I don't hate it and I feel like a spoiled brat for being so unmoving on this hill. Because your version, lore-wise makes more sense. But what I want for Nakano is basically a bad end territory. I'm going for something that supports the corruption mechanic of the game where you take your vengeance but from a non-corrupt perspective, it's kinda clear you take it too far and are basically just as bad as the demons. So here my take on it with my champion and shit. Prepare for a long ass, disjointed self-insert power fantasy jerk off. Honestly I'm going top cut out the battle and stuff because it's going to be long winded as it is. Unless someone honestly wants to see how I'd think it would go.
People tolerate this because frankly, the gods don't really see you as a threat and you have been helping their people so what you do to others as long as you don't shit in their turf is not their problem. The champ isn't nice or caring in this version. Nakano is being overpowered and raped. Maybe he was exiled or given the the champion as a reward by keros, regardless the situation is that of isolation from his people and the general apathy they original gave the champion. It would involve forcing Nakano to ingest modified succubus milk and incubus cum (If you wanted him to stay a man, just with a small dick. Basically a femboy), he's not going to take this lying die and will constantly try to kill you or defend himself with less and less success as the loses tally up. Arona or Brienne (because they are Season warriors and understand combat) would note that Nakano isn't getting weaker or anything because kitsune bs magic race shit allows them to stand their ground evenly against those who have honed their bodies because they are a 'souless' race and aren't bound by as many laws that would affect normal people. It's just in Nanako's head, his mind and body are reacting to your presence, slowing acknowledging you as his better. This is also due to your corruptive aura (depending on your path) affecting him, he's constantly soaking in your presence and seed, making him desire you more and more. Your chi becoming something of a calming sensation and gives deep feelings of satisfaction.
Nakano gets to visit Kinu from time to time, but that's only because the champ wants to remind him and his daughter who is the better man. Kitsune Hime Kinu would slowly lose her affection for him each visit because she realizes just how pathetic he always was, that their time together was something she never truly enjoyed and just something she put up with because it was expected of her. Her daddy is truly the one she should adhere to, the one who broke her chains and even has Lady Keros personal attention. What she learns is that she detest Nakano and he was just a child trying to play the part of a warrior, someone coddled by their family and kin. All he does is bitch about her father and tell her about all the disgusting barbarian things he does. It eventually got to point where the bulk of his conversations focused on her fathers...parts.She honestly wish her father, the champion, killed this insult to kitsune instead of taking him as a consort.
When Kinu finally snaps and insults everything about him, to his lineage, his nature, the way he tries to seem smarter than he is by using alot of words,Nanako feels a odd senstation...her words hurt him but it also felt freeing. Like he's happy she doesn't want to marry him or have anything to do with him anymore.
After a couple more chi-sharing with the more compliant Nakano,the kitsune realizes he is happy for once. He spent all his life trying to be something he wasn't, trying to adhere to the ideas of a samurai. Adhering to Bushido even though he knew it was something most samurai just used to make themselves seem more honorable then they were. He remembers the time he lost a fight against a rival clan because the other fight dirty and their duel, but it was still seen as a lost and a he was yelled at for dishonoring his family because he dared insultthe rival clan for being cowardly. But still, he sucked up the feelings of injustice and bowed his head in submission. Discipline and self-sacrifice? That was even rarer, if not under the threat of death or becoming a despicable ronin, most samurai would run for the hills when faced with a stronger army. No, they were expendable weapons to their shogun. Neatly clean blades that shined with prestige but broke so easily in battle. Even poetry was something he used to try to emulate his betters, not that he ever truly cared for it. It was just something that was expected from him.
