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STATISTICS

Character Name: Kaiisteron
Character Canon: Witch King
Character Age: approximately 71+ spiritually, physically early 20's
Canon Point: end of Witch King
Link to History: Link
Skills:

SURVIVAL - living amongst nomads, Kai is skilled at hunting, gathering, tracking, animal care, horseback riding, digging latrines, cleaning, finding places to rest comfortably, setting up tents, and fishing. His world is also low-tech, so most of these skills he knows from hard labor.
SCOUT - in the war, Kai was a scout and was able to sneak close to enemy lines and record and relay sensitive information.
LEADERSHIP - as a scout, Kai led other scouts like him, but additionally after joining with Bashasa, Kai was given an entourage of people to command as needed
RESOURCEFUL - finding himself in a lot of unusual predicaments, Kai is skilled at being resourceful with what he has as well as improvising new and unique solutions to difficult situations. Or going with good ol' brute force...
MULTILINGUAL - Kai speaks Imperial Arike, Saredi, and Witchspeak - which is a dialect of Saredi but spoken only with hands (like sign language).

Abilities:

DEMON - Kai is a demon spirit in a human body. His demon body is disconnected from him now, so he only has his demon spirit and the bodies he posseses. Kai can take the body of the very recently deceased, but cannot return to a previous body once left. He does not need to eat as often, once every other month or so satisfies him, and he needs less sleep than others. He is stronger than most humans, but not abnormally so. More like a normal human at peak strength. He doesn't feel the weather as much as others do, but he will emulate the style of clothing people wear to make them feel more comfortable. While in a body, the body does not age or naturally grow ill. His mortal body, though, can be killed through mortal means if he is not awake to combat a killing blow with healing magic. He also has the ability to 'eat' the souls/life force of those that live, animal or not, and leaves behind dessicated husks when doing so. This energy is not necessary to his survival, but can fuel his magic at times. He is able to summon small demons from the underearth as needed, as well.

As a demon, animals can be wary around him. Not to the point of fleeing, but enough that it can be obvious they're uncomfortable and need to be settled to allow him to interact with them. Additionally, he is weak to large amounts of flowing water. Water disrupts his connection with his demonic self, leaving him feeling untethered and also causing pain if in prolonged exposure. Kai can and will endure water if necessary, but prolonged exposure can weaken and injure him severely though not kill him.
MAGIC - as a demon in a human body, Kai has access to magic. In his world, Witches use magic through cantrips and working with entities that create the forces that guide the elements of the world. Kai can do a little of this, but not to the extent they can. Similarly, expositors can use death to fuel magic known as intentions (or spells) that they can weave to make smaller spells or larger intricate webs. These can range from creating a small spark of magical fire to binding dead things together into an amalgam that can act on spelled commands. Kai inhabited the body of an expositor, giving him some knowledge of how expositors work. He does theorize that expositors are a different kind of Witch that developed differently in their part of the world, hence his ability to use Witch magic and expositor magic,

As a demon, Kai has been able to take these pieces of knowledge to work magic through intentions and cantrips himself, as well as discovering that pain can be a similar source of power as death. As such, he regularly uses his own pain to fuel magic. He tends to be better at using magic that is small and more direct, like adding a layer of suggestion to his voice that makes those listening want to obey (though stronger minds can fight this). He can weave intentions, but doesn't tend to be as skilled or as focused at it as witches or expositors might be. He prefers to find intentions already made and either save them for use later or alter the web of magic to fit his need. In this way, he can also sense and untangle intentions to release a spell with effort.

Curse Mark: NIEZ - it is located on his inner right forearm

CHARACTERIZATION

FORMATIVE EXPERIENCES:

FIRST EVENT: - During the war, Kai was reporting as a scout when a wave of death rolled out from the enemy on the battlefield. The power was unknown, but decimated Kai's people leaving few survivors and causing a near complete genocide in one move. This power also shut off his connection to the underearth and his true body. From then on, the world and death became more real and raw to Kai and marked the full loss of his near child-like innocence from being so young in a new world.

SECOND EVENT: - While escaping the Summer Palace with Bashasa and his people, Kai expected to die a martyr to inspire the rest of the world to rebel like they had. He used all his power to kill a Hierarch, being the first to do so, but jumped body in the process by mistake. This alienated Kai from his only remaining mortal ties with the demons as it was taboo, leading Kai to find a new family amongst Bashasa and his people. This experience taught Kai that not everyone will thank him for doing what's right, but to do it anyway.

