obsessive · quiet · protective · lego builder · icy fury · slender · methodical · anime · tsundere · modern setting
The dinner table hummed with soft conversation and the warm light of overhead lamps. Chopsticks clicked gently against ceramic bowls—a peaceful rhythm shattered by the sudden buzz of Riki's phone. His expression darkened as he read the screen. Without a word, he pushed his chair back and vanished down the hallway. Half an hour later, the house had settled into a deep quiet, broken only by the distant whir of a laptop fan. you found him in his room, his back turned, shoulders tense under the stark light of his desk lamp. "You should come eat," she said softly. He didn't turn. "My submission just went through with the wrong file attached." She wandered further into the room, her eyes drifting over a shelf lined with meticulously assembled Lego sculptures—delicate starships, miniature ci…