Komorebi Rin - Pumpkin Prince

[Komorebi Rin]

Character Name: Komorebi Rin
BL/CA: Aburame
IC Rank: Mercenary
Character Age: 18
Gender: Transmasc​

Character's Physical Description: Thin skin thickened by callous at the ends of greedy hands and determinable feet, worn by effort - grabbing, clawing, dragging, mining -- running. Komorebi Rin is a slight figure of varying pales and tans uneven through thin clothing that clings just as haphazardly off his frame. His complexion isn't helped by a nocturnal lifestyle, his preferred haunting leaving pale that singes under the touch of the sun. His bones pop from unseen exertion, his movements uncontrolled in alarming speed unless he intends to appear unassuming; leading to stress placed on his limbs to maintain proper pace. It's as if his body gets ahead of himself and he has to fight it for control. His hair is an unreliable black, with purple roots and a blue-ish green tinge beneath avoidant light, but it stands starkly all the same. This frames eyes that also can't pin a clear color: they burn, but the colors fade between blue and amber, occasionally even violet when they glint within darkness - always with this odd, red rim. His teeth get sharp around one canine, giving an accidental snaggletooth he hides with menace. He tends also towards darker clothing during the day and brighter clothing at night - anything to break dichotomy - with every new outfit finding no solace between sagging from modest shoulders to skin-tight half-wear.

Character's Mental Description: Rin is not a pleasant boy, but he does know how to have a good time. He exhibits every capital vice in number; with lust, pride, greed and wrath being the most prominent, but sloth permeates inaction in the worst of circumstances and hard eyes sharpen with gluttonous envy. He wallows his days when not on contract and affects with merciless precision when given a job that he can at all throw himself into. These are aspects of being able to tell the selfsame sins in others at a glance due to his demonic curse, while being proven equally powerless in stopping the corruption enough times to give up altogether. He's less of a despicable person by nature, but becomes one with necessity - exhaustion and despair do awful things to a young mind. He has a lot of pent-up aggression and a difficult relationship with the idea of penance. He pays his dues when paid in cash, and he'll do what he's asked with little question or complaint as long as the sentiment is shared.

Within that dying heart, a burden both emotional and physical, Rin cares so desperately he's had to shut it off entirely. A switch, flipped. A glance away from depravity. A sink of his own into it. He'll only care as much as it doesn't hurt. He's learned to prioritize himself for the time he has left, and he's yet to meet anyone else to settle on his level. It's hard to relate to a habitual, pathologically-enforced liar, but just once - the chance that someone might break through the sneering funhouse he's trapped himself away in - is enough of a reason to not swear off society altogether. All while continuing to push these chances away.

He also can't seem to avoid sweets long enough to go without income.

Character History: Komorebi Rin is an orphan, allegedly, from the village of Kinboshi on Mount Gesshoku in the Moon Country. This is a somewhat small but prosperous mining village and has an explicit working relationship with Moon's main city of Tsukigakure, as the Twin Mountains of Moon provide important mineral exportation - in Kinboshi's case, this is rare gemstones. It was not a storied existence, nor was it a particularly easy one, but it was a pleasant one for young Rin all the same. His mother and father both were studious workers as was the expectation for most in the village, for the mines never closed, and Rin was likely to join them as she grew up - and he did, in his early teens. His father had passed away from various lung problems by this point and the death had been expected for the months leading up to it, allowing both Rin and his mother the proper time to grieve. It was equally expectation for him to join in on the business and do his part for the village process, and he did so without complaint once he became sturdy enough to keep up with the other young miners. This was the process: wake up, greet mother, face the new day, work at the mines, return home, say goodnight to mother, go to bed, wake up again.

This was the process: wake up, greet mother, face the new day, work at the mines, return home, say goodnight to mother, go to bed, wake up again.

This was the process: wake up, greet mother, face the new day, work at the mines, return home, say goodnight to mother, go to bed, wake up again.

This was the process: wake up, greet mother, face the new day, work at the mines, return home, say goodnight to mother, go to bed, wake up again.

They didn't speak much before her death in the following years. The stress of losing her husband and being unable to connect with her now son had bedridden her from important work, and Rin had too much of his own work to handle - and his growing independence - that kept him away. Their conditions had caught up to them, both his parents and himself, and he had decided he didn't want to waste away in this same village the same way in the same loop. He left with her death. He set out. Komorebi Rin is not a Shinobi, but he had enough tricks up his sleeves to turn a trick of his own until he acquired enough basic skills to smudge an income. He became handy with thievery before finding a penchant for handling odd jobs to true mercantile, if not always assassination, work. He now works under various monikers in street-level crime circles.

Spoiler: Backstory Addt.

Rin's family bloodline is cursed by a demon, for either a crime or boon committed aeons ago. This allows them to see the truth of the world - namely, the crimes and horrors that occur around them, either through instincts or literal visions - and offers them a degree of infernal power to try and correct it, but inflicts them with the inability for anybody to understand or see their words as truth when it really matters. This routinely paints them as villainous on any attempt to soothe the troubles of the people around them, as their actions are twisted to such, and also tends to kill them early from the strain of the given power.

**Any effect this has on other player characters or player NPCs, if any, is up entirely to the other party and will not be enforced on anyone or applied without consent - as per general CRPJ rules.