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Kadaj
Real Name: Kaden Johnson
Room: M5
Roommate: Uzumaki Naruto
Age: 2 (appears 17)
Hair Color: Silver
Eye Color: Green
Height: 5'4"
Backstory
The defeat of Sephiroth at the Northern Crater was, if anything, a minor setback. Because of his strength of will and indisputable power, he managed to linger on even in "death." This was what led to the creation of Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz-- the remnants of Sephiroth. Each one represents an aspect of a greater whole: Kadaj his cruelty, Yazoo his alluring appeal, and Loz his outer masculinity. Their goal was to find the remaining cells of a being they refer to as "Mother," also known as Jenova, the Calamity from the Skies. By finding and merging with her cells in a process they call "the Reunion," they would be able to resurrect Sephiroth and bring about the end of on human existence on Gaia.
Two years after the fall of Meteor, the three of them made themselves known. Their search for Jenova led them to the Northern Crater, where they were thwarted by the Turks of Shin-Ra Electric Power Company. The two that were left behind, Tseng and Elena, were tortured for information then left for dead in the freezing cold.
Following what leads they had, Kadaj and his brothers made their way south. On their way to their separate locations (each had a different task to fulfill), they encountered none other than Cloud Strife, the man who had killed Sephiroth. Because of the fact that Cloud had been treated with Jenova cells and otherwise experimented on, the three of them consider him their older brother. Unfortunately, he's also a traitor, so upon spotting them, they attacked. They end up breaking off before they can truly hurt him, but it was more to announce their presence than anything else.
Kadaj eventually went to meet Rufus Shinra, the president of the then-fallen Shin-Ra who was also infected with Geostigma and wheelchair-bound. The remnant easily defeated his bodyguards and attempted to glean more information on Jenova's whereabouts from him, but he ended up giving away more than he learned, telling the president their overall plan as well as the cause of the disease itself.
The three brothers later regrouped in the Forgotten City, where Kadaj gave a group of children (brought there by Yazoo) a false cure in the form of black water. The water put the children under a form of mind-control, activating the Jenova cells in their bodies and making them more receptive to Kadaj's (and by extension Sephiroth and Jenova's) will. With the unique qualities the water bestowed upon the children, he hoped to track down his Mother once and for all. Among the children kidnapped were a boy named Denzel and a girl named Marlene, and while the latter was not given the black water, Kadaj intended to use the two of them as bait for their caretaker.
As expected, it didn't take long for Cloud to show up. Using the children to catch his "big brother" off guard, Kadaj briefly gloated over the man's arrival before things erupted into a fight. With the assistance of Vincent Valentine, however, Cloud managed to escape, taking Marlene with him.
The next day, the silver-haired men returned to Edge, led there by the children's enhanced senses. Yazoo and Loz took them to the center of the city, where the monument built in memory of Meteor was found. Because the structure was built by Shin-Ra, it made perfect sense to them that Jenova's cells could be found within it. At the same time, Kadaj went to the president to try and get more information, but he ended up giving more things away than he learned. The conversation ended when he summoned Bahamut to rip the monument open.
Unfortunately, Jenova was not in it. The summon drew the attention of Cloud and his friends, and the remnant spent some time watching the battle before finally sending Bahamut away. His big brother killed it before it could escape, but he didn't particularly care. Taunting the president, he asked what he should summon next, but that plan was interrupted when Rufus rose from his wheelchair and revealed the fact that he'd had Jenova with him the entire time. He threw the box which held her over the edge of the building they were in, eventually falling after it himself as Kadaj attacked him. Panicking, the remnant leaped after them, managing to catch Jenova before she crashed into the pavement below but not before Rufus had managed to score a hit on the box with a bullet from his shotgun.
((to be completed later))
Personality
Kadaj is one of the few people at Landel's that actually belongs in a mental institution. He suffers from frequent mood swings and has little if any regard for people outside of his immediate family. To go along with this, he is very childish (bratty is a better word) and has difficulty maintaining interest in topics outside of revenge, general violence, cruelty, and the search for Jenova. It's debatable whether or not he even understands them beyond a rudimentary level, but until his arrival at the institute, that was never really an issue. He's not used to questioning his own actions or motivations, instead just letting himself be swept along by whatever notion he feels is at the time "right" and will lead him to his mother. In short, he's irrational, violent, and easily swayed by his emotions.
In addition to that, he has serious self-esteem issues, most of which stem directly from his fixation with winning his mother's approval. His life's goal, the Reunion, is really his only way of achieving that, and because of the fact that it essentially means his entire existence is as a mere sacrifice to revive Sephiroth, this leads to some complications. He can't help but wonder if there could possibly be some way he could supplant Sephiroth as Jenova's "favorite," and his competitive nature makes that even harder to resist. He endlessly obsesses over whether or not he could truly achieve that and be the one to make Mother happy, and he's willing to go do absolutely anything for that to happen. This is basically what leads to his fractured self-image-- on some level he knows he's only worth something if he can bring back Sephiroth, but then again he has to believe he's capable of doing more otherwise there's just no point in it. His massive amount of pride, then, is something which he defends almost as fiercely as he defends his mother. In both cases, one simply needs to know which buttons to push to leave Kadaj an emotional wreck.
