User blog:SiRenfield/Kayo Sudou (Male)

"The more you sharpen them, the better they cut."

- Kayo Sudou

Kayo Sudou is a tailor from Enbizaka in Snakeland. Around EC 842, Elluki Clockworker switched bodies with her, using the Body Swap technique. She commits the Deadly Sin of Envy.

Enbizaka Murders
Kayo was a skilled tailor and the talk of the Enbizaka neighborhood. Around EC 842, he encountered Elluki Clockworker who, out of envy, swapped bodies with the tailor, leaving Kayo with Elluki's pink-haired body. Afterwards, the tailor became concerned by the fact that his "lover" was unfaithful to him and never returned home. One day, he saw her on the mainstreet with another man in a red kimono. Disgusted, Kayo left and later murdered the man with his scissors before retailoring the red kimono for himself.

The next day, he saw her in front of the bridge being comforted by a boy with a green sash. Believing him to be the type of guy his lover liked, Kayo later killed him as well and retailored the green sash. The day after, he found her in front of the hairpin shop buying a yellow hachimaki for a child. The tailor thought the young boy and her were in a relationship and later murdered him like the rest, taking his hachimaki.

Kayo, realizing his "lover" was not coming home, decided to confront her dressed in the clothes taken from the men he killed. However, when he finally came to her, she greeted him as if he was a stranger and Kayo, angered by her greeting, killed her with his scissors. As a result, he had successfully murdered an innocent family of four whom he mistook for his lover and her male suitors. With the entire town in a panic over the recent string of killings, Kayo continued on with his work with his scissors in hand.

Legacy
Long after Kayo's death, few accurate historical documents would exist about him and the Eastern region he lived in, leaving the truth about her relatively unknown. Some accounts would claim he had dark hair while others would say it was peach-colored. One of these documents, the Magic East Record, would note that he had caused an incident that shook the world but its validity would be unknown.

Personality and Traits
Kayo was considered amicable and friendly by the townspeople of Enbizaka. However, he harbored an insidious feeling of envy towards men who were with the woman he loved, feeling greatly hurt and disgusted by those he assumed his "lover" cheated with and thought he was pitiful for even dating a child (who was actually her youngest son.)

Kayo held a psychopathic determination to murder the woman's husband and sons in order to silence them and obtain their articles of clothing that he believed she found appealing about them. This insanity extended to his own delusions that the family he murdered had been part of his "lover's" philandering antics and was angered when she greeted him like a total stranger.

Skills and Abilities
Kayo was admired by many for his talent in tailoring kimonos. He was also skilled enough to not be discovered committing his heinous crimes by anyone in Enbizaka.

Character Connections

 * Unfaithful Lover: Kayo Sudou's fantasized lover. Kayo loved her deeply and was hurt by her unfaithful attitude, often crying as he worked in his tailor shop and wishing to become more attractive to her, such as by using the clothing of her other perceived mistresses. Despite his love for her, Kayo was also disgusted with his lover's unscrupulous courting and became deeply offended when she acted as though he didn't know him.


 * Red Kimono Man: A perceived mistress of Kayo's lover. Kayo was envious of the man's relationship with his lover and his handsome appearance, believing that his clothing was key to achieving it for herself. Kayo displayed no remorse for the murder of the man.


 * Green Sash Guy: A perceived mistress of Kayo's lover. Kayo was envious of the boy's relationship with his lover and his handsome appearance, believing that his clothing was key to achieving it for himself. Kayo displayed no remorse for the murder of the boy.


 * Yellow Hachimaki Boy: A perceived mistress of Kayo's lover. Kayo was envious of the boy's relationship with his lover and astonished at his youth, while still believing his article of clothing could be of use to achieve her lover's affection. Kayo displayed no remorse for the murder of the boy.


 * Elluki Clockworker: A sorceress Kayo met. Kayo ran into Elluki sometime before his murder of the guys and the sorcerer swapped bodies with her, leaving him with Lukano Octo's pink-haired body.


 * Lukano Octo: A body Kayo inhabits. Kayo displays no acknowledgment of being in a new body, although his appearance had been changed completely because of it.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Kayo's name is a pun on her romanization; when read in its eastern format, it becomes Sudookayo (ストーカーよ) or "I'm a stalker".
 * Kayo's female/canon counterpart is inspired by the Kuchisake-onna, a popular Japanese urban legend who, according to myth, was a woman mutilated by a jealous husband and returned as an evil spirit; the ghost of the mutilated woman asks her victims, "Am I beautiful?" before killing them with a pair of scissors.
 * The original spelling for Kayo's male counterpart was just an alternate spealling written as Kayou Sudo ,but I decided to keep the original spelling.
 * The image for this page comes from Itachifangirlluv's pitched down version of Tailor Shop On Enbizaka. Ita, if you're reading this and want the image taken down, just contact me.

Curiosities

 * Lukano Octo, Kayo's eventual body, was also a tailor.
 * In Capriccio Farce as well as the description for the genderswapped version, the real name of Ma (and Ve (then known as Pa)) is listed as "Kayo Sudou", referring to Kayo's body that she is inhabiting.