Kiki Kutsuki

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## Personality

*Copy-Pasted from Various Sources; Will Be Rewritten*

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## Backstory

*Copy-Pasted from Various Sources; Will Be Rewritten*

Kiki was born into a very… eccentric family. Her father is a devout Christian (born and raised in Japan), while her mother is part of a long line of Clairvoyants. Her older brother, Inei, threw himself into their father’s religion and was on the path to become a clergyman.

It was during Kiki’s toddler years that her family first suspected there was something physically wrong with her. She never seemed to learn from being harmed, like a normal baby would. If Kiki touched a hot stove, it didn’t seem to bother her NOR did she resist the urge to do it again. After several incidents where Kiki sustained serious injuries, her parents took her to a doctor. Her eventual diagnosis (Congenital insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis or CIPA) gave the family much to think about. How could they raise a child who couldn’t learn from experience what was harmful? A child that couldn’t tell them about various discomforts? For fucks sake, she couldn’t even sweat to regulate body temperature (not that she feels temperature, because of COURSE she couldn’t). She couldn’t even *smell*. The more they learned about her condition, the more hopeless life as a parent seemed.

While her father turned to God for answers, Kiki’s mother busied herself  by looking into old family magics. She believed that Kiki’s was a sign--a miracle. With her parents desperately searching for a higher meaning in her condition, Kiki was left to be raised by Inei, who was little more than a child himself. From him she learned of God, angels, demons, and the trials put upon mortals to test their devotion to God. He reasoned that if her condition was so terrible, it was only terrible because God wanted to test her, and that meant that Kiki was *special*.

Kiki’s father grew neglectful and secretive, only interacting with his children to teach them his views on God (which grew steadily further and further from actual Christian doctrine). Her mother grew neglectful too, but of her *own* health. All her time was devoted to research and rituals, and hiding all of it from her husband. By the time Kiki was approaching her teens, her mother’s fate was sealed. Her mother’s death was inevitable. Inei’s faith in God dwindled when it was obvious all his prayers and devotion couldn’t change their mother’s fate. He grew bitter, and began to take solace in every sin that he’d previously abstained from. His bitterness bled into his care for Kiki, and slowly the two turned from their father’s path.

Junior high was a lonely time for Kiki. It had been easy to impress her peers when she was younger and her brashness was something to aspire to. As a teenager, her social skills hadn’t developed in a way that the other students liked. She was still too concerned with scaring people--making friends through fear--and her condition was something they couldn’t understand. Her family’s religious beliefs, rumors that her mother was a witch, and her older brother’s unsavory reputation didn’t help either. She was bullied for the first year or so, and her response was to become a bully herself. Kiki couldn’t win their friendship because they insisted she was a freak, so she endeavored to become the scariest freak they would ever know.

Although, Kiki did make *one* friend: a boy named Tomohiro (an ironic name, considering he wasn’t very wise). He was bullied a lot too, and would occasionally dare to approach Kiki. She never took the time to get to know him very well--everything she learned was offered freely--but the mere fact that he wanted to be around her was good enough for Kiki. They were fast friends, even if Kiki’s version of friendship was possessive and restrictive, and romance bloomed. It was a toxic relationship where Tomohiro was more of a servant than a boyfriend, but he grinned and bore it, always encouraging Kiki to push forward and find a way to use her disorder in her advantage.

The opportunity came when she was 14. A group of university students came to her school looking for extras to throw into their next project. It was a trashy little horror film and they wanted cute girls to liven up the scenes (and possibly be murdered, because who doesn’t love a cute murder victim?). Kiki was one of these girls, and as she read through the script with Tomohiro, Kiki realized she had been given a golden opportunity to harness her ‘gift’.

Kiki begged to audition for a main role, and the filmmakers didn’t know how to say ‘no’. She strode into the room, delivered her lines competently, and was cute enough for the role. But, it was only when she performed one of the stunts that she grabbed their attention. No one has ever revealed what exactly she did in that room, but it did require some surgery. It was questionable whether or not Kiki could legally perform the role, but in the end it was decided that they would find some loophole. They *needed* to use her--using Kiki would cut their effects budget by half AND it would be genuine gore. Nothing can beat that realism. It wasn’t like people hadn’t died or been injured in films before! Several famous films have real deaths going on in the scene--you just don’t realize it’s happening.

The film was made under strict guidelines, and Kiki signed several legal documents so the directors couldn’t be blamed for lifelong injuries or mental damages. Inei was easily convinced by his beloved sister to forge their father’s signature, and their father was hardly aware of his childrens’ existence at this point. It was a thrilling experience for Kiki, and for the first time she felt… wanted. Loved. *Respected*. The power she felt as a lead actress was addictive, and the film’s subsequent success left her hungry for more.

