Kaji Pyxis

* Kaji Sprite
* Art Reference
* Young

*Your name is Kaji Pyxis, and you only care about your job.*

*You don't like humans. You especially don't like working for them.*

*But you love the sea.*

*You're the sea patrol, and if it so happens that a stranded town comes as responsibility with that job, then so be it.*

*A parent scolds her child not to stare. Passerbys eye you and whisper shady thoughts to one another. Yep, forecast calls for another regular day in Icicle Bay, and you'll be damned if you're not going to enjoy it.*

*It's time to play tag with the divine thief yet again.*

**Kaji Pyxis** is a fallen winged that is first introduced in the human town of Icicle Bay*.*

He is the first winged introduced that does not have a halo of some kind. He fell from the winged overworld and lost his halo in the process, thus rendering his wings completely useless. However, this does not seem to affect Kaji's ice-making ability.

His title is the **Angel of Guidance**.

## Appearance

Kaji displays most traits common to winged, having slanted orange eyes with dark pupils and thick eyelines. He has a pair of small white wings from his back, which he is incapable of using for flight. He is almost always grinning widely, being described as having a "toothy wide smile". He has tan skin, and long orange hair, reaching to his hips. He styles his hair in two half side-tails, and wears it up in a high half-ponytail in the back, with the rest of it left falling freely. He uses cyan and red beads to hold up his hair, a common accessory for residents in Icicle Bay. His left eye is completely covered by his long side bangs. His work outfit consists of a very baggy long sleeved navy blue military uniform, the tips of its long sleeves almost completely cover his hands. He wears a red scarf around his neck, a red belt fastened around his waist, and a pair of dark blue pants tucked into brown knee-length army boots. On his left arm, he wears a cyan blue band with the insignia of the sea patrol, a white anchor. The back of his military uniform has a circular opening around where his wings protrude from his back, and two smaller openings for decoration under it, one shaped as a diamond and one shaped as a smaller circle.

His right eye has three pupils, arranged in the shape of the Pyxis constellation. These eyes are currently blind, but were once used by Kaji see paths that led to a favorable future, prior to blinding himself. This ability was formerly used by Kaji to guide the queen.

## History

### **Early Life**

Kaji was initially born from the collective request of the Queen and her entourage. Throughout his childhood he served as the young Queen's best friend and guide, being in charge of entertaining the young celestial, assisting her in her studies, retrieving her whenever she disappeared on her own, and maintaining order to their home on the moon.

One day, it appeared that the Queen had disappeared to the Midworld, and as usual Kaji was sent to retrieve her. However, after searching up and down the Human Kingdom (and possibly the Monster Kingdom afterwards) even with the use of his halo, Kaji could not find her.

Later, he was able to attend her coronation ceremony, wherein the Queen inherited her duties as keeper of the sun and moon and ruler of the worlds, but in some way began to doubt her abilities. For this, the Queen cast him down into the Human Kingdom; without memories, halo, and, with the newly-made Barrier blocking his path, no way to return even if he wanted to.

At some point prior to his arrival in the human world, Kaji was gifted his knitted red scarf by the Queen, who brought it all the way from the midworld to the moon. Kaji continues to keep this scarf on his person presumably all the time, and treats it with high importance.

### **Life in the Human Kingdom**

Sometime after his banishment, Kaji was found by Prince Ruit, Selene, and Lune. The three then took the boy under their collective wing and eventually helped him get back on his feet.

Several months after he was cast out, Kaji founded the Sea Patrol with his friends Warty, Weddell, and Blackfin in order to keep the peace of the town of Icicle Bay. With his love of the sea, fluency of fishspeak and fishscript, as well as his empathy for seafolk, he quickly became popular with many of the town's aquatic residents, even if his brash attitude and failure to apprehend the winged thief plaguing the town has soured his reputation among the human populace.

### **After Encountering Nino's Party**

Kaji initially intended to apprehend the humans for trespassing, alongside Meimona for stealing. However, when he hears Aria explain their positions, he comes around to understand them a bit better and decides to fully pardon the humans' crimes, even relating to the feeling that Aria describes of wanting somewhere to fit in safely. Additionally, upon hearing Meimona's reasons for stealing, Kaji offers her a spot in the Sea Patrol and an income, so that she doesn't have to steal to live anymore. Kaji's reputation largely improves in Icicle Bay's human populace thanks to this, when he shows off to the residents that he has finally stopped the thief.

Currently, Kaji is on amicable terms with Nino and his other party members.

