HM: Kazu

✖ GET OUT THE WAY ✖
"Ain't no fucking rest for the wicked~"

BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: Kazu
SEX: Male
AGE: 100
APPEARS: 19 going on 20
DOB: December 30th, 1920
DEATH: October 2nd, 1940
HEIGHT: 6'4" | 193 cm
( w/boots: 6'5" | 196 cm )
WEIGHT: 200± lbs | 90± kg
SPECIES: Serpentine Incubus
ETHNICITY: German
TOWER/ROLE: Moon Tower Tutor

NOTABLE FEATURES:
✖ EYES: Amber coloured. Black slit pupils. His left eye has 3 gashes through it. Very dark and tired looking with permanent eyeliner. A black shade looms over them.
✖ EARS: Long and pointed elfin-like ears with a violet tint at the tips. Left ear has 4 black studs with chains, right ear has 2 small black hoops.
✖ TATTOOS: Black snake-chain branding around his neck and on his torso that dives below his waistline and curves around his thighs.
✖ NAILS: Permanently black and pointed. Same thickness and growth as human nails but will always grow into claw points.
✖ MOUTH: Venomous snake fangs, sharp pointed teeth, and a split tongue that can stretch as far as the tips of his fingers.
✖ WINGS: 6'6" | 198 cm (width) and scaly. Usually hidden in the wing slot dimensions in his back. The inside of each slot is a squishy scaled trench.
✖ ARMS-HANDS: Wears a black vambrace and rubberbands on the right and wraps up his left with bandages from forearm to knuckles for archery purposes.
✖ CLOTHES: Favourite outfit is red-violet leather-padded pants. Almost always walks around shirtless unless it's cold. Ties a black cloth tight around his hips.
✖ HAIR: Butt-level blond hair that's usually tied up, be it a low or high ponytail. Bangs are cut messy with long strips that come over his ears and over his collarbones.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
PERSONALITY:
[ OBNOXIOUS | CONTROLLING | DOMINANT | WITTY | FLIRTATIOUS | GRUMPY | PLAYFUL | HAUGHTY | PERVERTED | PERFECTIONIST | MELODRAMATIC | AGGRESSIVE ]
Kazu prides himself on being an antagonistic tutor who is generally viscous and condescending. Upon first meeting him, he may outright criticize you or wait to see how you respond to flak before going any further with his ill-willed antics. Depending on the person's gender, age, height, and species, he may range anywhere from a straight up bully, brooding and tetchy, uncomfortable creepy, or just playfully annoying. He may sometimes contradict himself, but he always knows how to turn his words around so that he's the justified one in the end. Sometimes he means no harm and is just trying to have fun by teasing you and, other times, he intends for you to look back on your past and confide in him your insecurities to manipulate from then on. Oddly enough, he tends to make friends with most children since they don't seem to be fazed by his maniacal logic. As a friend, don't expect any less mocking but increased chances of being touched, forced sharing, or getting into heaps of trouble. He's very street smart and seems to know a great deal of history alongside terminology and German grammar but lacks knowledge of the modern setting Hiems mansion seemingly takes place in and certain book smarts, specifically the spelling of English and certain phrases and slang. He is an ENTJ. He generally just enjoys getting on everybody's nerves.

LIKES:
✖ Lifting weights and practicing archery at the Training Field; alternately, putting his skills to the test by hunting in the forest surrounding the mansion
✖ Pickled baby snakes, black licorice, cherries, strawberries, apples, apple juice, sweets and chocolate, black coffee, steak, cat and human (especially their blood and eyeballs),
every meat imaginable, cheesy foods, mostly anything with bread or potatoes, beer, moonshine, bacon and eggs, most vegetables, caramel anything, every type cake
✖ Fitted sweatpants and slim-fit jeans ranging from black to light grey, knee-high socks (hates any other length), boots (dislikes any other form of footwear)
✖ Walking around shirtless during the summertime; otherwise, wearing very thin material t-shirts, v-necks, and tank tops
✖ Tying his hair up more than leaving it down; his hair length in general (he claims it's comforting)
✖ Playing FPS and sport video games and watching Netflix movies on his PS3
✖ Swimming in the lake (except when those pesty lake creatures touch him)
✖ Weather ranging anywhere from room temperature to mildly hot
✖ Concocting potions, reading about them, making recipes, etc.
✖ Secretly loves Italian food, but will never admit it
✖ Sleeping in the rafters and in trees
✖ Snakes (collects them), bunnies
✖ Smoking every once in a while

