KHOC WEEK DAY 6 - JOURNAL - @khoc-week
A day late cause I was busy yesterday but!!! For this prompt I wanted to focus on Kage.
Kage was meticulous with his notes. He gave a report to his foreteller every week on the status of the union as a whole and even provided what information he could on other unions aswell. Ira relied on Kage's information a lot of the time to understand the bigger picture. It's something that Kage took immense pride in - and one of the reasons he started to be known as 'Ira's Shadow'. He was Ira's eyes and ears within the union itself - many people didn't like being around him not only because of his bad personality but because they knew that if they messed up in his line of sight - it would be directly reported to Ira.
Ira specifically named Kage that aswell, as Kage means shadow and he wanted Kage to act as if he was one - always watchful and a part of everyone. A shadow is simply a part of someone they can never get rid of - just like Kage was a part of Ira no matter that Kage represented the worst in him. Whether people of the union wanted it or not, Kage was apart of them, Kage was a reason, if not one of the main reasons, that the union ran as smoothly as it did.
I think some of his reports to Ira could be found in the games as collectibles; they would likely make no sense but would also give insight into Kage's mentality. While writing reports he had to constantly rewrite passages because he would get too emotional and caught up in his sin, wrath, and have to go back and change how he said things to appear more impartial. So not only could it give someone the view of what was going on in the unions objectively, but how someone like Kage functioned on a day to day basis and what his real thoughts about the foretellers, the master of masters, and his fellow firsts really were.
Despite how much he tries to hide it, if someone takes just a moment to get to know Kage, they know that he actually wears his heart on his sleeve - and his writings show this too.
