Difference between revisions of "Takahisa Kandori"

• Weapon: Swords - A variety of swords, bought on special occasions or occasionally made by Kandori himself as side projects.
• Body: Stylish Suit - Usually a very fine yet comfortable tailored suit with accessories such as silk handkerchief and pocketwatch.
• Feet: Dress Shoes - Impeccable shoes, the soles sometimes lined with silk to make up for his natural deficiencies in stealth.
• Accessory: Baoding Balls - A forbaoding omen or just good wrist health?

• Expression: 5 - If Shooting Has Not Occurred In First 2 Pose Round
  • After That 2 - "Did he just stab the DVA shit run I thought you lived at a school"
• Knowledge: 3 - Well-rounded but narrowly focused.
  • Science and Dimensions: 5 - Made the DVA out of "what he managed to have in his hands when Kirijo exploded."
  • Otherworldly Horrorterrors: 5 - Licked the Darkness
  • Mysticism: 4 - Hang around Chizuru enough, it rubs off.
  • Tartarus: 1 - It Kind Of Scares Him
• Courage: 3 - In The Face Of Boredom
  • In The Face Of Anything Else: - 5
• Understanding: Spleen - Better Than You Know Yourself
  • Why They Keep Trying 1 - For The Darkness Comprehendeth It Not
  • Why His Actions Are Wrong: - Spleen Reverse
• Diligence: 4 - Duty is important but sometimes your soap is on.
  • Enforcing Safety Warnings: 1 - Ironic Wonka Negligence

• Takahisa Kandori has no close family and one well-known half-brother.
• Under great stress, Kandori is known to display disturbing phenomena such as sudden strength or the secretion of ectoplasm. It is also suggested that part of his appearance as an unscarred and upright figure is faked - as the manifestation of scars when his powers and endurance are taxed has been known to happen.
• In times of dire necessity, Kandori has displayed the ability to cloak his form temporarily in that of another or manifest something akin to invisibility. The precise method is little known and it happens rarely.
• He has one pet, a 7 month old dog named Damocles. It was bought from an expensive snobby kennel and is a golden lab with a distinctive birthmark above its nose.
• Takahisa Kandori is fluent in both his native tongue and in English, with enough conversation French and German to get by as he's had interactions with speakers of both languages. He can bark restaraunt orders or commands in a further five.
• Takahisa Kandori is a frequent insomniac.
• To cope with insomnia, he has picked up a number of esoteric skillsets:
  • Cooking (usually from an artistic approach though flavor is important and he tends toward sweets)
  • The forging of metal goods and materials. (He has often had cause to do this in the process of some mystic imbuing ritual or another, but also finds it a suitable symbol. He tries to forge his own weapons but sometimes needs advice or consults with those who have time to forge things every day of their lives).
  • Kareoke. (This has happened on-grid just once.))
  • Geocaching. (This has caused five deaths. First to find MEANS first to find.)

"Haven't you ever kicked a sandcastle over? Remember how it felt?"

Profile: Takahisa Kandori is a perfectly respectable businessman and the head of the Saeki Electronics & Biological & Energy Corporation, SEBEC for short. He's charming, if a touch detached. He's respected and envied by those who think they are his peers for his success and his control over others. He does not operate SEBEC so much as he rules it from on high as its lord and master. Few things go on within the company he is neither aware of nor in some way involved with directly. Very few people would ever imagine that he is a practically a monster wearing human skin.

Skills: As Above So Below, Do Not Pick Up What You Cannot Put Down, The Man Gendo Ikari Is A Pale Imitation Of, Destroying Other Peoples' Children, The Man In Black, Taking Your Id For A Joy Ride, The Man With A Magnifying Glass, Guess Who The Ant Is, Doesn't Wear Sunglasses At Night (Yet)

Special: Pyromania - Tatsuya holds forth his hand and, through a combination of his occult talent and the raw force of his supreme will, ignites the very oxygen around him in a conflagration that consumes all it touches.

