[ref] random facts
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doyoulikecakeWriting these things down as I learn them through tags or fic or whatever else.
1. Kaden has very little sense of privacy when it comes to personal spaces, like his bedroom or apartment; he doesn't care if someone wanders through them whether he's there or not. What he does care about is if people disturb things or find what he carefully locks away, or read things that have not been left open. Privacy is more about possessions than space, in other words.
1a. He also has very little concept of personal space as in how close he is to another person, or whether or not they're touching him.
2. He's a recreational drug user. He uses amphetamines to keep himself focused when he's working in the early hours of the morning (so his notebooks don't end up being a gibberish mess -- usually this is later in his reset cycle). And crystal MDMA is what he's on in the clubs -- his version of a hangover is to sleep for a day straight, so he uses this to reset his sleep cycle to a certain extent. He's not terribly addicted to either; what he's truly addicted to is caffeine. Don't interact with him before he's had his morning coffee, or really, any time he hasn't had coffee for a few hours. The caffeine headaches are killer.
3. He's a bit of a masochist, in that he doesn't care how much pain he has to inflict on himself to hurt other people and in an odd way kind of enjoys it.
3a. This is useful, because a good deal of his Calling involves being in pain; he's kind of trapped into it, given that his Calling gives him the obsession with fear and the things he does in the name of research are not good things, and hurt him to do.
3b. As a result, he has a ridiculously high pain tolerance. He's almost Fallen once because of it.
4. It takes him a lot longer than one might expect to get ready/look presentable (his idea of presentable) in the morning. Not quite as long as, say, Lily, but a lot longer than one might expect from a guy.
5. Dubiously straight, in that he only sleeps with/gets into relationships with girls, but might on occasion find a guy nice to look at or something.I'm not entirely sure how much of this is trained into him by his father and how much of it is what he actually feels -- His dad wasn't big on any of his kids being gay, because that wasn't 'normal'. Kaden is actually bisexual, but he's in a large amount of denial about anything remotely homosexual, and will adamantly deny it to the point of the extreme when confronted about it. Or react in anger/violence, depending on the circumstances.
6. He has very little control over his wings when they're out, and it's often uncomfortable to keep them in if emotions are running high, especially when he's angry. The pain doesn't bother him much, but the itching does, and it's part of why he stays so infinitely calm when he gets angry. He also has a difficult time getting them to go back in once they're out.
7. His ringtone is Poker Face by Lady Gaga.
8. He doesn't eat very much, and never really has. This started out because he was an incredibly picky eater when he was tiny due to undiagnosed food allergies (he didn't tell anyone certain foods made him ill, he just stopped eating them). That developed into anorexia in high school -- it didn't help that he spent all of high school experimenting with whatever drugs he could get his hands on -- and hasn't gone away. He does eat, just only enough to a) make it seem like he eats normally and b) keep himself alive. It doesn't help that often he just forgets to eat sometimes.
9. And apparently he has that thing were if he's woken up for whatever reason, it will take him hours to get back to sleep. He does sleep enough when he sleeps alone, but if anything wakes him up, that's usually it for the night. Usually.
9a. This sucks, because he often gets about an average of four hours of sleep a night.
10. He's fluent in both English and Japanese, having been brought up bilingual. He can read most things written in Latin and German, though speaking the two languages is still a bit of an impossibility. He's also got a working knowledge of Spanish (it's what happens when you grow up in Cali, really).
10a. He refuses to speak Japanese with anyone who isn't family, and often pretends to be less fluent in it than he actually is -- he only really speaks it exclusively with his father, mother, and Lily. He's almost convinced Jane that he doesn't understand half of what she says when she speaks it at him.
11. He's a little bit homophobic, actually, as well as ...untowardly biased toward angels.Most of this isn't due to any maliciousness but to the fact that he's just pretty ignorant about it in general. He grew up in an angel-only gated community, and his family doesn't pride themselves on being particularly open-minded.
12. The necklace he always wears is a pendant of Lily's that she left in her room when she ran away. He took it and has worn it ever since (though he did have the chain replaced). He will tell nobody what its significance is.
13. He has something of a collection of restraints, all specifically designed to hold those of angelic/demonic strength, that he's used in his personal torture sessions. They're all ordered from legit sex shops and everything. He doesn't give a fuck if people find out he's supposedly kinky, so long as they don't look much farther and find out that it's really not a kink thing and that he's actually torturing people. Not a lot of people do.
14. He wears his watch 'round the wrong way, so the face is on the inside of his wrist.
15. If a word can be abbreviated to an acronym, chances are that's the only way Kaden will say it. You'll probably never hear him say "Angel of [insert type here]" -- it's always AoK or AoD. Et cetera.
16. He doesn't wear clothing tailored to fit his wings, with the exception of his undershirts/a-shirts. He prefers to have the self-control to keep them in himself, the consequence of losing that control being that he ruins an expensive-as-fuck suit (or shirts).