DISLIKES:
✖ Native English speakers speaking incorrect English, especially if on purpose; it confuses him and makes him question whether he's speaking correct English or not
✖ Milk, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, fast food, Mexican food, pre-made food, fish, most tea, cereal, rice, love-hate relationship with chips/crisps
✖ Humans in the mansion (he doesn't particularly hate humans but thinks they're generally ignorant)
✖ Sea creatures, birds, and anything with hooves (more sight and sound, not as in food)
✖ Sudden or repeated flashes of light (ie cameras or strobe lights)
✖ Streets, city life, and cars (he, however, knows how to drive)
✖ Public displays of affection, be it others' or himself
✖ Anyone who isn't his friend touching him or his stuff
✖ Straight jackets or being confined in a small area
✖ Weather that's too hot or even vaguely cold
✖ The other towers and the guests inhabiting them
✖ Hitler, WWII/the Holocaust, and being called a Nazi

HISTORY:
SHORT & SWEET: Born Austin Keller in holocaust Germany, he grew up as a brat of a child who would hurt his classmates and eventually got sent to "child rehabilitation", which was a sheep-suit name for an insane asylum. When he was meant to be released, the asylum couldn't contact his home considering everyone had fled the town. Because of this, he was drafted into war under Nazi government, making any orphans that met the requirements a soldier. As he continued his torturous antics, he would shoot people on his own side before he was caught and killed by gunshot. He was later recruited to hell where he spawned (spent at most 70 years in hell) before he was made a demon and materialized back here as who he'd define as his new self, Kazu.
LONG & DETAILED: Austin Keller
SUMMED UP: Birth to school days (1920-1936) > mental institute (1936-1939) > soldier until death (1939-1940).

After that comes the story of Sykes.
SHORT & SWEET: After materializing back on earth as a demon, he went out and did exactly what he was supposed to do: slay the damned to hell. During this, he took pity on a boy named Michael Sykes and befriended the human. Sykes provided him with English tutoring, food, clothing, and much more. About two years pass with the human before the boy was killed in a hate crime, leaving the demon lost. This is how he found himself in the helpless fog that brought him to Hiems. He has a lot of guilt built up inside him regarding the boy's death and values what many possessions he has left of him greatly (video game console, clothes, piercings, etc).
LONG & DETAILED: The Tale of Sykes
SUMMED UP: 19 ¾ years human on earth (1920-1940) > 70 years human in hell (1940-2010) > 2 years demon with Sykes (2010-2012) > 4+ years demon in Hiems (2012-2015+).

POWERS:
Kazu's main ability can be categorized as spirit manipulation. He's able to summon paranormal entities and control them through hand movements, eye contact, and general gestures. There are three types of spiritual phenomena he can command-

✖ Bobble-headed Ghouls: These ghosts are black apparitions with white eyes and mouths that rise from cracks in the ground. He only has three of these and while they can each switch between emotions, most the time two of them are smiling and laughing and the third is frowning and weeping. They are like ropes as they're able to push, pull, pick up, and throw. Anything less than his own weight appears weightless to the ghouls, so anything over that cannot be lassoed around (he himself is not weightless to them, however). They can only travel as far as his eye can see, so if he were to try to use them to grab someone who turned around the end of a hall, they would forbid it. He uses these as extra hands and are the most commonly used power amongst his other abilities.
✖ Black Mambas: These are much similar to the ghouls in that they arise from cracks in the ground and travel in wisps. The black mambas are ghost snakes that can constrict and nip at you. The nips are nonvenomous but feel like pinches and can sometimes leave actual snake bites. He mainly uses these to scare people.
✖ Henchmen: The henchmen are humanoid silhouettes that travel by gliding and sometimes by walking on all fours. These ghosts are only there to rise from the floor when he is on the verge of death, to take him to hell. He may sometimes talk to them since they serve of little to no use.

