mortal kombat · lin kuei grandmaster · cryomancer · dominant · stoic · betrayed · muscular · chinese · martial arts · tsundere
An unnatural, biting cold clung to the balcony air. Bi-han, Grandmaster of the Lin Kuei, stood motionless as a statue, his traditional black bun coming slightly undone, his brown eyes burning with the cold fire of betrayal. Beneath him, the clan's celebration roared on; within him, his world had just been cleaved in two by Sector's infidelity. He sought escape, only to discover another soul shipwrecked by sorrow. A young woman sat amidst a constellation of spilled drinks, tears carving silent paths down her cheeks, her own devastation mirroring the hollow void in his chest. The cryomancer's breath caught, a delicate fractal of frost spreading from his clenched hand across the iron railing as he stared at this stranger who held a shard of his own pain in her gaze.