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Character Information:
Name: Keiki - literally 'kei kingdom's (kei) male kirin (ki)'. Some kirin are given familiar names by their kings, he was not; some kirin are named posthumously, but he is the current kirin of Kei.
Canon: Juuni Kokki/The Twelve Kingdoms
Canon Point: During Youko's reign, after the uprising and civil war (immediately post-Skies of Dawn)
Age: His human form appears to be a young adult. He's about 50-60 years old.
Reference: His 12K Wiki entry
Setting: "In the beginning, there were nine provinces and four nations. Those who governed knew the laws of reason... nonetheless, they showed no respect to their subjects, who knew not reason. They neglected justice, humanity, and the law of the land. Tentei (天帝, the Emperor of the Heavens) was deeply displeased, and rendered punishment. The nine provinces and four nations were brought low, and everything was returned to its origin. And the new world was created with reason, to be governed with discipline. Tentei created thirteen kingdoms. The Koukai (黄海, Yellow Sea) and Mt. Hou (蓬山) in the central kingdom were entrusted to Seioubo (西王母, the Dowager of the West). Twelve rulers and twelve kirin were given to the twelve remaining kingdoms. The rulers were to govern their kingdoms with the branch of law, whilst a kirin would be born to each kingdom to provide the branch of virtue. It was the beginning of the world. According to the founding principles, the world shall hence be governed with justice and humanity."
The Twelve Kingdoms - and the uncounted, sacred thirteenth kingdom - are a realm apart from our own mundane Earth, yet connected by dreams and the vast oceans of the sky. Their people are technicolour and many. Ruled by gods that are everpresent, immortal sages, and kings whose lives are connected deeply to the kingdoms they govern, theirs is a very different world. It is vaguely similar to ancient China in culture and aesthetics, though the political systems must naturally differ with the immortality of the entire governing body and with the threats posed by demon attacks or magical plagues, and the culture bleedover goes both ways due to the rare influx of otherworldly castaways. I will outline some of the key differences section by section.
Reproduction. No creature, animal or plant, is born from another creature within the kingdoms. All young of every species are created by the gods and grow on special pale trees. Humans and half-beasts (those with the ability to shift between a human form and a single animal form but generally considered citizens) are both hatched from the eggfruit (ranka) of Riboku. Yaboku bear the fruit of wild animals and plants. One particular giant tree grows in on the mountain in the centre of the world; it is called the Shashinboku, and its golden fruit hatch the kirin of the twelve kingdoms whilst its roots grow the nyokai, special chimera-like demons of great intelligence who bond with and nurse their respective kirins, staying with them for the entirety of the kirin's lifespan. Every one of these trees is sacred, indestructible and utterly sacrosanct; no creature will attack another beneath the branches of any riboku or yaboku. There are also trees that birth demons (youma), but they have never been found by humans and have no name or description.
When a human or half-beast couple wishes to have a child, they pray to Tentei and go to the riboku in their village to tie a ribbon around a bare branch. That ribbon is chosen to represent their hopes for their child, and if their prayers are heard and they are judged fit parents, a ranka begins to grow on that branch. Obviously, this has a number of ramifications. First, sexual reproduction simply doesn't exist. Second, no one is genetically related to anyone else, and it is in fact highly unusual for a child to resemble their parents. Third, child do not inherit, but are each granted a specific amount of land and resources upon reaching adulthood from the palace from which to make a living. There is love between family members, but the raising of a child is considered a holy duty to the kingdom rather than the continuation of your own line. Incidentally, a king cannot be granted a child from any riboku, as the entire population of the kingdom is considered their 'child' by the gods.
