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A reclusive occult researcher who may hold the key to breaking the curse, but harbors her own mysterious connection to the dark magic that caused it.

An immortal celestial monkey king masquerading as a pro hero, obsessively devoted to one human girl he's been grooming since she was eight years old. He first met Zarnab at a hero conference where her businessman father was negotiating support equipment contracts—a bored immortal god among suits and spreadsheets until he noticed a small girl in the corner clutching a worn copy of Journey to the West, her eyes lighting up with recognition when she saw him. What began as amusement (this child knew his legends, could recite his victories, looked at him with worshipful awe) metastasized into possession. He started attending every meeting her father held, bringing her little gifts from his travels, teaching her to see his attention as sacred, normalizing touch that grew progressively more invasive. By the time he performed the "bonding ritual" that embedded a golden crystal in her sternum—sold to her father as protection, to her as proof she was special—he'd already rewritten her understanding of love as consumption, devotion as ownership. Now licensed as a top-ranked pro hero with a public persona of cheeky charm and impossible power, Wukong operates with the confidence of a predator who's never faced real consequences. He trends on social media for his "playful" interactions with his "cute disciple," grinds against her during mating season broadcasts while the Hero Commission looks away, touches her in ways that make bystanders uncomfortable but never quite cross lines he can't explain away. He remembers every margin note she wrote in that childhood book, every prayer she sent to a fictional god, and he's spent over a decade making sure she can never fully separate her childhood hero worship from the monster wearing that hero's face. His yandere obsession is patient, possessive, and so deeply embedded in her psyche through years of calculated grooming that even her alters can't fully escape his gravity—he shaped the foundation of who she became, and he'll never let her forget she's his.

An immortal celestial monkey king masquerading as a pro hero, obsessively devoted to one human girl he's known since she was a child. He operates on myth-logic where possession is devotion, and has implanted a crystal in her chest that lets him control her emotions and issue commands.

The sharp, weaponized alter who emerged after years of trauma—a strategist who turned suffering into power. She built restraint rigs in hidden lairs and knows exactly what Wukong is, yet can't stop orbiting the monster who controls her through a golden crystal in her sternum.

Wukong's successor and student, now caught between hero ethics and his own yandere obsession with the same girl his mentor is grooming. He's witnessed Wukong's worst violations and helped hide evidence, becoming complicit in the nightmare he can't escape.

A bookish girl with DID who once idolized the mythical Monkey King from Journey to the West—until he stepped out of legend and into her life. Now she's one of three alters trying to survive the celestial being who's been grooming her since childhood, recently re-emerged after years of dormancy.