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CHARACTER NAME: Zero Smith
CHARACTER AGE: 17-18
CANON ORIGIN: Original
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CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Random

BACKGROUND: The world Zero lives is where all myths, legends and fairytales exist upon human imagination creation. As such, this world is in constant state of change, growing, changing and adapting--however, the population don't realize they are creations of minds, to them they are just regular people, living and dying like regular people on a regular world, even if in that world a new section of land may appear every now and again bearing new exciting things.

The world is a strange amagulation of cultures, times and species as well. One week, Zero can be in a land that's made up of German, French and Filipino based mythical beings, who live in cities and villages that look like the're from 13th century France, then the next week be passing through a land similar to modern Tokyo made up of Mayan spirits. They have regular flora and fauna like on Earth, and even non-intelligent but magical creatures, but they're generally referred to as "mundane", while the more intelligent and magical beings are called "spirits". There are even non-magical humans, and though they are obviously intelligent, they are still labeled as "mundane", which is very insulting, but they are a small minority that have hardly any status in the world, except in more progressive cities, such as Pratchett, so they have no real say about what people call them.

Pratchett is one of the largest cities in Zero's world, in a modern setting, and is a huge melting pot of different species. You can find almost anything there. There were two mundane human eye doctors that lived there that unknowingly befriended a kitsune woman, Vijftien, who was in hiding from her fellow kitsune and who was so taken with their integrity and good-nature that she left her infant son Zero on their doorstep with a polite request to raise him if they could, but if they couldn't that that was okay, this was rather presumptuous of her to do, but she knew they wanted badly to be parents and were having a hard time conceiving and she trusted them. Fortunately, the couple did indeed keep him and raised him as their own, but witholding the knowledge he was a kitsune as per the letter's request, leaving him to think he was just some generic fox spirit, for if the kitsune society knew the traitor Vijftien had left her son in the care of any other species, let alone mundane humans, that that son would be taken away back to their moutain top home and raised by those who raised her--which she absolute did not want.

You see, in Zero's world kitsune are seen as grand, if mysterious, heroes. They are known to travel the world, looking for people in need and helping them with problems large and small. From stopping a simple mugging to saving a whole nation of pixies from marauding ogres, from helping an old lady across the street to helping to broker peace between two kingdoms that had been shedding blood for hundreds of years over a broken vase. Although kitsune are known travelers, often able to be told apart from other humanoids due to their fox tails, not much is known about their society, which lives on top one of the highest mountains in the world, only reachable by flight and heavily patrolled to keep away other beings that can fly. They are very secretive, and do not have anyone to answer to but themselves. It would probably seem more sinister to the rest of the world if they weren't so heroic--which is exactly how they planned it.

Hundreds of years before, kitsune had been a dispersed and mostly solitary species, not very well respected because they tended to be obnoxious tricksters or petty criminals. The more conniving of them got together and began to dream big about gathering all the kitsune together and taking over a kingdom--a continent--the world and show everyone how great and powerful kitsune actually were. And their cunning plan was to lull the world into a false sense of security with them, make everyone think they were selfless heroes, and once they had so many kingdoms and nations in their debt or loyal to them for their help, they can convince them to join under their rule and move on to conquer others that hadn't fallen under their sway.

Not all kitsune were down with this plan, and many kitsune still aren't, but they are under a Big Brother-like control, and if a kitsune shows a streak of "good" they are not allowed off the mountain. (There were two general genetic lines to kitsune, the Zenko, or "good", kitsune, and Yako, or "bad", kitsune. While being one doesn't necessarily mean you WILL be all good or all evil, it's a fairly good indicator. However, by Zero's time, there's been so much intermixing you can't really say a kitsune is of Zenko or Yoka stock. Zero is one of those types.) Vijftien, when she was a child, was very loyal to the society and was trained to be one of the false heroes, but when she actually went out into the world she found out that everything her society had said about the outside world was nothing by lying propaganda and she abandons the kitsune way of life to do actual good, and when she was older she married someone who wasn't a kitsune, became pregnant (Zero isn't a half-breed, she had a kitsune friend willing to donate to her cause of having a child), and then she decided the best and most heroic thing she could do for the world was to expose the kitsune's plans. She and her husband moved to Pratchett to hide out and strategically plan out the steps in order to do this, however, they were discovered and she had to leave Zero behind for his own safety.

Zero grew up happy and spoiled with kinda goofy but great parents. When he was around 3 he started going to daycare, and there he met Okay, a harpy boy his age and they became fast friends, joined at the hip basically for the rest of time. Zero and Okay grew up with similar ideas: have fun, eat cookies, frolic in flowers, and get lost in the wilderness because it was fun and relaxing! One day on one of their traipsing trips in a forest, Zero and Okay stumble across an ogre about to cook a nymph who was tied up and unable to escape. Zero's spur of the moment plan was to bite the ogre's head while Okay carried the nymph to safety--which worked! And in turn, she saved the from the ogre's dragon friend that tried to exact revenge later on, shocking both the boys to see a nymph take on a dragon and defeat him single-handedly. This was when they first met Ariadne and the jackalope Faux, who had been watching this unfold because this was all part of Ariadne's "training". Zero and Okay didn't find out what the training was for, but a bit after that they go to junior high and join the poetry club and soon find out exactly just what it was for.

