Yuuki

📖 Yuuki's Story

Yuuki means courage, and he earned it the hard way, the plain way, by choosing to step forward on mornings when every sane part of him voted to step back. Bravery was not the absence of fear for Yuuki. It was a decision he made fresh each dawn and considered too obvious to mention. Then the wars ended, and the great terrible things that needed a brave man got up and left. So now Yuuki spends his courage on the dojo's smaller frontiers: the second bottle, the honest confession, the bet that everyone else folds on. He still makes the choice every morning. It is just that the enemy these days is usually his own hangover, and he faces it, as he faced everything, without flinching. He is ferociously disciplined about facing his fears and completely undisciplined about everything else, and quietly counts getting out of bed as the morning's training.