Boys in the girls room
Girls in the men's room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys in the parlour
They're getting harder
I'll free your mind and your androgyny
- Garbage, "Androgyny"
Name: Kirin Thompson (Note: People assume Kirin is named for the mythological animal, but his mother actually named Kirin after her favourite brand of beer. Thanks, mom -_- )
Nicknames: Kiri (He'd better like you a lot, or he'll tear you a new one for using this.)
Gender: Male. Usually passes himself off as female in civilian form, wearing the female uniform and such. Unless people see his Student ID, most don't question his feminine appearance.
Age: 18
Birthday: January 17
Sign: Capricorn – ambitious, self-disciplined, persistent and methodical. The rising sign would be Sagittarius, making Kirin's inner personality outspoken, farseeing, buoyant and restless.
Blood Type: B
Fav. Food: Prawns, crab... lots of seafood, as long as it's not the mucus-based type like clams or oysters.
Hated Food: Instant pasta. Tasteless and rubbery, ick.
School: Meadowview
Hobbies: * Karaoke -- Kirin is the Karaoke
Queen King. He loves singing in any and all places, really, but no one complains when you're in a sound-proofed karaoke booth. He'll spend as many afternoons or evenings here as he can. But it's not unusual to find him humming or singing out in public, either.
* Chess -- A quiet, emotion-free, intellectual sport? Kirin would be all over this, even if he didn't love strategy games. The only people he has to socialise with playing chess are similarly intellectual people who don't require much interaction with him or expect him to be friendly while playing. But of course, he's also there for the challenge. Not only does chess improve his own mind, he can learn the way others think by watching their strategies.
He prefers speed chess, Internet chess, or playing against the computer, simply because of the irritation sitting still for a normal match gives him. Sometimes he'll play in the park if he can play two people at once, or if his opponent doesn't mind Kirin getting up every so often. [ See flaw
Inability to sit still. ]
* Flowcharting -- The tool of the organised mind, flowcharts have appealed to Kirin's logical and methodical nature since he began taking computer classes in school. It is very common for Kirin to have detailed mental flowcharts for various types of social interaction - if Situation A occurs, then respond with Action 1, when asked Question Ω, pick either Response i (which leads to Situation X) or Response ii (leading to Situation Y) or Response iii (leading to Situation Z) ... and so on. This is all in his head and very quick for him to parse through. Of course, there are always going to be events that he didn't have in there as options, which can throw a spanner in the works (particularly if he's in the middle of battle) and means he has to rewrite his mental guide later on. But he has the comfort of knowing the method isn't flawed, only his input into it.
His computing teacher thinks Kirin has a future in programming. For lack of anything better to be suggested, Kirin is fine with this. Better to work with computers than with people.
* Crossdressing -- Since entering senior high, Kirin has been crossdressing full time. Unless you've seen his Student ID, you'd think him just another one of the Meadowview girls. It's been a part-time hobby for a bit longer, he swapped between uniforms regularly in middle school, but even those who attended the same middle school probably just think Kirin went through a tomboy phase where "she" wore a male uniform at times. It's unknown if the crossdressing would have continued past this 'experimentation' stage if Kirin's mother hadn't been killed three years ago.
Kirin is not in a good headspace. In fact, he's barely even the same person he used to be - by design. What began as simply wearing some of his mother's clothes and styling his hair as she used to when he was very young has become armor that he can't live without. Unable to do anything with all his helpless rage, self-loathing and anguish, Kirin hid it away under this new, colder exterior. Don't expect to ever see that old Kirin, though. The "Ice Queen" Kirin doesn't feel those emotions, she's a brand new person. Even in the privacy of his own home, if Kirin doesn't crossdress, he's still his Ice Queen self, not the happy boy who adored his mother or even the lost, grieving son. That person is locked away and Kirin isn't about to let it back out.
Basically, Kirin is very screwed in the head and this is not his most logical decision. It's a great way to hide, though, and he can even lie to himself by pretending the reason he's so closed off and icy is so that no one gets close enough to realise that "she" is really a he.
It is worth noting that Meadowview originally raised an objection to Kirin's crossdressing. Threats to take this gender/minority issue public quickly had the school changing its tune and playing along, worried about public backlash and cuts to funding.
Gemstone: AragoniteVirtues: Focused -- Kirin is very determined in regards to his set goals. He's the type to decide on several goals, then won't deviate from them. Even if it takes a long time to bring them to fruition, he hasn't forgotten them and is steadily working towards them. He's not easily distracted from anything he's focused on. (Though of course, if it doesn't distract or interfere with his goals, he may be more than happy to go along with others.) Sadly, most of Kirin's goals tend to be short-term (within a year or so) rather than long-term (future career and such). Partly because he gets a bit too bogged down in his more immediate concerns, focusing on those rather than things several years into the future.
Strategic -- Kirin has a talent for planning and strategic thinking. It's the most effective way of making sure no one interferes with his goals, by keeping people from realising what those goals are, or how he's working to achieve them - especially his goals as a senshi. Due to Kirin's distrustful nature (and the distrust towards him in return), it is hard for him to manipulate other people. His strategies are more in regards to setting up situations and having an accurate idea of how others will react - he knows better than to try and manipulate people directly. Chess and battle strategy are more his scene - the less human emotions to work with, the better (or if there must be human emotion, the easily predictable kind - provoking people to anger/attack, instilling fear or confusion into enemies). It's hard to have good strategies when he's the only person on his side, but if anyone can pull it off, it's Kirin.
Cold -- Emotionally detached from most situations, Kirin keeps a cool head when others would respond with fear or anger. Thanks to this, he can react logically and strategically in high-pressure situations. Most insults roll off him like water off a duck's back, and he doesn't really care if you like him or not. You can call him cold, icy, or even a freaking robot, the fact remains that it takes a lot to dig the emotions out of this guy -- unless you stumble across one of his two big weaknesses. The first is karaoke, and it's not so much of a secret (if it was meant to be, worst kept secret ever). The second... well, you might want to avoid any jokes starting with 'yo mama'.
Flaws: Inability to sit still -- Kirin simply can't sit still for long, he always needs to be doing something. If he's waiting for one of his strategies or plans to reach fruition, he'll go burn off energy in a frivolous manner, whether that means karaoke, dashing about town, or... less... nice means.
Distrusting -- Kirin has confident expectations that the motives and goals of others are dissimilar, if not harmful, to his own interests. So even if he has to work with you right now and your goals seem to be the same, he doesn't work very hard to hide the lack of actual trust there. As a result, people tend to distrust him in turn. Which means that if something bad happens, he's often a suspect... Not to mention it must get a bit lonely after a while, not trusting anyone to be on your side.
Cold -- No wonder this guy isn't popular, he's a regular Ice King (or is that Queen?). Not just unfriendly, Kirin doesn't even respond normally to simple human interaction. Even if the right words are being said (please, thank you), that stony face hasn't changed at all and there's certainly no hint of warmth or friendship there! If he's trying to push people away, he's definitely succeeding... Not to be confused with being closed-off or quiet - Kirin's still quite extroverted (especially if you go to karaoke with him), it's just hard to get some warmer emotions out of him.
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