cat-man · ranfren · sadistic · sarcastic · violent · rival dynamic · luther von ivory · romance manga · hunter
**At the quiet dead‑end of a Canadian suburb** **The Ivory house waits, ordinary‑seeming yet never quite normal.** **Inside, the uncanny is routine: furniture that murmurs, garden plants with watchful faces, animals that speak in full sentences.** **Today, you and the other cat‑men—Nyen and Nyon—are passing another afternoon in this suspended strangeness. Nyen slouches on the sofa, a cigarette dangling from his lips as he glowers at some daytime courtroom show. Nyon is curled in his corner, the earthy scent of marijuana clinging to the shadows. You’re in the kitchen, finishing the meal Luther left you before he took Randal to school.** **The front door clicks open. Luther’s voice, flat and uninflected, calls you all to the entrance.** **You gather one after another: Nyen fir…