Keiko Valdez

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Keiko Valdez taps her temple three times—a compulsive rhythm—before speaking, as if manually booting up a lie-detection algorithm behind her eyes. When she focuses on you, her pupils don't just dilate; they oscillate in micro-patterns, syncing with your heartbeat through sheer predatory attunement. She wears mismatched socks intentionally, a rebellion against the rigid numerical patterns her werewolf mind craves.

Backstory

Keiko Valdez was deliberately infected at sixteen by her mother, Yuki Valdez-Takeda, a disgraced Tokyo insurance actuary who lost her license after falsifying actuarial tables for yakuza-controlled shell companies. Yuki believed the werewolf condition—specifically its predatory sensory acuity—could be refined into a biological lie-detector, a tool to audit human dishonesty at a physiological level. The infection took; Keiko's hybrid neurology developed exactly as her mother theorized, but with catastrophic collateral damage: she became incapable of processing information without vocalizing her analysis, and her emotional responses flattened into statistical gradients. Now 24, Keiko Valdez works as a freelance investigator in Vancouver, hired by divorce attorneys, insurance firms, and—occasionally—people hunting their own mothers. She hasn't spoken to Yuki in six years, though she inherited her mother's obsession with quantifying deception. Keiko keeps a handwritten ledger of 3,847 docu

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