Ekida Dortchle

## Appearance

Ekida Dortchle is described as first appearing walking out of a limousine, wearing shoes with buckles that click as he walks, a long red jacket, and a pair of heart shaped tinted glasses. He’s described as having “almost frighteningly bright blue eyes” and tanned skin.

Ekida’s main outfit consists of a short sleeve khaki button-up, blue dress pants with a black double grommet belt, black formal buckle strap shoes each with an extra buckle on the back (the ones that always click), and a long oversized soft red leather jacket with a lot of pockets, buttons, and various sewn on pieces, which goes down to about his knees. His accessories include a pair of heart-shaped pink-tinted glasses, which have no prescription. His face and body are covered in many black freckles.

## Early Life

Ekida Dortchle was born April 30th, 564AC on the island of Da’ave. Little is known about his early life. He got his bachelors in science at the Kuruma University of Science and his medical doctorate at Dergo Memorial School of Medicine. Ekida Dortchle got a job in 587AC at the Da'ave memorial hospital as a surgeon's apprentice.

With the high rate of crime in Da'ave, the majority of cases he received when working in the ER were sukiga overdoses. When sukiga was completely banned in 590AC, these overdoses started being much less common. This didn't benefit the hospital, and it was set to be sold in 592AC. However, just before it could be sold, a massive gas leak was found, pumping deadly gas into most of the building. The buyers dropped their offer and nobody else took it up, leaving the gas leak unattended. The hospital was simply left to rot by itself. After a few months of unemployment, Ekida ventured back to the hospital with a gas mask, eventually finding the leak and sealing it off. He sold his house and began living in the basement of the abandoned hospital to save money.

It was inside the hospital where he found ancient records from the hospital's creation, the old personal laboratory of scientist working for Mars Kenabi, [unknown]. Ekida went on a trip, visiting the other old lab which [unknown] had owned and refurnishing it for himself. He quickly became very interested in hajikira poisons, creating his own lab to work with them in the basement of his house in Tejito. He quickly accumulated wealth through selling sukiga. However, Ekida quickly became obsessed with human experimentation, beginning a routine of abducting young women to experiment on. He soon became a complete expert on hajikira as a result of his experiments.

## Seasons 4-5

In December of 598, Ekida arrived at a casino in Malkailma and played a game of cards with council member Yijo, taking the opportunity to advertise himself for Relix. After his plan didn't work, he instead convinced her that council member Keherna was actively planning a secession, resulting in Keherna being removed from the council and starting the war. Ekida then traveled to Oruso, requesting a job from Keherna. He was turned down. He came back a few days later to plead his case, finding that Keherna was no longer the leader of The Second Stage. He copied his exact pitch from before to Cyrus Incrania and was hired. The following week, Ekida was involved in a video sent to Relix of the torture and murder of a spy. Ekida's face was not in the video. After seeing that council member Matacha was working for Relix as a private scientist, Ekida went to Totoma, sneaking into the council house in the middle of the night and murdering her. He panicked the next day, realizing she was about to have her autopsy done, and was covered in his DNA. Ekida snuck into the hospital where her autopsy was being done and stole the body and records. He put the body into the trunk of his car, lined with dry ice. He then went to Relix, feigning the appearance of one of the doctors involved in the autopsy, which he used to get hired as a personal scientist to Relix. He took Matacha to the Da'ave memorial hospital, storing her body in the basement before planning to return to Oruso, when he was interrupted by a call from associate Nikaya Ero, who said her house was about to be raided and she needed help. Ekida came to the house happily, as Nikaya Ero owed him money she was very late on paying back. He entered the house during the fight, nearly being shot by Eda Ero. She recognized him, providing him with a gun, which he promptly used to shoot her. Ekida made his way to Nikaya Ero once everybody left, who was weak from nearly being strangled by her ex boyfriend Kehtseega Kore. Nikaya was happy for a moment, thinking Ekida was there to save her. As the house was abandoned, Ekida carried out his tests in that very room.

Ekida had previously made a hajikira poison for Gier Relix, which was rejected on account of the side effect of infertility, which he was asked to remove. Ekida relabeled the same poison and brought it back, claiming the effect had been removed. But after Nikaya Ero's death hajikira supplies started to run low, and Gier Relix attempted making synthetic hajikira plants with Ekida's formulas, which were then found to be the exact same. Ekida was called into Relix's office, and after a debate with Relix, held her at gunpoint, robbed her, and ran. He went to his lab in Tejito, where he planned to meet up with The Second Stage. Under Cyrus' command, he released a powerful asymptomatic poison into a glass room with Jiang Mei. After Jiang Mei passed, as Ekida was packing his things, Jiang Tao somehow acquired a mysterious sword and started going on a rampage. Ekida gathered his things and left out the back window, running to a nearby town, where he was suddenly hit with a baseball bat to the stomach by Vi Ero, aunt of Nikaya Ero. He was kept by Vi Ero for a week, being tortured nearly to death. Afterwards, Vi Ero tied him in an uncomfortable position, wrapped him completely in bandages, and dropped him off at a police station. As Ekida was being interrogated, he interpreted Jiang Tao's sword as being sent by Minchinda to kill him, and since he escaped he had been tortured. He resigned himself to Minchinda's will and admitted to all of his crimes, resulting in the planning of his execution. At his public execution, he ranted erratically about Minchinda, and how he planned to rot in hell for an eternity before he was cut off literally and figuratively by the order of Gier Relix.

