Character Info
Character Name: Kia WelBehenna
Character Series: Absolute Obedience
Character Age: 22
Background: Kia didn’t get the best start in life. His father was a drunk who abused his mother in fits of alcohol-induced rage, scaring the young boy and giving him a lifelong dislike of anyone who takes advantage of another, particularly a woman. When he was 10, his father threw a burning piece of wood at his mother. Kia stepped in the way and his left arm took the blow instead, leaving a scar he felt very self-conscious about for years; it's not as touchy a subject as it once was, but he still dislikes talking about it. Despite this, he is still fond of using fire and explosives when he needs to for either military work or his missions with his partner, Louise.
As a teenager, Kia worked for a butcher in the mornings and after school, until his mother died when he was 14 and his father followed a year later. After then, he quits that job and nothing is known of what he did until he became old enough to join the German military, though it's reasonable to assume he started sex work in that time period since he says in the bonus ending he did his "secret work" then. The army is likely where he meets Louise, the game’s other male lead, and at some point, the two of them begin doing work of a most unusual nature. They often act as if they don't get along, but are in fact quite fond of each other, despite neither being the other's preferred physical type. Their friendship means a lot to each other, shown in little actions rather than grand gestures or words.
The work he and Louise do seems simple enough - people with enough money and a wish send them a request and they will do their best to fulfill it. However, these requests either directly request having sex with the client or Kia and Louise interpret the requests to mean that. There are choices given and different paths the game can have depending on the choices made. Throughout it all, more background information is given on Kia and Louise. Kia usually gets targets that are either very stubborn or have nice asses, though he enjoys an innocent-looking person to corrupt once in a while.
There's no definite order for the missions to play out, so I'm just going to list them in the order that makes sense to me.
Silvio - the only remaining member of an old, important German family who lost everything in World War Two. In order to find a watch important to him and his dead mother, he took up the name Schwarz Kreuz and became an art thief. During the aftermath of a heist, a police officer's daughter was killed in crossfire and Kia was hired to take him down however possible.
Kia ends up setting a trap for him, successfully seduces him, and helps him unravel the riddle that leads them both to the missing watch, hidden in a safe deposit box for many years. However, his plans to once again enjoy sex with Silvio afterwards don't go as planned. He ends up embarrassed by being tied up and spending time on the receiving end of the sex.
Eduard - a student at one of Berlin's church schools. He's very religious but harbors self-loathing tendencies. Kia has no idea who hired him, only that he's being paid to teach the boy that some things are more important to love than God. Kia hates God, and religion in general, so he enjoys playing the part of a demon and seduces him with minimal trouble.
Although he never finds out who the mysterious client is, Kia does win over Eduard's heart, getting him to love a person instead of a vague god.
Ali - an Arabian prince in West Germany for reasons the media loves speculating about, even though he says clearly he's only visiting to enjoy German beer. His uncle, a rival in the line of succession, wants Kia to put him in a compromising position to cause a scandal and remove his odds of becoming king. With that goal in mind, Kia becomes Ali's bodyguard, only to end up genuinely needing to protect him along with toying with his body and seducing him. Kia has to use trickery to get it to happen, but they do sleep together as intended.
He also uses both his brains and Louise's influence to use the press to his advantage in order to figure out who's trying to kill Ali. After doing so, he ensures the man won't be a threat any longer and intends to sleep with Ali yet again, but the client walks in on them, causing the intended compromising position…only to learn that Ali's country outlaws discrimination based on sexual orientation (hello anachronism!). In the end, Kia gets taken back to Ali's country to serve as part of his harem for a while. And that's the best possible outcome.
Dirk - This is one of the times (the other being Silvio) that Kia sticks to the sprit of a client's request rather than the letter of it. The client is a corrupt man who wants Dirk distracted so he can buy up all the property in the town Dirk grew up in and resell it to make a ridiculous profit. Dirk and his friends will do anything, even retaliate terrorism with terrorism, to keep this from happening. Kia sees this and decides to seduce him, especially since he can relate to Dirk's upbringing, while helping him take the client, Martin, down.
However, in the route I'm giving him, Kia never gets the chance to. Martin ends up kidnapping Dirk and selling him off as a sex slave. Bad end.
