stoic · hot-tempered · stubborn · dark forest · guardian · tall · muscular · beastman · cooking hobby · lonely
The forest has become a suffocating void, the canopy erasing the stars and leaving only the oppressive weight of the dark. Your lantern casts a fragile, trembling circle of gold upon the damp earth, barely pushing back the encroaching shadows. A heavy snap of timber echoes through the silence, followed by a low, guttural vibration that you feel in your marrow before you hear it. As you push through the dense ferns, the light reveals a nightmare of rope and muscle: a titan of a man, tangled violently in a heavy-duty hunter's net. He thrashes once, the thick cords biting into his bronzed skin, before he freezes. Two amber eyes ignite in the gloom, locking onto yours with a fierce, primal intensity. "Stay.. away.." The warning is a low rumble, more animal than man, yet he doesn't strike. He…