nalani, kekoa kamehameha

[kekoa kamehameha nalani]

_{kekoa kamehameha nalani
swaggin' , local}
Late night raver, self predator
Late night raver, don't destroy yourself
Don't destroy yourself
Humble down, take it easy

_{introduction ---}
name -- kekoa kamehameha nalani
nicknames -- koa
gender -- male
birthdate -- november eighth, 1987
birthplace -- honolulu, hawai'i
age -- twenty three
sexual orientation -- heterosexual
nationality -- 3/4 african, 1/4 filipino
membergroup -- local
playby -- pharrel williams

_{personality ---}
defensive
above all, kekoa definitely has a defensive personality. it started when people first started questioning his choice to identify himself as japanese-hawaiian, and persisted from there. he doesn't handle constructive criticism (nor criticism, surprise surprise) well, defending himself against the critiques instead of using them to better himself.

attention seeker
kekoa loves attention. whether it's from the ladies or from the strangers, he definitely goes out of his way to seek it. when he's at the club, he'll break out his dancing moves to try and impress a lady. when he's outdoors and with friends, he'll definitely go out of his way to outdo anything they do. for attention, he has an "anything you can do, i can do better" mindset.

adventurous
this cookie hates staying inside, and will do anything to convince his friends to go with him on a night hike or skipping through the forest. he loves surrounding himself with people who aren't afraid to get face to face with nature, cliffs, and kayaking to secret spots on the island.

culture-oriented
having grown up around a culture that doesn't align with his nationality, kekoa is very culture-oriented. he creates special bonds with people from other countries and places, completely interested in what it was like where they grew up and the cultural traditions they have. he is very involved in the initiative to keep the hawaiian culture alive on ehu island.

socialite
kekoa loves bonding with everyone around him. even though he definitely has his pet peeves (such as denying his japanese-hawaiian ethnicity or critiquing his dancing), until they are struck, he is friendly with everyone. actually, even when they are hit, kekoa tries putting his fakest friendly face on - it's only "respectful," after all.

_{inner self ---}
likes -- dancing, culture, sushi, boats, the ocean, lakes, jumping off cliffs, street dancing, attention, fedoras, attractive smiles, papayas, coffee, honolulu, climbing trees, night hikes, kennedy's, kayaking, luaus
dislikes -- racism, inequality, people who keep questioning why he identifies himself as japanese-hawaiian, cold rain, staying inside, unparallel minds, big island pizza, sugar gliders, spam musubi
secrets & aspirations -- kekoa's biggest secret is that even though he's pro-equality, he's very homophobic. But, he tries not to be open about it. An aspiration of his is to open his own dance studio, despite the amount of competition on the island.
favorite place to be -- on the boardwalk, earnin' tips

_{history ---}
before birth, kekoa kamehameha nalani's parents sought out for him. unable to conceive a child of their own, they met his birth parents in memphis, tennessee, hoping that they could adopt their soon-to-be-born baby boy. why they chose the southern united states, of all the other places on earth, was because it seemed the education there was poor, and lacking. they felt that by adopting a child from the southern united states would be like providing a child with an amazing opportunity he would not have had before. the horror stories they heard from their friends and peers adopting from other countries did not go well with them; they wanted to ensure they would have the baby within a year of their interest.

after flying their baby's birth mother to honolulu before her third trimester, kekoa kamehameha nalani was born on november eighth, an early prize to be thankful for before the american holiday thanksgiving. though these two japanese-hawaiians did not normally partake in thanksgiving, that year they did. kekoa helped them realize that even though the holiday started on the basis of slaughtering the indigenous americans, the basis of which it was presently celebrated meant more to them than they could really describe. they finally had something to be thankful for, a beautiful baby whom they could raise to be an honorable man, representing the nalani family.

and so, they raised kekoa in their japanese-hawaiian household, exposing him to both cultures. his parents' best attempt to expose him to the african culture was throwing him into an african dance class at the age of six, where he fell in love with his biggest passion, at present: dancing. whenever kekoa's parents would flip through channels, and he spotted someone dancing, he would make them stop the tv so he could take a second to imitate what the people on tv were doing. one form of dance kekoa fell in love with was vernacular dance. one day, kekoa saw a man no older than twenty-five dancing on the streets of honolulu. the young boy immediately became entranced, and jumped up in front of the man and tried imitating what he did. at the end of his performance, the older man kneeled down to kekoa's height with the biggest smile on his face. "m'boy, you've got some moves right there," he said. with stars in his eyes, kekoa thanked the man, telling him, "i want to be you when i grow up." complimented, the man gave kekoa's parents his business card, telling them to keep in touch for lessons.

and so it began. kekoa started taking lessons from him, and soon enough started street dancing in honolulu, just like that man. by the time he was fourteen, he knew that that was what he wanted to do until he was of old age. kekoa found such euphoria in choreographing his own dances and seeing the people all around him in awe of what he had to put forth. when he was fifteen years old, someone from bouscher academy of the arts came up to him and talked to him about the school, saying he'd be a perfect fit. after looking into it, kekoa knew that he wanted to attend that school. so he spent the next four years at bouscher, falling in love with ehu island. four years after his graduation, he still lives on the island, street dancing in the most tourist-filled spots. though he doesn't make as much money as he did in honolulu, he makes enough to survive.

_{out of character ---}
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