Ky Kiske

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Ky has no special powers that effects another character's agency or free will but here's a few low down facts:

Characters with third eyes or other ability to sense the supernatural may notice he's not entirely human anymore, but until he actively uses the 'Nephilim' power, they may not entirely figure out what is off. But when he does, it feels like a weird distorted angelic power.


As for threading: feel free to threadjack if you got permission from the other person.

He is not used to physical affection, but will not shy from it. And if asked about life in the late 13th/early 14th century, he will not shy away and they are not pleasant times, so fair warning!

PLAYER INFORMATION

Name: Shini
Contact: RShini

CANON CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character Name: Ky Kiske
Canon: Guilty Gear
Backstory: Backstory
Personality: Ky Kiske is a very intelligent, charismatic, and emotionally conflicted man.

To him the most important thing for a person to be is Just in actions and words, he tries very hard to do as he say and say as he do, but he acknowledges and is frustrated that sometimes he can’t do that. This also means that he detests hypocrites well above the usual laundry list of people with despicable character traits such as liars, thieves, bullies, and creeps. He ultimately wants to do what’s right, no matter the cost to himself.

This sense of justice also currently drives his main conflict with others. Ky unfortunately has a rather black/white view of the world. It’s a measure of how pious he is, and frankly how naïve he is that he still has a simple view of morality at his age. However, this aspect will improve with time and exposure to all kinds of people. Ky however doesn’t see himself as perfect unlike most people with this mindset. In fact, he is pretty harsh on himself.

Even if his sense of Justice will be shaken, there are some fundamentals that he still has unshakable faith in: His devotion to his religion, the belief that everyone should be equal in the eyes of the law, and one should help as many people as they can. He’s a devout Catholic, pious without being self-righteous. Ky simply tries his best to live according to his faith and will not force his beliefs on others.

He wears his heart on his sleeve and finds it immensely difficult to conceal his opinions on people and actions, everyone he likes knows it and those he despise can see it in a single glance at his face – however, even when he shows displeasure and contempt for a person, he still has a measure of politeness in his speech even when he’s calling them a bastard.

Ky, when he’s not pondering on the big, meaningful questions is quite friendly for the most part (Unless a bad impression was made). He’s extremely helpful, willing to assist anyone who asks for aid, and has a strong chivalric streak – including holding back against female opponents. Once a bad impression is made, Ky will remain suspicious of that person until they prove themselves. Though friendly as he is, he doesn’t make friends easily, as he’s been orphaned at a young age and spent most of his life in a military setting, he gotten very little experience in social interactions and comes off as distant and tends to miss obvious cues. Most notably, he is quite oblivious to subtle attempts of people hitting on him, though if more overt advances are made, he starts stuttering and lose his train of thought.

He’s very polite, and inquisitive, willing to engage in quite a variety of topics ranging from the different styles of teacups to more serious topics such as religion and politics, and has a slight philosophical bent. In such conversations, Ky will hold fast to his opinions and remain calm except under very specific circumstances (read: Attack his mentor, question his integrity, or espousing completely vile ideas). When he does lose his cool, he reveals a hot-blooded, passionate side that drives him.

The young man has the makings of a good leader – putting others before himself, and is quite capable of staying calm under most circumstances, able to make snap decisions under pressure. He only really loses his temper when it comes with dealing with a sworn enemy, his beliefs being attacked, and if he is witnessing acts of sheer cruelty - ESPECIALLY if he is seeing other people doing nothing about it.

And due to that magic is a limitless, clean energy in his world, and “Black tech” has wreak havoc upon the world – Ky is very distrustful of high technology and would avoid using them.

