#kuki shinobu x sakurai denki

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Genshin Impact Necro AU: Sakurai Denki - Personality, Appearence, Quirks

Made in Picrew, because I couldn't draw to save my life. I'm working on it as well, but the internet will have to do for now.

A/N: I know, I know, this is the worst possible way of describing a fictional character - an info dump. But integrating all of this into a reasonable story with coherent plot and the proper developement would take a very long time (exactly 3.9 days of constant writing. Average pace is 4 sentences per minute, average sentence is 10 words, average chapter is 5000 words long, 45 chapters to do all the content justice [in my opinion, could be less]). So while work happens on the proper fics, have this.

Physical appearance

Height: 192 cm/ ~6.3 ft

Weight: ~90kg

Age: 23 (vessel age appearance) 21 (actual age)

Eye colour: Originally green. His new body, however, mirrors the state of his soul, also in the eyes. The iris is normally light grey in colour, and switches depending on his emotions. It is dark purple when he is angry, yellow during Necro core malfunctions, blue when he is in mental pain/discomfort and everything switches back to green when he is happy.

Hair colour: Brown. It used to be a healthy shade, but after the soul transplant it got brighter (stress-related graying). He wears it short.

Skin colour/race: White, Caucasian.

Physique: Muscular, but not beefy. Attractive by all means (Sunqu didn't make the vessel to leave Denki maidenless, now did he? Everything he creates is held up to a high standard). The original Denki was slender and of average height.

Unique features: Scars, scars, scars. His old body may have been abandoned, but some injuries have been ingrained in his very soul - and that reflects on his vessel. Over time traces of his past reappeared, now as fully healed white scars. Every single one of them carries an especially painful memory. The one on his right eye, for example. It was the second to be removed, leaving him completely blind. Even though he can see again, the trauma remained. Other scars include:

around the neck,

long and symmetrical on his arms,

a few long gashes on his back,

a flurry of small, thin and irregular cuts on his forearms,

a half-moon scar on his stomach,

around his upper chest,

on the inside of the thighs.

Tattoos, piercings and jewelry: None.

Personality

Original Denki was fun to be around, all in all. Outgoing, outspoken, friendly. He had a lot ideas for fun activities, and often dragged his few friends along. Despite that he was slightly introverted, enjoying alone time a little more. He loved reading and drawing landscapes of his home - Narukami Island. Denki liked to train swordfighting, but prefered doing things in a way of avoiding direct conflict and bloodshed.

The new Denki is very different. He's cold, unfeeling even. Denki is the only mortal The Watcher respects. He is reliable and direct, working with others with no greater issues.

The problem, however, starts to become visible when he finally relaxes, the doors close, the curtain drops. Denki is awkward in social situations, remaining silent and somewhat absent, always standing on the sidelines, not speaking unless spoken to. He sometimes comes off as dull, other times mean and harsh. A lot of the subtleties of conversation, like flirting and teasing, just makes him confused and angry - why won't they just tell me what they want? Mood swings are a problem. Even thought the Necro core stabilises his soul greatly, the spirit still is an unpredictable thing. Best case he gets grumpy or sad, worst case - an entire psychotic episode occurs. The major malfunctions happen rarely, but small short-circuits are common. He is snappy, but his frustrations never result in injury to bystanders. His jokes are confusing and untactful (the undead he got used to have a very different concept of what's funny). Once more or less a pacifist, Denki got more violent. He no longer strays from killing or harming others, but still dislikes the job he was forced into. The targets of his cruelty are almost exclusively the Fatui, armed or unarmed, innocent or guilty. The mangled, rotting corpses are a tell-tale sign of his presence.

After he reunited and got together romantically with Kuki Shinobu, his best friend from his childhood, Denki started slowly improving. His mood always lightens up when she is around. He talks more, is overall happier and more upbeat. He got used to talking to living people again. His sense of humour remains dark, but lightened up enough to not attract worried glances from bystanders. Teasing stopped annoying him - he even started to bother Shinobu on a daily basis (mainly about their height difference, which is about 30 cm apart). Breakdowns still occur, but they got less violent over time, thanks to his soul finally healing. Denki started slowly coming back to parts of his old self, but got more mature and masculine. His intense protectiveness over Shinobu is also to be noted.

