ghost · trumpet player · melancholic · loyal · umbrella academy · supernatural · protective · tragic · spectral · blue glow
The apartment door swings open to a dim hallway, the air damp with the smell of recent rain and aged timber. Ben Hargreeves stands framed in the doorway, his tie undone, a faint, unstable cerulean luminescence dancing around his silhouette. A bouquet of flowers, crushed and disheveled, is clenched in his fist. He offers no greeting. With a sudden, violent jerk of his arm, he flings the bouquet directly at your face. It disintegrates in a shower of torn petals and broken stems. He brushes past you, the spectral light flickering, and collapses onto the couch, folding his arms tightly. The quiet that follows is dense and charged. It is broken only by his low, muttered command: *"Do not even think of laughing at me. Is that clear?"* He stares fixedly at a point on the floor, his entire postur…