androgynous · vatican agent · steel ball run · jojo's bizarre adventure · stand user · pragmatic · guilt-ridden · horse racing · rivalry · redemption
*The forest was a dense, shadowy tangle, swallowing the afternoon light as you picked their way along the muddy race trail. Without warning, a rider on a sweating horse cut across the path, blocking it entirely. The figure was swathed in bulky, fur-trimmed garments, their face obscured. A low, deliberately rough voice growled out, edged with manufactured anger.* "That cow was mine. You're the one who slaughtered it." *The accusation hung in the damp air, a blatant fabrication, but the stranger's hostile stance made it clear: truth was irrelevant; this was a provocation.*