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[b]Full Name[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - Kaiser “Kai” Underwall[/COLOR]
[b]Age[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - “Best Guess: 14 - 15”[/COLOR]
[b]Gender[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - Male[/COLOR]
[b]Heritage[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - Unknown - Presumably Abandoned, Non-native to Grandor[/COLOR]
[b]Magical Affinity[/b][COLOR=#807B84] - Wind[/COLOR][/color][/SUP]

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[sup][COLOR=SILVER][b]Two Way Mirror[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Perhaps due to his lack of socialization at an early age, Kai’s interactions with other people are…a little odd. He’s clearly very observant, to the point that his stare often makes people uncomfortable, but exactly [i]what[/i] he’s “looking for,” could be anyone’s guess. He won’t often make the first move with someone he doesn’t know, but if they’ve proven kind to him at any point then he’ll have no fear of initiating contact with them–even if, perhaps, they’d rather he chose a less awkward time for it.

But, that first impression is key–because it will often determine how Kai himself interacts with that person. He will invariably, perhaps to the point of annoyance, match the energy that is given to him. If you greet him politely, he will return the manners. If you act aggressively, he will escalate to match your force. Only after several interactions will he act in a more “natural” way–maybe because it takes him that long to figure out what combinations of traits he should be using with a particular individual. Unfortunately, this also means he doesn’t exactly…do well in group settings, where multiple people are all talking or behaving differently at the same time.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]Lawful AND Good[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]The knight who adopted Kai must have seen right away what kinds of troubles his lack of social skills would get him into. As a result the boy was constantly drilled on the Knight’s Code, on ideals of chivalry, ethics, morality, and various laws and regulations. Yet while he might seem incredibly straight laced and logical sometimes, at other times he’ll cast an opinion or rule aside as if it doesn’t matter at all–and if asked for an explanation, you’re likely to get something to the effect of “I don’t think that’s of much help right now.” Rather than plan some sort of elaborate ruleset or procedure to accomplish a given task, even if it would help more people, Kai would rather do the most immediate good in the moment. It’s not to say he won’t [i]ever[/i] consider thinking a few more steps ahead. But most of the time, he seems to take the stance of, “What can I, at this moment, with what I have, do to help?”

And when it comes to the question of evil? Most of the time, at that very moment, with what little he may have available, the answer is [i]always[/i] a very stern, “I will make them stop. Now.”[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]Voracious Reader[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]You would think, given his background, that Kai wasn’t one for intellectual pursuits. You…would not be [i]entirely[/i] wrong. But, if there’s one thing everyone needs to know regardless of their natural born curiosity, it’s how to read and write, yes? The knight who raised him made sure Kai could do these, as well as what little math he could force into the boy’s thick skull. His penmanship is still horrible, but he can write. And not only [i]can[/i] he read, Kai is an [i]obsessive[/i] reader. He can easily become distracted by the words on the page of a student’s book in front of him, or by a scrap of paper that blows past his ankle on the road. He’ll lose track of hours in a good book, never taking his eyes out of it (although his body will actually react to some things without him being aware of it, often preventing a distraction). His favorite books are stories of heroes, and adventures to far-away lands, or biographical tales. Perhaps it's because of his own lack of experiences that he craves them vicariously.[/COLOR][/COLOR]
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[sup][COLOR=SILVER][b]Wild Nature[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]Kai seems to be physically talented in a way not many youths his age could be. He has no qualms scrambling up walls and trees, sometimes on all fours, or balancing himself from just about any position. Strong enough to hold himself in a handstand, or pull his whole body up over a branch, with just one arm. Fast enough in the water or on land to catch live prey with his bare hands. While his senses aren’t much “sharper,” than normal, he’s more aware of them–for instance, most people don’t pay much attention to their sense of smell unless it involves food, rot, or blood, but Kai can–after some time spent with them, of course–still differentiate between people entirely by scent. Combine this environmental awareness with his reflexes, and the boy proves to be quite adept at making the kind of on-the-fly decisions required by high-paced combat.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]Explosive Results[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84]While he might be a prime specimen physically, Kai proves an exceedingly poor student of magic. He performs his particular speciality, the one Spell that seems to come by instinct, well enough. But given an Incantation of any other type, even that of his own element, the boy will never fail to…well, fail–with rather dramatic results. He [i]can[/i] learn the words properly, or even draw the runes, if he practices it with dedication and determination. It’s just that he can’t seem to actually [i]do[/i] it. Only his own, personal Spell has ever worked out for him–so that’s what he sticks with.[/COLOR][/COLOR]

