HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE. I MEAN WATANUKI. I MEAN EVERYONE. ( UNNECESSARY EXPOSITION )

AGE: About...sixteen or seventeen. Probably seventeen now.
HEIGHT: CLAMP noodle height. IN NORMAL PEOPLE TERMS? ...no idea.
WEIGHT: CLAMP noodle weight. Looks like a stray breeze could knock 'im down, though.
MEDICAL INFO: Physically fit, underfed, no real muscle mass or fat on his body whatsoever. More importantly: his eyes are different colors, as based on a couple of colored pages and chapter spreads; the left is gold and the right is blue. The left is a little cloudy sometimes, a little distorted. Has sort of poor vision, wears glasses. His right pinky finger is completely inoperable.

Also some of his blood is Doumeki's! I am not sure if this can be qualified scientifically or if it's just magical or what. People who can distinguish that kind of thing just might notice his blood just . . . isn't all his.
EYES: SEE ABOVE :( Left cloudy gold, right blue.
HAIR: Black.
PHYSICAL TRAITS: ...CLAMP NOODLE?
WHAT'S OKAY TO MENTION AROUND HIM/HER: Anything, really! I'm even a little less hesitant to go over the whole "oh my god you're a manga character" thing with Watanuki, since he's actually rather used to the alternate universe thing by now and...is...fairly comfortable in his, err, reality.

The one thing I want people to shy away from can be found in the "notes for the psychics" section under the spoiler tag.
ABILITIES: ATTRACTS SPIRITS LIKE CRAZY. Any kind of spirit. His blood has a magical quality to it that makes it smell delicious to spirits. He can see them, touch them, and interact with them under most if not all circumstances. Watanuki's powers have...a very wide range to them; he can sort of sense strong emotions off of people, and his ability to distinguish types of energy isn't limited to just spiritual pressure. Is hinted to have some type of prophetic ability, but that doesn't pop up often at all. The downside to all of this, though, is the fact that he can't control these powers at all.

OTHER THAN THAT. He is the best housewife ever. He cleans. He cooks. He sews and knits. Seriously, everyone needs a Watanuki in their life.
NOTES FOR THE PSYCHICS: He has a "light personality". Thinks a lot about Himawari, Yuuko, and errands he needs to run. Often thinks mean thoughts about Doumeki, but there's no real malice under there. Also thinks regularly about his parents, but stays a little optimistic about that and just hopes he's doing good by them. Very fortuitous. Loves everyone and everything, when you get right down to it. Low self-worth. Nice guy! Also I imagine his head has a sort of...weird quality to it, since spirits use his subconscious as a medium to talk to him in his sleep. His brain has been TAPPED.

Spoilers go here: If you dig DEEPER DOWN, you will discover that Watanuki never, out loud or in his head, refers to his parents by name. This is because he DOESN'T KNOW THEM. This! Is something I am not playing with until I figure out what the hell it's about. Because CLAMP is probably going to, like, pile existential angst on him when this becomes a conscious realization; in canon it's said he's "fading away," and. I have no idea what that means, but if you have some hardcore powers there you'd be able to get the general idea.
CAN I SHAPESHIFT, SWITCH BODIES WITH, SPIT AT, STEP ON, ETCETERA?: ASK FIRST
MAIM/MURDER/DEATH: Maiming is...okay, killing is...less okay. Ask first.
COOKING: Yes. Watanuki is a kitchen Jesus.

NEKOI: Watanuki's the type who somehow ends up muddling his way into all-girl events as the only boy there, but that doesn't make him "popular" in the usual sense. He’s the kind of nice guy who’d stop a stranger to offer help carry their bags.

OHKAWA: Watanuki has a mixture of specialties, doesn’t he. If you want someone to cook, or someone to look after things, then you’ll turn to Watanuki.

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FULL INTERVIEW re: HOLiC, Tsubasa, and the creation process.

They are very subtle about calling Watanuki everyone's bitch. :(

COMPLETE ICON AND KEYWORD RENOVATION, long overdue, etc. As such, old threads will look funky.

