Age: 19
Role: Kay is the backup singer and the band's bassist for the songs that require it.
Appearance:
Keiran is generally average, not too tall and not too short at 5'11". He is slightly broad shoulder but for the most part is appears thin and tall. His fingers are strong and long delicate appendages. He runs regularly so has a decent lower body strength. His brown eyes and clean, sharp features aren't generally caught in a smile. In addition to his pale skin, narrow eyes and his naturally black hair he naturally appears rather shadowy. He attempts to this impression disarm only when around friends. His smooth baritone voice actually has little originality, nothing special.
Personality:
Keiran faces most of life with a calm and a general cheer. He rarely smiles, although he can be he is often cheerful inside. He keeps his outward appearance very collected, appearing almost uncaring of the world around him. Yet this could not be further from the truth, he is quite involved and attentive to the feelings of others but always keeps this to himself. He is notably quiet and closed around strangers and even on stage appears almost serene. Yet with his friends he allows himself to break out in conversation and open emotions. The most responsive he can appear with others is when he gets angered. This is actually easy to cause as Kay is dedicated to his friends, always placing them before himself. If he even suspects action or thoughts against his friends he will react, usually quietly fuming. The situation can easily escalate into full scale anger, sometimes violence and certainly grudges. The only voice of reason Kay will listen to in this situation are his close friends.
Due to his great loyalty Keiran actually reserves little respect for himself. He constantly puts himself down in order to exalt those closest to himself. He hardly ever accepts a compliment and degrades himself with comments. Often he expects failure of personal endeavors and thus never starts many. This is unfortunate because Keiran has much in the way of untapped talent. He is a incredibly talented singer and his ability to play bass on the run leaves little to be desired. Those, however are the only abilities he properly exercises. He doesn't even exhibit and interest in girls, although he often looks on hopefully with no action. If he tried his charming smile, calm politeness and loyalty would play much in his favour.
Likes:
- Being kind
- Supporting friends
- Spending time with friends
- Enjoying music
- Singing and playing bass
- Purple
- Large open places
- Nature
Dislikes:
- Whispering
- Anything against his friends
- Being alone with strangers
- Feedback
- Fights
- Loosing control
Dreams:
- Helping his friends achieve their goals
- Having a family
Fears:
- Losing his friends
- Being expected to achieve something great
- Cockroaches
- Doctors
Quirks:
- He has a very poor sense of smell
History:
Kay's childhood was not the best and probably a decent indicator of his current character. His mother died during childbirth. His father, aging and quite sensitive, took her death quite hard. He fell into a near clinical depression. That and the fact he was raising a child on his own resulted in Kay having a large amount of accidents in his toddler years and large numbers of trips to the hospital. With this constant exposure he began to fear doctors and hospitals in general. Eventually he learnt to avoid getting injured, but he learnt it the hard way. In a bout of childish curiosity at 3 he became very interested in a felt-tip pen and any possible connection it would have with his nostrils. It turned out that it got stuck and any attempts to remove it pushed it deeper. This was the largest trigger for his fear of doctors and held note in his mind for the next several years.
In his youth Kay spent most of his time supporting his dad through his depression and most of his early life he spent loyally caring. His father, a music teacher, was overly protective and didn't allow Kay much in the way of past times. Kay grew up believing that he wasn't good enough to engage in them, misinterpreting his father. By the time he was old enough to understand his character had been shaped. One of the few things his father allowed was music, in fact seeing his son playing practicing particularly cheered him. So Keiran was encourage to hone his natural musical talent, half for his father, half by his father. At school he had few friends, that was just how it happened. A few of them carried through into later years until he moved school.
That was where he met Kenzi and the other members of Vanilla Dream. He bonded first with Kenzi, both of them being singers and musicians. So it was natural that when they began to form a band that he was there. His father is proud of him, yet now suffering from poor health. Kay balances his time between caring for his dad and the band.