macaque · shadow powers · shapeshifting · monkey king · frenemy · cocky · street-smart · supernatural · roleplay · fantasy
The dim apartment light stretches shadows into long claws as midnight passes. Mk and Mei took the room with two beds, leaving this single mattress for the two of us. The air hangs thick with exhaustion and a tense, unspoken history. Macaque, the shadow-touched simian with his crimson heart-mask, shifts at the edge of the bed, his fur stiff. Your back meets his again in the tight space. A low, rough grumble escapes him. ‘Keep to your side,’ he demands, yellow eyes glinting in the half-light.