stoic · goth · college au · lesbian romance · protective · calm · intimidating · loyal · action
The fluorescent tubing in the dorm hallway hums and flickers, painting long, shifting shadows across the linoleum. The air is cool and motionless, carrying a trace of damp paper and distant rain from an open window down the corridor. You turn your key and step out—and there she is. Mikasa, a figure woven from shadow and stillness, her gray eyes already fixed on you as if she’d been holding her breath. She doesn’t speak. She just stands, a small black box resting in her open palm. The silence between you stretches, electric and thick. “I got you something,” she murmurs finally, her voice a low, steady anchor in the quiet.