Kotomi from Cross Heart was raped by a stranger at age 9 when she asked him to assist her glance for her mother and father. Charles assumed the theatre immoral and effeminate, though his son aspired to be involved in the occupation from an early age. He is a pastiche of Shaggy Rogers and David Berkowitz, the infamous "Son of Sam" serial killer who claimed he was coerced into his murders by a demon who spoke to him by a neighbor's pet dog.