Personality:
When it comes to Ken, the mask that he shows everyone is that of a cocky, laid back, confident and rather sarcastic person who takes a great deal of joy in messing around. He finds pleasure in pissing people off and annoying the hot headed ones as much as he can get away with. While he is a trouble maker, he's one that goes for the more subtle side of trouble. He isn't the person that pranks the entire class if given the chance (though, if asked there is a good chance he'll help out). Rather, he finds more fun in finding just one person to piss off and then just spending the rest of the day if not week annoying that one person in various ways. Doing just a bit to annoy them, but not enough to get in trouble. Should the person turn to more violent means to shut him up, this will not work all that well. For in response, though Ken will run, he'll make sure to taunt and make the situation all the worse if possible. All the while having a good laugh at the other's annoyance/rage.
Along with this, Ken has a habit of being very sarcastic, he can't have a conversation without saying some kind of sarcastic/witty remark. While for the most part he isn't overly rude, it's hard to tell if he's talking down on someone or just messing with them. If you want a direct, blunt answer from him, good luck getting it. As for the most part he will simply talk in circles and let the conversation either drag on, or completely change it to be talking about something different. This becomes rather obvious when subjects he has no interest in, or are too personal are touched.
When someone is talking to him, they would see that Ken has a tendency to look down at other people, even if they are taller than him. The way he holds himself, it shows for the most part that he is looking down on them. Now whether this is because he doesn't have any respect or such about the person matters. While he doesn't always see people on the same level as him. When he looks down at people its not simply due to how he views them. Rather this is how he goes about trying to read a person's body language. He's been attempting to learn how to cold read. Once he starts doing this he makes plenty of comments about how a person holds them self, what they may be feeling etc. He could completely off the mark, but this won't stop him from making these comments as he finds this type of thing to be interesting.
When things get serious, he doesn't outright ditch his annoying, sarcastic mask. However, he doesn't goof around as much as before. Though he is fully serious and invested in the fight, if the fight is against a powerful enemy he tends to push himself to far. While he'll deny any recklessness, he is without a doubt reckless in fights, as he tries to push himself far more than he should. While him pushing could help win fights, it can ultimately lead to far more trouble than reward. Especially due his lack of care when it comes to his condition and such. He refuses to just give up and turn around even if that's the best idea. If he must deal with a losing fight, his frustrations start to become more noticeable as he loses the cool he had moments earlier. His tactics become more frantic and impulsive all in all. If allowed to fight to this point, he will more likely than not cause more harm than good. Sadly, despite how cunning he can be, that only applies when he has a cool head and isn't panicking/forcing himself to continue on.
Cocky, confident, and the air of superiority are all personality traits he acts out on daily basis to hide his insecurity. In truth he feels a great deal of pressure from the high expectation placed on him due to his family curse. It doesn't help that his family expects great things out him, as he is meant to carry on the legacy of his bloodline. While he tries to ignore the pressure, he simply can't. This pressure and fear of being a failure pushes him. Not only to train harder, but also makes him take risks in combat. He hopes that if he becomes strong enough, this curse will be removed and everything will finally work out for him.
Skills/Abilities:
His magical power ranges in the 2,500 spectrum, but he is striving to get even stronger
Making sand sculptors
Charismatic
Martial arts
Drawing/painting/artistic/embroidery
Annoying the crap out of almost anyone
Knife throwing
Knife wielding
Chess games
Special Traits:
Family Curse, due to a curse placed on his mother by his father, every day magic power is drained from her until eventually she is depleted, and it then moves on to life force. This curse his slow (as magic power is regained with some good rest) but it was designed to be that way, for the curse is intended to be a slow killer to torment them. Should his mother die for any reason, the curse would move to him, sapping him slowly but surely of his hard earned magical power.
Other Detailed: Fun fact: He loves trying to cold read people, even if he fails horribly at it. Just something he enjoys doing to get under peoples skin~
He learned celestial magic from his fathers personal servant, who at the time had a soft spot for Ken. As a gift, Ken was given the spirit Capricorn as his first key, at a rather young age.
He gained a few silver keys and Pieces, when his mother stole a few of the keys on the day they left.
He gained the rest of his spirits by doing job requests, and he even found one key at a dusty pawn shop, the owner ignorant of the power behind the shiny key.
Along with that he seems to love gloves of all kinds, and has a tendency to wear different ones at random times. Sticking with black thin gloves, one second he could be wearing a glove which covers his hand, and then the next (should you blink or look away) he'd be wearing some kind of semi fingerless gloves.
He also has a knack for making/designing masks and can be spotted either carving one out, or painting it, though he isn't one to use these masks he just enjoys making them, and he puts a lot of effort into each one.
History:
Ken was born in the country of Enca, there he lived only a fraction of his life, under the love and care of his mother. His time in this country didn't last long at all, for his mother and father had constant arguments day in day out about the life they were living. Be it their different opinions on the country state or the future their child should have. They were always bickering, and despite how adamant his mother was, it was often his father that won these arguments, not because of logic, but rather force. For his father was not only a powerful mage, but a man that had no issue threatening his son or even hurting him, just so he could keep the mother under control. Along with that he was high when it comes to his social standing. While his mother on the other hand was powerful, she was powerless against the man as he kept using her son as a shield. If she did something he didn't particularly approve of, it was easy enough to make her change her mind. Whether he applied political pressure on her family, or threatened to take Ken away from her, or just threaten to hurt him period with his powers, there were a vast amount of ways for him to do something that could ruin her life.
