Laodabaoth

### Relatives

Emi Kyo (Foster mother)Dion ("bio" Father)Yuna Kyo (Step? sister)Saki Kujiwara (Adoptive mother)Unnamed (Adoptive father)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Blue Pearl (Steven Universe, Voiceclaim)

"He loved me for years, and now he loves you."

- Kami talking to Mio.

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Major spoiler alert! even though no one is reading this but me! Final boss alert!

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Kami is a very close friend of Hina's, but moreover, the past Demiurge's leech. They are the creator of momentos and is the final boss of the story.

They show up halfway through winter, leading into new years and their confidant bleeds into these yearly events as well.

## Personality

Kami is outgoing but selectively quiet. They like to stay close to their closest allies and be a wallflower, as well as truly putting on a farce personality. The face that Kami does not show is anxious, emotional, hot headed, and complex. They're quick to emotion and their choices do not prioritize logic, everything comes from their heart. Kami puts on the mask of their mothers face, their mother who had left too soon is exactly the personality Kami shows to all.

Truly, Kami believes that no one would want to exist around *"such a high matinence"* person. They're highly self conscious about their relationships with others.

Behind Kami's fearful mask, Theyre honest, sweet, and passionate about their interests. They're outgoing and patient as well.

## Backstory

Lao had been a leech growing onto Yaldy for thousands of years, and once Yaldy has been defeated, bits of his soul had preserved into the leech and he sent it out onto earth as a reincarnation of himself.

While forming, Yaldy created him with an image in mind of a young child who could easily grow into the world and pursue a goal. and so let it be, he sent Lao out onto the world on June 18th 2011. There left Lao, practically dead on the side of the road. They’re bleeding out from their side, hit their head causing his left eye starting to dry out. All this while completely alert and conscious.

This was his test. if Lao could not live a day, no way would they be able to survive living among humans as normal. They would’ve failed, that was if Lao hasn’t been found by a lady. Emi Kyo had found Lao, almost dead on the ground while naked and afraid. Emi had just found a young girl who most likely had been abused or at least wildly hurt. She had no idea what happened, but took lao in as if she picked up her own child from school.

Emi was thinking, “Maybe she’ll give me all the information i need to reach her parents.” but Lao slept for 4 days so information was slightly postponed. when lao woke up, they had been alone to accustom to their surroundings, and soon to meet Emi face to face. She asked lao all about what happened on the 18th and much to her own dismay, lao had nothing to tell. All lao knew was their age, which was simply a fabricated year and the day lao appeared on earth. They didn’t even know their own name. Emi got next to nothing about Lao. Luckily, her daughter, Yuna, goes to a local university. Specifically one meant for nursing and bodily science. Emi called Yuna over to help and she came over as soon as she could. She helped as much as she could. And although lao was mostly apprehensive about Yuna, they stuck through her care as much as she can.

Yuna left shortly after, leaving Emi with a tired and cranky baby. She even called the police to see what she should do and all they said is that they could possibly look into the case, but most likely lao would be set up for Foster care. She insisted she could take care of them before anything happens to lao. So now, Emi is basically stuck with Lao. Eventually, she soon went on to adopt lao once no one in the neighborhood had spoken up about missing a child, or any crime cases around the neighborhood.

All lao's life lao have had these types of visions relating to illusions. Often they would see a different face in the mirror. As a child, lao would see what they would look like right before their power was taken away (present day metaverse lao, bloodied and bruised.) Other faces lao would see were Emi, Hina, and their Father. In the night, lao rarely had sleep paralysis. The visions that lao saw were always of either a perfect copy of themself, Orestes, or Father.

Each paralysis experience would involve lao unable to move or speak, the room is very dark and quiet. With the copy, it would seem to crawl under the door and walk close to lao. It would stare at lao for a small amount of time and leave, soon to come back and strangle lao. These experiences are often very slow but short, and happened rarely. With Orestes, they would already appear to be sitting in the corner of the room lao is sleeping in and appear to be sleeping as well, soon to teleport next to lao and talk to them. Orestes would talk for minutes on end, never seeming to stop. Eventually, while talking, she starts to taunt lao and attack them as well. Although, Orestes does not let lao appear back to reality until shes done ripping them apart. This dream is the most horrifying to lao and is also very painful.

Fathers experience is drastically different than the other two. Despite being nothing like this father, this is an attempt for father to bring peace to lao. Reassuring them that their father still is with them. They knock on the door and walk in with a cup of hot milk and a cookie, Father sets the cup and plate down and sits next to Lao. He talks to them for a little bit and starts to comfort lao, lifting them up like a lifeless rag doll and hugging them. He would kiss laos forehead and rub their back, petting their head, and telling them that everything's going to be alright. This would go on for a while and often, lao dreads this experience because all lao wants to do is hug their father back and respond, but they cannot move. they constantly remind themselves that this "dream" is not their real father, this idea often wakes lao up.

Along with the mirrors and paralysis, the most unusual experience is that, even after all events of the metaverse had been destroyed, lao was able to see their father appear and disappear as a hallucination. He would appear and disappear quickly, often staring straight at lao.

