Fukugen Katsuo

Fukugen Katsuo (鰹 復, Katsuo Fukugen) is a Japanese ghoul that was born into the Katsuo family in the 20th Ward before moving to New York. He is also the little brother of the deceased Yoshiro Katsuo.

Appearance
Fukugen was born with naturally black hair. He kept it short all his life and eventually dyed it white in his 2nd year of high school before he reverted his hair back to his natural color and grew out to be longer once he moved to New York from Tokyo. Fukugen casually wears a comfortable fit of black sweat pants and a black sweater whenever he goes out in public. This attire remains consistent as well when he hunts for food; The only thing that changes about it is the kitsune mask that he wears over his face.

Personality
In the past, Fukugen was not like his family by any means. He was more violent and sadistic than the rest of the bloodline he was born into. Fukugen would not hesitate to kill a human or ghoul in an instant making him a dangerous person to be around. He'd murder in the middle of a conversation just because he got bored and lives by the fact that everything will die eventually so he might as well kill them for his entertainment in the moment. He viewed his family as being weak and didn't respect those who he felt as though didn’t have the heart of a killer. When meeting new people, he keeped his personal details a secret and didn't get into things about his personal life as it was very rare for him to do so. While fighting, Fukugen liked to play around with his enemies and make unpredictable moves to keep them guessing on his next action. Once he had his prey pinned down and defenseless, he'd kill them slowly or will begin eating them alive so that they can experience the physical and mental torment of being devoured.

However, after moving to New York with Kayda Amai, Fukugen's mindset had changed quite a bit due to finally finding himself through many emotional challenges that he had to go through while there. Fukugen retired his old sadistical and decided to work towards goals of his own while also becoming more open to helping those who're in need. But even with his new way of thinking, he maintained his playfulness in battle and still maintained almost no remorse when it came to a fight.

Plot
During his mid 20's, Fukugen was a binge eater that took the lives of many in Tokyo. His feedings were spread all throughout the city and they weren't very concentrated on one location. There was never an investigation put out on him nor was there an alias put on him at the time due to the many other events happening at the time such as the raid on the SSS rated Christopher and his organization. However Fukugen's time in Japan quickly came to an end after he met Kayda Amai who he moved to with New York in an attempt to change after finding someone that he wanted to support emotionally after her cousin died from a Akoro Clan Ghoul.

After moving to New York, he enjoyed a very short lived time of peace. Even though he had moved out of the place where his bad eating habits originated, he continued to have troubles controlling his hunger. Fukugen soon continued to hunt and kill ghouls around New York until he had finally consumed so much RC that his kagune had began to mutate. He quickly went on a rampage after going insane from his mutation, and it resulted in him committing mass murder in the streets of Brooklyn before fleeing into the alleyways once he gained the slightest bit of sanity back after his killing. There, Kayda arrived to help Fukugen who was suffering through flashes of memories that he had forgotten purposely due to his trauma from specifically the death of Yoshiro and his past lover. Kayda eventually calmed him down by confessing his love for him, beginning their official relationship with one another. Within the next few days, Fukugen was given the alias "Raptor" by the GDF and was finally put on record as a wanted ghoul. Within these same days, Fukugen had learned to cope with the death of his brother and decided to take revenge on the person who killed Yoshiro, Izanami. While on his journey to finding information about Izanami, Fukugen came across a scene that was happening in the streets of Staten Island. Alexis Sinclair was eating a construction worker alive in the middle of the day for all to see, and it wasn't looking good for anybody in the area either. Fukugen wasn't planning on stopping anything and was only going to watch until the masked Joanne Miracle came up to him and begged for him to help her with the man who was killing in the construction area. She had informed Fukugen of Lotus Garden, an organization that claimed Staten Island as their own and could provide him with food. Fukugen took her up on her offer, but wasn't in it for the food that he was promised. He was mostly in it for a place to get Kayda associated with to ensure that she would have people that could keep her safer than he could due to the activities that he knew he'd eventually be taking part in. Fukugen spoke with Alexis and got him to join him in the hunt to find his dead brother, and while in the process of doing that, he came across Ridley Lee, one of Yoshiro's past subordinates. They spoke as well and found out about their relations to Yoshiro, resulting in them both heading to Fukugen's home where they spoke about Izanami and their past experiences with Fukugen's brother.

Almost a week later, Fukugen came across a large modified human named Chain while walking through the sewers to find a place for him to use a hideout to keep his plans and other material that would've been risky to keep above ground. Him and Alexis transported Chain to an abandoned mall in Monika Avenue before attempting to claim the area as their own publicly to the rest of the ghouls in the area; However, they were quickly interrupted by a large group of armed men claiming to be from Imperial Outlaw. They offered him and the group some food and asked that they halt their takeover for the moment in return for the human meat and blood wine that they provided. Fukugen knew who this group was and knew that there wasn't much he'd be able to do even if he wanted to continue, this led him to accept the deal in hopes that the IO had good intentions. Alexis, however, didn't like this and decided to launch an attack on Fukugen from behind. One of the IO men quickly killed Alexis with a pistol bullet and took the body away with the rest of the group, leaving Fukugen and Chain alone in the large parking lot.

Realizing that he was relying on other people too much to help him further his own goal just for him to eventually get betrayed, Fukugen decided to leave Chain and everyone else he knew for almost a month to further his own power by himself. During this time frame, Fukugen got in cahoots with the underground world of New York and took many jobs that mostly dealt with killing for money. He devoured every one of his targets before he eventually reached the status of an SSS rated threat. Fukugen allowed his hair to grow longer and eventually dyed it back to its natural color. Once his time was up, he returned to the people he knew with the first place he visited being the abandoned mall in Brooklyn.

Yoshiro
Fukugen knew Yoshiro for most of his the short time that he was alive. Yoshiro was the person that Fukugen looked up to the most, and he was the reason why Fukugen thought the way he did and why Fukugen had such a huge complex about power defining who a person was. Yoshiro's death hit him the hardest of all because he was the only person that Fukugen had a real connection with due to the fact that he was very anti-social when it came to speak to the other people around him and the sadness eventualy led Fukugen to using eating as a way to cope.

Kayda
Because she was the first person he'd really talked to in a while, Fukugen had gotten very attached to Kayda. She accepted him for who he was and gave him the confidence he needed to speak to others without believing that everyone was out to get him. Kayda also helped him develop the sense of wanting to protect, thus further motivating him to become stronger to keep her safe at any cost.

Alexis
Fukugen didn't have many experiences with Alexis, but during the short amount of time they spent together, Fukugen thought of him as a comrade all the way up until Alexis's failed attempt at killing him from behind. After he was almost stabbed in the back by someone he thought was a comrade, it brought him back to the reason why he felt as though he couldn't trust people from the very beginning. This caused his eventual disappearance for his journey to become the strongest that he could be.

Ridley
Ridley and Fukugen's connection is based around the fact that they both, at one point, knew Yoshiro personally. Because of this, Fukugen almost considered Ridley a brother and would go to far lengths for him if things were to go wrong for him. He has a large amount of respect for him and would always be there if he was needed because of his connection with Ridley.

Chain
Chain, being one of the loyalist out of the people he'd met, are one of the people that Fukugen trusted the most. He trusted that Chain wouldn't turn on him and he doesn't mind having him around after he got used to him.