Jayden Karasu

### Magical Strengths

Void Seishin powers! He can manipulate, control, and breathe life into shadows. He also sometimes has wings.

## Relations

### Relationship Status

Open!

Jayden Karasu is a human who is partially possessed by a Void Seishin named Tenebris. He is currently trying to find his best friend/honorary sibling, Harlow Jarvis.

## Appearance

Jayden’s appearance derives from his mixed background, being half Asian, half American. He has jet black hair, gray-blue eyes, and ghostly pale skin. He has a braid on the right side of his face and a pair of feathered earrings. He’s pretty tall, about 5’10”, with a thinner, wiry build. When Tenebris is somewhat in control, his eyes glow violet, and he has sickle-like markings underneath his eyes. When Jayden and Tenebris have the same emotions and work together as one, he gains a pair of black wings and shadowy claws for hands. And when Tenebris is mostly in control, he’s just a shadowy silhouette of himself, with his wings and claws for both his feet and hands. When Jayden’s mostly in control, he wears a black fluffy sweatshirt with gray fur in the hood and on the inside, a purple shirt, denim blue jeans, and black sneakers. When Jayden’s and Tenebris’s emotions are unified, he wears a black, three tailed long coat, dark gray dress pants, a dark vest with a purple sash overtop, and a pair of gray boots with a slight heel. He also wears a dark fedora and a black bird-like domino mask with shiny, violet lining.

## Personality

Jayden could best be described as a “chaotic good.” He’s a kind person who likes to help others, but he tends to be reckless enough to do it without a rulebook or regard for his personal safety. He’s not that great with communicating with others, especially because he’s a selective mute, but he will go to the ends of the earth to make sure his friends are happy and safe. He has a very observant and artistic mind, too; he loves to draw, and will sometimes find himself sketching a cat in a park or a landscape unconsciously. However, Jayden tends to feel a bit useless compared to others he knows. He has very little self-confidence, and will more often than not run away from danger. He tends to be a little bit clingy, too, because of his abandonment issues.  As Tenebris takes more and more control, Jayden will become more confident in himself, but also more rebellious, reckless, and sarcastic.

## Powers/Abilities

Jayden can control and manipulate shadows, with the help of Tenebris. He can make shadows tangible, make them into different shapes, and make them their own sentient beings. The latter takes a lot of energy, however. He usually “weaves” shadows together by turning them into thread-like shapes. He can also see Seishins, even when they are not summoned by a mortal.

## Backstory

Jayden was born to a young, single mother in the Modern Sect. They had a simple life for the first four years of Jayden’s life. But when Jayden’s mother fell into debt, he was sent to an orphanage. He lived there for a while, teaching himself how to draw and how to cook. He wasn’t really close to any of the other kids, except for his roommate: a kid named Zephyr. They were good friends; best friends even. They read mystery books together, played together, and laughed together. Jayden was probably the happiest in this moment of his life.

But it didn’t last for long. There was a fire in the orphanage when Jayden was about nine years old. He had attempted to save Zephyr, but they were crushed by a rafter and unable to escape. So, Jayden had to escape the fire by himself and run away, to the streets of the city he lived in.

Jayden was traumatized by the fire; so traumatized that he was unable to speak. He quickly learned sign language to counteract this, using a book at his library to do so. Jayden also learned another talent of his when he started living on the streets: pickpocketing. A kid like him was small and unnoticeable enough to quickly take people’s items without even noticing. He lived alone like that until he made a deal with Harlow and eventually became their honorary older brother.

After Harlow was taken away by Thunderstorm, Jayden was in a panic trying to find them. But when he realized that he could summon a Seishin from Harlow’s mother’s journal to find them, he makes a risky deal with a Void Seishin named Tenebris.

## In GGaD

Jayden's and Tenebris's Intro Thread -- Jayden summons Tenebris and makes a deal with him, giving Tenebris his name in exchange for the Seishin helping him find Harlow. He gets into a small fight with Samuel when controlled by Tenebris, but stops Tenebris from fighting when he argues that Samuel and Kewl could help them. They then apologize to Samuel and Kewl, meets NX and Time, and learns that Harlow was kidnapped by Thunderstorm to help her investigate the Seishins. Tenebris controls Jayden's body for a moment and gives some exposition on Seishins to Time. The group then sets out to try to find Harlow.

Malaika's Intro Thread -- Jayden basically makes flower crowns for everyone, is comfortable enough to finally speak some words when Tenebris isn't influencing him, and has a moment where he suppresses Tenebris from controlling him.

## Relationships

### Harlow Jarvis

Basically Jayden's little sibling. He really cares for their safety and wellbeing, and would do anything to protect them.

### Tenebris

Sorta... complicated. Yes, their minds are both in the same body, but Jayden doesn't completely trust Tenebris, because he doesn't exactly know what the Seishin's motives are. However, he is helping Jayden with his quest, which is all that matters for now.

### Samuel

Jayden really admires Samuel for his drawing skills, his magic, and his humor. The two are good friends, even though Samuel teases Jayden sometimes, much to the latter's exasperation.

### Kewl

Jayden thinks that Kewl seems nice enough. He's a little bit concerned about the fact that they thought his fight with Samuel was cool... even though he wasn't really in control of it.

### Time

Time's alright in Jayden's eyes. The explanation he and Tenebris had to give about Seishins, though, was a little bit annoying to both him and Tenebris. He wouldn't say that out loud, of course, though.

### NX

Jayden's... intimidated by him. Doesn't really know what to think.

### Malaika

Jayden thinks she's nice! He also thinks it's impressive that she can braid flowers into her hair, which is a hard thing to do, in his opinion.

### Indigo

Jayden thinks that Indigo's a good kid. A smart kid, too, considering what she said about Jayden's reaction about her mom's shadow magic. Although, he does think it was a little bit weird that she was out in the forest alone, without her mom.

## Trivia

* Jayden's outfit when he's unified/being controlled by Tenebris is sort of inspired by the Persona 5 Protagonist's phantom thief outfit.
* Jayden loves cats, art, cooking, and coffee.
* Like said above, Jayden is a selective mute who is fluent in sign language.
* Jayden has different types of text depending on who/how he is speaking.
	+ Normal text is used for when Jayden or a combination of Jayden and Tenebris are speaking.
	+ *Italics are used when Tenebris specifically is speaking out of Jayden's body.*
	+ **Bold is used when Jayden is typing on his phone and showing it to someone.**
	+ ***And bold and italics are used when Jayden is using sign language.***​​​​​​
* Jayden has played some games on Harlow's Switch before. His favorite is Animal Crossing.
* Jayden's rather affection starved. When someone gives him affection, he sorta just turns red and freezes for a moment.
* Jayden's birthday is November 26th.