Kaden "Kei" Oki

   
Nature/Demeanor: Kid/Contrary- | -Legacies: Panderer/Peacock
Character Type: Changeling- | -Concept: YouTube Muse
Court: Unseelie- | -Kith: Pooka
House: Leanhaun (Idols)- | -Player Name: JohnFuPanda

Attributes

PhysicalSocialMental
Strength2Charisma (Outgoing, Infectious Humor)5Perception2
Dexterity (Catlike Reflexes)4Manipulation2Intelligence2
Stamina2Appearance (Unconventional Looks, Captivating)5Wits2

Abilities

TalentsSkillsKnowledges
Alertness2Animal Ken2Academics1
Athletics0Crafts0Computers3
Awareness0Drive0Cosmology0
Brawl1Etiquette2Finance0
Empathy3Firearms0Investigation0
Expression2Melee0Law0
Intimidation0Performance3Medicine0
Leadership0Stealth1Occult0
Streetwise0Survival0Politics0
Subterfuge1Technology1Science0
Other TalentsOther SkillsOther Knowledges
Carousing2Divination0Enigmas0
Intuition0Hypnosis0History0
Seduction0Meditation0Poisons0
 0Riding0Thanatology0
 0Traps0 0
Additional Abilities:
Lore Kithain 3

Advantages


Advantages
Backgrounds
Fame3
Title2
Resources4
Dreamer4
 
Arts
Metamorphosis2
Chicanery1
 
Realms
Actor2
Fae2
Nature1
 
Misc
Glamour5
Willpower4
Banality3

Ravaging/Musing Threshold:
Foster Dreams


Antithesis:
Never tell someone who they should be.

Merits and Flaws
Merits:
Good Listener +1
Protégé +1
Sex Appeal +3
Reputation +2
Language, Japanese +1
Calming Presence +1
Flaws:
Changeling Eyes -1
Curiosity -2
Impatient -1
Geas 1
Slipped Seeming -2

Freebies:
Freebie Points (15):
02 - Merits (9) - Flaws (7)
07 - Attributes: Appearance 4 to 5
10 - Backgrounds: Resources 1 to 4
12 - Backgrounds: Title 0 to 2
15 - Backgrounds: Fame 0 to 3
Total: 15

Background and History


HISTORY


Kaden was born to Japanese-American parents Aimi Honda and David Oki in California. He was a child actor from a young age, his parents only taking him out of the industry before middle school. Still, Kaden wanted to be in the limelight, drawn to the lights of nearby Hollywood. By the time he was in highschool, Kaden had devoted himself to being in some sort of acting career… unfortunately, his parents refused to pay for any such schools, and he found that he wasn’t qualified for any scholarships. By his senior year, his parents offered a solution— they would allow him to go to a performing arts University… but only one in Japan, where his parents had planned on moving to be closer to Aimi’s parents. He happily accepted, finding himself in Japan by the time school was starting up again.

In his second year, Kaden found himself— like many of his classmates— very interested by the potential of a platform like YouTube. He made an account and started exploring acting, fashion and other forms of self-expression. Perhaps it was the content, or his charisma, or even just the pretty face, that over the years gained him a decent following. At the height of his channel, he had over six million subscribers mixed between Japan and internationally. When he graduated, Kaden was more than happy to focus on his channel rather than the acting career that he had once begged for. He went back to the US for a time to visit friends and fans, and around this time, Kaden— who went by ‘Kei’ on his channel— realized that things were changing. Things that he had dreamed of seemed to bleed into the waking world, and the impossible suddenly seemed possible. This all culminated in a single moment of clarity— one that he had while lying in bed, basking in the warmth of the sun. Kaden felt as though he had been turned inside out and thrown back into a depressingly normal world. He almost didn’t even notice that he now had a pair of cat ears, fangs and a tail… Emphasis on almost.

Kaden felt lost in this new world, surrounded by decay and death and yet so full of life himself. Luckily, he wasn’t lost long. One Unseelie of the house Leanhaun approached Kei a few days after his Chrysalis, happy to see what the new blood of the fae world was like. They happened to recognize him, and offered for Kaden to use his influence to bring in Glamour for the house. To Kei, Glamour didn’t have any meaning yet, and he accepted gladly. That changeling-- the sidhe baroness, Henrietta Siward-- took him under her wing for a time. After a while learning about society, Kei went back to Japan to resume his life and help his house cultivate what seemed like an untapped wellspring of Dreamers. Over the next year, he used the charisma granted by his house and his natural charms to fight the algorithm— still losing a fair number of subscribers from his heyday, but maintaining a solid four million. Thankfully, they even stuck with him when he changed his content, focusing more on cosplay videos and makeup tutorials, vlogs and the occasional video-podcast. Through this following, Kei was able to inspire and draw in a great number of Dreamers, something that did not go unnoticed by his house. Shortly before he turned 25, Kei was granted the title of knight and asked to come back to the US— to Florida, specifically— as his house felt that his talents were wasted in a place like Japan with no proper kingdoms, and also to help other Idols in the area. Since moving to Starke, he’s hired a staff of Dreamers to help with videos while he focuses on helping his house and, most importantly, having fun.

NOTES

Birthrights:
Shapechanging — All pooka have an affinity with a particular animal. This is always a natural animal, never a mythological one. This animal affects her appearance and personality, and she is able to shapeshift into the animal at will. If completely alone, a pooka can shapechange for free, but if another changeling or enchanted mortal is present the change costs one Glamour. A pooka can never shift into an animal when being observed by a mundane mortal. Shifting back from animal form is always free and can be done at any time (again, as long as the pooka is unobserved by mortal eyes).

Confidante — Even complete strangers often spill their guts to a pooka. This ability of getting people to open up and talk, even about their darkest secrets, is an innate talent common to all pooka. Each has his own way of going about it, but the end result is the same. Some put people off balance with mixed insults and compliments, others rapid fire questions so fast that the target loses track of what is being said, and some are just so darned cute that no one can resist them. Once, during a conversation, a pooka’s player may make an opposed Perception + Empathy (or Subterfuge, player’s choice) roll resisted by the target’s Willpower, to get the answer to a question. The number of successes determines how many questions the pooka can have answered. The target can also spend Willpower to resist this effect; each point of Willpower cancels one of the pooka’s successes.

Frailty:
Untruths— Perhaps the greatest con the pooka have pulled is making everyone believe that they never tell the truth. Under most circumstances a pooka can speak the truth as long as its mixed with lies, half-truths, and exaggerations. The trouble comes when a pooka is asked a direct question. A pooka who is asked a direct question must answer with a falsehood. If he wishes to answer truthfully the player must make a Willpower roll (difficulty 8).

equipment:

Laptop, camera