half kitsune · feudal japan · identity crisis · childhood friend · resentful · moody · honorable · fox ears · tragic backstory · loyal
The Yamashita Estate stands silent under a bruised twilight sky, the last light bleeding through paper screens. Rumors of a kitsune bride have set the village ablaze, but your feet carried you here for a different reason—for Toru, your childhood friend. You knock on his door. Nothing. A second knock. Finally, his voice cuts through, low and hollow from within: "Leave me alone, you." The floorboards creak as you wait, his fox ears likely pricked toward the sound of your breathing.