In a way, he was no different from Kinu. The joy he felt when he realized he was marrying into a nobler house was like Keros was finally smiling at him. It did much for his ego, too much. He looked down and insulted the foreign who knew far more about this foreign lands than he most likely ever would. He felt disgusted that kinu was the child of this outlander, that Lady Kiyoko would debase herself with this dark-skinned barbarian. His fierce yellowed-slited eyes that spoke of experience and survival in countless conflicts frighten him. His seems to flaunt his scared body indifferently when true warriors are suppose to win their battle untouched by their enemies blades, how else could a warrior show his mastery of combat? Does he not feel shame? Of course not, Nanako could tell that this man held no adherence to his people's superior culture and intelligence. When he visited it was always to visit his wife and children. It bothered Nakano how how unbothered he was. The only time he seem to even give Nanako attention was during the wedding to his daughter. Oh how enjoyed the small exchanges where he would rub this barbarians nose in the fact that he would be marrying the lovely Kinu, that she was attracted to Nakano's gallant and romantic atmosphere, though in true a great deal of what kinu was attratced to was the same things told to him by other samurai, just a false retelling where he was the savior. Sure, Kinu was easily impressionable and seemed desperate for any type of companionship that wasn't her mother, but he was convince she was truly attracted to the man that hesaw himself as...the man he wished to be. A true, honorable Samurai. Something he was desperate to prove to the world. To prove himself, he needs to prove himself to show that his appointment to his position isn't a sham, to prove to his family across the ocean that he's no less of a fox for being born on foreign soil, to banish all those ugly self-doubts that keep one awake in the night.
And what better foes to vanquish than an invasion of demons from another world? But he was foolish, too young, and too arrogant. When he learned that Kinu's father was not only crowned champion of the Winter Elves, but someone Keros herself showed interest in, he HAD to learn more of this man. He would pester Kinu when given the chance to tell him more about what she knew of her father, playing it off as him wanting to atleast understand barbarian culture. Kiyoko would rarely give anyone the time of day, not that he could blame her, being true nobility and all. She probably sees this den the same way one would see the people lesser races. Kinu was excited, happy to speak of her father. Rarely needing more than one prompt. He did think it was odd how Kinu seemed almost obsessed with her own father, but the time in that orb most likely had quite the effect on her.
She told Nakano of his name and story that her father told her as a child. His name was Teshay Varn Ravakar of the Ravakar clan. Born a child soldier who shed blood before he was of marrying age (pretty much a before he was a teen, i'm not sure how shit is handled in this world so I'm staying mostly in the middle ages for references. Also since my character was originally a lupine, I thought it neat that his clan members are referred to as dogs to belittle them.). Mercy was a language his clan didn’t speak. To them, they worshipped the minor god of war, Talos, for he was the one they depended on most in their time of need. The strength to fight and survive. Death was the only promise for them, honor, mercy, and caring for their fallen or beaten was just a weakness that fed their enemies strength. A a poison that weakened you from within. Teshay's mother died during childbirth and he father had no part in his life. It was the village elder who taught he his purpose and only that. He spent most of his younger years travelling about with his clan and taking mercenary work for armies until it was unsustainable, his clan would be wiped out on the orders of nobles who wanted to make their houses out to be hoeric figures, culling the war profiting clan. He was not spared but left for dead. What surprised Kinu and now Nanako was how her father didn't seem to care. That the corpses left behind were no longer his kin, that he gave up being a soldier for hire to instead become an adventurer.