It's honestly hard to find any redeeming factors. He is wise beyond his years, and even quite intelligent, but since that intelligence is usually warped to suit whatever goals he's intent upon at whatever moment, "redeeming" isn't quite the right word for it. Besides that, his pride all to easily develops into overconfidence, and that tends to make him overlook crucial details as well as the (usually dire) consequences for his actions. His unfailing loyalty could perhaps be considered a virtue, but considering to whom it is devoted and just how blind that devotion is, well... perhaps not.
At Landel's
To say that Kadaj hasn't been doing well at the institute would be an understatement. He's only really gotten along with a handful of people, and the people in that group have either disappeared or been driven off by his less than stellar social skills. He's made a lot of enemies too, either because of what he did while he was alive on Gaia or because of his actions against a certain blond future Turk. It'd be best to cover the key events in chronological order, though, and so here they are:
First, meeting Alex on his first day did several things, including eventually grant him his current weapon (a gladius). Because she had Jenova cells as a result of something that happened to her during her stay in the institute, it was a relatively simple matter for him to accept that she was a kind of sibling in that sense. Without Yazoo, Loz, Cloud, or even Sephiroth there at the time, this was very reassuring, even if he didn't quite understand it. It was also through working with her that he met a number of other patients at the institute with whom he formed an alliance.
That eventually disintegrated after the next important event, in which Kadaj sought revenge on Elena for her actions while she was under the institute's control. The girl had shot him twice, once in the shoulder and once in the leg, and to cap it all off, she had scratched him when he taunted her about her supposed weakness later. In retaliation for that, he stalked her to her room later that night, gagged her, and stabbed her repeatedly with some scalpels he'd picked up from one of the institute's many monsters. He nearly killed her, but a girl named River intervened just in time and managed to save her. She stabbed Kadaj with a pen in the process, too, which was something his pride just couldn't (and still can't) handle.
Once word got around about it (he couldn't resist gloating about it later), things got worse. It was at that point in time that more people from Gaia arrived at the institute, including Yazoo, but he was still outnumbered.
((to be completed later))
Room: M5
Roommate: Uzumaki Naruto
Age: 2 (appears 17)
Hair Color: Silver
Eye Color: Green
Height: 5'4"
Backstory
The defeat of Sephiroth at the Northern Crater was, if anything, a minor setback. Because of his strength of will and indisputable power, he managed to linger on even in "death." This was what led to the creation of Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz-- the remnants of Sephiroth. Each one represents an aspect of a greater whole: Kadaj his cruelty, Yazoo his alluring appeal, and Loz his outer masculinity. Their goal was to find the remaining cells of a being they refer to as "Mother," also known as Jenova, the Calamity from the Skies. By finding and merging with her cells in a process they call "the Reunion," they would be able to resurrect Sephiroth and bring about the end of on human existence on Gaia.
Two years after the fall of Meteor, the three of them made themselves known. Their search for Jenova led them to the Northern Crater, where they were thwarted by the Turks of Shin-Ra Electric Power Company. The two that were left behind, Tseng and Elena, were tortured for information then left for dead in the freezing cold.
Following what leads they had, Kadaj and his brothers made their way south. On their way to their separate locations (each had a different task to fulfill), they encountered none other than Cloud Strife, the man who had killed Sephiroth. Because of the fact that Cloud had been treated with Jenova cells and otherwise experimented on, the three of them consider him their older brother. Unfortunately, he's also a traitor, so upon spotting them, they attacked. They end up breaking off before they can truly hurt him, but it was more to announce their presence than anything else.
Kadaj eventually went to meet Rufus Shinra, the president of the then-fallen Shin-Ra who was also infected with Geostigma and wheelchair-bound. The remnant easily defeated his bodyguards and attempted to glean more information on Jenova's whereabouts from him, but he ended up giving away more than he learned, telling the president their overall plan as well as the cause of the disease itself.
The three brothers later regrouped in the Forgotten City, where Kadaj gave a group of children (brought there by Yazoo) a false cure in the form of black water. The water put the children under a form of mind-control, activating the Jenova cells in their bodies and making them more receptive to Kadaj's (and by extension Sephiroth and Jenova's) will. With the unique qualities the water bestowed upon the children, he hoped to track down his Mother once and for all. Among the children kidnapped were a boy named Denzel and a girl named Marlene, and while the latter was not given the black water, Kadaj intended to use the two of them as bait for their caretaker.
