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Offscreen Meme
I never did an updated version for Kenshin, so!

Appearance/Mannerisms:
۞ SHORT. He's only 5' 2", dudes.
۞ LOOKS YOUNG. He's always mistaken to be ten years younger than he actually is.
۞ Bright red-orange hair, generally keeps it in a low ponytail, though if he's working/doing chores sometimes he puts it up into a high ponytail.
۞ Wears the new Pavo uniform! . . . with the old Pavo pants underneath and sandals.
۞ Cross-shaped scar on his left cheek! Despite it being over ten years old, it looks newer than any other scar he has.
۞ Other scars! He is covered in them, though most are faint and have been healed for a while now. They range from sword slashes/stabs to burns to gunshots. IIRC he's been shot twice in canon.
۞ His uniform is just sliiiightly too big for him, so his sleeves go over his hands; generally keeps his hands tucked away in the sleeves when he isn't using them.
۞ Wears his bracer on his left arm.

As of Day ##:
Pavo tattoo on his shoulder.

As of Day ##:
ARM REMOVED.

As of Day 280:
Arm is back! Any scars are gone, and his hand is lacking the callouses it had beforehand.

As of Day: 281:
Expanded Pavo tattoo with gears going up his arm.


Common Haunts:
۞ DelPavo Geardorm
۞ The river/lake area
۞ Hydracula

State of His Room:
۞ . . . Pavo sleeps in a giant pile.
۞ HOWEVER he keeps his belongings neat and tidy and clean.

Daily Routine:
۞ Only sleeps a few hours at a time.
۞ When he is being tsun/not sleeping in the Pavo pile, he'll sleep sitting up somewhere. GENERALLY out of the way, but most notably not against any walls and not without something between him and the floor.
۞ Wakes up early and helps with breakfast, for both Del and Pavo if Del needs it. (Tea is always involved)
۞ Will do various chores around Pavo and Del, help others with their chores, etc. HOUSEWIFE.
۞ He'll wander around if he's feeling up to it, visit Hydracula if things aren't crazy, etc.
۞ Will return to Pavo for all meals to help cook.
۞ Makes tea for every meal. Has probably claimed the tea pot as his own by now and has tea ready to go whenever it's needed. Which is a lot in the DelPavo dorms.
۞ Can be found at the lake in the early afternoon every day doing laundry. Every. Day. Either doing his laundry or someone else's. Del, if you're okay with your laundry getting non-conned, Kenshin will happily do that too.

Interacting Offscreen:
۞ PILLAR TRAUMA'd. He is very good at hiding it for the most part, but he will noticably avoid walls/rock/the ground. Example, when he sits in a chair he'll keep his feet from touching the ground, he won't lean against walls, etc. Unless sleeping in the Pavo pile, he never takes off his sandals, and generally crouches instead of kneeling against the ground.
۞ Is very, very polite in his speech. I don't use it all the time because it does get annoying, but when speaking to people he isn't familiar with/Delphinus, he refers to himself as "this one" ("Sessha" in Japanese*). The better he knows you, the less formal his speech will become, though it still remains very polite in general.
۞ Unless he is tsunning/in a mood/etc. THEN his speech becomes a little more informal, his tone of voice changes. For the Japanese-incline, he'll switch to "Ore"* to refer to himself in some cases.
۞ TONE OF VOICE. He has a high, soft voice most of the time. It gets higher/childish when he is petulant/etc, and gets lower when he's more serious/angry/etc.
۞ Friendly! He will greet anyone he sees out with at least a smile and inclination of his head, though generally doesn't strike up conversation with anyone he isn't familiar with. Though if someone starts to speak with him he will happily converse.
۞ Very rarely initiates touch, though if it's initiated with him he'll be awkward but receptive! Leftover from Pillar trauma.
۞ Very, very closed off physically. Opens up more around Pavo and Del, but in general unless you're Kururu it's very hard to tell what he's feeling by his physicalities.
۞ Has an EXCELLENT Poker face. Again, his expression will not give off what he's feeling.
۞ Keeps his bracer down for the most part, but it will slam up in an instant when he's trying to hide something. More of a reflex than actually doing it consciously.

Special Mentions:
۞ For those psychically/other-incline (Tuners), Kenshin's body is breaking down. This is from overuse of Hiten Mitsurugi and the mastering of the final technique, since the style is suited for people like Hiko (big and muscled) rather than someone of Kenshin's stature (tiny). There are very few times where it shows physically! To Tuners/people who can hear it, it sounds something like rocks grinding together. In canon, he's been given five years before he'll be unable to use the style at all.
۞ For the psychics! Battousai isn't a split personality, per say, but more of another side of his personality that is very, very suppressed. In canon he's been able to completely close it off, but with memories and whatnot it isn't as suppressed as it is in end-series. This side of Kenshin is extremely protective, drops all formalities and uses "Ore"*, and will ignore Kenshin's vow of not killing. Also when he IS "Battousai", his eyes are gold. While he can't get "stuck" like this, when he is angry/something is triggering anything that would bring him out, it's almost like an internal battle to keep him back.

* I specifically mentioned how he switches his speeches to these in Japanese since . . . trying to bring it over into English is a little difficult and gets repetitive at times, and it kind of feels dumb to go "HE IS USING ORE NOW" in an English-language RP. Also, in canon, it's actually mentioned how he switches from this to that a few times, so I figured it was worth putting it in here.