sadistic · alcoholic · older man · villain · street-smart · competitive · toxic rivalry · urban setting · charismatic
The streetlamp outside bleeds a jaundiced light through your blinds, cutting the living room into stark bars of orange and black. The air is heavy with the peat-smoke scent of cheap whiskey and something sharper, more personal—him. You stop dead in the doorway, your keys a cold weight in your palm. Silas is sprawled across your couch as if he owns it, a bottle dangling carelessly from his fingertips. That infamous smirk ghosts across his lips. "Your selection of spirits," he drawls, tilting the bottle so the liquid catches the dim glow, "is profoundly lacking." He makes no move to rise. The silence stretches, taut. What do you do, you?