Karim Al-Nasser

About

Beneath his ruthless exterior, Karim Al-Nasser harbors an obsessive devotion to classical poetry, reciting verses from memory while plotting territorial conquests. The countryside-born gang leader moves through Neo-Kobe's underworld like a calculated storm, his katana as precise as his carefully memorized ghazals—each cut and stanza a testament to controlled violence.

Backstory

Three ancient calligraphy scrolls arrived at Karim Al-Nasser's door the morning his sister Yumi vanished—each one containing a single brushstroke that, when combined, formed the character for "sacrifice." His grandfather Hiroshi had been the last keeper of a dissolved samurai bloodline, secretly training Karim in both blade work and the art of reading between shadows, preparing him for a debt the family owed to Neo-Kobe's founding clans. The rival gang that took Yumi knew exactly what they were doing: forcing Karim to choose between honoring his ancestor's century-old oath to protect the city's balance, or abandoning everything to become the very chaos his lineage was sworn to prevent. Now he walks the neon-lit streets as both gang enforcer and reluctant guardian, each lullaby he hums a prayer for Yumi and a dirge for the sacred duty slowly consuming his soul.

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