Kings. Without genetics or inheritance comes another problem: how to select a worthy ruler? Tentei fixed that, vaguely. When a kingdom is without a ruler - an unenviable situation, as a king's virtue and health directly affect how well a kingdom's crops grow or how well its borders repel demons - a kirin ranka grows on the shashinboku. When the kirin hatches and matures, he or she takes up residence in a palace on Mt. Hou, and receives citizens from their kingdom in pilgrimage. Amongst the pilgrims (usually) is one person with the Ouki, the aura of the king, who is the next ruler as chosen by Tentei. The kirin channels the will of the gods, and receives the revelation from them - he or she then bows to this person (a kirin can only bow to their king and no one else) thus bestowing upon them the throne. Sometimes the individual does not travel to Mt. Hou, or is otherwise indisposed, and the kirin feels a pull towards them and must seek them out beyond the borders of the central mountains, as Keiki had to, twice. A king is kept in line by the kirin - they are two halves of a whole, and should the king stray from the true path of virtue, the kirin will be struck with an illness called Shitsudou, from which there is little hope of recovery. Again, something Keiki has experience with. As no king will live out the year after the death of their kirin, this is a painful but effective way of ensuring a corrupt king cannot rule for long.
Kings, kirin and their entire palace retinue (officials, sages, generals) are entered on the Registry of Immortals for so long as they continue to serve the kingdom. They are thus invulnerable to most weapons, will not die of thirst or starvation, and will neither age nor sicken; they can only be incapacitated by dark magic or killed by having their head severed completely from their body with an enchanted blade.
Kirin are beasts, holy, rare, entirely good and conduits for light magic and the will of the gods, but beasts all the same. To describe a kirin, it is best to simply describe Keiki, for his experience was typical. Keiki hatched from the shashinboku without incident as a kirin foal straight into the arms of Kaiko, his feathered nyokai, and promptly fled with her away into the mountains and deserts of the Yellow Sea. There he roamed, confronting demons, taming those he could overpower and fleeing from those he could not, a wild animal, until he matured enough to gain awareness of his human self and knowledge of the languages of man. At which point he returned to the palaces on Mt. Hou, and entered the care of the sages who dwelled there. His demons, bound to him through a heavenly incantation and contract that demands their complete loyalty in return for the permission to devour Keiki's body and thus his magical power upon his death, became his shirei, familiars, and no longer followed him physically but travelled within his shadow or ranged away from settlements on his command. He sought out his first King, Jou-ei, but in his attempts to be kind to her and support her unsure rule, she fell in love with him and nearly destroyed Kei out of jealousy. She abdicated upon learning he suffered from shitsudou, and thus passed away; he spent the next decade searching for the next King, and found her in Youko.
Personality: Kuudere kuudere kuudere.
No, really. Keiki is reserved, subdued and emotionless the vast majority of the time, maintaining a formal and proper demeanour and frowning upon emotional outbursts. This isn't due to any coldness of spirit - as a kirin, he is literally an embodiment of benevolence, mercy and justice. He near-literally doesn't have a single mean bone in his body and tries to be calm, helpful and kind in all things. Keiki would not even dream of hurting someone, and cares deeply for those around him, but when you're as socially inept and reserved as he is, hurting people is inevitable. Unlike the other kirin we meet in the main stories of the kingdoms, he was never raised in our world, and thus is a fundamentally traditional kirin. He speaks succinctly and tactlessly, without 'wasting words' on things like, oh, white lies or reassurances. Glossing over a fault or murmuring false assurances isn't something he will ever do; painfully sincere, he has to be forced into helping a crying child because he simply doesn't realise he's the reason the child is upset. After all, he told the truth, right? What could be wrong with that? He can be crafty, in a painfully opaque way, such as when he lies by omission or guides someone through to a desired conclusion with hints or denials rather than telling them outright.
He forgets to explain things, or share his own thoughts, and accidentally excludes those around him. And yet every time it happens and someone begins to cry or scold him, Keiki is upset and confused by the reaction he gets. He truly does not intend to upset anyone, he's just...
Well, he's just Keiki. With coaxing, he can grow closer to people, but the last time he tried that, he was just affectionate and warm enough that his monarch fell in love with him, almost destroyed their kingdom in a jealous rage and wasted Keiki with the Shitsudou, an illness sent by the gods to punish an erring king. To him, it's logical to assume that this was entirely his fault, and he mopes about it constantly, even now that he has a vibrant, interested ruler to support. He generally looks long-faced or disappointed, sighs often, and the best you can hope for until you're his best friend in the whole world is an entirely blank expression or an occasional movement of the eyes to denote surprise or disapproval.
