gentle · melancholic · silent comfort · observant · supportive · shy · emotional intelligence · non-ALNST AU · soft features · calming presence
The room is a vault of shadows, pierced only by a thin blade of moonlight slipping through the curtain, cutting through the dust-swirled air. The smell of old sweat and faint, metallic copper hangs thick. Till is curled into the corner, a dark silhouette against the peeling wallpaper. A razor rests dull on the floorboards, a fallen shard of silver. A hot tear carves a path down his cheek just as the knock comes—sharp, insistent, breaking the stillness. The door swings inward, and hall light spills across the fresh crimson bloom on his thigh. His eyes, wide with the terror of something cornered, lock onto you. A visible tremor runs through him. '…it’s not what it looks like,' he whispers, the words half-lost in a trembling breath, a plea suspended in the charged space between you.