VOTE FOR KIYOSHI KARASUMA IN THE OC POLL
@original-character-championship
OC created by @giantchasm
from Adventures in Solitude
Quick break from my regularly scheduled dinosaur propaganda to present my propaganda for the best-written OC I’ve ever seen in a fanfic. I didn't create Kiyoshi, but he lives in my head rent-free now. He looks like a normal-ass preteen but he is such a fascinating and hilarious being. He is simultaneously a serious and dramatic character study on the ethics of reincarnation and a character whose mere existence feels like a hilarious cosmic joke. He is the personification of an Angsty Crack-Taken-Seriously Fic.
“Fun” Facts About The Boy:
Has a big fluffy Samoyed named Taros.
He’s a trans boy! Came out when he was ten, and his parents & family friends accepted and supported him. These first two are fun facts and not “fun” facts, unlike pretty much the rest of his preteen existence
His sleep paralysis demon is his best friend’s past life
The reason he turned out good this time is, canonically, because he burned some ants with a magnifying glass when he was three and felt really bad about it
As a baby he hated this one aunt on sight for no discernible reason. He came around pretty quickly and now she's his favorite aunt, but 12 years later they found out that this was because that aunt was his past life's younger sister-in-law who he once tried to murder. She also happens to be his current middle school teacher's wife for some reason
His best friend once clapped at him so threateningly that Kiyoshi dissociated and almost had a past-life flashback/panic attack in the middle of capture the flag
He would be personally offended if he saw someone online call Heinz Doofenshmirtz a mad scientist*
Was once a popular kid… when he was a preschooler. Then his anxiety and self-judgement got so bad that now he just sits in the back of the classroom judging everyone and had no friends outside of his parents’ now-adult former students prior to the start of the fic
Despite being a neurotic ball of anxiety and self-loathing, he and his mom (who love each other very much) regularly cuss at each other. He’s probably better at saying “fuck” than any other thirteen year old
Is the voice of reason in his friend group despite having been, y'know, a war criminal in his past life
His best friends got into a fistfight on school grounds over whether or not he should be forgiven for his war crimes
Part of the reason that his redemption arc is so satisfying is that his awful past life knew his parents and friends and fucking hated them all. That man would’ve been legitimately horrified to learn he’d be reborn as this couple’s neurotic little scrimblo of a child. Pretty much every aspect of Kiyoshi’s personality is tailor-made to piss off his past life, and that was mostly a coincidence b/c most of Kiyoshi's character was created before the author had even considered making him a reincarnation. Kiyoshi literally just being himself and accepting who he is is a fate worse than death to the horrible narcissistic man that he was in his past life.
he’s not a natural blond
When he tried shit-talking his past life with a friend, the best insult they could come up with was “Ghetsis from Pokemon”
"'WILL YOU PEOPLE STOP CALLING MY SLEEP PARALYSIS DEMON HOT!?,' Kiyoshi wails” is an actual quote from this fic. Both of his best friends, and half of his middle school class, agreed that his sleep paralysis demon was sexy
canonically ate a live rat in his past life*
*these are the only fun facts not explicitly mentioned in the original fic. everything else is real, I'm not making any of it up
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