Welcome to Gaia! ::

[his name, birthday, etc. are all staying the same as in his journal!]

Hobbies:
Drag: A simple word for an artistic calling that combines, among other things, acting, dance, comedy and sass, makeup, wig-styling, costuming, and editing a performance mix (though Kiyoshi usually gets Yuki’s help with the last one). While Magdalen Yotsuya Wilde’s social media presence still exists, Kiyoshi has begun moving back into performances at bars, and he’s so. happy. He hasn’t built up enough cred to produce shows yet, but he’s working to rebuild old friendships and working relationships from before he purified. He’s also down to help mentor younger drag artists, and he takes commissions to design outfits for people.

Textile Arts: Even outside of his drag, Kiyoshi loves making things with fabric and yarn. He’s most skilled at sewing as in garment construction or mending, having made most of his own clothes since he was fifteen (gothic lolita fits like he wants to wear aren’t generally sized for someone so tall or with his proportions). However, he’s also familiar with knitting, crochet, and embroidery. He especially enjoys making things for other people, whether that means taking commissions to make someone a custom dress, knitting scarves for friends in winter, or making crochet-body plush creatures as gifts for people he loves.

Gossip: Kiyoshi likes to talk, which generally becomes obvious within twenty seconds of meeting him. While he’s perfectly content to talk about random things—especially ones where he knows a lot—one of his favorite subjects is everybody else’s business. Also, his own business. Petty interpersonal dramas, the latest tea on the romantic contretemps going on among any given group (usually the Destiny City magical community but not always), whose tragic backstory is making them set things on fire this week—while Kiyoshi understands that some things aren’t his to share, he considers few avenues of gossip off limits.

Space History: As he puts it, Kiyoshi was raised in the untamed wilds of an academic library by a pack of feral historians. He’s not sure yet if he wants to start over on a PhD, but his passion for studying history remains. Of late, his focus has been everywhere but Earth. Naturally, this entails rifling around his home-world, trying to learn as much as he can about its people, their lives and cultures, etc.—but he wants to learn ALL the space history. Please take him to your world or Wonder? Yes, even if you’re a space senshi and haven’t cleared the Chaos infection yet. Tell him about your people and their culture? There are so many stories out there to learn from! ………Please? 🥺


Virtues:
Earnest: Kiyoshi always wants to live as his most authentic self. To that end, he lets people know upfront what they’re in for with him and doesn’t waste time trying to please people who aren’t going to like him. He will exercise self-censorship (e.g., immediate bitchy responses don’t always reflect his true feelings) and he can tone things down (he wants to be in community with others, which is easier if he respects that people have limits). He takes extra steps like that not to hide, but because he knows who he is and who he wants to be. Yes, he is a loud, dramatic, stubborn diva, and he absolutely does too much. He gave you his content warnings; you can take him or leave him.

Determined: When Kiyoshi cares about what he’s doing, he goes in full-throttle and won’t stop until he’s either accomplished what he set out to do or been forced to stop. While he expects a lot from himself, he’s trying to get better at forgiving himself for not hitting every high bar that he sets for himself. But even so, Kiyoshi always needs to know that he tried. If he doesn’t give a task or project the best efforts that he can under the circumstances, he simply will not be satisfied.

Compassionate: At his core, Kiyoshi wants to be the sort of person who would’ve helped his younger self. He cares very deeply about other people, their pain, and their problems. Too many problems in this universe, he thinks, come from people hardening their hearts to each other instead of trying to help. Whether they need a shoulder to cry on, leeway and patience while they’re struggling, or someone to break things down for them while coming from a place of love, Kiyoshi wants to do whatever he can to make the bad times more bearable, or to understand someone on their own terms as much as possible.

Idealistic: Kiyoshi sees hope as a central part of being a magical girl and refuses to let go of it. Things can always get better if people are willing to check their egos and put in the work. If things are unfair and shitty right now, they don’t need to stay that way. People might have a lot of work to do, but they can always make better choices and choose to be their best selves. Somebody may make themself so dangerous that killing them is better for the collective good, but you will never convince Kiyoshi that there wasn’t some way to help them. Nothing in this life is hopeless, and ******** you if you want Kiyoshi to stop believing that.


Flaws:
Dramatic: Unfortunately, Kiyoshi’s most authentic self is an emotional maximalist: he has a surplus of Big Feelings and very little chill. Despite trying to restrain this so he doesn’t overwhelm people, he still Does The Most, expressing himself hyperbolically, his emotional volume turned up to 11, sometimes without knowing how serious he is. His reactions to stress and perceived slights quickly become disproportionate and spiral into tangled, messy consequences. Unpacking his Big Feelings is A Whole Production, so he puts it off, which in turn makes both his snap reactions and the eventual unpacking worse.

Basically, he’s A Lot To Deal With, and his self-awareness about it only helps so much.

Stubborn: Kiyoshi tries very hard to consider multiple different perspectives and weigh potential outcomes before making most decisions……but once he’s decided something, good luck getting him to stop. He’s sticking to what he decided until he cannot justify keeping it up anymore, and it usually takes a long time and a lot of consequences for him to reach that point. He can admit to being wrong, but it often takes his bullshit hurting other people for him to do so. If the negative effects only hit him, he’ll carry on, undaunted.

Martyr Complex: He’d call it “oldest child syndrome,” but the semantics don’t change how Kiyoshi chronically deprioritizes his own needs. Yes, he cares about others and empathizes with them—but he does so with very few boundaries, allowing their troubles to overwhelm him. He treats other people’s problems as more important than his own because he’s pretty sure that’s just true [citation needed]? Specific self-deprecating justifications vary, but all dance around the fact that Kiyoshi doesn’t value himself very much as a person. What he can do—what he can sacrifice—for others is more important because of reasons.

Willfuly Self-Deluded: Although Kiyoshi likes to project an image of being a reasonable adult person, he regularly undermines that by revealing beliefs and basic assumptions that simply are not how anything works. On stage at a drag show, Kiyoshi living in his little french vanilla fantasy is fine—the fantasy feeds the spectacle—but out in reality, he gets in trouble by refusing to meet reality halfway. People will hand him evidence that they won’t stop doing harmful things, and he’ll tell himself he needs to overlook that because they haven’t had enough kindness in their lives. Okay, yes, this situation looks bad, but like, what if it wasn’t?