Kneecap Karl
Kneecap Karl used to be considered a dangerous and unpredictable part of the Holethai criminal underworld, but now he's just considered very dangerous and even more unpredictable. He hides in the sewer system and is rumoured to have resorted to cannibalism. Encountering Karl results in an equal likelihood of him feeling or trying to claw your face off. He spends more time in a state of psychosis than not.
Physical Description
Body Features
Karl is always dishevelled and dirty. His low stature allows him to move relatively freely through the sewers, but he still crouches a lot of the time. His skin is covered in small scars, the result of rats he has eaten alive that tried to fight back, amongst other things.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Karl has no idea himself how he ended up where he is. His mind isn't able to distinguish between various paranoid delusions, drug-induced dreams, and reality. Others know he first became a figure one might encounter in dangerous places of Jolethai about a decade ago.
The guards have managed to capture him a handful of times, but he has always been able to escape somehow. And no one is eager to delve into the sewer system to go after him. Since he mostly eats rats and other vermin down there and rarely bothers anyone else, they let him be.
Mental Trauma
Karl might have been born with an illness causing various psychotic episodes, or it might be the result of the various drugs he tries to get hold of. Most likely, it is a bit of both. Whatever is behind his erratic behaviour, he has become a danger to others and sometimes himself.
When Karl started to hunt people, or pieces of people, to eat is likely when he lost his last piece of sanity. Now, there is only ever the hunger, the fear, and the violence.
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