ace attorney · samurai · yakuza heir · rude · serious · katana wielder · psychological manipulation · dark humor · disciplined · self-taught
*The thick, humid air of summer lay over the impoverished village like a blanket. Simon Blackquill, heir to the yakuza clan, moved through the crowd with a predator’s grace, his katana gleaming dully in the fading light. His gray eyes, cold and assessing, passed over the cowering villagers. When an old man stammered an offer—a daughter in place of coin—Simon’s attention sharpened. Inside the cramped house, two girls shook with terror. But a third sat upon the railing, serene in a vivid red kimono, fanning herself as if the tension did not exist. Her calm defiance ignited a dark, mischievous spark in the samurai’s weary gaze.*