[hider= Paper Sorcerer] [center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/310568770764537869/945073879225884762/text-1645393561338.png[/img][/center] [center][color=aba000][h1]夏弥 夏叶[/h1][/color][/center] [hr] [center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/310568770764537869/945068194299772989/Butterfly.jpg[/img][/center] [color=aba000][center]Natsumi Kakyo[/center][/color] [color=aba000]Red hair and blue eyes? It is clear he isn't from around here. Or at least you don't know of any Japanese folk with red hair and blue eyes. In fact you wonder if his red hair is natural, it is so vibrant, and so red it looks practically dyed. That's likely because it is. His natural hair color is a sandy, blondish brown, that takes well to the fire hydrant shade of red he has chosen his hair to be. Standing at 5'4" there might be a reason why Kakyo has been mistaken for a young girl at a distance with his wavy bushy, hair, and his pretty features. The European Japanese boy is often see sporting a green rain coat, that swallows his delicate fingers. How he even manages to fold paper when his hands are often hidden by his sweater is beyond anyone. He is often see carrying a small satchel, where he carries an assortment of paper at his ready. His clothes are loose enough to allow him to be able to freely move and not restrict his movement in any shape or form. [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Age:[/b] 16 [b]Uniform Description:[/b] He asked that his uniform be loose as possible, he asked that he be allowed to wear his raincoat over his school uniform without the embroidery on it and promises to put the school logo somewhere else. Which he has embroidered on his bag himself. And has also worn an armband pinned to his raincoat with the schools name on it. [/color] [hr] [color=aba000][b]Cursed Technique:[/b] Cursed Origami [b]Cursed Technique Type:[/b] Innate Technique [b]Description:[/b] Has the ability to fold paper with cursed energy into any shape and the paper will act as the shape that it has been folded into i.e. a paper knife becomes a knife, a paper fan becomes a fan, a paper frog becomes a frog, etc. [u]Notable Abilities[/u] Origami Duplicate - can create a person shaped piece of paper and create a cloned version of self. Currently limited to himself. In theory could replicate cloned versions of anyone, but Kakyo is still working on expanding this ability. *Incomplete feature of Origami Duplicate - Potential Dimension expansion Origami Wara Ningyo - creating origami versions of the person trapped within the dimension, anything used to harm their paper self harms the individual. Incomplete Reverse Curse - Theoretically Kakyo has the capability to use reverse curse technique, using his paper to heal wounds, and replace missing limbs. Has only ever shown the capacity once, on a finger - completely on accident and not within his control. Hasn't shown significant improvement in this area. [/color] [color=aba000][b]Specialty:[/b] Adaptable - considering the fact that Kakyo is only limited on his imagination, his cursed technique forces him to think quickly and change up his strategy.[/color] [b][color=aba000]Drawback:[/color][/b] [color=aba000]Considering that Kakyo is dealing with paper, his paper cannot be more than paper in the end of the day. While a paper knife will cut someone as if it were a knife made of a steel blade, the illusion can still be burned away. Fire and Water are always going to be the natural enemies of paper, no matter how much cursed energy is thrown into it. Soggy paper doesn't fold as well, and his constructs can be eventually burned away. Maybe not as quickly as an ordinary piece of paper with no protections might, but it doesn't mean you bring a paper fight to a bonfire. [/color] [hr] [b][color=aba000]Personality:[/color][/b] [color=aba000]Unusual is probably how most would describe Kakyo and they would likely stop there. It's not as if Kakyo is some mysterious character either, though it does come off that way when few get to know him - not his choice either. In fact Kakyo is exceptionally friendly, he might not be an extrovert by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe an ambivert, but it his bright and bubbly exterior that often has others uncertain about him. Considering the nature of being a sorcerer and what a sorcerer has to lose, and see, some assume that Kakyo is merely young and naive. He hasn't quite seen or faced the consequences of what it means to be a wielder of cursed energy. His bright exterior, is off putting to some because they mistake brightness for naivety. Which it certainly seems that way when Kakyo openly invites people to talk to him, or his general lax mannerisms have a tendency to have other reads him as unguarded. What few do not understand is that Kakyo's demeanor comes from facing hardship already early on in life. Where he made a promise to himself that he would not cry nor would he let those who have done harm, harm his very self. The inner self, not his physical body. It should be noted this is not some toxic form of positive self talk Kakyo displays. He feels genuine sadness when something