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Name: Caleb Dantes
Gender: Male
Skin Tone: Pale caucasian-ish
Hair: Black, falls past his hips, straight and fine.
Eye Color: Turquoise blue
Age: 17
Heritage: half-blood Japanese (Japanese mother, British father)
Distinguishing Marks: None, but usually easily distinguished by his hair and clothing.
Talents: Hacking, brawling / street fighting, studying.
Weapon Of Choice: Fists, small easily-concealed knives, two-by-fours


Casual Attire: Tight black pants, heavy black boots (not tall boots), mesh or thin shirts. Prefers shirts to look slightly feminine in style. Black is his preferred colour, though he'll accept one item a different colour (eg. will wear a blue top with black pants, or other pants with a black top). Likes to wear lots of silver or black jewellery. All in all, he dresses rather androgynously, though never actually tries to hide the fact that he's male. (Also, he never actually cross-dresses, and doesn't wear make-up - unless there's some kind of Halloween party, or his parents are visiting and he wants to freak them out.)

Uniform: Skipped ahead several grades when he was younger, Caleb is in college despite only being 17. He avoids the plaid like the plague, wearing navy pants and the white shirt. Instead of a tie he wears a thin leather strip wound around his neck several times, overlapping in places. Heavy boots take the place of socks and shoes. He likes the school beret, but doesn't wear it with the actual uniform, only with casual clothes.

Favorite Colors: Silver, black, blue.

Favorite Foods: White chocolate, pizzamon (nikumon with pizza filling), cheese pizza.

Dislikes: Being stuck in classes or company beneath his education level, being away from a computer for extended periods of time, boredom.

Fears: Living in boredom with nothing to challenge him, being forced into the lifestyle of his parents (ie. becoming a rich socialite or businessman), absolute darkness (he usually leaves the computer going at night so there's a faint glow in the room).

Personality: Stand-offish and sarcastic, he doesn't try overly hard to make friends. He finds most kids his own age too stupid and immature, and those at his intellectual level patronise him because of his age. Computers have always been his refuge - it's his playground where he rules, so he tends to isolate himself away with computers whenever possible. He has few friends, and most of the ones he does have he mainly communicates with, or knows from, online. He's very private, and not as immune to barbs from others as he tries to appear. He doesn't get along with his parents, who have never quite known what to do with a son who won't behave or conform. Relations deteriorated to the point where they try to force him to pretend to be the perfect son they always wanted, and he'll do just about anything to piss them off - gangs, fighting, hacking, dressing the way he does... His studying is the one thing they approve of, which normally would make Caleb stop, but he can't stand being so bored so as long as he was allowed to skip some grades in middle school, he's willing to keep educating himself.

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It's worth noting that Caleb is something of a male lolita. He's aware of his appearance and started banking on it some time ago, after noting the reactions he could get from his father's male business associates and social acquaintances. He's never slept with any of them or done anything overly sexual, but he can get several of them to do him special favours in payment for coquettish smiles and showing some skin (usually off-the-shoulder tops, or high-cut shirts with low-riding pants - shorts were also very popular when he was younger).

School Accommodations: As a college student, Caleb is lucky enough to have single dorm room - at least for the moment. His room contains the usual single bed and single desk, though it's hard to make out the desk under all the computer equipment. His clothes spill out of the tiny wardrobe, ending up in piles over the floor and hung over the end of the bed, on his chair, over lamps... There's a slight method to the madness: Caleb knows where every piece of computer and electrical equipment is. Anything else is anyone's guess.

School is where Caleb goes to avoid home - suffice to say, he can be found in his dorm during most holidays. Any visits home are at the strict request (ie. order) of his mother, or because Caleb needs to arrange a favour from a male gentlemen back home. Even so, he keeps his visits as brief as possible.



Family Home: Home for the Dantes' is a luxurious apartment in one of Tokyo's outer suburbs, away from the superficiality and tourism of the capital's centre. Located in a high class neighbourhood and a high class apartment complex, it manages to have almost as many rooms as your typical Japanese house. To Caleb, it has always felt like more of a display house or hotel room than a home.

Caleb's room is a darkened warren of monitors and electrical wires. It would take a visitor several minutes to locate a bed in his room, hidden under the mass of technological delights.

Caleb, Yuka and Stephen live alone in the apartment. Yuka's father and several of her brothers live in the family's traditional, ancestral home. Yuka moved out after her marriage (as have some of her brothers), but the three Dantes' still visit the house often. For Caleb, it is the only place worse than home, as here he is expected to conform to traditional Japanese manners and customs. That, and it's damn weird to be in a house that has no tv or computers.

* Westhaven Academy and the new generation of Clow Cards belongs to Ogre, Britain, and Orasteele.
* Official Clow Card art by Paperghost.
* Banners by Kalindara.
* All other art belongs to the respective artists/creators.