Kajiyashiki Kei 鍛冶屋敷 ケイ

Name Meaning - "black smith mansion," phonetic name
Gender - male
Ethnicity - Japanese
Origin - Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Occupation - mortician/grief counselor (for supernatural-related deaths), part time camera store clerk, aspiring photographer
Alignment - Neutral Good

Appearance
Height - 5'5''
Body Type - kinda rectangular
Hair Style - black, short, straight
Eyes - dark brown

Clothing Style: prefers shorts and tshirts with an open button down over them (Hawaiian shirts in the summer, flannel in the winter). He also prefers sandals, but will wear sneakers or boots in the wintertime.

Other Appearance notes: usually has a goatee, sometimes a bit of a mustache

Inventory

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Personaliy Profiling

MBTI: ESFJ
Enneagram: 926
Zodiac: Taurus Sun
Vice: Ignorance
Virtue: Reliability

Associations

Color(s): blue, orange
Animal:
Flower:
Gem/Metal:
Element: earth
Season/Weather:
Scent:
Instrument: accoustic guitar
RPG Class: Fighter,
WoD Splat: Hunter: the Vigil
Magnus Archives Entity: The Eye

Playlist

  • Mudgikk [Cwondo]
  • After Dark [Asian Kungfu Generation]

Personality:

Usually easy-going. A friendly guy who is happy to hang out or help out any time. He does his best to be reliable, and usually is, but worries that he's not. General look and personality make him seem a little younger than he is.

Habits:

Closes his eyes when thinking, forms his fingers like he's framing a picture when he wants to try to focus on something far away (this actually helps him see ghosts better),

Values

Politics: tends to support Constitutional Democratic Party/Rikken Minshutou (CDP)
Religion: typical Japanese combination of Shinto & Buddhist
General Philosophy:

Abilities

  • Ghost Vision: he can see ghosts as well as most people attunded to the supernatural and better than people with his same level of spiritual powers.
  • Ghost Photography: his specific type of ghost vision allows him to take relatively clear photos of supernatural phenomenon.
  • Summoning the Corporeal Soul: he has the relatively rare ability to call to a deceased person's "corporeal" soul, the small piece that is still attached to their body. While they does not retain personality, consciousness, memories, or any of the like, the bodies do retain muscle memory and can be commanded to "heal" even after death. Kei uses this ability mostly to prepare bodies for wakes. The grasp of this part of the soul on the body is very tennuous.

Likes

  • Spring and summer weather
  • The feeling of finally being able to buy something he was saving for
  • Tropical fruit

Hobbies:

  • Photography
  • Cooking
  • Playing guitar
  • Has a small collection of vinyl records

Dislikes

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Challenges

  • Trying to raise Hifumi as a "single dad"
  • Working several part time jobs instead of a full time job

Relationships

  • Hachikuji Mamoru & Hirona: Kei and Mamoru were old high school friends, and they remained friends after Mamoru and Hirona started dating and eventually married. Kei was made the godparent of the Hachikuji children as soon as Nana was born.
  • Hachikuji Nana & Shigoro:
  • Hachikuji Hifumi: Kei is Hifumi's legal guardian, although he's hesitant to take on the role of an actual father figure (he felt he would be overstepping his bounds doing that with her older siblings, but with Hifumi, he isn't so sure). He is very patient with Hifumi, but not confident in his child-raising practices. Hifumi considers him a close uncle, and although she loves him like family, she is worried about trusting him with her problems.
  • Sagyo Junna:

History

Can They

  • Cook: yes
  • Ride a bike: yes
  • Drive: yes
  • Swim: yes
  • Do math (well): yes
  • Write legibly: yes
  • Draw well: yes
  • Sing well: no
  • Play a musical instrument: knows some basic guitar chords
  • Speak/read/write more than one language: Native Japanese speaker, English is passable

Do They

  • Have any pets: no
  • Have proper ID/a passport/birth certificate: yes
  • Have a college degree: yes

Have They

  • Traveled to other countries: no
  • Had any major injuries/illnesses: no
  • Committed any crimes: no
  • Killed a human: no
  • Killed/exorcised a supernatural entity: no
  • Lost someone important to them: yes (Hachikuji Mamoru & Hachikuji Hirona)
  • Been in a romantic relationship before canon: yes
  • Inspired any myths/urban legends: no

Trivia

  • Learned the mortician trade from a member of the Takara family
  • He hadn't considered it until after Mamoru and Hirona passed; he wanted to prevent others from having to see their loved ones' bodies in such terrible states
  • He works at a photographer and camera store clerk and also collects cameras (he wishes he could have a dark room at home)
  • For some reason, customers at the camera store always go to him specifically to get the ghosts out of their photos (he cannot get the ghosts out of their photos without photo editing software)
  • Transitioned in his late twenties
  • Even though he loves tropical fruit, but he rarely buys it because of the cost
  • He can play guitar and ukelele
  • He smoked for a few years before Mamoru and Hirona passed but quit shortly after when he became the guardian of the Hachikuji siblings