As a high official of Kei (the Saiho, or advisor to the monarch and governor of the central province of Kei) he can come off as arrogant to those he judges as unworthy, and as a kirin he is physically incapable of bowing to anyone other than his monarch. Whilst some kirin can be familiar with those around them despite this, he uses it to maintain a formal distance, even to the king. Speaking of whom, Keiki is entirely loyal to his: a teenage girl, Youko, who was ordained as hisheterosexual life partner ruler/monarch/king by the gods themselves. Without her, he will pine. With her, he is blissfully happy - though it doesn't particularly show. Whilst he is somewhat more resistant to the depression caused by the absence of his ruler than most kirin, thanks to her not being his first ruler and the long period spent seeking her alone, he will still feel its effects. The Ouki is a tangible force that he normally feels at all times radiating from her, and on Tu Vishan the sensation will be gone completely. The entire world will literally be colder and darker to all his senses.
He's no stranger to travelling between worlds via the medium of water, but he's never had it happen TO him without his consent before, and never has it been irreversible. Furthermore, he will be exceedingly unhappy that his purpose is dictated as participating in a war, as 1. the kingdoms are forbidden by Tentei from warring against one another and 2. as a kirin he completely abhors violence and bloodshed. Still, without any other options, he will submit to the instructions of the kedan and cause no trouble. Especially when he's told of the apparent time-freeze between the two worlds, since as an immortal he doesn't have to worry about aging and his only worry would be that his absence bring down the anger of the gods upon Kei and its young king. If nothing else, he can promise the services of his shirei to the effort, and take up a position far from any fighting himself.
Appearance: His human form and his beast form. He's generally described as a tall, doleful-looking young man with pale golden hair down to his knees.
Abilities: The kirin of the twelve kingdoms have a mixed bunch of blessings and curses, most of which revolve around their monarch. They are immortal, and ordinary weapons without the blessings of a sage cannot kill them. They can be immobilised or made deathly ill by exposure to blood, a substance they cannot stand. Without a monarch present, the only way to permanently kill a kirin is the same as with any immortal: behead them. Born as kirin, not humans, they grow up in the demon-filled wilds surrounding the holy mountains at the centre of the world, learning to tame those demons that will submit to them. By the time they learn to shift into a human form, they will have a complement of shirei, demons who have agreed to guard and obey them until the kirin's death. (When a kirin dies, they leave no body. Their shirei consume the corpse, gaining significant magical powers from it, and return to the wild.)
Keiki is a typical kirin in this respect. He has several large, vicious shirei, who are melded to his shadow and obey his every command. (Jyuusaku, a youwa; Hyouki, a kogou; Hankyo, an isoku.) His nyokai, Kaiko, appears more humanoid, and he has at least one hinman, Jouyuu, a water spirit that can possess humans and manipulate their body to his will. Shirei are necessary, as kirin abhor conflict and are incapable of fighting, even to defend themselves or their monarch. Kirin have historically suicided rather than obey an order to kill.
He also has a large rabbit demon called Jakko. This shirei is canonically completely useless and unlike the larger demons, is not intelligent enough to say anything more complicated than its own name.
In his kirin form, he is one of the fastest creatures in the world, and has the ability to fly. He can cast minor spells, such as seals, and can use several styles of divination. Unlike some kirin, he does not possess the ability to phase through solid matter, but he can create smal, localised dimensional storms between his world and Earth in either air or water, though due to their hugely destructive nature he refuses to form them around populated areas. His antler-like horn has restorative and purifying properties, blessing water he touches and able to leech poison or curses, and in his human form the spot on his forehead where his horn would be is highly sensitive and can be covered to seal his abilities in the same way that breaking his horn would destroy them.
Oh, and his clothes don't transform with him. Due to propriety and to avoid scandal, he will not return to a human form when there are people present.
Suitability: Whilst his kirin nature makes him fundamentally unsuited to battle, he has a large, obedient host of demons to do that particular part for him. Meanwhile, he's fast, flight-capable, able to use binding and sealing magic and he's also extremely competent at navigating political and imperial matters despite his personal failings. Whilst he might not personally go on dangerous missions, I would be happy to either play or allow the godmoding of his shirei for those purposes. Furthermore, he exists to be the brake on his kingdom, a reminder of compassion and justice. He will likely find himself taking on that role on Tu Vishan, too.
