Kashina - Dead Boy Detectives: Season One

Kashina or "Kashi" for short is an immortal man who has lived countless lives, some that were positive, others not so much. Yet each one he lived was a new and thrilling adventure for him. For each of these experiences, he owns an enchanted ring, symbolising the triumphs and heartbreaks he endured as he reached a point of spiritual peace and harmony. He feels no trauma, regret, bitterness, or sorrow. Instead, he feels grateful to be given the gift of multiple lives, valuing every life as though it were his last.  

While on his travels, Kashina was in the waters around Port Townsend when he was swallowed by a gigantic sea monster. Waking up inside her stomach, he decided to make the most of this predicament, using the wreckage of ships to craft his own living quarters. 

When the Night Nurse was devoured by "Angie", he presumed that she was dead, only to be taken aback by her coming round hours later. Finding his belligerently positive attitude irritating, she tries to silence him, using her magic to delve into his mind. However, she is confused to find no negative emotions that she can draw upon to wield against him. Questioning how this is possible, since they were both trapped within "a fish", he calmly tells her about his personal experiences. 

As she continues to use brute force, to no avail, Kashi offers her counsel, seeing that she is burdened and trapped in a pursuit that is actively destroying her. Ignoring this offer, he continues to persist, highlighting that her job does not take into consideration that not every being in the universe is the same. Taking Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland as a good example, as she mentioned them earlier, he tells her that her hubris is what led to her current fate, doggedly following two boys who were far happier where they were than in any bureaucratically appointed afterlife that she had not even seen. 

Seeing he had made a small breakthrough, he kindly takes her by the hand and asks Angie to swim to the surface to let her out, promising the sea monster that she could return to her rest once she was out. He would remain and keep the great beast company. As she leaves, he gives her one of his rings, as a token of their time together, and hopefully, a reminder of what he had told her. 

While this encounter did not stop her pursuit of Edwin and Charles, the Night Nurse did begin to question whether it was indeed possible for mistakes and clerical errors to be made, leading to souls being trapped in the afterlives and planes of existence that they were not meant to be trapped in.