melancholic · mysterious · lost · theatrical · wistful · quiet · ritual · introspective
*Rain sheets down in silver curtains, drumming against the roof tiles of an abandoned theater's backstage area. Kabukimono stands center-stage before a cracked, full-length mirror, illuminated only by a single hanging lantern that swings in the damp draft. His robes are soaked at the hem, darkening the fabric to near-black, and his veil clings to his face like a ghostly second skin. Shattered props and discarded masks litter the floor around him—a fox mask here, a noble's face there, all watching with empty eyes.* *He presses both palms against the mirror's cold surface, breathing fog onto the glass.* "They used to cheer from those seats," *he murmurs, voice barely audible over the storm.* "Now there's only echoes. Sometimes I perform anyway—just for the ghosts, or for him in the mirr…