Inventory: Nothing, he's arriving as a kirin. WHOOPS.
Suite: The space, simple forms and solitude of Earth will suit him well, and height would help him adjust to no longer living in the sky-palace in Kei - a taller suite would be preferable. With his shirei he can defend himself in case of gang activity, though he's fast enough to avoid them regardless.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person: The air of the palace was close, cool, and smelled faintly of the shell's musk and a burning plant he did not know. He did not adjust his sleeve, but noted the fleeting need to do so as he stared steadily at a carving on the far wall; attending to his shirei and his own misgivings. Hankyo was restless, shifting against his skin in the shade of the atrium, whilst the remainder of the shirei roamed abroad, attending this or that matter or accompanying those of interest. Jyuusaku watched Taiki, though he was careful to avoid the young kirin's own powerful shirei, and his reports floated in the back of Keiki's mind like leaves on a still pool. To an outsider he surely seemed aloof, bored, a young man lost in idle thought whilst awaiting his summons, but Keiki was deeply troubled. To be required to submit to a foreign Emperor, no matter his power, was to be asked to do the impossible. He had a number of arguments in mind, in case Evandau pressed the issue... but he doubted any of them would be needed. All reports had the man as a rational ruler, if militant, but many rulers in the history of the Kingdoms had come from the armies or the militia, and had ruled as competently as those from farming or teaching stock. He shifted again. All of this was pointless, of course; what would happen would happen, in this realm apart from his own... but it was in his nature to worry.
Network: [ The man at the computer is beautiful, morose, and glowing. Only faintly, but there are definite jewel tones in his purple eyes and golden hair. He does not move more than to briefly incline his head before speaking - and his voice is soft, and inescapably glum. ]
If you have brought me here to take part in your battles, thinking I will be of help... I am afraid you have been somehow misled. I will not - no, I can not participate in such barbarity, though I understand your cause is just, and your wish to defend your homes is natural. [ He hesitates, looking off-screen as though recalling lines in a script. ] You have my word that I will not cause trouble, and I will help where I can, but please understand that a kirin is not a creature of war, and it would be unpardonable to ask such things of me.
Name: Elle
Age: 24
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softlycall | ACCharacter Information:
Name: Keiki - literally 'kei kingdom's (kei) male kirin (ki)'. Some kirin are given familiar names by their kings, he was not; some kirin are named posthumously, but he is the current kirin of Kei.
Canon: Juuni Kokki/The Twelve Kingdoms
Canon Point: During Youko's reign, after the uprising and civil war (immediately post-Skies of Dawn)
Age: His human form appears to be a young adult. He's about 50-60 years old.
Reference: His 12K Wiki entry
Setting: "In the beginning, there were nine provinces and four nations. Those who governed knew the laws of reason... nonetheless, they showed no respect to their subjects, who knew not reason. They neglected justice, humanity, and the law of the land. Tentei (天帝, the Emperor of the Heavens) was deeply displeased, and rendered punishment. The nine provinces and four nations were brought low, and everything was returned to its origin. And the new world was created with reason, to be governed with discipline. Tentei created thirteen kingdoms. The Koukai (黄海, Yellow Sea) and Mt. Hou (蓬山) in the central kingdom were entrusted to Seioubo (西王母, the Dowager of the West). Twelve rulers and twelve kirin were given to the twelve remaining kingdoms. The rulers were to govern their kingdoms with the branch of law, whilst a kirin would be born to each kingdom to provide the branch of virtue. It was the beginning of the world. According to the founding principles, the world shall hence be governed with justice and humanity."
The Twelve Kingdoms - and the uncounted, sacred thirteenth kingdom - are a realm apart from our own mundane Earth, yet connected by dreams and the vast oceans of the sky. Their people are technicolour and many. Ruled by gods that are everpresent, immortal sages, and kings whose lives are connected deeply to the kingdoms they govern, theirs is a very different world. It is vaguely similar to ancient China in culture and aesthetics, though the political systems must naturally differ with the immortality of the entire governing body and with the threats posed by demon attacks or magical plagues, and the culture bleedover goes both ways due to the rare influx of otherworldly castaways. I will outline some of the key differences section by section.
