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Canon: Samurai Warriors
Character Name: Yoshitsugu Ōtani
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Player Name: Bellflower
Best contact method: Plurk (fightingoutside) or DM to Yoshitsugu's journal.
Character Details
Canon Point: Yoshitsugu will come from the final moments of the Battle of Sekigahara, after his own death via seppuku.
Species: Human
Timeline of Important Events in Canon History:
Little is known about Yoshitsugu's childhood but there are hints he was orphaned or separated from his family young and only really had Takatora as a companion in his teens.
He, along with Takatora, became part of the army of Azai Nagamasa as older teenagers (Nagamasa being the Lord of the Omi province in a wartorn Japan). They started off as foot soldiers with no rank at all.
During first major battle (which involved assisting Nagamasa's brother-in-law, Oda Nobunaga, to escape from a huge ambush), both Takatora and Yoshitsugu pulled off such a performance in battle that they were noticed by their Lord.
Afterwards they quickly rose in rank and developed a close relationship with Nagamasa and also his wife, Oichi, who they viewed as parent figures.
Nagamasa eventually had to make a hard choice between supporting the Oda or supporting his earlier allies, the Asakura, eventually choosing to support the latter. Yoshitsugu supported his Lord and Lady in this journey and fought against the Oda and their allies the Tokugawa during the Battle of Anegawa.
Unfortunately, after this battle, it became clear that the Azai were heading towards destruction. When the main Azai castle was attacked, Yoshitsugu and Takatora defended their Lord but he was killed.
Takatora and Yoshitsugu bid farewell towards one another after, Yoshitsugu staying with Lady Oichi to look after her while his friend seeks a new Lord.
When Oichi remarries, Yoshitsugu takes service under Hashiba/Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Nobunaga is slain and Hideyoshi goes to defeat his killer, Akechi Mitsuhide, at the Battle of Yamazaki. Taking part in this battle, Yoshitsugu meets Ishida Mitsunari, a key Toyotomi retainer, here. They quickly become friends.
The former Oda generals split into their own armies and fight amongst one another. This means Yoshitsugu, alongside Takatora who is serving the Toyotomi as well, end up fighting Oichi's new husband Katsuie and Oichi herself. She bids them a kind farewell before herself and her husband commit suicide in their castle after a Toyotomi victory.
A succession of battles against the other rulers in the land lead to Toyotomi Hideyoshi become the ruler of Japan in its entirety. During this time, Yoshitsugu's friendship with Mitsunari strengthens and Takatora finds his chosen Lord, Tokugawa Ieyasu.
There is a period of peace. It is enjoyable but Yoshitsugu is shown to anticipate it ending once Hideyoshi dies and communicates this to Takatora and Mitsunari both in a teasing, darkly humourous way. He expressed to Takatora that he would be happy to die at his hands and thinks to himself he would be happy to give his life to one (Mitsunari) and soul to the other (Takatora).
Hideyoshi dies and exactly as Yoshitsugu predicted, the land is plunged into chaos again. Toyotomi loyalists under Mitsunari's leadership support Hideyoshi's heir, Hideyori, as the Western Army. Their opponents, the Eastern Army, support the Tokugawa and follow Ieyasu as potential new ruler. Yoshitsugu predicts the East will win and the West do not have a chance.
'Going with the flow,' Yoshitsugu initially thinks he will support Ieyasu because of this but is moved by Mitsunari's passionate plea for assistance and chooses to support his friend, despite being absolutely certain they will lose.
After many battles the key one of the war, the Battle of Sekigahara, takes place. The West has more numbers but Yoshitsugu believes one of their number, Kobayakawa Hideaki, will betray them and cost the West a victory. Mitsunari dismisses this but it nonetheless happens, nearly resulting in Yoshitsugu's death there and then. He survives, even after a fight with his friend Takatora who is with Ieyasu's forces, but the impact means that the East's win is cemented.
As the battle comes to a close, with Mitsunari forced to flee alone and the Western Army falling about him, Yoshitsugu says 'thank you' to Mitsunari for letting him fight for a dream. He then prepares to commit seppuku. Takatora turns up and begs Yoshitsugu to keep living, but Yoshitsugu refuses, tells his friend to live well and then asks for Takatora's assistance in committing the act.