AU INFORMATION

AU Character Name: Kyle “Ky” Kiske

AU Backstory: Kyle was born in and grew up in New Orleans – his father was a member of the New Orleans Police Department, but his family was forced to relocate after their home was destroyed in a natural disaster, with his father managing to transfer to the LAPD, and his mother decided this was a good time to transfer her son to a private catholic school, getting a job to help pay the fees. While at first he was bullied for the Southern accent he never quite lost, and his initially shabby appearance because he only had enough clothes to fill a suitcase, he soon won over a lot of people due to his kind demeanor and seemingly inability not to help others, while he still gets teased for being a teacher’s pet, he graduated high school as a fairly popular kid with a perfect GPA. He soon enrolled in the police academy, but took his mother’s advice to also enroll in an online degree course, getting an Associate’s Degree in Criminology because he was certain law enforcement was the career he wanted – with the eventual goal of becoming a detective.

He was hired not long after long after he completed the academy training, and was assigned to a precinct across town from his father, and found himself in the LAPD’s vice division, much to his great mortification, and the amusement of his co-workers when they discover how ‘shy’ the rookie was.

During the first couple of years, his father retired, and Ky discovered that drug and sex-related crimes were far more complicated than he thought – that many prostitutes and drug-users were as much victims as they are offenders. Worst yet, as he became accepted by his coworkers, some of them started to drop their guard and reveal their nastier sides, a couple of them dropping racial slurs or made other derogatory statements about the people they arrested, others were using unethical but not illegal tricks to force confessions, one even tried to take him under her wings to euphemistically teach him how to passively accept bribes in a way to avoid getting busted by Internal Affairs.

Kyle asked his father for advice, and was warned point blank that if he wanted to ever make detective, he is better off keeping his mouth shut, and just avoid doing the bad things, angering Ky and instantly straining their relationship in that phone call. He first tries to lead by example, hoping to shame the others with good conduct, that of course didn’t work, and then he had started to write an anonymous report to Internal affairs, but soon realized with how ridden Gossip is at work, there is no way he can submit it without being known he wrote it – and every cop knew the story of what ‘happened to that guy in the NYPD’. Kyle was at a crisis point, until the Phantom Thieves started to act, and while he’s initially skeptical of their methods, he found they were going after people the police could not touch, and decided, though reluctantly, to try to make contact with them, to find justice when the law failed his expectations.

AU Personality Deviation: Because he’s not growing up in a post-apocalyptic war as a child soldier, Ky is much better socialized, better able to make friends with other people and he is nowhere near as tech-phobic as his canon counterpart. On that note, he doesn’t have the same leadership experience as his canon self, and is more likely to defer to others, and slower to take on the role when the situation calls for it.

And while he’s more aware that the world is gray, he’s less confident in his ideas of justice, constantly questioning if he is really doing the right thing in the long run, especially once he realizes how young most of the Thieves are. He overcompensates for this on the job by being extremely by the book while in uniform.

Species: Human
Class: Accomplice
Arcana: Justice
Persona: N/A

Social Link Persona: Virtue, Sraosha, Tyr

Assets: Intermediate – as a police officer, he gets first scoop of police gossip and information on various operations and stings going on, and can occasionally get forensics run on an item – though this is an act he does rarely do to avoid raising any red flags.

Weapon Type: N/A
Vehicle Type: N/A
Codename: N/A
Form of Rebellion: N/A
RP Sample: A Sample may be any of the following:
Questions Sample Prompt:

0: The Fool asks - What is the most life-changing event you have experienced? “There was that hurricane in New Orleans, we lost our homes and everything we didn’t manage to get packed up in the car, dad ended up relocating us in LA. I mean, they’re two completely different sort of cities, who knows how I’d been if I was still in the Big Easy.”

II: The Priestess asks - What do you consider to be an undeniable truth? “Everyone deserves a fair shake, no exceptions.”

III: The Empress asks - What are your hopes for the future? “To make Detective… it’s kind of selfish, but I’ve been wanting to be one since I was six.”

VI: The Lovers ask - Where do you see your life going? Are you satisfied with this path? “I thought I’d be satisfied, but with things I’ve seen, I’m not sure what I should be doing now.”

VIII: The Justice asks - What does your justice entail? “Fairness. Protecting the innocent, Reform those who can be, and punish those who can’t. Vengeance may sometimes lead to justice by chance, but anger and hate has no place in Justice.”

