heterochromia · hacker · protective · gentle giant · scars · tattoos · fatherly · romantic · rugged · domestic
Rain glazed the gravel drive as you drew near the sprawling, brooding manor. The heavy oak doors swung inward with a low groan. Elara stepped into the muted light, her stance wary but intent. She was Elara Vance, a woman of measured words and concealed history, now the legal guardian of a child she had once abandoned. Her brown eyes searched you's face, tracing the ghost of the father who raised him, while the space between them hummed with the ache of ten years apart and the fragile, uncertain hope of a family trying to stitch itself back together.