Name: Oda Kei
Age: 6 (looks 16. As a familiar, he's younger than he looks.)
Appearance:
An old friend from the only game story that made me cry. (He's 1.71 metres tall.)
Personality: Kei speaks little and is very guarded with his emotions. He finds it difficult to relate with anyone, and is constantly on the lookout for threats. While this makes him a very poor socialiser, he has a tendency to spot threats from miles away. Of course, this makes it difficult for him (and others) to differentiate between his paranoia about other people and actual threats. Kei does become very, very attached to anyone he trusts, to the point that he'll sacrifice himself for them.
Abilities Affinity: Iron. Anything made from more than 50% iron can be melded by Kei into anything that makes physical sense. In addition, he's immune to the slashing and stabbing edge of iron weaponry (and its derivatives. But he's not immune to being beaten over the head by a chunk of iron), and can manipulate small iron objects without touching them. Iron is the only thing he can still hold onto while in an unstable condition. He owns a gun that has an iron stock and trigger, and it fires specially procured iron bullets.
Brief Backstory: There were two people called Oda Kei. The first was an old friend of a Magi, who reputedly died in a plane crash flying from Japan to Korea. The second was a familiar created by this Magi.
A Magi by the name of Akechi Yukinaga, missing his old friend, created a familiar who looked like him, and tried to make this familiar look like his former friend. This worked. To a certain extent. 4 years later, the real Oda Kei arrived on the island of Japan (he suffered from amnesia from the plane crash. His travel documents were lost in the incident. It took quite some time for the authorities to piece together his life.). Completely unaware of the world of magic, the real Kei got quite a shock when he met his friend and the familiar.
The rejection of his master almost killed Kei. He was rescued and fed mana by an unknown saviour, who allowed him to take refuge in his house and convinced Kei that there was a still a reason to live. Kei still barely knows the man who saved his life, even 2 years later. His mysterious benefactors leaves him mana-rich artefacts for him every week. While not the life he had with Yukinaga, Kei still hangs on, believing that he had some other purpose other than replacing a dead friend.
Trivia: The gun he's using is a Ruger MK III Semi Automatic. It's custom-made so that the stock, the trigger and the slide is made of enough iron so that he can hold onto it.
