Takato is from a previous OC's history that I've played. He comes from an Earth where many things are similar, however, they have a magical and mythological twist to them. Hidden within this Earth are many magical aspects including Takato himself.
Takato's mirror was created during the Edo period (1603-1868 AD) around June 19th, 1798 AD by a famous mirror maker of the time. In order for him to inhabit the mirror, he had to traverse through the 4th plane down to Earth. Like many mythica at the time, he was somewhat powerful but not enough to traverse back and forth between Earth's plane and the 4th dimension. Upon running into another spirit, at the time of his descent to Earth, Takato fought for his life. The spirit was malicious and wanted to use the mirror for harm, and Takato didn't want that. So he fought the spirit, defeated it, and due to the lack of energy couldn't return back to his own plane of existence. The battle caused him to stay dormant within the mirror for some time upon his inhabiting it.
He inhabited a mirror, which was as a gift to a family in Japan, and this is where he would stay for quite some time. Within this family's shrine is where Takato first obtained his ability to manifest. By using the power of the rituals around him Takato absorbed and stored the magical energies within the shrine to regain some of his lost power. Also, the spreading of stories and myths about tsukumogami aided in his increase of power. Alongside his companion, a fox spirit named Kaito, they talked and spent a good portion of their time together. Takato ends up in the sea when a storm destroys a portion of the shrine. Thought to be lost forever he resided within the ocean's murky depths for several years. Takato wound up being caught in a fishermen's net where he was brought back into town to be polished and restored. Takato was sold for a large sum of money to a prodigious family known as the Anabuki family.
The Anabuki family were skilled magic users and were able to manifest Takato as a sort of shiki. They asked Takato to aid them in their private dealings with spirits. Takato agreed and used much of what he saw as a way to understand and learn more about humans in general. He was enjoying his life with the Anabuki family well into the Meiji period (1868-1912 AD) with little issues or cause for concern. Throughout this period, Takato met and learned from many spirits of his nature, and he learned of other Japanese mythica as well. Takato thought he would stay with the Anabuki family forever. But, one day, they were attacked and killed on their way to their summer home, Takato loses everything including the Anabuki family. Lost in the struggle a Wakahisa family servant finds Takato some years later. Takato, wrought with grief at being unable to protect his precious family, remained dormant until the late Showa period (1926-1989 AD). Left in the hands of the Wakahisa family Takato would remain there until the present day.
He materialized one day on December 8th, 1965 causing alarm, and panic within the Wakahisa estate. Thinking he was some sort of malicious spirit Gendou Wakahisa along with another priest attacked Takato in an attempt to seal him away. The ritual reduced Takato’s powers and energies to practically nothing leaving him dormant for a long time. Partially exorcised, but not fully destroyed due to his immense power, Takato is only sealed. Due to this, his body shape changes into its current form of a young man. Then after 14 years Takahiro Wakahisa awakens Takato again.
It's around 1979 that he finally meets his last caretaker and they begin their life together. Initially reserved about Takahiro, due to his prior run in with Gendou, Takato’s mind is changed when the man treats him kindly and like his own son for a long time. Takato's treatment within the household is reminiscent of his time with the Anabuki family. However, even during this time period, mythica are wary and trying to keep a low profile after the witch hunts, which decimated many mythica families. The Wakahisa household was a place where mythica could find some reprieve from their travels throughout the world. Takahiro, unlike the previous family heads, is open towards such creatures. Throughout their time together they visit and speak to many mythica within Japan and Takato finally finds a place to call home.
It's not until Takahiro's son, Sano, is born in 1982 that things begin to change. Sano begins to develop an intense hatred for Takato the older he gets. It’s mainly due to his father's disregard for Sano in general. Sano’s jealousy deepens further the longer Takahiro indulges in meeting and speaking with mythica of all types. But Sano begins to direct his anger at the one person easiest to target: Takato. Takahiro then passes away in the year 2001, leaving Sano as the family head. This event changes Takato's life forever.
