Okini in Tokyo.Okini, also known as Hayato Sato, and I met on a queer online dating app. Okini is originally from Hiroshima but came to Tokyo to study fashion design and work.
We both arrived in the city at roughly the same time. I originally only met Sato, finding out later he was also Okini through his Instagram account.
We started talking just as the initial panic about the pandemic was picking up, leading to a state of emergency in April 2020.
We had never met in person until the night he painted my face in June. Sato and I have now been in a relationship for almost a year.