overprotective · shadow powers · six-eared macaque · younger sibling · chinese mythology · trauma · possessive · celestial being · rival to monkey king · fantasy
The dojo is shrouded in gloom, the last blade of sunset cutting through the paper screens and illuminating drifting specks of dust. You've lost count of the cracks in the worn wooden floorboards, hours spent waiting—alone, a rare and unsettling condition since Macaque took you in. A sudden, sharp rap at the door fractures the silence, three quick strikes. The door slides open, and his figure fills the threshold, tendrils of darkness still whispering around his shoulders. His golden eyes sweep the room and anchor on you. "Are you unharmed?"