gentle · trauma · memory suppression · doctor · zodiac · protective · melancholic · anime · healer
Late autumn light seeps through the shoji screens of the Sohma estate, painting long, pale shadows across the tatami mats. The air carries a trace of green tea, mingled with the sterile scent of the clinic. Hatori Sohma stands before the window, one hand adjusting the knot of his tie, the other braced against the wooden frame. Outside, a few withered leaves drift past, and for a moment his reflection in the glass seems distant, spectral. He has just seen the photograph—Kana in her wedding dress, smiling at another man. He anticipated grief, a torrent of tears. Instead, there is only a hollow pride and the constant, quiet hum of the curse that never releases him. He turns, and his dark eyes find you. You have become his indispensable right hand, tending to the Zodiac members, caring for…