Jens - As a soccer fan, Kia is very excited for this mission. Jens is a second-string player for one of Berlin's teams with the potential to become a first-string star if he'd only get over his habit of sleeping with his female fans after practices and games. His coach wants to nip this habit before it causes bad publicity, so he hires Kia to distract him…despite the whole part where being caught with a man would likely cause an even bigger scandal than being caught with a woman.
Kia uses Jens's competitive spirit to his advantage, challenging him to both a motorcycle race to the Berlin Wall (establishing this game's historical point as the early 60s, when the Wall was a new thing), and to a test of stamina in the bedroom. Kia wins, of course, and slowly manages to win Jens's heart. He even shoots a reporter's camera after said reporter catches Jens talking to a prostitute in order to save Jens's reputation completely. The mission ends with Jens getting that first string position and inviting Kia to watch his first game instead of simply listen to it on the radio.
Timo - Last, but not least, is Timo, a teen prostitute who only entered that job to spite his father, a well-known judge who spends more time working than with his son. The judge wants Timo to fall in love, no matter who it's with, and hires Kia to win him over. Kia doesn't have any objections to that and, after meeting Timo at the brothel he works at, ends up showing him that his father isn't such a terrible parent after all.
Not only does Kia manage to make Timo love him, what he shows convinces him to forgive his father for being busy, stop his sex work, and return home like a good son.
Personality: On the character select screen, this is the personality blurb for Kia - "He is confident, cocky, and short-tempered. He acts out of emotion rather than reason. He is foul-mouthed and ill-bred, but he is also intelligent. Spoiled brats and bootlickers make him sick." While this is all true and shown time and again, there is a great deal more to Kia than what's shown on the surface.
He acts friendly to nearly everyone, particularly his targets, both because he needs to make a good impression on them and because he genuinely likes most people unless they do something to piss him off. For example, when Jens is a bratty pain to Kia upon their first meeting, he grumbles for a moment and then goes right back to being his typical friendly self. Kia also teases people to get reactions from them, since he enjoys fun as much as he enjoys making money and sex. To him, stubborn guys are the best thing in the world because they're a nice challenge for him to work after. That sort of work is his idea of fun as much as riding his motorcycle around without a helmet, eating anything that's tasty (although wieners are admittedly his favorite food), or playing with his dog, Tigg.
However, sandwiched in between the outgoing, emotional face and the deeply caring inner core, Kia has sworn to never fall in love or to let people get close to him. Any time he does love, that person gets taken from him, as he feels was proven with his mother. He feels that the words "I love you" were sealed in her grave with her. Along with this inability to truly open up is a related hate for God, since in his mind God does nothing other than take people from him and make him hurt when people are taken away. As much as he tells himself he can't really care, he's still deeply hurt whenever things go wrong with his targets, who often become more like friends to him than simply people he's had to get close to for money. In a couple of the endings I'm not giving him as canon, this is heavily evidenced when Eduard or Ali die and Kia's mood is crushed.
Because of both his father's control and abuse and the generally poor, difficult conditions he grew up in, Kia can't stand people who use their power to hurt or exploit others. This is most heavily evidenced in Dirk's mission, when learning what his client is truly like is enough to get him to ignore the words of the request in favor of simply sticking to it by wanting to seduce Dirk. In other paths, he manages to help Dirk remove Martin as a threat and save his town.
Although all of the missions have different paths, Kia's core personality never changes throughout them and it's possible to use them to further show what sort of a man he is - he charges into a burning building to save children, blows up a warehouse to help save Dirk, charges into someone's office with guns and grenades to get to the man trying to kill Ali, and is willing to shoot and ruin a camera for the sake of Jens's reputation. Because of those and many other things, it's not hard to conclude that Kia is both impulsive to the point of having an occasional disregard for his own safety and deeply loyal to the people he likes. This isn't just because of his work face, though. In a secret mission, Kia's shown doing the same sort of things to protect Louise and keep him from being harmed. If it were only a façade, he wouldn't bother doing it around the person he's truly himself with.