16a. His clothing was tailored in high school, but that's simply because it was a "wings-out" school and it was expected at certain functions. He was the weird kid who kept them in more often than out.
17. Nobody, in the family or out of it, knows he almost Fell. (Ashley knows something happened on that date, but she will never be able to get it out of him.)
18. He's quite fond of grey.
19. He's not done a lot of traveling within the US -- only a few school trips, and family trips up to the mountains -- but has been to quite a lot of places outside it. Japan was a regular trip, but he's also been to France, Spain, Egypt, Germany, Austria, England (of course), and ...a few more places that I don't know of yet.
20. He eats a lot of Americanized Japanese food without really enjoying it because it's instant. The Japanese cuisine he actually enjoys is all the weird shit you can't actually find in America.
21. He hates his father and only really stays in contact with him because of Ken's money and the inheritance he know he's getting. He finds his mother pathetic but vaguely useful, especially now that she likes him again for finding Lily/Jessi.
22. He really, really sucks at videogames.
23. He's been in two actual relationships in his entire life; he dated a girl in high school for awhile, and had a weird relationship with Marena, a student of his, for a few months after coming to Chicago. The former ended when she finally got sick of him cheating on her, the latter ended when Mari found one of his folders on Lily and read through it. He doesn't really feel like relationships in general are usually worth it, and generally prefers one-night-stands at the clubs rather than the actual effort it takes to stay in a relationship.
24. He's terrible at multitasking, because he tends to monofocus to the exclusion of all else if he's working on something, be that grading papers or a project of his own. However, he still multitasks all the fucking time, mostly due to a lack of time to actually devote to any one thing, especially if those things involve taking care of himself. This results in a lot of burnt coffee, for one.
25. He's very small-boned, which is relatively lucky for him, as he's consistently underweight (see above point about eating disorder :/). If one looks closely, one can tell that he's probably not supposed to be as skinny as he is; his weight tends to fluctuate by ten or so pounds, but he usually hovers somewhere around 100 pounds.
25a. His wings, when they're out, add at least twenty pounds to that.
26. He has a number of very faint scars down his left arm from when he tortured Lily -- he didn't go to a Healing Angel in time to completely remove them. They're not noticeable unless one is looking very hard, but you can see them. He also now has a very noticeable one on his face, under his left eye, from Ken's visit. This one he usually covers up when he goes out, so it's really only visible when he just wakes up/is going to bed.
27. He is almost never shirtless; he's always wearing an undershirt of some sort. This is because of his wing scars -- giant knotted things that trail most of the way across his shoulderblades and down his back. He doesn't like them, thinks they're ugly, and so tends to not expose them if he can help it.
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1. Kaden has very little sense of privacy when it comes to personal spaces, like his bedroom or apartment; he doesn't care if someone wanders through them whether he's there or not. What he does care about is if people disturb things or find what he carefully locks away, or read things that have not been left open. Privacy is more about possessions than space, in other words.
1a. He also has very little concept of personal space as in how close he is to another person, or whether or not they're touching him.
2. He's a recreational drug user. He uses amphetamines to keep himself focused when he's working in the early hours of the morning (so his notebooks don't end up being a gibberish mess -- usually this is later in his reset cycle). And crystal MDMA is what he's on in the clubs -- his version of a hangover is to sleep for a day straight, so he uses this to reset his sleep cycle to a certain extent. He's not terribly addicted to either; what he's truly addicted to is caffeine. Don't interact with him before he's had his morning coffee, or really, any time he hasn't had coffee for a few hours. The caffeine headaches are killer.
3. He's a bit of a masochist, in that he doesn't care how much pain he has to inflict on himself to hurt other people and in an odd way kind of enjoys it.
3a. This is useful, because a good deal of his Calling involves being in pain; he's kind of trapped into it, given that his Calling gives him the obsession with fear and the things he does in the name of research are not good things, and hurt him to do.
3b. As a result, he has a ridiculously high pain tolerance. He's almost Fallen once because of it.
4. It takes him a lot longer than one might expect to get ready/look presentable (his idea of presentable) in the morning. Not quite as long as, say, Lily, but a lot longer than one might expect from a guy.
5. Dubiously straight, in that he only sleeps with/gets into relationships with girls, but might on occasion find a guy nice to look at or something.
6. He has very little control over his wings when they're out, and it's often uncomfortable to keep them in if emotions are running high, especially when he's angry. The pain doesn't bother him much, but the itching does, and it's part of why he stays so infinitely calm when he gets angry. He also has a difficult time getting them to go back in once they're out.
