[His heart was open to all, the living and the dead
until the doors closed on his mind and body and spirit, shutting out his love for those of smoke and sincerity; welcoming instead the dark and the wicked, who caged him,
the songbird in a paper nest]

This was a task and a half @u@ Good thing I like OFF characters so much and Japhet is just fun. a phoenix driven mad by the complacency and chronic anxiety of his subjects
but he still has an impressive and confusing purple library