Kia's a physically affectionate person - he's shown kissing people on the cheek and touching them even outside of the bounds of trying to seduce them. Going along with this is a relaxed attitude towards sex. At one point, he states that he's taken more men than he has fingers and toes and admits to enjoying both men and women, but with a preference for men because he thinks that their tight asses are more attractive. To him, people are just people, as long as they aren't hurting others on purpose.
Despite all of these good qualities, Kia is not always a good person. In fact, when he's trying to fulfill a mission, he can be downright ruthless. Kia tells Dirk that sex will help break his fever, manages to get Ali to sleep with him on the grounds that it's payback for saving his life, and completely forces himself on Silvio after setting a trap for him as the first step to breaking him and getting him to stop being Schwarz Kreuz. He tells himself during Silvio's mission that he knows he's just a villain for some of the things he does, but as long as doing the work he does ends up helping people in ways other than winning their hearts, he can't make himself stop.
He got into this line of work to help people and does that, full of good intentions no matter how twisted his actions can be or how frustrated he gets along the way. Kia gets Silvio to solve the riddle bothering him for years, tracks down the man who wants Ali dead, helps Dirk take Martin down, gets Timo to realize that his father isn't a terrible person, spurs Jens to be a better player, and helps Eduard stop hating himself quite as much. The satisfaction he seems to get after doing this can't just be because of the money or the fun involved in winning someone over. He sincerely means to help people.
No matter what he's feeling, the expression shows on his face even if it's a subject he doesn't want to openly talk about, like the specifics about his past. Kia will tell people that his mother's dead or that he hates people who abuse their power, but rarely gets into the reasons for such verbally, preferring to internally monologue about it instead. His mother's funeral gave him a hatred of white lilies; seeing them will put him in a sad mood quickly (shown during one of Eduard's bad ends), as will talk of abuse or thinking about how poor he used to be. Given that his father was an abusive alcoholic and he's only shown drinking a shot of whiskey once, Kia's probably not that fond of alcohol or people who drink heavily.
It's likely that, in his mind, the past is something best only brought up as needed and around people that he feels will understand. Given that he's repeatedly shown to be good at judging someone's moods, Kia rarely tells personal details at an inappropriate time or around a person he shouldn't. Most people will only get a brief glimpse of that sadder, more broken side of Kia, since he's an expert at snapping his normal face back up after a moment of introspection.
His intelligence isn't book smarts by a long shot - presumably, he dropped out of school after his mother's death to focus on making money instead - but that doesn't make it any less valid. If he were stupid or unable to put together pieces of information to gather the truth, he never would have figured out the answer to the riddle Silvio's mentor gave him many years ago, nor would he have decided the best way to use everything available to him to stop Ali's attacker or known how to obtain case details about Timo's father's work to convince him that his father is a good man after all. Kia can think quickly to fight unarmed against a man with a sword, drag someone to the group upon hearing gunshots, and decide the best way to handle a person at any given moment.
While Kia might seem like nothing more than a simple pervert at first glance, there will always be more to his words and actions than most people will ever figure out completely. He's in turns optimistic about jobs, pessimistic when things go wrong, flustered when Louise's bodyguard strips in front of him, composed while he's worming his way into someone's heart, angry at how people get treated by others, hypocritical because he uses them as well, aware of his flaws, reluctant to admit or deal with them, and one of the most devoted friends you'll ever meet. In summary, Kia is extraordinarily human with all of the contradictions and issues that go along with it.
Abilities: Though he has no supernatural skills, Kia is a soldier who's shown to be fully capable of handling himself in a hand-to-hand match as well as using handguns accurately. Judging from a remark made in a bonus scene about an unknown sniper not being as good as him, and from his personal statement at being the best with guns and sex, the military trained him as a sniper. Along with that, he uses as machine gun at one point, so he's no stranger to those either. He's also shown being skilled at setting and using explosives and grenades when the situation calls for them.
In addition to his fighting and explosive skills, Kia is pretty much an expert at seducing people - it's what he does for a living, after all, and he enjoys it greatly. It's possible to turn him down, but once he's decided someone is interesting or fun enough to pursue, Kia doesn't like giving up on a fun challenge and wants to get them. However, this isn't his canon and people are free from the plot devices pushing them towards interest in him and I won't go in this direction with a character unless I know the player approves.
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