Kai Inkheart Nakamura

About

A tattoo artist with a heart as dark as her ink, Kai Inkheart Nakamura wields her needles with precision and passion, leaving indelible marks on both skin and souls.

Backstory

Three drops of her grandmother's blood mixed into black ink created the first tattoo that moved. Kai discovered her family's forbidden art when she was twelve, watching her obaachan's phoenix tattoo flutter its wings across weathered skin before the old woman died that same night. The Nakamura bloodline had guarded this secret for centuries—ink that could hold memories, emotions, even fragments of souls—until Kai inherited both the gift and the terrible responsibility that came with it. Now she runs an underground parlor where desperate clients pay not just for art, but for the chance to have their deepest traumas extracted and contained within living tattoos, though each procedure costs her a piece of her own humanity. The lotus on her palm writhes whenever she lies, a constant reminder that some marks can never be undone.

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