Hephaestus is the Greek god of the Forge, the earlier counterpart to the Roman Vulcanus. In an attempt to one-up Zeus for the birth of Athena, Hera conceived and bore Hephaestus by herself. From here the story diverges; one version has Hera casting her son from Mount Olympus for his ugliness, whereupon he was lamed when he hit the ground at the foot of the mountain; the second version holds that the one who cast him from on high was actually Zeus, who was angered by his wife's actions and by the boy's attempt to defend his mother from her husband's wrath. He was accepted back into the ranks at some point, of course, at which point he began to forge wonders for gods and mortals alike -- most notably, the armor and shield of Achilles.

• SENSE: A metered pounding like a hammer striking against an anvil (or the beat of a lion's heart) and intense heat, both of which are tinged by a dull ache, like that of a chronic injury.
• SOUND: The striking of iron against iron, the roar of flame, and the soft growl of a great cat.
• SMELL: Hot iron and a lion's musk.
  
  

• 0. The Fool
  • Tohru Adachi: Tatsuya and Adachi have met a few times, particularly when KNOWS was still operational. The Inaban detective knows that Tatsuya and King Leo are the same person. Tatsuya also finds Kyrie, Adachi's Shadow-projection, to be fascinating -- he, of course, doesn't know that Adachi and Kyrie are the same person. Aww, no fair! XD

• I. The Magician
  • Yosuke Hanamura: The ever-scheming ex-KDA member currently has it out for Tatsuya, having been asked (or duped into) taking down the formidable Masquerade CEO by one Rumika Shiratori. The two met for the first time at Okina Prison during a raid, trading warning shots before Tatsuya left Yosuke hanging and moved on to other targets. Further, Tatsuya actually openly stated, in front of witnesses, that Yosuke was right about something in the aftermath of the KDA's semi-successful raid on the Lunarvale mansion where Kandori and the Masquerade were holding Thora Kobayashi for treatment for her suicide disease. No one is really sure how to deal with this, least of all Tatsuya and Yosuke themselves.

• II. The High Priestess
  • Tatsuya has developed no notable Priestess links.

• III. The Empress
  • Tatsuya has developed no notable Empress links.

• IV. The Emperor
  • Akatsuki Enda: Tatsuya is familiar with Kyo Enda from the elder twin's time in KNOWS and continued association with the NWO, even if he isn't terribly active now that the youth program has ended. Since he became acquainted with the particulars of Kyo's file (and his psychological evaluation), Tatsuya has wanted to see if his twin brother was anything like him. To this end, he outright asked Akatsuki this...with predictable results.
  • Tatsuzou Sudou: DDDDDDDDDD:

• V. The Hierophant
  • Tatsuya has developed no notable Hierophant links.

• VI. The Lovers
  • Ginji Sasaki: The most public member of the Masquerade, Ginji is one of Tatsuya's most trusted associates; Tatsuya is one of the few people who is aware of the true motives behind Ginji's youthful predilections. He protects his witty associate with his trademark focused ferocity, and often engages in bouts of verbal repartee as much for the enjoyment of it as for its subtler aspects; that is, the visible signs of the friction that is to be expected between two powerful, charismatic men, regardless of their respect and affection for one another. Ginji's title in the Masquerade is Prince Taurus; his color is yellow.

• VII. The Chariot
  • Tatsuya has developed no notable Chariot links.

• VIII. Justice
  • Anise Thompson: Anise is the only member of disbanded KNOWS that received promotion to the Masquerade upon graduation. Tatsuya tested her combat skills himself and is pleased with her prowess, though he finds her bull-headed nature and tendency to blunder her way through the delicate and exacting mystic arts somewhat...frustrating. Her title is Countess Aries, and her color is violet.

• IX. The Hermit
  • Tatsuya has developed no notable Hermit links.

