Jun Hisakawa

*Media Darling and Secret Water Dragon*

* Overview
* Sheet
* Background
* 'Ships
* Logs

Who would have thought that Jun Hisakawa, a media darling of Tokyo, would be any more than just a rich man's son? Well, it turns out that he's a lot more -- apparently he's related to the dragons that live under the Pacific Ocean near his home country of Japan. He was lost after a cruise ship disaster, and was thought to have perished at sea. However, five years later, he reappeared, looking as though he hadn't aged a day. The public was told that he was placed in a hospital in a secret location to recover free of media attention. However, the truth is that during his absence, he was taken to the Dragon Palace beneath the waves, where his true powers were awakened in a ceremony. He spent only a few hours there; five years passed on the surface. But even after that short of a time, everything was unfamiliar, and so eventually he left for the United States -- if he had to start over anyway, he figured, he might as well do that where things were as unfamiliar to him as the world had become in the years he's been gone.

## Personality

Jun tries to maintain a calm facade, whatever he's feeling. "Stoic" isn't exactly the word, though -- he tries to look as though he's unbothered by and content with whatever it is that's going on around him. Though it's not only because he wants to try to help his allies, or because he feels like he has to be "the strong one". It's also because he knows that, when someone is trying to get him to lose his cool, the first one who does? Loses.

He is determined not to let other people get on his nerves, or let others make him lose his cool. This is something he's learned from his childhood in the media in Japan -- whenever he had a public meltdown as a child (it didn't happen often, no), it was something that seemed to take the public a long time to forgive his family for -- that he should have been "raised better", etc. (which is honestly none of anyone's business, but he knows the prying nature of the public when someone is in the media, even as a small child).

His being in the public eye has also taught him to always look his best, and he'll stop to fix his clothes, hair, and general appearance in the strangest places and times. It can make him come off as seeming vain, but this too is part of his need to always present a calm facade. Looking one's best is also important -- even if one says one is fine, if one looks bedraggled and worn-out, the public knows one is lying.

It's worth noting that Jun does not NEED media attention -- and truth be told, he'd much rather do without it. He can function very well in it, having grown accustomed to it, but no, he'd rather not have to deal with the media. This is one of the reasons that, after the Japanese media got his fill of "the return of the Hisakawa heir after his five year long disappearance", he was quick to go somewhere the media wasn't as concerned about him.

He knows that there are some things that the media doesn't need to know. And also that, the longer he stays in the limelight, the more likely it is that a trace of those secrets will be revealed. And that, as soon as the media sharks taste blood, they'll bite down harder and shake, until they tear a chunk of flesh off.

Probably stemming from his heritage as being a "life" dragon, Jun is always on the lookout for people who he can help. He really will go out of his way to help someone else that he feels needs the help. Sometimes he has to be sneaky about this though -- someone who's injured isn't going to just go "oh OK" when he literally BREATHES on someone and heals injuries. Of course, given his breath has that euphoric effect, it's a little bit less of a problem. But as much as he wants to keep the secret of what he is from getting out, it's not enough that he'll let a person die for it.

Despite his outward appearance of "good boy", he is very much a kind of person who will do what he thinks is right before asking if it's the right way to go about it. Headstrong is a word that could be applied. Hence his desire to help others generally overwhelming his desire to keep his secrets. In the end, after all, if someone sees too much, a quick exhalation will put them mostly under, and then everything can just be explained away as "bad booze/drugs".

## SIGNATURE ABILITY

### Jinsei No Kiseki

Water is life, and Jun is a dragon of water whose very essence is that of Life. When concentrating a large amount of power into it, Jun's life-giving breath can imbue regular water with the ability to return life to those who have died. No amount of damage is too much, no amount of time is too long. So long as a single piece of the person's body remains, the imbued water can be poured onto it and used to resurrect them. However, there are a number of caveats. Jun can't do this in battle or anyplace he doesn't have the ability to concentrate. It does not affect vampires, since their souls have not actually departed their bodies, unless they have been killed permanently. Zombies can be brought back as the people they were, but like vampires, they need to be re-killed before this can happen. Additionally, this cannot be used to enchant large portions of water to "save" for later, since each enchanted application can only be used to resurrect one person, no matter how large a quantity is enchanted -- any "leftover" water from a single enchantment returns to being normal water after part of it is used. At most he could use this to give someone a small vial of it to be used in the future at a time of their choosing. Additionally, Jun cannot spare the energy to do this more than once a month, during the full moon, when the tides are at their highest.

## SKILLS

Jun was given the best education money could buy, and many of these programs were much more advanced than the typical stuff that Japanese high school students experience. So by the time he'd graduated, he was quite well educated. Though he has not been to college as of yet.

Jun is NOT a native speaker of English, however he had an extensive education in it during high school. However, he does tend to fall back on Japanese in moments of high stress.

Jun would never forgive himself if he went out looking messy or uncoordinated. In fact it was a punishment in his house to do so (nothing serious, mind). Though growing up this way has given him the ability to coordinate his, or someone else's, wardrobe with a reasonable degree of skill.

Since he is a native speaker of the Japanese language, his skill in speaking it is that of a native speaker.

