Roleplay Character Sheet

I suppose the best place to start if you want to know about Kaishi Senshi is with his family. Kaishi never came from much, a modest family just outside of town. His parents worked tirelessly just to scrap together a living on the day to day so he never had much wealth or influence. I suppose that was in part where he got some of the drive that so defines him today. Still, a modest beginning turned into a modest few years and it wasn’t until he started immersing himself in literature that anyone would have noticed anything out of the ordinary from the youth. Even then his knack for solving problems and remembering facts and details, oddities from the things that he had read did not seem wholly remarkable. He was bright, gifted some might have gone so far to say, but without opportunities such talents were unlikely to amount to much in the grand scheme of things. Academics were a game for the rich, beyond the basics they held no practical place in his world. Still, literature provided a glimpse of the world beyond his backwater town and a means of passing the time so his parents indulged him as best they could.

It was probably around the time that he was first entered into the local school that Kai began to distinguish himself from the other kids his own age despite his modest origins. What had been simple indulgence before slowly transformed into something more. There was a sense of hope in his talent, in the idea that he might be able to do more than what had been set out for him. His parents rallied behind him, devoting everything they could to helping him pursue his education even if their efforts could only hope to take him so far. Without money or influence the chances of attending one of the best universities, as a boy from a backwater family, was beyond impossible. Short of a pure miracle it wouldn’t matter, but that didn’t stop them from trying, and it didn’t stop Kai from devouring every detail, every fact and figure that he could find.

His drive carried him forward, but at the same time it set him apart from his peers. He did not mingle with the other children his own age. I suppose in a way that made what happened next a little easier to bear for someone so young. Without those childhood connections there was nothing to break when Kai’s own personal miracle showed up in the form of a unique scholarship for merit to one of the most renowned universities that money could buy. You see even though that little town was small, it wasn’t isolated from the rest of the world, and when Kai started raising a bit of money on his own tutoring his more well to do neighbors. Word started getting around of the local genius, and that got the attention of some of some influential people.

Where the scholarship came from never really mattered though, what did matter was that it came and with it a change that no one ever really expected, even if they had spent so long hoping for it. It wasn’t that anyone was going to hold him back, none of them had the heart, besides, if he could succeed despite all the odds it meant that maybe it wasn’t so impossible after all and that was, well, it changed what it meant to live in that tired little town. At the very least it gave them all something to talk about, something to be proud of. So Kai left behind the familiar and the comfortable and found himself thrust headlong into the middle of a culture he did not understand. He never really missed them, at least not that I could tell, he used to say that there wasn’t that much to miss. Sure he had family, and special places that he had had to leave behind, but that was it, all there was to the home that he had known and most of it he could find again, given the time. What proved harder to adjust to was the idea that he could be an outsider because of his status or his upbringing. Country boys were less common in the economic elite of the major cities and that meant that they were a clear minority in the better universities.

I know, I know, you aren’t interested in the story of the new misunderstood kid struggling to fit in among a group of peers he’s got no business being a part of. You’re interested in when he changed, when everything changed. And I’m getting there, but you have to understand that something like that, something that big, is never self contained. Still, Emily, the root of it. I suspect it would be accurate to say that he met her as a result of the isolation he felt from the other students. She, at least, was like him, another outsider, risen from nothing. She was brilliant in every sense of the word, maybe even more so than he was. She was his intellectual match, but more than that she was the first person he’d ever met who dared to challenge the world, to dare to try and change it. He didn’t join her at first, but you could see the way she captivated him with her ideas, the way he was drawn not just to her, but to what she stood for, what she fought for.

I don’t pretend to believe in things like true love, or any of that romance. I don’t hold to talk of fate, or the idea of destiny, but there was something between those two, a connection that you just couldn’t deny. They were perfect for each other to the point where I wouldn’t even argue that they might truly have been meant for each other. That everything that had happened to them up until the moment that they met had been part of some master plan. He changed for her, and she for him, before they had simply existed, but together they transcended that as cheesy as it sounds. They crushed every problem, every mystery and challenge set before them, because they worked so well together. She was the one who gave him the idea that there was power in knowledge, in those old texts that he was always pouring over.

But you didn’t bring me here to wax nostalgia either, so I’ll skip ahead a bit farther. I don’t think they every really made anything official, but by the time they were finishing up the last year at the university it was pretty obvious to everyone who knew them that there was something there. Which is what made it so odd that he wasn’t there at the rally she’d helped to organize in the heart of the city. Something about pursuing a special research opportunity. He’d mentioned that day that he’d planned on joining her when he was finished, but by then the rally had already turned violent. Apparently there was more discontent in the city than either of them had ever expected. Emily probably never meant for things to get as chaotic as they ultimately did, but by opening the floodgates and giving the people a glimpse of change she set off a chain reaction that no one could have stopped. And when the city responded they responded with force. By the time the he got there they were already picking through the debris. I don’t even think that he got a chance to see her, they’d already taken the body away.

It crushed him. He’d been quiet before he met her, but after he lost her he retreated back inside of himself like never before. I don’t think he could process it that quickly, which is probably why he didn’t really react to what had happened until after he’d graduated at the very top of his class from the university. And then all he could manage was to leave, without saying a word. Took a position teaching at the university he'd graduated from for some time, probably as much to forget as because couldn’t see himself doing anything else. When the haze of it lifted he threw himself back into the research he’d started with her, pouring over those old texts, searching for the power that Emily had always believed was there.

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Yet to be discovered on this forum. Will be written as my character's story here progresses.