#real talk i did a double take when i saw that jakurais quote was from the kingdom of god is within you

[nagasakidivision]

Damien: 35 facts meme

The absolute amount of dancing around things I had to do when writing this. click button expand it's long etc

He has a pet dog named Lucia!

She is a Schipperke, a small breed of dog once used for controlling rat populations on ships.

They're the little black dogs I've been periodically reblogging in his interest queue!

Everyone loves her. She is aloof around total strangers but can warm up quickly depending on the person.

Damien trusts her judgment in strangers absolutely: if she decides she likes you, as far as he's concerned you're a good person.

She has an extremely extensive trick vocabulary of about 80 commands.

I wish I knew more about Japan's dog show circuit so I could give specifics, but she is titled in rally obedience and agility (albeit only at low levels since Damien can't show her regularly.)

Damien's had her for about three years, but she's a bit older than that. She's likely five years old, once you get past two years it's kind of guesswork.

She's a rescue and that's why her background is a little ambiguous.

"hey raz aren't you supposed to be writing about a human here" ok. :c Damien is a diehard metal fan.

His favorite band is Holy Blood. Waves Are Dancing for best folk metal album of all time. (volume warning: there's screaming)

He's an extremely talented dog trainer (if you hadn't guessed by now) and probably had a missed calling doing it professionally.

It's one of those side jobs he'll do occasionally though.

He has...a lot of side jobs he drifts between. Writing, speaking, dog training, anything that lets him set his own schedule and that he can back away from at a moment's notice.

Capricious, yes he is.

The mall goth clothes stay on even during the dead of summer, so it's a miracle he hasn't died yet given how hot and humid Nagasaki is. He's dedicated.

He's got a good sized wardrobe, on that note!

How he can afford it is unknown. He doesn't seem to have anything approaching a consistent job.

He alternates between crashing with Shirou or Haruto.

He's fluent in Russian and English!

He's on a polyphasic sleep schedule and breaks up his sleep into two 2-hour periods and one 1-hour interval.

This...theoretically works for him but he is powered by energy drinks.

He can use "post-millennial dispensationalism" correctly in a sentence.

Like Shirou, he is devoutly religious.

However, he's within the mukyoukai/churchless movement! I'll have to do a separate post on this because I hit the character limit on this but it's genuinely fascinating as a social/theological movement.

Nagasaki has a sizeable minority of Catholics (the largest in Japan!) but having a somewhat smaller size population for a city in Japan means that his group might be...literally just him and maybe two other people.

He's a Tolstoyan anarchist which is more or less synonymous with religious anarchism...and yes, that's Tolstoy as in Leo Tolstoy, as in the guy from Jakurai's introductory quote, as in the guy who did War and Peace, he's an anarchist and effectively is the guy who codified a lot of religious anarchist philosophy.

He baptized himself when he broke into a park and jumped in a lake. Nobody helped but like, it's the intent that matters, so close enough.

He's exceptionally lucky in that he hasn't got a record yet strictly because the petty trespassing and being a public nuisance hasn't gotten him arrested yet. Mostly because he hasn't been caught yet.

When he says he's a public speaker...that's more in the Emma Goldman/Benjamin Lay sense of preaching about major social ills.

Speaking of talking, he's one of those people who talks with his hands a lot. He's extremely animated.

Not pictured: aside from the snakebite piercings, he also has lobe piercings and two helix piercings!

Obviously the fringe is dyed but the rest of his hair is also dyed black.

Looks and attitude aside...he's an exceptionally fast (and voracious) reader who spends a lot of time in libraries

He's in pretty good shape! Very acrobatic. A fast runner in spite of being short.

#real talk i did a double take when i saw that jakurais quote was from the kingdom of god is within you #philosophers and theologians who are mostly of concern within my specific field keep showing up in unexpected places