Kamui

Personality

Kamui tends to believe the best in people, and more often than not that comes around to bite him in the ass. Being the eldest of three siblings, one extremely timid and one a devious obnoxious little shithole, he's far more mature than his years. He's often the voice of reason among his companions. (True lawful) A little bit of a stickler for the rules. Typically appears cool and collected, but underneath is a warm heart of compassion and a strong sense of duty and protectiveness. He's not above sacrificing himself for his friends if the need arises. Regardless of whatever is thrown in his way, there's a stalwart loyalty in him that never goes away. Though he's often quiet and typically unnoticed in a discussion, he's a good listener and always contributes meaningfully to a conversation — unless it's to take a humorous jab at his friends.

While his clan is known for its warriors, Kamui conversely does not like "fighting for the sake of fighting", and highly disapproves of senseless killing. As a pacifist at heart, he believes strongly in his uncle's ideals that the strongest win wars without fighting, and power should be used to protect the peace. That isn't to say he isn't strong however; he frequently comes out on top in his clan's tests of strength, and is a master of martial arts — both armed and unarmed. While as a draukyn, he is unable to project aura to perform magic, he is unusually adept in recognizing magic being used, and visualizing auras, as well as manipulating his own aura to augment his physical abilities, strengths much of his clan has discarded and forgotten. 

He likes to spend his alone time meditating, and dislikes sweet things. Even though he's a desert native, he prefers the cold to the heat, but is hardly bothered by extreme temperatures. 

There is a person he is searching for, but he doesn't know whether it's merely for closure or if his greatest wish is to have that person in his life again. 

Profile

Kamui Ryuunosuke is the firstborn son of his tribe's leader, Mikoto Ryuunosuke of the Black Thunder. As such, he's expected to uphold all the tribe values and such, and of course, be the strongest in the family. Unfortunately, his views are very much different from his father's, and in the extremely patriarchal society of his tribe he's more often than not scrutinized for standing up for his sister. It was his sister who taught him how to use his aura like so, and he still has doubts about going to attend Areshia Academy and leaving her behind. He's always threatened by his asshole of a little brother, who actually does share his father's views and could upset his whole goal of making his tribe a better community. 

Between him, his younger brother, and his younger sister, he's the least chaotic of the three, no doubt because of his eldest-brother status. As a child, he was favored by both his father and uncle, his father for his strength and his uncle for his kindness. Because his uncle didn't marry (shhh, he's gay), he was raised to be the next tribe leader. As an advocate against the infighting between the Draukyrn tribes, for women's rights, and equal opportunity, Ieyasu was far from popular amongst the voices that mattered in his tribe, and especially not with Mikoto. 

After his father's plot to usurp leadership of the plan ended in partial failure, his mother divorced and left his father, leaving him to be half a functioning parent for his siblings at only nine years old. Kazuro was four, and Shira was barely one when Celenne left the household. While this served only to create friction between him and Kazuro, he grew up to be very close with his younger sister. All the while, his father tried to force him to give up his uncle's views– claiming him to be "soft" and "weak" and "misguided about the world". As Kamui matured, he would speak out more and more against his father– but never once truly disobeying him. 

When Kamui was invited to study at Areshia Academy under scholarship, ordinarily, he would never accept, as he believed his sister to depend on him. However he was ordered to by his father, under the pretense of letting him see the outside world, and that he'd better come back stronger, or else he'd wasted the time and education spent on him. It was actually a ploy to get him out of his hair, and separate him from his sister. There, he would meet some of his closest friends: Alina, the younger princess of Yuelin, Tsumiyuna, Alina's cousin who was more often than not getting the group into trouble, (and he'd never admit this,) Rowan, the heir of Silver Frost. 

As an Aura Guardian, he believes strongly in the organization's ideals to uphold peace, justice, and stability within the region. While he was a lower ranked member, he believed the organization was doing exactly that, but as an Elite, in near-leadership of the Guardians, his beliefs are shaken somewhat, especially after the Nightshade case, and current events surrounding Team Shadow and the former princess hiring them as mercenaries in her war to reclaim the throne.

