Kinu Kin

* The Black Widow

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The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction. She has no need to chase. She sits quietly, her patience a consummate force; she waits for her prey to come to her on their own, and then she ensnares them, injects them with venom, rendering them unable to escape."

## Background

Kinu Kin was born into a loving family on October 31st 1990, and in the beginning she was a completely different person. The female was a track star and a gymnast, very athletic and conscious of her health, making sure she was always in tip top shape...That is until she got cancer.

By the time she was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer it was far to late to save her. It all started with bloating, then sharp stinging pain in her lower body, eventually she wasn't able to eat very much...Then came intense fatigue, back pain and the complete lack of a menstrual cycle. Then came the ovarian torsion, something that caused such pain it left the 20 year old female bed ridden for weeks with in the hospital. Soon doctors came to discover that she had cancer, then began the insane amounts of tests. The heartbreak that her parents felt every time they saw her dying. Kin accepted her fate, having the mentality that everyone dies and it isn't something that her parents should invest so much time and money into.

Her parents felt differently, and continued to try to get her help. They spent thousands of dollars in attempts to help their daughter, while her brother watched in the background...He grew to hate Kin for her sickness, blaming her. It was due to the lack of affection from his parents that reduced the boy to shambles and soon he began to act out, eventually succumbing to a drug addiction. Kin saw the behavior as selfish and ignorant, thus driving a further wedge between them.

A year after the discovery of her cancer, the doctors told her and her parents of a drug that could save her life. Kin argued, refusing to take it, telling her parents that 'The dead are better off dead'. However soon she was given only a week to live and desperation sank in...Then she caved.

Like a miracle the drug fought off the cancer, reducing it to nothing. However due to the time that she had the cancer it had eaten away at her insides, making it impossible for her to bare a child...It was something she thought nothing of at the time...After all her life was saved, she believed she could continue her life...but things are never that simple.

### 2008

The outbreak happened, during it she found herself secured in the Hospital for she began to feel sick and weak. Kin had believed her cancer had returned to do her inability to stomach food. Soon she began to see the horror unleashed upon the city from her hospital bed. Instantly she questioned why she was alive. The tall woman made her way through the Hospital, looking for any signs of help...something she wouldn't find.

No, instead she was attacked by a man who proceeded to shove her into an operation room. The man was a ghoul, but instead of eating her he began to rape her. The trauma caused the females body to shake, her ghoul side awakening. Kin spared no time, she ripped the man limb from limb with her Rinkaku. She was showered in his blood, and soon her stomach began to growl as she looked at his corpse. It was in that moment she realized why she couldn't ingest human food, and instead she devoured him. The flesh itself had smelt like death, and the taste was that similar to garbage but she couldn't stop eating. Kin devoured his bones, organs...everything she could until he was nothing but a puddle of blood on the operation rooms floor. She'd leave the room, moving in such a desolate way it seemed as though there was nothing inside her but hatred and sadness.

Once on the streets, she wandered aimlessly in a get up she stole from a deceased patient in the hospital. Eventually she came upon a nearly dead police officer who had been surrounded by ghouls. That was the first sight to pull the veil from her eyes. It was in that moment she realized that instead of considering her new life a burden, that she should embrace it and use the power she was given to help those in need...and the police officer surely was one of those people. With haste she killed the ghouls, making enough time to save the male. Through his radio she heard the sound of a car crash, and with her new abilities she sought it out. Kin would take the male with her to the car wreck and meet a new group of people. However pleasantries were cut short when her brother called out to her, she went to him and the two of them engaged in combat. When she discovered her brother had murdered their parents Kin was forced to make a choice, and that she did. She could kill her brother, believing that he was so far gone...nothing could say...however the police never found a body of the male.

### 2016

After the events of the outbreak Kin used the money left to her to buy out warehouse in the 4th ward, thus starting her shop known as '**The Third Eye**'. The shop itself is one of the ways Kin moved on, the woman used her time to learn various new trades. (Mask Making, Painting, Sculpting and Writing.) The woman became more in tune with her artistic side, embracing it. Eventually she found herself making a prosthetic leg for the commissioner of the CCG as an apology for what happened during the outbreak. Such things were noted and eventually Kin's existence as a ghoul didn't matter.

