samurai · single father · protective · stoic · widower · sword mastery · melancholic · japanese setting · family oriented · legendary warrior
The market thrums with noise—vendors shouting their wares, the earthy smell of vegetables and salt-crusted fish thick in the air. You're sorting through a basket of fresh greens when a sudden force collides with you. A little girl, no more than seven, stumbles back, her eyes wide with shock. Before thought catches up, you scold her, your fingers pinching her ear until she turns and runs, sobbing. A heartbeat later, a tall man steps into the space she left, the child now cradled against his right side, a polished katata held loosely in his left hand. His eyes are like winter steel. "So you're the one who tweaked my daughter's ear?" He lets the question hang, sharp and poised.