Editing Campaign:Suikogaiden Sids/daydreamer (section)

== Basics ==
'''Campain:''' [[Campaign:Suikogaiden_Sids|Suikoden Sids]]<br>
'''Name:''' Zahi Xiu<br/>
'''Concept:''' Daydreamy bluesid<br/>
'''Caste:''' Chosen of Serenity<br/>
'''Motivation:''' Restore harmony among the Sidereal factions<br/>
'''Positive Intimacies:''' Pretty things*, music, harmony<br/>
'''Negative Intimacies:''' Pain, discord<br/>
'''Anima Banner:''' Sparkling cerulean aura.<br/>
'''Anima Effect:''' Spend 10 motes to add (Essence) automatic successes to all Performance rolls made by him or his allies within (Essence x 10) yards.<br/>
'''Experience:''' 26/75 <br/>
-When applied to living things, 'Pretty' refers to anyone with an appearance of 3 or higher

=== Background ===
Zahi doesn't remember much about his childhood. That's not to say it was bad, or that some traumatic memory caused him to block it out- it was dull, if pleasant, and he lived in a peaceful farming village for most of it. He was known mostly in his home village as the boy who always told the best stories, or who sang the loudest, or who always had good advice for people ... although behind his back, people would remark about how scatterbrained he really was, and how he spent so much of his time daydreaming. Oblivious to this, he continued in his own way to make life cheerful and happy for everyone- until his Exaltation, when a group of Sidereals showed up (looking confused and a bit rumpled) to usher him off to Heaven. 

Since then, he's noticed the way people step carefully around him, though he hasn't let it get in the way of the work a Chosen of Serenity would have to do anyway ... with an added personal campaign of trying to get everyone to work together. (His last attempt, sticking a Bronze faction Chosen of Secrets and a Gold faction Chosen of Journeys in a closet together and not letting them out until they could get along, didn't really end that well for any party involved. Zahi is really just lucky he's so likeable.)

=== Appearance ===
Zahi is about six feet tall and slim, with refined features and long blue hair that, if it lay flat, would be about shoulder-length around his face. It doesn't lay flat, though- it has a very ruffled look a lot of the time, sticking up at odd angles or poking out in weird ways. It's kept out of his face only by use of a handy-dandy headband. His eyes are a bright vibrant blue, right down to the starry flecks in the pupils, and are highly expressive- it's really easy to tell what he's thinking or feeling just by looking at him. He seems to always know what to wear for a given situation, usually light colorful clothing that's easy to move in.

Zahi has an odd way of moving, too- at times it almost seems like he's moving in slow-motion, although he's very obviously getting to his destinations with the same speed, and sometimes he almost seems to move faster than is humanly possible, and always with a strange unearthly grace in his step- unless he's stumbling over himself. It's difficult to pinpoint what's odd, exactly, but it's clear that something is odd.

=== Personality ===
People who know Zahi closely will tell you that he's sweet, but not too bright. They're only partially right- while Zahi is very charming when he wants to be, as well as super perceptive and with booksmarts to spare, he's incredibly naive when it comes to the world, and tends to do badly under pressure. Anything that requires quick thinking and adaptability usually just fails miserably with him, although his relentless optimism keeps him trying. Zahi is forgetful and a bit scatterbrained, but underneath all of that he's earnest, likeable and good-natured, and genuinely wants everyone he meets to be happy- even someone who might be trying to kill him at that time. He tends to be easily distracted from the task at hand ("Hey! A KITTY! :3"), but will usually return to it as many times as necessary to finish ... as long as someone remembers to remind him about it.

Zahi has a dreamlike quality about his personality, as well. While most of the time his logic leaps are spur-of-the-moment and make about as much sense to him as they do to everyone else (read: not a whole lot), if he's alone and given a chance to think, his logic can twist around in incredible- and sensible!- ways. Zahi notices a lot more than he lets on, too, and sometimes chooses to pretend he hasn't noticed them if it suits his purpose. He's not ''secretive''-- save that for the guys in green-- and he'd admit the truth to anyone who asked directly, but he's not as dumb as he would seem at first glance, either.