IX: The Hermit asks - What do you do when given the grace of solitude? “I pray, I also read – preferably with a warm cup of tea. Both let me think without my thoughts straying too much.”

X: The Fortune asks - Do you believe in Destiny? Why, or why not? “The Lord may have a plan, but he gave humans free will, so I guess the answer is: I only believe in a broad strokes of destiny for the world, but humans have no predetermined fate because that’s our gift of free will.”

XI: The Strength asks - How do you respond in the face of danger? “I trust my training, and prioritize getting civilians out of harm’s way before I act.”

XIII: The Death asks - As you enter a new stage in your life, what do you wish to leave behind? “My uncertainty. Being too confident is bad, but I do not like feeling like I am unable to trust my own judgment.”

XVI: The Tower asks - What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you? “I had a fight with my father… we used to be really close, but I discovered something about how he views things that I had a hard time accepting. We hadn’t spoken to each other since then.”

XVIII: The Moon asks - What do you most fear in this world and why? “What if… what if everything I was doing was for nothing, what if I make things worse?”

XIX: The Sun asks - What in this world makes you happy and why? “Smiling faces. I’m serious! Seeing other people happy, especially if it’s because of something I did, it’s one of the best feelings in the world, that no matter how bad things get, seeing there’s still something bright and good…”

XX: The Judgement asks - What is the hardest thing in your life you have had to accept and why? “That people who should be the helpers and savers are just as fallible as anyone else. I used to think everyone who went into Law Enforcement or Medicine wants to help others, but it’s – more complicated I discovered.”

PLAYER INFO

Name: Shini
Contact Information: (How other people can reach you. Personal journal, e-mail, AIM, Plurk, etc.)
Time Zone: -8 PST
Characters Played: Kaito
CHARACTER INFO

Character Name: Ky Kiske
Character Canon: Guilty Gear

History: http://guilty-gear.wikia.com/wiki/Ky_Kiske#Story

AU History: Ky’s parents were residents of Union City, and are part of a side-branch of the Crownguard family. Unfortunately for him, his mother died of illness while he was young, and a year later - his father (a ranger) was killed in a landslide up in the mountains. Soon after, he was adopted by his Aunt and Uncle, though he kept his original surname.

Like the Crownguards, and everyone else, he grew up on the stories of the savior and wanted to become a knightly hero like the Savior and threw everything into his lessons. He turned out to be quite talented with matters of battle and became a Sword of the Savior, though he is surprised and disappointed that Luxanna could not join him in the organization, having grown up to admire her capabilities.

Canon Personality: Ky Kiske is a very intelligent, charismatic, and emotionally conflicted man.

To him the most important thing for a person to be is Just in actions and words, he tries very hard to do as he say and say as he do, but he acknowledges and is frustrated that sometimes he can’t do that. This also means that he detests hypocrites well above the usual laundry list of people with despicable character traits such as liars, thieves, bullies, and creeps. He ultimately wants to do what’s right, no matter the cost to himself.

This sense of justice also currently drives his main conflict with others. Ky unfortunately has a rather black/white view of the world. It’s a measure of how pious he is, and frankly how naïve he is that he still has a simple view of morality at his age. However, this aspect will improve with time and exposure to all kinds of people. Ky however doesn’t see himself as perfect unlike most people with this mindset. In fact, he is pretty harsh on himself.

Even if his sense of Justice will be shaken, there are some fundamentals that he still has unshakable faith in: His devotion to his religion, the belief that everyone should be equal in the eyes of the law, and one should help as many people as they can. He’s a devout Catholic, pious without being self-righteous. Ky simply tries his best to live according to his faith and will not force his beliefs on others.

He wears his heart on his sleeve and finds it immensely difficult to conceal his opinions on people and actions, everyone he likes knows it and those he despise can see it in a single glance at his face – however, even when he shows displeasure and contempt for a person, he still has a measure of politeness in his speech even when he’s calling them a bastard.

