Probably the most prominent feature you'd notice of Kale would be his sharp green hair. Of course, there's a rest of the male to see, but his medium locks tend to draw people's attention from their abnormality. They aren't natural, and he'll never tell you they are. Unlike others graced with various hair colors by the Dawn, Kale chose to dye his hair long before he was realized he was evotelluric. While he may never tell you his actual hair color, it definitely isn't Green.

Follicular foils aside, Kale possess a soft blue pair of eyes, likened often to the look of a shallow pond. Easy to see right beneath the surface, in more ways than one, the male's expressive face is often easy to read. Part of feeling the emotions of those around you plays back into being so open yourself. It helps keep his soft features seeming friendly, and open to match the male they go to.

Kale stands at six feet, and slender. He's not muscular in the slightest, in fact the boy is rather lacking in muscle. He’s never been one for sports, and his form reflects it. Just an average teenage boy, though his body does bear a few strange markings that definitely weren’t tattoos. Portions of his arms and back are darker than the rest of his skin, like a partial tan, but Kale just ignores these. It’s easier to have a long sleeve shirt than it is to investigate something like that.

Speaking of shirts, Kale happens to be fond of the school uniform. While he doesn’t wear it all the time, a good majority of his time around campus will find him in either the school uniform, or shirts having to do with ERIS. He has a few he particularly likes…and doesn’t really try to hide his connection to ERIS, even better if students ask him about it.

Kale’s personality isn’t hard to define. If you spend ten minutes with the boy, you’d have a very good grasp on it. He’s extremely idealistic to a fault, believing the world to not be shades of grey, but rather black and white, and will always stand for the greater good no matter the cost. Kale’s goal in life is to help everyone. He doesn’t care to elaborate on it…that’s all he needs.

Some may say he has a hero complex, but he can’t stand to see someone in need. He’ll always rush to their defense, their aid, whatever they need, and never hesitates to jump into the fray. Despite the fact that he can’t defend himself, that’s never stopped him from throwing himself in harm’s way for the sake of another, which has earned him more than a few bruises and days in the hospital.

Still, he’s never stopped. To say he is naive would be true, but that’s not to show a lack of intellect. Kale can be just as bright as anyone else, though in truth, the real cause for his refusal to accept that there are people he cannot save, is delusion. Kale refuses to believe he can’t save everyone he sees, and won’t accept it. Regardless, he is a bright young man, and while he doesn’t get perfect marks, he does well enough to pass with honors.

To everyone else, he likely seems carefree, happy, independent. Always willing to lend an ear, and to help, even to strangers. Friendly, outgoing, Kale is the kind of person you’d hope to meet. He’s quick to form bonds, and will defend them to his last breath if necessary, and a bit of a martyr complex, though he refuses to die needlessly if everyone involved can be saved. He’s the poster child of good intentions. It’s a shame he won’t get to keep them.

People questioned what Emiko Senda was doing when she began a long relationship with Richard Nagelfar. The man was a foreigner, for one, but also of the louder sort. The two were clearly in love, regardless of what her peers thought, and the man had made quite the strong impression on her father and mother, with his strong values and devotion to their daughter. Richard had come to Japan on business, but falling in love with the island, and then with Emiko, he remained. The two were married two years before Kale was born.

Richard worked at a design firm as a consultant, while his mother had been a homemaker, being around Richard led her to pursue a job of her own, breaking her family’s personal tradition, and she pursued a higher education, eventually becoming a schoolteacher at the local elementary. They always donated their time to the community, and took pride in helping others even at their own expense. While people were reluctant to accept help from Richard, it was often Emiko who talked them into it.

When the Dawn hit, the whole world felt it, and the Nagelfar were no exception. Kale’s little sister, two years younger than him, Reya, manifested evotelluric. An empath, she recoiled from the world around her, unable to take the strain of feeling so many people, so many emotions beside her own. For the first year, she withdrew from school, from life, while the chaos around the world took it’s course. Kale spent most of his free time trying to care for his sister. Someone familiar to her helped ease the strain…and it wasn’t as though she wasn’t used to Kale’s emotions. Her lovable big brother was rather transparent, after all.

As time progressed, she grew to be able to ‘shut herself off’ from the new sensations…but she refused to attend the campuses that opened up, refused to admit too much what she was. She could control it. Hide it. There wasn’t any need to let everyone know that she was evotelluric…The family had told the community that she had fallen ill, likely due to an attack on the Dawn. Some questioned the story, but they let it slide in the end. Now, Reya returned to school, and finished her studies…And Kale? Well…No one expected anything like that from him.

