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OH LOOK THE REF I WAS SUPPOSED TO PUT UP LIKE FOUR MONTHS AGO.
First of all I apologize for much, much inactivity lately. Let’s just say that as soon as one thing worked itself out it was only the tip of the iceberg, and it’s been a real rough month for me. Things aren’t as good as they could be, but at least my art flow is starting to return again. And just in time because this final ref for Kai has been LONG overdue. I’ll probably be spamming you guys with some in depth refs of my characters that need them like this one, and sorry for it being so unbelievably long, but I’ve been developing him a whole lot throughout all of this and I hope I got everything down finally!
Anyway, without further ado, here’s Kai’s full reference and his whole deal in general~
Name: Kairos
Age: Probably around 500+ in human years
Title: The Oracle, Lord Kairos
Class: Unknown, though it’s guessed somewhere between a 1st and 2nd Class
Loyalty: Debatable (he does what he can for Nightmare and Wizeman, but he is a free thinker and understands that Wizeman is wrong at heart.)
Height: 7’2” (218cm)
Notable Relationships: Aura – romantic partner(:www.deviantart.com/art/Aura2-C… , Cosmos – sworn brother
Voice Actor of Choice: Liam O’Brien (speaking), Marko Saaresto (singing)
Bio: Kairos is known as ‘The Oracle’ due to his position in Nightmare’s Army, in which he uses his abilities of future sight to help Wizeman in decision and plan making. However, this was not his original purpose upon creation and fell into the role after his original abilities were proving too much to handle for him.
Kairos was originally created by Wizeman as a frontline soldier and given an unstable ability in an attempt to make a weapon of war that could be controlled as basically nothing but a puppet. But he was more of a trial and error creation to see if the ability could be controlled properly without backfire. He was given the power of Shadows, the essence of Nightmare and the Night Dimension as a whole and also created with the Ideya of Hope in an attempt for some kind of balance between the conflicting power.
For a while things ran smoothly and Kairos matured with a fairly good grip on his darkness, but it wasn’t long before he started displaying signs of hostility and obvious instability in both body and mind. When things got to the point he was prohibited to be around others due to him unable to identify allies from enemies, he was brought into Wizeman’s room and remained there for at least 10 years without any information regarding why. Though it was obvious when he was released again it was because Wizeman had been repairing the obvious scars in his mind and his overall insanity.
After his repair Kairos was no longer fit to fight on the front lines and instead was given the chance to work as an Oracle after obvious signs of future sight had developed through maturity (such as sudden episodes of witnessing future events and an inability to understand them, which would usually lead to him collapsing). Since the overwhelming power of his shadows had been repressed enough he was able to focus more on his new position, despite the fact he was painfully aware of the fact Wizeman was disappointed that he had lost a valuable mercenary. Hence why he is very overworked by Wizeman and always has been, because the god does it in an attempt to prove he’s worth not destroying completely and starting over.
In his current state it is obvious Kairos suffers from a number of mental problems due to his early life, such as anxiety and insomnia, and even as far as post-traumatic stress disorder because of his early life. He usually refrains from sleeping unless it’s absolutely vital and instead does work to pass the time, and he is usually very tired even when he doesn’t look it. And when he does fall asleep he usually doesn’t rest well due to the fact he suffers from awful Nightmares which are in fact either memories of his past ‘sins’ (as he refers to them), stress dreams about work or his future sight being affected by his shadows and showing him false timelines.
Personality: Kairos is easily an involuntary introvert. Due to his constantly being busy with his work for Wizeman and inability to have much leisure time, he doesn’t get to socialize with people beside other higher-ups over official matters. He is easily a dedicated and hard worker, but isn’t one at heart. Those who know his true self outside of his title understand he’s a very kind and approachable sort of person, albeit a little awkward. He has a tendency to worry over many things and sometimes even very pointless things, which is due to his anxiety troubles. He can make friends fairly easily but because of his whole situation he usually never has the chance to unless people approach him first. Kairos constantly puts people before himself and isn’t really good at looking after himself because of it, because he refuses to allow anyone to suffer like he did in his early life. He also presents himself in a very gentlemanly manner to everyone, whether he knows them well or not, and constantly uses it as a front to stop people from worrying about him.
Additional Notes:
Kairos doesn’t have an invisible/spirit instrument but he instead uses his voice to compensate, however people usually don’t hear it because he doesn’t like singing in public.
He was born covered in his ‘tattoos’ to symbolize not only his shadow abilities but also Wizeman’s ownership of him, which is why he usually wears a lot of concealing attire. He also feels very uncomfortable in his own skin because of them. His shadow abilities are very specific to himself, in the fact they take the form of the ‘ink’ in his tattoos. When he uses his shadow ability to fight his ink shifts around his body and can be used in a number of ways, such as flicked off in a projectile form, created as a coat or ‘second skin’ for armour purposes, or used to create his own weaponry –for example, he will command his ink to move down his arms and turn them into blades for either defence or offence.
If ordered to he will collect Ideya on the front lines despite how terrified he is of using his shadows. The way he does this is usually a combination of both attributes he controls, such as tapping into the ‘darkness’ of Visitors hearts that stem from memories and using it against them by creating a false reality and future. This is designed to make them surrender their hearts to complete emotional and mental desolation, which can sometimes be so effective and traumatic it will affect the Visitor even after they awaken. Using such a combination of abilities leaves him totally exhausted however and he usually has to recover, and if he’s disturbed during the process it can cause incredible damage to him. Which is why he was never partnered with anyone out on the battlefield and usually refuses to be around anyone else when he’s collecting –because god forbid if a fellow Nightmaren was caught in his field of altered reality.
Kairos is a strong believer in fate and the idea that you can’t change the future, which is both a hindrance and an advantage given his future sight. As in, if something good is going to happen he has something to look forward to, but if something awful is destined to happen he has no way of escaping it, so it will stress him out. His power can be used to see futures beyond his own as well, which means he is able to sense and see other’s timelines fairly easily.
Kairos’ crystal ball is something he has trouble functioning without on his bad days. He was given it when he was around a teenager by Wizeman in order to help clear his mind and focus his abilities so they wouldn’t run rampant in his mind and only end up exhausting him. Sometimes instead of sleeping he just rests with his crystal orb all for the longest time, in order to settle whatever worries, stresses and anxieties he has. Which doesn’t help much anyway, but it does allow him peace for at least a day or so.
Unlike many other Nightmaren, Kairos was created with his Persona and for all of his early life he never took it off his face. This was because his Persona was created to be a ‘blinding mask’ of sorts, which not only shielded him from becoming self-aware but also enhanced his understanding of his own senses. For the longest time he wasn’t even aware of the world around him and instead remained in darkness because of his Persona.
His original hair colour was black, but after going through his ‘repair’ it became white from the stress on his body and mind.
That about covers everything in general and if I’ve missed anything I’ll just edit this~
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