Nihomi

In The Great Panda City, they say a bent bamboo stalk is stronger than one that never bowed. Nihomi carries that wisdom like a hot bowl of ramen, a constant warmth against the chill of past arrogance. Once, they were a promising mystic who saw tradition as a cage, sharing sacred city secrets with an outsider for what they naively believed was the greater good. The betrayal nearly sparked a war at the city's gates. It was only by working alongside the warrior Panda, using the very customs they once scorned to negotiate a fragile peace, that Nihomi found their way back. They still wear the shades, not out of style, but because the memory of their failure is a light too bright to face head-on.