• X. The Wheel of Fortune
  • Chizuru Ishigami: Ever-cryptic Chizuru shares Tatsuya's love of cats and dedication to Takahisa Kandori; he values her advice, even couched as it always is in layers of double meanings and vague allegory. Tatsuya counts on that quirk of hers to mark his place in reality, for it is only in his nightmares that the fortune-teller makes perfect, unmistakable sense.

• XI. Strength
  • Tatsuya has developed no notable Strength links.

• XII. The Hanged Man
  • Tatsuya has developed no notable Hanged Man links.

• XIII. Death
  • Seiichi Miyamoto: The newest recruit to the Masquerade, Seiichi was scouted and hired by Tatsuya to provide a way for the CEO to strike at Naomi Suzuno and Tohya Kidzuki without having to compromise his principles and do it himself. He has fully integrated Seiichi into the Masquerade and, thanks to a discussion on fathers and an early-morning phone call, trusts him a great deal already -- enough, in fact, to issue him a promotion (and commensurate raise) upon the conclusion of the KDA raid on Kandori's Lunarvale mansion. Seiichi's title is Count Libra, and his color is, predictably, black.
  • Shirou Sekigawa: Thora Kobayashi's boyfriend. Tatsuya stepped in to draw his attention away from Kandori when the CEO and Thora were engaged in a fight at Club Zodiac the evening he was released from Okina Prison. During the fight, Tatsuya gave Shirou a "warning shot" -- a slash across the face that the teen retains as a scar. Naturally, Shirou wants to kill Tatsuya now in addition to his stated goal of killing Kandori. This will not end well.

• XIV. Temperance
  • Naomi Suzuno: At their first actual meeting at Okina Prison, Tatsuya surprised and disconcerted Naomi by casually referencing "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", a poem she knows well -- and found engraved into a blade she received from Takahisa Kandori while in KNOWS. Tatsuya finds himself both impressed with and intensely irritated by the Spencer heiress; while he likes and respects her for her talents and accomplishments, her association with Tatsuya Suou frustrates him and her defection from the NWO grates at him when he allows it to. He has recently discovered that she clashed with Anna Yoshizaka, the outcome of which has left him legitimately angry with her.
  • Dona Kimura: Dona's alter ego Daiya Kagami caught Tatsuya's notice when she replaced an NWO-allied doctor for the purpose of trolling Arisa Shiratori. Thanks to his prophetic dreams, Tatsuya knew to send her the MA-347 amulet she would need to come with him when he traumaported her away from being interrogated (in her disguise) by Akatsuki Enda, as well as when and where he would need to enter her borrowed office just in the nick of time to achieve this rather impressive feat. He is currently contemplating certain logistics related to the enhancement of a Shadow-Possessed individual...who is now the Masquerade's very own pretty pink Princess Pisces-slash-horrible bipolar Naomi-hating id monster. Just as planned.

• XV. The Devil
  • Gozaburou Gessou: The upstart hipster and acting CEO of SEBEC aggravates Tatsuya. If he truly wants the position, he had better be willing to earn it.
  • Reiji Kido: Kandori's half-brother (?!), he landed a hit on Tatsuya's King Leo mask during the attack on the mansion, but Tatsuya pushed him to attack Thora's demon instead. Another would-be hero-slash-complete moron, as far as he knows.