sad happens, he feels genuine sympathy for those who are personally hurt. It is merely that he refuses to let the harmful actions of another define him and his feelings towards life. With that said Kakyo has a tendency to fall into denial, when bad things do happen. Especially ones he cannot handle, its the same denial Kakyo faced for so long about the death of his parents that he attempted to ignore for so long. Though no one is blaming Kakyo, he was too young to understand it then. Kakyo also hasn't conquered the self doubt and insecurity he feels. While friendly, and opened to conversation with other people, Kakyo is often worried about his own power. His own ability to help people. His own ability to be a good person. His own ability as a sorcerer. Perhaps, not shy, but anxious in new relationships and how he will be perceived within them. He is quick to cycle into periods of self doubt when in dangerous situations, which makes it difficult for Kakyo to achieve his full potential.[/color] [color=aba000][b]Backstory:[/b] Born June 27th, Kakyo’s birth wasn’t entirely a happy celebration. His Father’s, Natsumi Jin, family was unhappy with their son for marrying some French-German foreigner, Gwenore Korsgaard. The disdain for their marriage eventually rubbed off on the disdain of the birth of their first and only son, Natsumi Kakyo. Gwen took on her husband’s family name and insisted on a Japanese name for Kakyo, but that didn’t win her any favor with Jin’s family. Kakyo’s early childhood was an exceptionally happy one. Despite the family tension, he was still treated with respect. Albeit a very surface respect in comparison to his cousins. But Kakyo was a happy child, and the love of both of his parents shielded him from the otherwise dislike of his grandparents. Of course there were still mean names dropped in school because he looked like a foreigner in Sendai. With his lighter shade of hair color and his blue eyes, some kids thought it was funny to talk slowly to him in Japanese as if he hadn’t been born in Japan or hadn’t been speaking Japanese since he was young. And some classmates chose to speak to him only in English. Meanwhile, there were odd little things Kakyo displayed being able to do. Growing up he had a big imagination, and that imagination seemed to be expanded by his strange ability to give paper the properties that they were shaped into. His parents tried to ignore this aspect of Kakyo. They either pretended it was a quirk of his own creativity or seemed completely unphased when a paper crane became an actual flying crane in the house. Maybe Jin regretted a bit sharing his hobby of origami with Kakyo, considering everything he shared with Kakyo became a living paper version of it. Regretted it or ignored it and pretended it wasn’t happening. It’s likely he received his tenacity and resilience from his parents. It was Jin who taught him to use his classmates' power against them. If they would only speak to him in English, he would only respond in Japanese and pretend he didn’t understand. And it was his mother Gwen, who taught him to stand tall despite their comments. To not let their actions define him. To not let others' negativity take up space and define who he had to be. These are probably the two biggest lessons he can recall from them. And he probably would have learned a lot more from them, if he hadn’t lost them and raised himself for a good majority of his childhood. The details are a little fuzzier from there. At eight his parents were swallowed up in front of him by a Cursed Spirit. How or why it never ate him too, has been the biggest mystery. Not that he is keen to find out either, Kakyo is not prone to be motivated by vengeance or revenge. In the haziness of the situation, perhaps due to Kakyo’s own denial at that age, his parents were replaced by his own paper copies of his parents. These copies were of course incomplete though and were only made from the very few things Kakyo remembered of his parents. For a while, Kakyo lived with his paper parents without really realizing that there was something wrong. He had seemed to have completely forgotten or perhaps mentally blocked out that his parents had been swallowed up. Though it is hard to ignore something is wrong with your parents, when you’re twelve and looking for more complex advice from your parents, they have continued to say the same things they have said since you were eight. It was hard for Kakyo to deny it then. It’s then that Kakyo began to panic. How long had his parents not been his parents? How long had he been dreaming while being perfectly awake? Now all the concerned teachers, who began to make comments about the offness of his parents' behavior, made sense. And Kakyo began to suddenly piece together a very blurry memory of the day his parents were eaten alive by a cursed spirit. Who could he tell? His grandparents secretly had hated his parents, and him for so long that the fact that they stopped calling meant he couldn’t go to them. Scared. And unsure of what to do. Maybe, if he ignored it, pretended he didn’t notice. Or that none of it was true. Then none of it actually wasn’t true. He’d