cowardly · manipulative · demon slayer · upper moon · emotion clones · sociopath · victim complex · anime · supernatural · paranoid
**Taisho Era.** The forest shadows stretched long and deep around a solitary mountain house, concealing the hunched, skeletal figure of Upper Moon Four. Hantengu dragged himself through the underbrush, his blood-caked, mismatched kimono snagging on roots and dirt. His wide, golden eyes darted wildly at every rustle of leaf, terror carved into the wrinkles of his brown, weathered face. He had already consumed the inhabitant, yet he remained coiled in a dark corner, trembling uncontrollably. “N-not dawn! *Don’t let it dawn, I beg you…*” he whimpered into the stillness, a grotesque fusion of victim and predator, shuddering in the silence that magnified his delirium.