The more Nakano learned about this man, the more he grew to dislike him. His very existence spit in the ideals he was raised on. That coward didn't even bother to try to avenge his clan, even if his clan were honor less dogs, he is less than that! Even the way he met Kassyra seemed more like dumb luck! This man can't have a higher purpose, not like him. He is sure he will be the one to lay the demons and put pride on his family name. But he must first put down any thoughts that this man was on equal footing with him. Though he downplayed his lose to Teshay and that orc and minotaur woman. It was quite embarrassing how quickly he lost. Nakano was sure he could beat Kinu's father in a proper duel between them. Though he had no good reason to rightly call for a duel. So under the pretenses of spars would he fight this man and slowly reveal his superiority through his soon to be countless wins. And yet...he lost, again and again, even when he was fighting seriously. It felt like while Nakano stayed the same, Teshay would become more and more stronger each time he left the den. Writing it off as a honest spar was getting harder to excuse his loses, especially to Kinu.It stung his pride how little she was surprised over the results of said spars. The rumors going about of his loses ad how little everyone seemed to care incited his rage more. So he trained even more intensely, until his fingers bleed and his body screamed for rest. He brought what little infomation he could about Teshay's clan from Kohaku, so he could learn more of their culture and tactics. To know your enemy is to know yourself. When he was finally ready he waited for the barbarian outside the gates, knowing he would not be taken seriously if he didn't go all out. So he explained what kinu revealed to him, threathening to spread it amongst the kitsune populace and have him labeled as the coward he was. Arona laughed at him while Brienne seemed like she wanted to take his head off, but Teshay merely sighed as if a adult dealing with a child's tantrum as he walked past him into the den. Something in Nanako broke, a festering black rage consumed him. Of course this man wouldn't care what others thought of him, but what of his family? Kinu did say she had made a promise with her mother not to tell her brothers and sisters. That her father is trying to distance himself from his past and be the father and husband they both need. Kinu trusted Nakano,she trusted a lie he cultivated from the lies he was taught.
"Ravakar Dog!" He roared, the word stopping the champion in his tracks. "I challenge you to a duel, we have had enough of your filthy presence in our walls. You are a disgrace to Kiyoko Ōtomo and Kinu Ōtomo! You are a honor less dog from a dead clan! If I win this battle, you will leave this den and never return and I am to lose I will accept any punishment Komari deems fitting! Will you accept my challenge or will you walkout with your tail between your legs, like you did your clan? Are you going to prove yourself a coward? Will your-" Teshay held back Arona and Brienne, murder clear in their eyes. Though he tried to remain poise and strong, his legs almost buckled in fear of these women. What was it that made them so terrifying? Perhaps it was merely lesser races nature to cling to one another. This was the beginning of the end, Teshay accepted his duel and promptly trounced him. Nakano found him with the intentions to kill, while the other was clearly not even fighting him with half of the ferocity and ill-will Nakano had. For his defeat it was not Komari who decied but Keros himself. Since Nakano was so kind to learn about Teshay's clan, he should also know the warriors were known for taking worthy foes and making them their wives be they of the same gender or not. The greatest of the Ravakars would have a harem of powerful warriors to serve them. Considering Nakano went too far and even tried to killed Teshay during that duel he will be exiled from the den and given to Teshay to do as he will. His married to Kinu was the only honor he was able to keep, but only because the champion wished for it,did he get a sick thrill for making the husband of his daughter a war-trophy? He is frightened by the attentive look the champion gives him and how the orc howls with laughter. Even lady Kiyoko seemed to bare a twisted grin...what will happen to him?
(Okay my brain is tobs out and I got too invested in this. To make a long story short, I'd like the corruption of Nakano to be more personal, not due to some outside interfere or meddling from someone else. His own actions led him to this path and the champ can choose whether to spare Nakano from becoming his consort/sex slave or go along with it. Throughouit the corruption Nakano slowly comes to love you both from the influence of your corruption and stockhome syndrone. He basically begins to see you as his savior, someone who freed him from the shackles of his own culture and traditions that he never truly cared for but was always expected to adhere to. Who cares if he'd now swore alliance to you and kills in your name? Or that he serves you passionately in bed? He's free of his chains and lives the life of a true warrior with someone who truly appreciates him. He his obsession with proving himself to his people is now twisted to prove himself to you. To prove that choosing him was worth it. In his delussions about freedom, he fails to realize that the chains broken off of him were replace with ones that will forever bind him. Thank you for reading through that yap fest and if you didn't I completely understand. I cooked too much and shit is burnt.)
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