Kisaku grew up on Coruscant in a lower city orphanage. Having never knew his parents, and being raised by an underfunded and impoverished institution far from his species' homeworld he was always an easy target for prejudice in his formative years. Mainly by children with their own problems as they became the age to understand that they were dealt a poor hand.

Despite this, Kisaku was always a happy child though he always wished he was more like other children. He never really had angst about it until he was found by a Jedi Seeker and inducted into the Jedi Temple.

There, he quickly found himself behind the learning curve due to being 'late' for a child of his age, with the many difficulties of being blind that even high force sensitivity could not mitigate, such as a lack of ability to track the passage of time without assistance, and having greater difficulty with the physical study of jedi practices.

However the frustration in regards to his difficulties with training did the opposite of discourage him. He obsessed compulsively over leaning into his difficulties head on, and though he was bright he shirked much of his time that was reserved for study of other jedi principals specifically to the combative arts, only compounded by his inability to manage his own schedule.

In the end, when Kisaku began to succeed, and then excell at the velocities, spars and practices with lightsabers as he became an adolescent, the success became addictive, further aggravating the problem until he was finally of age to become an apprentice and leave the temple. It was the Jedi Council's decision that the only way he could learn and overcome his shortcomings is if he was assigned to a jedi knight whose inclinations were the exact opposite of Kisaku's, to show him the importance of the diplomatic function in which Jedi by and large had to be proficient at.

Ambition | Kisaku is driven by a desire to improve himself. As a child when he saw that his path through the force could lead him to overcome all obstacles, he gained an intense drive to become self-reliant in all things - to become not the one who asks for help, but the one who is *asked* for help.

Morality 80 | Kisaku's emotional strength comes from his pride . His drive to be self reliant and brave means that he's willing to stand against almost any odds, but this is only the other end of the coin from his weakness; He is reckless, stubborn, and doesn't take failure well.

Duty 440 | Rescue and Recovery

Kisaku takes the duty of a Jedi as a military arm of the republic seriously in that the clones he fights with are his comrades. In a large way, being blind means that he doesn't view clones with the same 'expendability' as others might -- he can't see that they've even been made to look interchangeable. That's the reason why he tries his utmost to prevent leaving anyone behind.