It may come as a surprise (or maybe it won't) that Jun actually wears makeup on a semi-regular basis. He doesn't cover his whole face with the stuff, though, so his skill is not as great as it could be. He merely applies a light touch of eyeshadow and liner to accent his eyes, and a thin layer of a tinted lip gloss. But he knows how to coordinate colors with his wardrobe and eye/skin colors, and he can do -- and has done -- stranger things, particularly with eyeshadow.

Most of Jun's medical knowledge comes from his awareness of life due to being a dragon of life. But he does have a basic understanding of anatomy and physical health, as it pertains to keeping someone healthy.

Due to being in the public eye for a long time, Jun has learned to do a variety of performance art-type things. He's moderately skilled at dancing, has a decent singing voice, and can competently act. Though his skill in none of these are going to win him any awards, he's passable.

Jun is skilled at "putting his best face forward", so to speak. When in public, he knows how to carry himself, precisely how large of a smile to give, what angle to look at or away from a camera at to look his best.

## CASTING

In either of Jun's forms, human or dragon, he is able to exhale a cool mist that heals the injuries of those upon whom it lands, easing pain and generally placing the target in a euphoric state for a short amount of time. This does have limits -- it cannot bring back the dead, and as such it cannot heal vampires or other undead (though it can still ease their pain and give them the euphoric effect, since that part is a spiritual effect rather than a physical one).

In his dragon form, Jin is able to exhale a cloud of scalding mist that essentially boils the beings that are targeted by it. It is only accessible in his dragon form.

Jun is able to alter the weather in his local area (about equivalent to a city block or so), up to a single "level" of severity. From clear skies he can call a light drizzle, from a light drizzle he can push a pouring rain, from pouring rain he can push a thunderstorm, from a thunderstorm he can push a severe storm, from a severe storm he can call a mild tornado, etc. It works in reverse too -- he can clear the skies of a light drizzle, can decrease a pouring rain to a light drizzle, he can decrease a thunderstorm to a pouring rain, etc.

## POWERS

It's really, REALLY dark down there in the depths of the ocean. Since they live down there, dragons of Jun's type have developed the ability to see in near-complete darkness unaided.

Since his powers of a dragon of life have been awakened, Jun has found himself able to sense the overall lifeforce of the area he happens to be in. When focused on a specific being, he can tell how close to death a person is, what the source of their trouble is, and what it would take to fix it.

Jun has the ability to make his body lighter, and combined with his control over winds, he can push himself through the air. It's at a very slow speed however, and trying to fly in when it's very windy is generally a bad idea for him.

Jun would be a pretty horrible life dragon if he couldn't heal himself, wouldn't he? As it turns out, he can heal damage done to him as quickly as any typical shifter, unless the wound is made with pearl or mother-of-pearl. Those wounds he has to heal like a normal human from... assuming they're not fatal...

In his dragon form only, Jun can constrict and crush targets; he also possesses sharp teeth and claws to bite and scratch, as well as antlers to headbutt or gore enemies with.

Jun has the ability to take the form of a fifteen foot Asian dragon. This form is serpentine, has four legs, no wings, a mane, "whiskers", deer antlers, etc. -- all the usual trademarks of an Eastern dragon.

Due to being a dragon of water/life, Jun is able to function underwater as well as on land, in either of his forms. He is able to both breathe and move freely while in water, and survive the crushing depths of the ocean.

## ADVANTAGES

Because much of his life has been televised, Jun has learned that some things are not meant to be seen on camera. He's able to hold in his emotions visibly, though those who know him (or the astute and observant) will be able to pick up the small clues -- a forced, wooden quality to a smile, the tremble of a hand held behind his back, etc.

Jun's family is rich, and even after five years "missing", Jun can access this. This gives him more options to finding people to deal with supernatural problems, "greasing the wheels" for finding information, or just finding a place where he and/or others can hide.

## WEAKNESSES

Jun is actually quite strong compared to normal people. But given how dainty feeble he appears, it's easy to assume he's just not up to the task when anything requiring strength or toughness is involved. And compared to most other supernatural creatures, Jun really isn't all that strong at all.

Jun actually has one of these, though it's inside him rather than held in a claw -- in dragon form, the middle of his hyoid bone (the horseshoe-shaped bone under the chin in humans) takes the shape of a rounded pearl. This pearl is the source of his power. If this pearl is removed while he is in dragon form, Jun will lose his powers and become a normal human. As long as the pearl still exists (and he survives its removal without his powers), he can regain his powers. However, if this pearl is destroyed, Jun will die, regardless of any means used to revive him.

While most Shifters have at least some form that is easily passable for a typical animal of its species, Jun does not. His only other form is a fifteen foot serpentine dragon. Unfortunately that can't really blend into the rest of nature, unless he can find a place for a fifteen foot green serpentine dragon to hide. Pretend to be a statue maybe?

Also called rowan, mountain ash is an effective barrier against supernatural creatures of any type. When used to ward a door, it prevents Jun from going through it. When inside a barrier made of mountain ash, Jun is unable to shift or use any of his active powers (though he remains as physically strong and tough, though he cannot break the ward/barrier).