Abuse, slavery and other horrible things befall Takato at the hands of Sano. He banishes and closes off the house towards all mythica in general and locks Takato away from the world for a long time. But not before Takato heard rumors of a school opened to teach mythica alongside humans. Takato refuses to attend due to loyalty to the Wakahisa family.
Instead, he stays behind and is tormented and tortured by Sano. Sano began to use people's cultish fascination with mythica as a way to earn money. He would have Takato perform acts and favors to the Wakahisa family’s friends. Around 2004, Sano’s shiki captures Takato trying to escape. As punishment, Sano damages Takato's mirror by stepping on and cracking off a small portion of it. The damage done to his true vessel leaves Takato with a permanent injury to his left eye.
Then, in 2006, Sano drunkenly beats him with a broken glass bottle, until Takato instinctively uses his powers, and reflects the broken beer bottle back on his abuser. The bottle stabs Sano through the heart, killing him instantly. Takato tries to escape, but shikis around the house try to stop him, but then an old friend comes to his rescue, Kaito. His long lost friend who is now a great fox spirit rescues Takato and brings him to his shrine to heal. Kaito urges Takato to go to Romania to Sprensonne Academy.
With nowhere else to go Takato agrees and arrives at Sprensonne Academy in 2007, where he meets Helios Sprensonne. Upon arriving Helios explains his vision and the rules of the Academy to Takato. He goes on to explain something called Legame di Credenza, or Bond of Belief, this is the school's main principle. It states that mythica couldn't expose their true forms to human students until a certain bond is achieved. The more humans began to believe in certain myths the more they would be able to see a mythology's true form beyond even the Mirage Ring's powers. The Mirage Ring is a ring that cloaks a mythica's true form with a human guise. The ring was implemented prevent mass panic, and with the idea that humans would become friends with mythica despite what they looked like.
While in the academy Helios personally works with Takato in private to get him acclimated to working with humans again. Takato attends classes as a student, with many other mythica, but he spends most of his time alone. Takato gains the attention of one student, Jessica Avery, and her interest in Takato marks a new beginning for him.
When rogue demons attack the school is probably the most prominent instance in which Takato slowly begins to trust and accept a human into his current life. The demon's mission was to kill Helios. As they had heard from a legend that beneath the castle is a wonderful mass of pure magical energy, a ley line. The story states that with one taste of a ley line it could turn a mythica into an extremely powerful individual. Takato, separated from the other mythica during the demon attack, decides to protect and escort a stray group of students outside the castle because they would die otherwise. Takato, injured by a demon, gets left behind until one of the students, Jessica, steps forward and drags him to safety.
While E-mun Ra and several angelic students deal with the demon threat, Jessica and her friends aid Takato and his injuries.
The same demon finds them again and, this time, Takato exposes his true self to the students in an attempt to protect them. He uses his power of traversing through mirrors to bring them to safety. They ask about it, and Takato explains what this school actually is despite the principle in place. They believe him, without a lot of convincing needed, because as of that moment not to would be silly. They continue to tend to his wounds until another teacher finds them. Once the demons are out of the castle, and everything goes back to normal, the students who Takato helped remain ever loyal to him thereafter. This marks a successful outcome to Helios' experiment within the school, but also a fresh start for Takato. Most of their conversation is about mundane things and Jessica even talks a little about her own family. She asks Takato about his own, but Takato never really speaks about it in the end.
Takato spends much of his time recovering with them, and though the rest of Jessica’s friends aren’t aware of it, she notices that Takato’s demeanor changes in the presence of humans. She asks him about it, but he doesn’t tell her the truth. A few days after the incident Takato goes to seek Helios’ aid. He tells him what happened, and Helios is actually happy about it. It shows that Takato is growing and developing trust in humans again, which is exactly as Helios intended. But Helios urges Takato to tell Jessica more about himself because it’s a sign of friendship and the bond with her can only strengthen. It's also a sign of Takato not allowing his past to hold him back, and that it would be important for him to learn about humans once again. His master, Takahiro, would have wanted him to grow alongside humans without fear.
Takato agrees that Takahiro would have wanted this, and so, he tells Jessica his story just before coming to Verens.
