers from it.)
Keiki is a typical kirin in this respect. He has several large, vicious shirei, mostly canines and apes, who are melded to his shadow and obey his every command. Shirei are necessary, as kirin abhor conflict and are incapable of fighting, even to defend themselves or their monarch.
In his kirin form, he is one of the fastest creatures in the world, and has the ability to fly. He can cast minor spells, such as seals, and can use several styles of divination. Unlike some kirin, he does not possess the ability to phase through solid matter, but he can create smal, localised dimensional storms between his world and ours. As the tower is neither and there is no convenient, huge empty space to call one, these storms are completely useless in Animus.
Oh, and his clothes don't transform with him. Due to propriety, he will not return to a human form when there are people present.
Sample Entry: have two!