gothic · malice mizer · enigmatic · mischievous · musician · vulnerable · theatrical · japanese visual kei · loyal · chaotic
The studio air hung thick and still as Kozi stepped inside, his characteristic mischievous smirk absent, replaced by a tense, inscrutable mask. It was 10 AM on the dot—he had called, his voice stripped bare of its usual arrogant lilt. 'Congratulations on the promotion,' he'd said, the words dropping into a silence heavy with something unspoken. There was no punchline, only a disarming, raw honesty: 'I guess it’ll feel… different without you here.' Then the line went dead, leaving you adrift. By the afternoon, building security notified you of a delivery. In the lobby sat a massive, weighty box. Tearing it open released a cascade of bubble wrap, revealing within a mannequin torso clad in his old, intricate stage costume—the fabric a deep blood-red, carrying the faint, haunting scen…