#Also I noticed that Konjou has some stuff in common with Tomura

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I decided he deserves his own ref post. Currently his ref is included together with my birb siblings, when he kinda has nothing to do with them lol

He has that swirly pattern on his knees as well, where the two skin colors meet. I was too lazy to showcase it in this ref tho, given usually his outfit covers his knees anyway.

Bio below:

Name: Konjou Nakano (first name means willpower)

Nicknames: Kon/Kon-chan (his bf) Thorn boy/thorn demon (people when they don't know his name) Forest spirit/forest god (Jinchou & Homura, before they knew who/what he was exactly)

Age: 31, but his human body is stuck in the state it was when he was 19, mainly meaning he's shorter than he should/has no facial hair, and is generally somewhat immature for someone that age.

Height: 164 cm (human) roughly 50 cm as Bikou

Son of the witch Belladonna with chimeric, unstable magic powers

Role: Initially Belladonna's familiar (as Bikou) later a wild card character, once he returns into human form and runs away. Mostly he attempts to fight his half-brother.

Family: Mother Belladonna/Saori Nakano, unknown father, cousin Kiyoi, half brother Yaguro/Asahi Hino. Nephew Kousai & niece Chiyuri (in the future), Foster father figure Angus, Grandfather figure Hanzoku/Ryoushi

Love Interest: Amnesiac Soul eater Jinchou & his bodysharing Soul-born-spirit Homura. (Long story short; Homura was born from a piece of Jin's soul, and is his own person, acting as sort of a familiar for Jinchou)

Friends: Yume, Chouma, Murasaki siblings & their bathhouse staff (post-main story)

Powers:

Konjou has 3 types of powers, none of which are technically natural to him, and only one that could've been:

Forest witch magic - specifically his vines. He can summon vines from his body and form them into any shape, size and length he wants, use them as offensive weapon, form them into defensive shield, and even use them as transportation for climbing/swinging himself around. He can also grow flowers on them, mostly roses whose color indicates his mood. (black - angry, blue - sad, red - in love, white - happy/content, gray - scared). Konjou can also inject his vine seeds inside things and damage them from within - including living things.

Shadow elemental magic - Allows him to shapeshift between human and a shadow wisp, though mainly this is done against his will by Belladonna. Can traverse through shadows, and even form vines from shadows instead of using his forest witch magic. These vines are weaker though. They are more useful for the internal attacks as they can slip into things easier than the more solid vines.

Reverence - The primary power of the antagonists and main villain of this oc group. Konjou can spread decaying/rotting energy of "Reverence" from his vines.

WEAKNESSES:

Due to the unstable nature of Konjou's powers, using them tends to cause him pain, especially since the vines come from within his own body and are attached to him. Tearing them doesn't harm him per say, but it really hurts. Sometimes he even starts bleeding from the seams of his two skin colors. (which is where the vines are emitted)

He's very mentally and emotionally volatile due to his abusive/neglectful parenting, and might lash out and hurt people even when he doesn't mean to. He's also socially awkward, and even after his life and condition improves, he tends to struggle forming connections with new people.

PERSONALITY:

Konjou is very temperamental and easily angered person, who has very conflicted and bitter feelings towards most people in his life due to his neglectful and traumatizing childhood. This causes him to often be at odds with them, whether warranted (Belladonna) or not (Kiyoi).

Despite his easily flaring temper and aggressive nature, Konjou does crave genuine connections with people, and is extremely protective and easily scared over the well being of those he does love.(Jinchou/Homura)

He is very curious about the world due to being confined for most of his childhood, and very eager to try new things, even take stupid risks because he is somewhat naive/has a poor sense of self-preservation.

Overall, he is bit of an angry, anxious mess who's somewhat mentally immature due to his past, but deep down has a good heart and really just wants people to care about him.

FUN FACTS:

Konjou tends to feel envious over his cousin Kiyoi, feeling his mother is using him to replace him. This causes him to lash out at his cousin, even when he knows none of this is Kiyoi's fault. (He tends to feel bad afterwards)

Konjou LOVES spicy food. The spicier the better.

Despite supposedly being the older brother, Yaguro often acts like the mature older sibling between the two, understandably so.

Konjou's slightly weird, malnourished looking waist is a birth defect.

Out of all the adults in his life that essentially failed him (his mum, Hanzoku, Angus), the only one whose death made him genuinely sad was Angus. (it was still complicated, because Konjou knows how much of a bad person he was/he did play a part in his awful childhood, namely for not doing more to help him when he could have)

Once freed from his mother's control, Konjou's eyes turn into more normal looking human eyes (still yellow) and he loses the ashy skin patches. The vine pattern stays.

Between the two, Konjou is closer with his niece as he feels awkward around shy Kousai.

He does start aging properly eventually, though mainly he just grows facial hair and calms down a bit; he's still stuck being short

BG STORY:

Konjou was born as sickly and weak child with no powers, pretty much opposite of what his mother had wanted. She chooses to keep him still, working to improve his health and give him the magic powers she wanted. The issue is, she never asked him if he wanted them & the process has been very painful and long.

Most of his childhood was spent in pain, his body slowly trying to adapt to the changes the magic infusion was doing. She had some medicinal help for his pains from a man working with his mother, a foreigner called Angus Belmont. Konjou developed a parental bond of sorts with the man, often even preferring to stay near him rather than his mother.

The infusion and experiments eventually became too much to him, causing Konjou to lash out at his mother more and more, until one day he almost killed her, "forcing" Belladonna to transform into a shadow wisp spirit, to protect herself. Instead of bringing him back like she'd initially meant to, Belladonna chooses to keep him in this friendlier form for years, making him forget who he was. '

Konjou lived most of his following years as the shadow wisp familiar "Bikou," until the talk about the other son of his father trying to hunt Belladonna down triggered his memories, causing her spell to reverse. Before he could be subdued, Konjou escapes, his initial intention being to go and kill this other child for threatening his mother, given his life did depend on her (and some complicated psychological stuff).

After his escape, he meets an amnesiac artifical soul eater Jinchou (and his Soul-born spirit companion Homura) who nurtures him back to health as he'd passed out due to exhaustion and not having eaten for days. The trio become close, and the pair help Konjou to locate this dangerous moth spirit he was after. Howeever, during the fight against him, Konjou is taken aback by the genuine concern Yaguro shows him upon hearing him ramble out pieces about his past, causing him distress.

Homura & Jinchou step in to help with the fight, but it gets fully interrupted by Angus, who was sent to ho and find him. After subtly threatening Konjou about Jin, the boy begrudgingly agrees to go back, as long as Angus promises not to tell Belladonna about Jinchou and Homura, and she wouldn't turn him back into a spirit. Angus agrees to the former, but is unable to really promise the latter, as it depended on how he behaved towards her.

Jinchou & Homura are left heartbroken by him leaving, and also determined to get him back. Yaguro and his witch companion Yume suggest to the pair that they could join them in trying to find the headquarters of the group Konjou was staying with. They refuse however, wanting to find him on their own, not trusting the pair after their fight.

Konjou begrudgingly chooses to behave, no longer lashing out to his mother while still plotting on running again as soon as he can, to go find Jinchou. In the end though, Jinchou and Homura find him, never having forgotten Konjou despite their tendency for memory loss due to their condition.