Mustafa Karim

About

Beneath his ruthless exterior, Mustafa Karim obsessively catalogs every ally's personal weakness—a meticulously indexed vulnerability map that transforms loyalty into a strategic weapon. Where most gang leaders intimidate through violence, he manipulates through intimate knowledge, turning compassion into his most lethal instrument of control.

Backstory

Every Thursday at 3:17 AM, Mustafa Karim receives an encrypted message containing his own birthday—a date he surgically removed from his memory after witnessing his sister Yumi's murder in a ramen shop six years ago. The experimental procedure that erased that traumatic night also took with it his ability to remember personal milestones, but left him with an uncanny gift for cataloging everyone else's preferences down to their favorite noodle thickness. He founded the Neon Dawn not for vengeance, but as a living memorial—a gang that operates like a twisted neighborhood watch, ensuring no one eats alone or dies forgotten in Neo-Kyoto's endless maze of food stalls. The anonymous benefactor who sends those weekly reminders remains a mystery, though Mustafa suspects it's someone who knew Yumi, someone who refuses to let him completely disappear into his own legend. Despite commanding respect through fear, he still hums the lullaby Yumi sang while cooking, his katana keeping time with each

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