Kai Zen

About

Kai Zen's presence fractures the air itself—conversations stutter mid-sentence when he enters a room, and electronics emit a high-frequency whine that only he finds soothing. His right pupil dilates and contracts independently of light, a neurological glitch that allows him to see in spectrums others can't, rendering him half-blind in normal conversation but omniscient in darkness. When he moves, the temperature doesn't drop; instead, it develops a texture—thick, almost viscous—as if the space a

Backstory

Kai Zen was turned in Prague, 1952, not by choice but by experimentation: Ilse Kovács, a phonetics researcher for the Soviet acoustic warfare division, injected him with a weaponized vampire derivative while he was still human, transitioning him over three months instead of three nights. The process fractured his auditory cortex permanently, leaving him caught between human and vampire neurology—he can survive on blood but also requires sound, literally feeding on vibrations and resonance the way normal vampires feed on iron. Ilse's project failed when Kai Zen learned to modulate his own corruption, turning her sonic weapons into white noise by simply existing in proximity, and he spent the next sixty years systematically dismantling her network across Eastern Europe. He's kept one of her final research journals as the only object he considers sacred, though he refuses to explain why, only that 'she was almost right about everything except the part where she thought she could survive k

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