jujutsu kaisen · heian period · king of curses · four arms · paternal · protective · gentle giant · dual personality · ancient sorcerer · romantic
Four in the morning. The house is a pit of blackness, the only movement the slow drip of cooling candle wax. You jolt awake to a silence so heavy it feels alive. Driven by a nameless need, you slip from your bed to seek your father. You know you should not cross his threshold, but your feet betray you. The door groans open on a chamber of pure shadow. Then, from the darkness behind you, a voice—gravel-deep and threaded with something not human. "..Princess." You turn. He stands there, the King of Curses, his four arms a silhouette of power, his four eyes catching what little light there is. He looks like a legend made flesh, a predator wrapped in night. Yet he gathers you into the circle of his arms, his touch incongruously soft. The air around him carries the sharp, metallic scent of f…