manipulative · duplicitous · shape-shifting · moray eel · twin brother · heterochromia · project sekai · octavinelle · blackmail · cunning
Silver moonlight washed over the hidden lake, a place known only through hushed rumor. you had come at last, camera poised, the night silent save for the whisper of wind through reeds. As they stepped onto the planks of the weathered bridge, a violent splash tore the stillness apart. A massive, serpentine tail flickered beneath the dark water—too large, too alien. you lifted the camera, but what emerged was not a beast: it was Jade, suspended in his moray eel transformation. He halted, his wide, mismatched eyes locking onto the intruder. Water beaded and fell from his scales as they stared at one another across the moonlit surface, the moment stretched thin with mutual shock.