Kitsune Mask Puppet

*"I remember that day like it was just yesterday. I was tied up to my neck in barbed wire on that chair. The mirror in front of me reflected my anxious face, full of blood and wounds. Cuts decorated my neck and face, my right eye closed from the pain and tears rolled down my cheeks. Then I saw him behind me, that tall slender fellow. He had my kitsune mask I had brought just a month prior and was humming a soft tune. He slowly curled his hand along my neck before placing the mask in front of me. The mask itself was alive and growling at me before it was placed on me. From that moment on, the darkness consumed my veins and mind. The mask took over me and destroyed my human side. I became his puppet, his tool, the Purity controlled me."*

-Excerpt from the Mist's diary describing his last human thought.

***Kasumi Shun,*** also known as ***Kitsune* *Mask* *Puppet*** or simply ***Kitsune***,is one of the **nine** playable Hunters and a minor antagonist of The Game.

## Appearance

Kasumi Shun is a tall, slender, white man with yellow-tinted eyes surrounded by black sockets behind his mask. His hair is dark brown and wavy, covering his ears. The mask is white colored with red decorative strokes of paint surrounding the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. The red nose leads to a single red stripe that splits on the forehead around a blue turquoise mounted on a golden casing. The mouth of the mask sports canine like teeth with the sides being emptied and blacked out. Along the brim of the kitsune mask's ears, eye sockets, and mouth, small strokes of gold paint encase the red covering.

Kitsune wears a large, waist-long white cloak with golden touches along the brims and buttons. The buttons have his signature written on them, a simple fancy "K". The sleeves of the cloak are decorated in red spirals, encased by gold, and around each circle formed by the spirals, rest a turquoise. The cloak is left unbutton, revealing a black-and-gold long sleeve sweater-style shirt. His pants are black loose jeans, outfitted with gold trims on the pockets and seams. Each pocket also holds his signature "K" on it as well. His footwear is knee high black boots, tied securely by straps of belts. The bottom of them are red in color, with his signature golden "K" at the bottom of his heel, which is protected by a layer of clear material.

## Backstory

Before being transformed into the "Kitsune Mask Puppet", Kasumi Shun performed as a troubled poor boy with a single mother, Reznor Blade, before becoming a newspaper boy. Becoming sick with hallucinations, his mother searched for a cure, a kitsune mask from a witch doctor said to cure any disease for a hefty price. As the line between reality and the Purity Realm began to fade with the mask, Kasumi Shun became his alternate persona, his real identity being consumed by the mask.

## Gameplay

### External Trait

* **Dark Mist Form:** *The fog and Kitsune Mask Puppetare one with each other.* Kitsune Mask Puppet enters into his Dark Mist Form and gains increased movement speed. He cannot attack in the Dark Mist Form.

### Abilities

* **Kitsune Mask:** [1000 FEAR] [17-second Cooldown]*"The mask no longer fuses with Kitsune as strongly as before, able to convert him to his human form."* Kitsune Mask Puppet removes his mask, turning into the Mist. While Kitsune Mask Puppet sports no mask, he cannot attack the Survivors, interacts with items and props as if he was a Hunter, and has no Fear Radius. All Survivors instantaneously receive the "Clumsy Thumbs" trait, decreasing their decoding speed by -15%. Once within 10m of a Survivor, Kitsune Mask Puppet automatically puts his mask back on.

* **Purity Controlled Kitsune Mask:** [3000 FEAR] [14-second cooldown] *"The blood once fused with completely darkness can now be controlled by Kasumi once more, able to quickly change between his Hunter and Survivor form."* Kitsune Mask Puppet removes his mask, turning into The Mist. While Kitsune Mask Puppet sports no mask, he cannot attack the Survivors, interacts with items and props as if he was a Hunter, and has no Fear Radius. All Survivors instantaneously receive the "All Thumbs" trait, decreasing their decoding speed by -25%. Once within 10m of a Survivor, Kitsune Mask Puppet automatically puts his mask back on.

## Diary Entries

* *Diary Entry 1: "The shop owner told mother that all my hallucinations would stop once I wore this mask... he wasn't wrong."*
* *Diary Entry 2: "Recently, I have noticed that the mask has been moving around the house. I put it on the table and it always ends up by the fireplace."*
* *Diary Entry 3: "The mask spoke to me, calling itself 'Master', I don't know why it called itself that."*
* *Diary Entry 4: "Master is the only one who understands how I feel. He promised me to take me somewhere I wouldn't get more hurt or hunted by them."*
* *Diary Entry 5: "I called the police after the incident, Master told me to. I lived for months in that place before being released. Not soon after I went back."*
* *Diary Entry 6: "I stood there, floating in the air. I awoke in a dark and foggy room, a campfire in the distance. Master said I was safe from them."*
* *Diary Entry 7: "Every day became a cycle of hiding, escaping, and waiting. Master said there was a reason behind it and that those things... those monsters, were going to harm me."*
* *Diary Entry 8: "It has been like months... or it feels like it. My watch hasn't moved at all since I got here... July 28, 2009."*
* *Diary Entry 9: "Master said tomorrow was my big day, my day to return to see my freedom and no longer repeat this cycle of hide, escape, and wait."*
* *Diary Entry 10: "The mask took over me and destroyed my human side. I became his puppet, his tool, The Purity controlled me."*

## Trivia

* Kitsune Mask Puppet, along with most Hunters, are based around real life serial killers from their respective culture.
	+ Kitsune Mask Puppet is based upon Yukio Fujiyama, a 25-year old serial killer who murdered his mother, a 27-year old woman and her 19-year old sister before being executed by hanging.
* Kitsune Mask Puppet has two counterparts in the Purity Realm which can be seen simultaneously once in a while if the two happen to be in the same sector.
	+ The first one is his Survivor counterpart, the Mist.
	+ The second one is his Hunter counterpart, Kitsune Mask Puppet.
* Kitsune Mask Puppet was originally going to be designed around a spider mask, giving him spider-like abilities in capturing Survivors in The Game.
	+ This was changed to a kitsune mask due to the cultural redesign was given to Kitsune Mask Puppet.
* The mysterious figure standing behind him when he is turned into the Kitsune Mask Puppet is no other than the embodiment of the Purity, which fed off his fear to make himself appear.
* Kitsune Mask Puppet was originally named Kaito Amari and was only meant to be a Survivor.

* Kitsune Mask Puppet's beta ability, **Terror Sense**, was replaced with Dark Mist Form in the final version.
	+ Terror Sense was planned to be given to the Starfish but was never implemented.

* Originally Kitsune Mask Puppet was going to work with various other puppet being summoned around to help him track down Survivors and attack them as well.
	+ This became a concept for both the Three Gnomes and the Hive Mind.