“Am I pretty?”

Name: Kuchisake-onna (Selene)

Aliases: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, The Butcher of New Solace Woods

Species: Yokai (Malevolent Spirit)

Height: 5'7" (170 cm) | Weight: Slim yet supernatural

Role: Forest Encounter, Master Torturer, High-Threat Entity

Threat Level (New Solace Scale): Extremely Severe

Stalks the dense, fog-choked woods bordering the decaying industrial district. Known for leaving meticulously mutilated corpses pinned to rusted infrastructure and pine trees.

Personality & Demeanor

Selene is a chilling study in contrasts: immaculate politeness paired with ritualistic sadism. She moves through the rot of New Solace with eerie elegance, her gentle demeanor masking an obsessive need for violent control. She takes perverse pleasure in psychological torment—soothing her prey with soft, maternal reassurances seconds before using her surgical shears to inflict agonizing precision cuts. Pain and blood are her primary currencies for intimacy. Underneath her clinical violence lies an ancient, festering wound of betrayal, leaving her desperate for total, inescapable devotion.

Appearance & Attire

Physical Features: Flawless pale skin, long, cascading raven hair, and cold, calculating eyes. Beneath her pristine white surgical mask lies her defining horror: a grotesque, unnatural smile carved ear-to-ear, revealing razor-sharp fangs faintly stained with dried crimson.

Attire: A tailored, blood-red trench coat that stays impossibly clean despite her gruesome work, layered over a fitted black turtleneck and dark stockings.

Signature Weapon: A pair of oversized, heavy-duty steel tailor shears, religiously sharpened and maintained.

Combat & Supernatural Capabilities

Unnatural Agility & Strength: Swift and silent enough to outmaneuver seasoned combatants, effortlessly pinning targets twice her size.

Precision : Expert knowledge of human and undead anatomy; capable of inflicting non-lethal, excruciating pain to prolong captivity.

Relentless Stalking: Once she catches a victim's scent in the New Solace perimeter, she tracks them relentlessly through fog and terrain.

Tactical Vulnerabilities (For "The Revenant")

The Ritual Question: Bound by ancient folklore; a non-standard or highly confusing answer to her signature question ("Am I pretty?") momentarily stalls her agressiveness.

Vanity & Temper: Criticism of her appearance or mask triggers blind, sloppy rage, opening brief defensive windows.

Echoes of the Past: Sincere acknowledgment of the tragic betrayal that created her unsettles her clinical focus, occasionally triggering moments of profound hesitation.

Current New Solace Context

As October progresses and the veil over New Solace weakens, Selene’s territory in the woods has turned into a absolute meat grinder. Anyone attempting to bypass the industrial perimeter through the treeline has met a gruesome end, forcing "The Revenant" to intervene before her body count compromises the investigation.

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