Kai Williams Dossier
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kasihyaAnother Fiction Writing assignment. I basically just expanded and tweaked the character sheet I have in my Rift World Book so that he could be in New York, not Vespucci.
Kaibutsu Williams (known as Kai)
Birthday: November 11th
Age: Twenty
Ethnicity: Japanese-Irish
Place of Birth: Nagoya, Japan
Appearance: oval face, 5'11'', stringy long hair, gangly and awkwardly proportioned, big hands and feet, hooked nose, acne scars on his cheeks, very white teeth, still looks like he could be in high school.
Clothing: baggy jeans, usually ripped in the knees and bottom hems from overuse, Converse sneakers, geeky black t-shirts, and one of several sweaters or cardigans (never sweatshirts) because the antique shop is always cold regardless of the season.
Place of Residence: Gallows Hill, which is located in Ulster County, in a small house off of Main Street behind the restaurant run by Mr. Bookman. He lives with his Aunt Althea and Uncle Jerome. His room is in the attic, because the house really only has one full floor and a basement. At the attic level, there is Kai's bedroom, the guest bedroom that used to belong to his sister Hana, and a small landing. On the lower level is his aunt and uncle's bedroom, the living room, a bathroom, and a combination kitchen/dining room.
Atheist, his aunt and uncle stopped bringing him to church when he was thirteen.
Family: Kai lives with an older couple approaching retirement, who are unrelated to him. He has an older sister, Hana, who is twenty-four and moved to Dublin with her fiancé, Jethro, a year and a half ago. They were both born in Japan. Their father taught English to businessmen, and their mother stayed at home. When Kai was three and Hana was seven, they moved to Cascadia or somewhere. Kai moved out of his parents' house after he dropped out of college, and now lives with Althea and Jerome Huntington, renting out their attic and paying part of his rent in cleaning and cooking services.
Hana: He and Hana have a very close relationship, as she's been his only friend for most of his life, but her leaving for college and then moving to Ireland crushed him more than a little. Despite having to wait a year to start school because she needed to learn English, his older sister fared much better than he did, and she would try to protect him and bring him along with her friends. They're polar opposites: she went to college for business and works at a company that sells bus tours of Dublin, she's very outgoing, proactive, business-minded, and enjoys taking care of people in a distant, impersonal way.
Jethro: Hana's fiancé, an amiable, friendly person; boisterous, booming, going to be a fantastic gym teacher beloved by even the non-athletic kids once he can find a school that's not laying off teachers rather than hiring them. Kai considers Jethro an older brother, and I think the familial feeling is mutual. Jethro thinks he's whacked, but with potential to be a really good writer or artist, something creative, so he encourages him to talk about his various creations, thus endearing himself to Kai.
Sebastian Edwards: the crazy old man who runs the antique store. In his seventies, still spry, but very superstitious and being around Kai, who talks to himself and to the inanimate objects he personifies, probably makes it worse.
Speaking: Kai speaks with a stutter, which, in addition to naturally being introverted, made it difficult for him to make friends in elementary school. The first person he considered a friend was the speech therapist at school that he saw three times a week. It's not as severe as it used to be, but the thought of needing to speak in front of anyone who isn't his family or Mr. Edwards still makes him very nervous.
School Experience: He started getting actually teased for it, as opposed to simply left alone, in middle school. That was about the time he started reading constantly, his favorites being books where someone from the real world would get swept into a fantasy world (like the Chronicles of Narnia, or Alice in Wonderland). He had a few acquaintances in middle school, but not the sort of people he would invite over to his house or who would invite him over. He always had his head down, rarely spoke in class unless called upon, and skipped lunch to go read or do homework in the library starting in sixth grade and continuing throughout secondary school.
After-Dark Carnival: Eventually, he gave up on making friends, and instead made them up. He turned the whole town in his mind into a vivid dreamscape which he populated with 'interesting people'. Sometimes they would be based on real people; for example, he pretends that the girls who made fun of him in high school are a posse of gorgon-like creatures with snakes for hair, and no faces, just gaping mouths. It's basically a version of having imaginary friends that's gotten way out of hand and gone on far too long; sort of a cross between world building and wish fulfillment. In his head, he's the literal center of the universe, with everyone under his control and either adoring him or fearing him, but either way, he gets respect and can speak without stuttering. The characters he creates are unrealistic, and for the most part fall into simple stereotypes, because he doesn't really understand other people or why they behave the way they do. For example, the Gorgon Girls are vapid, bitchy characters who hate mindlessly, because from his perspective that's all they are.
Macchi-Macchi: Kai's first imaginary friend, based on a math teacher he particularly liked. Wears a fox mask, a wide-brimmed hat, and a black-and-grey kimono.
College and Work: He did graduate high school, and tried attending community college for a year before dropping out — nothing got better in college, and he was so wrapped up in his mental universe that he had no idea what he was going to do with a college degree anyway. So he went back home and started to work at the antique shop next to the library. The quiet and dusty inactivity there suit him, and the work isn't mentally taxing — although he's terrified of the customers. He doesn't have a very lucrative future, although he is able to pay rent to his aunt and uncle so that he's not just mooching off of them. Sebastian likes him well enough, and he'll probably take over the store once Sebastian goes entirely round the bend.
Hobbies: painting pictures of his carnival and characters; building models of that world; reading; sorting things. He likes to sort things and crosses the line from detail-oriented to detail-obsessed. He can focus on one thing for long periods of time and won't stop until he's done, resulting in very detailed, if not brilliant, paintings in stacks all over his floor and hanging on his walls.