Ky, when he’s not pondering on the big, meaningful questions is quite friendly for the most part (Unless a bad impression was made). He’s extremely helpful, willing to assist anyone who asks for aid, and has a strong chivalric streak – including holding back against female opponents. Once a bad impression is made, Ky will remain suspicious of that person until they prove themselves. Though friendly as he is, he doesn’t make friends easily, as he’s been orphaned at a young age and spent most of his life in a military setting, he gotten very little experience in social interactions and comes off as distant and tends to miss obvious cues.

Most notably, he is quite oblivious to subtle attempts of people hitting on him, though if more overt advances are made, he starts stuttering and lose his train of thought.

He’s very polite, and inquisitive, willing to engage in quite a variety of topics ranging from the different styles of teacups to more serious topics such as religion and politics, and has a slight philosophical bent. In such conversations, Ky will hold fast to his opinions and remain calm except under very specific circumstances (read: Attack his mentor, question his integrity, or espousing completely vile ideas). When he does lose his cool, he reveals a hot-blooded, passionate side that drives him.

The young man has the makings of a good leader – putting others before himself, and is quite capable of staying calm under most circumstances, able to make snap decisions under pressure. He only really loses his temper when it comes with dealing with a sworn enemy, his beliefs being attacked, and if he is witnessing acts of sheer cruelty - ESPECIALLY if he is seeing other people doing nothing about it.

And due to that magic is a limitless, clean energy in his world, and “Black tech” has wreak havoc upon the world – Ky is very distrustful of high technology and would avoid using them.

 

AU Deviation: While he was still orphaned like his canon counterpart, he still ended up in a more stable home life then an army camp, so he is more socially aware – being far more approachable as a person, to the point that he can tell if someone is hitting on him (doesn't mean he reacts any more gracefully then he does in canon).

And considering the kind of society Union is, and his expose to Luxanna, and other capable trainers, his sense of Chivalry is somewhat toned down, more keenly aware of everyone's fighting capability and not holding back against them because of their gender, though he still behaves in an old-fashioned manner outside of battle.

As a Sword of the Savior, he is much more reluctant to use lethal force then his canon counterpart, and will even go as far as to stop anyone else from killing, and in fact believe there's no situation where it's justified.

Canon Abilities: Ky can generate and manipulate lightning magic, it’s stated that both lightning magic is extremely rare and very difficult to control in the setting.

The Thunderseal (or Fuuraiken) sword can effectively channel and store excessive voltage for later use, giving him reserves for when he needs to pack an extra punch to his attack.

He’s also shown to be a masterful military tactician and inspiring leader, as that in the Red Side timeline, it’s explicitly stated that humanity would had lost the crusades if he perished during the war. And as a fighting came character… he’s good at combat.

Enlightened Abilities: Typing: Electric/Fighting with a Mastery of Training – using discipline and kind encouragement to get the best out of his pokemon.

At the start, he mostly has the ability to reduce the effect of electric-type attacks on himself, becoming resistant to paraylzation.

On his first evolution he'll gain a weak ability to create a small ball of electricity at his opponents that is designed primarily to stun them.

On his second, the ball becomes much stronger, and he will gain an electric strike that will hit multiple opponents at once.

To mimic his canon powers somewhat, he will eventually acquire a sword that will enhance his electric-type abilities.

Starter Pokémon: Mareep

Notes/Special Considerations: N/A

SAMPLES

[Ky stares at the mud-drenched mareep peering up at him mournfully, then at the muddy tracks it left throughout the house and let out a soft, almost tired sigh and calls over one of the estate’s maids with a mop]

How did you even get this… nevermind. Come on, Isaac, let’s get this cleaned up before everyone comes back – starting with you.

[The man rolled up his sleeves, and picked up the small sheep, holding it at arm’s length, walking briskly to get it into the tub before it’s wool starts to numb his fingers, as Ky fetches water – Isaac let out a protesting baa]

Ssh… I know, but it’s too cold to clip you, so I’ll try to wash it off. Now hold still and we can wash the worse off – please don’t try to shock anyone.

