Name | Paul Ito

Species | Human

Gender | Male

Age | 16

Appearance | 
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Paul is of average build and height, while in decent enough shape he is not particularly athletic.

History | Not many people know about tiny little church hidden in a shady little corner of Kuchikiroka. Even the handful of local Christians have trouble finding it at times it is so small and out of the way. Attached to that church is an even smaller home. That is where Paul and his father Hanayama live. Hanayama is the Pastor of this run down little church. While his following is very small, just enough to keep his doors open and performing the occasional Christian wedding, Hanayama is quite devout to his faith, even giving his son a name of an apostle. As for his mother...well, Hanayama doesn't much talk about his former wife. She left just shortly after Paul was born. The best Paul can piece together was that she couldn't handle the natural level of piety that came with being a Protestant Pastors' wife in a country where only 1% of the people claim to be Christian in faith. Though, in her defense, Paul is unsure how he hasn't managed to run away sometimes. 

Some of Paul's earliest memories are being in the church with his father during sermons .He never much understood what exactly was going on but he remembered enjoying listing to his father speak about things like love and faith. Eventually they Discovered paul was 'Blessed' as his father put it. Paul was born with an 'aggressive' spiritual energy, highly tuned to healing and warding. He could very naturally dispel off negative energy or minor apparitions from afflicted people by touching them. This, for a time, garnered the church decent businesses. Paul himself didn't exactly know what was going on, but enjoyed the praise he would get from his father when he helped people and did so without questioning much.

Though as he got older he became more skeptical of what he was doing and his father's faith in general. If god loved them so much, why did they have to work so hard to get by? Why did all these sick people need HIS help if god was so powerful? Was he even helping these people? His spiritual awareness was very low, he could not feel what was afflicting these people or what he was doing for them. He began to believe he was at best a placebo of sorts, at worst that his father was taking advantage of him and the faith of his followers. These thoughts casted him further into doubt. The finishing blow for his faith was when other children found out about his status as a 'miracle worker' and began to tease him. Having already singling him out as a Christian and with a western name, he further distanced himself from the church and his supposed abilities, this proved to be the last straw. Soon he refused to lay hands of people, and began to only go into the church when he absolutely needed to. 

This naturally caused a great deal of tension between his father him, and without the 'miracle boy' their following dropped back to being a especially small. Years pass, Paul is now a sophomore in high school, the relationship between Paul and his father is strained at best. He feels as if he has been shackled by his father's beliefs and lifestyle, them making him an outsider among his peers. Paul catches his fair share of crap for his name and his father profession, but he has been able to gain an average level of acceptance by being the loudest decrier of both. 

Personality | Paul detests his name, and prefers for anyone close to him to call him Ito. He doesn't much like to stick out and does his best to be a normal highschool youth. He has developed a big personality as a defense mechanism at school. While he is well enough behaved in class, he will clown around a bit for the other boys, mostly to keep them off of his back. He learned if he plays the role of a 'harmless goof ball', that is more or less how he will be treated. He'd rather not have their respect than be a target for bullies. Even non bullies kind of see him as something of a big joke now. 

To that end, it would be suffice to say the Paul does not like conflict. He does not cause trouble and is liked well enough among the staff of school to be largely ignored as just another average student. And yet he is not a fan of seeing others being picked on. He if he sees an opportunity he'll use his clown like status to draw attention away from a victim to either give them a chance to escape or simple completely re-direct the bullies awareness to him. 

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