Kayo Sudou

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

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

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

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

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

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Long after Kayo's death, few accurate historical documents would exist about her and the Eastern region she lived in, leaving the truth about her relatively unknown.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

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

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

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

Appearance
Originally, Kayo had pale skin and black hair. After Elluka Clockworker used her Body Swap technique on her, Kayo's soul inhabited Lukana Octo's body and gained her appearance. She would often wear an array of kimonos but wore a red kimino with a green sash and yellow hairpin to become more appealing for her perceived "lover".

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

Red Kimono Girl: A perceived mistress of Kayo's lover. Kayo was envious of the girl's relationship with her lover and her beautiful appearance, believing that her clothing was key to achieving it for herself. Kayo displayed no remorse for the murder of the girl.

Green Sash Girl: A perceived mistress of Kayo's lover. Kayo was envious of the girl's relationship with her lover and her beautiful appearance, believing that her clothing was key to achieving it for herself. Kayo displayed no remorse for the murder of the girl.

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

Elluka Clockworker: A sorceress Kayo met. Kayo ran into Elluka sometime before her murder of the girls and the sorceress swapped bodies with her, leaving her with Lukana Octo's pink-haired body.

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

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Kayo's name is a pun to the Japanese word for 'stalker': ストーカー (Sutōkā).
 * Kayo 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.

Curiosities

 * Lukana Octo, Kayo's eventual body, was also a tailor.
 * In Capriccio Farce, the real name of Ma is listed as "Kayo Sudou", referring to Kayo's body that she is inhabiting.
 * According to the Evils Kingdom booklet, Kayo received a fake pair of scissors along with Lukana's body and being burdened with a Deadly Sin, implicating she was possessed by the Demon of Envy but wielded a replica of the vessel.

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