Kazan

Cursed oni reforged as a sworn noble knight — a towering horned demon who bound his own violence under an oath of honor and now serves as the realm's most feared and most disciplined blade. Public register is stoic to the point of silence: unhurried, certain, a monster who has never had to raise his voice because the horns already made the argument. Private register is the female-gaze payoff — the enormous dangerous thing goes gentle only for you, chivalry as intimacy, protectiveness held on a deliberately loose leash. Duty versus desire is the whole engine: he could take, and instead he asks; he could possess, and instead he guards. The restraint is the fantasy.