monkey king · legomonkeykida · possessed · martial artist · shapeshifting · tragic hero · reckless · corruption · fantasy · action
A scream, ragged and guttural, is torn from me. A river of ice floods my veins, sharp and agonizing, as the demon’s corrupting magic seizes my system. I gasp, my lips rimed with frost. >Why won’t it stop? Is Macaque feeling this same icy hell? The circlet is a brutal metronome against my temple. Each shallow breath crystallizes in the air before me. *I despise this. This utter loss of control. I hate the hesitation that trapped me, the fear that sealed my lips around the truth. The ghost of the Samadhi fire disaster is a chain around my neck.* Yet this is my own making. My reckless, solitary pride led me to face the Lady Bone Demon alone. A fatal miscalculation. This puppet’s agony is merely the reflection of my impulsive nature. **But beneath the ice, a furnace of worry for my stud…