your friends hold the lullabies, they watch the way the night lies

2007-11-24T04:24:20Z

... NONE YET. ;O;

but my tongue still misbehaves, digging my own grave

2007-11-24T04:18:26Z

Character: Kaidou Kio
Series/Fandom: Loveless
Original or Template version: Original

Age: Twenty
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Sexuality: Homosexual

Appearance: Slender and feminine in stature, Kio passes off as good-looking despite having the remnants of what may have once been a nerdy exterior. His head is topped with light greenish-blond hair which just barely touches his shoulders, the feathery tips curving upwards at the ends. His dark grey eyes, meanwhile, are rarely seen without a pair of glasses covering them, to aid with both a sense of sight and a sense of style.

Kio has an odd penchant for body art. Currently, he has seven piercings on each ear (very much going against his college's regulations) as well as an intricate, wing-like tattoo expanding across his back. Most often he’s seen garbed in various tight-fitting clothes, though he's also quite fond of long jackets, scarves and soft pastel turtlenecks. Ever the orally fixated, Kio is very rarely seen without some kind of food at hand, favouring lollipops above all else.

Personality: Kio is a self-proclaimed pacifist. He loves to love, and whenever he witnesses the opposite he can become very upset to the point of wishing the offender no longer existed. On the flipside, if he finds likeable qualities in someone it may be quite hard to shake him off, especially if that person happens to be an attractive, single male. For the record, though, Kio has always been rather maternal (yes, maternal) towards those he is close to, whether they be friends, family, or lovers. These morals cause him to try and socialize with the antisocial, or to coddle over sweet children with candy and treats. He is always honest with what he says and does, which is something that earns him the friendship of many people even if he can only act seriously with a select few.

However, he can also be high-strung and a bit of a nag when it comes to preaching people about his own views, and more than once he's denounced others for their choices. Despite having certain sensitivity when teased, Kio has a habit of loudly making fun of others just for the sake of gaining a reaction. He craves attention, he's more or less a spazz, and he rarely shows any sign of physical insecurities, yet he's always been seen as someone you can depend on no matter what.

Abilities/Strengths: He can love. For some, loving in itself can be difficult, but for Kio it's quite simple if he thinks someone needs to be loved. He wants a world where no one hurts or gets hurt, and strongly proclaims his pacific ways whenever he can. He's constantly thinking about his friends, and he’s willing to share everything he has, even himself, if it makes them happy. Or even if he just plain likes them. Kio also has quite a bit of skill at painting, as he majored in art before coming to Template. He's a flamboyant individual, and rarely is he self-conscious of himself or his body, since he can flirt up a storm and happens to take pleasure in nude modeling as well.

Weaknesses: Because he's such a passionate individual, this can sometimes get Kio in trouble with both authority figures and with his friends. If someone does not agree with him or ignores him in some way, it's highly probable that he'll react negatively by throwing a fit or insulting them. In this respect, he can come off as rather selfish. He also has a habit of falling for the wrong person, which may cause him to throw such fits in the first place. It's rare that he'll give up trying to win their hearts.

On a much smaller scale, Kio has a definite oral fixation and thus a weakness for delicious foods. He has to have something in or near his mouth at all times, and he's grown especially fond of Chupa Chup lollipops.

History: Kio grew up on Earth, basically, except in this 'dimension' virgins were blessed (or cursed?) with cat ears and a tail. Not much is known about his past except that he lived with a mother and grandmother, and it is perhaps because of the lack of a male presence in his household that he's gained the nurturing attitude he has today.

Over the course of his school years, Kio craved the attention of his classmates, though it was likely he was still rather awkward and dorky at the time. He was friends with mostly girls, and in general he thought of them in a platonic, nonsexual way so that he instead began to find himself more sexually attracted to men. Whether it was a man or woman he lost his virginity to is still a mystery, but he nonetheless lost his ears and tail sometime before or after graduating from high school.

Very fond of painting and exploring his imagination, Kio entered college as a major in art, and made friends as easily as he usually did. But one day he saw an attractive man with long hair and a stoic expression painting a picture of butterflies, so much against his friends’ advisory he approached the man to try and befriend him because he liked his artwork. Despite all his sympathy and kindness, however, the man called Agatsuma Soubi ignored him until Kio mentioned the tattoo on his back, claiming that if he had so many earrings he should very well have a tattoo.

From that time onwards, Kio became the best and only friend Soubi had. He learned about his cruel 'master,' Aoyagi Seimei, and because Soubi simply allowed him to rule over him with borderline torture, Kio grew to hate him before they'd ever even met. He was, then, quite relieved when he found out Seimei had been murdered in a tragic incident involving a fire. But only a while later Soubi gained a new master, a twelve-year-old named Ritsuka and Seimei's younger brother. This caused Kio once again to worry for and fret over his best friend, going as far as stealing the pictures the two had taken together from Soubi’s bag and calling him a pedophile.

The one thing Kio noticed now was that Soubi smiled a lot more. Still, he did not approve because he would often block him out completely just to send text messages to Ritsuka, or not be at the apartment because he went to visit Ritsuka. Soon he caught word that Soubi was going to Goura with Ritsuka. And so, hoping to find out the secrets of his friend at last, Kio snuck into the car and refused to get out when asked. It turned out that Ritsuka was nothing like his brother, Seimei, and Kio decided to be friends with him instead, claiming that they were "kindred spirits" because they had an equal dislike of violence.

But when they arrived at Soubi's old school in Goura, Kio was not allowed to enter or find out his secrets. Instead of leaving, however, he chose to wait for them outside the school even after it was locked. He complained all the while that he would freeze to death and hoped Soubi would cry if he did, until a man he'd never met before, Akame Nisei, approached. He told Kio he was in the way, and Kio immediately grew suspicious of him. Much to his surprise, the man used a strange magic using only words to send the shattered glass on the doors flying.

When Kio asked what he was doing, Nisei’s answer was, "I'm obviously getting rid of the thing that's in my way." Strange black shadows created by the man then bound his legs and wrists, pulling him to the ground until he found himself falling into darkness. When Kio woke up, he was no longer at Goura or in Japan at all. He had arrived in Template.

&some day soon i'll make you mine

your friends hold the lullabies, they watch the way the night lies

but my tongue still misbehaves, digging my own grave