But these are so cute ♥

Name: Kimihiro Watanuki
House: ...Gryffindor, actually? Either that or Hufflepuff but until someone tips me the other direction I'll just. Go with Gryffindor. MS PAINT LIGHTNING BOLT
Year: Sixth year would be good, I think.
Talent: Unusually high magical aptitude! As in MASSIVE CAPACITY. Also for some reason--or perhaps the same reason--all sorts of nasties think his blood smells nifty keen. Unfortunately he can't...really control his power so he's kind of on overkill mode all the time, to the point where things blow up if he concentrates too hard while casting a spell. This is less recognized as MASSIVE CAPACITY than...just plain accident-prone, though.
Other: Blah blah blah parents died protecting him, scrapes together the cash to make a living, lived in the care of some elderly Muggle tenants until some weird woman showed up at his place and handed him an acceptance letter and said, RIGHT. YOU'RE GOING TO ENGLAND.

("BUT I DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH!"

"I DON'T CARE ♥")

So weird woman, heretoafter referred to as Yuuko, drags his dumb stick ass to London and sets him up with all his books and things and, right, off you go to magic school. The catch for her paying for his...tuition and books and pretty much everything: he must get top marks in his classes and over the summer, he's her bitch. Around his third or fourth year he starts renting out his own flat over the summer and taking care of himself and...yes. Watanuki is a great student--good grades and everything--but he can't seem to avoid the ghosts at school and gets in trouble a lot but is cut a lot of slack since, A, he's a good kid and B, Yuuko apparently knows the headmaster. Also is BANNED FROM GOING TO THE WOODS EVER because chances are he'd get...he'd get eaten within the first ten minutes.

Either brought Mokona or had something funny done to him for the language barrier. ♥

SOMETHING I SHOULD HAVE DONE A LONG TIME AGO

So we all went over the whole "Watanuki can see beasties" thing. Watanuki has incredible spiritual power. He can see anything supernatural and anything supernatural + remotely evil in tandem WANTS TO EAT HIM. Spirits on the bad side think he smells like tasty chicken, spirits on the good side are pinged by him, the works. He can sense spiritual pressure, if someone isn't human, can get good reads off of people through their spiritual pressure, chakra, aura, WHAT-HAVE-YOU. He can do all kinds of nifty keen things.

Ergo:

Comment here if Watanuki would notice anything off about you. And I mean anything. Think of it as kinda like Ishida's DEMON ping. But Watanuki isn't a dick about it REALLY he just kinda goes "huh" and hopes to god you don't kill him dead. PLEASE TO NOTE that if you're evil, he will know because you will smell funky, man. See icon.

HI MY NAME IS IKKAKU/WATANUKI/RUKIA/KID AND YOU LOVE TRUST MEMES.

"I hate this kind of thing.

"You're throwing yourself away carelessly, aren't you.

"Do you think I can exchange something that you would carelessly throw away with something precious?

"You must think she's a fool because she's trying to retrieve for you something you treat like trash."

"You're wrong!"

"I'm not.

"I'm sure there're others, right? Beings that hold you dear.

"You don't understand that and don't take care of yourself.

"You hate to see others get hurt, but you don't mind getting hurt yourself.

"You don't even understand how much you hurt the ones who hold you dear when they see you get hurt.

"I hate these kinds of things.

"Thus, I deny your request."

chapter 90, pages 4-8

...right. So.

I was going to do a "IF YOUR CHARACTER WAS IN MY CHARACTER'S UNIVERSE" meme because it's hip and in, but. Well. I thought, "SHIT. HOLiC WENT EVERYWHERE. YOU NAME IT, HOLiC WENT THERE. LIKE A BAD PORNO."

Deviation time. It's what I'm good at.

Your canon crosses over with xxxHOLiC.

In HOLiC, if there's someone in some dimension somewhere who really, really needs something and there's no viable way to get it elsewhere, then they go to Ichihara Yuuko, proprietor of a shop that grants wishes for a price. Any wish at all. If your character wants to be a god, if your character needs medicine or a kick in the ass or to gain or lose some kind of ability--anything.

If your character had a wish that couldn't be granted except by some TERRIFYING COSMIC POWER. Under what circumstance do you think your character would need to go to such a place?