7. His ringtone is Poker Face by Lady Gaga.
8. He doesn't eat very much, and never really has. This started out because he was an incredibly picky eater when he was tiny due to undiagnosed food allergies (he didn't tell anyone certain foods made him ill, he just stopped eating them). That developed into anorexia in high school -- it didn't help that he spent all of high school experimenting with whatever drugs he could get his hands on -- and hasn't gone away. He does eat, just only enough to a) make it seem like he eats normally and b) keep himself alive. It doesn't help that often he just forgets to eat sometimes.
9. And apparently he has that thing were if he's woken up for whatever reason, it will take him hours to get back to sleep. He does sleep enough when he sleeps alone, but if anything wakes him up, that's usually it for the night. Usually.
9a. This sucks, because he often gets about an average of four hours of sleep a night.
10. He's fluent in both English and Japanese, having been brought up bilingual. He can read most things written in Latin and German, though speaking the two languages is still a bit of an impossibility. He's also got a working knowledge of Spanish (it's what happens when you grow up in Cali, really).
10a. He refuses to speak Japanese with anyone who isn't family, and often pretends to be less fluent in it than he actually is -- he only really speaks it exclusively with his father, mother, and Lily. He's almost convinced Jane that he doesn't understand half of what she says when she speaks it at him.
11. He's a little bit homophobic, actually, as well as ...untowardly biased toward angels.
12. The necklace he always wears is a pendant of Lily's that she left in her room when she ran away. He took it and has worn it ever since (though he did have the chain replaced). He will tell nobody what its significance is.
13. He has something of a collection of restraints, all specifically designed to hold those of angelic/demonic strength, that he's used in his personal torture sessions. They're all ordered from legit sex shops and everything. He doesn't give a fuck if people find out he's supposedly kinky, so long as they don't look much farther and find out that it's really not a kink thing and that he's actually torturing people. Not a lot of people do.
14. He wears his watch 'round the wrong way, so the face is on the inside of his wrist.
15. If a word can be abbreviated to an acronym, chances are that's the only way Kaden will say it. You'll probably never hear him say "Angel of [insert type here]" -- it's always AoK or AoD. Et cetera.
16. He doesn't wear clothing tailored to fit his wings, with the exception of his undershirts/a-shirts. He prefers to have the self-control to keep them in himself, the consequence of losing that control being that he ruins an expensive-as-fuck suit (or shirts).
16a. His clothing was tailored in high school, but that's simply because it was a "wings-out" school and it was expected at certain functions. He was the weird kid who kept them in more often than out.
17. Nobody, in the family or out of it, knows he almost Fell. (Ashley knows something happened on that date, but she will never be able to get it out of him.)
18. He's quite fond of grey.
19. He's not done a lot of traveling within the US -- only a few school trips, and family trips up to the mountains -- but has been to quite a lot of places outside it. Japan was a regular trip, but he's also been to France, Spain, Egypt, Germany, Austria, England (of course), and ...a few more places that I don't know of yet.
20. He eats a lot of Americanized Japanese food without really enjoying it because it's instant. The Japanese cuisine he actually enjoys is all the weird shit you can't actually find in America.
21. He hates his father and only really stays in contact with him because of Ken's money and the inheritance he know he's getting. He finds his mother pathetic but vaguely useful, especially now that she likes him again for finding Lily/Jessi.
22. He really, really sucks at videogames.
23. He's been in two actual relationships in his entire life; he dated a girl in high school for awhile, and had a weird relationship with Marena, a student of his, for a few months after coming to Chicago. The former ended when she finally got sick of him cheating on her, the latter ended when Mari found one of his folders on Lily and read through it. He doesn't really feel like relationships in general are usually worth it, and generally prefers one-night-stands at the clubs rather than the actual effort it takes to stay in a relationship.
24. He's terrible at multitasking, because he tends to monofocus to the exclusion of all else if he's working on something, be that grading papers or a project of his own. However, he still multitasks all the fucking time, mostly due to a lack of time to actually devote to any one thing, especially if those things involve taking care of himself. This results in a lot of burnt coffee, for one.
25. He's very small-boned, which is relatively lucky for him, as he's consistently underweight (see above point about eating disorder :/). If one looks closely, one can tell that he's probably not supposed to be as skinny as he is; his weight tends to fluctuate by ten or so pounds, but he usually hovers somewhere around 100 pounds.
25a. His wings, when they're out, add at least twenty pounds to that.
26. He has a number of very faint scars down his left arm from when he tortured Lily -- he didn't go to a Healing Angel in time to completely remove them. They're not noticeable unless one is looking very hard, but you can see them. He also now has a very noticeable one on his face, under his left eye, from Ken's visit. This one he usually covers up when he goes out, so it's really only visible when he just wakes up/is going to bed.
27. He is almost never shirtless; he's always wearing an undershirt of some sort. This is because of his wing scars -- giant knotted things that trail most of the way across his shoulderblades and down his back. He doesn't like them, thinks they're ugly, and so tends to not expose them if he can help it.
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