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...either random or things I keep in mind while playing him.

TWENTY FACTS ABOUT MY KID

Updated 12/24.

1. While Kid does have caffeine binges now and then, more than any other drink he actually usually keeps a carton of orange juice in the fridge. He drinks it in camp, too.
   
   
2. Kid is pretty damn secure in his sexuality, or lack thereof. He considers himself straight and is secure in that and doesn't feel the need to prove it by...actually liking a girl. What. The fact of the matter being that he doesn't pay a whole lot of attention to either sex in that regard. Sex isn't something he wants to think about or feels naturally inclined to think about; he's not actually as terrified of WOMEN PARTS as he seems, and he has acknowledged women as good-looking or just plain hot in the past.
   
   That said, if he woke up one morning and realized he was gay, he wouldn't bat an eyelash. Not because he wouldn't be surprised, because, yes, there would be a brief moment of WTF there, but because he just doesn't give a crap and it wouldn't change anything.
   
   
3. Brain sex, for Kid, is...more psychologically stimulating than mentally. As in he doesn't need to be pushed in order to think and calculate and win against you, but he does need to be pushed in a certain direction for his intentions to take a real turn towards fucking your shit up good. Note that it's only enjoyable for him about twenty to thirty percent of the time--a lot of the time it's just plain unpleasant, though. And yeah, he has to be slightly non-conned into that kind of thing. Cornered and pressured. H-hi, Hiruma.
   
   
4. Kid can and will sleep just about anywhere. He will sleep in. He will sleep early. He will sleep for a number of hours spanning double digits. Incidentally he gets fits of insomnia that keep him running for days at a time without seeming any different or more tired than usual. And under duress, he is capable of either sleeping or staying up for days and days. Also, for some reason he doesn't like people seeing him in the process of waking up, so in the cabin he either wakes up obscenely early (when Hiruma and Shin are probably the only ones awake, and Shin's probably out practicing by then) or obscenely late (when no one's around).
   
   
5. Kid reads. A lot. Mostly in private, or he goes straight to the library. Though he has a TV in his flat in Tokyo, he reads more than he watches, and because he can't afford more than one or two bookcases, he likely has stacks of books lying around in corners and kitchen cabinets. Stacks.
   
   
6. Growing up in a high-class family... Shien was extremely well-educated by the time he left the house. He was privately tutored. At the age of ten or eleven he knew not just how to fire a gun and do it right--he knew things, everything else: math, languages, history and sciences and the arts. Lots of stuff, basically, and also rich people hobbies, whatever you define those as. Kid is pretty much breezing through high school because of this education, and for the want of the "normal" life he left home to have, he hasn't actively considered graduating early or taking college courses, and is content with seeming just...smart for his age, if people bother to notice.
   
   
7. Kid can draw and sketch extremely well.
   
   
8. Kid likes his conversations circular and pointless. He can talk with you pleasantly for hours and have you perfectly sized up at the end--without actually having revealed anything new or interesting about himself. Note the fact that he won't tell you anything isn't a measure of how much or how little he likes you--it's just the way he is. And he never says what he's thinking. While his are...pretty well-formed opinions and ideas, he won't throw them out there. He's perfectly okay with other people making crappy decisions for him.
   
   
9. If there's anything Kid isn't bitter about regarding his past, it's his father. He's not angry with Hajime over the kind of person Shien became or the environment Shien grew up in. Thinking of his father at the most makes him a little worse for wear, a little tired, a little sad. If he ever speaks with Hajime again in the future he's not going to turn the conversation around and say "it's your fault". For the pressure and neurosis and expectations--Kid doesn't really blame anyone who said "just what you'd expect from Musyanokoji's son," and this includes his father.
   
   
10. This being the case because Kid blames himself for everything ever.
    
    
11. Kid knows he's a genius. His success rates--in both school and on the football field and with a gun in his hands--don't lie to him. He knows he's perfectly capable of doing anything he sets his mind to. He's a rainmaker. ...he's humble, though, to an absolute fault, and he will never call himself a genius out loud, but it's something he knows, and it's something people told him over and over when he was little, and it's something people tell him now.
    
