Botan Nakaya

Botan

## Appearance

Botan appears as a tall, slightly built young man with typical black hair, but very distinctive lighter blue eyes. He has an athletic build with an emphasis on his legs. Once he gains armor from the vanguard, Typhus Stratos, Botan continues to wear versions of that armor. One that follows western conventions for armor with more segmented armor like eastern armors and clearly of Ventus design. The more striking part of the armor being the blood red cape made from the wings of the first wave boss Botan ever defeated. The weapon in his possession is the Holy Flower which was granted to him when he was summoned to the Paradise. It takes many forms, the most common form looking like a small staff or baton.

## Personality

Botan has a bad habit of letting his thoughts and whims control him. He is often easily distracted and fails to take things seriously at times. He spent far too much of his time being indecisive, worrying about the future while never pursuing or committing to anything prior to being summoned. He wanted to get into game design or possibly writing, but wouldn't go past the point of designing fantastical creatures due to his commitment issues.

After the king of Mosden, Enrich Mosden, passes away and having seen what his life choices did to those he left behind he decided to try harder. He didn't want his next death to feel like the first. To feel like he was so scared of living life wrong that he didn't live it at all. This resolve is what leads to him accepting his role as the Evergreen fully, committing himself to being the hero of Paradise. This sense of bravery is also what leads Botan to being a lot more forward with the next girl he finds interest in. Botan without his hesitation finds life quite easy to live and even easier to love.

He has a tendency to decide what kind of person someone is very quickly, and he is wrong, he'll continue justifying his false assumption more and more. Going to comical extremes to not have to admit that someone might be more complex that a cardboard cutout.

## Background

Botan was a 19 year old Japanese college student that was divided between choosing a safe financial future following his father's advice or his personal passions for fantasy and storytelling. His life was pretty normal (excluding his sister being a straight up anime character capable of superhuman feats) with interest in fantasy, soccer, and computers. Nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, Botan always considered himself as ordinary as one can get (especially given his closest person to compare himself to was his superhuman sister).

But one day Botan found himself isekai'd by Truck-kun and now in the world of Paradise, and more specifically, the nation of Mosden. Withing the day Botan understood that he wasn't supposed to be summoned to this poor country, but that now if he left, many powerful individuals around the globe would take violent action to acquire him for their own reasons. Botan now finds himself in a world that seemed to decide his fate for him, stealing the choice that he failed to make before coming to this world.

However, Botan doesn't see it that way. Now he must battle the waves of catastrophe, outwit political interests, search the world for power, and learn how to dance... to save the world.

## Etymology

* The name **Botan** means "male" (牡) (**bo**) and "rust-colored" (丹) (**tan**)
* Botan's surname **Nakaya** means "middle" (中) (**naka**) and "dart, arrow" (矢) (**ya**)

## Trivia

* Botan's name, 牡丹, means peony, a type of flower. However, not only is his name seemingly a wordplay on botany, the study of plants, his name can traditionally mean the "king of flowers" in Chinese.
* Outside of the story, Botan is considered the most bullied character out of all the heroes in the Many Worlds Project.
* Botan is good at dancing :]

## Navigation

Flower World

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