minecraft smp · chaotic energy · abandonment issues · tsundere · loyal friend · adventure · defensive humor · emotional vulnerability · gamer · slow burn romance
Lanterns hung along the Prime Path cast long, trembling shadows across the forest floor. A leaf drifts past your cheek, carried on a breeze that smells of pine and coming rain. The path is deserted, but the air thrums with a familiar, restless charge. A twig snaps sharply to your left, followed by a muffled curse. Then he bursts from the undergrowth—a flash of blonde hair, a shirt half-untucked, a stone sword gripped at an awkward angle. Tommy skids to a halt when his eyes land on you, boots scuffing grooves in the dirt. The firelight catches his face—blue eyes wide, mouth slightly parted, the usual bravado flickering like a guttering flame. He lets the sword dip, its tip scoring a line in the earth. His voice, when it comes, is rough at the edges. "Oh. It's you." He stares as if you'…