Relationships

• Alina
  • Alina was Kamui's closest friend during their academy days. While it could be said it was partially because she reminded him of his sister, he denies it is because of that that he's so drawn to her. She was too fight-happy, chaos seeking, and didn't have a care in the world as to what the world thought of her. To Kamui, she's the light of his life, and he would do anything to see her happy.
  • However, at the same time, he's mindful of the gap between them, as she's a princess of Yuelin, and he's only the heir of a tribe of his clan. Logically, it wasn't a very big gap, and Alina didn't seem to care, but it always felt present to him. On rare occasions, he could see a vulnerable side to her, something that she didn't show anyone else. But it was mere moments, flickers in time, before she was back to the confident (shitposter) self she always was.
  • The first time he had his heart broken was when Alina mentioned offhandedly that she was asexual after getting harassed by a guy at a nightclub. He hadn't realized that he was in love until he realized he had no chance with her at all. He resolved to still stand at her side though– regardless if they could be together, he could still always support her as a friend, right?
  • The second time he had his heart broken, was when she was said to have died in the Areshia Academy fire. Maybe it was a pipe dream, but he chose to believe that she was out there somewhere, as her body was never found. 
• Tsumiyuna
  • Two peas in a pod with Alina, wherever one was found, the other was probably close by. He became close friends with Alina's magi cousin by association, and more often than not was on the receiving end of her pranks and bullying. She finds his lack of resistance to magic hilarious, as something as minor as the equivalent of a flick left a bruise for days.
  • For a while, she used Kamui as a means to get closer to Rowan, who she'd been interested in, but ultimately didn't pursue the relationship because Rowan wasn't interested in return.
  • As he struggled with his feelings for Alina, Yuna became a close confidant of his. Despite the fact that she'd still bully him endlessly over not confessing his feelings, she still supports him and for a while after Alina's apparent passing, she was his emotional (and physical) support friend.
  • While the two have grown apart a bit as time went on and both moved on, they're still close enough for Yuna to bend the rules and slip information Kamui doesn't have the clearance to see to him. She also frequently doesn't give a rat's ass about budget and existing assignments and sends her friends to help each other on their missions. More than a few times, it's saved Kamui from a sticky situation. 
• Rowan
  • Friendly rivals; constantly butting heads and bickering. Most likely hatefucking. Once upon a time they used to be paired together often in squads; they've grown a bit distant after both becoming Elites, with Rowan constantly being away on missions. 
• Lenn
  • aaaa
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  • okay but actually aaaaaaaaaaaaa
  • its trauma time babey
  • theres too much to unpack so I'll just stick it in a spoiler 
  • • At first, Kamui's not too sure what to think about Lenn. He does all the wrong things for the right reasons, and that mildly infuriates him because it open up a whole can of worms on morality and righteousness that he doesn't quite want to address. He hates the fact that Lenn's first instinct to problems is to kill or otherwise remove those that are in the way, but in the end, he agrees that much of his reasoning is right. 
    • When they're forced to work together, Kamui quickly discovers that even though he and Alina share no surface similarities, they feel the same to be with. However no matter how he tries, Lenn seems to only keep him at arm's length– any attempts, overt or covert, to learn more about the assassin are instantly shut down. 
    • Lenn on the other hand holds a bit of resentment towards Kamui and the rest of his friends for what he perceives as abandoning him. But mostly fear, that he won't be accepted if they find out who he once was. 
    • It's not until Lenn accidentally falls asleep in Kamui's presence that he begrudgingly starts to open up, and Kamui grows to respect him through that. and he might be falling for him. he's not gay, right? crisis 2.0 when he finds out that Lenn is– or was born, a woman. With this he thinks he has enough evidence to confront Lenn, and ask if he's Alina. 
    • "I told you already. Princess Alina died by my hand. 
      
      What's left in this body is nothing more than a hollow shadow. 
      
      She is not me, and I am not her. Do not call me a woman again or I will kill you." 
    • For a period of time as Lenn cuts himself off from the rest of the Aura Guardians, Kamui's once again not sure what to think. Lenn had changed so much from Alina, but he still has to acknowledge that he still has feelings for him. 
      • Yuna: Moron
      • Kamui: Say that again, Chibi? 
      •  Yuna: I said, you're a fucking moron. And I'm fucking blind. Lenn hasn't changed at all since back then. He's just damn good at hiding his feelings. And I guess he had to be, given how he grew up.
    • At Yuna's encouragement  bullying Kamui confesses to Lenn, who takes it rather flatly. He's not interested in a romantic or sexual relationship, but he doesn't deny that the idea of being partners in life appeals to him. And at Kamui's encouragement, he reconnects with each of his former friends. 
    • all is well that ends well! /j
    • aka this is entering true spoiler territory :)
    • Lenn... honestly uses Kamui as a bit of an emotional crutch because he has too much™️ going on and keeping secrets while not lying is hard™️ but telling people the truth is harder™️. He's one of the only people that has ever witnessed Lenn breaking down.
• Fayori 
  • flirts with kamui endlessly. 
• Emerald
  • Kamui always felt Princess Emerald was a league above him when they were in the academy, even if Alina roped her sister into hanging out with "her and the nerds" (affectionate).  
  • It's not until Emerald associates with the Aura Guardians as both a temporary member and their client that Kamui gets close to her, and honestly? is slightly terrified at Emerald's strength and intelligence. Emerald however, immediately identified him, the Avrian siblings, and Yuna as ones most likely to help in her plans. 
  • Kamui may not be able to bully yuna, but he's definitely able to bully emerald. 

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