Emi had taken care of lao for 2 years and the story starts back up January of 2014. Right after christmas there had been an increase of crime happening around laos neighborhood, causing his anxiety to literally skyrocket. Nothing has been said about what happened the night of Emi’s death. All lao had admitted to was their anxiety went out of control. Nothing will ever be told about Emi’s death. No one could ever know that they did it. Never.

> Because of all of the crime happening around their neighborhood, Lao had been on the edge. Their first memory ever on earth has caused them ptsd, and lao had not left Emis house since they arrived. One day, Emi had come home from work early and had forgotten her house key inside. She had rattled the doorknob, and even forgot her doors lock code. The lock is a very loud lock so lao thought someone was literally breaking into the house. In a panic to hide, they accidentally broke a vase that Emi bought earlier that week. Eventually, Emi got into the house and Lao was hidden in his mother's closet. When Emi found Lao, they’d be crying their little heart out, afraid. After explaining that lao thought that emi was trying to break into the house, Emi gave Lao a big hug and reassured that she would never let that happen. lao mentioned the vase they broke, and again emi reassured them that she would not be angry over a broken vase. Her final words were “Don’t worry, i love you even if you broke a precious vase” right before Lao hugged Emi back and caused an unknown surge of power, causing emi to fall into a seizure and pass out, soon to die from suffocation. Falling into their arms, Lao watched Emi lose air and fall limp. Immediately Lao went to call Yuna, she told them to call an ambulance. Emi has had a history with really bad seizures, but this time it was from lao and their untamed godish powers. Yuna arrived with an ambulance, declaring Emi dead. After all this happened, lao had been temporarily set into foster care as they set up legal custody with close family (Saki basically took custody and gave Lao her last name and solidified his first name “Kami Kujiwara”
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Lao had gone through copious amounts of grief and gone through living on their own, Kami hadn’t talked to anyone and they doesn’t choose to talk to anyone anymore. He’s mute, and has been for the past few years Kami has ever had life, THeyre selective. The only person they regularly talks to is a child he’s met on a playground. A child that was ever so considerate to invite.

“Come play with us! what’s your name?” “Kami…Kyo,” “Nice to meet you Kami! I’m Jirou, but you can call me Hina.” Hina Jirou was his name. He hung around Kami’s neighborhood often, His school was not far from this playground and it ever just so happened to be apart of Kamis neighborhood. Eventually, Hina found out where Kamis foster family lived and occasionally (often) would come to visit, often dragging Kami out of the house to go places around town or into the city even. they had grown has best friends and Kami had learned that Hina brings them immense comfort. Hina felt like something that could make Kami happy no matter what season of emotional turmoil they’re going through. Did their admiration turn into love? probably. Kami was moved from foster family to finally their aunt's house, now his aunt has full custody. Kami had barely ever been home and they’d barely had a chance to ever grow with their aunt and cousins. They’d spend all their time with their childhood best friend and now new boyfriend. Eventually, a will had been split from Yuna. She had all the money given from Emis' will but she ever so generously split it with Kami. This let Kami move out far from Tokyo, this was when Mio moved to Tokyo as well. Kami broke up with Hina. They told Hina that their Aunt wanted them to move in with her but truly Kami was too afraid to tell Hina about Mio...But also because, since Hina had been a persona user (Orion was gifted, eventually Kyo told Hina about their father and situation on earth.) he would’ve met Mio sooner or later so why not leave them both to avoid “eternal death.”

While Kyo had been living secluded from everyone they know, they had been slowly working the metaverse up chunk by chunk. The PTs explore momentos as it’s being created and once they get to the end they reached Kyo’s palace.

Kyo hid within the metaverse, watching civilization, the PTs, and especially Hina. They watched Hina slowly get out of grasp, their comfort item. That bit weighed a little less weight considering Hina is contributing to breaking the metaverse down to its very core and gone. Kyo could care less if Hina doesn't love them, they only want their mother back after all.

Kyo and Hinas relationship isn’t completely romance. It’s confusion and illness. Hina might feel at least some sort of feelings towards Kyo, but Kyo overall is using Hina as a source of comfort. Yes, he still loves Hina, but Kyo cannot tell the difference between love and heart. Throughout the present time of the story, Hina does not love Kyo. He had moved on and Kyo cannot *understand* that.

## Appearance

Kami has a very feminine appearance despite originally being envisioned as "being the son of god" (Demiurge.) They have long, thin, black hair that reaches down to a little lower than their waist. As a child they've always had long hair and they've never cut it as well. Kami's face has a few details worth noting, although having a fairly normal face they have this condition for where the color in their veins is more pungent than others. This is only harbored onto them before the final boss, after that, Kami becomes human and loses this odd detail. After the final boss, this detail turns into a simple vitiligo (tracing the most colored veins.)

Kami's style is fairly simple, yet comfortable. They tend to wear big sweaters and long skirts and dresses. Almost all of their wardrobe is some shade of Black, Grey, and Especially White. Because Kami doesn't have the body of a human, they were extremely underweight and thin. They'd hide this by wearing slightly oversized clothing. At the end of the story, they tend to wear lighter clothes, mainly as it is summertime but also because this insecurity has been supported by physical therapy.

## Trivia

* Kami is quite good at Figure skating, as Emi would often take them to ice rinks. It was her hobby as well.
* Although Kami is great at figure skating, theyre not as smooth at dancing off the ice.