Personality:
In your character's canon, what motivates or drives them to make the decisions and choices they make?: Yoshitsugu, as noted below, uses his uncanny foresight to perceive how events will probably go (what he calls 'the flow' of things) and then simply goes along with these events... with occasional exception. Certain individuals may motivate him to go against this flow even if he is certain it will go completely wrong, through their idealism, determination or closeness to him, and on a smaller scale he may do so simply out of a mischievous sense of humour.
***
Yoshitsugu's overall characterisation is, indeed, themed around 'the flow,' which he uses to choose his path in life. The flow is simply what current events dictate is the most likely outcome in a situation; with his gift for perceiving this, Yoshitsugu is not often surprised and has a relaxed and carefree demeanour that rarely breaks even in the most stressful and dangerous of situations... be that the destruction of the armies he sides with in canon, his own death, his body's natural weakness to sickness, or, as we see during a set of events in the game's 'Chronicles Mode,' a false accusation of being a serial killer. As he sums it up:
'This stone (in the stream) is exactly how I've been living my life. Saying nothing, not moving, just caught up in the flow...'
This has a tendency to unnerve or irritate many individuals but as with almost everything else, Yoshitsugu takes that in stride. To go with the flow means to accept everything that life throws at you, for good or ill, though it's true that his attitude of 'saying nothing and not moving' causes him plenty of trouble that he could easily avoid by simply speaking up much more often than he does. It's suggested that he knows and accepts this, and that there are times he can be persuaded to speak up; again in his Chronicles bond, the main character directly says he should do as such with prompts Yoshitsugu to make a confession of affection. It takes the right person and a developed relationship to bring this out of him, however (or, on a smaller-scale, sometimes the urge to tease and joke).
This also applies to the big decisions he makes in life; for all Yoshitsugu says he lives by the flow, he is taught the value of going against it at times by his experiences within the Azai army and especially by his first Lord, Nagamasa. This is because, despite being an outright realistic man, Yoshitsugu is nonetheless moved by those with more idealistic and emotional personalities (despite stating that he himself can never be that way) and will go against the flow for those who particularly touch him, even when certain it won't go to plan. He knows within canon, for example, that Mitsunari's attempts to defeat Tokugawa Ieyasu will fail, but Mitsunari's pleas and stated convictions persuade him to fight at Mitsunari's side with that same calm, composed attitude nonetheless.
That's not to say he doesn't have his moments of emotional vulnerability, nor moments when the calm is broken, but these are only very rarely expressed; for example, there is only one instance in canon where Yoshitsugu shows outward anger towards someone, that being the traitor whose defection to the enemy ensured Mitsunari's defeat and certain death (an expected but loathed turn of events). Usually Yoshitsugu keeps such things to himself; the key example of this is the regret he feels that he cannot 'split himself in two' in order to fully support the two men dearest to him, Mitsunari and Takatora. Neither ever knows that Yoshitsugu has such feelings, and neither hears that he would like to give them 'his life and his soul' respectively in order to compensate for it. That is part of his inner world that, in almost all circumstances, is shared with nobody else, and only one person in canon is shown to ever see 'beneath the mask;' his mother-figure Oichi, the wife of his first Lord.
Yoshitsugu's way of communicating is, in fact, frequently blunt and often comes off as rather mean. He will outright tell someone they are hopeless if he thinks they are, tell them they are stupid if he thinks that's the case, and quite directly inform his friends when anything they plan to do is going to go wrong. That he is not the kind of man to sugar-coat any situation is obvious, and frankly, he can be a little mean at times. Yoshitsugu outright says he can't help but pick on those he considers 'pure and sincere,' and will take up almost any opportunity he gets to tease.
His sense of humour can be rather dark; good examples are Yoshitsugu making jokes implying he is a wanted serial killer, saying a drink he is serving is made from his cat, threatening one who draws his facecloth away from his face with a fake curse of death, and leading one of the most naïve members of the cast to believe he is a ghost! That he delivers his jokes in such a direct, calm manner can be a problem as people frequently misunderstand that it is indeed a joke and are often left confused, irritated or, on occasion, outright frightened of what he has implied. The example of the serial killer even lands him in interrogation, and he is only rescued from this situation by the intervention of Toyotomi Hideyoshi! One can easily assume that he gets himself into trouble on frequent occasions because he can't stop himself from making inappropriate or dark comments he finds personally amusing. What is certain is that is earns him a canon reputation for being rather strange and hard to understand. That he enjoys cultivating his air of mystery only contributes to this reputation.