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Takato is from a previous OC's history that I've played. He comes from an Earth where many things are similar, however, they have a magical and mythological twist to them. Hidden within this Earth are many magical aspects including Takato himself.
Takato's mirror was created during the Edo period (1603-1868 AD) around June 19th, 1798 AD by a famous mirror maker of the time. In order for him to inhabit the mirror, he had to traverse through the 4th plane down to Earth. Like many mythica at the time, he was somewhat powerful but not enough to traverse back and forth between Earth's plane and the 4th dimension. Upon running into another spirit, at the time of his descent to Earth, Takato fought for his life. The spirit was malicious and wanted to use the mirror for harm, and Takato didn't want that. So he fought the spirit, defeated it, and due to the lack of energy couldn't return back to his own plane of existence. The battle caused him to stay dormant within the mirror for some time upon his inhabiting it.
He inhabited a mirror, which was as a gift to a family in Japan, and this is where he would stay for quite some time. Within this family's shrine is where Takato first obtained his ability to manifest. By using the power of the rituals around him Takato absorbed and stored the magical energies within the shrine to regain some of his lost power. Also, the spreading of stories and myths about tsukumogami aided in his increase of power. Alongside his companion, a fox spirit named Kaito, they talked and spent a good portion of their time together. Takato ends up in the sea when a storm destroys a portion of the shrine. Thought to be lost forever he resided within the ocean's murky depths for several years. Takato wound up being caught in a fishermen's net where he was brought back into town to be polished and restored. Takato was sold for a large sum of money to a prodigious family known as the Anabuki family.
The Anabuki family were skilled magic users and were able to manifest Takato as a sort of shiki. They asked Takato to aid them in their private dealings with spirits. Takato agreed and used much of what he saw as a way to understand and learn more about humans in general. He was enjoying his life with the Anabuki family well into the Meiji period (1868-1912 AD) with little issues or cause for concern. Throughout this period, Takato met and learned from many spirits of his nature, and he learned of other Japanese mythica as well. Takato thought he would stay with the Anabuki family forever. But, one day, they were attacked and killed on their way to their summer home, Takato loses everything including the Anabuki family. Lost in the struggle a Wakahisa family servant finds Takato some years later. Takato, wrought with grief at being unable to protect his precious family, remained dormant until the late Showa period (1926-1989 AD). Left in the hands of the Wakahisa family Takato would remain there until the present day.
He materialized one day on December 8th, 1965 causing alarm, and panic within the Wakahisa estate. Thinking he was some sort of malicious spirit Gendou Wakahisa along with another priest attacked Takato in an attempt to seal him away. The ritual reduced Takato’s powers and energies to practically nothing leaving him dormant for a long time. Partially exorcised, but not fully destroyed due to his immense power, Takato is only sealed. Due to this, his body shape changes into its current form of a young man. Then after 14 years Takahiro Wakahisa awakens Takato again.
It's around 1979 that he finally meets his last caretaker and they begin their life together. Initially reserved about Takahiro, due to his prior run in with Gendou, Takato’s mind is changed when the man treats him kindly and like his own son for a long time. Takato's treatment within the household is reminiscent of his time with the Anabuki family. However, even during this time period, mythica are wary and trying to keep a low profile after the witch hunts, which decimated many mythica families. The Wakahisa household was a place where mythica could find some reprieve from their travels throughout the world. Takahiro, unlike the previous family heads, is open towards such creatures. Throughout their time together they visit and speak to many mythica within Japan and Takato finally finds a place to call home.
It's not until Takahiro's son, Sano, is born in 1982 that things begin to change. Sano begins to develop an intense hatred for Takato the older he gets. It’s mainly due to his father's disregard for Sano in general. Sano’s jealousy deepens further the longer Takahiro indulges in meeting and speaking with mythica of all types. But Sano begins to direct his anger at the one person easiest to target: Takato. Takahiro then passes away in the year 2001, leaving Sano as the family head. This event changes Takato's life forever.
