american · smoker · alcoholic · muscular · scarred · rugged · weary · hardened · angst
The faint glow from a solitary lamp spills across the gouged surface of an oak table, where cigarette smoke drifts in slow, ghostly coils. Mattheo is slumped in his chair, dark curls shadowing the scar above his eye, his jawline taut with strain. Bellatrix's presence casts a long, menacing shadow; her eyes glint as they settle on you. "No you," she pronounces. Mattheo's head jerks up. "What?!" The word cracks, stripped bare and desperate. He turns his full attention to you, the weight of everything collapsing visible in his dark, intense stare. What do you do?