Description
"Rise and shine."
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I'm coming out of my Exam-Preparation-Hiatus-Hellhole to bring to you a (not really)new character. You're welcome.
This is actually a full revamp version of an old character for an old discontinued project from 2016, his name is Ryuusei Asagiri (朝霧流星; Asagiri Ryuusei)! I actually gave him a surname this time lmao (actually his old version did have one: Akabane, but I decided to change it up because there's no "aka" (red) anywhere in his design now lmao).
Also, yes, the project he was in (Project Re: ) is now discontinued because I don't feel like redoing everything, and now he's a part of the 'Verse Tenka is in--which is heavily influenced by East Asian Myths and Folklore ((though right now only the Japanese influences are visible bc it's the one I'm most familiar with, it will expand as I go along hopefully)) also may or may not be connected with Spirit Station 'Verse in some way.
By the way, he's a "Spirit Eater" who wields a sick naginata--though I didn't draw the naginata in this. I may like naginatas way too much whoops.
Spirit Eaters are a type of exorcist in this 'Verse who, as the name suggests, eats spirits to exorcise them. All of them aren't fully human and needs to eat spirits in order to survive--actually, they absorb the spirits' essences and powers and takes them for themselves. The more (powerful) spirits they ate, they'll grow stronger, but if they eat excessively their human body won't be able to withstand all the spirits' power and will break down (in some cases, their mind will break down as well), and causes a giant evil spirit to manifest. Which makes them very powerful but not people's favorite to call when there's incidents related to evil spirits, that's why most of them works in teams with other types of exorcists.
Ryuusei here is mostly a solitary worker but often gets forced to team up by his superiors because "boy, do you want to die and cause trouble to everyone when you turn into an evil spirit because you're selfish?" and usually gets very petty when this kinda thing happen and steals everyone's last blows when he can just 'cause. He lives on his own pace and confuses others because of it, plus this resulted in nobody knowing him enough to have any opinion of him other than "he's strange." He's truthfully quite lonely but decided that his feelings aren't important enough, and he's bad at expressing emotions.
The only thing he can express well is his glee whenever he gets to eat an evil spirit and it usually doesn't give a good impression on his fellows who are fully human. So yeah, his social life is in shambles lmao. Also, due to his incompetence at even feeling his own emotions, if he has feelings for someone, he wouldn't know how to act upon it in a healthy way (he doesn't even understand that there's a healthy and unhealthy way to emote tbh) and gets very, very jealous and can be possessive--basically gets overwhelmed by his own emotions that he ended up lashing out.
It doesn't help that he's already scary enough to people, he's even scarier when he likes someone.
Somebody pls teach this child about emotions--
My guilty pleasure is to make characters that may look composed on first glance to be a human wreck I'm (not) sorry.
That's all for now btw, I'll see y'all later.