## Autopsy

Although he refused to be seen by a doctor before his execution, Ekida Dortchle’s autopsy revealed a lot about his last week of life. It was already assumed that Ekida had been tortured before his death as he was brought into the police station wrapped in bandages, tied into an uncomfortable position, and strapped to a hand truck. After untying him and taking off his bandages, it was revealed that his face and hands were covered in scrapes, bruises, cuts, and dirt. One of his eyes was too swollen to even be opened and was covered in the webbing of melted skin from above it, as the left side of his face was covered in half melted skin from severe burns. As he refused to be seen by a doctor, none of his other injuries were discovered until his death.

Some of his injuries became hard to gauge as his method of execution had left his head and body not in contact with each other. The autopsy first found the source of the gurgling sound in Ekida’s voice; small scrapes and lacerations on the inside of his throat, which had been causing blood to trickle down it. An unidentifiable piece of his own flesh was also found stuck fairly far down in his throat, restricting his ability to digest anything solid as well as narrowing his airways, something he had likely been forced to swallow. In several spots around his body it looked like the skin had been cut off at the first and in some places second layers. All of his fingernails and toenails had been ripped out. The same bandages that had been found wrapped around his body were also melted into his back, stuck to his skin. Some words had been carved into his back, but they were unreadable after his skin was seemingly horribly burned, melting the flesh with the fabric of the bandages. All the toes on both of his feet had been forcefully dislocated, and his entire right leg was purple with bruises. His left leg on the other hand, was covered in clearly controlled third degree burns. The bottoms of his feet had both been branded with hot spikes, seemingly until they made distinct holes. He had also been castrated. It was inferred that on most of his body, he likely had several layers of injuries that couldn’t be seen under each other, as many of his bones had received various levels of harm underneath his burns. After attempting to clear some of the burnt skin over his stomach, it was found that a hole had been cut in his lower torso, and through that hole a piece of his lower intestine had been ripped out of his body, the inside and out having significant trauma.

## Relationship With The Ero Family

Ekida has few positive relationships with others. He got in contact with the Ero family when he started purchasing hajikira flowers from Nikaya Ero. The two collaborated and shared the money with each other. Nikaya Ero wasn’t the best at managing her money, and borrowed a bunch of money from Ekida to maintain her production, promising she’d pay him back. A year later and after Ekida had pushed her about paying him back many times, the relationship between the two soured. Then Nikaya contacted Ekida, asking him to come to her house to help her family deal with BOKA agents in their house. Ekida decided to get payback for the debts he knew would never be repaid, shooting Eda Ero in the back of the head after being let into the home and given a gun, and killing Nikaya Ero herself after she was choked into unconsciousness by her ex-boyfriend.

## Relationship With Gier Relix/The Ithemban Government

Ekida first attempted to get in touch with the Ithemban government in December of 598AC by talking to council member Yijo at a casino in Malkailma, trying to convince her that council member Keherna was not to be trusted. Yijo believed him, and word of this spread all the way to Gier Relix, but none of it ended in Ekida being hired. In late January of 599AC, Ekida Dortchle murdered council member Matacha in her sleep, hoping to open her position as a private scientist to Gier Relix. Realizing the body had traces of his DNA on it, he stole the body and autopsy records before it could be tested, putting it in a large refrigerated container in the back of his car, which he later took to the Da’ave Memorial Hospital for storage. He then produced inaccurate versions of Matacha’s autopsy record and went to Gier Relix, claiming to be a doctor working on the autopsy who happened to keep a copy of the report. Through this he secured his job. Soon after he began working, Gier Relix requested he make a colorless tasteless odorless poison. He did so, but it was rejected once Relix realized that if survived, the poison left the victim infertile. Worried of lawsuits, he turned the poison down, requesting Ekida get rid of the side effect. Ekida returned with the same poison under a different label. Once this was discovered, Ekida completely took the mask off, holding Gier Relix at gunpoint and robbing her in her own office before disappearing.

## Trivia

* Ekida Dortchle has two types of piercings, one of which is a tongue piercing.
* Ekida is left handed