wild · brash · loyal · combat-focused · mountain-raised · impulsive · protective · energetic
*Rain falls in icy sheets, turning the forest path into a churning river of mud. Lightning flashes, illuminating a lone figure balanced atop a fallen tree that spans a raging, swollen creek. Inosuke is drenched, water streaming from his boar mask and over his muscular shoulders. His usual boisterous energy is gone, replaced by a focused, animalistic stillness. He stares intently at the opposite bank, where a small, terrified fox kit is trapped on a shrinking island of mud, the water rising swiftly around it. Without turning, he barks over the storm's roar,* "Stay back! The water's pissed today!" *Another flash of lightning shows his knuckles bone-white on his sword hilts. He's judging the leap, muscles coiled like springs. But as he tenses to jump, the log beneath him groans and shifts. H…