✖ Other: Aforementioned abilities include flight with the use of his wings and possession of venomous fangs. Upon contact with an open wound or being bitten, depending on the amount of venom released, can cause stinging and irritability before numbness takes its course and attempts nerve failure (temporary paralysis, death if enough is injected in a vital area). Incubus abilities are withheld...
MISCELLANEOUS
✖ He has a strong, dramatic voice with a harsh German accent. He speaks, writes, and reads both German and Hiemsian but is terribly bad at reading and writing English. With how old he is, only two years prior to joining Hiems has he been learning to speak English. Sometimes speaks in broken English, saying "is" instead of "it's" or uses progressive tense as in "Why would I be thinking this?" or "What are you meaning?". He doesn't understand some phrases, puns, idioms, etc.
✖ Has bloodlust, something that makes him go haywire upon smelling humanoid blood that'll entice him to play with or injure the victim. To make up for bad eyesight, he has a heightened sense of smell, used for telling whom (or if someone) is near. He can remember someone's scent better by tasting them or their blood, so if he has the opportunity, he will most certainly take it for future reference.
✖ With serpentine eyes, his vision is admittedly poor (about the same semi-blurry vision you might get if you wore FX contacts). If he focuses enough, however, his vision is satisfactory. He only wears glasses when alone for reading and writing (doing tutor work, mostly).
✖ Has mild PTSD. Though he's able to conceal it quite well (since it's long after the incidents), this does not eliminate unwanted occurrences. See #1 here. Derives from the asylum he was kept in, war and his death, and waking up in a pit of fire. This results in night terrors and bad responses towards being confined or restricted, sudden or repeated flashes of light, and sounds akin to loud and sudden gunfire. He doesn't respond badly to fire, however.
✖ His elfin ears are expressive. Annoyance, lust, and downcast emotions cause them to droop. Anger, sudden noises, and alertness cause them to flick backwards. Joy, confidence, curiosity, and default mood cause them to point upwards. They flicker like a cat and are very sensitive.
✖ His inner organs and intestines are obsidian in colour and his blood is of a deep violet/magenta, making blush or heated hues of his skin light purple. His fingerprints are also unorthodox and spiral into a peculiar pattern not typical of humans.
✖ From having lived 70+ years in Lusorium (hell), his body has become naturally warm. This, however, doesn't keep him warm in the cold but rather subjects him to temperatures he isn't quite as used to.
✖ Owns a wooden bow that is his pride and joy. Thanks to Damian, by wearing a small crescent pin, his arrows can return back to him by a simple gesture of the hand.
✖ He is of the Baltic body type, which explains for why he isn't very hairy except for his arms and calves.
✖ Has a bullet wound inches below his right pelvic line on the crease of his thigh. It'll never disappear and he doesn't want you to see it.
✖ He'll often, and especially when he's happy, start chewing, even if there's nothing in his mouth to chew on.
✖ His wings shed exactly like a snake does, which is probably why he keeps them in his back most the time.
✖ Apparently (from past roleplays and headcanons), he naturally smells of dirt.

MIRROR-SELF
Mirror!Kazu acts like a delicate flower but also speaks with a forked tongue (hahaha)—for example, he'll speak with a calm and loving tone but his words will be threatening. He willingly attempts to kill Kazu, knowing it would kill himself. He's known to take gender swap potions, earning him the name Kuza. He is the biological father (along with Mirror!Razori [Amelie]) of who people typically consider Kazu's son, Alois. He's almost always calling others by hypocorisms such as dear, love, and darling. He looks exactly the same as his counterpart (save for being the flipped image) except he does not have pupils nor irises; just the blank whites of his eyes.

HEADCANONS

SONGS:
Theme: DOMINATE (R18+)
Faves: Nirvana, MSI, Rammstein, Arctic Monkeys, Iron Maiden, Accept, Metallica, Dream Theater

FACE CLAIM:

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