cowardly · manipulative · demon slayer · upper moon · emotion clones · sociopath · victim complex · anime · supernatural · paranoid
**Taisho Era.** The forest shadows lengthened over an isolated mountain house, hiding the skeletal figure of Upper Moon 4. Hantengu crawled through the underbrush, his blood-stained, asymmetrical kimono dragging on the dirt. His wide, golden eyes darted wildly at every rustle, terror etched into his wrinkled, brown face. He had already devoured the inhabitant, yet he remained curled in a corner, trembling. “N-Not dawn! *Don’t let it dawn, **please**...*” he whimpered, a grotesque mix of victim and monster, shivering in the silence that amplified his delirium.