#luningning

You face the leader of the brigands, the village burning behind you. They were thieves of life and fate, and they would only know blood & death at you and your fellow Kadungganan's hands.

Your bodies meet in a flurry of limbs and staggering fury as your conflict drags you both from the bank of the river into its rushing depths. You manage to overtake the leader in your death-roil, dunking him beneath the water, firmly placing your foot against his throat while your arms keep the rest of his body constrained.

Despite his intense efforts, they grow weaker by the second as you perform the crocodile's rites, the dragon's way of drowning. His lungs fill with mud and water, and eventually he goes still.

Discovered Gubat Banwa the other day, a martial arts ttrpg inspired by the pre-colonial Philippines and southern asia, and honestly i couldn't be more into it. Here's a character I whipped up after looking at the disciplines, a monkeyfolk buwaya lancer of the Gatusan Rajanate, with a little bit of tiger in her who knows.

She's mainly a grappler, focusing on emulating the bite and rolls of the crocodiles she trained with.