Jin Kiyomoto

Pretty man

## Appearance

Jin is a tall man with pale skin, shade of his hair is "strawberry pink". He has purple eyes and wears glasses - years of reading cases and working up late did affect his eyesight. His work wear is white shirt and brown trench coat, black pants and brown shoes.

## Profile

*As Jin Kiyomoto:*

Veteran detective. Was initially inspiring young man with a lot of motivation to fight crimes, but years of working in unfair law world made him cold and stoic. His wife died in a horrible crime, he's a single father of two children, who he loves very much.

*As Yatagarasu\*:*

A mystery figure, a city legend. When the night falls, Yatagarasu brings vengeance upon criminals, doesn't matter if they're proven guilty, innocent or if they're trying to become a better person. Since the police can't catch them for over a decade, Yatagarasu is rumored to be in police, but police always discardss those rumors. Yatagarasu always leaves a crow drawing, made with blood of his victims, to mark scene of their crimes.

## Personality

A serious man, tough veteran-detective, who went through a lot of cases, where his life was put at risk. He takes his job seriously, not feeling any remorse for criminals, especially those, who think they have right to do everything with their victims. The wound from losing his wife is still fresh, Jin is distrustful of everyone, he’s convinced even the closest people can betray you at any moment. He's only open and friendly with his children.

However, Jin has a secret identity, as such he thinks of himself as of executioner for criminals. Working at the law himself, he sees many cases of when guilty person gets away scot-free, so he takes everything in his hands, stalks that person, using his connections to law and kills them. To mark his crimes, he leaves a special mark – a crow drawing (aka ‘Yatagarasu’), which turned his crimes into a city legend – and police of it was searching for a serial killer.

Jin is overly confident with heightened self-esteem. Before attacking his victims, he says that "God will help them". He's not religious at all, he considers himself a God.

## Backstory

Jin always seemed to have a heightened sense of justice, which wasn’t supported much by his environment didn’t support it much, since he lived in highly criminal city. One of his biggest supporters was his friend, and, eventually, wife Mayoi.

So, eventually, Jin graduated from school and took law major at college. He was a dreaming boy, however, first practice took off his rose-colored glasses\*\*, as he saw a corpse with multiple stab wounds, the person was tortured before their death with their fingernails and even some of fingers missing, having burn marks on their body and cut open stomach. The image was forever engraved in Jin’s mind, but what broke him even more is that person, who was the main suspect of the case, got away without any punishment, thanks to lawyer forging evidence.

That was began to broke Jin’s morals. But still wishing to at least somehow help the city to become a better place, he kept studying and working. During his work, he was almost killed several times – but always escaped that. After graduating college he married his high school friend, Mayoi and they had a son, named Yakumo and a daughter, named Rita.

Since Jin kept his morals and never fell for offering to fake/hide evidence or lie in his testimony, that’s why he made a lot of enemies. One of them, seeing that years of working in criminal environment made Jin vary of everyone, he decided to take his anger on Mayoi, so, when she was coming from work, she was almost hit by a car, but a seemingly pleasant man shoved her  out of way and offered her to walk her home, to which she agreed. That was a mistake, which took her life. The next 44 days became a true torture for her – (which I’m not willing to describe here, since the backstory is already too triggering – but I’ll leave a link to source\*\*\*). All of that was filmed - and sent on Jin's work email.

Jin was absolutely broken after that event took place – but his psyche completely broke after he learned that criminals, that did that to the love of his life got only 7 years – and the leader took 20 years. That was the moment of his snap. So, he took everything in his hands – and brutally murdered all of them.

Of course, Jin was the main suspect of the murder – but there weren’t any evidence, leading to him. After that, Jin started thinking that it’s up to him to make this city a better place – even if has to kill everyone in there. So, having an access to database of criminals, who were released by any reason he made a hit list – and he can’t rest until he kills each and every one of them. But what he doesn’t take into account – is that some of these people actually were innocent and some did understand their mistake and tried to become better people.

With that, Jin was a loving single father of two – a little overprotective after what happened, but not a bad father. A tough veteran detective at work. And a serial killer at night. He’s completely out of his mind.

While killing criminals, Jin was leaving a special mark to show that the kills were committed by a single person – a crow drawing (or a ‘Yatagarasu’). The city legend of Yatagarasu was made – as of a maniac, who chooses criminals as their victim.

## Relationships

### Ayato Yozora (Xenos)

Ayato is one of Jin's victims, since he's a criminal and mafia member. Being fond of Ayato's desicion to leave his family to protect them from people, who might try to kill him, Jin promised to not hurt Ayato's family.

### Izumo Juraku (Neon!)

Jin tried to kill Izumo two times, because they're a 'stalker' (referring to situation when Masaki arrested them), but failed. ~~(imagine being a grown-up detective-serial killer man and not being able to kill 2 teens)~~

### Eva Rourke (Xenos)

Tried to kill Eva because she's also a criminal - bomber + arsonist, but failed. At least he managed to stab her, making her more defenseless.

### Masaki Komiya (MP3)

Jin isn't aware that Masaki knows/suspects his identity and that Masaki is going to kill him.

## Trivia

* He was made randomly from the idea of detective being a serial killer, who investigates his own crimes
* Name **Jin,** written as **"神" means "God"**
* Surname **Kiyomoto**, written as **"清元"** means **"Beginning, free from muck and dirt"**
	+ I don't want to write page for Mayoi so...
	+ Name **Mayoi**, written as **"真宵" means "true evening"**
	+ Her maiden's name **"Nagata"**, written as **"永田" means "long rice field"**
* VA: Kenjiro Tsuda (JP voice of Barok Van Zieks from The Great Ace Attorney)
* Music theme: Demons by Hayley Kiyoko

## References

* **Yatagarasu** (Yatagarasu, Yata no Karasu) is a mythical crow and a guiding god in Shinto mythology. During Emperor Jimmu's Eastern Expedition, he was guided from the Kumano Region to Yamato Province by Yatagarasu, who was sent by Takamimusubi. He is generally known for his three-legged figure, and his picture has been handed down since ancient times.
* **Rose-colored glasses** is an idiom, that means "a cheerful or optimistic view of things, usually without valid basis"
* What happened to Mayoi is the same as Junko Furuta's case. (***WARNING:*** The case contains extremely disturbing content, mentions r--e and has graphic descriptions of torture. Please, don't read if you have weak psyche.)