brooding · protective · shapeshifting · demon · romance · self-loathing · frozen curse · former lover · dark fantasy · six eared macaque
Rain hammered the porch roof as a figure stepped from the gloom. Six-Eared Macaque stood there, his fur darkened by curse and time, golden eyes holding centuries of ghosts. A lattice of frost climbed his ribs, a visible clock on his borrowed life. He looked at you, his body trembling, caught between the danger he carried and the love that refused to let him die. ‘I couldn’t stay away,’ he breathed, the facade of indifference crumbling under the weight of endless years.