## Personality

Kaji's thoughts, along with his initial conversations with the shopkeeper in Icicle Bay, show that he has quite the bad reputation with the locals; being described as a wretch, fraud, useless, worthless louse, a *disgrace* of a being, etc. Despite this, he seems to hold up quite the confident countenance. He states that he does not like humans, and that he could count the number of them that he cared for on one hand. Kaji also states that he loves the sea, and that he is the head of the Sea Patrol. Before he lost his halo, he was more obedient and swore less.

## Relationships

### Lune

He seems to hold Captain Lune in high regard, thinking of her as "*so coooool*." Despite this, he also appears to be comfortable, or at least familiar enough around Lune to crack jokes, calling her "cap'n hotcakes" right to her face.

### The Queen

Kaji states that the queen was the entire reason for his existence. In the past, he was her friend and guide, but ended up abandoned and haloless in the human world for unknown reasons, though his excuse was "that he doubted her". His inability to recall the reasons for that plagues his mind, though he still struggles trying to force his memories back. As a result he developed an unhealthy habit of drinking, believing that it will help him recall the queen and his former life. His fixation on the queen seems to rule the back of his mind, as his room is full of paintings of her.

### Nino

Initially, the two were enemies, with Kaji trying to apprehend Nino and the rest of Nino's party for various crimes, most of all for trespassing by crossing the barrier. After {s} Shatter, the party negotiates their safe release with Kaji, who is against the idea at first, but comes around to changing his mind when he believes that Nino and his party were simply trying to find their way home to the human world. Kaji was willing to ignore the law and let Nino off the hook, and even assist in giving them some place to spend a night at by booking a room in the hotel for the party, but Nino remained suspicious of Kaji's generosity for a while.

As the two chatted in the bar, Kaji empathized with Nino's struggles with amnesia, and offered him advice from his own experiences. Kaji's opinion of Nino improved after this conversation, and he was grateful to finally be able to share his unique experience with amnesia with another person, and appreciative to Nino for lending him an ear and some comforting words. Currently, Kaji seems to want the best for Nino, going as far as to advise Nino on how to prepare himself when it comes to recovering his memories.

## Trivia

* Kaji has a pet turtle, shown in {s} Icicle Bay Getaway, that he apparently takes very good care of.
* In the hotel he stays in, the only flywers without wings are the ones in front of his room.

* Pyxis, the constellation's name, is abbreviated from Pyxis Nautica, Latin for a mariner's compass. Kaji's halo was in the shape of a compass rose.

* The note discovered by Nino and Five inside of a box in the Forest of Illusions shows that it is possible Kaji has been to the monster world in the past, or at least, something that he has been in contact with has found its way there.
* It is stated by Nights that once Kaji had his constellation across his right eye when he was young, but when he got older somehow the constellation was in his right eye.
* Kaji enjoys the sea. He finds sailing the sea or even merely looking at it as plenty enough pastime for hours. He likes many other things of course, such as drafting maps or making up phrases such as "darn tootin' this tickles me danger-feely senses", but his favorite is just the sea itself.
* He refuses to drink in front of the Sea Patrol, because he doesn't want to be a bad influence to them.
* Kaji would love all of the Fortnite dances while everyone else loathes them with the power of a thousand suns.
* He would react to being asked for a hug by a human with morbid confusion, and then reluctant agreement if it's a totally random person. He'd think of it as a positive sign of the start of his fantasy of popularity and fame in retrospect. If it's some human he's friendly with he would be fine with it.
* He is the most likely to listen to harsh noise music due to lack of caring and powerful eardrums.
* Kaji is disliked by everyone except for seafolk and other certain people, such as people who do not really care enough to dislike him, kids who don't know any better (yet) as well. The only people who treat him somewhat positively are store keepers in places he shops at, Mainly the local bar.
* Corona would think of Kaji as lowly for the lack of a halo, though with sympathy for being stuck with unkind humans around. Under better circumstances, they would get along quite well.
* Most of his pay goes towards the Tipsy Fish.
* Sis takes alcohol better than Kaji.
* Kaji is surprisingly good with accordions.
* Kaji dislikes the night.
* Kaji takes from around 40 minutes to a hour to tie up his hair.
* Kaji's favorite place is the sea.
* If Nights could make one Oceanfalls character real, it would be Kaji.
* Kaji is bad with hot weather.
* Nino, along with Kaji, Ruit and Suvillan are implied to have parties, Nino has already proven it with Aria, Meimona, and Reed. Kaji himself has the other 3 members of the party consisting of the Sea Patrol.
* Kaji is implied to have been requested to be created by The Queen.
* Nino and Mei gained zero stealth EXP from Kaji and his Sea Patrol despite successfully fleeing from them, this could be a result of Meimona's luck stat messing with the EXP gain, as a way to balance her "overpowered" luck stat, as a "crutch character" of sorts.