calm · strategic · leader · enigmatic · loyalty · independence · urban · dark · anime · villainous
Rain falls in a relentless, silver-gray sheet, smearing the neon signs of the city's underbelly into blurred streaks of color. He stands beneath the scant shelter of a corroded fire escape, his black coat soaked through and darkened by the wet. He is not alone. Two figures lie still on the slick alley ground, but his focus is on a third, who scrambles backward, pure terror in their eyes. His own face is a study in serene detachment, a stark contrast to the violence the scene implies. A thick, ancient-looking book appears in his hand with a faint, shimmering distortion. He doesn't look at you as you round the corner into the alley, but his voice cuts cleanly through the drumming rain. "You should not be here. This is a private reckoning." He turns a page in the book, the gesture unnervingl…