Hn. Well, my name is Kenji Bramson, and I grew up in Japan until I was eleven, at that point my dad allowed me to go to the States in order to attend a boarding school that my grandmother had been asking I go to for years. Before my mom died, she made my dad promise to send me there on my eleventh birthday. My grandmother's name is Hayako, and that's pretty much the only thing I call her, no 'granny' or 'grandmom' or any of that. Growing up she'd always been Hayako, just as my dad had been "father."
My mom died when I was two in a plane crash, so I've really got no opinion on her. (Luckily for me, she was the Japanese one and my dad was the American, so he could teach me English.) Hayako came with me to America and we immediately enrolled in the boarding school she was so excited about. I got in easily. I'd been studying wizardry since I was barely able to read, and I grew up learning to read runes first before kanji or letters. A photographic memory helped me remember the specific plants used in rituals and I had had plenty of time practicing spellcraft. Hayako wanted me to come here to learn dark magic, however.
She refused to teach it to me, that woman's always been paranoid when dabbling in the dark arts. Here at the school, though, I'll be in a safe environment.
I'm seventeen years old, turned seventeen August 18th. I'm 6'3 and I'm not particularly bulky with muscle. I'm slender for a guy my age and I have pale skin and dark blue hair that people usually take for black. As for my eyes? Well, the right one's red and the left one's blue. Pretty unique, hn? Heh, well I keep my hair long and in a ponytail at the base of my neck. My hair spikes up in the back at the top of my head, it's always been like that but I've gotten used to it. I wear cargo pants most of the time and plain shirts. I'm really not a fan of dressing up and I prefer boots over sneakers or sandals.
Besides a photographic memory, as for my skills you could say I'm pretty smart. And from my mother, I inherited an affinity to fire. My skin is tougher than a normal person's and I can light up to ten candles at once, with one snap. I can't shoot flames out of my fingertips or anything, but it's cool for a cool trick for parties. Lighting little things on fire. Ne, but don't worry, heh! I'm not a pyro or anything. Besides, the skill's still pretty weak and I don't really plan on perfecting it. I'll leave that to the fire elementals and salamanders.
Oh, and one more thing. I'm Wiccan, which helps with the spellcraft because the religion is so intertwined with it. I was given my mother's necklace, a plain silver pentagram attached to a thin silver chain. Out of respect I polish it regularly and have it on me at all times.
I've got no pets, and I'm actually kind of scared of big dogs and snakes. I'm fine with spiders though, that's got to count for something, right?
I guess that's it. That's me, more or less. Ne, you can learn more of me later...maybe. I forgot to mention I'm not a people-person. At all.