On first experience, Minkiās ability might not be perceived, though if one pays close attention on how he deals his cards accompanied by what seems to be habitual small talk then one might notice a systematic pattern to his supposed conversations. Never will Minki deal out his cards with his lips sealed for his words are wherein his special ability lies.
To be more precise, is it his lies, which enable him to manipulate the current reality to his wishes. Thereby Minki purposefully lies about some fact and through his ability, then, reality will change in order for his lie to become the truth. In actuality such scenario might look like the following:
Imagine Minki playing a shell game, him being the one shuffling around the cups and thereby being aware of where the coin is. Assuming the coin were to be in the rightmost cup and the player were to guess good and point at the correct cup, Minki would purposefully lie by saying that the coin was elsewhere. So solely by lying, his statement would become the new reality and when lifting the cup, the coin would not be in the rightmost one anymore, since Minki changed its position through a twist in truth with his lie.
This ability of changing reality through lies is obliged to two rules, however. First of which, is that Minkiās utterance mustnāt be the truth but a lie. His ability will only take effect if he himself is aware of his statement being attribute to dishonesty.
Furthermore can he only use his ability in changes that wonāt affect or evoke intense emotion. For example canāt he will a person to cease to exist for at least someone will react with some kind of feeling upon their death or disappearance, be it grief or happiness and neither can he crown himself king of the entire globe since thereās bound to be emotions attached to the previous realty in which he wasnāt world dominator. This second limitation to Minkiās ability is also reason why the young trickster will never be found playing against individuals caught in dire desperation to win (for his abilities wonāt work on a person who would get too worked up over loosing).
Another vast penalty for the user of such ability is that the specimen being tricked will be well able to notice the flaw in logic created by the use of that endowment. Elaborately, this means that if a person were to hand him a joker card and being aware thereof and Minki would use his power to change the value of the card, the one having given out the card to Minki would, through logical conclusion, notice āthat something just canāt be rightā since the card they had given him wouldnāt be the same anymore. Seeing through his trickery is possible for whoever pays close enough attention, even if they donāt know about the supernatural origin of the fraud.
Performance Details: For Minki is a gambler and trickster beyond compare, heād flawlessly perform magic tricks in all their antique prestige. Letting objects disappear or making carpets fly, his stage potential is as limitless as are his lies and usually filled with a lot of playfulness and humor.Whether it be the main act or walking through the rows during breaks to entertain the spectators with card tricks, Minki doesnāt mind either and will do whichever uppermen or his fellow performers prefer. Ā
Background: Having grown up in the care of a prostitute, there wasnāt anything in the world that bore an estranging concept to him, or so Minki would describe his rather open-minded attributes if he were to be asked. Heād been raised exposed to a multitude of sights never to be seen in a proper manās life. Insofar Minki had never considered sincerity to be of value, all the more in a world consisting of egoism, fraud and the sovereignty of aristocracy.
At the age of seven, Minki had made an acquaintance that would pose permanent influence on his life. A customer of the woman heād meanwhile known not to be his mother by blood but still by heart, had caught a liking in the young scallywag and spent a few minutes of his visits teaching the kid card tricks and a wonderful shenanigans heād called āmagicā. Minki had been intrigued and only a year later, the kid had mastered the art of its trickery to a level of which allowed him to earn a little pocket money. The kid started showing off his magic skills on the street and quickly learned how to earn profit, a few coins for candy slyly pinched from other kids on the street or the brothelās customers.
Heād always been a wicked yet clever boy with a stunningly perspicacious sense and so Minki soon discovered his ability, though cunning as he was, he never lost word about it. Soon Minki made a name for his own on the streets of ever-changing citites with people gathering around him in hopes of profit. Heād soon surrounded himself with something close to a gang, which he called his friends but that word never held any fondness when spoken by him.
When the young male reached the age of 21, the woman who had taken care of him like a mother had fallen victim to sickness and died within little time. Her death was cause to a period of white-washed veins, pushed back and forth between hazed frenzies, short cons, alcohol excesses, guns, and unspoken truths. He changed locations more frequent than beds and lying became essential for his existence. There was no growing sick of something so commonly made use of as dishonesty, yet in these days a bitterness gave birth to a layer of thick sarcasm and irony that would cloak him in solitude for the rest of his life.
Only a year after heād been left on his own, loneliness had swallowed him whole and despite his brighter self starter to resurface, the bitter aftertaste remained. There was no such thing as mutual trust or kindness, a fact he knew best, master of lies he was, and so he the bonds he forged were never woven by emotion. Every action of human kind was based on their salvage of self and Minki had been too aware to reprieve himself with oblivion ā he didnāt even want to bother about finding out about the truth of sincerity anymore, rare as it was. Omnipresent was the burlesque feint he put on around others as not to betray his true intentions and keep the farce of being just as commonplace as everyone else up. The phlegm, thick sarcasm and an air of irony that had developed thereby were what brought most of Minkiās success as a trickster and what simultaneously made him target of the one or other ripped off companionās animosity. Not that he cared, and betraying the ones who called themselves his friends became a necessary ritual to prove such.
Of course someone would notice the special ability that had been perfected to mastery by the time heād grown to be 24 years of age and so it came that, one day, the trickster had been invited to join a community of others of his ilk. Ridden by curiosity and the promise of a new adventure, he hadnāt spent a second thought ā which, in hindsight, he might better have ā and yielded to the offer to join.
Personality: Stoic yet utterly playful, bright but subject to depravity; to express Minkiās personality one makes use of a variety of antagonisms. Heās the guy, who will always be wearing a confident smile and exude an air of nonchalance. Though through the verso of his capacities true sentiments of benevolence or affection arenāt to be expected from the likes of him. Life is a game and he makes the rules. Everything that can be regarded as a means of merrymaking captures his attention, why Minki never shies away from conflict. Gambler, he is, he pushes his luck ever once too much. While heās not fearsome of violence, however, he entertains a high unwillingness to experience or induce bodily pain. So rather than engaging in a fistfight, he prefers the mental battles for a playground.