Character: Watanuki Kimihiro
Series: xxxHOLiC
Character Age: About 15-18. A high school student.
Canon: xxxHOLiC's protagonist Watanuki Kimihiro is a very unique young man -- he already lives by himself, he's great at cooking and cleaning, and he pretty much excels at anything he does. He also works part-time at a very unique shop -- that of space-time witch Ichihara Yuuko, who will grant almost any wish if one is willing to pay the price. So why is he working there? To lose perhaps his most defining characteristic -- his ability to see and attract spirits. Spirits have haunted him for as long as he can possibly remember. The boy lives in constant fear of dying a horribly painful death by consumption or some other equally terrifying means.

While this trauma-filled lifestyle has made him something of an incredibly loud and paranoid little bugger, Watanuki is actually a very sweet and polite person who always goes out of his way to help people, and who always prioritizes others over himself, even those he claims to dislike, such as his employer and also classmate Doumeki Shizuka. Despite Watanuki's proclamations of utter loathing for Doumeki, the two have saved one another from a number of sticky situations, which slowly helps in showing Watanuki that he simply can't throw himself away for others all the time -- and also that Doumeki doesn't seem to be very intent on sweeping Watanuki's romantic interest, Kunogi Himawari, off of her feet.

Sample Post:

Ah -- hello, anyone? Can you hear me? I'm sorry to bother you, but it would seem that I'm at least a little lost. You see, my employer's instructions were very specific: a miss Elizabeth-san ordered some materials from the shop I work at. For "strengthening magical protective barriers"? And I've followed Yuuko-san's very specific instructions, except the door I walked through doesn't seem to be here anymore, and I don't seem to have the things I arrived with. There were some charms and talismans and dismembered fingers and --

Am I rambling? I'm rambling, aren't I? I'm sorry? I'm really, really sorry but -- well, I was told this was going to be a simple job and I wouldn't need the help of that cretin Doumeki and this probably means that Yuuko-san lied. Again. "Oh, Watanuki, won't you take this basket of goodies to the terribly kind young woman who needs them? Where does she live, you ask? Oh, just across the sea in an encampment filled to the very brim with all manner of things guaranteed to make anyone's skin crawl just like theirs -- I think I'm getting chills just thinking about it! But don't worry, we'll have you there in a hop, skip, and a jump right through this portal. I made it your favorite color and everything!"

IT'S FUNNY HOW SHE LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE--THINGS, WITH THE CRAWLING SKIN. THERE WAS NOTHING GOOD IN THAT BASKET! DISMEMBERED FINGERS AND LITTLE PIECES OF PAPER WITH CREEPY PHRASES AND -- AND SOME KIND OF WEIRD FOREIGN SODA. What the hell does Mountain Dew have to do with protective coatings over evil encampments, anyway? NOT A HOP, SKIP, AND A JUMP, NO, THERE'S NOTHING LIKE WALKING THROUGH SOME WEIRD MAGIC DOOR ONLY TO EXIT JUST A FEW FEET ABOVE THE GROUND SO YOU FALL ON YOUR FACE. My fall was broken by something GRAY and SQUISHY that I DON'T WANT TO IDENTIFY. And -- and my favorite color is GREEN, DAMMIT. GREEN. YOU KNOW, GREEN? Like -- like the grass? The grass in places with sane and normal spring seasons with flowers that smell like flowers and not like rotten meat? It's -- it's like the animals and the vegetables are confusing themselves and each other and with the minerals and underwear retailers and WHERE THE HELL AM I? Green like -- I don't know. But I've been working for her for this long and it's like she doesn't even know me! I feel sorry for anyone with an employer that's ANYTHING LIKE HER! I feel sorry for me!

...oh. Oh. I'm -- you're still here. Aren't you. And -- and I'm very sorry for talking your ear off like this, but -- I guess I should concentrate on finding a way out of here, shouldn't I? I'll try retracing my steps, I think I walked a little far --

...oh! Now that I think about it, Himawari-chan's eyes are green! That must be why I like the color so much! They're the nicest shade of green that would put the grass and all the emeralds in the world and this lake right here to shame... ♥

...wait a second.

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