Application for folkmore

★ Character Information ★

Character Name: Kento Nanami
Character Age: 28 | July 3, 1990
Character Species: Human (Jujutsu Sorcerer)
Current Health: Being restored to full health post-death
Outfit: His typical outfit: pale business suit with blue shirt and yellow tie with black spots, brown oxford shoes, his holster for his cursed tool, watch, and goggles.

Character Canon: Jujutsu Kaisen
Link to History:

Grew up in the normal world of Japan through middle school.
Was scouted for Jujutsu Technical High School.
Bonded tightly with and dated his only classmate Haibara.
Was roped unwillingly into the antics of his upperclassmen, especially the year above: Gojo, Geto, and Ieri.
Saw how much shit the jujutsu sorcery world is full of and how inappropriately they use high schoolers.
Lost Haibara during what was supposed to be a simple mission his second year of high school. Left the world of jujutsu sorcery accordingly.
Tested into university and completed it with high marks.
Worked for over a year as a corporate salaryman making the rich richer.
Returned to the world of jujutsu sorcery after a baker thanked him for taking care of a flyhead cursed spirit. (Gojo laughed).
Became a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer, the highest rank short of special grade, of which there were only a handful in the world.
Supervised Itadori in the movie theater investigation, which led to Mahito and the unfortunate reality of transmogrified humans.

Faced Mahito alone for > 30 minutes in a one-on-one fight and withdrew after collapsing the room on him.
Left Ino to handle a large group, on promise of supporting his advance to grade 1, when Itadori went to face Junpei (and surely Mahito aka patchface) on his own.
Fought Mahito with Itadori until Mahito used domain expansion. Expected to die.
Was saved by Itadori (and Sukuna) breaking into the domain. Mahito fled.

Fought and died at Shibuya.

Originally led Ino and Megumi into Shibuya but parted ways when Itadori communicated that Gojo had been sealed.
Left the Veil, found many assistant managers dead, and took Ijichi to get healed.
Questioned Shigemo about the strength and numbers of their foes and beat the shit out of him, saving Nobara and Nitta.
Continued into Shibuya with Maki and Naobito & faced Dagon originally in the station, then in his domain.
Withstood Dagon's attacks until Megumi's appearance halted them. He then protected Megumi and got Maki and Naobito to return so they could escape…
Witnessed the body of Toji Fushiguro handedly defeat Dagon, freeing them.
Was burned half to death by Jogo upon return to Shibuya after Toji kicked Megumi out the window.
Searched for Megumi but instead found Mahito's transmogrified humans. Killed them, despite being so tired.
Touched by Mahito. In his state, certain death. Reflected a little before leaving the situation to Itadori (who showed up) and died.

Enjoyed the afterlife with Haibara for a while.
Reunites as a group along with Geto, Haibara, and Masamichi with Gojo upon his death.

Canon Point: Chapter 236 | 24 September 2023
Canon Iteration: Original canon

★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★

Skills: Adulting. Cooking. Deductive reasoning. Finance. Hand-to-hand combat. Interior decor. Personal Finance. Not working harder than he has to. Swordfighting.
Canon Abilities: Grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer. Particularly known for:

High level technical fighting skills, enhancing both hand-to-hand combat and weapons with cursed energy. He's a tactical fighter, able to adapt quickly to changing situations.
Enhanced durability. Not only does he reinforce his body with cursed energy, but he's able to fight and defeat a large group after being grievously harmed.
Large amount of cursed energy.
Black flash. One time record holder for consecutive number of uses of Black Flash (timing cursed energy to hit within 0.000001 seconds of a physical attack).
Binding vows. Nanami uses both a time based binding vow (increasing his cursed energy when he works overtime) and when he reveals how his technique works.
Innate Technique: Ratio. His technique creates critical hits at a ratio of 7:3 along a whole target or subdivision (e.g., arm, head). Applies to nonliving targets.
Innate Technique: Collapse Creates a weak point in the environment to do large area of effect damage. This puts him at risk too.

Role: Legend
Role Qualities/Attributes: Blue glowing dragonfly-like wings that disappear onto his back like a tattoo (and go through clothing without harming it). His emotional state will change not only the color of his eyes but also the color of his tie. He'll have a strong sense of when someone is in danger and to a lesser extent the enhanced durability, strength, and pain tolerance.
Role Reasoning: As an outsider to the world of jujutsu sorcery, Nanami sees how fucked up it is and does his best to protect children, such as the high school students, so that they live to see graduation. He disagrees greatly with the system but still follows the rules, as he sees he can do his best working within it and protect people.

