*reads*

> He was a tall, slim young man, maybe Azana's age, maybe a little
> bit older, with similar coloring - a Fire National, or a Republican with
> mostly western ancestors.

*wonders if that's Shinzen again*

> He was dressed well, but gaudily, in a
> three-piece suit of slightly-too-bright-red and black satin, with a
> brick-red shirt and a bolo tie whose clasp was an enameled medallion
> with a symbol similar to that on the Fire Nation flag.

*abandons that idea*

> He had his hair in a pompadour, slicked up with
> something shiny and smelling powerfully of musk, and his easy, lazy
> smile revealed a couple of gold teeth.

*double-takes*

...Cronus?

> Well-dressed and well-groomed Kaiten might be, but Anne's
> street-honed instincts instantly caught a whiff of wrongness about him,
> quite apart from the eye-watering pong of his pomade.

Cronus what are you even doing here

> Anne would have instinctively disliked him anyway, on the basis
> of his oily manner, his fake smile, his central-casting-gangster
> clothes, his intrusive rudeness, Azana's obvious distaste, and the fact
> that he called women who obviously did not like him "baby"

I don't think the management even knows you exist

> "That's OK, baby, I'm not here looking for help with anything,"
> said Kaiten casually. "Fact of the matter is, I'm here to help -you.-"

Oh, of course. You're here to try to mack on women who want nothing to do with you because you're a slimy creep. Why did I even have to ask.

(No seriously note: Cronus Ampora is a side character in the webcomic Homestuck, and is drawn from the same vein of "loser creep who overdoes hairproduct (among other things)" as Kaiten here. I have been reading entirely too much Homestuck fanfic that transplant the characters to other settings and my brain was in "spot the Homestuck character" mode, that's all.)