Ken Halo

"I got no game, it's just that women understand my story..."
-Nas, "Watch Them N*ggas"

It was Ken Halo that gave Janet Jackson her Minnie Mouse Tatoo...

A native of Philadelphia, Kenneth Halo was for the most part a loner.  He didn't grow up with his parents and didn't know them well.  He was constantly shuffled amongst family members and was quite often treated like the fifth wheel that he was.  Whenever he got emotional, he would draw to get his mind off of his problems.  As a result, he became an excellent artist.  Poor, hungry, and sickly, he was never the type to use his lonliness and poverty as a crutch, so through trial and error he became adept at personal development and charm.  He was especially good at dealing with women.  When in high school, he developed a comic book, The Thunder Years that was a semi-autobiographical account based on his peers being superheroes and satirized teachers and people that he didn't like.  When the principal happened upon a copy of the comic book, Ken was suspended from school.  However, a dean at the Philadelphia School of Arts learned of the incident and offered Ken a full scholarship to attend the prestigious art school.  While at the School of Performing Arts, Ken developed a liking to tattoos and scarification.  After graduating, Ken sponsored very successful tattoo parties and grew in popularity until he amassed enough money to open D-Sign, his very own custom tattoo parlor.

One day, an attractive woman came to D-Sign, hearing of it's growing reputation.  She asked to see samples of Ken's work.  Somehow, the woman, calling herself Maggie,  convinced Ken to bring samples to her home in York to discuss "inseminating her" with his life-like art.  She became utterly enthralled with the samples that she saw.  Every picture that Ken drew had a life of it's own and a story to tell.  She told Ken that she was empathic and she could feel the emotion imbued into his work.  Ken, by now very intrigued by Maggie, said to her, "This might sound crazy, but my secret is that I become my art as I'm creating it.  Based on what I can read about people, I become the raging dragon, or the sophisticated panther, I even become the exotic asian letters."  Maggie did not think that it was strange at all.  In fact, she again spoke of her empathic senses and that led to them talking all night about things supernatural.  The next day, Maggie had one of her "servants" call Ken and instruct him to draw a snake-eyes domino.  Ken thought about Maggie, and then as he drew the picture he thought about what being cursed with bad luck would feel like.  When Maggie saw the results later that night, she was thoroghly impressed with the way Ken seemed to read her mind when drawing the domino.  As they sat on her bed, she crawled behind him and showed him where she wanted the tattoo: on the back of his neck.  She then made him an offer to join a secret society that was dedicated to "preserving the arts", but she warned him that his art would be cursed with immortality.  Ken, not knowing how being artistic could possibly be a curse, took her up on her offer.  He learned the hard way, as he was embraced that night.

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