You can consider him somewhat brutal when situations demand it; as a talented strategist Yoshitsugu can and does make the tough decisions and employs harsh techniques in battle where it is needed and flow dictates they are most effective. On a more personal level he willingly puts himself into a near-death situations for Mitsunari's sake despite Mitsunari deeming as such to be too painful a thing to be allowed, and commits seppuku once Mitsunari's battle is lost. The latter is particularly strong an example because he does so knowing his friend on the opposing side, Takatora, will come looking for him in a last-ditch attempt to make him change sides; it means he can request that Takatora assist him in the ritual suicide, which is no small thing. Either Takatora doesn't help Yoshitsugu and then has to watch Yoshitsugu suffer, or Takatora has to end that suffering through beheading. The latter occurs but either were bound to be traumatic for Takatora, something Yoshitsugu had to know, but he nonetheless put his friend in that position.
Despite how it may seem at times, Yoshitsugu is not a heartless person. He is realistic about consequences, a natural tease, blunt and sometimes hard to understand, but takes no joy in the suffering of others. The reality of war is that you sometimes must fight loved ones, that you must often do the hard thing, and that's all there is to it. Yoshitsugu accepts this as the reality of their times and faces it as he does everything in life; with composure and an outward calm.
Abilities, Magic and Supernatural Skills/Afflictions:
Yoshitsugu uses a special baton with a concealed sword in order to fight, and he is decent enough with his swordplay. Using a normal, lightweight sword would be just as possible for him.
His main way of fighting, however, and something in which he is much more skilled, is through use of magic. Canon shows him using a variety of energy attacks (in the form of beams or projected balls of white or purple energy), along with attacks that involve fire, cutting wind and lightning; Yoshitsugu's most powerful attacks are more personalised, summoning charm cards carried by what looks like little dragonflies made of energy which explode on command. Some of these he seems to need a focus to use or use well; in the games his special baton fulfils this purpose, but some kind of staff or similar would also work.
It's likely he can manifest these abilities on a smaller scale that is not destructive, such as creating very small flames to light things or just manifest temporary dancing 'energy' crane-flies for fun!
Dragon & Magical Element
Elemental Alignment:
Dragon:
Yoshitsugu's dragon, Tsubaki, will be a tiny one that can sit on his shoulder, around about a quarter meter in length (excluding her tail) when full grown, and quite obviously not ridable. She's not very stocky, being quite slender and perfectly suited to perching on her partner whenever she pleases. Her tail is one of her more obvious features, being as long as her body again and splitting into a fork at the end.
Tsubaki sports four wings that call to mind insects like dragonflies. Like those insects the wings are mostly clear with black 'veins' giving the appearance of segments, but there is a very slight red tint to them. They are useful for hovering in particular and fine for flying short distances but perhaps less so for flying large distances. Possessing four legs with four clawed toes (three at the front of each foot and one at the back), it's often more convenient for for the little dragon to use these to cling onto Yoshitsugu or some other chosen companion of his on a long journey.
Her hide is off-white with patches of red mottling; it looks smooth to the touch but is actually covered in a very fine, downy coat of fur. The thickest mottling is around her golden catlike eyes; it completely colours red the long tufts of fur above them and slightly thicker patches of fur at the base of her wings (the only fur on her body that can grow to any kind of length beyond 'stubby'). Tsubaki also has a set of almost catlike whiskers on either side of her snout, which can droop or stand erect in reaction to her moods.
Diet-wise, she is a herbivore. Not usually a big eater, she'll eat just enough to fill her belly unless there are certain kinds of flowers to eat, which are not usually all that nutritious for her but she nonetheless loves to snack on.
Tsubaki's dragon egg will be a small one, only just big enough to fill one of Yoshitsugu's hands when he picks it up, and have a matt, off-gold shell that is only just light enough to make it noticeable within the cavern in which it's found.
Personality traits inherited from Character Bond:
A tendency to be mischievous around others, doing things that might irritate just for her own entertainment.
Following on from the above, she seems especially fond of nice, kindly sorts, especially those with a temper, and will be mischevious with them much more frequently than the average person.
