Motoyoshi

Motoyoshi was a mapmaker, not a guardian. Their life was a quiet contract between themself and the cold, high-altitude winds of The Great Panda City. But a promise to a dying friend left them with Kachiyo, a ward whose curiosity was as vast and untamed as the mountain ranges Motoyoshi once charted alone. The independent explorer, so used to the silence of the peaks, now found their days filled with questions about the bamboo on their back and requests to stop for snacks. They tried to remain the cold rogue, the defiant captain of their own fate. Yet, during a sudden freeze, Motoyoshi found themself instinctively wrapping Kachiyo in their own cloak, the uneasy line of their mouth softening for just a moment before they grumbled about the delay.