Nanami returns from death to Folkmore because of his failure to protect students at Shibuya. He sees it as his task to mentor them here. This instinct applies first and foremost to Jujutsu Kaisen characters, but he will likely also mentor other children (not an age based term entirely) while here. This focus will consume his attention, but his time in Folkmore will also let him reflect and grow as a person. As he put it, he's always looked backwards, and it's only in his final moment he looked forwards. He has more to grow.

★ Personality ★

Option 2. Choose FOUR-FIVE of the following questions to answer and expand upon. You may choose a fifth question if you feel it is integral to your character's personality. Each answer has a 100-300 word requirement.

What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?

During Nanami's second year at Jujutsu Tech, he and Haibara were sent together on a mission to exorcise a grade 2 cursed spirit. It should have been simple. Easy. However, the research on the situation was faulty, and it quickly went out of control. Haibara died, and Nanami barely got himself and Haibara's body out of there. They were in high school, and now Haibara was dead. The most comforting words he got were from Geto: Gojo was handling it.

Most immediately, Nanami left the world of jujutsu sorcery for four years. Even though he returned in the end, it changed his view of the jujutsu world forever. The elders didn't treat high schoolers like high schoolers but adults—disposable ones at that. Somehow everyone from that world was so used to it that such things were normal. Not to him. Never to him.

Nanami spent most of his life looking backward, never entirely healing from the pain and wanting to go back to life before everything went wrong. It's behind his bad coping habits (drinking), and since jujutsu sorcerers can expect death, he has cut off most social ties and doesn't try to form many new ones. Normal people he wants to keep away from it, and jujutsu sorcerers? Have you met them?

What experience challenged your character's core beliefs? How did they handle this or change from it?

Nanami considered the world without purpose and him a man without purpose within it after he lost Haibara. Life was a meaningless circle of suffering and loss and going through the motions. So he set down the course to make the most money as readily and reliably as possible, so he could get off the terrible ferris wheel at age forty and simply be from that point on. A couple decades of hard work for… the rest of his life.

It was the simplest smallest thing that changed the course of his life. A cursed spirit jujutsu sorcerers usually wouldn't bother dealing with: a flyhead. These spirits are so low level they aren't even grade 4. However, one wrapped itself around the baker at a nearby bakery. It wasn't ruining her life, only making it a bit harder with a threat to grow over time. She did more good for the world than he did, so Nanami exorcised it. That was that. Right?

She said thank you. It made a difference, however slight, and for the first time in his life he was thanked. That never happened in the jujutsu world. But Nanami didn't need to be thanked ever again. Once was enough to know that however thankless and terrible the work was (and it was), it made a difference to people. It was a purpose.

Nanami returned to jujutsu sorcery and led, honestly, as isolated and lonely a life as he had before. Except he knew deep inside that he made a real difference for people, not simply making rich people richer.

Is your character capable of forgiveness or will they hold a grudge until they die? Would anything ever make them change their mind?

Nanami is capable of forgiveness. In the afterlife, he didn't hold a grudge against Geto for all the harm he did and the innocent people he killed. Honestly, Nanami understands turning against the establishment. Yet…

Beyond death, and who holds a grudge against the dead?, Nanami finds most people don't actually change in significant ways that show they've grown from whatever acts of wrongdoing they've committed that therefore warrants forgiving them. He's not about to rollover for someone to do the same bad thing over and over again after all.

As such he's also quite capable of holding a grudge (hello elders) or disrespect (hello Gojo). It's a safety mechanism for managing expectations and planning to prevent future harm. The elders continue to put children in harm's way, so he does what he can to protect them. Gojo… keeps being Gojo, so expecting as much makes it easier to deal with his nonsense. So on and so forth.

What is your character's safespace? When do they feel the most settled and comfortable? When do they feel confident and relaxed?

Nanami has cultivated his apartment to be his safe space. He enjoys settling in for the night by himself. Perhaps he cooks himself dinner. Perhaps he grabs takeout. Either way, he prefers to get off the clock on time and back to his safe haven where he can settle in with a good book and a good drink. Reading, Nanami can forget all about the terrible shit that happens during the day and be taken away to whatever is happening in the book. It's escapism, pure and simple.

As part of this structured safe space, Nanami keeps jujutsu sorcery as far away from it as possible. When he comes back from work, he changes out of his clothes, showers, and leaves it all behind. Jujutsu sorcerers, most especially Gojo, are not welcome. He will go out of his way to meet with them anywhere else so as to preserve that. The lack of cursed spirits and all the terrible shit associated with jujutsu keeps the environment feeling as clean as his decor tastes look. It's inside and out.

It's the only part of the world he truly controls and thus can relax in. He will work to build such a space in Folkmore, but it won't be the same.

★ Player Information ★

Player Name: Sil
Pronouns: they/them
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact(s): silyara & inoctavo
Who Invited You?: Current Player
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