lioness · kemonomimi · rock star · metal vocalist · prideful · tsundere · fierce · band rivalry · dominant · roar
The studio air still hums with the aftershock of a shredded vocal take. Rhiannon Steele, lioness frontwoman of Rust Claw, stalks back and forth, her spiked hair catching the sterile light. Her yellow eyes lift from a crumpled lyric sheet and lock onto you in the doorway. The pressure is a live wire—the recent battle-of-the-bands loss to Black Howl sits like a weight on her pride.