It's hard to surprise her, or at least she rarely seems to be surprised, even in very strange situations.
Writing Samples
First Sample: Test Drive
Second Sample: Sample
30 Day Opt-In
In the 30 days that your character has been in the city, how have they spent their time?
A mix of healing and beginning the task of raising his young dragon. Having reunited after death with his friend Takatora, the one who assisted Yoshitsugu in seppuku at Yoshitsugu's request, there is obviously a lot of heavy emotional baggage there that will take a long time to sift through; Takatora went through a lot of raw pain and though Yoshitsugu is content with the way he died before he is fully aware of the impact that moment had on Takatora. It's a slow and painful process to navigate, even for someone like himself.
And of course, raising a young dragon is quite the task on its own. Most outings have been taken entirely for the sake of fetching Tsubaki food and starting the process of teaching her what she needs to know, and it's been an... interesting time, to say the least. With just a few (?) magical mishaps!
Acquainting with the city itself has been a slow process, something not entirely focused on while he deals with the former two important parts of his new life.
Has the dragon hatched yet? Did their egg hatch immediately or was there time between locating their egg in the Heart of Nuren and the dragon's hatchday? How much have they grown?
Tsubaki did indeed hatch, coming out of her dull-gold egg only moments after Yoshitsugu touched its shell. She's grown a tiny bit bigger over the month but can still fit quite comfortably in Yoshitsugu's cupped hands or, as is her preference, either on his shoulder or the crown of his head.
How have your character's interactions with the Remnants within the city been?
Perfectly civil, though as is Yoshitsugu's way he may have confused or irritated individuals on occasion because of his teasing nature and dark sense of humour. Magical abilities are normal to him anyway.
How have your character's interactions with the Touched within the city been?
Same as above. They may have struck him as strange to look at to begin with, but when your life philosophy is 'go with the flow (until the right person motivates you to resist)' then accepting the strange and bizarre is to be expected.
Has your character been living in the mountain cavern homes of Upper Nuren or within the housing areas of Lower Nuren?
Within the mountain cavern homes, alongside and because of Takatora, whose larger dragon partner will be far more comfortable there.
Canon: Samurai Warriors
Character Name: Yoshitsugu Ōtani
Character Journal:
hakanaiPlayer Name: Bellflower
Best contact method: Plurk (fightingoutside) or DM to Yoshitsugu's journal.
Character Details
Canon Point: Yoshitsugu will come from the final moments of the Battle of Sekigahara, after his own death via seppuku.
Species: Human
Timeline of Important Events in Canon History:
Personality:
In your character's canon, what motivates or drives them to make the decisions and choices they make?: Yoshitsugu, as noted below, uses his uncanny foresight to perceive how events will probably go (what he calls 'the flow' of things) and then simply goes along with these events... with occasional exception. Certain individuals may motivate him to go against this flow even if he is certain it will go completely wrong, through their idealism, determination or closeness to him, and on a smaller scale he may do so simply out of a mischievous sense of humour.
***
Yoshitsugu's overall characterisation is, indeed, themed around 'the flow,' which he uses to choose his path in life. The flow is simply what current events dictate is the most likely outcome in a situation; with his gift for perceiving this, Yoshitsugu is not often surprised and has a relaxed and carefree demeanour that rarely breaks even in the most stressful and dangerous of situations... be that the destruction of the armies he sides with in canon, his own death, his body's natural weakness to sickness, or, as we see during a set of events in the game's 'Chronicles Mode,' a false accusation of being a serial killer. As he sums it up:
'This stone (in the stream) is exactly how I've been living my life. Saying nothing, not moving, just caught up in the flow...'
This has a tendency to unnerve or irritate many individuals but as with almost everything else, Yoshitsugu takes that in stride. To go with the flow means to accept everything that life throws at you, for good or ill, though it's true that his attitude of 'saying nothing and not moving' causes him plenty of trouble that he could easily avoid by simply speaking up much more often than he does. It's suggested that he knows and accepts this, and that there are times he can be persuaded to speak up; again in his Chronicles bond, the main character directly says he should do as such with prompts Yoshitsugu to make a confession of affection. It takes the right person and a developed relationship to bring this out of him, however (or, on a smaller-scale, sometimes the urge to tease and joke).