continue to live his life with his paper parents and ignore everything else. Of course he would have done so if not for a particular visit from a stranger when he was thirteen. Of a man who called himself Satoru Gojo. [i][center]“You’re looking for that monster,” “Ding. Ding. So, which direction did it go?” “Um…that was a long time ago, it’s not here,” “A long time ago, how long are we talking?” “I’m thirteen now, I was eight then, five years ago, it ate my parents,” “Bummer,” “It didn’t eat me though,” he carries on, “Do you want some tea?” “So, what are those?” Satoru is pointing to his paper parents. “Oh, those my paper parents,” he realizes how casual that came off, “I think I made them.” Satoru nods along, “How old are you?” “Thirteen,” pausing, looking at Satoru, “I said that earlier.” “Right, right, well it’s best you come with me, it’s isn’t necessarily kidnapping if you come willingly,” “Willingly where?” “Well if come with me then you’ll know, won’t you,”[/center][/i] Perhaps Kakyo was too trusting of the stranger, but was willing to follow Satoru wherever he was taking him. Eventually that somewhere was revealed to be Tokyo Jujutsu High. [i][center]“Are you prepared for your will and spirit to be tested?” this is the principal of the school? “I think so?” “How old are you?” “Oh, um, thirteen,” “Gojo,” “He’s gone, he left the moment I walked in,” “Of course he did, you can’t go to this school until you’re old enough,” “I figured when I saw Tokyo Jujutsu High, I’ll go back to Sendai, maybe I’ll come back in two years,” “Wait, why are you here?” “Oh, um,” he pauses, “Well Satoru came to my house looking for the Cursed Spirit who ate my parents, but that spirit isn’t there any more. So I am okay alone for a while- -you have no parents- -I don’t have parents,” “Ask me a question, would you have come back in two years if I sent you away?” “Well, maybe, I am not sure what I could provide. I think a lot of people might say they would because they would want to help people, but that Cursed Spirit was pretty scary. And you don’t really know how you would react in a situation like that until you were put in it. I guess I’d come back, so I could be less scared of cursed spirits,” “Stay, here- -Hmm- -You’re too young to be a student, but you’re not too young to start learning, you’ll do chores, and train under me,”[/center][/i] And so for two years under the watchful eye of Masamichi. Kakyo was trained and given room in the exchange of doing chores around the grounds. Till he turned fifteen. [i][center]“Ordinarily you would be tested, but the instead I’ll ask you if the reason you want to be part of this school is for the same reasons you said you might come back,” “Well, no, because being scared is good actually. Sort of. If you’re scared it means you want to survive, and you want other people to survive too. To be scared means you’re not going to take needless risks that can put you in harm’s way or others, I don’t want to be a student because I want to be less scared. I want to be a student because there is strength in a lot of scared people finding strength to overcome something scary,” “That will do, I have faith in you, that you aren’t going to try and be the hero, but you aren’t going to leave people behind either,” “Yes sir,”[/center][/i] Some may have criticized Masamichi for going easy on Kakyo. Though Kakyo had been training under his eye for two years, Masamichi honored those years of training grandfathering Kakyo in awareness of what he is capable of. Hoping in some way he hadn’t made yet another mistake by putting his faith in a potential student. [/color] [color=aba000][b]Skills:[/b][/color] [color=aba000]Cooking - Living alone and having to rely on his own abilities, Kakyo had to learn how to cook for himself at an early age. Kakyo is relatively decent cook, who can whip up simple meals. About fifteen to thirteen minute long meals. Though one of his biggest dreams is to cook something fancier and put on a big feast.[/color] [color=aba000]Sewing - From small repairs, to big repairs, to making small garment pieces like scarfs, or arm bands.[/color] [color=aba000]Athletics - Part of his training was learning his strengths, he's good at being light on his feet. Built for quick getaways, and quick dodges. Kakyo is quite athletic, allowing him to parkour, flip, spin, and glide across terrain. [/color] [color=aba000]Hand to Hand to Combat in the form of Aikido and Judo - being relatively small framed, and not being a physically strong fighter. Kakyo strength is using the momentum of his enemies against them. [/color] [color=aba000][b]Strengths:[/b] Cooperative, Works well with a team, Quick thinking, adaptable, quick learner[/color] [color=aba000][b]Weaknesses:[/b] Insecurity, Confidence, Physical Attack [/color] [color=aba000][b]Equipment:[/b][/color] [hider= His Utility Bag][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/310568770764537869/945147924415926322/backpack.jpg[/img][/hider] [color=aba000]His bag is filled with a sewing kit to make repairs on the fly for snagged and ripped clothing, and filled with a ton of paper, a ruler as well, and a pencil. [/color] [/hider]