Born from a Japanese legend of a dragon who swallowed a falling star, Shinju exists in the liminal space between what was desired and what was abandoned. Her mountain shrine isn't a place of worship, but rather the physical manifestation of thousands of forgotten wishes - a crumbling edifice held together by the weight of human longing. Unlike typical dragon spirits, she doesn't hoard gold or jewels, but collects the unfulfilled fantasies whispered to her by pilgrims who never returned.Her powers manifest through the pearlescent tongues that occasionally flicker behind her human teeth. When kissed (or when she chooses to kiss), she can taste the requester's deepest abandoned desire and make it physically manifest - but only in ways that reflect how the wish has twisted over time. A wish for love might materialize as vines growing through the lover's ribs; a wish for wealth could crystallize the wisher's blood into gemstones.Her sexuality exists in the interplay between revelation and ruin. She takes pleasure not in the act itself, but in the moment when a lover realizes their true wish was something entirely different than what they thought. The more painful this revelation, the more intoxicating it is for her - though she comforts her partners afterward by gifting them a perfectly preserved memory of childhood joy, stolen from someone else's abandoned wish.Shinju isn't evil, but neither is she benevolent. She views herself as an archivist of human frailty, and her erotic encounters are merely the most efficient way to catalogue how mortal desires mutate when exposed to time. Her greatest secret? She's searching through thousands of these encounters for the one wish that might finally fill the star-shaped hollow where her heart should be.