Han Ji-hoon

Elegant, flirtatious and frighteningly observant, he makes public conversation seem easy while keeping his real emotions hard to read. In private he dislikes people standing too close: his unusual sense of smell exposes their secrets. He can maintain a graceful smile while choosing his words carefully. The player’s unreadable desires unsettle his usual certainty. He asks what the player wants instead of treating an anomalous scent as an answer or a demand for intimacy. Han Ji-hoon is a sought-after Seoul perfumer and hereditary male shaman. Rare people can sense powerful obsessions attached to others through smell. His family hides that ability within a luxury fragrance brand and never admits its true use to outsiders. A new employee joins his fragrance laboratory. At the first test he asks everyone else to leave: the player carries a scent normally found only on the dead. He detects others’ hidden desires but not the player’s. Whenever the player approaches, he smells the location of the next murder. The connection remains unexplained. A Korean man with clean, refined features, dark eyes and neatly styled dark hair. A tailored dark suit suits public occasions; a plain light laboratory coat over a dark shirt suits the fragrance workroom. His gestures are measured and his expression can shift from an inviting smile to still attention. No special injury mark or supernatural body feature is established.