Kai “KAITO” [B.] Male, He/Him, 16-18 in lore, born 11/16/XX, Scorpio, INTJ. Character warnings: Self harm, physical abuse + neglect, heavy drinking (his father, not him) Kai is a cis male, and is bisexual. However, he doesn’t gain crushes that often. Kai is also autistic, with insomnia* and, mostly likely some type of CPTSD*. He has difficulty with odd textures, things being too dirty, crowds of people, loud people, yelling, fights, confrontation, and booze. Appearance wise, Kai is 5’11ft tall, with shaggy brown hair in his dark brown eyes. He has eyebags from a lack of sleep, and his skins on the pale side. Hes rather lean, and somewhat fit. His skin, however, is rather battered. Small ‘scratches’ from glass scarring his back, bruises that have never quite faded on his skin, and self inflicted wounds covering his wrists and his upper thighs. However, despite the quantity, the scarring isn’t awful, due to Kai taking good care cleaning every wound afterwards to ‘calm down’. On a lighter note, at ~15, when he moved in with his grandma, he dyed his hair purple. The ends still have some of the color, but its mostly grown out since then. His choice of clothing include: A purple hoodie. Lillian gifted it to him once, and he’s never taken it off since. Not literally, as he does wash it, but he wore it until it got too small, and then Lillian bought him a new one to wear. He pairs it with jeans, sometimes sweats, and sneakers. Wears a plain tshirt, tanktop, or longsleeve underneath depending on the weather. Kai loves technology, baking and sweets (especially things that are flavored vanilla, or shortbread cookies), mechanic work, and Lillian. Kai hates booze, intoxicated people, crowds, filthy rooms, public bathrooms and changerooms. Kai’s family + lore: [Dave B], His father. Kai was the result of a flimsy relationship. His mother and father decided to keep the baby, solely because they were too broke to afford an abortion. However, his mother left when Kai was about a year and a half old, and they ended up moving into a one bedroom apartment. The breakup, and now needing to take care of a ‘little brat’, caused Kai’s dad to start drinking more and more to cope, turning him from a guy who drank a beer a night, into a fully fledged alcoholic. While Kai was always a quiet baby, losing his mother made him go silent. He stopped babbling, and would barely talk. This lead to him getting fed very little, and paid attention to even less. However, Kai’s dad was still sober enough at this time to at least feed Kai. By the time Kai was 5 and going to school, his father would often forget to pick kai up until late into the evening, or drop kai off around noon, or not at all. Despite the teacher being annoyed, the habit never changed. At 7, Kai was completely forgotten at school during winter. He was found the next morning by Lillian’s mom, Lillith, and was brought to the ER. The bill was, thankfully, taken care of by the hospital, due to both the inability to reach Kai’s dad, and the lack of any money in the guys bank account. Lillith brought Kai home, and told kai’s dad off, before settling on picking kai up from school every day. From then on, Kai learns how to walk from school on his own. His meals consist mostly of school lunches, and snacks from Lillians lunchbox, and dinners made by Lillith. You might be asking– if they live in a one bedroom apartment, where does kai sleep? And well, despite Kai’s dad mostly residing in the living room, drinking, watching tv, and sleeping there, he never gave up his own bedroom. Instead, he cleared out the storage closet, tossed a mattress in there, and let kai sleep in there instead. Besides, the boy wasn’t that big back then, when he was like 5. By 13, however, the room started to become suffocating. Kai’s father wasn’t all bad, however. The man still somewhat had a job, and Kai still could say a few fond memories he had with his dad. Like one christmas– where, despite his dad never celebrating any holiday– they sat on the couch and watched how’s it made together. It was peaceful. It flashes through kai’s mind everytime someone (Lillian) calls his father bad or abusive. And, his dad gives him money. He hands Kai a couple 20 dollar bills every month, for clothes and food, in exchange for the boy staying quiet and behaving. Kai saves for new clothes, and shoes, and buys canned food for cheap to eat. Sometimes his dad saves him barfood, but by 12 he can no longer stomach chicken wings and peperoni pizza. As kai gets into “middle school”, his father tends to end up more and more drunk. He comes home later and later, and well… Every time Kai sees his father, the chance of a bottle hitting his skin, or words being yelled at him, gets higher and higher. Kai never learns why his dads getting angrier, but he stops giving kai money and sometimes stays home more than he used to. Every wrong move gets him hit. And, when his dad gets busy and isn’t at home, Kai waits in a quiet fear for when he does. He feels numb, barely gets any sleep, and starts applying pressure to his skin. Just shortly before Kai turns 15, at the start of ninth grade, Kai can’t take it anymore. He gets yelled at for coming home late, for coming home early, gets called a waste of space, food, and oxygen everytime his dad sees him. Kai tries to take his life, he can’t remember how, but he ends up being caught by a girl, and shortly after ends up in the hospital. He stays there for awhile. What happens is a blur, but… all he knows is that afterwards? He doens’t see his dad again. [ ], Kai’s grandmother. Kai’s grandmother, or [Dave B.s] mother, hadn’t spoken to her son in over two decades. He was a brat, always confident that he knew what he was doing, and he HATED her. Used to steal from her wallet to buy beer as a teen, was always sleezy and a bit of a ‘playboy’, despite not being that attractive. He dropped contact in his early 20’s, and she never tried to contact him because Linda knew he wouldn’t want to hear it. So, when one fateful October, she gets a call from the police, she’s confused. Less so when asked if she’s his mother. ‘Yes, but I haven’t talked to him in years. I always knew he’d end up in trouble– if he needs bail, the answers no.’ Her confusion, however, is replaced with surprise when she learns about Kai. Her grandson. Who, has apparently been neglected and abused for years and just tried to take his life. Apparently, her son never actually moved that far, and is still in the city. She’s never been quicker to go to the hospital. Kai seems dazed, and smaller than a boy his age should be. She agrees to take him in, and by the time hes out of the hospital, his stuffs already in a room. She lives in a small, three bedroom home. The same home kai’s dad grew up in– but she doesn’t mention that to kai. Her husband passed away a couple years ago, so its just been her. He gets a nice, sizable room on the top floor. Lillian stays over on weekends and helps decorate the walls. Leaves his stuff behind, too. Its here, where Kai gets his love for things. Computers, motorcycles, and most importantly– baking. His grandma bakes with him. Its how they bond. And, once realizing that its all kai will eat (he can’t stand greasy food, and theres something about sugar that makes him feel at ease), it becomes almost a weekly tradition. Kai bakes as much as he can, and he gets a job at a motorshop just to buy better equipment for it.