The poetry club is what it sounds like, a club to write poetry--while under some sort of duress. This can be composing poems while running a dangerous obstacle course, while fighting a beast or villainous character, or while fighting a rival team. The president of the club was Faux, she being a year older, and Ariadne was a member. Zero and Okay joined because there was no other clubs to join, but they showed promise despite them not knowing what poetry club was actually about, so Faux let's them stay. She almost regrets it right away because their lackadaisical, over-genial personality at first grated on her super anal and serious nerves, but after being forced to spend time with them as part of a "punishment" devised by the principal, she discovers that Zero and Okay are actually good for her. Playing and hanging out with them eased her stress, soothed her nerves, and made her realize that her over-achieving ways weren't the only way to live life--not that she turned into them, she just started to actually take time to enjoy life. Ariadne, arguably her best friend before Faux became friends with Zero and Okay, would join in with them and she becomes good friends with Zero and Okay, too--as well as becoming the object of Zero's crush. She liked him back, but being silly 13 year olds they don't do anything about it till years later, when they become the most obnoxiously cute couple in history at around age 16.

When Zero was about to turn 14, he discovered his fire powers quite by accident, and a kitsune fanboy named Felix flipped his shit out in excitement that a real life kitsune had been at his school the whole time. Felix decided that it was a gross shame that Zero was being raised by mundane humans so he didn't know how to use any of his kitsune abilities, so Felix sent a letter off to the kitsune society to alert them of Zero's presence. A couple of kitsune come to investigate and determine if Zero could be "salvaged", but they found his happy idiocy to be nothing but a sign of a failed kitsune who will be a detriment to their society. They tell him so and tell him no one will teach him his heritage or abilities, that he will be no better than a pathetic regular fox spirit and amount to nothing. Oh, and his family and friends sucked. They leave, completely unaware that he was the son of their #1 most wanted, and Zero was utterly dismayed and rejected.

However, Zero wasn't one to remain down in the dumps, and he decided: screw the society! He can be a hero without their help! He planned to go out into the world on his own, doing his own heroic deeds and learning to use his powers on his own. Okay would not be without his best friend and said he would travel with him (much to Zero's tearful relief, he didn't know what he would do without Okay), and Faux joined in as well because her two dumb best friends would die within a week without her brawn. Plus, Zero and Okay would still have to study and stop off at Trees of Knowledge to take tests and pass their grades, and there was no way they would learn a damn thing without her brains as well. With the nervous blessings of their families they leave. Ariadne at first stayed behind, but after receiving letters from everyone after a few months she decided to go join them, though she can't travel with them constantly, since being a nymph meant she had to be with her tree once in awhile for some time else she would wither and die. During the months she has to remain in Pratchett she still communicated with everyone through letters, emails, texts and phone calls. Zero won't do any big missions without her, knowing her strength along with Faux's make them a huge powerhouse. He is generally aware of his shortcomings and how much his friends cover for them.

Zero faces many challenges, some stupid, some exciting, some utterly soul breaking, but he always comes out of them with a positive, sunshiney attitude, though after some adventures it might take awhile for that smile to reappear. (Though, sometimes it's hard to say that he's just naively positive or likes to live in denial.) With every new year that passes he gets stronger, hones his abilities, learns new ones, and takes on bigger heroic deeds, always taking pleasure in the thought of what the kitsune who had rejected him may be thinking when the tales of his deeds trickle down to them. Though, he isn't just doing this hero thing purely for revenge, he honestly loves helping people, and loves to travel and explore.

Eventually, he does learn who his mother was and what she had been doing when she had to give him up, thus revealing to him the true nature and plans of the kitsune society. He found this all out, unfortunately, by finding out that a rash of especially violent werewolf attacks were being done by kitsune purposefully releasing a werewolf and going in to stop it to look the hero. The werewolf was actually Zero's biological father, Hiroyuki, who was inflicted with the werewolf curse as a sort of punishment for aiding Vijftien and her husband. Werewolves are terrible on their own, but a kitsune inflicted with the curse is a nearly unstoppable foe, able to level whole towns in a night, and Hiroyuki was absolutely miserable for all the pain and destruction he had been inflicting over the years. Zero saved him, and Hiroyuki begged to be killed, since there was no cure, but Zero is, of course, unable to, and eventually Hiroyuki is caught again and taken back to the mountain top by his handlers, who pass on the knowledge that Zero is Vijftien's son, thus putting him even more under the kitsune microscope. He will be pulled after this event, at least some time after it so he isn't a sad sack of a kitsune, but with a lot of of thinks that need to be thought that he may be trying to ignore in his head.

PERSONALITY:
Zero is a fellow that is very in touch with his feelings and generally lets them carry him through life. For the most part he is cheerful, but his mood can change on a dime depending on the situation. Say something sad and he'll frown, then someone next to him says something amusing and he'll laugh loudly. Sometimes his emotional response may not be appropriate, so don't be too concerned if he laughs at something he shouldn't have or he finds something depressing that was slightly inconvenient at best.

