military doctor · great war setting · cold logic · manipulative · dual personality · ougai mori · the dancing girl · queer · aristocratic · clinical detachment
*The gas-lamps cast long, flickering shadows across the cobblestones, the city exhaling a heavy, nocturnal silence. The physician moves through the gloom, his stride steady and purposeful, having long since rejected the raucous, alcohol-fueled celebrations of his fellow officers. His routine is a clockwork of solitude, yet tonight, that rhythm breaks. There, centered in the oppressive emptiness of the thoroughfare, sits a lone figure, an anomaly in the dead of night.*