Mr. Kada


Name: Inari-Dainichi

Preferred Name: Mr. Kada

Meaning of Name: A combination of the names for the Shinto Gods of Agriculture and Purity and Wisdom

Language: Japanese

Nationality: Japanese

Pronunciation: Your guess is as good as mine.

Age: Unknown

Birthday: Unknown

Blood Type: AO-

Favorite Food: Curry

Least Favorite Food: Pocky

Favorite Subject: Philosophy

Least Favorite Subject: Greek

Favorite Color: Brown

Hobbies: Gardening, drunken boxing, two-playing fighting video games, people
         watching

Likes: Watching things grow, cheap romance novels, talking with students

Dislikes: Planned communities, ignorence, ritualism, people walking where he
          just swept

Strengths: Calm, intellegent, patient, fun-loving

Weaknesses: annoying when in a bad mood, absent-minded, lack of upper-body strength

Dream: To make sure the dualist who wins knows how to use the power wisely

Love Interest: A dualist from a previous contest, now long dead, who he simply
               refers to as "Jenny".

Power: Devils of the mind-This power causes an opponent to become mentally
       submerged in their own mean subspicions and paranioa about the world.
       They become incompacitated until they are able to reason out the fact
       from the fiction and confront and accept the full truth of reality.
       Sometimes, the victem can almost effortlessly overcome this attack;
       sometimes, their mind is so twisted that they become permenantly lost
       in it and are rendered invalid. He uses this move exclusively for the
       purpose of strengthing the dualists for and if they attain the power
       and to shift out dualists who could never who he feels could never
       properly wield the power. As such, he does not attack his opponent
       while they're under the influence. The attack is executed by shoving
       a poppy flower in his opponent's eyes.

Home: The celestial palace.

Family: The shinto pantheon.

Anime Character They Look Like: Master Roshi from Dragonball.

Appearance: Kada appears to be an old man. His head is completely bald and he
            has a chest-length beard which is completely white. He's extremely
            skinny and short, appearing ever more so by always being bent over.
            At first glance, he seems to absolutely no meat of his bones. His
            eye color is not known by even his close confidents, and he ain't
            telling anytime soon.

Clothing Description: When on duty, Kada wears a grey jumpsuit with a white
                      undershirt and cloth slippers. When going casual, he
                      dresses in a jumpsuit, of which he seems to have many.
                      For formal occasions, he has an old, black double-breasted
                      suit and fedora. He wears wire-rimmed bispectibles
                      that, by a trick of the light, completely hide his eyes.
                      When dualing, he wears a white close-fitting gi, with a high
                      collar, tied-off sleeves and legs, black slippers, and wrap-around
                      sunglasses.

Personality: Kada is a humorous old codger who likes to socialize with the
             student body. He does this for two reasons: one, he enjoys it,
             and two, he helps him get close to and establish a repretoire
             with the dualists. On the surface, he presents himself as a
             bitter, irritable old man, but merely to fool the teachers and
             administration and more importantly the other gods. If they think
             he's unsocialable, he can more easily violate the rule concerning
             gods conversing with dualists by flying under their collective radar;
             he encourages the students he befriends to think of it as a game he
             plays with the higher-ups.
               The reason Kada tries to get close with the dualists is so he can
             educate and guide them. He wants to make sure the winning dualist knows how
             to use the ultimate power wisely.
               Besides being a dispenser of wisdom, Kada is a grown-up-who-never-
             really-grew-up. He tries to avoid what he feels to be the stuffiness
             of maturity. He's always looking for ways to play around and finds the
             students the best source of this. Novelty is his greatest joy and he
             can recite pop-culture as quickly as he philosophical tracks.
               Finally, Kada is an enthuist of growing things. Besides keeping a
             tidy garden, he also appreciates the growth of a human spirit and the
             gradual development of communities. He's been known to cultivate weeds
             because he can't stand to simply cut its life away.
            

History: When the duals were originally started, the God Dainichi feared what would
         happen if the wielder of ultimate power had no idea how to use it. He desired
         to place an element he can control in Heion Kisetsu so he could facilitate the
         development of dualists into people who could be trusted with such power.
         Unfortunately, the higher power would not allow him to simply place something of
         Dainichi's creation in the dual equation. So, Dainichi joined with the God Inari,
         who sympathized with his cause, to create a being of both their essences, named
         Inari-Dainichi, and presented him as gift to the higher power to use as one of the
         guardian gods. Since Inari-Dainichi was not directly a creation of either gods, he was
         technically an independent entity, and the higher power could not find any way to
         reject the gift without losing face and insulting the other two gods. Moreover, he
         actually seemed amused by Inari-Dainichi and it is suspected that he was appointed
         the autumn god as the higher power's own personal joke.
           Since then, Inari-Dainichi has served as the autumn god, amusing the role of some
         minor servent at the academy. In the duals current incarnation, he works as a janitor.
         Sometimes, he has succeeded in his goal and sometimes he has failed.
           Once, about two centuries ago, he feel inlove with a water dualist. He never pursued
         a relationship with her for obvious reasons and she left the academy with never
         knowing how he felt about her. He's always carried a grain of guilt over it, though he
         tries to not let it weigh him down.

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