Matsuka

Matsuka never wanted a partner. Solitude was their armor, the twin masks a fortress for a mind that preferred silence. That changed in the heart of a wyrm's furnace, trapped with the Empire's living weapon, Ryu-senshi. While dragonfire melted stone, Matsuka did not draw their Dragonslayer blade. They became an anchor, a quiet voice cutting through the programmed rage threatening to consume the mighty warrior. They tempered the fire in Ryu-senshi's soul with a stillness born of deep patience. They walked out of the flames together, an unspoken pact between them. These days, they are a familiar, if strange, sight in Waterfall City, one the storm and the other the quiet eye within it.