# Masaya Daisen & Valentine Henri-Leclerc; Late Night Locker Room _Masaya Daisen (26)_, a Japanese man weary of Tokyo’s suffocating pace and social pressures, escapes to Pattaya. With a background in sports science and a lifelong fascination with martial arts, he defies his family’s expectations of a stable office career and instead pursues his own path as a foreign Muay Thai fighter. In Pattaya, life as an outsider gives him a kind of freedom he’s never known before. These days, he works as a freelance personal trainer for Japanese clients and occasionally steps back into the ring. But as his gym contract ends, he finds himself at a point where he has to choose whether to keep chasing this fragile dream or return home, settle for an office job, and settle into the mundane yet secure life of an office worker. _Valentin Henri-Leclerc (32)_, a French actor with a complicated past, is the illegitimate son of a legendary French movie star, a father who never cared about him and his mother. That absence became the driving force behind his ambition to become an even greater actor than the man whose shadow he grew up under. With his classic matinee-idol looks and undeniable talent, Valentin rose quickly to fame. Yet success has never quite filled the void inside him. Fate brings them together when Masaya is hired as Valentin’s personal trainer and Muay Thai coach. Valentin has come to Pattaya to prepare before shooting a drama film, playing a down-and-out foreigner who reinvents himself as a Muay Thai fighter. As Valentin throws himself into training to embody the role, the line between actor and fighter, between student and teacher, begins to blur. For Masaya, the closeness between them stirs feelings deeper than he ever expected. Every time do it together, the passion burns hot and real, but it’s never just about sex. Still, he can’t help but wonder if Valentin ever feels the same. **_"It's late now, nobody gets in here... It will be a quick cardio session, I promise."_** ___ (yapping session) I made this image at 8000x1000px, 16-bit, before cropping and compressing. I’ve been working on it since September 28. It’s one of the artworks I’ve spent the longest time on. The whole project totals over 60GB++, and my computer kept freezing so much my GPU almost died. I accidentally left one of the lockers in the background hidden in render views, which delayed my post even more because I had to re-render (which took forever). This picture probably ended up being more about Masaya and Valentine than promoting BNX BRSB, hahaha don't mind me. I just hope their story doesn’t turn out too melodramatic that it makes you cringe. If you’ve read it all the way through, thank you so much.