Most of Jun's few offensive capabilities are only accessible in his dragon form. So if he's caught in a place where he's unable to take that form (hint: pretty much EVERY CITY EVER), he's going to be very little use in direct physical combat. For that matter, he doesn't really HAVE much in the way of offensive capabilities, aside from the natural physical toughness and strength, as well as the natural weapons that come with being a dragon.

Pearls and the shells of the creatures which give pearls life are sacred to dragons. As such, Jun is vulnerable to weapons made or edged with pearl or mother-of-pearl. However, a weapon merely having a handle made of the above does not make the weapon more effective against him; it must be the edge itself.

Jun Hisakawa was born into a rich, well-to-do family, one that at least claimed to have some connection to the first emperor of Japan, Emperor Jimmu. Mind you, this was never proved, and the first emperor of Japan was rumored to be a descendant of Amaterasu, by way of the daughter of the sea god Otohime and a human hunter. Whether the rumors were true or false, Jun grew up in the lap of luxury.

Unfortunately he was generally raised by the servants rather than his parents. They were society people, and had appearances to make. And not all of those appearances were at child-friendly venues. But Jun seemed to understand this, even from a young age. The servants would always say he had a wisdom far beyond his years, even as a child. He was gentle and well-behaved, and rarely made trouble.

How do these stories about wonderful, well-behaved children always end? With something horrible happening to the child. In Jun's case, the seeming tragedy struck during a cruise that would last weeks, and Jun came along to act as... well, a glorified accessory for his parents, really. He'd grown into a delicate-looking young fella by then, and really turned heads.

About halfway through the trip, when the boat was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, something struck the boat, tearing a hole in the side of the ship. On the bright side it WASN'T like the Titanic -- there were plenty of lifeboats for everyone, and nobody locked the underclasses in the hold to let them drown. However, rather than simply run to the lifeboats himself, Jun went through the ship, ensuring that everyone had gotten out of their cabins and was on deck, waiting for the lifeboats.

He'd been about ready to get on one himself, when he heard a call that some sailors were trapped down closer to where it was flooding. Immediately he headed into the underbelly of the ship, nearer the hull breach, intending to get to them. But when he tried to swim past the hole in the hull... well, the sailors who survived would later describe it as the boy being physically yanked out by some force they couldn't see.

The last thing they did see of the boy was him desperately trying to swim against whatever force had grabbed him. Not to escape, to swim up. But to swim over to them, to try to help them free a sailor trapped by debris. Brave boy, perhaps... but stupid.

As it turns out, Jun did not drown. He was protected from the pressure and water by one of the servants of the Dragon Palace and brought there. Yes, THAT Dragon Palace. As it turns out, whether his family was related to Emperor Jimmu or not, Jun's family WAS related to a Dragon of the sea. Distantly, but Jun still possessed enough power to bring out.

And in a ceremony at the Dragon Palace, he was given a piece of a Dragon Pearl to swallow, which merged into his hyoid bone and formed a pearl of its own. This is what brought out the power of the dragons within Jun -- the formation of the Dragon Pearl.

He couldn't stay long, though... the Dragon Palace wasn't just 'underwater', but partially in a parallel dimension, and time passed differently there. If he wasn't careful, a century or more would pass before he got back to the surface. As it was, in the few hours he spent there, five years had passed on the surface.

And so, one of the servants of the Dragon Palace brought Jun back to the surface, at his request. He was found off the coast of San Francisco by a commercial fishing boat's crew, floating on a large enough piece of debris to serve as a raft. A happy event indeed!

And who was there to meet Jun? His father. That's right. He'd known their line shared an ancestry with the dragons, but there was little he could have done about it -- due to such heavy human influence, the powers of their line weren't accessible until awakened in the ceremony that Jun engaged in. And when Jun was found by the dragons, a servant of the Dragon Palace had gone to the surface and contacted his father, to let him know that Jun was all right and would return soon. Of course "soon" ended up being not so "soon", but he understood.

The servant told Jun's father where he could expect his son to be, and the return was made under cover of darkness. Jun was astonished to learn he'd been gone five years! But Jun's father had an idea to mitigate the questions that would soon follow.

The next morning, the Japanese media published a story about Jun Hisakawa, five years missing, having returned. Apparently, the article noted, he had been recovered after the cruise ship accident and placed in a hospital at a location that had been hushed up, to allow him to recover without threat of being disturbed by the media. This was, of course, not the case... but it shut the media up enough to not draw suspicion.

With the controversy thus brushed under the rug, Jun set about catching up with those years he'd missed. He didn't think it would be too hard -- it was only five years. But still, that's almost an entire generation. He found himself not having as much in common with friends he'd known for years. And after a few months, he decided to move to the States. Jun would keep in touch with his parents, he promised. But he needed to start over for real. Perhaps there would be a time that he could return. But for now, he needed to get his bearings in a place that was as unfamiliar to him as his home now was. He reasoned that if he was going to basically have to start over anyway, it might as well be in a place where everything was unfamiliar, instead of everthing being just familiar enough to lull him into a false sense of security.

Logs featuring Jun Hisakawa:

*Coming soon!*