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HANDLE: Aiyiyi
CONTACT: aiyiyi @ plurk, aiyiyi#2221 @ discord
OVER 18? Very much over 18!
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▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Kazuma Kenzaki (Kenzaki is his family name and is also the name that he's called by basically everyone)
CANON: Kamen Rider Blade
CANON POINT: Just prior to
Kamen Rider Zi-O's Blade episodes. No CRAU from a previous game.
AGE: Appears about 24, is about 39.
BACKGROUND:
Here and
here!PERSONALITY:
Kenzaki wants to be friends with people, and he genuinely tries to help people, but he's initially a bit rough around the edges and doesn't really understand how to actually connect with people. His parents died in a fire when he was 11. He's been kind of unmoored since then, and has felt powerless. He says in the show that he hasn't really had friends before. So he begins the his canon from that point; of not really understanding people.
He's a traditional Kamen Rider in that he uses his tragic past as strength to encourage himself to move forward, and to help people now. He wants to help people.
So he's not always great at dealing with his own emotions or with talking to people about how he's genuinely doing. He's quite good at pretending to be okay when he's not. He prefers to get up and do something instead of talking about it.
During the first ten or so episodes he shows his gentleness, and his kindness, and his general impatience and lack of people skills. He wants to reach out to Hajime, who at that point is a mysterious figure. He doesn't understand what Hajime is (actually one of the Undead, masquerading as a human out of a kind of formless guilt) but wants to help him. But Hajime keeps pissing him off by brushing him off. So Kenzaki yells at him. But then goes after him again next time. He's very persistent. He gets angry at Hajime. He yells at him. He fights back when Hajime attacks him. But he keeps pursuing him, keeps refusing to give up on him, and eventually they develop mutual trust.
Similarly, he values his friendship with Tachibana, who's his senior in being a Kamen Rider. But that doesn't mean he never disagrees with him or never argues with him when Tachibana wants to seal Hajime. He's stubborn as hell when it comes to Hajime in particular, and he does not give up on people (unless he really has to, like mooks that are actively trying to kill him).
On the whole he's quite intelligent, but given his occasionally crappy interpersonal skills he can also be good at missing things. He can seem clueless.
Initially, being a Kamen Rider is just a job. Something that he relies on for money, because he's not exactly rich. As Kenzaki continues through the show, he refines his strong moral sense, and his strong sense of self-sacrifice, and begins to do it purely because it's the right thing to do. The Undead will kill people, otherwise. When someone's in trouble there's no question that he'll get up and go help. Emotionally speaking, this is both necessary and incredibly bad for him, because it means he doesn't have to talk about his own issues.
Related to this, he has a strong sense of outrage about being manipulated, and about people not being what they seem. Ranging from his first mistrust of Tachibana through to Isaka manipulating Tachibana through to Hajime - initially - not trusting him with his full story.
Hajime is a Joker Undead. Undead are drawn to fight each other. When there's only one Undead left in the world, then the world begins to disintegrate. They had to seal/kill the other Undead, leaving Hajime as the only one left. So Kenzaki's solution to this, to allowing Hajime (who by now is becoming more and more human) to still live in the world, was to transform himself into an Undead as well and get the hell away from Hajime so they wouldn't have to fight each other.
This is a huge sacrifice, and it's heroic, but it's also very much in line with Kenzaki's arc re people. He loves people. In many ways, he doesn't understand how to be with people. He's worse at that than most Rider protagonists. In another show, or with another lead Rider, it could've ended differently - with Kenzaki able to stay with Hajime and Tachibana and everyone else who's now part of his family.
Post series, he has been wandering the world and keeping away from Hajime. He's drawn back to Rider fights now and then, such as in the Kamen Rider Decade final arc where he's quite bitter and does not trust the main character, and the Kamen Sentai Gorider special. He's glad to be able to help everyone in this, but he's fairly bitter about it, too. The main villain (Dan Kuroto) masquerades as Kenzaki, and it's only because of this that Kenzaki is able to even travel to the pocket universe where Kuroto has the other Riders trapped - because that made Kuroto into a Joker, and Jokers are drawn to other Jokers to fight them.
He is in reasonably good spirits, but has never found any other family he can settle with. He has to hide his lack of ageing and therefore can't stay in one place for too long.
At the Zi-O Blade episodes (he's taken from just before those) he's very grim and resigned to his fate of having to fight Hajime.
He misses his family.
POWERS/ABILITIES: Kenzaki is a
Joker Undead, with the ability to look human. He is stronger and faster and better at healing than a standard human. He has green blood, and presumably different insides as well. He is technically unkillable, but can be sealed into a Card.
He wants to fight, but mostly can restrain himself from the impulse. This can lead him to being twitchy and angry, and also angry
because he doesn't want to feel this way.
As Kamen Rider Blade, he can transform into his armored form - more details
here. He is faster and stronger than an average human, with a range of attacks he can use while he's in his armor. He can take a lot of punishment. He can also technically transform into a Joker, but we haven't seen him do this and I don't intend using it very much. His strength is all very tokusatsu-variable, though, meaning that in cases of plot need he can be stronger or weaker, in and out of his armor. If he's in a fight with someone with a decisive outcome, I will always negotiate that with the other player. (I don't expect to need to negotiate if they just toss each other around a bit but are both fine afterwards, please let me know if that's wrong!)
INVENTORY:
- Blay Rouzer sword and cards (held within)
- Rouze Absorber
- Book of photography
MOONBLESSING: Cordis.
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