Reproduction. No creature, animal or plant, is born from another creature within the kingdoms. All young of every species are created by the gods and grow on special pale trees. Humans and half-beasts (those with the ability to shift between a human form and a single animal form but generally considered citizens) are both hatched from the eggfruit (ranka) of Riboku. Yaboku bear the fruit of wild animals and plants. One particular giant tree grows in on the mountain in the centre of the world; it is called the Shashinboku, and its golden fruit hatch the kirin of the twelve kingdoms whilst its roots grow the nyokai, special chimera-like demons of great intelligence who bond with and nurse their respective kirins, staying with them for the entirety of the kirin's lifespan. Every one of these trees is sacred, indestructible and utterly sacrosanct; no creature will attack another beneath the branches of any riboku or yaboku. There are also trees that birth demons (youma), but they have never been found by humans and have no name or description.
When a human or half-beast couple wishes to have a child, they pray to Tentei and go to the riboku in their village to tie a ribbon around a bare branch. That ribbon is chosen to represent their hopes for their child, and if their prayers are heard and they are judged fit parents, a ranka begins to grow on that branch. Obviously, this has a number of ramifications. First, sexual reproduction simply doesn't exist. Second, no one is genetically related to anyone else, and it is in fact highly unusual for a child to resemble their parents. Third, child do not inherit, but are each granted a specific amount of land and resources upon reaching adulthood from the palace from which to make a living. There is love between family members, but the raising of a child is considered a holy duty to the kingdom rather than the continuation of your own line. Incidentally, a king cannot be granted a child from any riboku, as the entire population of the kingdom is considered their 'child' by the gods.
Kings. Without genetics or inheritance comes another problem: how to select a worthy ruler? Tentei fixed that, vaguely. When a kingdom is without a ruler - an unenviable situation, as a king's virtue and health directly affect how well a kingdom's crops grow or how well its borders repel demons - a kirin ranka grows on the shashinboku. When the kirin hatches and matures, he or she takes up residence in a palace on Mt. Hou, and receives citizens from their kingdom in pilgrimage. Amongst the pilgrims (usually) is one person with the Ouki, the aura of the king, who is the next ruler as chosen by Tentei. The kirin channels the will of the gods, and receives the revelation from them - he or she then bows to this person (a kirin can only bow to their king and no one else) thus bestowing upon them the throne. Sometimes the individual does not travel to Mt. Hou, or is otherwise indisposed, and the kirin feels a pull towards them and must seek them out beyond the borders of the central mountains, as Keiki had to, twice. A king is kept in line by the kirin - they are two halves of a whole, and should the king stray from the true path of virtue, the kirin will be struck with an illness called Shitsudou, from which there is little hope of recovery. Again, something Keiki has experience with. As no king will live out the year after the death of their kirin, this is a painful but effective way of ensuring a corrupt king cannot rule for long.
Kings, kirin and their entire palace retinue (officials, sages, generals) are entered on the Registry of Immortals for so long as they continue to serve the kingdom. They are thus invulnerable to most weapons, will not die of thirst or starvation, and will neither age nor sicken; they can only be incapacitated by dark magic or killed by having their head severed completely from their body with an enchanted blade.
Kirin are beasts, holy, rare, entirely good and conduits for light magic and the will of the gods, but beasts all the same. To describe a kirin, it is best to simply describe Keiki, for his experience was typical. Keiki hatched from the shashinboku without incident as a kirin foal straight into the arms of Kaiko, his feathered nyokai, and promptly fled with her away into the mountains and deserts of the Yellow Sea. There he roamed, confronting demons, taming those he could overpower and fleeing from those he could not, a wild animal, until he matured enough to gain awareness of his human self and knowledge of the languages of man. At which point he returned to the palaces on Mt. Hou, and entered the care of the sages who dwelled there. His demons, bound to him through a heavenly incantation and contract that demands their complete loyalty in return for the permission to devour Keiki's body and thus his magical power upon his death, became his shirei, familiars, and no longer followed him physically but travelled within his shadow or ranged away from settlements on his command. He sought out his first King, Jou-ei, but in his attempts to be kind to her and support her unsure rule, she fell in love with him and nearly destroyed Kei out of jealousy. She abdicated upon learning he suffered from shitsudou, and thus passed away; he spent the next decade searching for the next King, and found her in Youko.
