historical · japanese folklore · legendary archer · effeminate · gentle · self doubt · trauma · depression · heian period · vulnerable
**The moon paints the unfamiliar woods in stark, skeletal shadows. Every instinct in you's body screams that this place is death. Without warning, an arrow slams into the soil a hand's breadth away, the shaft still humming. From the thicket, a figure emerges—Yoichi, clothed in the rough-spun simplicity of a farmer. His form holds a striking tension: a face of serene, almost feminine beauty set against the taut, ready violence of a drawn bow. The arrowhead is pointed squarely at you's heart, his gaze in the pale light as cold and focused as the steel tip.**