Issues

Body image - Ever since his soul got moved, he felt that his body didn't belong to him any more. All of the nooks and crannies he was used to were gone, replaced with artificial flesh. It is attractive, beautiful and perfect from the outside, but it's not his. It feels like a golden cage for his soul. At first, Denki couldn't even blink correctly. It took what felt like years to get the new flesh puppet into the rhythm of being alive. All of the natural functions, like breathing, walking, sleeping or speaking had to be done with outside help at first. Only after a long time was he ready to fully use it as intended. Every day felt awful. The vessel was cumbersome and clumsy, and it hurt. Everything hurt. Speaking, moving around, breathing. It felt just as a too tight costume. But he got used to it over time. He has to maintain it regularly, just in case something is wrong. That made him enjoy taking long, thorough baths. Yet he doesn't feel the same type of worry at seeing it injured, like one would with their own body. It is unimportant to him. It was, actually, before Shinobu got into a relationship with him. She adored it's beauty, helping him clean off the blood and grime on many occasions. She hated seeing it hurt, and urged him to be careful. If Shinobu values his vessel, then why should he not? It won't be that bad. Probably.

Allignment - Every time he cleans the blood off of his hands, he can't help but question himself. Is he good, or evil? How come his fingers are so gentle and full of love on Shinobu's, but so hateful inside of his opponents' eye sockets? The beings that saved him are objectively evil - they torture, kill, raid and destroy, but to achieve a goal of world order and create a paradise at the command of the Creator. Do the ends justify the means? They showed kindness and understanding, offered him a chance to live again, but forced him into a job of murder all the same. Is killing the guilty really a good deed? Is giving payback to those who hurt him in an equally cruel way a crime, or a justifiable action? And finally - after so much wrong-doing, this much cruelty and hate - does he even deserve to be hers?

Identity - If Denki's soul remained unchanged, he would have ended himself or gone off-the-rails long ago. Because of this, Sunqu had to piece together whatever was left of him, and fill the gaps with fragments of others' life essence. His memories are still there, but the mood swings certainly beg the question: is Denki really one person? When he looks into his grey eyes in the mirror, does he see the old Denki, the one who smiled and laughed without a care? Is it the weak, pathetic, scared and whimpery shell of a human Beleth rescued? Or the new Master Denki - the same man on whose hands is the blood of hundreds? Which one gets up, which one eats, which one cuddles with Shinobu to avoid nightmares? Which one does she actually love? If he is, indeed, one individual, that brings forth even more concern.

Trauma - It's not like the memories suddenly vanished from his mind. The seven years of agony left permanent imprints in his mind, resulting in many quirks and habits reflecting that. Examples include:

Constant nightmares, up to a point where he has to sleep in short, three hour bursts to get any rest,

Brief 'jamming', resulting in zoning out or randomly snapping at anyone around,

Occassional flinching at sudden movements during relaxed moments,

Dislike towards salty and dry foods,

Dislike towards turpid soups - because who knows what's really inside,

Picking apart purchased meals with cutlery, subconsiously looking for needles, razors, broken glass or similiar "surprises",

Eating quickly, as if someone was about to take his food away,

Absolutely despising being restrained in any way,

Reluctancy to undress or show is bare body in other ways,

Scratching at his neck and forearms whenever he is uncomfortable or sad,

Disrespecting most authority figures, excluding the Legion,

Unwillingness to submit in any way, be it major, minor, or even as just a joke,

Paranoia; always standing in a way to observe the most people around at once,

Desperation not to get sick and become dependant on others, even if for a day only,

Tensing up at sudden physical contact...

... and the list goes on and on. Most of the stress is made more bearable with his girlfriend around. She is an expert at calming him down and comforting him whenever he needs it. With the smaller woman in his arms, every pain seems to dull - even the nightmares subside.

(Feedback is always welcome! :>)

Thanks for reading!