Killian Skyport

Peter Pan wrote:Name: Killian Skyport
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Birthday: 4/14
Sexuality: Straight
Special Characteristics: Nothing special. Slightly far-sighted and needs reading glasses.

Personality: Killian is a scholar first and foremost in all that he does, a man of learning and education rather than one of combat. He enjoys doing puzzles and reading mystery novels, and does so during free time in the guild hall. Altogether, one could see him relaxing with a complicated book before they'd see him on the field doing actual work. He's like a student in Lamia Scale academy rather than a guild mage. This impression is what makes him one of the more socially open people in the guild. He wants to make connections where he can, so people know him where he goes in the future. A life full of friends and favors is better than one without.

Socially speaking, he gets along with just about anyone who doesn't outright hate school. He's a nerdy guy who makes references to outdated fantasy and mystery novels in casual conversations. He's good with numbers and spelling, and while passionate about subjects like criminal investigation and dungeoneering, he lacks the innately compassionate nature found in most people who practice magic. He has a sort of robotic aura to him socially, cheerful and difficult to dissuade from otherwise, like he works on programmed responses, despite how genuine he tries to be. His ability to think inside and around the box make him excellent at deductive reasoning and problem solving. These traits allow Killian to learn things on his own, figuring things out by watching and thinking. It works on a lot of situations, from puzzles to people, and when paired with a borderline eidetic memory, he can come across as really creepy just because he heard someone say something about themselves a little too loudly at the table next to him.

On the field, he's a shockingly cooperative ally and comrade. While people might be iffy on teaming up with him on a job, since it probably feels like they're taking on an intern, he's actually very reliable, and a lot of his partners would definitely recommend him to others. This is in part due to his detached emotions, and the rest due to his tactic-mindedness in encounters. He analyzes the situation, the environment, the known and the unknowns, asks very brief questions if they matter, and he takes action, no matter how stressful the situation has become. This process allows him to determine the best way to go about achieving their goals, and he can lead the team to victory, or at least most efficiently follow orders.

His best position in a battle is as the tactician or leader, because his magic allows him to concentrate on strategy and problem solving, which are both things he's good at. That said, it does make him a priority target, which he uses Celestial Spirits to fend off, since they can soak up a lot of aggro by virtue of being summons. When that strategy doesn't work, he's willing to take a more active role in combat, either equipping a weapon or resorting to his meager hand-to-hand skills. This is mostly to make the foes think he is distracted from thinking, wherein he'll be allowing his Celestial Spirits do all the analyzing for him, and come up with suggestions that he can sift through and utilize as he deems appropriate. When it comes to the success of the job and the continuation of the adventure, many heads are better than one, a cliche that holds true no matter how cheesy and overused.
Likes:

• Misunderstood People and Things: He naturally empathizes with people and things that are avoided for superficial reasons such as appearance or rumors. Be likes to learn the truth and then live by the truth.
  
• Celestial Spirits: They add a sense of wonder to his adventures and life, where he fails as a caster they make it possible to live how he dreamed when he was young, and provide camaradarie and friendship along the way.
  
• Cooking: He learned how to cook in order to show his cross-dimensional friends the wonders of human culinary delights, despite the distinct lack of need for them to eat. To him, cooking someone a meal is a gesture of trust and friendship.
  

Dislikes:

• Water: In a bittersweet turn of events when he was little, Killian, then an aspiring water caster, fell into a lake and sunk to the bottom as if by Neptune's own vengeance. He would have drowned if he hadn't found the Black Key of Andromeda, and has since then taken a strong dislike to water. He will swim under no circumstances.
  
• Transparent Mysteries: Those mysteries that are too easy to solve bore him and lend him to taking them less seriously.
  
• Cleaning: For all his love of cooking, clean-up is his least favorite part. His domicile is kept borderline immaculate for if he doesn't clean it at a set time daily, he will leave it alone and the mess escalates comedically. What was a leftover takeout container will become a mountain of such and dishes in less than a week. This is to say, he cleans as quickly as possible because otherwise he's a slob.
  

Motivations:

• Learning: His foremost goal is to learn just about everything he can, and become a veritable jack of all trades. While his spirits do most of the fighting, he can do everything else.
  
• Solving Mysteries: He gets a huge kick out of puzzles and mysteries, and feels that adventuring sates his desire to elucidate. Things were obscured for a reason and he doesn't intend to rest until he figures out what that reason is. The truth drags him into the fray just as much as rent.
  
• Contractual Duty: When he was rescued by the Spirit of the Black Key, he made a deal through telepathic link that he would show her the world. Thusly it is a binding clause in his contract that he adventure for that purpose if nothing else.
  

Fears:

• Water: Almost drowning in a lake when you're little will fuck you up. If he winds up submerged in water somehow, it'll be up to his celestial spirits to help him out, because he'll be paralyzed with fear unless it was a conscious decision. He doesn't like swimming or sailing because of this fear.
  
• Outer Space: From the stories he's heard of it, he absolutely fears it on a conceptual level. Spells that look or feel sufficiently like outer space will freak him out.
  
• Spirit Slaying Spells: Things that have the ability to turn his spirits into mindless dolls, or worse, permanently slay them are a horrifying concept, rare as such abilities are. Even the mere threat of it makes him wary to the point of fleeing rather than test it.
  

General Appearance

Guild Hall:

Adventure:

Height: 5'10"
Weight: 168 lbs
Hair: Brown and hanging, slightly swept to his left (visually right).
Eyes: Light Blue
Skin Tone: Caucasian
Appearance: Killian's body build is relatively thin, suitable for a nerd like himself. However he is also slightly taller than average, simply not inhumanly so. Around the guild hall, he dresses formally, wearing an altogether schoolboy-like outfit, complete with slacks and a blazer, as he believes his Guild to be a place of learning and social gathering much like a school. When out and about his outfit, while not changing all that much in terms of what he's wearing, gains more of an adventurous feel, wearing his blazer open with multiple chokers around his neck, his blouse untucked and partially unbuttoned, a generally disheavaled look. This is because jobs are adventures. In any event he goes to he treats it like the event it is and dresses accordingly. Thusly one may find his wardrobe, while it all looks about the same, to be quite large and full of slightly different variants of white blouse, black blazer, slacks.

Guild/Council

Guild: Lamia Scale
Tattoo: Burgundy; Right Pectoral, Close to Shoulder
Rank: D