• XVI. The Tower
  • Anna Yoshizaka: The former Sevens track star has intrigued Tatsuya ever since they first met, and he has quickly come to admire her spirit as much as he relies on her cutting honesty, cold efficiency, and soothing psychic presence. While he does enable her self-destructive habits, Tatsuya is of the belief that his influence keeps her from harming herself further. In part because of the actions of Naomi Suzuno, Anna admitted to Tatsuya that she has feelings for him that go beyond her devotion to him as the CEO of the Masquerade; though he hadn't consciously realised it until essentially the day she told him, Tatsuya realised he actually did, in fact, return her feelings. Whether or not the relationship can survive the many obstacles before it (not least of which being how broken they both are) remains to be seen, but if it does, it may well be good for both of them. Because of events that took place during the KDA raid on Kandori's Lunarvale mansion, Tatsuya realised that he actually loves her -- he was willing to do something selfless for her sake. He'll tell her soon. Anna's Masquerade title is Lady Scorpio, and her color is blue.
  • Takahisa Kandori: Tatsuya regards the CEO of SEBEC as something of a surrogate father, and as such is fiercely loyal to him -- not that they don't have disagreements now and again, of course. Now that Kandori is free (as a direct result of Tatsuya's efforts), he hopes things will return to normal with a modicum of disruptive violence and bloodstains on the carpets. Tatsuya is currently upset with Kandori for taking a sip of Anna's soul in order to heal himself; the fact that he knows why the CEO did it (and might have done the same had he been the one dying), and yet is still violently upset with him for doing it to Anna and not him, is causing him a great deal of distress.
  • Thora Kobayashi: The daughter of SEBEC's head geneticist, Thora was in KNOWS during its run. Her fiercely canine Resonance rubs Tatsuya the wrong way; her comatose brother and brilliant father are much less offensive to his senses. Tatsuya and Keldan are even friends. Still, Tatsuya agreed to mind Thora once he and Kandori orchestrated her abduction from Club Zodiac in the attempt to heal her suicide disease, and the sight of another animal-like human in a cage awoke a kind of kindred feeling in him. He still finds her Resonance grating but, after spending time with her, is actually able to interact with her without it driving him up the wall.

• XVII. The Star
  • Tatsuya has developed no notable Star links.

• XVIII. The Moon
  • Tatsuya has developed no notable Moon links.

• XIX. The Sun
  • Tatsuya Suou: The person responsible for the state of Tatsuya's face. He encountered the Sumaru University student for the first time since that terrible night when the Suou boy accompanied Naomi Suzuno to Okina Prison. Tatsuya believes that his doppelganger is the thrall of the witch he was instructed by the Voices to destroy by burning down the Araya Shrine nearly eleven years ago, and intends to kill him for his having ruined much of Tatsuya's face and life.

• XX. Judgement
  • Michio Magaride: The Sevens student proved to be indispensable at the Masquerade's raid on Okina Prison, and as such Tatsuya invited him to join the ranks as an executive. The CEO appreciates Michio's calm ability to handle delicate situations as well as his absolute willingness to "clean up the filth", as it were. Michio's Masquerade title, taken from his moon sign, is Baron Sagittarius; his color is teal.
  • Nagisa Renge: Tatsuya met Nagisa through Seiichi, who retains ties to Strega. Concerned for his friend and aware that his boss might know of a way to help her, Seiichi arranged for them to meet. The waif, so like a little stray kitten, touched the lion's heart -- to receive the care she needs, she will have to be a test subject once more, but King Leo assured her that she would be taken care of. Neither of them realise just yet that they have met before, under very different circumstances, during a raid Strega conducted on a certain sanitarium...

• After The Fire, "Der Kommissar"

• Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • The Phantom of the Opera, "Overture"
  • The Phantom of the Opera, "Masquerade/Why so Silent"

• BlazBlue OST, "Susanooh"

• Disturbed
  • "Indestructible"
  • "Inside the Fire"

• E.S. Posthumus, "Anumati"

• Gustav Holst, The Planets, Op. 32 - "Mars, the Bringer of War"

• Kansas, "Carry On Wayward Son"

• Metallica, "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"

• Nobuo Uematsu, Final Fantasy VIII OST - "Maybe I'm A Lion"

• Nonpoint, "In the Air Tonight"

• Shinedown, "Sound of Madness"

• Sting, "A Thousand Years"

• System of a Down
  • "Chop Suey!"
  • "Toxicity"

• Two Steps From Hell
  • "Flameheart"
  • "Invincible"

• Within Temptation, "Hand of Sorrow"

*'''Understanding:''' Spleen -  *'''Courage:''' 5 - *'''Knowledge:''' 3  - *'''Diligence:''' 4  - *'''Expression:''' 5