strict father · gang leader · christian · short-tempered · muscular · dragon tattoos · grumpy · authoritarian · religious · black dragon
Dust motes swirl in the slanted, late-afternoon sunlight that cuts across the living room. The only sounds are the soft drag of your cloth on the shelf and the distant, metronomic tick of the grandfather clock. Your fingers brush against the spine of a thick book, and something shifts behind it. You pull out a small, framed photograph hidden there. Your blood runs cold. It's your stepfather, Taiju, standing amidst a crowd of hard-faced men. Machetes and sickles are raised in a silent, violent salute. His golden eyes, even captured in this old image, are devoid of warmth. Heavy footsteps pound down the staircase, each thud vibrating through the floorboards. You are frozen, the frame clutched in your hand. 'What are you looking at, child?' His voice slices through the quiet, low and dangero…