KAGAMI shade

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[attr="class","ur_apptitle"]KAGAMI

[attr="class","ur_appsubtitle"]DEMOGRAPHICS

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✚ NICK : Mii-chan
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✚ AGE : unknown (primordial shade); default appearance looks in late teens
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✚ GENDER : n/a, but is male in his "default" human form
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✚ LOCATION : Dream worlds

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✚ ETHNICITY : none (default appearance-wise is Japanese)
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✚ SEXUALITY : n/a
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✚ ROLEPLAYER NAME : PANG XI

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[attr="class","ur_appsubtitle"]FACE CLAIM

[attr="class","ur_appcont"]KIRISAME GA FURU MORI (The Forest of Drizzling Rain), SUGA KOUTAROU

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[attr="class","ur_appsubtitle"]CHARACTER HISTORY & MODUS OPERANDI

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As a primordial shade, the being now known as Kagami had been originally motivated to do nothing but to hunt human (and at times animal) souls to satiate his "hunger." He barely saw any purpose in taking human forms in the dreams he visited, thus appearing formless, as it allowed him to move faster and find his goal. Initially, he had aimed for nothing more than to destroy and devour souls within the dreams, as he was nothing more than a being fueled by the instinct to maintain its existence.

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The turning point came when he came across the first dreamwalker's world he ever saw. It was that of a young girls's, a lush forest filled with trees interspersed with large glowing blue mirrors made of some unusual gemstone. It was the first time that Kagami had ever been to such a detailed world, the previous dreams he has been to having been nothing more than an erratic mishmash of images and sounds. This was the place where he met Tsubasa, one of the early dreamwalkers. Kagami easily blended into her world, which was populated by forms living within the large mirrors that were all too similar to what he was: faceless, formless, voiceless. In this world, Tsubasa was the one who granted them a solid appearance, whenever she drew with her crayons on the faces of the mirrors. Whenever a mirror being would pass through a drawing, they would become a cat, a bird, a fairy, a unicorn. Her drawings were nothing more than stick figures and crude drawings, as most children drew, but whenever the mirror beings passed through them, they came out on the other side as beautiful, intricate, vibrant existences.

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Watching from behind the mirrors, and in truth unaware of his own capability to take own forms, Kagami found his curiosity piqued. Searching for food gave way instead to waiting until the next time Tsubasa drew on a mirror face to to give form to another of the things inside. It was not long, though, until Tsubasa noticed him, hiding in a corner of one of her mirrors. "You're weird," she'd said. "You're all black." She would then sit and look at him for quite a while whenever she was in her dream world, deep in thought. At times she'd get one of her crayons---red, blue, green, purple, yellow, pink---and then draw a line, a squiggle, a circle on the face of the mirror he was in, but then she'd shake her head and wipe it away. "It really needs to be black, huh?" she told him one day, grimacing. "But I don't like black. It's scary." Nevertheless, she came back to him one day with a black crayon in her hand and began sketching on the mirror's face. For the first time, Kagami felt a weird feeling---excitement. When she was done, it was nothing more than a black stick figure, a lot simpler than her usual ones. It didn't have any wings, or halos, or tails. Tsubasa waited for him to come out, and Kagami teetered from the other side, unsure of what to do next. When he managed to pass through the mirror's face, he felt the oddness of gaining a definite body: Tsubasa had turned him into a young boy with black hair, black eyes, and black clothes a couple of sizes too big for his slender frame. "I'll name you Kagami," Tsubasa told him. "So I'll call you Mii-chan." He tried to copy the movement of her mouth, but unlike her, no sound came from him. He had been given a body, but not a voice. 

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Kagami stayed in Tsubasa's dream world for a long time, without the latter knowing that he was in reality a Shade. Kagami himself felt no need to devour Tsubasa's soul in her world, and though his hunger came to him, he would only feed himself whenever she was gone, with any weak souls that strayed into her realm (at rare times, even with fellow Shades who have strayed in, when the hunger became particularly unbearable). The dreamwalker treated him as her best friend, taking him with her around her spacious dream mirror-forest, going on picnics, picking flowers and making crowns of them (which became one of Kagami's favorite things to do), and most of the time just drawing on what available spaces there were. Tsubasa taught him how to write so the two of them could communicate, although Kagami's comprehension was toddler-like at best, and she would give him notepads to scribble things on with a crayon.

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As with any story, the peace couldn't last for long, and in Kagami's case, the break came in the form of a Shade woman, a turned dreamwalker, who'd invaded Tsubasa's dreamworld. She was a strong one, quick to corrupt a large portion of the world. Given that Tsubasa was only a child, there was little she could do against the enemy, who quickly found where she and Kagami were. He tried to come to Tsubasa's defense, but the long time of lethargy and sparing meals had greatly weakened him, and the Shade woman easily defeated him. Even so, as he saw the woman approaching Tsubasa to take her soul, he managed to muster enough strength to run toward Tsubasa, the only thoughts in him consisting of making sure his sole friend is not taken away from him, but in the process he had not felt that his human form had dissipated. He was only able to understand what had happened when he saw the woman staring at him in wicked glee, while Tsubasa looked at him in fear and shock. He had reverted to the inchoate darkness that was his original form, and by coming to contact with the young girl in that form, he had corrupted a part of her. 

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The stress from the Shade woman's arrival and the revelation of Kagami's true nature (perhaps also compounded by the beginnings of Shade corruption on her soul) resulted in enough strain on Tsubasa for her to manage to eject them from her dreamworld through the large mirrors breaking and leaving large holes in the mesh of the dreamworld that sucked both Shades out of it. Kagami could not remember much of what happened afterwards, of how he managed to drift into the next dreamworld despite being so weak, but he could remember the Shade woman laughing maniacally at him, telling him that if he wanted to keep a human as a friend, the only way to do it would be to turn them into Shades.

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Not knowing any better, that would eventually turn into Kagami's belief: that the only way he could be friends with anyone the same way he had been with Tsubasa in his stay in her dreamworld, the only way people would not look at him with the same fear Tsubasa had looked at him at that time, is to turn them into something like him. He continues to yearn to see Tsubasa again, this time resolved to turn her in order that they could play together longer, but Kagami has no knowledge on how to track down specific dreamworlds and so just jumps from one to another, keeping the form that Tsubasa had given him. (He'd learned the concept of human ages along the way, but with no concrete knowledge on how it works, all he could do was make his form taller, resulting in a lanky young man as time went on. He maintains the mentality of a young child, however, as of course the process of mental maturity is beyond his comprehension of humans.) He wouldn't be against making any new friends along the way either, but this time he's going to make sure to "make friends" the "right way."

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{ Note: Kagami does not have a base form but by default chooses to take on the form that Tsubasa had first given him. Although capable of shapeshifting as with other Shades, he is a little unusual in the way that he could only do "mirror copies" and not shapeshift into something he merely conceived of, as he is incapable of "imagination" as humans are (i.e., he cannot simply shift into an image of a person in his head, say, a red-haired girl with glasses and in a school uniform, or dictate any other specifics for what he will shift to---he can only take on the image of an already existing red-haired girl, provided she is nearby). He is likewise limited to reproducing any asymmetrical qualities in opposite sides, for example, having a blue left eye and red right eye when the original he copied had a red left eye and a blue right eye. }