Personality: Kuudere kuudere kuudere.
No, really. Keiki is reserved, subdued and emotionless the vast majority of the time, maintaining a formal and proper demeanour and frowning upon emotional outbursts. This isn't due to any coldness of spirit - as a kirin, he is literally an embodiment of benevolence, mercy and justice. He near-literally doesn't have a single mean bone in his body and tries to be calm, helpful and kind in all things. Keiki would not even dream of hurting someone, and cares deeply for those around him, but when you're as socially inept and reserved as he is, hurting people is inevitable. Unlike the other kirin we meet in the main stories of the kingdoms, he was never raised in our world, and thus is a fundamentally traditional kirin. He speaks succinctly and tactlessly, without 'wasting words' on things like, oh, white lies or reassurances. Glossing over a fault or murmuring false assurances isn't something he will ever do; painfully sincere, he has to be forced into helping a crying child because he simply doesn't realise he's the reason the child is upset. After all, he told the truth, right? What could be wrong with that? He can be crafty, in a painfully opaque way, such as when he lies by omission or guides someone through to a desired conclusion with hints or denials rather than telling them outright.
He forgets to explain things, or share his own thoughts, and accidentally excludes those around him. And yet every time it happens and someone begins to cry or scold him, Keiki is upset and confused by the reaction he gets. He truly does not intend to upset anyone, he's just...
Well, he's just Keiki. With coaxing, he can grow closer to people, but the last time he tried that, he was just affectionate and warm enough that his monarch fell in love with him, almost destroyed their kingdom in a jealous rage and wasted Keiki with the Shitsudou, an illness sent by the gods to punish an erring king. To him, it's logical to assume that this was entirely his fault, and he mopes about it constantly, even now that he has a vibrant, interested ruler to support. He generally looks long-faced or disappointed, sighs often, and the best you can hope for until you're his best friend in the whole world is an entirely blank expression or an occasional movement of the eyes to denote surprise or disapproval.
As a high official of Kei (the Saiho, or advisor to the monarch and governor of the central province of Kei) he can come off as arrogant to those he judges as unworthy, and as a kirin he is physically incapable of bowing to anyone other than his monarch. Whilst some kirin can be familiar with those around them despite this, he uses it to maintain a formal distance, even to the king. Speaking of whom, Keiki is entirely loyal to his: a teenage girl, Youko, who was ordained as his
He's no stranger to travelling between worlds via the medium of water, but he's never had it happen TO him without his consent before, and never has it been irreversible. Furthermore, he will be exceedingly unhappy that his purpose is dictated as participating in a war, as 1. the kingdoms are forbidden by Tentei from warring against one another and 2. as a kirin he completely abhors violence and bloodshed. Still, without any other options, he will submit to the instructions of the kedan and cause no trouble. Especially when he's told of the apparent time-freeze between the two worlds, since as an immortal he doesn't have to worry about aging and his only worry would be that his absence bring down the anger of the gods upon Kei and its young king. If nothing else, he can promise the services of his shirei to the effort, and take up a position far from any fighting himself.
Appearance: His human form and his beast form. He's generally described as a tall, doleful-looking young man with pale golden hair down to his knees.
Abilities: The kirin of the twelve kingdoms have a mixed bunch of blessings and curses, most of which revolve around their monarch. They are immortal, and ordinary weapons without the blessings of a sage cannot kill them. They can be immobilised or made deathly ill by exposure to blood, a substance they cannot stand. Without a monarch present, the only way to permanently kill a kirin is the same as with any immortal: behead them. Born as kirin, not humans, they grow up in the demon-filled wilds surrounding the holy mountains at the centre of the world, learning to tame those demons that will submit to them. By the time they learn to shift into a human form, they will have a complement of shirei, demons who have agreed to guard and obey them until the kirin's death. (When a kirin dies, they leave no body. Their shirei consume the corpse, gaining significant magical powers from it, and return to the wild.)