Abuse, slavery and other horrible things befall Takato at the hands of Sano. He banishes and closes off the house towards all mythica in general and locks Takato away from the world for a long time. But not before Takato heard rumors of a school opened to teach mythica alongside humans. Takato refuses to attend due to loyalty to the Wakahisa family.
Instead, he stays behind and is tormented and tortured by Sano. Sano began to use people's cultish fascination with mythica as a way to earn money. He would have Takato perform acts and favors to the Wakahisa family’s friends. Around 2004, Sano’s shiki captures Takato trying to escape. As punishment, Sano damages Takato's mirror by stepping on and cracking off a small portion of it. The damage done to his true vessel leaves Takato with a permanent injury to his left eye.
Then, in 2006, Sano drunkenly beats him with a broken glass bottle, until Takato instinctively uses his powers, and reflects the broken beer bottle back on his abuser. The bottle stabs Sano through the heart, killing him instantly. Takato tries to escape, but shikis around the house try to stop him, but then an old friend comes to his rescue, Kaito. His long lost friend who is now a great fox spirit rescues Takato and brings him to his shrine to heal. Kaito urges Takato to go to Romania to Sprensonne Academy.
With nowhere else to go Takato agrees and arrives at Sprensonne Academy in 2007, where he meets Helios Sprensonne. Upon arriving Helios explains his vision and the rules of the Academy to Takato. He goes on to explain something called Legame di Credenza, or Bond of Belief, this is the school's main principle. It states that mythica couldn't expose their true forms to human students until a certain bond is achieved. The more humans began to believe in certain myths the more they would be able to see a mythology's true form beyond even the Mirage Ring's powers. The Mirage Ring is a ring that cloaks a mythica's true form with a human guise. The ring was implemented prevent mass panic, and with the idea that humans would become friends with mythica despite what they looked like.
While in the academy Helios personally works with Takato in private to get him acclimated to working with humans again. Takato attends classes as a student, with many other mythica, but he spends most of his time alone. Takato gains the attention of one student, Jessica Avery, and her interest in Takato marks a new beginning for him.
When rogue demons attack the school is probably the most prominent instance in which Takato slowly begins to trust and accept a human into his current life. The demon's mission was to kill Helios. As they had heard from a legend that beneath the castle is a wonderful mass of pure magical energy, a ley line. The story states that with one taste of a ley line it could turn a mythica into an extremely powerful individual. Takato, separated from the other mythica during the demon attack, decides to protect and escort a stray group of students outside the castle because they would die otherwise. Takato, injured by a demon, gets left behind until one of the students, Jessica, steps forward and drags him to safety.
While E-mun Ra and several angelic students deal with the demon threat, Jessica and her friends aid Takato and his injuries.
The same demon finds them again and, this time, Takato exposes his true self to the students in an attempt to protect them. He uses his power of traversing through mirrors to bring them to safety. They ask about it, and Takato explains what this school actually is despite the principle in place. They believe him, without a lot of convincing needed, because as of that moment not to would be silly. They continue to tend to his wounds until another teacher finds them. Once the demons are out of the castle, and everything goes back to normal, the students who Takato helped remain ever loyal to him thereafter. This marks a successful outcome to Helios' experiment within the school, but also a fresh start for Takato. Most of their conversation is about mundane things and Jessica even talks a little about her own family. She asks Takato about his own, but Takato never really speaks about it in the end.
Takato spends much of his time recovering with them, and though the rest of Jessica’s friends aren’t aware of it, she notices that Takato’s demeanor changes in the presence of humans. She asks him about it, but he doesn’t tell her the truth. A few days after the incident Takato goes to seek Helios’ aid. He tells him what happened, and Helios is actually happy about it. It shows that Takato is growing and developing trust in humans again, which is exactly as Helios intended. But Helios urges Takato to tell Jessica more about himself because it’s a sign of friendship and the bond with her can only strengthen. It's also a sign of Takato not allowing his past to hold him back, and that it would be important for him to learn about humans once again. His master, Takahiro, would have wanted him to grow alongside humans without fear.
Takato agrees that Takahiro would have wanted this, and so, he tells Jessica his story just before coming to Verens.