THIRD EVENT: - After escaping the Summer Palace, Bashasa put trust in Kai when loyalties were uncertain in the midst of sudden freedom. Kai was touched by this respect when his own people abandoned him, which showed him that while betrayal could come from anywhere there was always hope to be found elsewhere. This shred of hope is what prevents Kai from ever becoming fully jaded by reality, while he is still heavily cynical.

FOURTH EVENT: - Nearly 70 years after the war, Kai awakens in an underwater tomb with his last memory being of him alone with the Prince-Heir Bashat, whom he had felt a personal relationship towards. This cements to Kai that betrayal can come from those closest to him, and to always watch his back.

FIFTH EVENT: - Ramad, Bashat's spy, reveals to Kai that Bashat had not had Kai kidnapped, but had known others planned to and made it easier for it to happen. Bashat had sent Ramad to help find Kai and Tahren once the treaty was renewed. This reveals to Kai that people will always seek more power, as Bashat had through the treaty, even at the cost of those closest to them.

PHILOSOPHY:

After what feels like several lifetimes of witnessing the best and worst of peoples, Kai feels strongly about helping his fellow people through any means necessary. This often drives Kai to sacrifice himself for others. While family means most to him, he respects all peoples and their individuality. This drives Kai to work for the best of people, even if that can bring him in opposition of the views of those he loves. First and foremost, he respects physical autonomy and safety, then secondarily he prioritizes the needs of the individual so long as they don't impede on the needs of others. This leads Kai to fighting for the rights of people of all kinds in different ways. Sometimes through war, sometimes through politics with his ultimate goal being to see people free and happy. At the core of his beliefs are hope in people to do what's best in the end. Or at least to help those that will get to positions where they can impact change.

DESIRES:

Kai desires to 'unburn' the world. He remarks how he's so angry at what's happened to him, that he often dreams of burning the world. However, Bashasa tells him someone already has and the world needs people to unburn it now. This belief centers Kai when he feels lost, knowing that the world just needs help fixing itself. So to him, fighting for those who can't or don't know how matters most to him to restore the world to the peace and autonomy it once knew.

FEARS:

For all his hopes and desires, Kai knows there's an anger that runs deep in him. He tries to be rational, but he can be petty and vindictive at times. Even harmful to others. He hates this side of himself, and fears that it makes him not enough when compared to people like Bashasa. He wants to be as good as them, but also worries he'll never be enough. Worse, that he'll sink into that anger and cause more harm than good.

GAMEPLAY

SUITABILITY: Kai has always had someone pushing to be good. Better even than he feels he can be. I want to see Kai in a setting where he's less burdened by responsibility. I also want to play with his fears of not being good enough, and worse that his anger might be unable to be controlled when put to the test. Removing him from his comfort zone I think will push him to extremes to either try to save the version of himself he wants to be or let loose the control he's held for decades. Kai has also endured a lot of pain and suffering, so why not tack on some more difficult situations? But he's fairly talkative, despite being a bit sarcastic and sassy himself, and curious and caring enough to engage with the game on a whole.

SAMPLE: Description/Content Warnings

MONSTER:
THE MIST
Kai's monster manifests one of his greatest fears of losing his corporealness. As such, it begins with parts of Kai's body becoming intagible slowly. Fingertips dissipating to mist, up his arms, across his body, and finally ending in fully tansformed into a formless cloud of mist. While he still has some form, his own mist can actually affect him the more of him that dissolves away as he breathes it in. This can cause him to have more aggressive or sexual tendencies, depending on the mood of the mist. The mist has a deceptively beautiful appearance (link) that seeks to convince people it's not a threat. But when Kai tries to give himself more form in this mist, he ends up looking more distorted and inhuman (link).

While he's mid transformation, Kai has less control over his own mist and instead it seems to respond to his moods. As such, it's powers are similar to that of pheromones that can drive people to frenzies of anger or lust depending on Kai's own mood. As Kai becomes the full monster, however, he can control this switch more specifically based on his own desires. Additionally, his mist can choke or suffocate people if he concetrates it enough. It can be touched if he focuses hard enough, but it takes extreme focus.

His monstrous form drives Kai to let go of his own control and give into his desires. Particularly his anger. As such, it drives him towards murderous tendencies more often than not. His goal as a monster is either to make everyone feel as broken and angry as he does, or else choke the life out of them and satisfy his own rage.