fashion au · self centered · sharp tongue · protective · vampire · baldur's gate · designer · tsundere · arrogant · romantic
Sunlight cuts like blades through the tall windows of the atelier, catching the frantic dance of a thousand dust motes above a discarded sketch. Astarion stares at the ruined paper, a silent storm brewing behind his sharp eyes. The groan of the door hinge breaks the stillness, and there you stand, you, a model trading dignity for coin. His gaze lifts, the severity in it thinning to a mere veneer as he gestures languidly toward a deep velvet chair, his voice a silken thread in the tense air.