”You’re the only North Star I would follow this far!”
Nickname: Call him Kit if you want to embarrass him, otherwise it’s just Kita.
Age: Just barely 20, though no one believes him when he tells them that. They still ask what grade he’s in.
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Role: Resident Handyman/Miscellaneous worker extraordinaire
Hair Color: Kita’s the brightest ginger that ever walked the earth, and trust me, he’s reminded of it all the time.
Eye Color: A reddish-brown that has the tendency to startle the superstitious. He has the sort of eyes that reflect the light all too well, revealing the flecks of red and gold around his pupils.
Skin Tone: He’s Caucasian, but it’s obvious he likes the outdoors. He has visible tanlines on his arms from sleeves of various lengths, and it’s not uncommon to find him with sunburn on his cheeks, ears, or nose from forgetting to put sunscreen on them. He definitely isn’t so dark he looks like he lives at the beach though (much to his vexation).
Height: 5’11”, though don’t ask him because he’ll swear he’s an even 6’0”.
Weight: 155
Physical Description: Kita has a lot of things that stand out about him. He’s muscular, he’s tan, he has bright orange-red hair. But upon meeting him, none of those things will be the first a person notices. No, by far his most special feature is his smile. Kita was blessed with nice teeth and a wide mouth, and when he grins his entire face lights up with it. He smiles with all the energy he has, and it’s proven to be rather contagious. He’s broken many hearts with that smile of his, though he’s as oblivious to that as he is everything else.
Working with his hands has given Kita a nice body, though he won’t be auditioning for the Olympics any time soon or anything. His muscles are more wiry than bulging, but not to the point that he could be described as skinny. He likes to be active and that shows. He holds himself and walks with a confidence he might not necessarily deserve, considering how utterly clumsy he can be sometimes. He has big feet, but don’t make a joke about it because he’ll probably melt into the floorboards.
He has a scar here and there on his arms, fingers, and one on the back of his neck. Most of them has a story he’s always all too eager to share, but the one on the back of his neck he’s not as excited to think about. That’s why he grows his hair to cover it, making his hair a typically shaggy mess right down to the fringe he’s constantly pushing away from his face. Overall, he's a decently attractive fella, but he's not the type to flaunt it.
Potential Interest: Kita’s kind of a huge idiot when it comes to things like romance. Oh, and he also gets totally flustered around anyone he finds attractive, especially when they’re female. Males he at least can meet ‘man-to-man’ (as he puts it), but he’s grown up to be very respectful towards women and when they’re cute, he has no clue how to act. That’s not to say he prefers one over the other; Kita’s very much a man of equal opportunity.
Likes:
• Music: He loves it to pieces, and really takes songs to heart. His absolute favorite music group is Owl City. Probably the one sure-fire way to get him out of a bad mood is to play them.
• Outdoors: Kita loves being active. He loves nature and animals and even thinks bugs are cool. He’s not majorly into sports, but take him for a hike and he’ll love you forever.
• Reading: This is something Kita doesn’t actually like to talk about, and if you catch him with a book he’ll probably hide from you. He doesn’t always understand the stories, and he has trouble sitting still for long periods of time, but when a book captures his interest he finds authors and writing skills and fiction to be just plain amazing. His favorite is the Harry Potter series.
• Talking to people: Kita has a genuine desire to enjoy other people’s company and make them happy. Even if it’s just light conversation, or sitting silently while someone complains to him, Kita is usually pretty content in the company of others.
• Food: Oh man, Kita loves food. It totally would have been fine for the pastry place to pay Kita in desserts if that were, you know, legal. And if he didn’t have an apartment to pay rent for.
• Clear nights: He doesn’t know the first thing about stars or planets or anything, but damn if it isn’t pretty to look at. He likes the smell of the air at night, too.
Dislikes:
• Spicy stuff: Kita has a cat’s tongue, so any intense flavors tend to hurt his mouth. Same goes with something too hot, too sour, ect.
• Misogyny: It takes a lot to make Kita angry, but being disrespectful towards women is the easiest way to do it. Don’t even begin to tell a kitchen joke in his presence.
• Intolerance: Actually, scratch that. Don’t be homophobic/racist/ect either if you want to get along with him.
• Board games: More like bored games. You can’t expect him to sit around that long for fake money!
• Sleeping: If Kita had his way, he’d never sleep. It just wastes time, and he doesn’t like dreaming.
• Horror films: He doesn’t like feeling scared, and he tends to overthink movie plots to begin with. It’s just better for all involved if he sticks to romantic comedies.
Strengths:
- Physical Strength: Like I said, he's no Olympian, but if you need someone to help you move or grab that box full of tools from the top shelf, he's your man.
- Humor: Kita's the kind of person who definitely takes everything all in good fun. Sometimes if he's teased he'll get mega embarrassed, but he'll never be angry about it and he appreciates everything from puns to dry sarcasm.
- Hands on Learner: As long as Kita can do something to see how it works, he can pick stuff up decently quick.
