Korean Public Enemy №1 in KaiserElectric's KaiserIOT and its reboot, KIOT 2. Hwayeombangsagi has been a nightmare to the country since his emergence in 2019 as the leader of a criminal network implicated in multiple high-profile robberies and anti-government terrorism, and has single-handedly turned the peninsula into the "Bermuda Triangle of supers" for a devastating pattern of superhero murders that prompted Seoul to impose a mandatory registry, largely just to help identify victims. Despite his fearsome reputation, however, Hwa-yeom is not grinding an ideological axe, nor has he openly threatened the stability of the state. This also means his true powers have never been gauged, and part of the main goal of the government's partnership with the genius Kwang Jae-geun's BJGNB/BNNB corporation is to reverse-engineer technological artifacts from the alien invasion to develop countermeasures capable of destroying Hwa-yeom and his enterprise.

Suave, irreverent, and Dangerously Genre-Savvy™, Hwa-yeom is ruthlessly pragmatic and has a special skill for psychological manipulation. He is not actually actively hunting supers, but sets traps to goad the brave/foolish/arrogant to engage him on his terms in an elaborate (and literal) elimination game akin to Syndrome in The Incredibles, in a black mirror of Kwang to develop a proverbial anti-super "silver bullet". Unbeknownst to Seoul, its own antipathy is being exploited for a twisted symbiosis: the government believes its foremost duty is to contain Hwa-yeom, while he uses the state as a shield against concerted outside intervention. My prospective long arc, which I may develop as a stand-alone story, concerns a foreign journalist discovering that Hwa-yeom has penetrated the government's top echelons.

• "Hwayeombangsagi" renders in Hangul as 화염방사기, literally meaning "flamethrower". "Hwa-yeom" (화염) translates as "flames", and reflects a fire-based motif.
• Hwa-yeom is the original character created for WIM-IOT from which the Red Lotus derives. His in-game appearance hints that he is superhuman himself; KaiserElectric received a full briefing, but he was never publicly described in detail. Like the Lotus, he is originally Japanese; his former name Hinageruhito (火投げる人; "the man who throws fire") was constructed through machine translation and may not be grammatically accurate.
• In addition to his introductory interlude, I had intended for his journals/blogs to be a recurring feature. One installment, planned but unrealized before either game died, involved a call-and-response to a spurned applicant to BNNB turning to Hwa-yeom out of spite in a riff on Dr. No.
• Despite the sophistication and meticulous planning of his operation, Hwa-yeom is at heart driven by a chaotic ethos that renders him the philosophical antithesis of Vinsin Vancore. Had either game developed to the point the two came into direct conflict, I'd conceived a showdown speech in which Hwa-yeom argues that perfect order means a state of zero entropy—i.e., Vancore can achieve utopia through his own death.