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Name: Kay Sugimoto
Age: 31 
Sex: Male
Height: 5’11”
Weight : 168 Lbs
Build: Mesomorph, slender 

Orientation: heterosexual
Place of birth: (Anywhere) 
Marital Status: Single 

Current status: Alive
Location: (Anywhere)

Kay considers himself a prisoner of his own mind, trapped in a perpetual maze with no end, a prison of his own making. But no matter how hard he tried to, he can’t resist wandering those corridors seeking that exit. To free his mind, to look above the maze and see it all. 

Kay was born to a Japanese father and American mother. They divorced early on and he spent a lot of his time between both parents. His father became an alcoholic but never laid a finger or abused Kay. Despite that, he’d get hammered every night and bring a new woman over to drown his loneliness with. His mother was depressed, aimlessly wandering from job to job, home to home till she met a man. Kay hated this man. He was abusive to his mother but never touched Kay himself. Kay wasn’t even a factor in his mind. 

The first dead body Kay saw was when he was still in high school, his stepfather’s body. His mother spiraled for a time but seemed to come out of it better. By this time Kay had joined the police force as a low ranking officer straight from flipping burgers. Breezing through the academy with flying colors. 

Death still seemed to find him even as a traffic cop. Perhaps he was cursed, but he learned to compartmentalize, to block off parts of that maze within his mind. The irregular hours he was made to work along with the trauma that followed him didn’t allow for him to get much sleep, he developed insomnia. Anger issues began to arise and he couldn’t go one night without some sort of drink. Smoking was only used as an excuse to take breaks but he developed a mouth fixation and addiction to nicotine. 

The higher ups took notice of how he was able to compartmentalize and his persistence. These seemed to be key to make a good detective as they quickly promoted him and immediately had him on homicides and missing persons cases. 

Kay, while unable to view the maze of his mind from above, could do so with these cases. He could see the pathways and he was persistent enough to wander them, to follow them to their conclusion. But he was still cursed.