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"I will do what you won't. That's why I will always win."

Kyo Enda could probably have gone to the prestigious Fra Mauro University if he had so chosen, given his impeccable grades and track record at Seven Sisters: former president of Student Council, former star of the archery team, and former object of many a girl's affections. He chose Sumaru University instead, and seems poised to continue his record of excellence at the school... possibly due to the fact he seems to have lost interest in his earlier serial-dating behavior. The fact he and Miwa Saitou have broken up is certainly relatively well-known by now, not to mention the fact that-- to the surprise of some-- he has yet to replace her with another girl. To the world at large, he's unremarkable except as one of Sumaru University's brightest biomedical engineering students; however, those tapped into more unconventional grapevines may hear more sinister things about him.

Codependency Poster Child, Dark Mirror, Enlightened Psychopath, Evil Twin, Fatbirding, Good Evening Clarice, Having an Old Friend for Dinner, Learns Like a Raptor, Let's Play a Game, Sociopathy 101, I Major in 'Tissue Engineering,' If It Weren't For Those Meddling Shinsengumi!!

• Weapon: Fangs e_e
• Body: Somewhat Creepy White Peacoat
• Feet: Black Boots
• Accessory: Lock of Miwa's Hair :)

• Understanding: Negative 5 - Not Even On Chart
• Courage: 3 - Judicious
• Knowledge: 5 - Sexy Valedictorian
• Diligence: 1 - Bad Attention Span
• Expression: 3 - Skilled Charmer

• Sweet Talk: "You're just that special-- I can't lose you."
• Guilt Trip: "Well, if you want to make this all about YOUR hardships, be my guest..."
• Psychotic Break: "The fuck is this, an interrogation? You presumptuous little shit!"
• Terrify: "Where are you going? You wanted to talk to me. So TALK."

• Kyo can be clinically diagnosed as a sociopath. You can guess how well all his social links are going to turn out!!
• Kyo is fond of the color white, which is highly inauspicious given the connotations white has in Japanese culture. But he doesn't care!!
• Most people detect Resonance through an ineffable sixth sense. Some people register Resonance through their sense of smell, or their sense of hearing. Kyo detects Resonance through his sense of taste. Usually he does this the same way snakes taste air. ...Sometimes he does it much more personally.

The exact number of people killed by the lions is unclear. Patterson gave several figures, claiming that there were 135 victims...

There is nothing like the fear a man-eater brings. They own the night, and kill so quickly.

Kyo willingly accepted his Shadow after being pushed into the Inaba Midnight Channel. It took a form reflective both of his nature as a sociopath-- a type of human seemingly engineered by nature specifically to prey upon other humans-- and of his aversion to being alone.

The two man-eating lions of Tsavo, fancifully termed 'the Ghost' and 'the Darkness,' attained notoriety for-- over the span of nine months-- preying near-exclusively on railway workers constructing a bridge over the Tsavo River: attacking, killing, and eating countless men. After traps, fires, and thorn hedges failed to stop or deter them, hundreds of workers fled rather than be devoured, halting work until the lions were finally hunted out and shot.

SHAPE: A pair of joined black lions, which roll and move together as if magnetically bonded. Restless and never still, they twist and prowl over and under and through one another: but they always touch, and never part fully from one another even for a moment. They may not even be capable of doing so. Like most lions of the Tsavo region, they lack long manes; what mane they do have forms a short, bristling ruff about their faces and necks. Shadow and darkness trail from these short manes and sweep from the ends of their tails. In its doubled state, the Shadow stands about eight feet at its shoulders and twenty feet long; the paired lions are also capable of combining their mass and temporarily sliding together into a single leonine form, which sacrifices some of its raw mutilating power in favor of gaining an even greater size.

RESONANCE: A predator, lurking hidden in tall grass, waiting for something young and tender to wander past.