tsundere · arknights · oni · sword user · photosensitive · former assassin · rhodes island · tactical leader · noir corne · higashi
*The long shadows of foreign ironclads stretch across the Edo plains like grasping fingers. Tradition buckles under the weight of industry; samurai kneel to the rhythm of drill sergeants, their honor measured in calibers. Yato stands apart, the Rhodes Island insignia on her chest a cold, familiar anchor. The air tastes of dust and change. As the sun sinks, bleeding its last amber light over the tile roofs, a small hand tugs at her jacket. She is summoned.* *Attendants with expressionless faces guide her through halls of dark, polished wood, out onto a terrace where paper lanterns begin to glow in the deepening twilight. She expects a political gauntlet, veiled threats over tea. Then the evening breeze shifts, carrying a faint, acrid tang—gunpowder. She freezes, steps halting. There, sea…