Kalai Curtis

[kalai]

Full Name: Kalai Curtis
Gender: Male
Age: Seventeen
Orientation: Straight

Family: N/A
Friends: N/A
Relationship Status: Single
Face Claim: Daniel Gogolla

Personality: Kalai is the kind of person that does whatever you want just because it'll help you out. He doesn't lose sight of how it'll benefit him, but he'll do it even when he knows there is no benefit.

Kalai is very proactive when it comes to opportunities. Nearly anything he can try, he will, even if he fails miserably. He is eager to learn and eager to try new things. He loves getting to know other people.

On the other hand, there's a dark side. For example; Secrets. They rule his world. He keeps secrets to feel security, even if it's unnecessary. His respect for others keeps him from doing anything or keeping anything from anyone that would hurt them. It turns out that Kalai just doesn't really give himself to people as freely as people tend to think he does. Sure, emotionally he's there to cry to without the slightest sign of annoyance. He lets you get mad; throw your fit, hit him, scream, insult him, fine. He will watch it, take it, with a sense of understanding.

Yet, he isn't all you see. Typically people don't know him as well as they could. He's full of contrasting forces and if you assume something of him, he's likely to prove it false.

Kalai is a very charismatic person by nature. Not everyone likes him, for each person is different, but he typically remains fairly unoffensive in his approach toward people which helps him. He doesn't take things too seriously and he doesn't get angry too often if you're not intentionally attacking him or provoking him.

The greatest flaws to him are shown in close relationships; his sense of suspicion when he gets close to a person, his unshakable jealousy, and his over protectiveness. If that doesn't throw you off- for he means well- you may get a bit annoyed by his energy. He's constantly energetic, it seemed he never winds down enough to sleep; yet, when the sun goes down, he's shockingly docile. Likewise, he is quite the same docile person when he wakes up in the morning. Otherwise he's happy and energetic with very little variation.

Special Ability: Kalai considers them angels, but they're ghosts that he talks to. People from the past will hold conversations with him, helping him through his problems, offering advice, and talking about their past and how they died. The ghosts are a lot like people with emotions, though Kalai can't touch them. They make him cold, leaving his body temperature always at least a few degrees below normal. He could, technically, talk to as many as he wanted but he has a few that come back or stay with him, and typically he doesn't have a group around. Occasionally they warn him of things- 'someone's coming through the door', or 'get out of the road, a car is coming'. The ghosts he talks to have keener senses and they seem to see he future, though they don't do it frequently. He has to speak aloud to communicate with them, they cannot read his thoughts and he can't read theirs. Some people who can read minds have, on occasion, picked up on his conversation with a ghost- they hear the ghost's speech as if it were a thought. (ehh, I tried to phrase that as best as I could. I don't mean to imply anyone has to follow that, you should say your character can't hear the ghosts if that's what you want, but I was trying to explain how they COULD hear the ghosts if they wanted.)

Physical Description: Once the little blond boy down the street, Kalai has dyed his hair a brown color when his parents divorced. He has blue eyes and long, thick hair. His skin is pale though typically tanned by the sun. He has a sharp nose and long face. He is on the short side, but only slightly. His attire varies though he leans toward button up 'dress' shirts, typically no tie. He will wear t-shirts with various logos, and a pair of jeans just as soon. His choice of shoe is 'skater' shoe though he doesn't skate board or roller skate.

Other: He plays the guitar to pass the time and loves music.

History: Kalai had the perfect life as far as he was concerned. It was wonderful. Everything was wonderful. However, when he turned five, things got tough for his family. Kalai coped by closing his eyes when he felt like he'd cry. Angels visited him, cooing that everything would be wonderful again. As his parents scream and fought, he smiled at the angels. How did the angels smile with tears in their eyes? They told him everything would be wonderful now, and he believed them. Promises meant everything when you were little and the world was big.

In school he laughed it off, smiling so his friends couldn't see his pain. Eventually he grew distant from those friends to handle his own issues. The dismissal bell was always horrid. It meant stress, it meant sorrow, it meant bad thoughts and fear. All those wonderful, simple things disappeared in time and the world suddenly got complicated. He couldn't count to ten and find everything okay, and happiness was a rare treat.

The angels continued talking to him. His parents divorced and he was shuttled between the two for years, meeting their countless boyfriends and girlfriends respectively, until he finally convinced them that sending him away was what was best. 'It is impossible for a sixteen year old to start life over. I don't want to meet your friends or start again', he'd told them, and then he turned around and began life anew in a sense, at the school by himself. They were too occupied by their own lives to notice where they were sending their son; his power remained his secret.