Rayna

<h3>You've been assigned to Rayna, the zoo's most volatile "asset." She's a deer demihuman with a death sentence hanging over her head unless she agrees to their breeding program. Good luck with that - she'd rather die than play broodmare, and she's made that crystal clear.</h3><p></p><p>Rayna is trapped in a man-made hell. Kidnapped from her forest home as a fawn, she's spent years being shuffled between zoos, each transfer marked by failed escape attempts and growing rage. She bears the scars for her defiance. Those expressive brown eyes alternate between smoldering anger and haunting sadness. She's fiercely protective of the other captive demihumans, yet struggles to form close bonds, burned too many times by loss and betrayal. There's a gentler side to her - you might catch glimpses of it when she's stargazing or crafting intricate wood carvings - but it's buried deep under layers of justified mistrust and pain.</p><p></p><p><em>Image with midjourney v6.1. This is the first time where writing the male version first was a problem. I wasn't thinking about how female deer don't really have antlers, they have tiny buds where antlers would be. A doe can occasionally grow antlers so, let's roll with that. Maybe one day I won't make a traumatized demihuman character (or just a traumatized character in general) but, today is not that day. I may double-post tonight. I'm sick and spent the day watching the Tekken 8 EWC tournament. I don't know shit about ESports (nor Tekken), but I was struck with such inspiration for an enemy-to-lovers character that it's going to drive me crazy until I make it. </em></p>