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Name: Jasvinder 'Jas' Kapali
Age: 19
Appearance/Image References: Around 5'9''. Dark-skinned, wiry build, with long dark hair (probably purple since this is an anime) that is most often braided and then done up in a bun for practicality purposes. When unbound it reaches down to the small of his back. He also has magnificent resting bitchface, and his school uniform is always impeccable. When not in uniform he tends toward button-down shirts and dark slacks or jeans. Very clean-cut and never a hair out of place; this is a guy who cares about the image he presents to the world.

Bio: Jasvinder is the latest in a long line of synchronics, and his family holds a good deal of sway with Estrella thanks to a seat on the school board, a long history of alumni and generous monetary donations. The Kapali legacy is best summed up with 'always the bridesmaid, never the bride'; a Kapali has never won the Seven Sisters Tournament, and so the pressure on each new generation to perform has grown exponentially over the years. Jasvinder excelled in school and was able to enter the Tournament proper, but came in second place by a narrow defeat. This excellent performance meant he was among that years' students slated for conversion, but hey, it turns out when the horrible thing happening to other peoples' children is about to happen to your child you get cold feet. A deal was struck: Jasvinder would be spared conversion, but his Key would be broken as a precautionary measure to hobble him and prevent him from ever growing dangerous. It was engineered to look like an accident, and he was given a highly-altered reforged Key that he could no longer seamlessly work with. He is now back in school in an attempt to salvage his future as a synchronic and re-learn how to fight with a Key that feels Wrong (and so that an eye can be kept on him).

He's a boy whose entire self-worth centers around how well he performs, and so losing the Tournament after coming closer than any other Kapali ever had and then breaking his key and no longer being able to fight skillfully has not been good for him. Outwardly he tends to come across as snippy, dismissive and hyperfocused on training; inwardly he is a ball of anxiety and bitterness and frustration. Any attempt to talk about why the hell he's still in school when he should be graduated is a fast pass to getting him mad at you, because he takes it as a personal attack and an implication that he doesn't deserve to be a student at Estrella anymore.

Basically he's the sort-of minor antagonist that spills his horrible backstory to the protagonists and gets won over by the power of friendship halfway through the season.

Key: Originally his Key was a sword -- no anime teen inside, either, just purely synthetic. They had a fairly-high sync, around 75% at peak. After it was broken his Key was reforged into a katar that used half of its original blade and also introduced a human mind as kind of a 'consolation prize' (and also just to see if such a thing could be done). Predictably it went fucky and now his Key has two fractured consciousnesses within it: the original synthetic mind and the mind of a teenage boy. Their sync has never once reached the level he had with his original Key, and often fluctuates and breaks without warning. While he can hear them speak it is indistinct at best and garbled and alarming at worst, and it is very rare that he can make out any actual words. In essence his Key is out of sync with itself and that makes it very difficult for him to sync with it; the best he's ever achieved was around 30%.

Powers and shit: Jasvinder's power is practical in nature: he can teleport very short distances, and the better his sync the more precise his aim and greater his range (with an upward limit of his own wingspan). Just a small shift can make all the difference in battle. Now that his sync is always fluctuating and his Key is often difficult to wield, he has trouble making this ability work at all and when he does manage it he often misfires. This has made re-learning combat even more frustrating for him and has resulted in him taking a lot of hits he would otherwise have been able to easily avoid. Rip in rip.

ANYTHING ELSE: I need you all to know I could have made his last name Gayen and just been really obvious about it but I restrained myself, barely,