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“N-nyah!? You mean Kiyomi isn’t, basically, a housecat!?
This whole time, she didn’t have to live like that?”


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Name: Kiyomi, #457332.
Age: Seventeen in physical development, definitely younger in mental development (but rapidly maturing), two in chronoulogy.
Birthday: October 3rd.
Gender: Female.
Species: NEK0 — a bio-engineered and enhanced feline/human hybrid.
Category: Student, remedial.

Appearance Description: One of the more recent generations of NEK0, Kiyomi was custom-designed to be an object of grace. Her designer and owner was very specific about her appearance. To match his sense of aesthetics, she was given vibrant eyes of rose gold, warm-toned skin, and dark, wavy hair. Her delicate ears match her hair. So does the entirety of her lower body — unique among most NEK0, her lower legs are digitigrade and feline. Since her owner had a thing for megane, she was deliberately crafted with poor eyesight. She stands at a willowy 5’10”.

As for her clothing, Kiyomi developed a taste for frilly, cutesy things, sometimes treading into Lolita fashion territory. She prefers dresses, stockings, and matching barrettes. Though used to wearing something snug around her neck, she wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a collar. It reminds her too much of where she came from. Instead, she usually wears a choker. The number on her wrist is usually covered up with a matching bracelet.

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Personality Description: Kiyomi is making a hefty effort at recovering from her previous life of confinement. This means both studying hard to figure out how the world at large works, and finding ways to garner as much platonic cuddling as possible. Despite all her intelligence, she tends to speak in the third person and make small catlike noises (nya, kya, mow, mrrrr, etc), both of which are habits her master intentionally curated within her.
  • Positive Traits: Protective, advocate, warm-hearted, keenly curious.
  • Negative Traits: Smothering, saccharine, clingy, nosey. Reacts very badly to things that remind her of her former life.

Reputation: NEK0 who interacted with her at the facility might remember her as being eager for comfort, befuddled, and relatively incoherent — more often than not, parroting their own speech back at them instead of actually talking. She has no on-island reputation yet.

Biography: Content warning for implied abuse and neglect.

Do not speak until allowed to have spoken
Do not wake unless firstly awoken
Why can’t you do that? Why are you broken?

Custom-designed as a pet for a CEO’s idle son, Kiyomi was treated more like an expensive breed of cat than a human being — which, as she’s begun to learn from her fellow NEK0s, is far from the worst abuse one could suffer. Nonetheless, her first years of life couldn’t be called “healthy”. Kiyomi was her owner’s hobby — his doll, his pet, and his muse all in one. He dressed her up in cute clothes, had her sit still for painting, tossed around toys, and lavished her with every attention imaginable… some more appropriate to her position as a pet, some less so.

When he was there, all she had to do was remain compliant. When he was gone, all she had to do was remain quiet. How easy was that?

Not as easy as Owner made it sound, unfortunately. It was when she was alone that was the worst. When he wasn’t busy playing with her, she lived in her “kennel”. It was a small but lavish room. Her possessions consisted of a large cat bed, a couple different cat toys, a fake scratching post, and a set of china dishes supplied frequently with water and dry cat food. It was a posh, vapid, empty place.

And she was fucking bored.

All alone in the glittering nothingness, her mind raced and her body stiffened. Unbeknownst to her, she was suffering under the lack of stimulation, her quick mind chasing itself in circles, her advanced learning abilities scrabbling at the walls of her kennel. When would Owner return? What would bring him home sooner? Sleeping only did so much to alleviate the boredom, especially when the time elapsed stretched into days or weeks. A couple years of this took its toll on her. Kiyomi acted out — running herself in ragged circles, scratching the door, ripping up furniture, yowling loud enough to make the neighbors below the penthouse complain.

Owner didn’t like her new habits. He couldn’t understand it, and couldn’t understand why neither scolding, new toys, and fancy treats alike didn’t change it. She couldn’t say what was wrong — she couldn’t put it in words — she knew how to speak, but she so rarely been allowed to articulate an independent thought...

In the end, he sent her back to NEK0 for being “defective”.

As luck would have it, the trading post she ended up at was the very one raided by the Scouts. She, along with twenty-four other rejected NEK0, were rescued and brought to Manta Carlos. After her rescue, Kiyomi’s lack of social experience and adaptation to her insular master/pet relationship meant that she had to spend a while rehabilitating in one of the island’s mental health clinics.

Now that she’s been let out, she is attending the Academy and actively working to catch up on every aspect of life she missed out on in Japan.

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Active Abilities:
  • None: She’s pretty ordinary, as far as NEK0 go.

Passive Abilities:
  • Carnivorous Tastes: Needs minimal nutrition.
  • NEK0mortal: Kiyomi is physically ageless, though not eternal-living.
  • Omniglottal: Kiyomi is capable of conversing in every known Narrow Reality language there is.
  • Phenomenal Feline Physique: Thanks to all her bio-engineering, Kiyomi is 50% less likely to contract illnesses when compared to the average human being. She also needs no sleep — though, she does enjoy a long cat-nap every so often.
  • Quick Study: To her immense pride, Kiyomi picks up new subjects at fives time the speed of an average human being. Unfortunately, she’ll only just now able to exercise this ability, now that she’s freed in Manta Carlos.

Weaknesses:
  • Carnivorous Tastes: Has a cat’s nutritional restrictions.
  • Engineered Gullibility: Vulnerable to persuasion, as most NEK0 were bred to be.
  • Frail Feline Physique: Like most NEK0, “unable to fight back” is one of Kiyomi’s built-in features. No matter how hard she trains, she will never become much stronger than one would expect of the average five-year-old.

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Common Magical Items: N/A.

Resources:
  • Natasha: “Kiyomi is living with Mama Tasha, nya.”

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Additional Information: Kiyomi possesses a few themesongs.
  • Likes: Nature documentaries, frilly fashions, meat, uh… well, she’ll develop more likes as she gains more experience with the world!
  • Hates: Dry cat food, precious gems, small spaces, collars, boredom.
 
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FennWenn

Hazy Cinnamon Smol
Inactive
Oct 25, 2018
202
somewhere in the darkness of space-time itself.
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Name: Kiyomi.
Apparent Age: Seventeen.
Gender: Female.
Species: NEK0.
Height: 5’10”.
Build: Willowy, has an almost animesque, heart-shaped face.

Notable Features: Has wavy dark hair, and matching fur over her ears, tail, and digitigrade legs. Dark skin. Feline, rose gold eyes. Wears cute, frilly clothes.

Physical Quirks: Bows in greeting. Talks primarily in a ditzy, cute tone of voice, and in the third person. Supplements her speech with little cattish noises. Her way of interacting with the world is pretty feline too.

Abilities Summary: Passive NEK0 abilities — immortal, omniglottal, quick study, needs little food or sleep to survive. Also weak-bodied, prone to suggestion, and unable to eat anything a normal housecat can’t.

Reputation: Spent a while in a mental health clinic after her rescue — longer than the other known NEK0, and while she seems a lot better for it, she's known by now as socially inept (though genuine) and very touchy-feely-clingy. Has been adopted by Natasha Lockwood.

Misc Information: Likes nature documentaries, frilly fashions, meat, uh… well, she’ll develop more likes as she gains more experience with the world! Hates dry cat food, precious gems, small spaces, collars, boredom.


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