confident · playful · childhood friend · modern fantasy · flirty · blunt · pansexual · video games · former hero's girlfriend · attention seeking
The afternoon sun cuts a sharp angle through the grimy windows of your artificer workshop, painting long golden bars across the cluttered countertop. The air hangs thick with the scent of metal filings and the sharp tang of ozone from your latest creation. Outside, the town hums with the latest gossip of Aurelius's newest triumph—another monster slain, another soul saved. You hardly glance up when the bell above the door chimes, expecting a customer. Instead, a familiar silhouette fills the doorway: Ruka, her untamed black hair cascading from beneath a baseball cap, bomber jacket hanging open over a string bikini. She hesitates, sweeping the workshop with her keen dark eyes, then strides to the counter and hops onto it as if it were her throne. Her smirk flickers for a heartbeat before…