‘Sanguine Christmas’ was a huge success, and was played at film festivals all over the world. Kiki ventured into the online horror community and was welcomed with open arms. They praised the rawness and realism of her acting, quoted funny ad-libbed lines, made fanart, and analyzed her character’s role in the film. She was revolutionary--or at least, the character of Chastity was. Kiki felt so powerful and embraced her fans, quickly rising to the status of Scream Queen as she made cameos in web shows and other horror media. She took every offer presented to her, and was preparing to reprise her role in Sanguine Christmas 2 when she was approached by Hope’s Peak. An opportunity to further her career--her *status*--was a dream come true.

### Death and Resurrection

Despite her success, Kiki still struggled to maintain relationships or friendships. She clung to Tomohiro, insisted that he date her, and when he seemed to show interest in anyone else, Kiki would swiftly scare off the 'other woman'. This worked, until Tomohiro got sneaky and started dating another girl behind Kiki's back.

It didn't take long for Kiki to realize what was going on--her paranoia worked in her favor for once--and she enlisted her brother, Inei, to help teach Tomohiro a lesson. Inei kidnapped the other woman--Sayaka--and hid her away where Kiki could torture the girl at her leisure. Kiki was *thrilled* to have this new plaything, and her interest in pain showed an even darker side as Kiki began to push and see just how much Sayaka could take.

At the brink of death, Sayaka begged for answers: what had she done that could warrant such cruelty? Kiki's answer was to bring Tomohiro to the warehouse that Sayaka was being kept in. Upon seeing his secret girlfriend's mutilated body, Tomohiro begged for mercy--not for himself, but for her. She wouldn't make it out of here alive with the injuries she had sustained, but he begged for at least a quick, mostly-painless death. Kiki obliged on the condition Tomohiro deliver the killing blow.

He couldn't bring himself to do it.

An opportunity... Yes, that's what Kiki had now. An opportunity to go out in a blaze of glory! It was impulsive, cruel, and completely crazy, but that *is* Kiki's style. She pushed Tomohiro into a chain, sat in his lap, leaned in close and whispered, "I tried to be a merciful God, but you disrespected me. I'll be back." She had smiled wide, pulled the gun from his hands, held it to her heart and whispered 'bang' before covering him in gore.

Predictably, Tomohiro never recovered. He was left there to watch Sayaka die while he was covered in the remains of his childhood friend. Though he did survive that specific encounter--police stumbled upon the scene rather quickly, as Inei and Kiki were not careful about covering their tracks--Tomohiro committed suicide soon after being hospitalized. He died alone, bashing his own head in after awaking from a nightmare about Kiki.

Kiki was buried with no ceremony--indeed, her body is officially listed as never having been found. Many suspected Inei, who fled the country after her death, had taken the body with him. But, an investigator who had been working the case had actually been the corpse-nabber. Preston Daniels, a private investigator living in Japan at the time, had been tailing Kiki for some time. Sayaka's parents suspected Kiki right away and hired him to find their daughter, but as he spent more and more time observing Kiki, he became obsessed with her. He dreamed about her, fantasized about marrying her once she came of age, and was devastated to find her corpse hours before police arrived.

Preston tipped off police, planting the rumor of Inei stealing the corpse so he could keep Kiki all to himself. He was a desperate man, blackmailing every contact he had into helping him reconstruct the body. He thanked God--no, he thanked his *Goddess*--that the shot was clean and that she hadn't gone the more dramatic route of putting a bullet in her brain. Her corpse required constant upkeep, and he moved to a rural location in the mountains to make her preservation his full-time job. The cold helped, and he studied all he could about mortuary techniques, but it was never enough. So, he called in a favor.

It is an open secret that Ione de Villeneau is a witch. She is powerful, wealthy, and frankly *frightening* enough for those who know her to feign ignorance, and she kept to herself enough to hide from those who could not be swayed. Preston had brushed shoulders with Ione multiple times, and decided to take a chance to beg for her help. To his surprise, she took an interest in Kiki's story and arrived soon after, bodyguard in tow. Preston never saw the ritual, but months later when he was allowed to return to his and Kiki's home, there she was: walking, laughing, smiling. She was terrifyingly beautiful, so much like the corpse he'd cared for these past years, but there was something different. She'd grown--it was as if she'd never died at all, but was instead waking from a long sleep. Her wounds had faded to scars and her gaze held a wisdom no teenager could possess.

In exchange for the resurrection, Ione demanded Kiki return to America with her and Preston followed behind like a lost puppy. Seeing his Goddess resurrected only proved to him that his obsessions held weight. She was his one and only--his savior, his love, his God. Kiki began working at Ione's brothel as a cover, never seeing any *actual* clients and spending all her time harassing the other escorts. Preston lives close by, waiting to be called upon. He does busy work to please Kiki, always waiting for a reward that will never come.

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