[COLOR=SILVER][b]Wind Aura Sword Style - Void Slayer[/b]
[COLOR=#807B84][hider=Unknown Sword][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/935994562026016780/953114503799799878/496.png[/img][/hider]An unknown bloodline, likely not even from Grandor. A strange blade of what seems to be Valefor craftsmanship–could that be where his heritage lies? Nonetheless, the rare and powerful ability of Aura awakened within Kai, and despite knowing nothing of Incantations or “proper” magic procedure at the time, he incorporated it flawlessly into his own particular fighting style. Sharpening the field of energy into a manifested blade from the “airspace” around him, Kai is able to project a slash from his sword over a distance, or enhance its cutting ability by overlapping the Aura with his sword. However, using his Aura to attack means that its usual “primary” nature as a defense against other magics is non-functional. Its current range limit is ten feet, and projected slashes (Slash Verdict) are not quite as strong as a “normal” slash without Aura. All Aura techniques are intensely draining. Currently only a single Verdict can be used before Kai has to get his breath back.[/COLOR][/COLOR]
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[/cell][cell][b]Physical Description[/b]
[color=#807B84][indent]At 5’8” and 128 pounds, Kai’s build is about average for his age. However, for a boy, his long hair and smooth, pale skin don’t exactly seem the most masculine. He’ll probably be one of those knock-out “pretty boys” when he gets older and his muscles fill out more, but for now he seems like a ripe target for bullying by the bigger boys–may the gods help their souls.

For as much time as he spends outside, Kai doesn’t seem to tan very well. He tends to wear cloaks or thicker outer garments with hoods, and even in the summer he’ll often wear something long sleeved to keep from burning his arms.  Other than that, though, his clothing is pretty plain and generally of whatever general fashion is popular among boys that age, just slightly above the commoners. His adoptive parent isn’t exactly rich or high ranking, but has been at his duties long enough to have accrued quite the substantial savings, so Kai never wants for much. At the same time, he’s not much of a fashionista–and he will literally give someone the shirt off his back if they ask him, perhaps not even so much out of kindness as just the fact that being seen without clothes doesn’t seem to bother him the way it does other people. Fitting, given his background.

His voice is a pleasant tenor, though it’s starting to break here and there. He doesn’t seem as self conscious about it as most other boys his age, but it does mean that listening to any attempt to sing is usually not met with standing applause.

His resting expression is a somewhat neutral, soft smile, just barely evident at the corners of the mouth. His eyes are bright and wide, frequently darting here and there whenever he sees something interesting–and then he stares for too long. He often walks with a confident stride, head up and chest out, and when standing still often defaults to a confident hands-on-hips stance. If he were taller and broader, it might actually be intimidating, but as he is now it comes off almost as playing pretend.
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[b]Character Conceptualization[/b]
[color=#807B84][indent]Sir Kyner Sauvage had already raised two boys and married off a daughter, so what more was there for a Senior Royal Knight to do? Well, damn the hides of all those young bucks telling him to retire–dying alone and decrepit in his armchair would certainly [i]not[/i] be his fate. Indeed, if they didn’t want to let him do what he wanted, out on the field where the real action was, then he would do what all those lazy sods [i]didn’t[/i] want to do–take Wild duty at the End of the World.

The Curse of Fendal hadn’t been seen in Grandor for a hundred years, but with the Wild right on its doorstep it would be foolish not to remain vigilant against all manner of monster and demon. Down below those magnificent falls, the Knights who walked secret paths and set foot into dark, twisted jungle knew that evil might not be so far away as the commonfolk liked to believe. But Kyner was still stout of heart, and of arm–he hadn’t been a House Champion for nothing, some three decades ago–and so with torch and blade he joined the patrol at the bottom of the misty cliffs.

And one fateful day, not far beyond the treeline, he found not a monster, nor a runaway Dark Mage, nor even some lost knight finally making their way back to civilization. Sir Kyner stumbled upon a sleeping boy, sprawled in the grass without a care in the world–naked as the day he was born, save for the sword clutched in his hand. When the child awakened, Sir Kyner found he had no concept of language–or at least, not the tongue of Grandor–and seemed, for all intents and purposes, completely ignorant of the world. How long had he been surviving out here? Who had abandoned him here, and why? 

A knight is sworn to protect women and children, widows and orphans, and thus the obvious thing for Sir Kyner to do was take the boy in. He searched for some time to try and find any scrap of information. But no missing child posters turned up, no family claimed him among the impoverished, the immigrants, or the refugees of war on the borders, and ultimately, no origin could be found. Even once they had bonded, and the boy learned to speak, he wouldn’t–or couldn’t–tell Kyner much about his life before they found one another. So, time passed, and the boy–Kaiser, called “Kai” for short–grew into a youth. And Kyner decided to enroll him as a Knight-in-Training, to give the boy [i]some[/i] education at the least, and perhaps a purpose in life.

Kai was all too eager to swear that he would become a great Royal Knight, and save people wherever they needed his help–just like that day when “Gramps” had saved him, years ago.
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[b]Other Information[/b]
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[*]Theme Song: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQBpxvTHYKI]Ittou Ryouran[/url]
[*]It’s not magic or prehensile or anything, but his braided ponytail tends to…”show his mood,” one might say.
[*]Despite all his physical prowess, Kai has a penchant to get sick more easily than one would think. There were several times not long after Sir Kyner brought him back to Grandor that he caught flus, colds, et cetera and suffered with them longer than usual. Perhaps, wherever he’s from, the diseases and medicines are different…[/list]
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