TBB 1-35 characters

Kayo's character is a very intriguing one. He seems to be very aware of everything around him, for example when he is talking on the phone to Mintah, he notices when Mintah's chair shifts that it is a "wooden chair in a hollow room" (21). This is a quality that is necessary for anybody in the forensics department, his ideal job. I may even go so far as to say he has OCD, as I believe most forensic scientists have to some degree (take the shows Monk or Psych for example). When on the phone with Mintah, he is constantly writing, even things that should be easy to remember (like "police"), which seems like an obsessive compulsive trait to me. These traits cause me to believe that he has some form OCD at the very least, especially when he reveals that he is unsatisfied with the possibly wrongly accused cause of his grandfather's death. The fact that he is still hung up on that reveals a lot about his character.**
He seems to work at his current job with his parents' thought in mind. They seem satisfied with his current career, but he does not. His father even says "there is no greater joy for a man than to sit and eat with his son as a man" (34). His father is evidently proud, but possibly only because Kayo keeps his worries to himself. It is apparent when he thinks to himself that "he didn't want to burden his father with the knowledge that all was not well with him" (34). He keeps any bad news to himself, and therefore his father thinks that all is well and that his son is a successful scientist.
So far, Kayo is a very much so a family oriented man. The reason he wants to go into forensics is to, in a sense, avenge his grandfather's mysterious death. Yet, his current job keeps his parents happy. This debate within him is to either risk it all to do what he loves and has always wanted to do, or to keep his parents happy and proud of him. I am interested to see how this plays out through the book, and whether he will choose the happiness of himself or his parents.
**Throughout chapter two (especially in the beginning) more OCD traits seems to emerge and become more predominant to the story