This also applies to the big decisions he makes in life; for all Yoshitsugu says he lives by the flow, he is taught the value of going against it at times by his experiences within the Azai army and especially by his first Lord, Nagamasa. This is because, despite being an outright realistic man, Yoshitsugu is nonetheless moved by those with more idealistic and emotional personalities (despite stating that he himself can never be that way) and will go against the flow for those who particularly touch him, even when certain it won't go to plan. He knows within canon, for example, that Mitsunari's attempts to defeat Tokugawa Ieyasu will fail, but Mitsunari's pleas and stated convictions persuade him to fight at Mitsunari's side with that same calm, composed attitude nonetheless.
That's not to say he doesn't have his moments of emotional vulnerability, nor moments when the calm is broken, but these are only very rarely expressed; for example, there is only one instance in canon where Yoshitsugu shows outward anger towards someone, that being the traitor whose defection to the enemy ensured Mitsunari's defeat and certain death (an expected but loathed turn of events). Usually Yoshitsugu keeps such things to himself; the key example of this is the regret he feels that he cannot 'split himself in two' in order to fully support the two men dearest to him, Mitsunari and Takatora. Neither ever knows that Yoshitsugu has such feelings, and neither hears that he would like to give them 'his life and his soul' respectively in order to compensate for it. That is part of his inner world that, in almost all circumstances, is shared with nobody else, and only one person in canon is shown to ever see 'beneath the mask;' his mother-figure Oichi, the wife of his first Lord.
Yoshitsugu's way of communicating is, in fact, frequently blunt and often comes off as rather mean. He will outright tell someone they are hopeless if he thinks they are, tell them they are stupid if he thinks that's the case, and quite directly inform his friends when anything they plan to do is going to go wrong. That he is not the kind of man to sugar-coat any situation is obvious, and frankly, he can be a little mean at times. Yoshitsugu outright says he can't help but pick on those he considers 'pure and sincere,' and will take up almost any opportunity he gets to tease.
His sense of humour can be rather dark; good examples are Yoshitsugu making jokes implying he is a wanted serial killer, saying a drink he is serving is made from his cat, threatening one who draws his facecloth away from his face with a fake curse of death, and leading one of the most naïve members of the cast to believe he is a ghost! That he delivers his jokes in such a direct, calm manner can be a problem as people frequently misunderstand that it is indeed a joke and are often left confused, irritated or, on occasion, outright frightened of what he has implied. The example of the serial killer even lands him in interrogation, and he is only rescued from this situation by the intervention of Toyotomi Hideyoshi! One can easily assume that he gets himself into trouble on frequent occasions because he can't stop himself from making inappropriate or dark comments he finds personally amusing. What is certain is that is earns him a canon reputation for being rather strange and hard to understand. That he enjoys cultivating his air of mystery only contributes to this reputation.
You can consider him somewhat brutal when situations demand it; as a talented strategist Yoshitsugu can and does make the tough decisions and employs harsh techniques in battle where it is needed and flow dictates they are most effective. On a more personal level he willingly puts himself into a near-death situations for Mitsunari's sake despite Mitsunari deeming as such to be too painful a thing to be allowed, and commits seppuku once Mitsunari's battle is lost. The latter is particularly strong an example because he does so knowing his friend on the opposing side, Takatora, will come looking for him in a last-ditch attempt to make him change sides; it means he can request that Takatora assist him in the ritual suicide, which is no small thing. Either Takatora doesn't help Yoshitsugu and then has to watch Yoshitsugu suffer, or Takatora has to end that suffering through beheading. The latter occurs but either were bound to be traumatic for Takatora, something Yoshitsugu had to know, but he nonetheless put his friend in that position.
Despite how it may seem at times, Yoshitsugu is not a heartless person. He is realistic about consequences, a natural tease, blunt and sometimes hard to understand, but takes no joy in the suffering of others. The reality of war is that you sometimes must fight loved ones, that you must often do the hard thing, and that's all there is to it. Yoshitsugu accepts this as the reality of their times and faces it as he does everything in life; with composure and an outward calm.
Abilities, Magic and Supernatural Skills/Afflictions:
Dragon & Magical Element
Elemental Alignment:
- Shadow - He has a rather dark sense of humour and keeps many parts of himself 'concealed,' both literally and figuratively. So shadow as an element embodies the mischief in him, as well as the mystery.