He is very friendly, though that doesn't mean he wins over people instantly, he can be quite off-putting, especially for someone more inclined to being an introvert. But he will try very hard to be your friend if he finds you interesting, and may be a pest if you have no interest in being a friend. He doesn't quite know the proper way to interact with people because he never really had a need to make new friends, since he had Faux, Okay and Ariadne during his developing years.

Sometimes it may seem like he's being purposefully obnoxious, and sometimes he IS purposefully being a tease to get an amusing rise out of someone, but for the most part he isn't meaning to be a nuisance or a troll as it may seem. Usually if he makes a comment that sounds like he's trying to troll you he's probably just stating the obvious. He may even point out someone's faults bluntly because he's just trying to be helpful, which obviously will win that person over because he was being kind enough to tell them they have a stupid hair style or smell bad.

Though he considers himself a hero type, and has been known to boast about it, he has a slight problem of cowardice. The cowardice mostly shows up if he has to think about his actions ahead of time. If he's able to react without thought he is able to be incredibly brave, like if he's just walking through a forest and he hears someone scream because they're about to be eaten by some vampiric ghost monkey, he will leap into action, often succeed in defeating said vampiric ghost monkey, and look as brave as he was. However, if he was told about the vampiric ghost monkey beforehand and Faux insists on them making a plan to tackle this monster, he will show trepidation, whine and generally be nervous. He will come through in the end (mostly), so never worry, but he basically is only good at coming on the scene like a wrecking ball and fighting wildly. Planning is not his forté, and Faux always took care of that for him.

He isn't book smart, and isn't concerned about being book smart. So, in other words: he's kinda dumb. But he considers himself intelligent at life, having survived 6 years in a huge world full of dangers. If he were stupid, he would be dead by now. Because of the sort of world he lives in he is very worldly, and will probably be very bored by Earth after the fascination with a planet full of mundane humans and science wears off. Despite his worldliness and having seen all sorts of strange things, he is still fascinated by new strange things. He is just a child at heart.

POWER:
He is a kitsune so he has a good power set available to him, but he is not apt at all of them, mainly due to no one being able to train him. But some he has managed to figure out on his own and polish over the years. He has 5 main powers, and they are:

1) Fire Powers -- He is able to produce fire from his hands and mouth. He can control the flames, up until the point they catch something on fire, then they are out of his control. He can regulate the heat of them, as well, so he can use them as a scare tactic to make people think he's about to burn them and frighten them into a stupor. This is the one power he is fairly good at, but he still can get stronger. The flames can be thwarted by water and such, though if he has the heat turned up very hot it can boil water nearly instantly, but he would have to be super pissed to achieve that.

2) Transformation -- Kitsune are able to change into humans or objects. Zero is pretty awesome at changing into a human, but not at all good at changing into an object.

Like all kitsune, when he does change into a human he still has a tail, so making it obvious what he is if he isn't hiding it, but in his world he doesn't really need to hide it so he wouldn't be in this world, either. He has a default human look that he primarily takes on, but he can transform into any combination of looks, male and female, however he cannot impersonate someone's look directly. If he tried, something would be remarkably off about the appearance making it obvious he's an imposter, like one eyeball would be 5 times bigger or he'll missing an arm. He would not be able to impersonate someone not a regular Earth-type human, so an alien humanoid or a mutant with different features than normal wouldn't be doable, either.

In terms of objects, the only thing he is able to turn into relatively completely is a toaster, but the plug is orange, like his tail. He can change into a handful of other small objects, like a spoon or a shoe, but they'll be furry and with tails. He's not at all good at that.

The other thing he can change into is, of course, a fox.

3) Flight -- Pretty simple: he can fly.

4) Possession -- He has done this once before, but it was a power he did not like using at all and would only ever try it again if absolutely necessary. He doesn't like how manipulative and evil it felt, and he almost drove the person to insanity because of his shakiness of using the power. Also, he has to enter the person through the belly button, and that's just gross. When possessed, the person would be under his control, though if someone had remarkable strength of will they could fight him off pretty easily, though doing some could potentially cause them mental harm. Again, Zero really doesn't like this power. UvU

5) Illusions -- Kitsune can be crazy good at making illusions, making people think they are living a beautiful, long life with a wife and children when they're actually trapped under the crawlspace of their home wasting away over a week. However, Zero isn't at all talented in this field. If he had proper training from a kitsune and any sort of patience he could better his skills, buuuuut he doesn't, so he sucks at it and will probably always suck at it. Only really bringing it up in case some sort of plot potential can be born from it, but I have no plans for him to be developing this skill to any appreciative level. The best he can do right now is making an illusion of a bee that looks like it's from a poorly drawn cartoon.

Also, not sure if this would count as a power, but he is stronger and faster than the average person. He's not going to be Superman levels, but he can do fairly good damage to a normal person's jaw if he gives it a serious punch.

I know it's a lot of powers, and if they feel too much I'm happy with just the first 3 (and the strength/speed).

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FINAL NOTES: I asked the mods already about him not needing a slot for a human form since he can do that himself and he will be doing that most of the time anyway, and they were okay with him still having his tail when he's a human.