Unable to handle this and not wanting to live under his thumb any longer, she ran away in the middle of the night, taking Ken with her. Before running she stole several things to help them survive, ranging from money to even a few celestial keys (as she was aware of Ken's affinity towards these keys). What followed the next several months was something that seemed to resemble hell. She could only bring so much of her belongings with her, and Ken. Meaning she ran out of money swiftly. She was able to afford what she needed to leave the country, but she didn't have enough to get a stable life right off the bat in this new land, Fiora.
In desperate need of a job, she was able to find a guild that worked for her, a legal guild that had room and board, as well as jobs she could take while also caring for Ken. This of course was perfect and she took it without issue. She would go on jobs and hire someone to watch her son while she made money and on the days she was home she would personally take care of Ken. This was how her life went, and she was content.
Ken for the most part grew up as a loving son, he never added too much stress to his mother, nor asked for anything that would burden her. He admired her greatly for her strength and stubbornness, due to this he wanted to follow in her footsteps to become a powerful/great wizard. This lead to him trying to learn magic at a rather young age, something he seemed to have a great affinity for. While he already could summon spirits (something of which he did often with Capricorn in an attempt to help his mother), he wanted to learn more, for not only his mother but spirits as well. Since he didn't want to rely on them too much. So, with the help of Capricorn, Ken was able to find a magic that worked well for him, and by the age of 10 he was forming his first sandcastle without so much as picking up a bucket. Now having a foundation, he only increased in his skills and knowledge.
His mother of course encouraged him and was proud of his progress, however unknown to the two of them, they were being watched. His father hadn't forgotten about them in the least, rather he never bothered with the hassle of trying to drag the two back home. Instead he had a trusted servant watch over the two and keep careful note of their lives to see if either of them would be worth his attention. At first they weren't, when the servant saw how much Ken's talent celestial magic progressed, as well as his ability to learn sand magic along with it? He and Ken's father soon started to get interested.
When he was 11 the servant that had been watching him and his mother approached (when his mother was off on a job), and invited him to come see his father. While Ken was admittedly curious, he did in the end stubbornly decline the offer, he did this several times over no matter how it was asked. Of course such denial didn't suit his father, so he started to cause trouble for him. At first it was little things, someone breaking into the house when they were gone and stealing some of their money, or some pieces of jewelry but then the longer Ken denied the more issues started to appear. Until one day a special request had gone through the guild asking for his mother to do a quest. This quest was worth a lot, and due to the money having been stolen, his mother was in need of it, so despite how suspicious it looked she left to do it.
The mission was a disaster. At first it seemed easy enough, but out of no where it had escalated and she ended up gravely injured, with her legs broken and going blind in one eye. As one could assume the medical bills were expensive, and there was simply no way Ken could afford them. While he struggled to figure out what to do to help his mother, the servant approached him again. He swore to pay for everything, as long as Ken did one small meeting with his father. He was reluctant, but eventually he agreed to do it. Under the conditions he didn't have to leave Fiore. It took a bit but the deal was arranged, Ken met his father and his father paid the bills.
This happened when he had reached the age of 12, and the meeting was anything but desirable. His father wanted him to return to Enca, where he would go under his wing and live a life of luxury just like a son of his should live in. He made so many grand promises and though very tempting, all of that was denied when he was informed his mother wasn't welcomed back. Of course, his father was displeased by this, but he didn't drag the boy back. Rather he instead chose to torment the boy for his decision. Despite the boys pleas, his father had a curse cast onto his mother. One of which slowly and surely sapped her life away, a curse only he could remove and it was a curse that spread as well, from one person to another that was a blood relative ie Ken. This curse could only be removed when the caster no longer had any kind of magical power to feed into the spell. Ie, for Ken to get the curse off, he had to be able to either remove his father's magic or kill him.
Infuriated by this Ken tried to get his father to remove the curse, but nothing he did worked. Even when he said he'd go with the man, the father denied him, saying he had to learn his lesson first. He'd only accept Ken into his arms, after his mother had succumbed or on the day Ken genuinely fell to his knees begging for mercy and forgiveness.
Unable to do anything about this, Ken did everything he could to save his mother. He studied harder, trained harder and pushed himself daily to improve and get stronger. He's gone to all sorts of healers and spell casters, yet none of them can remove this curse, not without risking his mothers life. While things have been looking dark for him, Ken hasn't given up in the least. If anything he's been fighting harder, despite what his laid back personality may make you think.
During the time his mother was in the hospital, he found that the amount of money his father offered to pay for her, was only for the initial treatment. Desperate for more money, he ended up joining a dark guild (he didn't join the guild his mother was in due to a feeling of hatred towards them, as he believes the guild failed in protecting his mother). This guild gave him the jobs he needed to get by, even if a lot of them were unsavory. If anything though, this guild as well as his situation matured him far faster than any other child. He worked at this guild since he was fourteen, at first doing small jobs but only taking tougher ones as time went on and as he improved his magical skill.
Around the age of 18 he became a powerful wizard, one that was rather known in the dark guild community. Despite his success here, he didn't remain with them, for his mother had found out his second job was in fact with a dark guild rather than a legal guild like he had been telling her. The amount of scolding and genuine disappointment, made Ken feel wretched, with that he quit the dark guild, and taking the last of his money he moved (with his mother) to a different location for a chance to start over.
Now he's been searching for a new, legal guild to join to make his mother proud, all while making sure he can improve his magical abilities. For he is fully aware he has a long way to go before he can even think about saving his mother as well as himself from his families curse.
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