Ezra MitsujiGender: Male || Age: Nineteen || Height: 5'11" || Weight: 148 lbsAppearance
Ezra has an unusual charm about him due to his mixed heritage. His hair is jet black, and slightly slanted almond shaped eyes, with a very dark brown eyes. His sharp jawline outlines his thin, triangular face. He is also quite thin, but well built, partly out of genetics, and partly because of his daily hikes and overall diet. He is normally seen wearing a ivory linen shirt with a long leather waistcoat, dark brown breeches, white stockings and matching knee high boots. He rarely keeps up his appearance, but he does maintain above average hygiene for a, presumably, indentured servant. Ezra does not have much, to any facial hair due to his genetics, and he leaves his hair unkempt due to its natural straightness.
He rarely wears his formal attire, which consists of several elaborate french style coats, a series of cravats, and more elaborate ruffled shirts - and only does so if Henrik deems it necessary, or if his father Mikael comes to visit.
Personality Ezra is carefree and rather outgoing due to his lack of responsibilities, but far too intelligent to be idle. He is aware, but does not care much for the politics involved in the colonies or the Magnusson family business. Ezra would rather focus on the events directly affecting him, and he spends most of his mornings out in the wilderness exploring. He also does this as a ruse, as most of townsfolk believe him to be Henrik's servant. Despite his rich upbringing, Ezra also does not care much for material desires and he is actually quite relieved that he is not bound to any one career in the future. He is also quite religious, but has an unorthodox way of showing his faith.
He has learned the native tongue, and is often found trying to quell unnecessary conflicts between some colonists and the natives. It's so often, in fact, that some suspect that he instigates the conflicts and resolves them for the attention. The truth of the matter is, Ezra has an extrasensory perception that allows him to sense the area around him that he can't quite explain, but he often uses to his advantage. He is also quite athletic despite his slim figure.
Ezra is also quite adept at handling children. He has recently taken up a job as a tutor, and spends Sundays teaching the common folk children to read and write. Conversely, he is not well received by some of the older, wealthier families, who view him as nothing more than an indentured servant for the Magnusson family overstepping his bounds. Regardless, he is unfazed by their contemptuous remarks, and is often defended by his cousin Henrik. In turn, Ezra has made it a point to help Henrik lighten up his serious demeanor.
Background Ezra is the illegitimate son of Mikael Magnusson, a wealthy merchant, and Yuuki Mitsuji, a Japanese interpreter living in Dejima - the only city in Japan open to foreigners. After Mikael had impregnated Yuuki,he began to have dreams of a man warning him that should he abandon the child, he would lose all of his wealth. Fearing that this premonition might some day come true, Mikael devised a plan to go straight from the Orient to the New World without returning to England where he currently resided. He sent a letter to his wife Katherine, the eighth child of British nobility, explaining that his brother Markus required immediate help with some matters in their lumber trade in the colonies. Mikael spent the first three years with Ezra and brought along several slaves and indentured servants to care for him before returning to England alone.
Ezra was raised primarily by Markus, but Mikael periodically came to visit Ezra for short stretches of time. It wasn't simply out of obligation that Mikael came to visit, but truly out of paternal love. Mikael ensured that Ezra was raised with a proper education, bringing in new books and trinkets from all around the world during his visits. Markus, too, loved his nephew. Despite his lack of legitimacy in inheriting the family name, Markus gave him the same education as his own son Henrik, and treated the both of them equally. Ezra knew this, and yet he felt no resentment towards anyone. He was quite content with not having to inherit such an obligation, and spent much of his younger days learning about the world through the books his father gave him, and exploring the forests around his home. The other families assumed that Ezra was merely an indentured servant acting as Henrik's playmate, but Ezra only took on that role to fulfill his social obligation. Despite how others saw the two, Ezra and Henrik were quite close to one another.
Not much is known about the Mitsuji family except that they explicitly asked that Ezra keep the Mitsuji name. Mikael had gone back to Japan twice to inquired about them, but it seemed as if the Mitsuji family never existed. The only clue Mikael found on his last visit was a warning from a rickshaw puller who told him not to dig any deeper into the name lest he be cursed. Before leaving for the last time, the very same Rickshaw puller came to Mikael and threw him a long, thin package and instructed him to give it to his son. Inside the package was a simple, yet elegant katana in a black sheathe and hilt, with an incomplete circle engraved near the hilt on the blade.
Unbeknownst to Mikael or Ezra, the Mitsuji family is actually a shinobi clan who also practiced Catholicism. They had to hide their existence after the Sakoku edict, but their bloodline extends to a millennia, and each generation has inherited the past generation's wisdom and power. Ezra is no exception, as he has inherited extrasensory perception allowing to sense the environment around him through a 'sixth' sense - although, the he has not reached the full extent of this ability.
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