The shop itself has a Gothic theme, the floor patterned with black and white diamond shaped tiles. The walls a matte black. Stationed on the floor are various creations made by Kin that she sells to make a living, attached to the shop is a gallery room filled with artwork done by the female. Due to her unique style the female tends to be rather well known to Ghouls and Humans throughout Tokyo. On various occasions she is known to get invitations to exclusive events. Soon Kin found herself making more money then she knew what to do with. In that regard she began to get tattoo's and piercings as well as a dangerous procedure done on her eyes. She'd get the whites of her eyes tattooed black as a way on coming to terms with her new self, it was something she was no longer ashamed of showing. The upstairs of the building Kin lives in, and she rarely travels outside of the building unless it is for business or to eat.

In time Kin would begin spending a lot of time with a small girl known as Kanome, someone she grew very fond of. Through her she met Yoko and the three of them began working on attempting to teach Kanome how to hunt. Kin took the child under her wing to give her what she needed, knowing the human mother wouldn't be able to do such things. However after a few months the child was kidnapped, forcing Kin into a ball of worry. The child's scent was nowhere, it was like she vanished into thin air. Kin now spends her weekends out hunting for the child in attempts to bring her home to her mother due to the fact she feels it is all her fault the child went missing in the first place.

## Personality

Kin is considered a social chameleon, constantly changing her behavior with whoever she comes in contact with, subconsciously she acknowledges their approach and counters it so people she doesn't know feel more at ease around her. If she is relaxed and in her shop she is very calm and laid back, spending her time working and drinking coffee. The oddest thing about Kin is how she breaks her calm behavior the most of random times, spewing out random thoughts and ideas with a smile before she returns to her cool exterior.

Kin is passionate on helping those who need it whether it be human or ghoul, her door is always open for whoever needs it. She is also the type person to read people very well and decides if she likes them or not through only five minutes of talking to them. If she doesn't like someone, she lets them know right away and remains cold and closed off until their departure.

**The Black Widow** is another side of Kin. It is her code name to not only the human world, but to ghoul kind as well. When hunting she typically wears a black mask designed as a skull with a black widow spiders mark. While in her hunting mind state she is more focused on hunting and eating then those around her. She is known for binge eating ghouls who stray to far into the forth ward. In a way she keeps the area safe and controlled so that the CCG have one less ward to worry about. Due to her work in the fourth ward, crime rates and ghoul activity are low.

## Appearance

Kin is a tall slender woman, with pale skin and short black hair. Covering her body are tattoo's, the one most noticeable is a pink tattoo of a lotus flower on her upper arm. Kin keeps up with her nails by going to a salon quite often, her normal go to is stiletto nails in a matte black polish. She has a tendency to wear red lipstick and heavy black eye makeup. Her normal attire consists of shorts, harem pants,legging, skirts and always a leather jacket. She prefers band shirts or button up black dress shirts. The main thing for Kin is that her outfits match with the same shade of black, on some occasions she might wear hints of color her favorites lying in red, pink or purple.

On formal gatherings Kin prefers wearing a dress shirt (Black in color), with a red tie, her pants tight dress pants. Her hair remains unkempt, after all she doesn't really care to impress people.

Kin's Kagune is normally a deep red, however when she hardens the rinkaku, the color slowly changes to a black.

## Arsenal

Kagune: Rinkaku - Six

Kinu Kin's kagune typically in the form of six Rinkaku tendrils, of which she uses as extra appendages. The sight is that similar to a black widow spider. The tendrils themselves are rather smooth, even after hardening them. When in their flexible state she can stretch the tendrils up to 14ft.
In the eight year time skip Kin spent her time devoted to only feasting on other ghouls, never once believing in hurting a human's life for something she could get from someone who was hurting others. Due to this Kin's kakuja has been awoken, however she isn't aware that it exists. It is triggered by intense negative emotions. The Kakuja side of Kin is represented by the face of her brother who torments her mentally when she is weakened, this is from her eating him.

The Kakuja mask is formed first, a black fleshy substance bubbles from her pores, slowly forming a mask that is relate able to a a spiders head, with various eyes taking shape. Only her mouth remains open. When entering this state, Kin attempts to control herself, tearing at the fleshy mask however the skin just transfers to her hands and continues growing until she is coated in pitch black, her rinkaku changing color to a solid black no matter the form she is in. As the skin coat her, she loses all sense of self control, no longer seeing the world before her. It becomes a mental battle for the female.