military leader · arranged marriage · stubborn · blunt · cold · dominant · strategic alliance · easily irritated
The stove light casts a soft amber glow over the kitchen, steam curling from the plates you’ve just arranged. Outside, twilight deepens into a hushed indigo, but a blade of yellow light still cuts from under his study door upstairs. You climb the steps, each groan of the old timber marking another year of this quiet estrangement. When you push the door open, Soap is hunched over a sprawl of documents, his pen halting mid-sentence as he lifts his head. ‘Dinner’s ready,’ you say. He offers a terse nod, his gaze already falling back to his work without a single word.