As expected, it didn't take long for Cloud to show up. Using the children to catch his "big brother" off guard, Kadaj briefly gloated over the man's arrival before things erupted into a fight. With the assistance of Vincent Valentine, however, Cloud managed to escape, taking Marlene with him.
The next day, the silver-haired men returned to Edge, led there by the children's enhanced senses. Yazoo and Loz took them to the center of the city, where the monument built in memory of Meteor was found. Because the structure was built by Shin-Ra, it made perfect sense to them that Jenova's cells could be found within it. At the same time, Kadaj went to the president to try and get more information, but he ended up giving more things away than he learned. The conversation ended when he summoned Bahamut to rip the monument open.
Unfortunately, Jenova was not in it. The summon drew the attention of Cloud and his friends, and the remnant spent some time watching the battle before finally sending Bahamut away. His big brother killed it before it could escape, but he didn't particularly care. Taunting the president, he asked what he should summon next, but that plan was interrupted when Rufus rose from his wheelchair and revealed the fact that he'd had Jenova with him the entire time. He threw the box which held her over the edge of the building they were in, eventually falling after it himself as Kadaj attacked him. Panicking, the remnant leaped after them, managing to catch Jenova before she crashed into the pavement below but not before Rufus had managed to score a hit on the box with a bullet from his shotgun.
((to be completed later))
Personality
Kadaj is one of the few people at Landel's that actually belongs in a mental institution. He suffers from frequent mood swings and has little if any regard for people outside of his immediate family. To go along with this, he is very childish (bratty is a better word) and has difficulty maintaining interest in topics outside of revenge, general violence, cruelty, and the search for Jenova. It's debatable whether or not he even understands them beyond a rudimentary level, but until his arrival at the institute, that was never really an issue. He's not used to questioning his own actions or motivations, instead just letting himself be swept along by whatever notion he feels is at the time "right" and will lead him to his mother. In short, he's irrational, violent, and easily swayed by his emotions.
In addition to that, he has serious self-esteem issues, most of which stem directly from his fixation with winning his mother's approval. His life's goal, the Reunion, is really his only way of achieving that, and because of the fact that it essentially means his entire existence is as a mere sacrifice to revive Sephiroth, this leads to some complications. He can't help but wonder if there could possibly be some way he could supplant Sephiroth as Jenova's "favorite," and his competitive nature makes that even harder to resist. He endlessly obsesses over whether or not he could truly achieve that and be the one to make Mother happy, and he's willing to go do absolutely anything for that to happen. This is basically what leads to his fractured self-image-- on some level he knows he's only worth something if he can bring back Sephiroth, but then again he has to believe he's capable of doing more otherwise there's just no point in it. His massive amount of pride, then, is something which he defends almost as fiercely as he defends his mother. In both cases, one simply needs to know which buttons to push to leave Kadaj an emotional wreck.
It's honestly hard to find any redeeming factors. He is wise beyond his years, and even quite intelligent, but since that intelligence is usually warped to suit whatever goals he's intent upon at whatever moment, "redeeming" isn't quite the right word for it. Besides that, his pride all to easily develops into overconfidence, and that tends to make him overlook crucial details as well as the (usually dire) consequences for his actions. His unfailing loyalty could perhaps be considered a virtue, but considering to whom it is devoted and just how blind that devotion is, well... perhaps not.
At Landel's
To say that Kadaj hasn't been doing well at the institute would be an understatement. He's only really gotten along with a handful of people, and the people in that group have either disappeared or been driven off by his less than stellar social skills. He's made a lot of enemies too, either because of what he did while he was alive on Gaia or because of his actions against a certain blond future Turk. It'd be best to cover the key events in chronological order, though, and so here they are:
First, meeting Alex on his first day did several things, including eventually grant him his current weapon (a gladius). Because she had Jenova cells as a result of something that happened to her during her stay in the institute, it was a relatively simple matter for him to accept that she was a kind of sibling in that sense. Without Yazoo, Loz, Cloud, or even Sephiroth there at the time, this was very reassuring, even if he didn't quite understand it. It was also through working with her that he met a number of other patients at the institute with whom he formed an alliance.
That eventually disintegrated after the next important event, in which Kadaj sought revenge on Elena for her actions while she was under the institute's control. The girl had shot him twice, once in the shoulder and once in the leg, and to cap it all off, she had scratched him when he taunted her about her supposed weakness later. In retaliation for that, he stalked her to her room later that night, gagged her, and stabbed her repeatedly with some scalpels he'd picked up from one of the institute's many monsters. He nearly killed her, but a girl named River intervened just in time and managed to save her. She stabbed Kadaj with a pen in the process, too, which was something his pride just couldn't (and still can't) handle.
Once word got around about it (he couldn't resist gloating about it later), things got worse. It was at that point in time that more people from Gaia arrived at the institute, including Yazoo, but he was still outnumbered.
((to be completed later))
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