Keiki is a typical kirin in this respect. He has several large, vicious shirei, who are melded to his shadow and obey his every command. (Jyuusaku, a youwa; Hyouki, a kogou; Hankyo, an isoku.) His nyokai, Kaiko, appears more humanoid, and he has at least one hinman, Jouyuu, a water spirit that can possess humans and manipulate their body to his will. Shirei are necessary, as kirin abhor conflict and are incapable of fighting, even to defend themselves or their monarch. Kirin have historically suicided rather than obey an order to kill.
He also has a large rabbit demon called Jakko. This shirei is canonically completely useless and unlike the larger demons, is not intelligent enough to say anything more complicated than its own name.
In his kirin form, he is one of the fastest creatures in the world, and has the ability to fly. He can cast minor spells, such as seals, and can use several styles of divination. Unlike some kirin, he does not possess the ability to phase through solid matter, but he can create smal, localised dimensional storms between his world and Earth in either air or water, though due to their hugely destructive nature he refuses to form them around populated areas. His antler-like horn has restorative and purifying properties, blessing water he touches and able to leech poison or curses, and in his human form the spot on his forehead where his horn would be is highly sensitive and can be covered to seal his abilities in the same way that breaking his horn would destroy them.
Oh, and his clothes don't transform with him. Due to propriety and to avoid scandal, he will not return to a human form when there are people present.
Suitability: Whilst his kirin nature makes him fundamentally unsuited to battle, he has a large, obedient host of demons to do that particular part for him. Meanwhile, he's fast, flight-capable, able to use binding and sealing magic and he's also extremely competent at navigating political and imperial matters despite his personal failings. Whilst he might not personally go on dangerous missions, I would be happy to either play or allow the godmoding of his shirei for those purposes. Furthermore, he exists to be the brake on his kingdom, a reminder of compassion and justice. He will likely find himself taking on that role on Tu Vishan, too.
Inventory: Nothing, he's arriving as a kirin. WHOOPS.
Suite: The space, simple forms and solitude of Earth will suit him well, and height would help him adjust to no longer living in the sky-palace in Kei - a taller suite would be preferable. With his shirei he can defend himself in case of gang activity, though he's fast enough to avoid them regardless.
In-Character Samples:
Third Person: The air of the palace was close, cool, and smelled faintly of the shell's musk and a burning plant he did not know. He did not adjust his sleeve, but noted the fleeting need to do so as he stared steadily at a carving on the far wall; attending to his shirei and his own misgivings. Hankyo was restless, shifting against his skin in the shade of the atrium, whilst the remainder of the shirei roamed abroad, attending this or that matter or accompanying those of interest. Jyuusaku watched Taiki, though he was careful to avoid the young kirin's own powerful shirei, and his reports floated in the back of Keiki's mind like leaves on a still pool. To an outsider he surely seemed aloof, bored, a young man lost in idle thought whilst awaiting his summons, but Keiki was deeply troubled. To be required to submit to a foreign Emperor, no matter his power, was to be asked to do the impossible. He had a number of arguments in mind, in case Evandau pressed the issue... but he doubted any of them would be needed. All reports had the man as a rational ruler, if militant, but many rulers in the history of the Kingdoms had come from the armies or the militia, and had ruled as competently as those from farming or teaching stock. He shifted again. All of this was pointless, of course; what would happen would happen, in this realm apart from his own... but it was in his nature to worry.
Network: [ The man at the computer is beautiful, morose, and glowing. Only faintly, but there are definite jewel tones in his purple eyes and golden hair. He does not move more than to briefly incline his head before speaking - and his voice is soft, and inescapably glum. ]
If you have brought me here to take part in your battles, thinking I will be of help... I am afraid you have been somehow misled. I will not - no, I can not participate in such barbarity, though I understand your cause is just, and your wish to defend your homes is natural. [ He hesitates, looking off-screen as though recalling lines in a script. ] You have my word that I will not cause trouble, and I will help where I can, but please understand that a kirin is not a creature of war, and it would be unpardonable to ask such things of me.