Likes mirrors, frames, Picasso, Tarot cards (he collects Tarot decks), and horror movies.
Kaibutsu Williams (known as Kai)
Birthday: November 11th
Age: Twenty
Ethnicity: Japanese-Irish
Place of Birth: Nagoya, Japan
Appearance: oval face, 5'11'', stringy long hair, gangly and awkwardly proportioned, big hands and feet, hooked nose, acne scars on his cheeks, very white teeth, still looks like he could be in high school.
Clothing: baggy jeans, usually ripped in the knees and bottom hems from overuse, Converse sneakers, geeky black t-shirts, and one of several sweaters or cardigans (never sweatshirts) because the antique shop is always cold regardless of the season.
Place of Residence: Gallows Hill, which is located in Ulster County, in a small house off of Main Street behind the restaurant run by Mr. Bookman. He lives with his Aunt Althea and Uncle Jerome. His room is in the attic, because the house really only has one full floor and a basement. At the attic level, there is Kai's bedroom, the guest bedroom that used to belong to his sister Hana, and a small landing. On the lower level is his aunt and uncle's bedroom, the living room, a bathroom, and a combination kitchen/dining room.
Atheist, his aunt and uncle stopped bringing him to church when he was thirteen.
Family: Kai lives with an older couple approaching retirement, who are unrelated to him. He has an older sister, Hana, who is twenty-four and moved to Dublin with her fiancé, Jethro, a year and a half ago. They were both born in Japan. Their father taught English to businessmen, and their mother stayed at home. When Kai was three and Hana was seven, they moved to Cascadia or somewhere. Kai moved out of his parents' house after he dropped out of college, and now lives with Althea and Jerome Huntington, renting out their attic and paying part of his rent in cleaning and cooking services.
Hana: He and Hana have a very close relationship, as she's been his only friend for most of his life, but her leaving for college and then moving to Ireland crushed him more than a little. Despite having to wait a year to start school because she needed to learn English, his older sister fared much better than he did, and she would try to protect him and bring him along with her friends. They're polar opposites: she went to college for business and works at a company that sells bus tours of Dublin, she's very outgoing, proactive, business-minded, and enjoys taking care of people in a distant, impersonal way.
Jethro: Hana's fiancé, an amiable, friendly person; boisterous, booming, going to be a fantastic gym teacher beloved by even the non-athletic kids once he can find a school that's not laying off teachers rather than hiring them. Kai considers Jethro an older brother, and I think the familial feeling is mutual. Jethro thinks he's whacked, but with potential to be a really good writer or artist, something creative, so he encourages him to talk about his various creations, thus endearing himself to Kai.
Sebastian Edwards: the crazy old man who runs the antique store. In his seventies, still spry, but very superstitious and being around Kai, who talks to himself and to the inanimate objects he personifies, probably makes it worse.
Speaking: Kai speaks with a stutter, which, in addition to naturally being introverted, made it difficult for him to make friends in elementary school. The first person he considered a friend was the speech therapist at school that he saw three times a week. It's not as severe as it used to be, but the thought of needing to speak in front of anyone who isn't his family or Mr. Edwards still makes him very nervous.
School Experience: He started getting actually teased for it, as opposed to simply left alone, in middle school. That was about the time he started reading constantly, his favorites being books where someone from the real world would get swept into a fantasy world (like the Chronicles of Narnia, or Alice in Wonderland). He had a few acquaintances in middle school, but not the sort of people he would invite over to his house or who would invite him over. He always had his head down, rarely spoke in class unless called upon, and skipped lunch to go read or do homework in the library starting in sixth grade and continuing throughout secondary school.
After-Dark Carnival: Eventually, he gave up on making friends, and instead made them up. He turned the whole town in his mind into a vivid dreamscape which he populated with 'interesting people'. Sometimes they would be based on real people; for example, he pretends that the girls who made fun of him in high school are a posse of gorgon-like creatures with snakes for hair, and no faces, just gaping mouths. It's basically a version of having imaginary friends that's gotten way out of hand and gone on far too long; sort of a cross between world building and wish fulfillment. In his head, he's the literal center of the universe, with everyone under his control and either adoring him or fearing him, but either way, he gets respect and can speak without stuttering. The characters he creates are unrealistic, and for the most part fall into simple stereotypes, because he doesn't really understand other people or why they behave the way they do. For example, the Gorgon Girls are vapid, bitchy characters who hate mindlessly, because from his perspective that's all they are.
Macchi-Macchi: Kai's first imaginary friend, based on a math teacher he particularly liked. Wears a fox mask, a wide-brimmed hat, and a black-and-grey kimono.
College and Work: He did graduate high school, and tried attending community college for a year before dropping out — nothing got better in college, and he was so wrapped up in his mental universe that he had no idea what he was going to do with a college degree anyway. So he went back home and started to work at the antique shop next to the library. The quiet and dusty inactivity there suit him, and the work isn't mentally taxing — although he's terrified of the customers. He doesn't have a very lucrative future, although he is able to pay rent to his aunt and uncle so that he's not just mooching off of them. Sebastian likes him well enough, and he'll probably take over the store once Sebastian goes entirely round the bend.
Hobbies: painting pictures of his carnival and characters; building models of that world; reading; sorting things. He likes to sort things and crosses the line from detail-oriented to detail-obsessed. He can focus on one thing for long periods of time and won't stop until he's done, resulting in very detailed, if not brilliant, paintings in stacks all over his floor and hanging on his walls.
Likes mirrors, frames, Picasso, Tarot cards (he collects Tarot decks), and horror movies.
