Name: Lakan Ting

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Appearance: There are many rumors about Lakan Ting's true appearance. Some say Lakan Ting is an old man, others say Lakan Ting is a young child, while some claim Lakan Ting is a beautiful androgynous being. There are even rumors that Lakan Ting has no face or features at all! Few know the truth, for Lakan Ting's magic and masterful acting skills give the Prince of Dreams the ability to look like nearly anyone. The true face known only to a few within the Dream District, that of an almost almost boring, often smiling young man with dark skin, almond-shaped eyes and constantly messy hair, shown only when he truly trusts someone or is at home in the Dream District.

Profession: Actor and general performer

Personality:To Lakan, all the world is a stage, and life is the best possible play. Lakan means this quite literally, as he seems to be under the delusional belief that life operates much like a play and that, as the story's lead actor it is both his right and his sacred duty to see that the show is interesting for whoever might be watching. Lakan generally believes that the best stories are happy stories, and to this end he tries his best to ensure that any problems he encounters are resolved in a nice ending for all involved. Others involved in Lakan's stories are never pawns or extras merely playing bit parts, but precious characters that his cosmic audience should come to know and love before they face whatever final resolution life has in store for them, an end he is not above resorting to trickery to achieve. Thus he may do things as inconsistent as helping a city guard to catch a notorious thief and earn a well deserved promotion only to break the thief out of jail personally should they prove kind and noble or innocent. When not involved in his 'stories' he may occasionally play tricks on the city's inhabitants provided he thinks no great harm will come to those he tricks. Above all, despite his delusions Lakan Ting is a person who loves to make people be happy, whether it be by acting on the Carail theater's stage or on the wider stage of life.

Equipment/Weapons: Lakan posseses numerous sets of clothing and costumes, ranging from filthy beggars rags to dashing suits and flowing eastern robes of fine silk and cloth-of-gold, though he doesn't wear them all at once of course. Being a skilled street performer, Lakan also has numerous props like smoke and flash bombs, small fireworks and lengths of colored ropes and more that he uses to perform tricks as well as in escapes and pranks out in the streets He also often carries two daggers on his person for self defense, usually hidden up his sleeves or inside of his shoes or pant legs, as well as having access to numerous weapons stored by the court, of both the fake variety and authentic ones used for more 'convincing' fight scenes. Though it might not be considered equipment, Lakan's skill as an actor has gained him a considerable amount of wealth as well.

Abilities: Lakan considered one of the most brilliant actors (liars) in the city of Karstberg, being so good at it that he's become known as the Prince of Dreams. acrobatics and free-running, sleight-of hand trickery, contortionist tricks, stage magic, theivery essentials like pick-pocketing, infiltration and general stealth, numerous unarmed martial arts from his distant homeland and armed combat with a variety of weapons. He also has a relatively good singing voice and is a skilled dancer. Most importantly and infamously Lakan Ting is a master of Face-Off, a specific type of shape-shifting magic that allows him to alter his appearance and body type completely, but only within human limits. This means he can range his appearance and body from that of a very frail old man to that of a child in the very springtime of his youth. Aside from the near-limitless potential it gives him as an actor and disguise artist it has some more dangerous applications as well, since in a pinch Lakan can strain himself in order to make his physical abilities match the peak limits of human potential all at once.

Brief Backstory: Lakan Ting hails from a distant land somewhat closer to Akitsushima than it is to Karstberg, where he was given at a the age of five to a troupe of famous traveling actors skilled in the traditional plays and operas of his people. For ten years he toured with them, moving up from a novice errand boy to one of their most skilled prodigies over a ten year period. When Lakan was fifteen the acting troupe came to Karstburg briefly, and Lakan was struck by its' own Dream District, deciding then and there to settle down and make the city his home, fitting in well with the other eccentric actors in the place and knowing no other life but the stage. Since then Lakan, has become something of a popular oddity if not an outright celebrity due to his strange magic and stranger actions.

Magic Name: Face-Off
Magic Description: A magic from Lakan's distant homeland that allows its' users to change their bodies to anything within the limits of the human form. Height, Weight, skin, eye and hair pigmentation and more all become malleable and changeable at the user's discretion. Despite this most practitioners of Face-Off retain an imprinted memory of their original body and appearance that they revert to if unconscious or sleeping, though some true masters can surpass even this limit. Such masters of Face-Off are even capable of pushing their body manipulation to its' very limits, giving them access to the very peak of human physical ability in all aspects, albeit in short bursts. Thus though it is an art popular among actors in Lakan's distant land, it is equally well known as a tool of spies and assassins.