[Several minutes passed of buckets being poured over the mareep, mud coming off, until its wool is only a faint, milk chocolate-y color. The pokemon is shivering, but to it’s or Ky’s credit, it didn’t try to run.]

Hmm…

[While electricity doesn’t affect him as badly as it does others to the household, he is still not in favor of getting zapped. Ky considered his options as a soaking wet, and still slightly muddy sheep will make an even bigger mess. He yanks down a towel and laid it out]

Okay, just roll on this until you start to feel dry. Sorry Isaac, but looks like I’ll have to think of something to get the brown out of your wool later.

[Isaac did as instructed – and Ky wipes his forehead to push bangs out of his eyes – only to realize he just rubbed mud all over it]

…

[Face meets palm – and more mud, causing the mareep to start laughing]

 

Third-Person:
-What would you say the role of Pokémon is in your life? They are my comrades and friends.

-What do you seek for humanity’s future? Peace and Hope, a place that allows for everyone to smile freely – that is what should be the goal for humanity’s future.

-To what lengths would you go to rescue your allies if they were lost in the wilderness? Any. There is no excuse in leaving your allies behind, period.

-What would you say the most important occupation is within Union? I had to think about this, and I can’t say if one role is more important than any other – they all help to keep Union safe or help improve the lives of the people.

-What does the story of the Savior mean to you? It’s a story of hope, mercy, and humility. No matter how hopeless a situation is, by never giving up, and being willing to do all one can overcome all odds.

-What aspects and traits do you respect most in your individual fellow man? Justice. I respect a person that can be fair, and refuse things that are evil and protect that is good.

-What do you look for in the Pokémon with whom you bond? I look for Pokemon that are intelligent and loyal.

-What do you think your Pokémon respect most about you? I believe they respect me for my fair-handedness and ability to strategize.

-The gods of old have returned. How would you be judged if you were chosen as a representative of humanity? I dare not make any presumptions about how I will be judged, but I do hope that I would be considered a worthy representative of what is good in humanity.

-A human has attacked a wild Pokémon who retaliates in defense. How do you respond and whom do you defend? I would break up the fight to the best of my ability, and with the only what information you had given me, I would defend the pokemon.

-You are alone and bereft of your Pokémon allies, upon what strengths do you rely on to see yourself safely home? I rely on my training and perseverance to get me back to home.

-What would you say is your greatest duty, and why? My duty is to protect the people of the Union, for it is the right thing to do, and the best way I can serve people.

-You plunge into the depths of the Old City. What is it that you seek from the past? Treasure, technology, wisdom? Technology is what caused the disaster, and Treasure is fleeting and of limited value – Wisdom is something that can be shared and will immediately improve the lives of everyone in Union.

-When encountering a rare and powerful Pokémon, what is most important? Researching it, bonding with it, or defeating it? Why? It’s hard to say – it would depend strongly on the situation, though I would consider defeating it as a last resort.

-What do you do to ensure we never again awaken the wrath of the gods upon humanity? Live a just life, respect the lives of both humans and pokemon, and learn from the errors of our ancestors.

-What strengths make you most qualified for your role within Union? As a savior, I am observant, dedicated, strong of arm and I seek to be as just as possible.

-In your eyes, what is absolutely unforgivable? Cruelty and abuse – there is no excuse to harm another without just cause, and those that enjoy such acts should not be allowed to live within the city.

-No Enlightened chooses their abilities - and not all are Enlightened. What type abilities would you most desire to manifest and why? Well… I admit I like to know what pokemon are thinking, I am kind of curious about that.

-What area do you seek to explore? The peaceful forest, in search of new, previously overlooked discoveries; the uncharted caves, in search of the unknown; or the wildest of mountain terrain, in search of danger, adventure, and thrills? While the forest sounds pleasant, I believe it’s better to explore the unknown, to find lost answers and understand our world better.