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SnS: Kuraun [NPC]

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Basic Information
Name: Kuraun
Nickname: -
Age: 724 Years
Gender: male
Worker or Guest: Worker
Department: Guard
Job: Bath Area


Spirit Information
Spirit: Naga Spirit
Country of Origin: Japan
Current Home: Bathhouse
Humanoid Height: 6.5f
Spirit Height Length: 32f (In full snakeform: 23f)

Skills/Powers:
Venom: He can produce different kinds of venom from his fangs and claws depending on what he ate prior. Mild food gives his venom numbing/narcotic properties while spicy food would actually make it deadly. Kuraun usually makes sure to avoid the latter ever since living in the bathhouse in order to not accidently kill people. Just in case, though, he owns some vials of antidote made from his own blood.
Strong Body: Kuraun's snake-body is rather tough and can easily hold physically buff individuals in place if wrapped by the serpentine body. If needs be, he can also strangle the shit out of them.
Transformation: Kuraun has three different forms he can switch between: Humanoid with scales on legs, arms and face; Naga-form witzh a snake tail and scales on arms and face; and a full snakeform which takes the form of a purple snake. Usually he is seen in his nagaform.

Personal Information
Personality:
Kuraun is a quiet and distant individual who would usually never stay at a place that has as many people around as the bathhouse. His facial expressions rarely ever change and if they do, it often is just an irritated glare. He only talks if verbally aproached or feels the need to set things right (for example when someone is breaking the rules of the bathhouse). In latter case he does not abhor the idea of using force to put people into their place, unless they are obediant from the start. You can still discuss your reasoning with him for breaking rules as long as your voice stays calm and your words keep a polite undertone.
The naga tends to think through his decisions a lot to the point where he puts too much thought into a matter and grows upset about it. That being said, if he ever gets into a situation that leaves him confused despite proper mental evaluation of the situation, he acts rather helpless on his own. If you ever want to get him truly interested in a conversation, try hypothetical moral dillemas; he really digs discussing those.
To people he holds dear or people he believes to owe something, he is extremly loyal and would defend them to the blood.

Likes:
+ Calm discussions with educated spirits
+ meat without spices
+ His "honour"
+ hot water. (Will chill in a hot bath post-workinghours)

Dislikes:
- Inspid food (eats it anyway to avoid his venom to become too dangerous)
- Loud or inpolite mannerisms
- not grasping a situation
- being ridiculed and not being able to do anything about it
- staying still (he likes to move his tail around a lot)

History:
Kuraun was born into a small family of Nagas in a mountain region of Japan close to an area of natural hot springs. His family was rathe rimportant to him and since the place was at times dangerous because of human curiousity, they had to stay on alert almost permanently and go into hiding every now and then. The young Naga was taught that non-spirits are a threat to beware and thus began training his natural abilities early - just in case they were attacked. While his father continously praised him for those efforts, his mother and 6 siblings did not like the idea of fighting. In the end however, they could avoid all possible conflict and Kuraun felt his abilities go to waste; yet he never looked for a fight. Instead he spent most of his time with his younger siblings, teaching them critical thinking and played through "What if"-Dilemmas of all kinds.
It was not until several decades later that Kuraun grew bored with his life and he decided to go on a journey on his own. The idea was supported by his father who himself used to get around the land a lot before settling down at the hot spring. Disguiesd as a human in busy areas, Kuraun absorbed any information about any culture he could get his eyes on, even travelling overseas. During all those times he did end up interacting with humans but never fully trusted them, remembering his father's teachings.
About 2 centuries passed before the Naga returned home. His parents were proud of their firstborn and his siblings revered him as some kind of hero. Soon their lifes reverted to what they were before Kuraun left, except that the traveller had so many more stories to tell and wouldn't have to limit himself on hypothetical happenings.

Much later, humans decided to turn the natural hot springs the naga-family resided at into a tourist attraction. At this time Kuraun was 571 years old and had gotten 2 more siblings while refusing to look for a mating partner on his own yet (he just never felt like creating a family on his own). He intended to fight the humans back, defend this place but his family decided against it, forcing him to leave to a different place - an action the Naga thought to be wrong, cowardly and emberassing. Their new living space was at a cliffside - a wet and warm cave system forged  by the ocean's currents but far less comfortable than the springs. Angry at the change, Kuraun started teaching his siblings to defend themselves. They caught onto his ideas fairly quickly, considering he was a rolemodel in their eyes.
Only a few years passed before Kuraun got into a fateful situation that should change his life: His youngest sibling, Uiru, who also revered kuraun the most, climbed up the cliffside driven by ambitions to prove his strength to his rolemodel. However, he misjudged his own perseverance and lost his grip, causing him to fell down towards the sharp rocks on the bottom. Kuraun was far too late to stop his little brother's fall but thankfully another figure appeared just in time, managing to magically slow down the younger naga's fall and saving his life. The mysterious figure turned out to be a witch, looking for spirits from all over the world that needed a new home. At this point Kuraun was not one to desire another place to stay but he realised how his anger and hateful ambitions had almost costed the life of someone he held dear. He apologised to his family for that, promising to change for the better and asked the witch to allow him to serve her, so he could pay off his debt to her, knowingly that the life of his breathren could never be repaid. In the end however, he believed that he owed this witch something and that it was the right thing to do.

Additional Info:
> He cannot wield a weapon to save his life.
> In his humanoid form he doesn't actually wear underwear.
> He chooses his attire in a way that it would not get in the way when tranforming.
> more tba

RP Style: Mostly skype~ Turning up in chats every now and then, too.
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caitlin-june's avatar
Dat purple tail oUo <3

Looks great!