Rei Kamisori

**Rei Kamisori** (剃 (かみ)刀 (そり)礼 (れい), *Kamisori Rei*?) is a second-year student at Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College. Brash and hot-headed, Rei is a second-generation Sorcerer aiming to rediscover the circumstances behind the death of his father.

## Appearance

Rei has a relatively unkempt appearance befitting someone who grew up in relative poverty, like himself. He has sharp facial features, golden eyes, a five 'o clock shadow, and long, unkempt black hair which he usually ties behind his head. He is remarkably tall and muscular for his age, and has a number of scars across his body.

Whenever he doesn't wear his school uniform, Rei wears a large overcoat over his shoulders, an old kimono and hakama pants, and *geta* sandals. He usually keeps Peaceful Rebuke and a non-Cursed Tool katana at his side, forming a Daishō.

## Personality

Rei is a young man with a larger-than-life personality, who enjoys doing whatever he wants, whenever he wants it - no matter if it’s shooting Curses in the face, finding more information about his prized Cursed Tools, or just reading some Manga with a cup of coffee at his side. While he is friendly towards those whom he respects, he also tends to judge people purely through their looks until his opinion on them is proven wrong or right by their actions. According to himself, he is not the best person to act as a voice of reason.

To those he respects, Rei is a doggedly loyal ally who will protect them tooth and nail. To almost all others, he is either neutral or outright disrespectful, pushing people to prove themselves if they haven’t already. To the very few people he truly hates, he is as brutal of an enemy as they come. However, one thing about Rei always stays the same, no matter the person he is speaking to: his great confidence in himself and his own power. The only circumstances where this supreme confidence does not appear is when he is reminded of his inability to save his former roommate, a fact that haunts him still and acts as his foremost motivation to get stronger - to stop it from ever happening again.

Rei isn't exactly the most morally troubled individual out there. While he doesn't actively harm innocents or bystanders, and actively tries to reduce casualties, he will not hesitate in the slightest when it comes to filling up Curses or Curse Users with lead. He is by no means bloodthirsty or unhinged, but he is also far from merciful.

A family man, Rei always tries to help his mother and siblings as best he can, supporting them with a vast variety of jobs throughout his early life and, eventually, using his pay as a Jujutsu Sorcerer to give them a slightly easier life. His family, with the exception of his father, means the world to him. A similar treatment is reserved to his father figure, an Old Man he worked for and who ignited his love for weapons.

Possibly to deal with the stress of becoming a Sorcerer, Rei picked up smoking at some point near the end of his first year.

## Synopsis

### Past

Rei's life wasn't always rainbows and sunshine. He himself openly admits that his family was on the poorer side during his childhood, in no small part because of his father’s absence soon after the birth of Rei’s twin younger siblings, four Years after Rei's own birth. While the boy greatly resented him for that, he kept his feelings hidden at the behest of his mother, who did not want him or the other children to live a life of hatred. A particular phenomena Rei would experience since his childhood were “visions” of bizarre beings that would, sometimes, terrify him in his sleep - with his mother telling him they were just “fruits of his imagination”. These visions would keep manifesting themselves for the rest of the boy’s life, with him eventually learning how to ignore them.

Rei started to work to sustain his family as soon as he became fourteen, in order to ease his mother’s workload and grant them a little more luxury. He worked many odd jobs around Tokyo for a year before finding a relatively stable one as the assistant of an old man who sold weapons to collectors or other such people. This place was where Rei’s love for weapons started to show itself. Overtime, the old man became the boy’s father figure, and the hatred for his biological father he had hid away for so long began to subside - even if it didn’t fully vanish. After two years of working under the old man, Rei’s worldview was shattered when a letter arrived at the family’s run-down home. His father - the man he had hated for all of his life and whom he had never seen since he was a child - had recently died, and in his will there was a letter addressed to his son, the very same letter Rei held in his hands. Upon reading it, the young man became aware of the entire truth.

His father had not left them out of neglect or laziness: He was a Jujutsu Sorcerer, a man who was dedicated to protecting the world from the shadows, who was well aware of the risks of such a profession. So, he left his family behind so that they would not be affected by it: it was his own way of protecting them. Acknowledging that, if his son had gotten his letter, he was most likely dead, Rei's father revealed to him that the visions he had seen since childhood were Cursed Spirits: the very thing he was protecting him and his mother from, and told Rei to hold the torch high for him now that he was gone, and protect his mother and siblings now that he could not. Thus, he left him with the indications on how to reach Tokyo Jujutsu High.

While his feelings about his father were now mixed, and the words on the letter sounded like the ramblings of an insane idiot, Rei did as his old man asked and went to the school, where he found out that what his father had said was true: Curses were indeed real, and they were great threats to Humanity as a whole. Thus, he chose to enroll into the school in order to keep his family safe while also allowing them to live the good life they were deprived of for so long.

However, even knowing the truth about his biological father, Rei still did not know if he could forgive him for leaving his family behind when they needed him the most. He decided that maybe, upon gaining experience as a Jujutsu Sorcerer, he would be able to fully understand the reasons for his father's decision, and finally make up his mind.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: While Rei is a competent and capable student, he mostly relies on the fundamentals and on his Cursed Technique, fueled by his naturally high Cursed Energy reserves and keen mind. Rather than using special arts or premeditated plans, he makes it up as he goes, applying what he knows in consistently new and versatile ways. While he may not be a skilled Sorcerer, he *is* a skilled fighter.

### Physical Prowess

**Expert Weapons Specialist**: By far Rei's strongest suit, he is a highly skilled weapons user who is able to combine his mastery of melee weapons with his Innate Techniques to dangerous effect. While he mostly uses swords, he is just as skilled with polearms and other such weapons, and is a natural prodigy in their usage, though that only partly makes up for his lack of experience. He is also highly adept at weapon recognition and, even though he may not know how to use them, he can easily tell an armament's quality.

## Jujutsu

 **Speed Demon** (スピード狂, *Supīdo Kyō*?): A personal Binding Vow Rei makes with himself, meant to be used, broken, and then used again when needed. In exchange for halving the range of the Tools Rei manipulates with his Innate Technique, he can move them at faster speeds and strike with greater power.

1. Rei must find a Cursed Tool with no current owner and take it as his own. Groups of people who own a Tool but do not actively use it, even for a long time, are still considered owners.
2. Rei must fight, by himself, against the owner of the Cursed Tool and defeat them in one-on-one combat. If the Cursed Tool is owned by a group, they can to choose a fighter for the battle.
3. Rei must be granted ownership of the Cursed Tool by its former owner. Without accounting for Binding Vows, Rei cannot manipulate Tools loaned to him.
4. Rei must have created the Cursed Tool. Modifying or repairing a pre-existing tool does not cause it to switch ownership.

While Cursed Tool Manipulation does not cost much Cursed Energy to use, and Rei has no limits on how many tools he can own, manipulating many tools at once can be taxing, and his skill level currently only allows him to control up to three.

## Trivia

* According to the Author:
	+ Rei enrolled in Jujutsu High via **Scouting**.
	+ His hobbies are sewing, reading manga and maintaining weapons.
	+ His favorite food is Yakitori.
	+ His least favorite food is Nattō.
	+ His cause of stress is having nothing to do.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Execration Exordium: Rei makes his debut, smoking a cigarette and saying he doesn't want to be "the mature person in the room" in response to his peers fighting each other