Sato Daiki

Sato Daiki is a merman introduced in The Dratsie Dilemma.
== Appearance ==
Sato has kelp-brown eyes. When in his merman form, his scales are a distinctive blue (royal blue according to Patrick). Sato's tendril pattern, his luster, extended up along his spine, bifurcated at the nape to curl over each shoulder along his collarbone and then up each side of his neck around his gills. It was dark blue too and starkly contrasted to his merskin. He has spurs like huge curved deadly teeth down the length of both forearms. He has enough control that he make them appear on land or in the ocean. Most vangill can only call on their spurs while in water.
In high school, Sato wore leather gloves to hide his webbing. He took up smoking to put gravel in his voice and make his voice less musical. 
== History ==
When Sato was ten years old he was forced to move to the land to live with his human sire, Sato Kenta. He leaves behind his mother and younger sister (Mey). His neighbor, Patrick Inis, almost immediately invites himself over and makes him his friend. The two of them grow up together and Sato relies on Patrick to keep him tethered. They eventually become boyfriends and lovers. 
As a teen Sato develops spurs while protecting Patrick from a shark, marking him as a vangill (a breedable merman). He is called back to the sea to receive vangill training, which he does in hopes of using it to keep Patrick safe. He completes his mandatory three years, but before he can return home disaster strikes in the from of a tsunami. Sato is delayed three weeks, but just long enough to miss Patrick. He spends the next ten years looking for Patrick, even becoming his sister's vangill to keep up the search. 
== Personality ==
Sato Daiki is seen as being cold and distant. The only thing he ever seems to care about is Patrick. Sato rare laughs, but when he does it's not a pretty sound. His laugh is a sharp barking noise, like a dolphin's delight. 
== In the Books ==
=== The Dratsie Dilemma ===
Sato Daiki moves to shore when he's ten years old, meeting his neighbor Patrick Inis. The two grow up together becoming best friends, boyfriends, and then lovers. When Sato develops spines, he is called back to the sea for a required period of three years. At the end of his time served, Sato is delayed returning home because of a natural disaster. When he gets home, his father has passed and Patrick is on the run. Sato spends the next ten years looking for Patrick, even becoming his sister's vangill in order to continue his search. When his sister's diplomatic pod comes to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend a conference on breeding of marine life, Sato finally finds Patrick again. Their reunion is bumpy (at best). 
== Trivia ==
* Refers to his little sister as Meymey. 
* His sister, Mey, refers to him as Daidai. 
* There are three years between Sato and Mey. The Dratsie Dilemma, Chapter 5 
* Sato's mother has black hair and her human skin was the color of sugar kelp. 
== Quotes ==
* "Later, years later, Sato liked to think he'd known from the start. From that very moment. It was Patrick. For him, it was Patrick, and it would be Patrick, and that was just it. Like he'd somehow known and decided on forever, in that one moment." (The Dratsie Dilemma, Chapter One)
* "Opposable thumbs are a privilege, not a right." (The Dratsie Dilemma, Chapter Twelve)
* "Sato regarded people en masse the same way cats regarded water en masse, with deep suspicion and disdain." (The Dratsie Dilemma, Chapter Sixteen)
== References ==
Category:Characters
Category:San Andreas Shifters Characters