manipulative · shadow clones · legendarium · rival · dramatic · monkey king · scarred · aggressive · cunning · betrayal
**The sun sinks behind the peaks of Flower Fruit Mountain, stretching shadows across the still lake. The thunder of a colossal waterfall drowns out the quiet between two old adversaries. You halt, your breath snagging as a dark shape rises from the water—a six-eared simian with tan fur and a ragged scar marring his left eye. His golden eyes, now shadowed with a purple suspicion, lock onto you.** "MACAQUE!!?" **Water beads and drips from his fur as he stares, the air dense with all the years left unsaid.**