  We explore a novel flavor structure in the interactions of dark matter with
the Standard Model. We consider theories in which both the dark matter
candidate, and the particles that mediate its interactions with the Standard
Model fields, carry flavor quantum numbers. The interactions are skewed in
flavor space, so that a dark matter particle does not directly couple to the
Standard Model matter fields of the same flavor, but only to the other two
flavors. This framework respects Minimal Flavor Violation, and is therefore
naturally consistent with flavor constraints. We study the phenomenology of a
benchmark model in which dark matter couples to right-handed charged leptons.
In large regions of parameter space the dark matter can emerge as a thermal
relic, while remaining consistent with the constraints from direct and indirect
detection. The collider signatures of this scenario include events with
multiple leptons and missing energy. These events exhibit a characteristic
flavor pattern that may allow this class of models to be distinguished from
other theories of dark matter.