- Understanding: Didn't feel good coming into work this morning? Kita will lighten your load. Sad but don't feel like talking? He'll give you your space. It takes a lot to offend or upset him because he usually knows where people are coming from and is willing to give them a break.
Weaknesses:
- Personal: If someone doesn't like Kita or is cruel to him, he tends to take it really personally. Even good-natured criticism can get him down.
- Push Over: While he'll stand up for some things, more often than not Kita will agree to things because he doesn't like to argue.
- Dancing: He CANNOT dance. Like, at all.
- Visual Learning: Things just don't stick with Kita when he learns about it through reading or watching. Listening is a little better, but even then it's not great.
- Idiot: Now, I say this with love, I absolutely do, but Kita is an idiot when it comes to self-preservation. Really, it's amazing the kid is still alive. He doesn't seem to have a danger gauge at all. People who don't know him better would say he's brave, but really he just sort of forgets that certain things are dangerous or a bad idea or could kill him. So far, this lack of common sense has ultimately benefited him, but truth be told it's only a matter of time before people go from facepalming at his actions to yelling at him while he lays in a hospital bed over them.
Personality:
Kita is the sort of person you either love, or pretend to hate because you don’t want to admit he kinda makes you laugh sometimes. His sunny disposition makes it pretty easy for him to get through a day with a smile on his face. He’s good at shrugging things off most of the time, and finds the positive side to life. He likes to laugh and smile, and does both frequently and genuinely. Kita takes the uncertainty of living and the mystery of the unknown and chooses to be excited about it rather than pessimistic, and this outlook really gives him a chance to experience things in a positive way. This includes people as well, and this shows in the way he really takes the time to get to know everyone he can and take pleasure in their uniqueness. He's easily embarrassed, though, and his naivety and modest attitude means he blushes rather often and is an ideal target for teasing.
With all of this in mind, one would think Kita would have a lot of friends. Though it’s true he has plenty of people he’s friendly with, and plenty of people who talk to him about their problems and such, he doesn’t really have anyone he can rely on himself. Well, maybe that’s not entire true. To be honest, he’s never tried. It’s not that he doesn’t trust people, exactly, he just has a hard time opening himself up and letting a relationship be reciprocated on both sides. He much prefers to be the caregiver than to receive it.
If someone successfully manages to get him to relax around them, he becomes very protective of them. Not in an overbearing way, as he believes everyone has the right to make their own decisions, but he will do his best to keep an extra eye on you to make sure you’re okay.
In the meantime, he himself isn’t the best at taking care. He’s very much a puppy in the sense of wanting to just go all the time, and as a result he usually winds up with scrapes he doesn’t treat, nights he doesn’t sleep, and mornings he forgoes breakfast. He really just needs someone to tell him to slow the hell down every once in a while.
Kita isn’t the smartest person. He doesn’t have a ton of common sense, never did well in school, and is usually slow on the uptake with most things. But Kita’s number one trait is that he tries. He really, really does try, and it’s hard to resent him for that.
History:
Kita grew up in a single-parent household. His dad bailed not long after he was born, leaving just him, his older sister, and his mom. His mom had to work two jobs on occasion, leaving him and his older sister with the retired army veteran down the hall in their apartment building, but he was nice and had cute cats. His sister Letti was his idol in every way – she was strong, smart, and brave. They probably gave their mother a gray hair or two with their various intercity adventures, but they had fun. They were happy.
When Kita was seven, things changed. On the way home from school during a particularly snowy afternoon, their car was hit by a drunk driver. Him and his mom both managed to walk away from the accident with nothing more than a scrape or two, but his sister was sitting on the side of the car that got hit head on, and broke her spine. She survived, but was paralyzed from the waist down. Medical bills put them into crippling debt, and as soon as Kita was old enough, he began taking under the table jobs in order to help his mom out. There were times it was only through the kindness of strangers that they managed to keep a roof over their head, but they got by. Letti was never the same after the accident, but she was still Kita’s sister, and he still loved her dearly. He took care of her as much as he could, and perhaps most importantly, she reminded him that no matter what, she could still take care of herself.
At 15, Kita’s mom remarried. Her new husband was a kind man, and he did well for himself in the business world. They, along with a child from his previous marriage, all moved in together, and things got easier. He helped Letti get a helper dog, which really brought back her smile. Kita began feeling out of place in the house, missing the three-person unit they used to be. He felt guilty for feeling that way though, because it was obvious both his mom and his sister were happier than they’d ever been since the accident.
He was relatively popular in high school, including one girlfriend that lasted about six months before she broke up with him. He was big into after school clubs, especially Nature Club, which he would have become the president of if he wanted it, but he's not a leader. He didn't really have any best friends though, and if he ever hung out with anyone after school, it was always in groups.
At 17, Kita decided he needed to figure out his own life. After he graduated high school, he got a job working construction and moved into his own apartment. He’s been a job-floater ever since, working in one place for a few months before trying to find someplace that suits him better. He’s 20 now, and he still doesn’t really know what he wants to do with his life.