When ERIS formed, though, his parents took an acute interest. It fell in line with what they did regardless, and past that, to assist people in coming to terms with Evotellurics like their daughter…How could they really refuse? They volunteered at the Japanese chapter, and have worked with ERIS for years. Emiko, however, didn't just stay with the Japan chapter, and progressed to running the chapter for a year, before being brought on to the Council, holding a seat today, though living in Japan to do her work. Kale assisted when he wasn’t busy with his sister, or his studies…and took just as much a liking to helping others, training under his mother who had become a first responder in that time frame.

I was there.

When the rain and the fire came, when the water overtook the land. I was there. I was working with Miss Konno, and mom, and dad. We were…Helping. Mom was working with the medical team, and dad was running supplies. I was helping with mom when it happened.

At first there was…nothing really different. But then the feedback started in. It felt like there was a lot of…other people really close to me. Not speaking to me, just around me, you know? Mom had be applying pressure to one of the guy’s legs, he’d been caught under a steel girder when it collapsed. But as I held to staunch the bleeding…it didn’t just stop bleeding. When we took the cloth off to treat the wound proper, there wasn’t a wound there to treat.

Mom looked at me…we chalked it up to stress, and moved on to the next person. But it didn’t stop happening. When we focused on someone…the wounds under my hands just…started to fade. Like they were being healed in fast motion, weeks, months, in a matter of moments. It scared me…and, well, when mom realized it was me, it scared her too. But this was a crisis situation…she told me to be careful to hide what was going on, but we couldn’t afford to stop. She started directing me to the larger victims, the ones who needed more intensive care.

Neither one of us noticed how much I’d started sweating. The world started swimming after the fifth person…and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to walk to the next. I remember calling out to mom…trying to take a step…and then…nothing. My head went blank, and later mom told me I collapsed. She panicked…and the nurses panicked, and they carried me to one of the few spare bed there were, to rest. When we moved to the new facility, mom and dad carried me over on the cot.

I really don’t remember the rest of the day…but…I remember so much fear. And pain. And hate. And rage…and…all these emotions swimming, faster, and faster, and…

We enrolled me into Azura a month later. We did some tests at home…but there wasn’t any mistake. I was evotelluric, just like Reya. I was even partially an empath too…so Sis and I talked a lot in that time. What to do. What not to do. I tried to convince her to come with me, but…Well, she still wasn’t ready to face the world as what she was. I’ll talk to her in the meantime…but…

Time for me to start my own little story.

Kale's powers revolve around the latent evotelluric abilities granted to him by the Dawn to assist and help people through the power of his hands. In this case, relating solely to the healing abilities of being able to reknit flesh and seal wounds, healing injuries in moments, and not to his body's other abilities with his hands.

The crux of Kale’s evotelluric abilities, his hands have been imbued with the power to heal wounds they come into contact with. By focusing on his intent to heal the given wound, and applying pressure either over a cloth or other sanitary material, or directly on the wound itself, Kale can seal or close most wounds. Granted, there are plenty of conditions, but the power itself is very useful in the hands of a healer.

For large wounds (over six inches, deep cuts or wounds, or ones bleeding profusely) the most Kale can do is speed coagulation of the blood and effectively ‘seal’ the wound. If the victim moves too much, or strains the area, the wound will tear back open immediately, and Kale’s work will be undone. It is imperative in this serious cases, that the victim remain still, and at rest, or be treated with care. Effectively, this is like putting a bandaid on a dire situation, long enough for someone with actual training or ability to step in and heal the wounded.

For medium sized wounds (under six inches, over two inches), Kale is able to reduce the length of the laceration to a small sized wound, or again patch it over. In most cases, the seal will be a lot more hardy, but it is ill advised to maintain combat, or another situation where the wound might be aggravated and opened all over again.

For small sized wounds (anything not meeting the above), Kale is able to completely heal them, lacking even a scar, with prolonged contact. It is still ill advised to get hurt, but that’s why healers are there, because students are silly like that.

The time it takes to heal these wounds is incremental. For small wounds, one minute of exposure to Kale’s hands is enough to let his power do it’s work. For medium wounds, two minutes are required, and for large wounds, three minutes are necessary. When it comes to things like broken bones, sprained wrists, or various other mishaps that happen to students that don’t involve lacerations of the skin and/or bleeding, Kale is currently unable to assist them in little more than healing the skin and muscle if they happen to break a bone in a way that protrudes outside of the skin. That is, if they set the bone properly.

Kale is able to heal six small wounds in a day without rest, with medium wounds taking two charges, and large wounds taking three, effectively allowing him to heal two large wounds, three medium wounds, or six small wounds if he were to focus on a particular category. It’s a start, and Kale’s working on building up his strength, slowly.

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