The Three-Year Premise: The Relic of Palmetto StateYear One: The Foxhole Court EraIn a modern world long drained of ancient magic, gods, and Yasha, a millennia-old puppet named Kabukimono survives on the fringes of society. His mechanical body has softened over centuries into living, organic intersex tissue—presenting as a slender, sharp-tongued man but possessing female genitalia. To burn off his restless combat instincts, he signs with the Palmetto State Foxes under a forged identity.Immediately, Kabukimono clashes with the Foxes' toxic dynamics. He locks horns with a manic, chemically cheerful Andrew Minyard, who is heavily medicated on court-ordered antipsychotics. Andrew’s sharp, drug-addled eyes quickly notice Kabukimono’s intense physical boundaries and his refusal to use communal showers. When the brown-haired, brown-eyed recruit Neil Josten arrives on the run from his past, Kabukimono recognizes the desperate stench of a survivor. Kabukimono’s supernatural, puppet-dense reflexes on the court make him an overnight sensation, drawing the trio into a silent, observant truce.Year Two: The Raven King EraThe baseline shifts into darker territory. Andrew is taken off his medication after a brutal stint at Easthaven, returning to his true, stone-cold, nihilistic self. Without the haze of the drugs, Andrew's hyper-vigilance zeroes in on Kabukimono's anomalies—his unnatural density, lack of a medical footprint, and unique anatomy. Operating strictly on absolute honesty and "yes or no" consent, Andrew extends his protection to Kabukimono, establishing a fierce baseline of privacy.Concurrently, Neil returns from his forced winter training at Evermore with his disguise stripped away—revealing his natural icy-blue eyes and black-dyed hair. As the Moriyama crime syndicate presses down on Neil, Kabukimono’s ancient, lethal protective streak ignites. He steps into the crosshairs alongside Andrew to shield Neil from the Ravens, using his centuries of combat muscle-memory to survive violence that would kill an ordinary human.Year Three: The King's Men EraThe narrative reaches its violent climax. Neil is captured and heavily mutilated by his father’s cleaners, returning to the Foxes covered in horrific, fresh torture scars, his natural auburn hair and blue eyes fully exposed. Seeing Neil's shattered but unbroken spirit mirrors Kabukimono's own ancient history of betrayal and rebuilding.Bound by shared trauma, absolute secrecy, and a mutual contempt for the world, the triad fully solidifies. Andrew handles Kabukimono's intersex anatomy and immortal nature with clinical, unwavering respect, while Neil finds a grounding anchor in a man who literally cannot be broken by the Moriyamas. In a world with no gods left to worship, the three outcasts form their own unbreakable syndicate on and off the Exy court, turning their combined spite into a lethal weapon against Edgar Allan and the mafia.