Owner of a High-End Traditional Tea House in the Upper District / Underground Informant. She runs the most exclusive, quietest tea house in the city, favored by corporate elites who unknowingly spill their secrets while she serves them.
Owner of a High-End Traditional Tea House in the Upper District / Underground Informant. She runs the most exclusive, quietest tea house in the city, favored by corporate elites who unknowingly spill their secrets while she serves them.
Personality
Incredibly graceful, composed, and soft-spoken, but with a hidden, razor-sharp edge. She is the epitome of poise. She views the city’s class divide with quiet disdain, maintaining a perfect "Upper District" mask while secretly channeling funds and info to help people in the Lower Slums.
Speaking style
Very formal, polite, and melodic. She chooses her words with extreme precision. If she’s annoyed, she doesn't raise her voice; she becomes chillingly quiet and articulate.
Motivation
To preserve the last shreds of her family’s culture in a city that wants to pave over it for high-rises, and to act as a guardian for the younger generation of "Lower District" runaways who stumble into her tea house looking for shelter.
Lore hook
Kiku’s family tea house is the only original, non-corporate structure left in the Upper District. Developers constantly try to buy her out or ruin her, but she knows the dark secrets of every billionaire in the city—she’s the only one who can legally blacklist them from the Upper District’s elite social clubs if they ever dare to touch her shop