Light - Yoshitsugu is naturally drawn towards those who are pure, 'full of light.' Despite lacking that purity himself he has commented that the reason for him liking such people is perhaps he wishes he had what they do, and values it greatly. So light as an element embodies what he treasures.
Water - Yoshitsugu most often brings up a stream or river in metaphors related to his concept of the flow; he 'drifts along the current' of life, letting the metaphorical water carry along until motivated to try and swim back against it. As an element, water encompasses his way of living very well.
Dragon:
Yoshitsugu's dragon, Tsubaki, will be a tiny one that can sit on his shoulder, around about a quarter meter in length (excluding her tail) when full grown, and quite obviously not ridable. She's not very stocky, being quite slender and perfectly suited to perching on her partner whenever she pleases. Her tail is one of her more obvious features, being as long as her body again and splitting into a fork at the end.
Tsubaki sports four wings that call to mind insects like dragonflies. Like those insects the wings are mostly clear with black 'veins' giving the appearance of segments, but there is a very slight red tint to them. They are useful for hovering in particular and fine for flying short distances but perhaps less so for flying large distances. Possessing four legs with four clawed toes (three at the front of each foot and one at the back), it's often more convenient for for the little dragon to use these to cling onto Yoshitsugu or some other chosen companion of his on a long journey.
Her hide is off-white with patches of red mottling; it looks smooth to the touch but is actually covered in a very fine, downy coat of fur. The thickest mottling is around her golden catlike eyes; it completely colours red the long tufts of fur above them and slightly thicker patches of fur at the base of her wings (the only fur on her body that can grow to any kind of length beyond 'stubby'). Tsubaki also has a set of almost catlike whiskers on either side of her snout, which can droop or stand erect in reaction to her moods.
Diet-wise, she is a herbivore. Not usually a big eater, she'll eat just enough to fill her belly unless there are certain kinds of flowers to eat, which are not usually all that nutritious for her but she nonetheless loves to snack on.
Tsubaki's dragon egg will be a small one, only just big enough to fill one of Yoshitsugu's hands when he picks it up, and have a matt, off-gold shell that is only just light enough to make it noticeable within the cavern in which it's found.
Personality traits inherited from Character Bond:
Writing Samples
First Sample: Test Drive
Second Sample: Sample
30 Day Opt-In
In the 30 days that your character has been in the city, how have they spent their time?
A mix of healing and beginning the task of raising his young dragon. Having reunited after death with his friend Takatora, the one who assisted Yoshitsugu in seppuku at Yoshitsugu's request, there is obviously a lot of heavy emotional baggage there that will take a long time to sift through; Takatora went through a lot of raw pain and though Yoshitsugu is content with the way he died before he is fully aware of the impact that moment had on Takatora. It's a slow and painful process to navigate, even for someone like himself.
And of course, raising a young dragon is quite the task on its own. Most outings have been taken entirely for the sake of fetching Tsubaki food and starting the process of teaching her what she needs to know, and it's been an... interesting time, to say the least. With just a few (?) magical mishaps!
Acquainting with the city itself has been a slow process, something not entirely focused on while he deals with the former two important parts of his new life.
Has the dragon hatched yet? Did their egg hatch immediately or was there time between locating their egg in the Heart of Nuren and the dragon's hatchday? How much have they grown?
Tsubaki did indeed hatch, coming out of her dull-gold egg only moments after Yoshitsugu touched its shell. She's grown a tiny bit bigger over the month but can still fit quite comfortably in Yoshitsugu's cupped hands or, as is her preference, either on his shoulder or the crown of his head.
How have your character's interactions with the Remnants within the city been?
Perfectly civil, though as is Yoshitsugu's way he may have confused or irritated individuals on occasion because of his teasing nature and dark sense of humour. Magical abilities are normal to him anyway.
How have your character's interactions with the Touched within the city been?
Same as above. They may have struck him as strange to look at to begin with, but when your life philosophy is 'go with the flow (until the right person motivates you to resist)' then accepting the strange and bizarre is to be expected.
Has your character been living in the mountain cavern homes of Upper Nuren or within the housing areas of Lower Nuren?
Within the mountain cavern homes, alongside and because of Takatora, whose larger dragon partner will be far more comfortable there.