    Similarly, he doesn't feel like he has anything to prove to anyone, but he's not adverse to, well. Showing off, I guess, though it's not for the sake of showing off. In America, Seibu's coach goes to buy guns. Kid accompanies him, where they meet Hiruma, Sena, and Monta. While trying out a gun, Hiruma pulls one of the most badass shots in the history of mankind--no, really, it should be pretty impossible to pull off a shot like that. And coach is like, who the hell is that? Kid's like, that's Deimon, they were on TV against the Americans. And the coach is like, FOR REAL? Then the coach shoves a gun in Kid's hands and says WELL, SHOW THEM SOMETHING. And while Kid sighed and grumbled about it a little, he did take the gun. He knows he's capable and it's a-okay with him if people don't think he's capable, but if someone wants to be shown something he'll bitch and moan but he'll give them what they want and leave it at that.
    
    
12. Kid loves Tetsuma. SURPRISE. Really, though, Tetsuma is Kid's most important person. Tetsuma keeps Kid sane and without his robot he'd be a permanent resident of crazy town.
    
    That said, Kid recognizes Tetsuma as stronger than he is on levels physical and otherwise, and relies on Tetsuma for protection. And if a group of people were in danger and Kid had to choose between protecting people and protecting Tetsuma, he would try and save the people because he knows and believes, intrinsically, that Tetsuma is capable of protecting himself. If Tetsuma did get seriously hurt one way or another in camp, Kid would freak the fuck out and he would go on the offensive against the perpetrator. Even if he didn't stand a chance, and he was fully aware of the fact. He'd still flip his shit.
    
    
13. Being forced to see Hiruma on a daily basis is, tragically enough, one of the best reminders for Kid that he's alive.
    
    
14. Kid cooks like...well, a young man living on his own. Like a college student. He goes out to eat if he can. He is not a great chef and his fridge at home is made up of boxed dinners supplemented with the occasional raw ingredient.
    
    
15. Kid's pretty uncomfortable being seen without his cowboy gear for long periods of time. Sure, he'll walk around without his hat but there's always a tacky buckle or scarf or something or even chaps that...pretty much distinguish him as the local cowboy. However, wearing normal clothes--just pants and just a shirt and no hat--makes him look and feel a little more vulnerable, more tangible than he's supposed to be. The clothes making the man and all. He's really not the same person without them.
    
    
16. The people who have copies of the keys to Kid's apartment are as follows: Tetsuma, the coach, Ushijima, and the manager. The coach and Hina relish in barging the hell in and bossing him around; Ushijima doesn't drop by all that often because he doesn't feel the need; and Kid sees Tetsuma every day without fail. Incidentally, these are pretty much the only people who know exactly where Kid lives and how to contact him outside of school. Kid's fine with random people in his flat because there are really no relics there whatsoever from the life he left behind, and therefore nothing there that needs hiding.
    
    
17. Kid is pretty fond of Riku and thinks of him as a sort of younger brother. While they don't joke around or have a whole lot of senseless fun, they have a kind of camaraderie Kid doesn't have with the rest of the team. They click.
    
    
18. Kid could not shave for days and it'd...really get to about this kind of state and stay that way until he picks up a razor. This'll probably change as he gets older--daddy Hajime had a mustache, after all--but, uh, then again, so will his shaving habits.
    
    
19. Shien's mother is out of the picture, I think. I lean towards her being dead because there was nothing really contrasting Hajime's enthusiasm to have his son go and fight and win, and therefore not a whole lot besides Tetsuma to keep Shien's head going in the right direction. There's also the possibility Shien's mother was pretty much the same as Hajime, but...there's no sign of a mother in Kid's angst or flashbacks. Just Hajime. And still no parental affection.
    
    That said, Hajime's pretty peppy for a bachelor, and Kid has no mommy issues because he likely never knew his mother, and as far as he's concerned with one parent or two things would have turned out the same. (...pessimist.)
    
    I doubt I'll need to retcon this one since it's unlikely it'll ever come up in canon, and it's unlikely it'll ever come up in camp either, 'cause Kid doesn't talk about his family life. Or act like it exists.
    
    
20. Kid cuts his own hair. Every couple of months or so he reaches for a pair of scissors and snips some of it off without looking in a mirror. If he neglects to for awhile, and it starts growing out, he ties it back and then cuts that off instead. Kid's hair is pretty uneven because of this kind of stuff, and he doesn't take great care of it, exactly.
    
    Similarly, except not really, when he buys jeans he rubs them down with sandpaper and washes them about ten times in cold water. Aside from the polished belt buckles and the bling and maybe hats he's given as presents, nothing of his ever really looks new.