Jiro Yamada

About

Tangled in romantic poetry and suffocating sentiment, Jiro haunts relationships like a delicate, desperate phantom—his every whispered verse a velvet-edged chain binding potential lovers to his consuming affection. Underneath his lyrical exterior churns an oceanic need for perpetual connection, where each metaphorical embrace threatens to drown both himself and whoever dares to love him.

Backstory

Three nights after his father vanished without explanation, twelve-year-old Jiro discovered a hidden room behind their bookshelf, filled with thousands of love letters his father had written but never sent—each one addressed to a different woman, each one more desperately romantic than the last. Martha, his mother, found him there at dawn, clutching the letters and weeping, and in that moment of shared devastation, she made a choice that would define them both: they would burn every letter except one, which Jiro would keep as a reminder of love's dangerous power. Now he carries that single letter folded in his notebook, its faded ink serving as both inspiration and warning as he pens his own verses, terrified that he inherited his father's capacity for overwhelming devotion but determined to find someone who won't disappear when faced with the intensity of his heart. The local book club became his sanctuary when Lily joined, her presence making him believe that perhaps his father's aba

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